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Secondary DNS is a bit of an issue that is yet to be sorted fully in ispCP but if you want to do some hosting with it it is a requirement. So here is the documentation of the way we have implemented secondary DNS within ISPCP. (continue reading…)

I just had to post these links as I found them tonight and they are quite scary in the way they put info together to get an interesting picture of people. First up is http://centralops.net/ This site can give you some detailed info on domains well worth a try but not just whois it can also do a server scan. Then there is this http://serversniff.net/ way to much info from a server than is healthy. And finally there is this http://www.paterva.com/web/Maltego/ which puts it all together and joins up the dots and the gui when available is really sick.

This is just a quick post to help anyone else who is pulling there hair out trying to get there Lenovo 8808 desktops to upload there inventory to an Altiris DS when booting under windows PE we have tried up to the latest version of the Aclient with no success. We were then given a jolt of inspiration by our Altiris support guy who advised we try booting the DOS environment to see if that would inventory the machine and lo and behold it did so we know have a first job that just boots into dos boot environment and runs a script with just a rem line in it. This makes the Aclient send an inventory which can then be worked with. Hope this helps. To most readers this will mean very little sorry better news to follow….

NOTE: This is now quite old there is an updated install how to on he ispcp site here.

IspCP is a branch of the VHCS project but it is a bit more of a welcoming project with a lot more activity on the development side of things.

This howto will also work with Debian Sarge.

This is a scripted install of ispCP so after the first few commands all you have to do is answer the questions.

In this howto I have started off with a clean install of etch with only openssh-server installed.

Login as root and change to root directory.
# cd /root
Download the mini install script from here.
Un-tar the mini install.
# tar -xvzf ispcp-omega-mini-installer-latest.tar.gz

Remove the tar file after extraction for house keeping.
# rm rm ispcp-omega-mini-installer-latest.tar.gz

Change to the extracted directory.
# cd ispcp-omega-mini-installer-0.5/

Run the install script (from here on its just a case of answering the questions).
# ./ispcp-omega-mini-installer-0.5.sh
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Ok latest news on my VHCS saga is that I have just discovered the existence of a fairly big hole in the security which the dev guys don’t seem to bothered about fixing. Have a look at this, Ow and don’t listen to the early comments about it being fixed it wasn’t at time of posting this. The exploit lets you add admin accounts (Nice). I am now looking at ispCP:Omega which is a branch of VHCS but is still being developed.