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Load balancing in cups

z01krh — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:39:11 GMT

Not sure if this is a networking or hardware question but here goes.
I have set up a cups class for load balancing with two identical network printers.

The issue is sometimes cups sees printer one as busy and sends the remaining of the document to printer two.

People are loosing pages because they don't think to check printer two.

Is there a way to set cups so that it will only switch printers if printer one is down or offline?

Thanks,

Oh my Linux distro is Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)

false multiple invalid password nagging Mageia3

moshebagelfresser — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:58:47 GMT

There appears to be a serious bug in the new Mageia 3 just released. After a minute or two I'm bombarded on the desktop with multiple warnings Dialogue Boxes stating: "The password you typed is invalid". Please try again." Closing it is useless! I do not know what is causing this as I have just booted up. This started occurring just after I upgraded from Mageia 2.

Anybody have any ideas to how I can stop this happening?

In the Bug reporting there are already over 20 people who have this problem. In the Bug Report I suggested there to reformat and do a clean install, but someone told me that this doesn't help. I am considering formatting and reinstalling Mageia 2 and waiting for the next edition in 6 months time as I doubt there's a solution.

Moshe

[SOLVED] Strange file showing up in /tmp

lce411 — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:55:35 GMT

I keep getting Nagios errors saying that my "/" partition is out of space. The only thing I can find that is "out of the ordinary" is a file in /tmp named "MCjJlQUS". It's a binary file that is owned by root:root and contains nothing but 100MB of:

Code:

00a7cc70  cb fc 43 b0 39 50 c2 68  fe 3f bc 81 df 44 2e d7  |..C.9P.h.?...D..|

00a7cc80  40 52 07 37 89 e2 3f 1f  af ce b6 8a 9e 15 06 8c  |@R.7..?.........|

00a7cc90  c3 30 23 15 fc 27 7c 55  50 13 98 ba a7 d9 65 65  |.0#..'|UP.....ee|

00a7cca0  b8 b8 78 e7 a7 81 7f 2e  3e bc 7c 8b 8d 3f 5e cf  |..x.....>.|..?^.|

00a7ccb0  a2 88 93 cc d7 af e2 33  aa ce a6 43 eb c0 74 35  |.......3...C..t5|

00a7ccc0  7f 34 04 f5 48 fb 2d 4d  18 32 4d 54 49 37 1e 2c  |.4..H.-M.2MTI7.,|

00a7ccd0  7e 93 d9 dd 5c 46 31 37  c4 06 02 3e 77 80 1e 36  |~...\F17...>w..6|

Has anyone ever seen this? Is there a way to see what program or service actually created the file? It's appeared on a couple of servers. The only thing we have running on all servers is NRPE, but I can't find anything in the file to suggest it's coming from that. If anyone has experienced this and knows how to stop it, I would appreciate some advice.

Looking for example network driver that uses serial port (2.6.34)

AaronScott — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:55:11 GMT

First off, I couldn't figure out if there was a better place for this question. I couldn't find a category specifically for driver development, so if there is a better place for this question, please let me know.

I've been asked to develop a driver for a network adapter that is currently being designed. I know very little about how the device will actually function at this point, I'm just trying to get something going that I can build on as I learn more details. What I have been told is that the driver should create a network interface so that software that currently makes use of Ethernet and WiFi networks can be changed to use this network device as seamlessly as possible. It will also likely connect through a serial (RS232) port. This hasn't actually been set in stone yet, but I've decided to move forward as if it has so that I can get something working.

The actual machine this is being written for is a TS-7800.

Code:

ts7800:~# uname -snrmo 

Linux ts7800 2.6.34 armv5tel GNU/Linux

I've read most of "Linux Device Drivers" (3rd ed.) trying to learn the concepts of driver development, but the examples used in this book don't work in the 2.6.34 kernel. So I'm looking for more appropriate examples, hopefully well documented ones. If anyone has any suggestions about where I could look, or any other resources I could check for help with this, I'd really appreciate it.

multiple false password entered notifications

moshebagelfresser — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:54:44 GMT

There appears to be a serious bug in the new Mageia 3 just released. After a minute or two I'm bombarded on the desktop with multiple warnings Dialogue Boxes stating: "The password you typed is invalid. Please try again." Closing it is useless! I do not know what is causing this as I have just booted up. This started occurring just after I upgraded from Mageia 2.

Anybody have any ideas to how I can stop this happening?

In the Bug reporting there are already over 20 people who have this problem. In the Bug Report I suggested there to reformat and do a clean install, but someone told me that this doesn't help. I am considering formatting and reinstalling Mageia 2 and waiting for the next edition in 6 months time as I doubt there's a solution.

Moshe

LXer: ProjectLibre edges in on Microsoft Project dominance

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:50:17 GMT

Published at LXer:

ProjectLibre is an open source project management solution ready to give Microsoft Project a run for their money.

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from South Africa

mariose — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:34:30 GMT

Glad to be part of the community.

Thanks

Hello from Hartlepool UK

durhambuilder — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:26:56 GMT

Hi
My name's Geoff Williams, have messed with Linux in the past but nothing serious. Bitten by the bug again,I'm running Slackware, I'm retired now so have plenty of time to read and learn. Looking forward to participating in these forums.
Geoff

Need help with OpenLDAP schema configuration for password management

Guitarrasdeamor — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:22:43 GMT

Hello all. I am somewhat in the process of setting up an OpenLDAP server as a small project for work, and I've run into a block that has kept me away for a little bit. I found a password management program that I'd like to use, and it requires adding custom object classes and such, and I am not sure on how to add these. I am using a base Amazon Linux AMI.

To work with the server, I am using Apache Directory Studio. I already got the base setup myself - as in I am able to actually access the directory and verify all the users I've imported are there and such. I am trying to use PWM as a password service, http://code.google.com/p/pwm/, and this is where I'm running into the issues. It wants me to add a pwmUser auxiliary class and all the added attributes that go with it. I've gone into the Schema Editor section on Apache, made a project labeled PWM, and was able to view the structure it has now and see it. I tried adding entries in there, however, nothing appears to be happening, even with restarting the server. PWM is still unable to write and gets this error: An error occurred during the save of your response questions. Please contact your administrator. { 5045 ERROR_WRITING_RESPONSES (error writing user responses to ldap attribute 'pwmResponseSet': [LDAP: error code 17 - pwmResponseSet: attribute type undefined]) }.

To add, there is also an ApacheDS-schema.ldif included in PWM that I found! However, I cannot seem to add it. This is the command I use and the error I get:

ldapadd -x -D "cn=(myadminname),dc=(server),dc=(company),dc=com" -w (mypassword) -f ApacheDS-schema.ldif
adding new entry "cn=pwm, ou=schema, dc=(server), dc=(company), dc=com"
ldap_add: Object class violation (65)
additional info: objectClass "2.5.20.1" only allowed in subentries

Does anybody have experience with this that can help me out? It was a pain to get the base together and this just added to the frustration, so I took a break for a while and am now deciding to come back to it. Thanks!

vmlinuz boot

timmren — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:20:30 GMT

I'm having trouble booting from grub. I was trying to update my system so I organized my boot folder and copied new initrd and vmlinuz files there.

When I try to boot GRUB won't load the kernel. All the files are there, and Ubuntu vmlinuz and initrd files are still in the system tray, but it can't find the file.

any help?

implementing spectrum pool in ns-2.31

mhm13819 — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:13:24 GMT

How can I implement spectrum pool in NS-2.31? I need 4 spectrum pools each operating
in different frequency, like spectrum pool A operates in 5GHz, spectrum pool B
operates in 2.4GHz, spectrum pool C operates in 2GHz and spectrum pool D operates
in 800MHz.
In each spectrum pool I need(for example) 10 spectrum bands and each spectrum band
contains 10 channels.

Can you help me implement the spectrum pool? Should it implement in C++ or Otcl?

catching a hot plug event linux

rohaanembedded — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:11:05 GMT

hie everyOne,

I have one device having (cypress)FX2LP for usb connectivity. and i have developed one code using cypress's CyUSB utility (which uses libusb wrapper) in Linux which displays the device descripotor of the device and logs it in log file.

but for this i have run the code. to get this. Actually i wanted to do like whenever i plug my device the code i have written should run automatically n logs the descriptors in file.

i know this can be done with kind of daemon process i am trying but i am not able to understand the things how to do this

please do rply i want to make it happen (i am working in linux)

regards
Rohan

LXer: Linux-friendly SBC suits display apps on trains, planes, buses

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:50:02 GMT

Published at LXer:

Fedora and the Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology released an optimized Fedora 18 Remix for the Raspberry Pi, and unveiled a new name for the remix. �Pidora 18,� based on a new build of Fedora optimized for ARMv6, features speedier performance and includes packages from the Fedora 18 package set, says the Pidora project team.

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[SOLVED] No mouse cursor in KDE

EldonCool — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:46:12 GMT

I just installed slackware 14 (32 bit) and when I go into X windows by running "startx", everything works except that I have NO MOUSE CURSOR showing. It is invisible, so I don't know what my mouse is pointing at. I can somewhat navigate by guessing where it is pointing, like I can get the menu of things from the bottom left of the screen and then select menu items that are high lighted by using the up and down arrows on my keyboard.

Anyone have an idea how to get my mouse cursor to show
up? I have been able to get some mouse functions on screen, but cannot do much with them, because they seem to require a mouse to do anything with them, and
my mouse just is not letting me do much since I can't figure out what it is pointing at. Like I can get into the help function, you have to click
on the word "Mouse" to read about it, and of course
I can't click on it, because the mouse is not cooperating.

