Symantec BackupExec 2010, RALUS and Centos 5 Works

Whew, what a pain this has been.
Always had a heck of a time with BackupExec 12.5 and below backing up CentOS versions. I think early versions of RALUS were operational and worked back in the BackupExec 8-10.5 days prior to Symantec’s acquistion of Veritas. But, it has never been really easy to get this going [...]

More Complex GUI IPTables Setup for CentOS 5.x with Bastille Linux

We have a few CentOS boxes and require a little more IPTables tweaking than the standard security setup in the GUI. I could go into the IPTables config files, but I am more than a little rusty on the logic for IPTables. So, I went back to an old stand-by to config the multiple interfaces [...]

Problems with Lacie iamakey USB Flash Drives fixed

I really like the design of the Lacie iamakey and related USB flash memory sticks that look like actual keys. I was thinking about moving off the consistent performers I issue to employees, faculty and staff from Sandisk. So, I got an 8 gig and 32 gig to test over the last couple of months.
I [...]

Denyhosts is your friend to stop ssh login attempts

If you have a few linux servers that for whatever reason you have to leave open to ssh into on the standard port 22, denyhosts is a great way to get rid of the annoying daily logwatch email logs showing some losers somewhere have been spending all day doing a denial of service trying to [...]