Even though airdroid is not SMS client, I really like it, gives me the flexibility of sending sms from my laptop and much more! http://help.airdroid.com/customer/portal/articles/1286642-sms
Apart from that, I am also using hangout replacing the native sms app
@scottalanmiller Could you please let me know about the hosted PBX option is detail? Lets see if we could propose that, but wanted to make sure if it meets all their requirements and we have strict ISP regulations here, so need to make sure if hosted PBX is a possible option
I was just checking the enterprise version, but the initial licensing is minimum 10 servers with 1 year plan. So on the last stage of registration, I dropped the plan, as I wanted to make sure the enterprise version is worth the upgrade before going full fledge.
Today I got an email from the Lynis team, offered me a single server enterprise version for testing. Response and support from them seems to be good. Will evaluate a test server with that and share the details here.
@scottalanmiller Since I couldn't find much spare time to help my friend to setup Elastix, found a company who does elastix implementation here in Dubai. They sell an appliance based on Elastix and are scheduled to give us a demo, Any recommendations I need to look for while getting this done by a third party? They were suggesting Yealink/Polycom phones.
Yes, it is! I am planning to have the enterprise version for all our hosting servers, just as an added security measure. It even scans your server and show if you are patched against the shellshock and other vulnerabilities.
Thanks once again @scottalanmiller had a customer who wanted to secure his linux web server and he was about to face an audit! I installed the server with all necessary updates, patches and setup configserverfirewall, scanned for issues, fixed that as well. Then used Lynis and scanned and fixed the issues shown on that as well. To my surprise, the audit team also scanned with Lynis and found everything OK! 
I am adding this tool to my fav list! 
Thank you!
Suggested them to have AD and software restriction policy/applocker, but they wanted to have a solution without AD, something like an endpoint manager, install the agents to the clients and manage.
This is for Deep Freeze and Anti-virus, I need the pricing for anti-executable
Thanks for sharing the details
I've contacted Faronics local reseller and waiting for their reply, I will share the pricing here once I get the info
This will be really helpful, thanks!
Seems like Faronics has such product
http://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/document/faronics-anti-executable-product-spec-sheet/
Hi all,
I have a requirement to find a software which can enforce following restrictions:
Only allowed applications to run
Email client
Browser (Chrome)
PDF reader
C Cleaner
Only allowed applications that can connect to internet
Salesforce
Google maps
What can we use to achieve this, its mostly a windows environment, and they want to use some end point protection tool which can also be used for locking apps.
Yes that was sorted, now need to see how the dev team integrates sphinx search on the site.
We had something like this once on a wordpress installation, when the user changed permission on the whole site folder, and used a script which is still available in the internet, which scans and fixes the whole directory when you give the WP owner and group usernames. We still have the scripts saved on all our servers, just to do a quick permission fix to avoid a mass restore and re deploy the site.
Wow, that was a very good read, and got some good info! Thanks a lot!
In my case, it was cPanel's Shell fork bomb protection, I disabled it for a while and was able to complete the installation and later on enabled it back again.
But thanks once again for that writeup on your blog
free -m output
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 12288 10790 1497 0 1773 6903
-/+ buffers/cache: 2113 10174
Swap: 10207 0 10207
Server is CentOS release 5.11.
Seems like the issue is the user account doesnt have enough memory allocation allowed.
ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 200000
data seg size (kbytes, -d) 200000
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 98304
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size (kbytes, -m) 200000
open files (-n) 100
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 35
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
I am trying to find an option to increase this just for this user in cpanel. Also found that the Shell fork bomb protection could also be the reason for this issue. Still working on it
@scottalanmiller Apart from the fact that this is a new piece of software, would you be able to help me to get this virtual memory issue fixed please?
Yeah, I just learnt about this today, when the request came from the dev team. Its an open source full text search server which is used for fast indexing and searching the db
http://sphinxsearch.com/about/sphinx/
There are guides to install sphinx on server wide, but I wanted this just to be installed on one account.