Part three of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.

Part one of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.

Part two of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.

Part five of a, now, 6 part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.

Part six of our now completed series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely. At least, it's the end of the beginning...

* Part 1: Introduction to Snort intrusion detection and prevention
* Part 2: Hardware and network setup requirements
* Part 3: Installation prerequisites
* Part 4: Compiling and configuration with MySQL
* Part 5: Configuring Snort and setting up rules
* Part 6: Editing the snort.conf file

Welcome to part II of this series. Here is Part I and here is Part 0. Today we will talk about scheduling unattended tasks.

This series has been moving along rather slowly, but it's summer and there are many important things to do. Like go to the lake and take naps a lot. Nevertheless, the show must go on, so here we are at Part 3. (Here are Part 1 and Part 2.)

"A while ago I've blogged about my switch from Vim to Emacs, promising a blog post series, quite a mouthful :-) nevertheless, it's time to continue the series. The first part was about why I think that nowadays Emacs is ready to be switching to. This second part is about flawed Vim design choices which substantially contributed to my choice..."