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Security enhancing your Ubuntu LAMP with Apparmor

sudo aa-genprof apache2 When you see the following message Would you like to enable access to the profile repository? (E)nable Repository / (D)isable Repository / Ask Me (L)ater Select E for enable. You’ll see the following message Writing updated profile … Continue reading

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Installing free2ban on Ubuntu

First thing to do is install it from the repository, I’m making the assumption that you are already connected to the internet. sudo apt-get install fail2ban The default configuration is configured in the file /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf it’s suggested at the top … Continue reading

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Installing FreeNX on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04

I foundit pretty easy to do, the hard part was finding consistent instructions, so I blogged it to make sure I didn’t forget. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freenx-team sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install freenx-server You can download and install the nxclient … Continue reading

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Installing and setting up ntpd under Ubuntu

Install NTP on your home server sudo apt-get install ntp 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 … Continue reading

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Configuring a static IP address on Lucid Lynx

I didn’t know this, but seemingly you have to remove the network manager  before you set up a static Ethernet IP on Lucid Lynx. Remove Network Manager. sudo apt-get remove network-manager Then follow the instructions here. References: Ubuntuguide.com

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