David Bomba

User and Group setup

First you will want to establish the sftponly group

groupadd sftponly

Then create the user with the correct home directories and group  
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I searched high and low to get mod-deflate working.

the short answer is.

1. Make sure you are loading mod_deflate!
2. Make sure you have the following within your httpd.conf file to enable compression across all vhosts  
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Native support for Areca 188x devices is available in > 2.6.37 linux kernel.

However mainstream kernel is still at 2.6.32, meaning that you need to perform some trickery to install a Areca card onto Debian. The following is my method.  
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if you insist on running third party repos, you must install yum-priorities to prevent package conflicts


yum install yum-plugin-priorities


dd if=/dev/zero of=sparse_file_name bs=1 count=0 seek=500G

config files for the latest version if iet are found in /etc/iet/ NOT /etc/init.d

I hate setting up new repo’s…

If you have a local repo that you would like to share, on the remote server create a new directory (with correct permissions).  
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Great post instructing how to lock down an NFS server

http://nxlinuxadmin.blogspot.com/2010/05/iptables-for-nfs-server.html