LinuxPlanet has the Linux beta Mulberry, a new commercial email client for Linux, including a version for PowerPC Linux. Certainly an interesting thing to take a look at, and an exciting new piece of commerical software for PowerPC Linux.

Photo.net has posted a page detailing some of the .Xdefaults configuration . Netscape 4.x is truely amazing in what you can do with X resources configs.

A new channel has been formed on called #debianppc. If you use Debian on the PowerPC, feel free to stop in. Don't forget, there is also #ppclinux, #mklinux and #linuxppc on OPN, plus #imaclinux on irc.imaclinux.net.

Late last night and throughout the day, our Network Intrusion Detection systems have been picking up thousands of requests issued by various different Internet Information Servers infected with a new varient of the Code Red Worm. Like previous code red worms, this ONLY infects Microsoft servers, for the rest us, its just annoying. We have included some information we have gathered from our NIDS system to help admins filter out the offending traffic.

Brad Macpherson has provided us with a guide on how to setup a simple ipchains based firewall on a Linux machine.

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You may encounter intermittant access to all of our services (dns, web, mail etc) for the next 24 hours due to a networking problem inside our ISP's network.

The problem appears to be a physical media problem over a several mile stretch. We are working with the provider to correct the problem as quickly as possible and they have dispatch several teams to isolate the problem.

These circumstances are beyond our control. We apologise for any problems caused by these intermittant outtages.

"The classic inetd daemon has been around for a long time. There are several ways to replace its functionality, but the most flexible and easiest way seems to be xinetd. Xinetd does all the things inetd can do, and a lot more. TCP wrapping, modular configuration, connection redirection, and load limits on incoming connections are just a few of the features that make xinetd a nice choice for system administrators."

Find a comprehensive xinetd tutorial for beginning and advanced system administrators .

If you have always been in trouble using the netfilter / iptables firewalling packages with your 2.4.x kernel and are in lack of documentation, Oskar Andreasson has written an extensive .

According to the latest issue of , there's a new Apache user mailing list available. To subscribe send an empty message to . You will receive a confirmation message with instructions on how to validate your subscription.

Details can be found .

"An email client is arguably the most frequently used piece of software, after Web browsers. Perhaps for this reason, there are literally hundreds of email clients on the market. Although a lot of them are capable of handling the single email account of a light user, it seems like a chaotic job to set up and use multiple email accounts on most email clients." Read more about a promising email client .

The AppleTalk server software for Linux and other *NIX OS is available in a new 1.5 version. After a long time without major development, the project has been revived and enhanced by many netatalk users.

has been released. While version 1.8.6 did compile fine on PPC machines, it hang when trying to connect to an IRC network.

This new version of the popular IRC client fixes this problem and also a vulnerability that may allow people to send data to the ircd on your behalf

A bugfix update to netatalk, the AppleTalk file and print server has been released. and are available. SuSE also has RPM packages for SuSE Linux 7.3

Netatalk 1.5.2 is now available at

Important changes include NetBSD support and asynchronous directory updates. Full changelogs within.

Let's face it, FTP servers are insecure by nature. The plain FTP protocol does not include any encryption for password. This means that passwords are sent in plain text from the client to the server. Any halfway skilled person with a sniffer will be able to catch those passwords on their way and use them against you.

This guide will show you through the steps to set up a virtual FTP server. This won't prevent FTP passwords from being sniffed, but it will greatly diminish the impact of a stolen password on the rest of the server.

IM or, in full text, Instant Messaging has become very popular among computer users. IM clients will allow you to add friends and coworkers to a list and once they connect to the Internet, you will immediately be notified of their presence and can send them messages, chat with them and much more. This review will take a quick look at the most popular IM clients.

Skip Gaede: "This is a of how to get started using Power Macintoshes as LTSP clients. My system uses a Power Mac 6100 and an Intel server running Linux Mandrake 8.1. Obtaining and reading the references, especially 1-3, is important. I assume a familiarity with the Mac in general, and a familiarity with how the LTSP server works."

A new version of netatalk, the AppleTalk server software for Linux, is available, you can download it or read about changes .

Apache 2.0 offers numerous enhancements, improvements and performance boosts over the 1.3 codebase. The most visible and noteworthy addition is the ability to run Apache in a hybrid thread/process mode on any platform that supports both threads and processes. This has shown to improve the scalability of the Apache HTTP Server significantly in our testing. Apache 2.0 also includes support for filtered I/O. This allows modules to modify the output of other modules before it is sent to the client. We have also included support for IPv6 on any platform that supports IPv6. Read the full announcement .

: "Of course, one of the building blocks of network security is a good firewall. Although many companies pay top dollar for commercial firewall solutions, Linux has long been a popular option for those who want to save some big money and who don't mind rolling up their sleeves and building the firewall configuration themselves."

Setting up a basic mail server can be a hard task at times. Especially when you want it to handle mail for multiple domains and multiple accounts on a single machine. In most of the cases, if you want it to do mail delivery (incoming and outgoing) as well as handle POP3 mail accounts, this may require the use of multiple software packages. Choosing the packages that can interoperate is not obvious then. However, there are a couple of complete Mail server packages which can come in handy and present several advantages. Read on...

OpenSSH 3.2.2 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at shortly. Details can be found .

OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support.

A new bug fix release of the popular IRC chat program XChat is available. You can check the and sources. Meanwhile, development on continues, it's not ready yet to face the average user though...

One of the major complaints I have seen from members of the (non linux) press and tech savvy/advisory websites about linux for enterprise is the 'poor or missing' backup tools available. I have a single rebuttal for this quip, and it's rsync. Rsync is the modern 'swiss army knife' of moving and managing large amounts of data in Linux. This utility is an essential part of my Linux backup strategy and hopefully in this article I will show you how to make it part of yours as well.

OpenSSH 3.2.3 has just been . This release fixes several problems in OpenSSH 3.2.2 including: a defect in the BSD_AUTH access control handling for OpenBSD and BSD/OS systems, login/tty problems on Solaris, and build problems on Cygwin systems.

Getting your modem to work in Linux is sometimes a bit tricky, especially for internal modems. With DSL, Cable and other types of broadband access, modems lose more and more of their usefullness due to their limited speed, yet it can still be handy if you're underway or if you simply can't have access to anything faster. This guide will help you fix the most common problems encountered when trying to handle Mac modems in Linux.

There is a good article on IPv6 under Linux in the August issue of . You can read the article online . There is a good article on IPv6 addressing at which you can read .

is a freely-available, kernel level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite, originally for BSD-derived systems. A *NIX/*BSD system running netatalk is capable of serving many macintosh clients simultaneously as an AppleTalk router, AppleShare file server, *NIX/*BSD print server, and for accessing AppleTalk printers via Printer Access Protocol (PAP). Included are a number of minor printing and debugging utilities.