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When you see the following message
Select E for enable.
You’ll see the following message
Please start the application to be profiled in
another window and exercise its functionality now.
Once completed, select the “Scan” button below in
order to scan the system logs for AppArmor events.
For each AppArmor event, you will be given the
opportunity to choose whether the access should be
allowed or denied.
Profiling: /usr/sbin/apache2
[(S)can system log for SubDomain events] / (F)inish
Select Finish and you’ll see the following message
Edit the newly created apparmor profile and add the following lines within ^DEFAULT_URI bracket
Set the newly created apache2 apparmor profile to complain mode then restart apache2
After running apache for a while, we can update the apparmor profile.
This is my apparmor apache file, it’s pretty basic since I don’t run any php scripts just static pages. I suspect that I would certainly have more to it if I did, but it works for me. I’m currently running Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
First thing to do is install it from the repository, I’m making the assumption that you are already connected to the internet.
The default configuration is configured in the file /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf it’s suggested at the top of the file that we create a file called /etc/fail2ban/jail.local that overrides the default file, as the original file will get overwriten when the package gets upgraded over time.
Use the original file as a templace to jail.local
The only service that has external exposure past my firewall is ssh, so as you can see, that is the only service that’s enabled. I’ve also ignored my own private class B network (ignoreip) since that doesn’t get routed past my home router anyway.
I’ve also changed the bantime to 6 hours, I think I’ll keep an eye on my log files for a while. Might be interesting reading (for me anyway) to see where these attempts are coming from (mostly China) is my guess so it will be good to see if my theories hold out 
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I foundit pretty easy to do, the hard part was finding consistent instructions, so I blogged it to make sure I didn’t forget.
You can download and install the nxclient from the nomachine website here. Just follow the instructions further down the nomachine website link.
References:
http://www.ubuntuforum.org
Install NTP on your home server
Bare in mind that I’m in the UK so I’m obviously I’m going to choose NTP servers that are geographically close to me.
After reading a fair bit about configuring ntp safely, what to include and what to block. My server is now serving all the machines on my home network.
My /etc/ntp.conf now looks like this, feel free to use it if you wish (I take no responsibility if it doesn’t work or isn’t correct for your network) works fine with mine though 
ntp.conf file below.
