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CPU -- AMD Duron 1.5 GHz
RAM -- 128 MB
Swap -- 512 MB
Video Shared memory -- 8 MB

   * libelf-dev: Working with 'elf' files
   * zlib libraries: working with the zlib files
   * bison, flex

  1. make all
  2. sudo make install
  3. sudo make load

-- 
Amit Kumar Saha
http://amitksaha.blogspot.com
http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/
*Bangalore Open Java Users Group*:http:www.bojug.in

> Ben is this what you mean?
> I am pretty sure I copied every  word correctly then sent it to a 
> friend's address.Then it got bounced to me in my windows computer.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 8:11 PM
> Subject: siggen problem
> arild@Arildlinux:~$
> arild@Arildlinux:~$ siggen
> siggen: Display signature function values.
> Tripwire(R) 2.3.1.2 built for
> Tripwire 2.3 Portions copyright 2000 Tripwire, Inc. Tripwire is a registered
> trademark of Tripwire, Inc. This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
> for details use --version. This is free software which may be redistributed
> or modified only under certain conditions; see COPYING for details.
> All rights reserved.
> Use --help to get help.
> arild@Arildlinux:~$

ben@Tyr:~$ apt-file search bin/siggen
siggen: /usr/bin/siggen
tripwire: /usr/sbin/siggen

sudo dpkg -P tripwire
sudo apt-get install siggen

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[idesk] Background's file not found.
[idesk] Background's source not found.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  - accessibility

  - ability to do future changes/updates to info on the web pages

root@adey-laptop:/home/adey/Documents/vmware-server-distrib#               
./vmware-install.pl                                                        
A previous installation of VMware Server has been detected.                

The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4).       

Keeping the tar4 installer database format.                                

You have a product that conflicts with VMware Server installed.            
Continuing                                                                 
this install will first uninstall this product.  Do you wish to continue?  
(yes/no) [yes] y                                                           

Error: Unable to execute                                                   
"/media/DATA_DRIVE/Virtual-Machine-File/vmware-uninstall.pl.               

Uninstall failed.  Please correct the failure and re run the install.      

Execution aborted.                                                         

> So, if you're willing to wait a couple of days - our next issue comes
> out on the 1st - you'll have access to a very nice GUI for idesk. As far
> as I know, there isn't one available outside of that.

Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:13:40 -0800
From: Wade Richards <[email protected]>
To: Chip Panarchy <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Securing a Network - What's the most secure Network/Server OS?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[idesk] Background's file not found.
[idesk] Background's source not found.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Background.Delay: 1
  Background.Source: /home/joy/pics/Father
  Background.File: /home/joy/pics/Father/love.jpg
  Background.Mode: Center
  Background.Color: #FFFFFF 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

179383 192.168.0.1 TCP_MISS/504 2898 GET http://www.google.com/ -
DIRECT/209.85.193.104 text/html

> Well done, Arild! Yep, exactly what I mean.

> Don't know how to do that in Linux.  Can't seem to figure it out.
> 
> Judging by how my query on siggen is being handled I despair of ever
> figuring  out these other issues.  Maybe I should stick to Windows.
> I am just getting more confused by all the jargon.

   Env:
   Nomachine Nxclient for Windows 3.3.0-6
   CENTOS 4.7 i686 on standard
   nx-3.2.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm
   freenx-0.7.3-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm

/usr/bin/idesk &

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *

  1. Run Xvfb
       $ Xvfb
     This will usually start the X server :99
       $ DISPLAY=:99 ; export DISPLAY
  2. Run your application in the appropriate state.
       $ firefox http://www.linuxgazette.net &
  3. Find out which window id corresponds to your application
       $ xwininfo -name 'firefox-bin' | grep id
     Or
       $ xlsclients
     Use the hex string that you get as window id in the commands
     below
  4. Dump the screen shot of that window
       $ xwd -id 'hexid" > firefox.xwd
  5. If you want to, then kill these applications along with the 
     X server
       $ killall Xvfb

