The Windows NT/2000 Resource Kit provides two utilities that allow you to create a Windows user-defined service for Windows applications and some 16-bit applications (but not for batch files).

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Latest update of the openssl package from CentOS breaks Parallels Panel 9.x. The following errors are displayed in the /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log file when Panel is trying to start:

# tail /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log

2010-04-07 01:56:38: (log.c.75) server started
2010-04-07 01:56:38: (network.c.336) SSL: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
2010-04-07 01:57:59: (log.c.75) server started
2010-04-07 01:57:59: (network.c.336) SSL: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
2010-04-07 01:57:59: (log.c.75) server started
2010-04-07 01:57:59: (network.c.336) SSL: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
2010-04-07 02:13:38: (log.c.75) server started
2010-04-07 02:13:38: (network.c.336) SSL: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
2010-04-07 02:13:38: (log.c.75) server started
2010-04-07 02:13:38: (network.c.336) SSL: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)

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How To Disable IPv6 in Red Hat Linux

Since it may be a while before I’m ready to use the IPv6 on my systems, I’ve been disabling IPv6 on most servers so far. And since there’s a particularly elegant way of doing this in Red Hat Linux, I think it’s worth sharing.
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Most PHP scripts and content management system scripts (CMS scripts) require writable permission 777 (rwxrwzrwz) to be set for certain folders for uploading photos and videos. Many security experts warn that setting 777 permission means that anybody can upload any content to your server, install malicious code, run unwanted programs and could potentially misuse your server. This is big security risk.

Ironically if you implement a fileupload in your script, the upload wouldnt work for any other permissions other 777 or else your upload will fail. So you will be forced to set 777 permission for your writable folders.

Alternatively, to secure your server you can implement the following checks to in your PHP script as well as in your server. Remember if you are in shared hosting plan you might be limited in running as root.
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This guide explains how to set up mod_chroot with Apache2 on a Fedora 12 system. With mod_chroot, you can run Apache2 in a secure chroot environment and make your server less vulnerable to break-in attempts that try to exploit vulnerabilities in Apache2 or your installed web applications.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
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