Debian Admin http://www.debianadmin.com Debian/Ubuntu Linux System Administration Tutorials,Howtos,Tips Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:44:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 en Puppet - Centralised configuration management for networks http://www.debianadmin.com/puppet-centralised-configuration-management-for-networks.html http://www.debianadmin.com/puppet-centralised-configuration-management-for-networks.html#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:04:02 +0000 Admin Free Toolsconfiguring puppet server debianFree Toolsinstall puppet client debianinstall puppet server debianpuppet debian http://www.debianadmin.com/puppet-centralised-configuration-management-for-networks.html Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and files. Puppet’s simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out [...]

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Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and files.

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    Cisco Routers and Switches with L3 routing functions are seen to have problems with High CPU usage when SNMP is enabled. This can range anything from 15% to 40%. According to Cisco, these are low priority processes and other priority processes requiring CPU cycles are given priority over these processes and this level of CPU utilisation can be is normal. However, it is always better to be safe than sorry and get the CPU utilisation caused by SNMP to bare minimum so as to ensure the Routers function smoothly.

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    Nowadays, many servers are running with 2-4 gigabytes of RAM, and their owners are discovering a problem: When they run 32-bit debian Linux distribution, their extra RAM is not being used. Fortunately, correcting the problem is only a matter of installing or building a kernel with a few specific parameters enabled or disabled.

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    apache2-mpm-itk (just mpm-itk for short) is an MPM (Multi-Processing Module) for the Apache 2 web server. mpm-itk allows you to run each of your vhost under a separate uid and gid — in short, the scripts and configuration files for one vhost no longer have to be readable for all the other vhosts.

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    In this tutorial we will are going to provide simple procedure how to to perform UDP tunneling through an SSH connection.Say you need to forward UDP packets between two remote networks securely.

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    • ]]> http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-perform-udp-tunneling-through-ssh-connection.html/feed/     Aria2 - high speed command line download utility in Debian http://www.debianadmin.com/aria2-high-speed-command-line-download-utility-in-debian.html http://www.debianadmin.com/aria2-high-speed-command-line-download-utility-in-debian.html#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:55:32 +0000 Admin Free Toolsaria2aria2 debiandownload utility debianFree Toolsinstall aria2 debian http://www.debianadmin.com/aria2-high-speed-command-line-download-utility-in-debian.html aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE), and Metalink. It can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. It even supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP [...]

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    aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE), and Metalink. It can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth.

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    Port forwarding, or tunneling, is a way to forward otherwise insecure TCP traffic through SSH Secure Shell. You can secure for example POP3, SMTP and HTTP connections that would otherwise be insecure.

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    Opsview is enterprise network and application monitoring software designed for scalability, flexibility and ease of use. Opsview has been in development since 2003 and is released under the GNU GPL license. Current version is 2.12.

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    This tutorial will explain Howto setup DHCP Server and Dynamic DNS with BIND in Debian.

    Preparing you system

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    Clive is Command-line and fullscreen console program that extracts videos from YouTube, Google Video and other video sites. It supports embedded video extraction, and can be used with an external encoder (e.g. ffmpeg) to re-encode the extracted videos to different video formats (e.g. avi, mpeg, flv).

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    rinetd redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another, with basic IP-based access control.

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    Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote World Wide Web servers. The group of developers responsible for these extensions was also known by the same name and was a working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

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    FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging files over any TCP/IP based network to manipulate files on another computer on that network regardless of which operating systems are involved (if the computers permit FTP access). There are many existing FTP client and server programs. FTP servers can be set up anywhere between game servers, voice servers, internet hosts, and other physical servers.

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    If you want to upgrade IOS on a 3750 switch stack follow this procedure

    There are some new IOS commands to automate upgrading of a stack, but I use the familiar manual method.

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    If you want to update all the packages other than one in your debian server follow this procedure

    There are three ways of holding back packages, with dpkg, aptitude or with dselect.

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    Kubuntu is a user friendly operating system based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment. With a predictable 6 month release cycle and part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu is the GNU/Linux distribution for everyone.

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    If you are using zoneedit.com or dyndns.org for your DNS service so that you can access your server using a URL, then you might have to update your DNS record at the service periodically whenever the IP address of your computer changes.Now here is simple solution for this ddclient.

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    We have already dicussed how to install and configure postfix now we will learn about How to add a Disclaimer To Outgoing Emails in Postfix using altermime.

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