  DISPLAY=:99 xmonad &

#!/bin/bash
# Created by Ben Okopnik on Thu Mar 12 11:54:02 EDT 2009
# Creates a list of files named after all found extensions and containing the associated filenames

[ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" ] && { echo "${0##*/} [dir_to_read] [output_dir]"; exit 0; }
[ -n "$1" -a ! -d "$1" ] && { echo "'$1' is not a valid input directory"; exit 1; }
[ -n "$2" -a ! -d "$2" ] && { echo "'$2' is not a valid output directory"; exit 1; }

################ User-modified vars ########################
dir_root="/tmp/files"
ignore_exts="m3u bak"
################ User-modified vars ########################
snap=`pwd`
[ -n "$1" ] && snap="$1"
[ -n "$2" ] && dir_root="$2"
out_dir=`mktemp -d "${dir_root}XXX"`
echo "The output will be written to the '$out_dir' directory"
cd /

old=$IFS
IFS='
'
[ -n "`/bin/ls $out_dir`" ] && /bin/rm $out_dir/*
for n in `/usr/bin/find "$snap" -type f`
do
    ext="`echo ${n/*.}|tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`"
    # Ignore all specified extensions
    [ -n "`echo $ignore_exts|/bin/grep -i \"\\<$ext\\>\"`" ] && continue
    # No extension means the substitution won't work; no substitution means
    # we get the entire path and filename. So, no ext gets spun off to 'none'.
    [ -n "`echo $ext|grep '/'`" ] && ext=none
    echo $n >> $out_dir/$ext
done

echo "Done."

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *

#!/bin/bash
# Created by Ben Okopnik on Mon Jul  2 01:16:32 EDT 2007
# Convert various audio files to MP3 format
#
# Copyright (C) 2007 Ben Okopnik <[email protected]>
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

########## User-modifiable variables ###########################
set="*{ape,flac,m4a,wma,qt,ra,pcm,dv,aac,mlp,ac3,mpc,ogg}"
########## User-modifiable variables ###########################

# Need to have Bash expand the construct
set=`eval "ls -1 $set" 2>/dev/null`
# Set the IFS to a newline (i.e., ignore spaces and tabs in filenames)
IFS='
'
# Turn off the 'fake filenames' for failed matches
shopt -s nullglob

# Figure out if any of these files are present. 'ls' doesn't work (reports
# '.' for the match when no matching files are present) and neither does
# 'echo [pattern]|wc -w' (fails on filenames with spaces); this strange
# method seems to do just fine. 
for f in "$set"; do ((count++)); done
[ -z "$count" ] && { echo "None of '$set' found; exiting."; exit 1; }

# Blow away the previous log, if any

etch
lenny
lenny
arm
arm
armel
armel
lenny
fstab
/etc
resolv.conf, hostname,
hosts, mailname, timezone
adjtime
inittab, inetd.conf,
logrotate.conf
passwd, shadow, group,
and gshadow
-
diff -u etc/passwd /etc/passwd | grep \+
group,
shadow, gshadow
diff -ur /etc etc|less
/etc
/var/spool/cron
/
media, home, root, tmp, lost+found, proc, mnt, sys,
srv
upslug2
cd /new-system
for D in * ; do
  mv /old-system/$D /old-system/$D.old && mv $D /old-system
done

/new-system
/old-system
gparted
apt-get update
apt-get
upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
dumpe2fs /dev/sda2 | grep UUID
/dev/sda2
fstab
update-initramfs
sdb2
e2fsck -fy /dev/sdb2
tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sdb2
e2fsck -fy /dev/sdb2

tune2fs -O has_journal /dev/sdb2

fstab
tune2fs
locales
/usr/lib/locale
/usr/share/i18n
locale -m
/etc/asound.conf
pcm.converter {
  type plug
  slave {
    pcm "hw:0,0"
    rate 48000
    channels 2
    format S16_LE
  }
}
pcm.!default converter

madplay
madplay
madplay file.mp3  -A -9  -R 48000 -S  -o wav:-|aplay -q -D hw:0,0

