The installation process for Fail2Ban (a brute force protection application) on CentOS 5.5. is as follows – Login to your server as root, then: wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fail2ban/fail2ban-stable/fail2ban-0.8.4/fail2ban-0.8.4.tar.bz2?use_mirror=transact tar -xf fail2ban-0.8.4.tar.bz2 cd...
Many Internet providers send their users’ traffic through proxy servers, this can cause problems with Horde’s session handling in Plesk. The problem arises when the user’s IP changes during the...
For those who are not familiar with the scripts, here is a simplified list of what the scripts can do for you: For those of you who are unfamiliar with...
To check a remote servers DNS version simply run the following command from Linux: $ nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind. 0 www.server-you-want-to-check.com or on Windows: $ nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind www.server-you-want-to-check.com...
To securely wipe (shred) files on a Linux system simply change directories (cd) to the directory you would like to wipe then run: $>find -type f -execdir shred -u ‘{}’...