Most of the content come from the article by Diego Stamigni, first published on his site
If you have a server, you probably would like to continually be updated on what the system logs records; a very useful tool that I discover is Logcheck: it works very well, and I’m very greatful with the developers.
I use it to have various email about the logs between a range of time like [3 hours].
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Today i’ve spent a lot of time (probably too much) to understand how to modify extensions, inside an url, with the rewrite of Nginx.
Mi goal was call the url http://mysite.com/miofile.html and serve http://mysite.com/miofile with Nginx, which is actually a php script and not a real html..
To make things more difficult a url with a .html can also specify an existing file and real html file.
Finally i’ve got everything sorted out correctly, so with this post i hope to help someone else in the future to save some time.
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In former articles i’ve talked about Tor and SSH to browse the net in a more secure (or at leat anonymous) way.
But sometimes it’s easier to do the configuration just one time on a server and setup a proxy there, and than use it as proxy for all your computers, or perhaps all your office or friends computers.
And with VPS this is a cheap way to browse the net starting from another part of the world.
So in this article we’ll see how to do a basic setup of Squid.
Yesterday has been released the version 5.0 of Trisquel, an Ubuntu based GNU/Linux Distribution.
In their announcement:
In what we can now call it a tradition, we celebrate the Software Freedom Day by publishing our latest release: Trisquel GNU/Linux 5.0 STS, codename Dagda.
In a former article i’ve show how to use Screen and Byobu, in short Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells) while Byobu is an elegant enhancement of the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen. Byobu includes an enhanced profile and configuration utilities for the GNU screen window manager, such as toggle-able system status notifications.
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