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Increasing screen resolution in VNC on X

When connecting to a server without a monitor by VNC, X won’t allow you to select screen resolution higher than 640×480 on next restart. This can be easily fixed: Open /etx/X11/xorg.conf using a text editor (pico /etx/X11/xorg.conf) and add these two lines in the Monitor section of the config file: HorizSync 31-95 VertRefresh [...]

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Loading iptables rules on startup

By default iptables is setup on Debian etch but there are no rules configured. In this tutorial we’ll configure some rules and load them into iptables on startup. 1. Rules file Create a new file that will contain a shell script to insert rules into iptables (pico /etc/firewall-rules.sh) and add this content as template:

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