At the last SLUG monthly meeting, it was announced that future meetings shall
take place at a new venue. In response to an overwhelming desire to meet at a
more central location, we shall henceforth be convening at Atlassian, near
Darling Harbour:
Fellow SLUGgers,
HP and Redhat will be hosting the Linux Enterprise Architect and General
User Event (LEAGUE) at the HP offices at North Ryde (NOT Rhodes) from
3-6pm on Friday August 17. The event will focus on deploying,
maintaining and managing a Linux environment, followed by a
demonstration
I need a home Linux server to act as a
1. Proxy Server
2. Web Server (For Web development only)
3. Proxy Mail Server
5. Print Server (Needing a USB 2.0 ports)
6. File Server
7. IP Tables firewall
Does anybody have any ideas as what would make a good Linux server and
where such a computer could
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Hi,
A simple Dual core intel or Athalon x2 core duo with about 2GB RAM
should be fine. You can pick one up from Westgate Technology without the
HDDs and monitor for about $350. 320GB SATA HDDs are $110 ea. and since
it is only a server you can either
get something as cheap as possible
if you can grab something around the 2ghz mark with around 512 meg of ram.
if you want to run a gui on the machine, maybe a little more ram. disk
space is up to you.
you can just toss an inexpensive SATA controller into the machine then drop
in large disks.
my
I prefer to use something like denyhosts to simply block the offending ip's
as moving the port seems somewhat to be security through obscurity.
But this kind of activity isn't new, by any means. a few months ago when I
setup a SSH server open to the world and watched the logs I had a rush of
them
Fellow SLUGgers,
HP and Redhat will be hosting the Linux Enterprise Architect and General
User Event (LEAGUE) at the HP offices at North Ryde (NOT Rhodes) from
3-6pm on Friday August 17. The event will focus on deploying,
maintaining and managing a Linux environment, followed by a
demonstration
