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We recently added a new section for security tutorials to our articles repository, and it contains some familiar articles as well as new ones.

A couple security articles were updated:

Scanning for rootkits with chkrootkit
Scanning for rootkits with rkhunter

Because two just isn't enough, an article was added that covers setting up a third rootkit, Rootcheck:

Scanning for rootkits with Rootcheck

And we have the first two installments in an article series on diagnosing a compromised slice:

Security Checks During Possible Compromise - Part 1
Security Checks During Possible Compromise - Part 2

Over on the apache front, we have distribution-specific entries on setting up and interpreting apache's mod_status module:

Enabling and using apache's mod_status (Overview)

And in our forum, a user wrote an excellent post about setting up the latest version of PHP 5 on his CentOS 5.4 slice that may prove useful to others:

CentOS 5.4 and PHP 5.3.2 by wetnun

Matiu wrote a post on a quick-and-dirty caching DNS server setup for applications that make a lot of DNS queries (like Facebook applications):

Speeding up DNS queries (especially for facebook apps) by matiu

Of course, along with the articles and the forums, we have support available in SliceChat twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Pop in with any questions you may have.

Thanks for reading!