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How to encrypt a disk partition in Linux

Posted in Geekery on Nov 5th, 2010

LUKS is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. The following few commands are all you need to encrypt your next external hard disk or USB key on a Debian-based distribution like Ubuntu. Installation Install the required software and load the module into the running kernel without restarting: 12sudo aptitude install cryptsetup sudo modprobe dm_crypt [...]

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Monitor Apache 2.2 with Zenoss on Debian

Posted in Geekery on Mar 12th, 2010

The packaged Zenoss for Debain will monitor httpd out of the box but does not look for the apache2 process. To monitor Apache 2.2, you need to add a similar Processes class as httpd has. Navigate to Processes>Apache and then select Add process. Type apache2 as an ID (it’s just a unique identifier) and select [...]

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