This module allows you to create and edit the scripts that are run at bootup and shutdown time, called actions by the module. It can be found under the System category in Webmin, and when you enter it the main page will display a list of all available actions, whether they are started at boot and a short description for each.

VSFTPD using SSL can be a great way to protect your FTP transfers.  This article will demonstrate how to set up the server, create the certificate, use FileZilla and modify the Ubuntu firewall.

etckeeper is a set of tools that allows you to maintain the /etc directory in a git, mercurial,darcs or bzr repository. This allows an administrator to commit changes once they have been reviewed.

Typically when you want to measure tomcat performance, you will set up the client on a separate machine so that when you are doing testing the client resource usage does not impact the test.

This is a step-by-step tutorial written by Mike Weber outlining how to install Tomcat 7 on the Ubuntu 11.04 server. Apache Tomcat uses the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.

Using JMeter to measure tomcat performance provides administrators the advantage of visually appealing graphs. This tutorial explains how to measure tomcat with JMeter.

Understanding how and which scripts start at boot with Ubuntu is a bit challenging. The transition from System-V init scripts to upstart jobs is not complete nor transparent.

When you check the status you see that by default four profiles are active, in enforcing mode. These are protecting dhcp and tcpdump. You can see from the status that no profiles are in complain mode.

With server security threats are at an all time high new strategies are constantly being developed. Mike outlines Apparmor as it is currently used to secure the Ubuntu server.