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Introduction

This document explains how to set your computer’s clock from Linux, how to set your timezone, and other stuff related to Linux and how it does its time-keeping.

Your computer has two timepieces; a battery-backed one that is always running (the “hardware”, “BIOS”, or “CMOS” clock), and another that is maintained by the operating system currently running on your computer (the “system” clock). The hardware clock is generally only used to set the system clock when your operating system boots, and then from that point until you reboot or turn off your system, the system clock is the one used to keep track of time.

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Perl is Practical Extraction and Report Language, which is quite famous and used by many web application. A Perl5 database interface to the MySQL database is provided by libdbd perl mysql shared library.

You can install perl support via mod_fastcgi or mod_cgi. Following are essential steps to run perl based application in chrooted lighttpd setup along with MySQL

This article is part of securing and running Lighttpd in chrooted jail.

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One way to stop one of the more basic attacks on a server is mod_evasive.This how-to will walk though the process of installing and configuring mod_evasive. This apache module will help protect against people sending too many requests to the webserver in an attempt to flood it. If it detects too many connections the offending ip will be blocked from the accessing apache for This is especially useful when the server is continuously getting attacked. With this default configuration it will block the offending ip for 10 minutes. If it continues to try and flood mod_evasive will automatically add more time to this.

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