If I can't get KDE to cooperate, maybe I can do startx with another windows manager, but I have forgot how you startx with other window managers.
I thought maybe I could do "startx fwm2" and maybe
get it to run with favorite windows manager number 2 that I was able to do on my last installation,
slack 13, but this one is not cooperating.
So how do I get it going with a different manager than KDE, or how in hell do I get my mouse cursor
to show up with KDE?

Very specific wireless configuration on Slackware

jhdalben — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:43:13 GMT

Hi there, I'm trying to configure wireless networking with my university's standards, but can't figure out how to set some advanced options. Here is the specification:

Security: WPA or WPA2 Enterprise
Authentication: TLS
Internal Authentication: PAP
Certificate CA: xxx.cer (it's a file which they provide download)
Username: myusername
Password: mypassword

Is there any way to do it using only rc.inet1.conf or iwconfig?

Thank you so much for your attention.

Generate XSLT with XSLT?

stateless — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:42:41 GMT

I've been reading up on XSLT for a project. Funny thought ran through my head: Can you use XSLT to generate an XSLT document? Mostly just curious.

create a partiton-table with Gparted - HowTo

sayhello_to_the_world — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:36:32 GMT

hi dear linux-fans

i want to do a creation of a partiton table - with gparted - on opensuse : HowTo?

i firstly

a. turn on the computer
b. start gparted
c. run the partintion-creation-programme

note: it is not (!!!) possible to co a partition-table when you either

a. run any programme on the machine
b. do anything with the machine

in other words: i only can do a partion table when all (!!!) programmes are switche off and Gparted is the only thing that runs...

is this true

AMD Radeon HD 8750M

hyntish — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:27:49 GMT

Cant get it work under ubuntu "mint 14"
Can u help me

i got a Samsung 3-serien 370R NP370R5E
http://verklighetochdrom.blogspot.se...-np370r5e.html

[SOLVED] What books should I be reading?

songlian — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:27:32 GMT

Hi,

What books would you consider absolute essentials for the Linux newbie? I haven't decided on a distro yet, and I'll have a desktop and separate server elsewhere.

Any help is appreciated.

Openswan Ubuntu (Host) to Cisco (Site) connection

flatbeat — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:08:55 GMT

Hi Guyz

I've got the following problem:

I need to configure an IPSEC VPN Connection from an Amazone EC2 instance to a Cisco ASA5505 Firewall. the version of Ubuntu is 12.04 LTS and the one of openswan 2.6.37.
Unfortunately I only have access to the amazone instance but not to the ASA Firewall as it belongs to a third party but I have all required parameters.

Because I'm new to openswan I first tested if I can access the server in a roadwarrior setup. This worked without problems. Then I tried to configure a host to host connection between two amazone instances which worked as well.

Now with the cisco fw I cannot establish a connection and unfortunately I have no clue why because the logs are not clear enough for my understanding.

First things first my ipsec.conf is as follows:

Code:

# basic configuration

config setup

        plutodebug="all"

        klipsdebug="none"

        protostack=netkey

        nat_traversal=yes

        nhelpers=0



conn burundi

        type=tunnel

                dpddelay=30

                dpdtimeout=120

                dpdaction=restart

        compress=no

        left=10.224.74.85

        leftid=@server1

        right=41.79.47.2

        rightsubnet=192.168.0.0/24

        authby=secret

        ikelifetime=86400s

        keylife=3600s

        rightid="emailAddress=Krishna.kishore@leo.bi"

        pfs=yes

        auto=start

        ike=3des-sha1;modp1024!

        phase2alg=3des-sha1;modp1024

        aggrmode=no

        #keyingtries=3

Left is the private IP of the amazone ec2 instance. I'm using a private IP because it is behind an 1:1 NAT (as far as I can tell)

The only thing I'm not sure about is the ID's. The Cisco fw is configured to use an e-mail ID. I hope this is configured correctly. The Leftid i dont use as it seems to work without using it (in a roadwarriorsetup)

Code:

ipsec auto --status

Code:

00 "burundi": 10.224.74.85<10.224.74.85>[@server1,+S=C]...41.79.47.2<41.79.47.2>[E=Krishna.kishore@leo.bi,+S=C]===192.168.0.0/24; prospective erouted; eroute owner: #0

000 "burundi":     myip=unset; hisip=unset;

000 "burundi":   ike_life: 86400s; ipsec_life: 3600s; rekey_margin: 540s; rekey_fuzz: 100%; keyingtries: 0

000 "burundi":   policy: PSK+ENCRYPT+TUNNEL+PFS+UP+IKEv2ALLOW+SAREFTRACK+lKOD+rKOD; prio: 32,24; interface: eth0;

000 "burundi":   dpd: action:restart; delay:30; timeout:120;

000 "burundi":   newest ISAKMP SA: #0; newest IPsec SA: #0;

000 "burundi":   IKE algorithms wanted: 3DES_CBC(5)_000-SHA1(2)_000-MODP1024(2); flags=strict

000 "burundi":   IKE algorithms found:  3DES_CBC(5)_192-SHA1(2)_160-MODP1024(2)

000 "burundi":   ESP algorithms wanted: 3DES(3)_000-SHA1(2)_000; pfsgroup=MODP1024(2); flags=-strict

000 "burundi":   ESP algorithms loaded: 3DES(3)_192-SHA1(2)_160

000

000 #23: "burundi":500 STATE_MAIN_I2 (sent MI2, expecting MR2); EVENT_RETRANSMIT in 16s; nodpd; idle; import:admin initiate

000 #23: pending Phase 2 for "burundi" replacing #0

if i set auto=add in ipsec.conf and use

Code:

ipsec whack --name burundi --initiate

I get the following:

Code:

002 "burundi" #1: initiating Main Mode

104 "burundi" #1: STATE_MAIN_I1: initiate

003 "burundi" #1: ignoring Vendor ID payload [Cisco IKE Fragmentation]

002 "burundi" #1: transition from state STATE_MAIN_I1 to state STATE_MAIN_I2

106 "burundi" #1: STATE_MAIN_I2: sent MI2, expecting MR2

010 "burundi" #1: STATE_MAIN_I2: retransmission; will wait 20s for response

003 "burundi" #1: ignoring informational payload, type INVALID_COOKIE msgid=00000000

003 "burundi" #1: received and ignored informational message

The auth.log after an ipsec restart shows that the psk has been accepted and i guess that means that phase 1 is complete so I think there must be something wrong with phase 2.
What concerns me a little bit is what begins at line 218 :

Code:

May 23 16:19:12 ip-10-224-74-85 pluto[5252]: | *received whack message

May 23 16:19:12 ip-10-224-74-85 pluto[5252]: | processing connection burundi

May 23 16:19:12 ip-10-224-74-85 pluto[5252]: | route owner of "burundi" unrouted: NULL; eroute owner: NULL

May 23 16:19:12 ip-10-224-74-85 pluto[5252]: | could_route called for burundi (kind=CK_PERMANENT)

May 23 16:19:12 ip-10-224-74-85 pluto[5252]: | route owner of "burundi" unrouted: NULL; eroute owner: NULL

May 23 16:19:12 ip-10-224-74-85 pluto[5252]: | route_and_eroute with c: burundi (next: none) ero:null esr:{(nil)} ro:null rosr:{(nil)} and state: 0

May 23 16:19:12 ip-10-224-74-85 pluto[5252]: | request to add a prospective erouted policy with netkey kernel --- experimental

May 23 16:19:12 ip-10-224-74-85 pluto[5252]: | satype(0) is not used in netlink_raw_eroute.

May 23 16:19:12 ip-10-224-74-85 pluto[5252]: | route_and_eroute: firewall_notified: true

May 23 16:19:12 ip-10-224-74-85 pluto[5252]: | command executing prepare-host

Could this be because I omitted the next hop statement? The defaults seem to be ok though:

Code:

ipsec showdefaults

root@ip-10-224-74-85:/home/andreas# routephys=eth0

root@ip-10-224-74-85:/home/andreas# routevirt=none

root@ip-10-224-74-85:/home/andreas# routeaddr=10.224.74.85

root@ip-10-224-74-85:/home/andreas# routenexthop=10.224.74.1

I know all this could be because of a wrong configuration on the Cisco firewall but the third party claims that he uses this configuration with many clients and also I think it should be possible to read out of the logs what could be the problem.

I'd be sooo grateful if anyone could help because I think I have tried everything I can without having to take apart the whole ipsec protocol and opwenswan code :)

Thanks a lot for your help!

How to enable DIF/DIX on RHEL6.3?

testerQ — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:53:31 GMT

My understanding is RHEL6 supports DIF/DIX for only direct I/O applications and devices. I have a couple HUSSL4040ASS600 and an LSI 9211. I think both devices have DIF/DIX enabled and I think the only thing missing is an application that supports DIF/DIX but unsure how to check this.

How do I make sure DIF/DIX is enabled in my devices and where can I get a list of DIF/DIX supported applications?

LXer: Designing Electronics with Linux

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:51:01 GMT

Published at LXer:

In many scientific disciplines, the research you may be doing iscompletely new. It may be so new that there isn't even any instrumentationavailable to make your experimental measurements. In those cases, youhave no choice but to design and build your own measuring devices.

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storing the results of a perl::mechanize script

sayhello_to_the_world — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:45:20 GMT

hello i ve a little script that fetches (or lets say at least it should do that) fetches images or screenshots from webpages and stores them.

but i do not know where it stores them...

i want to store the images in a folder. is this doable?

