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I found this great page whilst looking for something else. It gives some ideas about how to block brute force attacks using recent iptables.

Add the following to /etc/X11/Xresources and restart X / [gkx]dm

xterm*VT100.Translations: #override
BackSpace: string(0x7F)n
Delete:    string("
Home:      string("
End:       string("
*ttyModes: erase ^?

Tested on RHEL3.

Thanks to Justin for this

Found this nice collection of daemontools run scripts. Will find that useful someday

Found this nice page with scripts and configs for parsing the apache server-status page and using mrtg to graph them

Ells posted a nice site which details some of the features of screen, here

I’ve just found this quite usefull in setting up amanda to do disk only backups.

Found this page, has some usefull information wrt single use keys

Rather than using the qmail-queue patch and qmail-scanner to get Spam Assassin working with qmail this page suggests replacing qmail-queue with a simple sh script.

Seems to work on our internal work server, but of course you would need to put qmail-scanner in to check for viri.

I have been having awful troubles with connections to our ftp servers hanging. Something I suspect is caused by the netfilter firewall box. I’ve managed to side step the problem with this.

I’ve created my own CA on towel and used it to sign the webmail certificate and the courier imap/pop certificates. Finding the information to create Courier certificates was non-trivial so I’ve documents how to do it
here