arecord -D hw:0,0 -f S16_LE -r 24000 test.wav
armel
arm
old/
    libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2
    libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2

    myroot/bin:
        ls bash
    myroot/lib:
        ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libtermcap.so.2 libdl.so.2

    chroot myroot /bin/bash
    cd /
    ls

/* Make PATH be the root directory (the starting point for absolute paths).
      This call is restricted to the super-user.  */
extern int chroot (__const char *__path)

chroot "$LFS" /tools/bin/env -i \ 
    HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \ 
    PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/tools/bin \ 
    /tools/bin/bash --login +h 

myroot/usr
|
+---include:
|       a.out.h ... xlocale.h
|
+---lib:
|       Mcrt1.o Scrt1.o crt1.o crti.o crtn.o gcrt1.o
|
+---local
    |
    +---bin:
    |       gcc
    |          
    +---i686-pc-linux-gnu
    |   |
    |   +---bin: 
    |   |       as ld
    |   |
    |   +---lib
    |       +---ldscripts:
    |               elf_i386.x ...
    |    
    +---lib:
    |   |   libgcc_s.so libgcc_s.so.1 libgmp.so.3 libmpfr.so.1
    |   |
    |   |---gcc
    |       +---i686-pc-linux-gnu
    |           +---4.3.2:
    |                   crtbegin.o crtbeginS.o ...
    |                   libgcc.a ... 
    |    
    +---libexec
        +---gcc
            +---i686-pc-linux-gnu
                +---4.3.2:
                        cc1 cc1plus collect2

# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash during startup.

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
  . ~/.bashrc
fi

eval $(lesspipe)
stty stop ''
mesg n

# Note: these lines would normally need to be revised for Bourne syntax,
# since the original Bourne shell did not accept exporting and declaration
# in one statement; however, '/bin/sh' in Debian/Ubuntu does accept it, so
# it's not a concern.

export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
export ENV=~/.shrc
export LESSCHARSET=utf-8
export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/dri
export LYNX_CFG=${HOME}/.lynxrc
export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/var/svn/linuxgazette.net/bin
export PERLDOC="-otext"
export PI=`perl -we 'printf "%.48f\n", atan2(0,-1)'`
export RSYNC_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh
export SVN_SSH=/usr/bin/ssh
export WWW_HOME=file://${HOME}/lynx_bookmarks.html
export XTIDE_DEFAULT_LOCATION='St. Augustine, city dock, Florida'

# Sites
export LG="linuxgazette.net"
export NHC="www.nhc.noaa.gov"
export WWW="okopnik.com"

TTY=`/usr/bin/tty 2>/dev/null`
[ ${TTY:5:3} == "tty" ] && {		     # If not a console, bail!
	color=(foo blue green magenta)       # tty's start at 1, arrays at 0...
	setterm -foreground ${color[${TTY#*y}]} -store
}

# ~/.xprofile: executed by X during startup (modified version of
# .bash_profile, must be executable under /bin/sh)

export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
export LESSCHARSET=utf-8
export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/dri
export LYNX_CFG=${HOME}/.lynxrc
export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/var/svn/linuxgazette.net/bin
export PERLDOC="-otext"
export PI=`perl -we 'printf "%.48f\n", atan2(0,-1)'`
export RSYNC_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh
export SVN_SSH=/usr/bin/ssh
export WWW_HOME=file://${HOME}/lynx_bookmarks.html

# Sites
export LG="linuxgazette.net"
export NHC="www.nhc.noaa.gov"
export WWW="okopnik.com"

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples

# If running interactively, then:
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
	mesg n
	eval $(lesspipe)
	# Load aliases initially; part of the 'realias' hack
	source ~/.aliases
	# Set up the LG build vars
	source $HOME/.lgrc
	# Update LINES and COLUMNS
	shopt -s checkwinsize
	# Set the xterm title
	case $TERM in
		 gnome|nxterm|xterm*|rxvt*)
				 PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;$USER@`hostname`: ${PWD}\007"' ;;
	esac
fi

