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Contents June 2001 Volume 10 Number 06

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	Dangers of SUID Shell Scripts	Thomas Akin
		Akin illustrates some common vulnerabilities in SUID programs to help others avoid making mistakes.

	Fuzzy Text Searches with agrep and afind	Alex Golomshtok and Yefim Nodelman
		Golomshtok shows how to use Perl and fuzzy string matching to develop powerful tools.

	Poor Man's Search Engine	Br. David Carlson
		Carlson describes his freeware search engine, QSearch, which consists primarily of a bash shell script and a compiled CGI program written in C++.

	Secure, Automated File Distribution	Tim Maletic
		Maletic describes how he used Rsync and OpenSSH to create a highly secure architecture for automated file distribution..

	The Art of Spidering	Reinhard Erich Voglmaier
		Voglmaier shows how to write a spider program to completely mirror a Web site.

	Useful Scripts for Overworked Administrators	Mark Prager
		Prager provides some shell scripts that can help automate daily administrative tasks.

	A Powerful Search Tool for ASCII Files	Koos Pol
		Pol shows how to create a search tool using Perl regular expressions.

	Redundant NICs on Solaris	Thomas Kranz
		Kranz explains how to provide redundant NICs simply and cheaply.

	Tools Built to Sort Through Snort	Kristy Westphal
		Westphal takes a look at four Snort add-ons that make logging and reading Snort data easier.


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	Automatic UNIX Documentation with unixdoc	Roman Marxer
		Marxer describes a program called unixdoc that collects all the configuration files and other information about your computers into an html file.

	A Complete Network Information Center	Benjamin King
		King presents a Web-based network information center designed to help monitor your networked hosts..

	PICA: Perl Installation and Configuration Agent	Miguel Armas del Río and Esteban Manchado Velázquez
		The authors explain the use of PICA -- the Perl Installation and Configuration Agent.

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	Building and Using a SAN (Part II)	W. Curtis Preston


	It's All About Context	Randal L. Schwartz


	Mailman	Ron McCarty


	Books: A User's Report	Elizabeth Zinkann


	Questions and Answers	Jim McKinstry and Amy Rich

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