Contents
March 2001 Volume 10 Number 03 |
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Features
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Getting Your
Message Across with Apache |
Carlos Ramirez |
| Ramirez presents an Apache module that provides a way to push important
messages to your user community so that anyone accessing any Web page on
your server will get the message. |
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Working with SAINT |
Adam Olson |
| Olson discusses the Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool
(SAINT), which can probe hosts across a network for common misconfigured
services, outdated versions of software, and bad policy decisions. |
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What to Do When the Server Doesn't Serve -- Duplicating
Data |
Brett Lymn |
| Lymn takes a traditional approach to server failover in this article.
He discusses how to duplicate data on multiple servers and have client machines
select another server as needed. |
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Using PortSentry and LogCheck |
Anthony Cinelli |
| PortSentry detects port scans by monitoring unused ports on the host.
Upon a connection attempt to an unused port, PortSentry can issue any number
of commands in response. Cinelli explains. |
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Freeware Security Web Tools |
Gary Bahadur |
| Bahadur looks at some freeware Linux tools the security-conscious administrator
can use in the war against cyber attacks. |
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Creating Global
Functions with the Korn Shell |
Rainer Raab |
| The Korn shell function facility not only provides the mechanism for
allowing shell scripts to be quickly developed, but it promotes the sharing
of code through the use of global functions. Raab shows how the use of global
Korn shell functions can become an invaluable tool for everyone on a system,
not just the systems administrator. |
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AIX Cloning |
Mark E. Dawson, Jr. |
| In this article, Dawson provides an example of cloning the image of one
machine architecture onto another machine of a different architecture and
explains how and why it works under AIX. |
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Web Hosting: A Migrational Case Study |
Ripduman Sohan |
| Sohan presents a case study migration of a system containing 203 virtual
hosts from one server to another. The Web server used was Apache, the database,
MySQL, all running on FreeBSD and being transferred to Linux. |
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Using VMWare as a Development Tool |
Brian Wilson |
| Wilson shows how administrators can utilize VMWare for testing software
before committing system changes to a production setup. |
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Columns
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R.I.P. RIP? |
Ron McCarty |
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SAN Building Blocks
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W. Curtis Preston |
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Questions and Answers |
Jim McKinstry and Amy Rich |
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Books:
A User's Report |
Elizabeth Zinkann |
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Linux Intrusion Detection Poster |
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Editor's Forum |
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