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl



use strict;

use warnings;

use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;



my $mech = new WWW::Mechanize::Firefox();



open(INPUT, "


while () {

        chomp;

        print "$_\n";

        $mech->get($_);

        my $png = $mech->content_as_png();

        my $name = "$_";

        $name =~s/^www\.//;

        $name .= ".png";

        open(OUTPUT, ">$name");

        print OUTPUT $png;

        sleep (5);

}

see the output

Code:







http://www.google.com

print() on closed filehandle OUTPUT at mech10.pl line 20,  line 4.

http://www.yahoo.com

print() on closed filehandle OUTPUT at mech10.pl line 20,  line 5.

http://www.cnn.com

print() on closed filehandle OUTPUT at mech10.pl line 20,  line 6.

http://www.bing.com

print() on closed filehandle OUTPUT at mech10.pl line 20,  line 7.

http://www.nbcnews.co

print() on closed filehandle OUTPUT at mech10.pl line 20,  line 8.

http://www.msnbc.com

print() on closed filehandle OUTPUT at mech10.pl line 20,  line 9.

http://news.bbc.co.uk 

print() on closed filehandle OUTPUT at mech10.pl line 20,  line 10.

martin@linux-70ce:~/perl>

Disable Knoppix Auto login

pointerx — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:43:45 GMT

Hi All....!
I am new to using Linux. I have installed KNOPPIX 7.0.5 on my laptop.
I am using LXDE environment. I changed user to administrator from preferences-> user settings.

my problem is

whenever I boot my laptop it directly shows me the desktop. and don't ask me for user login. please tell me how to disable auto login.

thank you.

Fc18: How to disable power management?

hpfeil — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:30:31 GMT

I can't figure out how to keep my monitor from shutting off. Is there systemd or udev rule I need to write? I prefer to use a screensaver that is smart enough to leave the monitor on when a window on the active desktop is changing, like when I'm watching a Buster Keaton movie at http://archive.org or doing a lot of copy/paste and other mouse commands. Fool thing seems to turn on the monitor only if there's a key down/up event. My x86_64 workstation is plugged into a UPS that is controlled by apcupsd. Also, there seems to be a upowerd running that I don't want or need. I want nothing invoking hibernation, putting ram or a cpu to sleep and whatever else this invasive "feature" does. If I'm on an overseas call, I'd rather have opengl animations from the screensaver cycling every five minutes that to have something shut off my monitor without my permission. This is not a laptop; stop treating my system as if it were.

getting yahoo on Puppy linux.

deltabravo — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:27:28 GMT

Hello all, I have just put puppy linux vers ? 18 months old, on a laptop compaq nc 600, the distro runs fine , but if I try to use yahoo u.k. it halts at the log in. I cannot get the key board to print ( so and so 'AT' yahoo) ie caps + at symbol,as used in email address. the problem is no matter how I try I cannot get AT in the usual email address format. it works fine in Ubuntu.Any help would be much appreciated.many thanks deltabravo.

[SOLVED] Partitioning Debian for iSCSI SAN

RootMason — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:19:40 GMT

Hello all!

I am having trouble understanding how to partition Debian for use with an iSCSI SAN. I am an intern at a networking company and I have been tasked with setting up a Debian-based SAN with 2 iSCSI targets pointing to different partitions. I understand how to set up the target and the initiator, but I need to do a fresh install of Debian Wheezy 7.0.0 for my target and I am at a loss for how to properly partition it while doing the install.

I already tried this project once yesterday, using Debian Squeeze 6.0.6 and everything worked fine in terms of the the target and initiator being able to communicate the targets and being able to login, but the drives would never actually show up as physical disks (even though the pointers were all there). I'm fairly sure I pooched the partitioning. I was then informed the target needed to be Debian Wheezy, so I have decided to do a fresh install.

Can anyone give me some advice on how to partition this correctly on install for iSCSI? I took lengthy notes on what I did during the install and configuration, and I'd be more than happy to post them here if anyone is interested in looking at them.

Thanks for taking the time to help. You guys are the best!

Share USB over Network

LinuxSlayer — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:17:21 GMT

Long time reader, first post.
Here is my situation...

I would like to have a small computer (pi) out in my yard powered by battery/solar acting as a WIFI USB server allowing a windows or Linux client to connect to any USB device hooked up to that PI as a local device without having to install any special software on the client side besides the usual USB device drivers for each device setup on the remote pi.

So, the pi in the yard would have a webcam and an arduino hooked up to it and I would like to use them as if they were local devices on my windows computer inside my house.

I hope that is clear.

Does anyone know if this is this possible?

Thanks!

KDE 4.11 to be Long Term Release

jeremy — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:16:48 GMT

Quote:

It was just last week we looked at some of the proposed features for upcoming KDE 4.11 as it neared soft feature freeze. Well, today some new information about KDE 4.11 came to light. Aaron Seigo said today that 4.11 would be a "long term release."

A long term release means a particular version will be kept up to date with stabilization and security updates for an extended period of time; in this case, two years. This will give distributions that skate safely in the well-worn groove of stability a chance to have a longer term plan and more stable offerings. Seigo said, "no new features [will be] added after 4.11.0 to Plasma Desktop and Netbook, though the code will be adjusted as needed to maintain and improve existing functionality." He believes this will help developers and distribution developers a chance to focus on polishing.

For those that like upgrading each release Seigo said:

This does not effect, in any way, anything other than the code currently in the kde-workspace repository. Applications are not affected, kdelibs and kderuntime will continue on as they currently are (with kdelibs in a feature freeze of its own already). I fully expect there to be a 4.12 and likely a 4.13 release of the applications, and how long that goes on will be up to the application developers and release team.

Seigo continues as if this news will get ruffle some feathers. I suppose they've come to expect that any announcement will. He said focusing on stabilization and security for so long helped KDE 3.5 become so successful, but hopes any updates to 4.1x won't be overlooked when KDE built on QT5 and Plasma Workspaces 2 appear. So, hold on to your socks boys and girls, announcing a LTR is actually announcing KDE 5. It'll be here within two years if all goes as planned and distributions will begin including it.

More at OStatic

--jeremy

samba share with read,write but no delete to users

boby.kumar — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:10:26 GMT

Hi Team,
I am using a samba sever as sharing the dir /home/rncit.
All the users login to server by user rncit.I need to set rights read,write,create,modify but no delete by user rncit on windows clients for /home/rncit.

Could you please help me how i can do this?
I am totally blocked here

thanks and Regards
Boby

PDF preview for Tcl/Tk

jlinkels — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:06:33 GMT

I need a preview pane for PDF files in a Tcl/Tk application, but it seems I cannot find one.

I have found a DVI viewer, and PDF generation tools, but not a PDF viewer. Apparently the wrong way of Googling?

Bottom line I could start an external application to convert PDF -> JPG and display those images but I try to avoid that.

Note it is just for viewing, strictly read-only.

jlinkels

LXer: Use Freeradius and perform Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting to connect and use a

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:52 GMT

Published at LXer:

FreeRADIUS is the most popular open source RADIUS server and the most widely deployed RADIUS server in the world. It supports all common authentication protocols. It is the basis for many commercial RADIUS products and services, such as embedded systems, RADIUS appliances that support Network Access Control, and WiMAX

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Which distributions for those old PC?

musetto — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:57:24 GMT

Hello to everybody.

I have some old computers which may come useful. I would like to install Linux on them so that the people will not be forced from the beginning to reason in term of Windows.

I made some researches and I would like to know what more expert people think about this topic.

Please consider that:
1) the distribution must have the multi-user facility. That is why distributions like Puppy Linux are excluded.
2) if possible all critical operations should be performed by the administrator after logging-in in a terminal by means of a "su" command or equivalent.
3) they must be easy to set in a network where internet is accessed through a DSL modem via pppoe connection.
4) it will be appreciated that the resulting system is usable. For instance, I tried Slitaz 4.0 in the (read below) Pentium MMX200 MHz, 256 Mbyte and it was really slow. Kids would spit at it ... However, internet browsing is not so important as I know that nowadays web pages are filled with "heavy" things. In case, links, elinks or lynx could be used.

All computers are provided with an ethernet card (NIC) and a USB 2.0 card and all the RAM that I found around.
Here is the list of the computers:
1) Pentium III 700 MHz 768 MByte RAM
2) Pentium MMX 200 MHz 256 MByte RAM
3) Pentium I 133 MHz 128 MByte RAM
4) Pentium I 166 MHz 64 MByte RAM
5) Pentium III 933 MHz 1.5 GByte RAM
6) AMD Athlon 900 MHz 1.5 GByte RAM

Note: computer #5's motherboard stopped working. I saw that a bunch of capacitors were gone for good. I replaced them but (I don't know if something went unnoticed or wrong) now only Antix Linux, KolibriOS and ttylinux seem to be installable. All the other froze at the grub page or during the loading of the OS from the live CD. Out of curiosity, there are a lot of "lamentations" during the boot of Antix Linux about the hard-drives. I think that there is something still damaged and this causes the boot of other distributions to fail.

Thank you very much in advance for your opinions.

Grub/Password Reset

Linux Newbee — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:51:53 GMT

Anyone up for a challenge? I have very little Linux experience and have a backup controller running Linux. I am trying to get to grub menu, just 1 step towards resetting the root password, instructions from other site.

After it runs post the screen ends up at a login which I do not have the account.There is no documentation for this unit and I have tried to use the left shift and or the ESC key to enter grub w/o luck.

I get a �grub loading stage 1.5" message. Then �Grub loading please wait�, but it just goes striaght to the login screen.

I do not know what flavor of Linux this controller is running, hence the challenge.

Bad blocks and LVM2 volume groups

Nutria — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:38:40 GMT

Hi,

Does "mkfs.ext4 -c ... /dev/backup_vg/backup_lv" actually do anything?

The command doesn't fail, but is bad block checking only really valid on physical devices?

