Category Archives: linux

Reiser file system on linux host machine for vmware

Ok,Don;t use reiserfs3 on host os while using vmware. it has known bug, but reiserfs4 is ok.

Best file system for vmware server

I am thinking what would be best file system for vmware on linux? jfs,ext3 or reiserfs? any one suggest me – just add comment here with your fav file system

vmware php based opensource host monitor nagios

Yup – nagios – wonderful remote host/server monito tool. But it is little bit complex to configure. Today i got one cute freeware opensource php based host monitor that is monarch it is gui to nagios. its very easy to configure now. now you can get ready to start vmware virtual box image at vmware.com it means download file, start using free vmware player. you can monitor hunderds of hosts with very advanced options Freely.

Now iam using this nagios tool to monito my online virtual unix boxes..cool…thanks to opensource

howto setup linux router vmware

using ipcop you can install linux router cum firewall. How to setup ipcop in linux you can find

at here-linuxipcop-router-install 

As part of linux online lab .. i want to contribute Dshield

http://dshield.org  Distributed Intrusion Detection System. As you know i am using ipcop as firewall to protect my online unix lab,now i want to send my firewall logs to dshield. How to send ipcop 1.4 series firewall logs to dshield.

Dshiled provided universal client to parse different firewalls log files and mail to dshiled server. I check dshield.org for ipcop … i got reference to one old version supported file, that is is useless… so what next? as ipcop is based on smoothwall…now we can use smoothwall cleint to gather logs and dshiled universal log parser as it have native support for smoothwall. So remembe configure “smoothwall2.0”  as  your firewall in dshileduniversal log parser.

ok first download  Kiwi Syslog Daemon from http://www.kiwisyslog.com/info_syslog.htm
and install it. start kiwsclient and goto “Manage” menu and click on install as service next click on “start syslogd” service.

Goto ipcop firewall box and set logsettings to write on remote server and give kiwis running pc’s ip address…

Bingo!!! thats it you can see series of log entries kiwis client. Now open dshield universal client and configure ( use smoothwall2.0 as your firewall). that it for more details see http://www.dshield.org/windows_clients.php#universal

mysql only hosting with unlimited connections

unlimited mysql database connections mysql only hosting package – iam searching for this type of hosting plan. At last i got it that is http://www.hostdepartment.com/

http://www.hostdepartment.com/ offering “mysql only” hosting package. YOu can connect to your databse remotely…they provided good control panel also. One of my project require massive http and mysql connections.Shared hosting i tried dozens of sites and enquired with more than top hosting proivders but no body satisfy my project needs. ofcourse i can get deal but i have very very limited budject of $12 per month.

One of my project having phpbb site with 20,000 users and at any time 50-60 memebers will online and does mysql querys 🙂 most of hosting proiders using per hour query limit. So at last i settled with http://www.hostdepartment.com/ and http://servage.net 

Servage.net offering cluster apache for massive connection support at nomial fee $7 per month. you will 80GB hard disk space , 1 Terabye of bandwidth, Unlimited domains , 1 lifelong free domain fantastic..but their mysql having per hour query limit that is only draw back. so solution is servage webhosting plan + http://www.hostdepartment.com database plan = Ultimate solution with $12 you will dedicated server power.

if you need any hosting suggestions you can leav comment here

ERROR: Can’t start RED when it’s still active

ERROR: Can’t start RED when it’s still active.. you will see this error with ipcop log… you can ignore it or you restart red zone manullay /etc/rc.d/red restart or total network restart using /etc/rc.d/network restart.

ipcop runs fcron not cron

ya .. use fcrontab -e to add jobs to ipcop firewall as it users fcron for more details on frcron see fcron