HOWTO Setup NUT (Network UPS Tools) on Debian 

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/158).
NUT is the Network UPS Tools. To setup NUT on Debian, you first need to know what kind of UPS you have, and how it is/will be connected to your Debian machine. We will not yet analyse how to do monitoring over the network, but only on the machine physically connected to the UPS, which we suppose has been installed under Debian GNU/Linux (tested on Sarge). First, install the package nut (the

Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) 

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/157).
AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and displays all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages.

OpenLDAP 

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/153).
OpenLDAP is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

Name Service Switch under UNIX/Linux 

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/151).
Every UNIX/Linux operating system uses a set of libraries called the Name Service Switch (which is part of the LibC of the system) to resolve its names, be it for userids to login names or IP addresses to hostnames resolution, or whatever and the opposite. This library is meant to make the use of NIS, LDAP, etc… transparent to the program that will use it in the end.

Mail queues management with Postfix (1.x) 

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/148).
This article describes commonly used commands in mail queues management with Postfix 1.x. It probably applies for posterior versions, but has not been tested. To show the message summaries in the current queue:
$ mailq
To flush the queue (i.e. force delivery):
$ postqueue -f

XAMS - The eXtended Account Managing Software 

This article was first written in April 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/122)
XAMS (eXtended Account Managing Software) is a powerful application suite for managing e-mail accounts for multiple domains in a virtual hosting environment, using a simple set of web pages coded in PHP. It provides with quotas on mailboxes and delegation of management of some tasks to others, through a simple, neat web interface. XAMS is written using

Mozilla 

This article was first written in December 2003 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/97)
Mozilla is the all-in-one open source Internet application suite. It features, among others:
  • a web browser: Mozilla Navigator,
  • a MUA: Mozilla Mail,
  • an HTML editor: Mozilla Composer,
  • a calendar manager: Mozilla Calendar
and is the engine of most other open source high-end web browsers available, on many platforms. It is derived from
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