Do you still googling error messages?

wakatana — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:37:56 GMT

I am intermediate Linux user which has basic knowledge of programming (c, perl, js ...) and some system troubleshooting (strace, SystemTap, lsof ...) and I am tired of Googling the messages which comes to Linux logs (/var/log/messages). I would like to improve my Linux kernel knowledge. Since Linux (and it's utilities like ssh etc.) is open source there are source codes available somewhere. So my question is: How can I troubleshoot/debug Linux problems on source code level? Is this even possible for intermediate Linux user? Where to begin and how to improve my programming skills and Linux kernel knowledge this way? Any best practices are welcomed.

Something like this:

Copy your error message
Paste it to online search engine for kernel source codes which can be found *
Now you have file name where it appears under kernel structures
See folders and files structure contained in kernel here *
You can deduce from file location what is purpose of this file under kernel, or find further documentation here *
Use tool * to find further files in kernel on which your incriminated file depends
Now read their source until it will be clear
Now you can see under which conditions this message happens (if else statements)
You can use software like * to debug or write some kind of exception to see when this message appears.

Thank you.

How to read the file from SBC using PHP

Newbie89 — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:25:21 GMT

I can capture the packet information from SBC and then store in database SQLite.Now I wanna read the database file from SBC to show the result using PHP.

Quote:

$db=new PDO("sqlite:/root@10.172.2.22/root/Hong/link.db");

Something like what I say.
10.172.2.22 is the address of SBC.
I still can't communucate between SQLite and PHP...

Fedora Project Announces Pidora Remix for Raspberry Pi

jeremy — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:17:51 GMT

Quote:

The Fedora Project has been supporting Raspberry Pi, the diminutive $35 computer, for some time. Today they�re making the Pidora �remix� of the core Fedora distribution available. Like the Raspbian distribution of Debian, Pidora is compiled specifically to take advantage of the hardware already built into the Raspberry Pi.

Pidora offers a couple of interesting little additions to your standard Fedora desktop experience. The reduced oomph of the RPi means that the full-blown GNOME desktop is replaced with the lighter-weight XFCE. Pidora also offers an easy-to-use headless mode for folks running without a monitor. If you attach speakers to your RPi, it�ll helpfully say out loud what it�s IP address is. Clever trick.

The Pidora build was performed at Seneca�s Centre for Development of Open Technology, where they�ve been working with Fedora ARMv5tel/armv7hl build farms for the last couple of years. That experience was directly responsible for Pidora, since the RPi uses the ARMv6 architecture with a dedicated FPU, which is not strictly part of the ARMv6 spec.

According to CDOT�s Chris Tyler, there were three main challenges to getting Pidora out the door:

Ordering the build � sequencing the initial build of over 10K source packages that have complex and sometimes circular dependency chains can be challenging.
ARMv6-specific issues � armv5 and armv7 are the most common targets for ARM builds. Some packages make incorrect assumption or are missing code for armv6.
Native building � Fedora has a native-build philosophy, which requires that package builds be performed on a system capable of executing the compiled code.

More at TechCrunch...

--jeremy

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lPhysics

TedFlorez — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:11:46 GMT

Hello all,

I use Fedora 15. I'm testing an algorithm named Bin_Gate.c.

I compiled it but I got following result:

[root@Florez florez]# g++ Bin_Gate.c `root-config --cflags --libs`
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lPhysics
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Any idea how to solve it?

Thank you very much!

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lPhysics

TedFlorez — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:06:32 GMT

Hello all,

I'm beginner of Linux.

I use Fedora 15. I'm testing an algorithm named Bin_Gate.c

I compiled it but I got following result:

[florez@Florez ~]# g++ Bin_Gate.c `root-config --cflags --libs`
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lPhysics
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

How can I solve it?

Thank you very much !

LXer: Mageia 3 KDE Review: Simple, refined, elegant and fantastic!

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:26 GMT

Published at LXer:

For me, the release of Mageia 3 was one of the most anticipated releases of the first half in 2013, after Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu Raring Ringtail. The release announcement of Mageia 3 promises of absolutely the very latest version of Linux kernel and applications, another reason for me to test Mageia's to ascertain it's stability.

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RH Satellite server new setup.. can't register clients

epoh — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:47:38 GMT

Satellite v5.5 on RHEL 6.4 x86_64

initial test client: RHEL 5.9 x86_64
rhn_register version - rhn-setup-0.4.20-86.el5

curl results:

[root@gv1hqqnm38 rhn]# curl --cacert RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT https://gv1hqpsat01.babgsetc.pvt

302 Found

Found

The document has moved here.

Apache Server at gv1hqpsat01.babgsetc.pvt Port 443

When I try to register the client, however, I get the following error:

[root@gv1hqqnm38 rhn]# rhn_register
An error has occurred:
exceptions.AttributeError
See /var/log/up2date for more information

the log file shows:

[Thu May 23 09:26:28 2013] rhn_register
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 82, in ?
app.run()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py", line 66, in run
sys.exit(self.main() or 0)
File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 64, in main
ui.main()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/tui.py", line 1753, in main
tui.run()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/tui.py", line 1645, in run
result = win.run()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/tui.py", line 127, in run
tui_call_wrapper(self.screen, rhnreg.getCaps)
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/tui.py", line 70, in tui_call_wrapper
FatalErrorWindow(screen, e.errmsg)
exceptions.AttributeError: SSLCertificateVerifyFailedError instance has no attribute 'errmsg'

It's entirely possible there's something wrong with the Cert, as this is my first go-round installing/configuring a Satellite server. I'm simply walking through and following the directions in RedHat's documentation... I followed the setup for the satellite server and everything appears to be working properly (in the process of dl'ing channel info now) and I walked through the steps for configuring the client (did a wget on the cert, added the appropriate lines to my up2date config:
serverURL=https://gv1hqpsat01.babgsetc.pvt/XMLRPC
noSSLServerURL=http://gv1hqpsat01.babgsetc.pvt/XMLRPC
sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
Not sure what I'm missing here. There are no firewalls between this server and the Satellite server.)

Any help is apprecieated!

ETA: The time is correct on both systems - they are config'd for ntp.

md5sum rejecting, than accepting file sums

el848484 — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:35:14 GMT

This is what's happening:
--------
$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 idb idb 53 May 23 10:13 file1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 idb idb 60 May 23 10:13 file2

$ md5sum -b * > ../PMmd5

$ more ../PMmd5
727036f6e7f9abf9e48120f0861e1b73 *file1
2e4ee3e386d70e972904aae7dac4a191 *file2

$ md5sum -c * ../PMmd5
md5sum: file1: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found
md5sum: file2: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found
file1: OK
file2: OK

$ uname -a
Linux monaco.jefferson.edu 2.6.18-164.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:59:11 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ more /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.9 (Tikanga)
--------
What am I doing wrong? Any ideas appreciated.

Don

$

SIP account not registering through voip

tripialos — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:23:13 GMT

Greetings

A few weeks ago i setup on my home a small Asterisk (elastix) server.I i then installed a small centos server to operate as an openVPN gateway when i am away from home. Both Asterix and openVPN are installed on two seperate computers.

I thought to get advantage of the fact that i can connect with my mobile with openvpn on my home network hence why not also install a SIP program on my phone and make call using my home number/rates/phoneLine.

Everything was working fine, meaning i was able to login on my server using openvpn and then i was able to register my SIP account with my home phone server. It all worked flawlessly until a power down occured.

Since then i can login with my phone using OpenVPN but the SIP registration fails... :-(

Code:

I think it is has to do with the IPTABLES. My rules are:

Chain INPUT (policy DROP)

target     prot opt source               destination         

ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            

ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 

ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ssh 

ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ndmp 



Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)

target     prot opt source               destination         

ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 

ACCEPT     all  --  10.8.0.0/24          anywhere            

REJECT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 



Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)

target     prot opt source               destination         

ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ssh

Code:

My OpenVPN IP net is: 10.8.0.x

My LAN IP is: 192.168.0.250

FACTS:
The Openvpn servers works properly
The Asterisk/Phone Server works properly

Can anyone help?

Thanks

RHEL 5.8 SVN with Windows 2008 R2 LDAP

aamdevan — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:10:10 GMT

Hi All,

I am preparing subversion authenticate with Windows LDAP server. I am able to get result through ldapsearch command.But I am unable to use it in subversion.here I posted my subversion

LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module modules/mod_authz_svn.so

DAV svn
SVNParentPath /svn
SVNListParentPath on

AuthzLDAPAuthoritative On

AuthName "XXXXXX.com"
AuthType Basic
AuthBasicProvider ldap

AuthLDAPBindDN svnuser@XXXXXX.com
AuthLDAPBindPassword Test123

AuthLDAPURL "ldap://dc.XXXXXX.com:3268/dc=XXXXXX,dc=com?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectCategory=person)"

Require ldap-group CN=SVN_Access,OU=Groups,DC=XXXXXX,DC=com

REQUIRE valid-user

pl help me

LXer: The Cheapskate's Corner (May 22nd - 29th) Linux games on sale

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:00:32 GMT

Published at LXer:

It's time for another weekly roundup of all the bundles and sales involving Linux games, it's time to gather around... The Cheapskate's Corner!

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Remove Apache (Ubuntu 12.04)

Juc1 — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:56:55 GMT

Hi all,

I want to remove Apache2 so I can try nginx instead. I did $ apt-get remove apache2.

$ aptitude show apache2 then says state: not installed but other things (see below) suggest that apache is still installed and most strangely the IP address still resolves in the browser with

Quote:

It works!

This is the default web page for this server.

The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.

Any ideas please for what more I need to do to remove apache?

Thanks...

Code:

$ apt-get remove apache2



Reading package lists... 0%



Reading package lists... 100%



Reading package lists... Done





Building dependency tree... 0%



Building dependency tree... 0%



Building dependency tree... 50%



Building dependency tree... 50%



Building dependency tree       





Reading state information... 0%



Reading state information... 98%



Reading state information... Done



The following packages will be REMOVED:

  apache2

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 43 not upgraded.

