 February 2004 • Volume 13 • Number 2
Features
Securing Intranets with IPCop • Phil Barnett and Bryan Smith
The authors provide an overview of IPCop, an inexpensive solution for intranets requiring comprehensive network security.
Installing Dovecot: A Secure IMAP Server • Lawrence Teo
Teo describes Dovecot, an open source IMAP server that advertises itself as “an IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems,
written primarily with security in mind.”
Firewalling HTTP Traffic Using Reverse Squid Proxy • Rajeev Kumar
Kumar explains how to set up Squid as a proxy firewall in front of your Web server.
Python in Systems Administration: Part III — Pexpect Automates Hard-to-Solve Problems • Cameron Laird
Laird continues his Python series with tips for using Pexpect.
A Gentle Introduction to Plan 9 • James Choate and Joe Wessels
The authors provide an overview of Plan 9 and describe what makes it different: per process namespaces, creating pools of processes and file servers, and differentiating the I/O and process aspects of the user’s experience.
Tracking System Changes with Inventory Scripts • Ryan Ordway
Ordway shares a small suite of inventory scripts to help capture system configuration data programmatically.
Columns
IPQoS • Peter Baer Galvin
Questions and Answers • Amy Rich
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