Archive for October, 2006

vsFTPd Connection Banner

Saturday, October 14th, 2006 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

Sending a banner is a good way to let system users know what the expectations are. Configuring the banner for vsFTPd is an easy process involving two files. The file containing the banner must have the same name as the ...

Reverse Proxy Apache 2

Friday, October 13th, 2006 Posted in Apache, Linux | No Comments »

There is a good amount of information on setting up a reverse proxy with apache. One of the better articles I came across was on Apache Week. The downfall to these articles is that most reference ProxyHTMLURLMap, part of the ...

Rolling Out pfSense Embedded

Friday, October 13th, 2006 Posted in Firewalls | No Comments »

Since the 1.0 relase is hot on the mirrors now is the perfect time to discuss this. As most of you know each time a new version is released you have to backup your config, flash the new image, setup ...

Setting up SSL with Apache 2

Friday, October 13th, 2006 Posted in Apache, Linux | No Comments »

I'm going to assume you have a working install of Apache 2. I've based this off Fedora Core 5, however it should apply to most distros. Lets get started installing the ssl module.

Finding Files Containing Text

Friday, October 13th, 2006 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

When making modifications to configuration files I like to tag each line with my initials. This way I can keep track of and be able to reverse the changes if needed. The issue becomes remembering all the files that I ...

Keeping Your VMware Linux Guest’s Clock Accurate

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 Posted in Linux, VMware | 2 Comments »

As the price of rack space goes up and fast hardware goes down more and more companies are moving towards virtual servers. VMware is a popular choice, especially with their free VMware Server application. Due to the hardware being virtualized ...