####### Temp proxy settings ################
[ -f ~/ENABLE_PROXY ] && {
	export HTTP_PROXY=`cat ~/ENABLE_PROXY`
	export http_proxy=$HTTP_PROXY
	export FTP_PROXY=$HTTP_PROXY
	export ftp_proxy=$HTTP_PROXY
	export no_proxy=localhost
	export NO_PROXY=localhost

    # Automate w3m proxying
	export W3M_OPTIONS='-o use_proxy=1 -o http_proxy='$HTTP_PROXY' -o ftp_proxy='$FTP_PROXY' -o no_proxy=localhost'
	alias w3m="$W3M_OPTIONS "
}
####### Temp proxy settings ################

############ Functions #####################
calc() { perl -wle'print eval join "", @ARGV' $@; }
cdlg() { cd $LG_ARTICLES/`sed -n 's/currentIssue.*= *//;T;p' $LG_LIBPYTHON/lgconfig.py`; }
h() { history|grep "^ *[0-9]* *$1"; }
searchmail() { less -P "'n' to see the next match, 'q' to quit"  -p "$1" ~/Mail/Sent_mail; }
shake() { zless -p "$1" $HOME/Books/Other/The\ Complete\ Shakespeare.gz; }
ip() { ifconfig "${1:-eth0}"|sed -n '2s/.* inet addr:\([0-9.]*\) .*/\1/p'; }
pod() { cd /usr/share/perl/`perl -e'printf "%vd", $^V'`/pod; egrep "$1" *|less; }
export -f calc cdlg h searchmail shake ip pod
############ Functions #####################

Defining an Access List

	Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype, 
	followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
	they are read from.

	   acl aclname acltype argument ...
	   acl aclname acltype "file" ...

	When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.

	By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE.  To make
	them case-insensitive, use the -i option.

acl aclname acltype (ip-address/netmask or .domain.com)

acl   aclname   src         ip-address/netmask 		       # clients IP address
acl   aclname   src         addr1-addr2/netmask 	       # range of addresses
acl   aclname   dst         ip-address/netmask  	       # URL host's IP address
acl   aclname   myip        ip-address/netmask 		       # local socket IP address
acl   aclname   srcdomain   .foo.com       	               # reverse lookup, from client IP
acl   aclname   dstdomain   .foo.com            	       # Destination server from URL
acl   aclname   dstdomain   "/etc/squid/allow/safe-sites"  # file must exist
acl   aclname   srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...	       # regex matching client name
acl   aclname   dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...	       # regex matching server

http_access allow aclname  # allow access 
http_access deny aclname   # deny access

http_access allow localhost  # allow localhost
http_access deny all         # deny access not specifically allowed

# Squid normally listens on port 3128
#http_port 3128

# Joey 1-12-09 changed http_port to use port 80
http_port 80

#acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
#http_access allow our_networks

# Joey 1-12-09 changed source network for caching 
acl our_networks src 192.168.7.0/24
http_access allow our_networks

# Squid normally listens on port 3128
http_port 3128

#  TAG: visible_hostname
#       If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
#       define this.  Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
#       will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
#       get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
#       names with this setting.
#
visible_hostname restrictor1.example.com

# ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

#  TAG: cache_mgr
#       Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
#       mail if the cache dies. The default is "root".
#
#Default:
# cache_mgr root
# Joey 1-12-09 changed cache_mgr to Orion. He has permissions to 
# authorize and allow new sites and reload Squid. 
cache_mgr [email protected]

# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
# Example rule allowing access from your local networks. Adapt
# to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing should
# be allowed
#acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
#http_access allow our_networks

