Creating Snapshot Backups Of Your Desktop With Timevault On Ubuntu 7.10

This document describes how to set up, configure and use Timevault
on Ubuntu 7.10. The resulting system provides a powerful backup system
for desktop usage. TimeVault is a simple front-end for making snapshots
of a set of directories. Snapshots are a copy of a directory structure
or file at a certain point in time. Restore functionality is integrated
into Nautilus – previous versions of a file or directory that has a
snapshot can be accessed by examining the properties and selecting the
‘Previous Versions’ tab.

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Configuring SendMail To Act As A SmartHost & To Rewrite From-Address

This tutorial explains how to configure a sendmail server to forward
all mails generated from localhost to another SMTP server for
sending mails to remote recipients. Also it explains how to rewrite the
from address of user@localhost.localdomain to user@example.com.

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How To Configure ISP Mail Server With Virtual Users/Domain On  Centos 4.5 Using Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, TLS/SSL

This tutorial describes how to set up a mail server where Postfix is
the SMTP service, and Dovecot provides IMAP and POP services. The users
are virtual and user information is stored in a MySQL database.

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Installing MyDNS And The MyDNSConfig Control Panel On CentOS 5.1

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS
and MyDNSConfig on CentOS 5.1. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL
database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example,
Bind or djbdns. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records
from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when
DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted. A secondary
nameserver can be easily set up by installing a second instance of
MyDNS that accesses the same database or, to be more redundant, uses
the MySQL master / slave replication features to replicate the data to
the secondary nameserver.

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Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And ftplicity On Debian Etch

When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers give
you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider’s backup
systems. This tutorial shows how you can use duplicity and ftplicity
to create encrypted (so that nobody with access to the backup server
can read sensitive data in your backups) backups on the provider’s
remote backup server over FTP. ftplicity is a duplicity wrapper script
(provided by the German computer magazine c’t) that allows us to use duplicity without interaction (i.e., you do not have to type in any passwords).

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How To Make Your Xen-PAE Kernel Work With More Than 4GB RAM (Debian Etch With GRUB)

If you have a server with more than 4GB RAM and want to install a 32bit Debian Etch on it (following this tutorial: Debian Etch And Xen From The Debian Repository),
you’d expect the Xen-PAE kernel to see all your RAM because the Xen-PAE
kernel supports up to 64GB RAM. In fact, it recognizes only about 3.3GB
RAM due to a bug in the GRUB bootloader. This article explains how you
can fix GRUB so that all your RAM gets recognized.

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Installing MyDNS And The MyDNSConfig Control Panel On Mandriva 2008.0

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS
and MyDNSConfig on Mandriva 2008.0. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a
MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for
example, Bind or djbdns. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the
records from the database, and it does not have to be
restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are
created/edited/deleted. A secondary nameserver can be easily set up by
installing a second instance of MyDNS that accesses the same database
or, to be more redundant, uses the MySQL master / slave replication
features to replicate the data to the secondary nameserver.

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How to configure Squid for two-factor authentication from WiKID

In this guide we will show how Squid can be configured to support
two-factor authentication from a WiKID server, allowing users to be
centrally authenticated, but their requests still distributed for
efficiency.

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Installation Guide: CentOS 5.1 Desktop

This document describes how to set up a CentOS 5.1 desktop. The
result is a fast, secure and extendable system that provides all you
need for daily work and entertainment.

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Samba Domaincontroller For Small Workgroups With SWAT On Fedora 8

This document describes how to set up and configure a Samba
Domaincontroller for small workgroups (up to 250 users) on Fedora 8
with the Samba Web Administration Tool. The resulting system provides an easy to manage domaincontroller for your Windows network.

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