How to Download Linux

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Charles SteinKuelher's Firewall How To

Details how to install and configure a very high quality diskless firewall using that old 80486 you have sitting in your garage. For more information and downloadable disk-images, go to Charles' website.

Text on a problem with permissions on symlinks in websites.

Occasionally, for "mysterious reasons", directories containing website content that are symbolically linked to the directory containing the website proper cannot be browsed and an error claiming that "You don't have permission to view files in this directory" is returned. This happens because permissions on the website's home directory (In Linux, it's /home/httpd/html) may be mis-set. This document describes the problem in some detail and offers instructions as to how to fix it.

The man(8) page for the ftpdaemon under RH Linux 6.2.

This is the man(8) page for the FTP daemon as implemented under RedHat Linux 6.2. While not the most exciting reading, it's a Good Thing To Have, if you plan to set up a Linux/Unix-based FTP server.

How to make 1.44MB floppies hold more than 1.44MB under Linux

This document explains how to create customized device files so that you can format a standard 1.44MB to hold as much as 1.9 MB of data. Please be aware that densities of more than about 1.68MB are of questionable reliability (and floppies are not the most reliable things to begin with!). This is particularly useful for those rather large boot-diskettes (usually about 1.68 MB) used with Eiger-based diskless firewalls.

How to burn an ISO image

If you would like to use CDRECORD under Linux to burn an ISO image onto a CDROM, here's the document that tells you how to do it! An ISO image is a pre-built "image" of a cdrom that has been saved to a file on a hard disk. An example of such an image file might be an ISO image of a bootable Linux installation CDROM. Instead of having to compile a CD from various files, one can just use the ISO image as the source and "copy" it directly to a fresh, blank CDROM. If that isn't explanation enough, think of the difference between the DOS copy command and the DOS diskcopy command. One does a file-by-file copy, while the other simply duplicates an "image" of the source disk onto the target.

How to Port Forward

This dicusses the procedure for enabling port forwarding on an EigerStein diskless firewall. Keep in mind that portforwarding does "make holes" in your firewall, and, therefore, portforwarding does represent a security risk.

How To Serial

This discusses the procedure for enabling terminals (and logins) on the serial ports attached to your Linux host. If you've got one or more of those old Wyse 50 text terminals sitting around in the basement, here's your chance to put it to good use!
You may wish to download/save the following item, which is a snippet from an inittab file, containing the modifications necessary to make terminals work on the serial ports of a RedHat 6.2 Linux box. It should work with most other *nixes that use an inittab file. Inittab snippet

How to "X" Remotely

This document explains how to make XWindow applications running on a remote client display their windows on your local X Server. (Or have I gotten that mixed up again?) Well, the point is, this howto discusses how to make an X Window program run on some remote Unix box and display its output on your local Unix box as if the program itself were running on your local box. If that doesn't clear it up, get the file. This trick is good ju-ju!

The Legendary IPCHAINS How To

Here's where it's at. This How to goes into all the gorey details of IPCHAINS configuration--and then some. After this one, you should be well on your way to customizing input, forward, and output rules for your Unix/Linux IPCHAINS-based firewall.

Linux Rename Them All utility(tarball)

This is a downloadable tarball. The utility contained therein allows one to rename large numbers of files all at once. (*nix doesn't seem to have a function that essentially does the equivalent of the DOS command "rename ala*.tab ala*.tag")

On Partitioning Under Windows NT/2000-Word Document

On Partitioning Under Windows NT/2000-HTML version

This is a white paper that discusses a method by which Windows NT or Windows 2000 can be made highly recoverable. The method discussed involved a special technique of partitioning the hard disk and creating duplicate "recovery" installations. This paper includes detailed explanations of the "why" as well as the "how" of the technique. The paper is available in both HTML format and as a Microsoft Word document. Just click the appropriate link to the left.

SSH How To

The ssh How To details the installation and configuration of the ssh (Secure SHell) and the scp (Secure CoPy) programs which are strongly recommended for use where a machine is being accessed remotely over the internet and where security is important or critical. ssh and scp are particularly useful when running remote console sessions or retrieving files from a server on the other side of a firewall. The ssh program is similar syntactically to rsh, and scp has some similarity to cp. In the latter case, the most notable difference (besides the ability to securely copy files) is the ability to do so from one Unix box to another simply by specifying the "username@remotebox:/path-to-file-on-remote-box" in the copy (scp) command.

Installing FreeBSD on PowerPC Macs

Even if you DON'T intend to install Free BSD version 2.8 on your new dual processor G4, you should still read this document--it has a handy "How To" and summary of commands for use with Apple's Open Firmware commands. And, if you DO intend to try FreeBSD on your G4, this document is indispensible!

Here's a little something for You Outlook users....(Microsoft Outlook 97/2000)

If you find that you cannot seem to send e-mail to certain persons or groups, e.g. to other people at your company, or are having other odd problems sending mail, but you have no trouble receiving e-mail from those people and you have no trouble sending or receiving e-mail with others outside your company (On the Internet), go to Outlook's Tools | Services | Mail Delivery dialog (In Win98 and Win2K, that may be Tools | Options |Mail Delivery), and make sure that the Recipient Addresses are being processed in the right order. What this list really does is specify the order (and by extension, the SMTP server, if you have more than one!) to which outgoing mail is sent, and changing the order in which recipient addresses are processed may resolve those mysterious outgoing E-Mail delivery problems! (It sure did for me!)

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