BackTrack is a Linux distro

BackTrack is a Linux distro which is derived from slackware which is the merger of whax and auditor security collection. Backtrack two was released on 6 March 2007 which include more than 300 security tools while the beta 3 version of backtrack released on 14 december 2007 on the third release is more focused on hardware support. While the version of backtrack 3 was released on 19 June 2008 on backtrack version 3 of this insert saint and maltego while Nessus is not included.
But still using kernel version 2.6.21.5., On BackTrack 4 Final today offers the latest Linux kernel 2.6.30.4 kernel. Equipped also with a patch for the wireless drivers to cope with wireless attacks injection (wireless injection attacks).

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Webmin Installation and Configuration in Ubuntu Linux

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on.
Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.
Installing Webmin in Ubuntu
You can use the above procedure but if you want to install latest version you can download from webmin site download section

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How to install Monitorix in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Server

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool  designed to monitorize as many services as possible. At this time it monitors from the CPU load and temperatures to the users using the system. Network devices activity, network services demand and even the devices’ interrupt activity are also monitored, and more. The current status of any corporate server with Monitorix installed can be accessed via a web browser.
It has been designed to be used under production UNIX/Linux servers, but due its simplicity and small size you may also use it to monitor embedded devices.
All its development was initially created for monitoring Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS Linux systems, so this project was made keeping in mind these distributions. Today it runs on different Linux distributions and even in other UNIX systems like FreeBSD.

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