Linux, programming and more
Some years ago a set up my mail system with SMTP authentication, the credentials for sending and receiving E-Mails could be different. I had a special list for SMTP auth with username:password.
I think it is too secure and it makes me too much work to document all this passwords
You can access the Courier authdaemon from an Exim authenticator. That means you have only one password.
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If you have a FTP backup space for your vserver or dedicated server, tartarus is a great tool to create and crypt your backups.
This is my method to backup my Hetzner server
Install tartarus on Debian squeeze: (works on ubuntu too)
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I have a tiny embedded server (acrosser model) Intel Celeron with only 400MHz and 512MB Mem total. Before I upgraded debian to squeeze I used Xen, now its time to use OpenVZ.
Reasons:
– My tiny hardware:)
– Container virtualization – I can use more virtual machines
– Less memory usage – Container cannot boot
OpenVZ kernel and the vzctl and vzquota packages are available in the Debian repositories, so we can install them as follows:
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While trying to start or stop MySQL I get:
1 | Access denied for user 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' (using password: YES) |
Dabian has a own way to login to the MySQL database the credantials are listed in a file:
1 2 3 4 | cat /etc/mysql/debian.cnf [...] user = debian-sys-maint password = bodCNLUx0GGYm6F |
Logon:
1 | mysql -u root -p |
Execute:
1 | GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'bodCNLUx0GGYm6F' WITH GRANT OPTION; |
By the way set a new root passwort:
1 | mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' |
PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is a great alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.
1 | vim /etc/apt/sources.list |
Add source for php5-fpm:
1 2 | # PHP-FPM deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all |