After this operation, 29.7 kB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y





(Reading database ... 

(Reading database ... 5%

(Reading database ... 10%

(Reading database ... 15%

(Reading database ... 20%

(Reading database ... 25%

(Reading database ... 30%

(Reading database ... 35%

(Reading database ... 40%

(Reading database ... 45%

(Reading database ... 50%

(Reading database ... 55%

(Reading database ... 60%

(Reading database ... 65%

(Reading database ... 70%

(Reading database ... 75%

(Reading database ... 80%

(Reading database ... 85%

(Reading database ... 90%

(Reading database ... 95%

(Reading database ... 100%

(Reading database ... 53987 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing apache2 ...

$



$ aptitude show apache2

Package: apache2

State: not installed

Version: 2.2.22-1ubuntu1.3

Priority: optional

Section: web

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers 

Architecture: amd64

Uncompressed Size: 29.7 k

Depends: apache2-mpm-worker (= 2.2.22-1ubuntu1.3) | apache2-mpm-prefork (=

         2.2.22-1ubuntu1.3) | apache2-mpm-event (= 2.2.22-1ubuntu1.3) |

         apache2-mpm-itk (= 2.2.22-1ubuntu1.3), apache2.2-common (=

         2.2.22-1ubuntu1.3)

Conflicts: apache2

Provided by: apache2-mpm-event, apache2-mpm-itk, apache2-mpm-prefork,

             apache2-mpm-worker

Description: Apache HTTP Server metapackage

 The Apache Software Foundation's goal is to build a secure, efficient and

 extensible HTTP server as standards-compliant open source software. The result

 has long been the number one web server on the Internet.



 It features support for HTTPS, virtual hosting, CGI, SSI, IPv6, easy scripting

 and database integration, request/response filtering, many flexible

 authentication schemes, and more.

Homepage: http://httpd.apache.org/



$ apache2 -v

Server version: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)

Server built:   Mar  8 2013 15:53:13

$ pwd

/



$ find . -name "apache2*"

./var/log/apache2

./var/cache/apache2

./var/lib/update-rc.d/apache2

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-doc.postinst

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.2-bin.list

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-doc.conffiles

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.2-common.postinst

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-mpm-prefork.prerm

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.2-common.list

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-doc.list

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-utils.md5sums

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-mpm-prefork.postinst

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.2-common.preinst

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-mpm-prefork.preinst

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.2-common.md5sums

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.2-common.postrm

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-doc.md5sums

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-mpm-prefork.md5sums

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.2-common.conffiles

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-mpm-prefork.list

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.2-bin.md5sums

./var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2-utils.list

./etc/apache2

./etc/apache2/conf.d/apache2-doc

./etc/apache2/apache2.conf

./etc/logrotate.d/apache2

./etc/init.d/apache2

./etc/bash_completion.d/apache2.2-common

./etc/php5/apache2

./etc/default/apache2

./etc/ufw/applications.d/apache2.2-common

./run/apache2.pid

./run/apache2

./run/lock/apache2

./usr/share/lintian/overrides/apache2-mpm-prefork

./usr/share/lintian/overrides/apache2.2-common

./usr/share/doc/apache2.2-bin

./usr/share/doc/apache2-utils

./usr/share/doc/apache2-doc

./usr/share/doc/apache2-mpm-prefork

./usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common

./usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/examples/apache2.monit

./usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/examples/apache2

./usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/examples/apache2/apache2.conf.gz

./usr/share/doc-base/apache2-manual

./usr/share/apache2

./usr/share/man/man8/apache2.8.gz

./usr/share/man/man8/apache2ctl.8.gz

./usr/share/apport/package-hooks/apache2.py

./usr/share/bug/apache2-mpm-prefork

./usr/share/bug/apache2.2-common

./usr/lib/apache2

./usr/lib/apache2/mpm-prefork/apache2

./usr/lib/apache2/mpm-worker/apache2

./usr/lib/apache2/mpm-event/apache2

./usr/lib/apache2/mpm-itk/apache2

./usr/sbin/apache2

./usr/sbin/apache2ctl

$

Cannot chown files as root

notsure — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:55:16 GMT

Arch x86_64, 3.9.x

I'm unable to update python because there are files in /usr/lib/python3.3/test/*

I am unable to delete the files and I'm unable to chown them.

Code:

[root@corp test]# chown: changing ownership of '__pycache__/test_lib2to3.cpython

chown: changing ownership of '__pycache__/test_lib2to3.cpython-33.pyo': Operation not permitted

I had the lovely idea of mirroring two flash drive for this server (router). Not the best experience... I've had them crash and I've had to do 15 minutes of fsck to fix. Forgetting to move the log files played a part in that.

Anyways, how the heck can I delete these files? I'll end up restoring from backup tonight if no one comes up with any bright ideas.

BTW, the server is functional (on second thought, functional might be the wrong word). The only issue I see is that python won't install/update and I can't create my vlans with vconfig:

Code:

[root@corp test]# vconfig

-bash: /usr/bin/vconfig: No such file or directory

Code:

[root@corp test]# ll /usr/bin/vconfig

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8.1K May 22 21:53 /usr/bin/vconfig

fsck checks out OK.
badblocks as well.

**edit:

Here are the files in question:

Code:

[root@corp __pycache__]# pwd; ll

/usr/lib/python3.3/test/__pycache__

total 96K

drwx------ 2 root   root      40K May 21 20:33 .

drwxr-xr-x 4 root   root      20K May 21 16:44 ..

-rwxr--r-- 1 196608 adm      257G Dec 22 15:11 test_lib2to3.cpython-33.pyo

-rw-r----- 1     16 71303170  48K Dec 22 15:11 test_poll.cpython-33.pyo

LOL, I just noticed it reports 257GiB... ???

Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 released

jens — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:49:52 GMT

Quote:

It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the Debian "wheezy" release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.

The installation ISO images can be downloaded from Debian Ports in the usual three Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, DVD. Besides the friendly Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try Debian GNU/Hurd.

Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with more than 10.000 software packages available (more than 75% of the Debian archive, and more to come!).

Please make sure to read the configuration information, the FAQ, and the translator primer to get a grasp of the great features of GNU/Hurd.

Due to the very small number of developers, our progress of the project has not been as fast as other successful operating systems, but we believe to have reached a very decent state, even with our limited resources.

We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd over the past decades. There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people today, please join!), but in the end a lot of people have contributed one way or another. Thanks everybody!

http://bits.debian.org/2013/05/debia...rd-wheezy.html

Samba share not working

Vodkaholic1983 — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:48:33 GMT

Howdy

Ive just stated a clean on my home server and ive set samba up the same as I did before the wipe and it just will not work.

Here is my smb.conf

Has anyone any ideas?

Code:

#

# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.

#

#

# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the

# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed

# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which 

# are not shown in this example

#

# Some options that are often worth tuning have been included as

# commented-out examples in this file.

#  - When such options are commented with ";", the proposed setting

#    differs from the default Samba behaviour

#  - When commented with "#", the proposed setting is the default

#    behaviour of Samba but the option is considered important

#    enough to be mentioned here

#

# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command

# "testparm" to check that you have not made any basic syntactic 

# errors. 

# A well-established practice is to name the original file

# "smb.conf.master" and create the "real" config file with

# testparm -s smb.conf.master >smb.conf

# This minimizes the size of the really used smb.conf file

# which, according to the Samba Team, impacts performance

# However, use this with caution if your smb.conf file contains nested

# "include" statements. See Debian bug #483187 for a case

# where using a master file is not a good idea.

#



#======================= Global Settings =======================



[global]



## Browsing/Identification ###



# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of

   workgroup = WORKGROUP



# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field

   server string = %h server



# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:

# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server

#   wins support = no



# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client

# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both

;   wins server = w.x.y.z



# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.

   dns proxy = no



# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names

# to IP addresses

;   name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast



#### Networking ####



# The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to

# This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;

# interface names are normally preferred

;   interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0



# Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the

# 'interfaces' option above to use this.

# It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is

# not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself.  However, this

# option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly.

;   bind interfaces only = yes







#### Debugging/Accounting ####



# This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine

# that connects

   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m



# Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB).

   max log size = 1000



# If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following

# parameter to 'yes'.

#   syslog only = no



# We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything

# should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log

# through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.

   syslog = 0



# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace

   panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d





####### Authentication #######



# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account

# in this server for every user accessing the server. See

# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html

# in the samba-doc package for details.

#   security = user



# You may wish to use password encryption.  See the section on

# 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.

   encrypt passwords = true



# If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what

# password database type you are using.  

   passdb backend = tdbsam



   obey pam restrictions = yes



# This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix

# password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the

# passdb is changed.

   unix password sync = yes



# For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following

# parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan < for

# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge).

   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u

   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .



