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Secure shared hosting using the magic of IEEE 1003.1e draft 17 (POSIX.1e) Access Control Lists part 1 of 2This article provides an introduction to Linux file permission concepts and how to securely set them for a shared hosting environmentAuthor: Emmanuel Galanos | Date: 12 March 2008 High Availability, Load-balanced, Replicating MySQLWhat, why, who, when and how of Replication with MySQL utilising High Availability and Load BalancingAuthor: Oliver Hookins | Date: 28 January 2008 Software RAID checking script in WindowsSoftware RAID checking for WindowsAuthor: Oliver Hookins | Date: 14 January 2008 HP Storageworks Autoloader Emergency Tape ExtractionHow to recover tapes from a broken HP LTO autoloader without voiding warranty.Author: Oliver Hookins | Date: 29 August 2005 cfengine and package managementAnchor's automation specialist takes a moment to show off a simple enhancement to cfengine's management of host services.Author: Jamie Wilkinson | Date: 14 December 2004 Security is Fun!Some useful but perhaps not well-known tools for improving security in your networkAuthor: Jamie Wilkinson | Date: 30 August 2004 Burning Down The ComputerPatrick Kelso investigates the smokey world of stress testing new computer hardware at Anchor.Author: Patrick Kelso | Date: 22 May 2004 Linux for your old computerA guide to setting up Linux on an old computerAuthor: Patrick Kelso | Date: 09 May 2004 Editing configuration files with cfengineNow we've got a fairly solid template for checking a service, we want to be able to configure it. This time Jamie Wilkinson takes a look at cfengine's editfiles section and describes a neat way to cope with migrating existing servers with some slightly different configurations to the state we want them in.Author: Jamie Wilkinson | Date: 05 March 2004 Making cfengine cooperate with boottime service scriptsHow do you make cfengine ensure the correct services are running on your system? Now how do you make sure the scripts run at boot time know that too? Jamie Wilkinson shows you a nifty trick to ensure that the operating system knows what cfengine knows.Author: Jamie Wilkinson | Date: 27 February 2004 Structuring cfengine programsHaving learnt what cfengine is and how you can use it, we start to develop a cfengine program and learn a few things about how it works.Author: Jamie Wilkinson | Date: 20 February 2004 Introducing cfengineGood configuration is a seriously hard problem. Worse, it just seems to get harder and harder as time goes on. Managing a mixture of old and new computers and making sure they all do what they're supposed to do becomes harder exponentially and is known to cause hair loss, high blood pressure, social deficiencies, and in some cases, death. Anchor's ninja-sysadmin Jamie Wilkinson has the answers; and he's managed to keep our computer's configurations humming along nicely. In this series of articles, he'll let you in on some secret server kung-fu that's keeping our network of systems manageable.Author: Jamie Wilkinson | Date: 13 February 2004 |
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