Tuesday, August 31, 2010
ODSEE vs RHDS?
No, this isn’t going to be an in-depth analysis of the relative strengths and weakenesses of Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition (ODSEE) and Red Hat Directory Server (RHDS). Sorry. Just some reflections on the broader trends I’m seeing in the directory server space and where I think things may be going.
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
Putting the DNS-321 to work as a home server
A short time ago I wrote about my purchase of a D-Link DNS-321 NAS device.
This article will describe how I set the device up as a home server to provide a number of common network services.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
tripwire configuration and operation
Think of this as a quick setup guide to tripwire on CentOS (or RHEL). My platform, as usual, is CentOS 5.5. The version of tripwire installed is open source 2.4.1.1-1.el5 available from EPEL.
My main sources of information were the tripwire man pages and a blog post entitled Install Tripwire on Fedora 11 (the EPEL package is a port of the Fedora package for RHEL). The especially useful twpol.txt filtering script came from the blog post.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Making mail list archives searchable
In a previous post I mentioned the alternatives for maintaining mail list archives under GNU Mailman. Making those archives searchable was not discussed.
Most solutions for search presuppose an open list hosted on the Internet that can be accessed by search engines like Google. This is obviously not going to work for an internal corporate list that needs to be kept confidential.
One solution for internal lists might be to integrate mailman with another open source product, called Swish-e.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Server Side Includes on RHEL 5 Apache 2.2
The Apache Group’s own Apache Tutorial: Introduction to Server Side Includes is the best starting point for this. There’s a brief mention in the RHEL 4 Reference Guide, but it’s barely worth skimming, except for its pointing out that the “Options +Includes” or “Options +IncludesNoExec” directive needs to be enclosed in a <Directory> container (or an .htaccess file) to be effective. That last is something assumed by the Apache doc (we all know that Options directives have to be within a <Directory> container, don’t we?), but not spelled out.
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