Features

Taming the Beast  by Jason Allen

An introduction to large-scale system administration.

AlienVault: the Future of Security Information Management  by Jeramiah Bowling

OSSIM: giving security management a brain.

Use SSH to Cross a Suspect Host Securely  by der.hans

Don't fear the Valley of the Shadow of Death. SSH through it.

Using an SMS Server to Provide a Robust Alerting Service for Nagios  by Eric Pearce

Texting: not just for teenagers.

Indepth

Running Ubuntu 9.10 under Amazon's Elastic Cloud  by Bill Childers

No servers? No problem, with servers in the cloud!

Columns

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Testing JavaScript  

Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Still Parsing the Twitter Stream  

Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Linux VPNs with OpenVPN, Part II  

Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Linux Troubleshooting, Part I: High Load  

Dirk Elmendorf's Economy Size Geek   Installation Toolkit  

Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers' Point/Counterpoint   /opt vs. /usr/local  

Doc Searls' EOF   A Cloud of One's Own  

Review

Axigen Mail Server  by Mitch Frazier

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