Linux Journal Contents #191, March 2010

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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