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Yes. Apt-get everything. This way when security holes are found, a simple apt-get upgrade will install the latest updates. As for FTP, ideally you should run it in a chroot, but proftpd will let you seperate user accounts in its config with this line: DefaultRoot ~ -steve

Really? If you had an example config/link, I would be most grateful. Thanks, -steve

I take it that they didnt get in through the ZF main phpfreaks site? I know that it has some login stuff integrated into SMF. Pain in the butt. -steve

Hi everybody, Just wanted to get peoples thoughts on a website I am doing up for myself. A sort of online about/home. http://burkesys.com/stephen/webdev/sburke/ I'm currently wondering how to spice up/arrange the text content a little better. Perhaps use of square divs for content instead of paragraphs. Anyways, any thoughts are very welcome. -steve

Any LiveCD. Ubuntu will do fine. Open a Terminal. type: sudo cfdisk (or just type cfdisk). Its press [1] etc. tool. How about just put in another hard drive and test???? -steve

You will need to do some research on it. Go through a few tutorials, such as: http://www.howtoforge.com/postfix_antispam_mailscanner_clamav_ubuntu http://www.howtoforge.com/howtos/linux/ubuntu There are many different configs for postfix, so I suggest you follow a tutorial such as the above one. -steve

I dunno off hand where chmod 000 would be useful. It might be useful if you wanted to protect a file from accidental deletion. I just know it can be done. -steve

I have seen issues before with a Windows install cd balking when there is a linux partition on the hard drive. The windows installer just stalled on me. If you load up a LiveCD in linux etc. run: cfdisk and delete all the partitions. (note, you are going to wipe everything and there aint no going back). I managed to get around it by using another hard disk, so I dunno if cfdisk will work. -steve

You can chmod a file/folder 000. matfish, your best bet, would be to do a chmod -R 644 on the files before backing up. There is no special backup method. Just a .sh and cron. -steve

Best of luck in whatever you take up after this. I will always remember your OOP tips and info. -steve

Looks good. I would like to see the logo a bit bigger. Currently the very top of the website looks a little sparse. A bigger logo and Multi.... text would help. I would like to see the "Featured Project" be randomised. Every page refresh should show a new featured project. I would like to see the main navigation to show which page a person is on. So if somone clicks on "contact" and they are on the "contact" page, I think the contact button on the nav should be highlighted. Anyways, its very nice....as with all your work. Hopefully the above will be a few proactive suggestions. -steve

You could also look at clarkconnect. -steve

There is no difference, in my opinion between: apt-get install vim aptitude install vim I have always used apt-get. -steve

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ -steve

Here is a nice presentation regarding load balancing etc. http://www.spoofedpacket.net/files/docs/ftpdot-ilug-20081213.pdf -steve

apt is the back end. aptitude is the front gui end. To be honest, there are only 4-5 apt* commands, so I know them off. For a beginner user on the cmdline, aptitude will provide an interface for all package options. I go with apt. ( http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/How_to_obtain_Packages_using_APT ) -steve

I would recommend looking at suphp. It runs php in cgi mode where a php script executes as the owner. Therefore any files created by a php script will be under your username. -steve

You could just do it with DNS round robin. Have both ips resolve to the one hostname. -steve

You could try putting the proxypass inside a <location> </location> in yout vhost config. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass Not sure apart from that. -steve

YES. This might also be useful: https://support.blacknight.ie/210/vps-performance-tuning-and-scaling.html -steve

There is gftp which is a graphical ftp client for linux. -steve

Try disabling passive mode? It could be that your pc/client needs passive while the server might not allow passive mode. Try this: http://winscp.net/download/winscp418.exe http://winscp.net/eng/download.php It has support for ftp and does not need to be installed even -steve

Samba is for mounting windows shares from another computer. Im not sure if this is what you are looking for. If your running linux and windows on the same computer (dual boot etc.), then its a bit trickier. Typically it "just works" with the latest ubuntu/fedora. I'd suggest grabbing one of their latest livecds. They will automatically pick up and mount your windows partitions. Otherwise your going to have to look at something like http://mount-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_edgy_eft_ntfs_ntfs_3g -steve

Ya, thats more than likely the problem - passive mode. In filezilla -> Edit drop-down menu -> Settings. Underneath Connection -> FTP - Transfer Mode - Passive (tick this). -steve

You can get a liveCD to work on it. You'll need to make a LiveUSB however. Fedora and backtrack have utilities which can make a LiveUSB which you can boot off and look at your files on your eeepc. -steve