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Managing the LAMP Stack with OSS Tools

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

Random notes from the LAMP (linux / apache / mysql / php) Management with OSS Tools talk by Yazz Atlas of OSTG

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Replacements to AIDE / Tripwire, which are easier to manage across many systems.
-Osiris – http://osiris.shmoo.com
-Samhain http://samhain.sf.net
– stealthy.

generic cialis softtab

-can hide configs inside of a gif file
-can be renamed so that the binary is hidden, even hides strings, etc so that it cant be found via strace

Monitoring and Graphing
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– MRTG / RRDtool
– database load
– system load
– bandwidth usage

– Front ends to MRTG / RRDtool
– Munin
– Cacti

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Ditching IE for Firefox

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

SearhcEnterpriseLinux recently interviewed John Hedkte, author of Firefox and Thunderbird Garage. John recomends against dumping IE entirely because a few sites still do not properly support Firefox. Do we really have a choice? You can’t exactly uninstall IE from Windows can you? Anyways, theres only 2 sites I recomend using IE for. The first is , the second is TrendMicrosystems HouseCall ( a activex based antivirus tool for windows).

That being said, not a single person in my family is using IE anymore. I’ve moved them all to Firefox and hid IE as best as possible. I even changed their IE icons to point to Firefox instead. 2 months later not a single complaint and I seem to get less complaints about their computers crashing.

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