# Joey 1-12-09 allow unrestricted access for admin staff on subnet
acl admin src 192.168.5.0/24
http_access allow admin

# Joey 1-12-09 otherguys are all other employees and have restrictions
# Edit the referenced file - not this one - to make a change!!!
acl otherguys dstdomain "/etc/squid/approved-sites/safe-sites-gov"
acl otherguys dstdomain "/etc/squid/approved-sites/safe-sites-com"
acl otherguys dstdomain "/etc/squid/approved-sites/safe-sites-net"
acl otherguys dstdomain "/etc/squid/approved-sites/safe-sites-edu"
acl otherguys dstdomain "/etc/squid/approved-sites/safe-sites-org"
acl otherguys dstdomain "/etc/squid/approved-sites/safe-sites-non-us"

http_access allow otherguys

# And finally, deny all other access to this proxy

http_access allow localhost
http_access deny all

.pbs.org                     # PBS - News
.publicagenda.org            # Public Agenda - News
.ortl.org                    # Oregon Right to Life - Research
.acponline.org               # American College of Physicians - Research
.afsp.org                    # American Foundation Suicide Prevention - Research
.dioceseofnewark.org         # Episcopal Diocese - Research
.internationaltaskforce.org  # Task Force on Euthanasia - Research
.policyalmanac.org           # Almanac of Policy Issues - Research
.content.nejm.org            # The New England Journal of Medicine - Research
.npr.org                     # NPR - News
.ncsl.org                    # National Conference of State Legislatures - Research

#acl with_allowed_useragents browser (Firefox) 
acl MSIE browser MSIE
http_access deny MSIE

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *

April 2009 (#161):

Mailbag

This month's answers created by:

Still Searching

adesklets

Doubt...

Trying DTrace on Linux

Our Mailbag

siggen problem

need your suggestion to select linux tools and configure idesk

Proxy + firewall configuration on linux

Slight tweak to your editorial note

how to read /dev/pts/x?

MacroMedia Flash and accessibility

VMware installation problem

Google Summer of Code

GUI for idesk ??

Folder Sync on Linux

Securing a Network - What's the most secure Network/Server OS? - Is ?there a secure way to use Shares?

How do you format ftp or sftp for transfering files?...

[idesk] Background's file not found

how to convert from kmail to slypheed-claws ?

linking my sound card to xoscpe

Squid problem (TCP_MISS 504)

Cut and paste between two computers. Was linking my sound card to xoscpe

Gems from the Mailbag

This month's answers created by:

Editor's Note

Bus and Taxi analogy (Was Cut and paste between two computers. Was linking my sound card to xoscpe)

Talkback

Talkback:140/kapil.html

Talkback:135/knaggs.html

Talkback:160/lg_bytes.html

Talkback:160/okopnik.html

2-Cent Tips

2-cent Tip: Screenshots without X

2-cent Tip: Lists of files by extension

2-cent Tip: Converting from $FOO to MP3

News Bytes

Contents:

News in General

IDC: IT Turning to Linux in Economic Downturn

Sun Microsystems Unveils Open Cloud Platform

LPIC-3 Enterprise-level "Security" Exam

Eclipse Announces First Release of Swordfish, a Next Generation ESB

Pulsar Mobile Group formed by Eclipse

Open Source AWS Toolkit for Eclipse available now

Conferences and Events

Distro News

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 Beta

Pre-Orders OpenBSD 4.5 Available Now

Software and Product News

Oracle Middleware Pack for Eclipse Now Available

Linpus Shows Instant-on Netbook At CeBIT

Itemis Extends Eclipse EMF Modeling Capability

Instantiations Releases WindowBuilder Pro v7.0 for Eclipse

Upgrading your Slug

Moving Files and Setting up Configuration

Partitioning Complications

Locales Package

Sound

Everything Finished

Away Mission: 2008 in Review - part 3

Web 2.0 Expo and Velocity

RSA for Security Trends

MySQL - No Disappointments

Playing with Chroot

In the Kernel

Chroot in Linux from Scratch

A Quick Compiler

Bash configuration under Ubuntu

The Way Things Were, and The Way They Are

Following the Wily X Beast

The Details

~/.bash_profile

~/.xprofile

~/.bashrc

Wrap-up

Joey's Notes: Using Squid Web proxy to control Web access

Configuration for Restricting Sites