Linux Journal Contents -- #78 -- October 2000 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Subscribers: If your issue is late arriving, you can find all of these articles on our interactive site at http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/ Features * Open-Source Intrusion Detection Tools for Linux by Bobby S. Wen Armed with Linux and Open Source tools, you can even keep an ISP secure. * Securing DNS and BIND by Michael D. Bauer Decreasing the vulnerability of your DNS server is largely a matter of staying current and private. * Using Postfix for Secure SMTP Gateways by Mick Bauer and Brenno de Winter Improve your site's e-mail hygiene and make life difficult for spammers and hackers. * Focus: Security by Don Marti The time for security excuses is over. Indepth * RTcmix for Linux (Part 1) by Dave Topper In the first part of this three-part series on real-time audio synthesis we take you through the history and basis of RTcmix. * Apache User Authentication by Ibrahim F. Haddad A guide to setting up user authentication for the Apache web server running on Linux, using the plaintext file method. * Distance Education Using Linux and the MBone by Kelly Davis, Dr. Tom Miller and Charles Price There is more to the Internet than sending JPGs. See how Linux and the MBone addresses the nedds of distance learning. * Automated Installation of Large-Scale Linux Networks by Ali Raza Butt and Jahangir Hasan Need to load Linux on 100 workstations? Learn some tricks and techniques that could save you days of tedious work. * Graphics: Pick a Card...Any Card by Matt Matthews With graphics capabilities being so important and new cards appearing all the time, you need a scorecard to pick the right one. Here it is ... * BusyBox: A Swiss Army Knife for Linux by Nicholas Wells Learn how to save disk space with this open source tool for embedded systems. Toolbox * Kernel Korner Contributing to the Linux Kernel-Linux Configuration System by Joseph Pranevich * At the Forge Configuring, Tuning, and Debugging Apache by Reuven M. Lerner * Cooking with Linux A Few Recipes for Easier Firewalls by Marcel Gagne Columns * Linley on Linux: Linux Drives Digital Audio Revolution by Linley Gwennap * Focus on Software by David A. Bandel * Embedded Systems News by Rick Lehrbaum * The Last Word: All Hands To The Sieve by Stan Kelly-Bootle Reviews * Product Reviews + Comparison of Backup Products by Charles Curley + Easysoft Data Access Middleware by Jon Valesh + Magic Enterprises Edition 8.3 for Linux by Jon Valesh + Omnis Studio RAD by Nick Wells * Book Reviews + Unix Backup and Recovery by Charles Curley + LaTeX for Linux by Ben Crowder + The XML Handbook 2nd Edition by Daniel Lazenby + Securing Linux by Charles Curley + Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls by Ralph Krause + Linux Programming Bible by Ben Crowder Departments * Letters * upFRONT * From the Editor:Goodbye Bandits, Hello Security by Don Marti * From the Publisher: UnixWare and Linux Get Hitched by Phil Hughes * Best of Technical Support * New Products + New Products * Advertisers Index