# This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes

# when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in

# 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'.

   pam password change = yes



########## Domains ###########



# Is this machine able to authenticate users. Both PDC and BDC

# must have this setting enabled. If you are the BDC you must

# change the 'domain master' setting to no

#

;   domain logons = yes

#

# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set

# It specifies the location of the user's profile directory

# from the client point of view)

# The following required a [profiles] share to be setup on the

# samba server (see below)

;   logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U

# Another common choice is storing the profile in the user's home directory

# (this is Samba's default)

#   logon path = \\%N\%U\profile



# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set

# It specifies the location of a user's home directory (from the client

# point of view)

;   logon drive = H:

#   logon home = \\%N\%U



# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set

# It specifies the script to run during logon. The script must be stored

# in the [netlogon] share

# NOTE: Must be store in 'DOS' file format convention

;   logon script = logon.cmd



# This allows Unix users to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR

# RPC pipe.  The example command creates a user account with a disabled Unix

# password; please adapt to your needs

; add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --quiet --disabled-password --gecos "" %u



# This allows machine accounts to be created on the domain controller via the 

# SAMR RPC pipe.  

# The following assumes a "machines" group exists on the system

; add machine script  = /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -c "%u machine account" -d /var/lib/samba -s /bin/false %u



# This allows Unix groups to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR

# RPC pipe.  

; add group script = /usr/sbin/addgroup --force-badname %g



########## Printing ##########



# If you want to automatically load your printer list rather

# than setting them up individually then you'll need this

#   load printers = yes



# lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the

# printcap file

;   printing = bsd

;   printcap name = /etc/printcap



# CUPS printing.  See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the

# cupsys-client package.

;   printing = cups

;   printcap name = cups



############ Misc ############



# Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration

# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name

# of the machine that is connecting

;   include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m



# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.

# See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/speed.html

# for details

# You may want to add the following on a Linux system:

#         SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

#   socket options = TCP_NODELAY



# The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package

# installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are

# working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.

;   message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' &



# Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this

# machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you

# must set this to 'no'; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended.

#   domain master = auto



# Some defaults for winbind (make sure you're not using the ranges

# for something else.)

;   idmap uid = 10000-20000

;   idmap gid = 10000-20000

;   template shell = /bin/bash



# The following was the default behaviour in sarge,

# but samba upstream reverted the default because it might induce

# performance issues in large organizations.

# See Debian bug #368251 for some of the consequences of *not*

# having this setting and smb.conf(5) for details.

;   winbind enum groups = yes

;   winbind enum users = yes



# Setup usershare options to enable non-root users to share folders

# with the net usershare command.



# Maximum number of usershare. 0 (default) means that usershare is disabled.

;   usershare max shares = 100



#======================= Share Definitions =======================



[homes]

   comment = Home Directories

   browseable = no



# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change the

# next parameter to 'no' if you want to be able to write to them.

   read only = yes



# File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to

# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.

   create mask = 0700



# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to

# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.

   directory mask = 0700



# By default, \\server\username shares can be connected to by anyone

# with access to the samba server.

# The following parameter makes sure that only "username" can connect

# to \\server\username

# This might need tweaking when using external authentication schemes

   valid users = %S



# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons

# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)

;[netlogon]

;   comment = Network Logon Service

;   path = /home/samba/netlogon

;   guest ok = yes

;   read only = yes



# Un-comment the following and create the profiles directory to store

# users profiles (see the "logon path" option above)

# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)

# The path below should be writable by all users so that their

# profile directory may be created the first time they log on

;[profiles]

;   comment = Users profiles

;   path = /home/samba/profiles

;   guest ok = no

;   browseable = no

;   create mask = 0600

;   directory mask = 0700



[printers]

   comment = All Printers

   browseable = no

   path = /var/spool/samba

   printable = yes

   guest ok = no

   read only = yes

   create mask = 0700



# Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable

# printer drivers

[print$]

   comment = Printer Drivers

   path = /var/lib/samba/printers

   browseable = yes

   read only = yes

   guest ok = no

# Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers.

# You may need to replace 'lpadmin' with the name of the group your

# admin users are members of.

# Please note that you also need to set appropriate Unix permissions

# to the drivers directory for these users to have write rights in it

;   write list = root, @lpadmin



# A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.

;[cdrom]

;   comment = Samba server's CD-ROM

;   read only = yes

;   locking = no

;   path = /cdrom

;   guest ok = yes



# The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the

#        cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain

#        an entry like this:

#

#       /dev/scd0   /cdrom  iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user   0 0

#

# The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the

#

# If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD

#        is mounted on /cdrom

#

;   preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom

;   postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom



[Media]

comment = Media Share

path = /home/media

public = Yes

writeable = Yes

only guest = Yes

create mask = 0777

directory mask = 0777

browseable = Yes

Top of Page & Forum Index Buttons.

cwizardone — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:47:18 GMT

Over at airliners.net (aka, a.net) they have, under the last post on each page of a thread, two very useful "buttons." One takes you back to the "Top of Page" and the other back to the "Forum Index." Both would be useful here.
Just a thought. :)
:hattip:

Add up sum in file in scientific formulation in a shell script

fd99 — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:46:23 GMT

Dear all,

the subject of the thread is my question:

-Is there any easy way to sum up a file where the numbers are stored in scientific formulation?

(e.g.:

5.4654654E+1
5.4654654E+0
5.4654654E-1

)

Help troubleshooting/filing bug for nouveau/kernel 3.9+ issue

alphaniner — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:46:07 GMT

Distro is Arch. GPU is discrete "NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)" (NV50 family) with VGA and DVI-I ports, monitors connected to both. The last provided kernel in the 3.8 series was 3.8.11, which worked fine. When running 3.9.{2,3} (provided) and 3.10rc2 (self-compiled), the VGA connected monitor does not get a signal.

Outside of X things seem normal, besides the blank VGA screen. When X is started with my normal user (setup to span screens) the machine locks up. When X is started with a dummy user (screens would be mirrored if they worked) it takes longer than normal (10-15 seconds) to initialize. The GUI tools ([XFCE] Settings > Display) indicate the VGA screen is present and active, but it remains blank. I also have no mouse pointer, though the mouse is active. This is meaningful because I think the pointer is supposed to be hardware accelerated.

I've compared kernel logs, systemd journal, and Xorg logs between 3.8.11 and 3.9.3 and nothing stands out. The only thing I've found that's remotely similar is a kernel bug report, but unlike that case my /sys/class/drm/card0-VGA-1/status reads 'connected' in the problem kernels.

So, I'm looking for suggestions wrt filing a bug on the kernel bugzilla, which I've never done before. Do I have enough info to file a new bug? If not, what else could I gather?

[SOLVED] Possibly corrupted ext3 filesystem

brownwrap — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:30:30 GMT

I have an ext3 filesystem that is out of wack. Of course people could not access the NARR directory. I have umounted it at he moment. I can either just remount it, or run fsck on it, which will take a while since it is 6 TB. Any suggestions? Thanks.

cd /shared/aerosol_heck2/aerosol/native/
ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 4 curtis aerosol_users 4096 May 10 2010 MOD02_L1b
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? NARR

cld-20130519 - experiences

ManfredB — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:28:01 GMT

Hello friends of calculate.

I installed cld from 2013.05.19 (with KDE-4.10.3) on my HD.

Gentoo is also installed on HD.

But only cld is able to use my WLAN-USB-Stick,
gentoo (amd64) not.

So I am happy with cld.

Manfred

P.S. After testing now I have also wlan in gentoo - super

Best way to add new drive to system with existing Linux raid arrays

mwx — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:09:17 GMT

I have a 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04 box with two MDADM Linux raid arrays and the system drive is pretty much hosed to the point where I have to install a new distro.

What is the best way to do this so that the new install will recognize the new arrays? This is my first time having to do it - so I thought I should ask..

Thank you.

"Uncrackable Cryptography"

H_TeXMeX_H — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:07:39 GMT

http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/05/2...e-cryptography

Quote:

"One-time pads are the holy grail of cryptography � they are impossible to crack, even in principle. However, the ability to copy electronic code makes one-time pads vulnerable to hackers. Now engineers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, have found a way round this to create a system of cryptography that is invulnerable to electronic attack. Their solution is based on a special kind of one-time pad that generates a random key through the complexity of its physical structure, namely shining a light through a diffusive glass plate."

So, what do you say is in "uncrackable" ?

I say how crackable it is depends a lot on your RNG.

Quote:

The security of this process depends on two factors. The first is the randomness of the digits that make up the one-time pad. If this key is truly random, it offers nothing the eavesdropper can use to break the code. Although there are some potential pitfalls, random digits are reasonably straightforward to generate these days.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view...ng-impossible/

Are they really ? I'm quite sure that true random numbers or ever cryptographically secure random numbers are very difficult to come by and difficult to verify these days. The diffusing glass approach in this article is not convincing either.

Also see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad#Problems

Quote:

The theoretical perfect security of the one-time-pad applies only in a theoretically perfect setting; no real-world implementation of any cryptosystem can provide perfect security because practical considerations introduce potential vulnerabilities. These practical considerations of security and convenience have meant that the one-time-pad is, in practice, little-used. Implementation difficulties have led to one-time pad systems being broken, and are so serious that they have prevented the one-time pad from being adopted as a widespread tool in information security.

One-time pads solve few current practical problems in cryptography. High quality ciphers are widely available and their security is not considered a major worry at present. Such ciphers are almost always easier to employ than one-time pads; the amount of key material which must be properly generated and securely distributed is far smaller, and public key cryptography overcomes this problem.[16]

LXer: How to use bc, the calculator tool

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:00:17 GMT

Published at LXer:

You can do calculation stuffs easily with bash on the command line, however it isnt very intuitive. Bash still works well with some simple calculations but in case you want to perform more complicated calculations, this may become a real hassle. And that is why bc is a better tool for you to perform calculating on the command line. The tool bc can do much more than bash for you and its syntax is ways easier.

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Rhel 5.3

tapi — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:56:55 GMT

Hie guys i have got a problem with my shared folder on RHEL 5.3. The situation is like this, there is a shared folder call lpn. pirmary and secondary groups are oraapp. I can access the shared folder from windows machines from anywhere i can copy and paste into the shared folder lpn. I shared the folder so that an application running from RHEL can dump files into the lpn folder so that they can be printed automatically one the get dumped into this shared directory. The issue is files are being created/dumped into lpn. But they can only be printed after i issue this command chmod -Rh oraapp:oraapp /u01/oracle/lpn. My question is there a way around solving this issue. Please find attached image

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password and username

richard1952 — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:54:12 GMT

just got an old elonex netbook from a friend. It was sitting in his garage for years, and he can't remember the username or password. Is there a way around this, or is it now just junk?

Help needed to connect tata photon CDMA datacard (dongle) from command-line

puru — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:51:27 GMT

I want to learn how to connect to Internet from command-line (if i choose to work from runlevel 3 and not to use X). I'm using a tata photon CDMA data-card (dongle) for internet connection. I could not find a concise tutorial about how to do it. Can anyone give reference to a thread that will help me do this? I want to know how to identify the device and configure it using Linux utilities. Thanks in advance!

GRUB boot fails returning "Error 15: File not found" on Centos 6.3

LittleMaster — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:49:05 GMT

Hi All,

Operating system :Centos 6.3
Box : HP-Pavilion

My server fails to boot after patching .Im aware that i can rescue using ISO image .

Need help how can i rescue the server using centos iso image in ILO console.

Weird nmap behaviour as root vs user

AWSmith — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:45:56 GMT

Can anyone explain this? Nmap, when run with -n -sP as a non-privalged user results in correct output. But when run as root... it shows every node on the subnet as up.

huh?

[asmith@vnb01 ~]$ nmap -nsP 10.15.59.0/24

Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2013-05-23 08:36 EDT
Host 10.15.59.1 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.8 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.9 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.12 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.13 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.14 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.201 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.205 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.207 appears to be up.
Nmap finished: 256 IP addresses (9 hosts up) scanned in 4.369 seconds

[asmith@vnb01 ~]$ sudo nmap -nsP 10.15.59.0/24 | tail
Host 10.15.59.247 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.248 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.249 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.250 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.251 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.252 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.253 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.254 appears to be up.
Host 10.15.59.255 appears to be up.
Nmap finished: 256 IP addresses (256 hosts up) scanned in 1.836 seconds
[asmith@vnb01 ~]$

RAID Ctrl and generic kernel

Berkut9 — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:40:57 GMT

Hi!

I have Fujitsu RX300 S7 server and LSI RAID Ctrl SAS 6G 1GB D3116 Contoller.

Quote:

lspci
01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208 [Thunderbolt] (rev 03)

I have successfully installed Slackware 14 x86_64 on this server and booting fine with huge kernel (3.2.45).
But booting with generic kernel not work.

RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unknown -block (8,3)

I have created ramdisk with this command
mkinitrd -c -k 3.2.45 -m megaraid_sas:reiserfs -o /boot/3.2.45-initrd.gz -s /boot/3.2.45-initrd-tree
lilo -v
no warnings

mrename 1.2 with 4digits progressive number

exelman — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:39:44 GMT

Hello

I'm running DSL current stable version. (It's build from Debian Woody) on a Duron pc 1200 cps and 300 mb ram.
This is the script of 'mrename 1.2'. It's a mas renamer for files in a directory. It returnes the files as follows: .
Now I want to change this as follows: .
As I dont know nothing about scripting yet, I would like to ask if there is someone who can modify this for me? It appears to be sh.script.

Thanks

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20 interesting and extremely helpful Linux command line tricks

onebuck — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:37:11 GMT

Hi,

20 interesting and extremely helpful Linux command line tricks

Quote:

As you start spending more and more time working on Linux command line, you tend to learn some cool tricks that make your life easy and save you lot of time. I have been working on Linux command line for many years now and I have learned a lot of Linux command line tricks. Here in this article, I will discuss some Linux command line tricks that I find worth using in my day to day command line activities.
NOTE � All the examples in this article are tested on bash shell.

My doubts about Free Software Licenses

colucix — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:36:26 GMT

Hello all!

My question is about the Free Software Licenses. I start by saying that I haven't got any experience with them and I would like to ask for some clarification on the basic concepts. Taking as an example the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) my first questions are:

A) To apply the license to a software, is it enough to simply provide a copy of the license together with the software and "mark" every part of the software itself as suggested in the "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" section of the License OR is it necessary to "register" the software at some central organization?
In other words, if I develop a software, am I automatically the copyright holder OR do I have to receive an acknowledgement from someone, stating that I am the author?

B) In order to apply the GPLv3 (or any other Free Software License) must the software meet certain requirements (e.g. the programming language, the ability to install on any Unix or Linux system, and so on) and if so, what are they (or where I can find a complete list)?

Briefly, the software on which I would like to apply a license is a set of bash scripts and original Fortran code, that have the purpose to manage Ocean Forecasting Systems in an autonomous way and independently from any human intervention (except in case of "dramatic" failure).
Till today, I've developed such systems in the University Research framework but now I am required to put them at the disposal of a Public Administration. For this reason I would like to protect the code from any user who may decide to reclaim the copyright without actually being the original author of the code. In addition, given that it is a work that supports many scientific research activities, I would like to avoid that someone claims it and decides to publish a Technical/Scientific work using the code as if it were written by his/her own hands.

On the other hand, I'm glad if someone besides me has a chance to put his hands on the code to make improvements, correct any inaccuracies or adapt it for use on systems different from those on which I could test it.

Said that, my greatest doubt (and my main question here) is about the choice of a license: any suggestion or thought in this sense is welcome! Thank you.

[SOLVED] rc Kill and Startup scripts confusion

Rohit_4739 — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:35:54 GMT

Hello All,

First of all, i was not sure where exactly to put this question because this is definatly not a newbie question :) . I was having a general discussion related to staring and stopping of services when a system is starting and going down.

I know that there are scripts in /etc/rc.n(0-6) which have scripts named as K(for kill) and S(for start) which are executed during the startup and shutdown which actually casued the service to start or stop.

Now what i don't know and able to understand is that both these scripts (K and S) and symlinked to /etc/init.d service script which ultimately acts accrodingly.

Quote:

# ll /etc/rc1.d/|grep -i crond
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 30 2009 K60crond -> ../init.d/crond
root@mgtl0010:/etc
# ll /etc/rc3.d/|grep -i crond
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 30 2009 S90crond -> ../init.d/crond
root@mgtl0010:/etc

Looking at some init.d scripts i found that their action depends on the 1st positional parameter; which WE provide and could be one of the four(Start|Stop|Restart|Status) or more depending on the service.

However when a Kill script is executed(which again refers to /etc/init.d/service) during init6 or init0 there is no Positional parameter passed and same case happens when Start script is run during system startup.

So how does the /etc/init.d/service script finds the necessary Positinal Param which which causes service to stop when it is referred via Kscript and Service Startup when it is referred via Sscript.

I have tried my best to explain the question, if at all you are unable to understand my question please do tell me and i will try to furtehr explain.

Linux Vim Editor Tips and Tricks Save Time Through Macros and Bookmarks

onebuck — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:34:19 GMT

Hi,

Linux Vim Editor Tips and Tricks Save Time Through Macros and Bookmarks

Quote:

Vim is one of the popular text editors of Linux. Because of its capabilities, there is a large fan base of this command line based text editor. In this article, we will discuss some impressive features of vim editor that can help you save a lot of time while working on vim.

deep freeze in backtrack 5r3

can_cworld — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:32:19 GMT

how to fix backtrack 5r3 when start up

i try to typing password and username in login console

but keyboard, mouse hang?

i typing /var/log/Xorg.0.log in terminal to looking

problem configuration hardware but appeared no such

file ordirectory

please look the solutions, thanks

A question or two about installing Red Hat 8.0 before I start:

Texas Weatherman — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:28 GMT

I want to install Red Hat 8.0 over the XP OS.
(Replacing the XP OS).

My questions are:
1. Will the Linux OS change the BIOS setup?

2. Is my hardware compatible with a Linux OS?
I have a MS Windows XP PC with a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50 GHZ, 4.0GB RAM, and a NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
video card.

HOT Raspberry Pi: A DIY Mini Desktop PC Build Project

onebuck — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:19:06 GMT

Hi,

Nice project: HOT Raspberry Pi: A DIY Mini Desktop PC Build Project

Samba4 + openldap

mario.almeida — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:12:37 GMT

Hi All,

Any idea if Samba4+Openldap is a full replacement for windows 2008 AD?

//Remy

LXer: OpenRA RTS Engine Releases 20130514

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:11:12 GMT

Published at LXer:

The team behind OpenRA has published a new official release of their game, which includes mods that 'recreate' Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert 1 and Dune 2000.

Read More...

OPENLDAP Invalid Credentials Issue

yashfire007 — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:09:59 GMT

Hai to all,

I have installed openldap-2.4.23 in my RHEL 6.4 machine. While tried to add users in ldapdirectory am facing the below mentioned issues.

[root@ip-10-205-21-76 openldap]# ldapadd -x -D ”cn=Manager,dc=yourdomain,dc=com” -f users.ldif -w secret
ldap_bind: Invalid DN syntax (34)
additional info: invalid DN

[root@ip-10-205-21-76 openldap]# ldapadd -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=testdomain1,dc=com" -f users.ldif -W
Enter LDAP Password:
ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)

[root@ip-10-205-21-76 openldap]# ldapadd -x -D ”cn=Manager,dc=testdomain1,dc=com” -f users.ldif -w secret
ldap_bind: Invalid DN syntax (34)
additional info: invalid DN

[root@ip-10-205-21-76 openldap]# ldapadd -x -D ”cn=Manager,dc=testdomain1,dc=com” -f users.ldif -W
Enter LDAP Password:
ldap_bind: Invalid DN syntax (34)
additional info: invalid DN

#vim /etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={2}bdb.ldif

olcRootDN: cn=Manager,dc=testdomain1,c=com
olcRootPW: {SHA}5en6G6MezRroT3XKqkdPOmY/BfQ=

#vim /etc/openldap/ldap.conf

TLS_CACERTDIR /etc/openldap/cacerts

BASE dc=testdomain1,dc=com
URI ldap://10.205.21.76/
~

I have followed the below link.. Please help me to resolve this issue..
http://blog.domb.net/?p=74

I have set the password to secret then also am facing the problem..
[root@ip-10-205-21-76 openldap]# slappasswd -s secret

#vim /etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={2}bdb.ldif

olcRootDN: cn=Manager,dc=testdomain1,c=com
olcRootPW: secret

[root@ip-10-205-21-76 openldap]# ldapadd -x -D ”cn=Manager,dc=testdomain1,dc=com” -f users.ldif -W
Enter LDAP Password:
ldap_bind: Invalid DN syntax (34)
additional info: invalid DN
[root@ip-10-205-21-76 openldap]# ldapadd -x -D ”cn=Manager,dc=testdomain1,dc=com” -f users.ldif -w secret
ldap_bind: Invalid DN syntax (34)
additional info: invalid DN

Please help me....

Wireless on HP 5660m - Debian

Cr45h — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:07:09 GMT

Hi guys,
after almost one night looking to every different kind of websites/forums and so on, I'm stuck on configuring the wireless on this laptop.

I installed debian squeeze, basic, with no GUI because I don't need it for the purpose of this linux box.

I find out that the wireless card is:

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)

Installed iwlwifi firmware, upgraded the kernel to 3.2 for compatibility, but the only result I get from

iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

I tried "rfkill list all" and here the result:

1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
4: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

I tried to switch off and on again the hardware, and in fact all changes from "no" to "yes" when switched off, and then back to the result above.

My /etc/network/interface looks like this:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

but when I try to "ifup wlan0":

ifup wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1
Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
Listening on LPF/wlan0/08:11:96:e8:50:8c
Sending on LPF/wlan0/08:11:96:e8:50:8c
Sending on Socket/fallback
receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down

Oh, the only real thing that I'm not sure about is wpa_supplicant, but I think that before I need to bring that interface up. :)

Any idea or something that I can look at in order to go ahead with the configuration?

I know that it's a bit tricky without a GUI (so, basically, no network-manager or wicd AFAIK).

Thank you in advance for your help.

Passable nouveau kernel driver bug (MMIO read of [hex l] FAULT at [hex l])

marbangens — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:06:37 GMT

Hello I'm using fedoras kernel 3.9.2 and also tied 3.9.3 (self compiled) and I think I have an kernel related problem. From what I experience, my desktop is somewhat lagy/slow and I can't watch any hd movies and graphics take time to load. Sometime the mouse pointer get stuck for a while, I haven't seen that before when I used slackware. I think this can be solved, with a little help from you all. Your the best ;)

This is the chip: GeForce 8200M G mGPU
It's implemented with amd

Could this errors have something to do with this?
And what are they about rely?

Code:

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.821360] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00010001 FAULT at 0x100220

And more complete:

Code:

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.183002] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] enabled at IRQ 21

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.211277] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.305827] fb: conflicting fb hw usage nouveaufb vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.305855] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.307536] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LGPU] enabled at IRQ 20

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.309974] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:02:00.0] BOOT0  : 0x0aa280a2

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.309980] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:02:00.0] Chipset: MCP77/MCP78 (NVAA)

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.309982] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:02:00.0] Family : NV50

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.313730] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:02:00.0] checking PRAMIN for image...

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.370558] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:02:00.0] ... appears to be valid

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.370561] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:02:00.0] using image from PRAMIN

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.370758] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:02:00.0] BIT signature found

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.370762] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:02:00.0] version 62.77.2f.00.07

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.402484] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:02:00.0] RAM type: stolen system memory

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.402490] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:02:00.0] RAM size: 256 MiB

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.402493] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:02:00.0]    ZCOMP: 0 tags

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.478754] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:02:00.0] FAN control: none / external

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.478773] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:02:00.0] fan management: disabled

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.478777] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:02:00.0] internal sensor: yes

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.478786] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:02:00.0] Programmed thresholds [ 90(3), 95(3), 105(5), 135(5) ]

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479101] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 1895412 kiB

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479104] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479110] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479318] nouveau  [     DRM] VRAM: 256 MiB

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479324] nouveau  [     DRM] GART: 512 MiB

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479331] nouveau  [     DRM] TMDS table version 2.0

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479333] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB version 4.0

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479337] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 00: 01000323 00010034

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479340] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 01: 02011300 0000001e

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479342] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 02: 02022332 00020010

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479345] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 00: 00000040

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479348] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 01: 00000100

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.479350] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 02: 00001261

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.809318] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.809323] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.809327] nouveau  [     DRM] ACPI backlight interface available, not registering our own

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.821360] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00010001 FAULT at 0x100220

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.833374] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x100224

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.845382] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x100228

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.857388] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x10022c

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.869393] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x100230

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.881399] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x100234

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.893405] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x100238

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.905411] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x10023c

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.917422] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x100240

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.929430] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x100228

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.941436] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x1002c0

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.953442] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x1002c4

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.965448] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x1002e0

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.977456] nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:02:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000008 FAULT at 0x1002e4

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.977470] nouveau  [     DRM] 3 available performance level(s)

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.977475] nouveau  [     DRM] 0: core 169MHz shader 338MHz voltage 920mV fanspeed 60%

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.977479] nouveau  [     DRM] 1: core 275MHz shader 550MHz voltage 1050mV fanspeed 80%

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.977483] nouveau  [     DRM] 3: core 400MHz shader 800MHz voltage 1100mV fanspeed 100%

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.977486] nouveau  [     DRM] c:

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.979211] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732 @ 1, addr 00:1f:16:7a:15:1f

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    3.979217] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: highdma csum pwrctl mgmt lnktim msi desc-v3

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    4.315111] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic- Multi-Card       1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    4.315491] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    4.319500] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    4.450840] nouveau  [     DRM] MM: using M2MF for buffer copies

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    4.510450] nouveau  [     DRM] allocated 1366x768 fb: 0x50000, bo ffff880133f8f400

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    4.510747] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    4.749120] psmouse serio2: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 7.0, id: 0x1a0b1, caps: 0xd04711/0xa00000/0x20000, board id: 3655, fw id: 502777

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    4.810932] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input6

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    5.844871] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 170x48

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    5.846100] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    5.846102] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: registered panic notifier

May 23 09:44:58 compaq kernel: [    5.847299] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.1.0 20120801 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 0

[SOLVED] Real time stats debain full screen software?

Vodkaholic1983 — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:02:47 GMT

Howdy all

I run a home server and I have a spare monitor. I was wondering if there was any software out there which could show the following

CPU
Ram
swap
HDD
network speeds
etc...

Basic info

Full screen (so I can just switch the monitor on it will all be there to view with ease. (in real time)

Is there anything like this?
Would be great if it auto started also :D

Cheers

any linux openings pleasse inform me

abhinash — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:58:35 GMT

Hi,
i am new to this linux.i am willing to learn in depth concepts in linux.i am from hyderabad.2010 passedout.please let me know the openings regarding lnux.salary is not an important.please help me.i need a job.if any have the information please send a mail to abhinash.vallabhaneni@gmail.com.
thanks in adance

Wireless connection to AES-TKIP Puppy-Slacko University WEP2-Enterprise

fanuch — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:34:27 GMT

Are there any out-of-the-box ways to connect to an AES TKIP network requesting "username" and "password"?

I've been searching but cannot find a solution that works.

LXer: GNU/Linux Is Important After All

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:11:02 GMT

Published at LXer:

If I was the type to have heroes, Richard Stallman would be near the top of my list, not far below John Lennon and Abbie Hoffman, and way out ahead of Tom Hayden or the several-times-over reinvented Bob Dylan, though the freewheeling Bob Dylan who took it down Highway 61 will always be near the top of the list.

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Samba with public and private share

anindyameister — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:04:57 GMT

I am trying to setup a samba server with two shares where one is public and the other private. I am keeping the security as share to make both the shares visible when people access just the ip from their windows box. But when I am trying to open the private share, the user is automatically taken up as guest and the username box is disabled. So my question is how can I keep the shares visible while making private shares accessible with an username of my choice ?

Here's my global section and share section of smb.conf file

Code:

[global]



security = share

passdb backend = smbpasswd

encrypt passwords = true

map to guest = bad user

guest account = nobody

create mask = 0644

directory mask = 0755



[private]

comment = Private Share

path = 

public = no

valid users = 

readable = yes

writable = yes

browsable = yes

security = user



[public]

comment = Public Share

public = yes

path = 

read only = yes

guest ok = yes

PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/opt/b.php on line 5

LnxGuru — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:46 GMT

can somebody help me with this ?

here is the script:

PHP Code:


		
			


require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';



$request = new HTTP_Request2($url = 'http://'.$argv[1].'/google', HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);

try {

    $response = $request->send();

    if (200 == $response->getStatus()) {

        $data = $response->getBody();

        if (preg_match('/ google /', $data)) {

                echo $url . PHP_EOL;

        }

    } else {

        $request = new HTTP_Request2($url = 'https://'.$argv[1].'google', HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);

        $request-> setConfig(array("ssl_verify_peer"=>FALSE,"ssl_verify_host"=>FALSE));

                $response = $request->send();

                if (200 == $response->getStatus()) {

                        $data = $response->getBody();

                        if (preg_match('/ google /', $data)) {

                                        echo $url . PHP_EOL;

                        }

                }

        }

} catch (HTTP_Request2_Exception $e) {

        #echo 'Error: ' . $e->getMessage();

}

environment variable in linux gcc

learner71 — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:54:33 GMT

Hi,
I am able to get environment variable using getenv function in gcc.But when tried to change the value using setenv function, its value is changed as seen after calling getenv function. when try to seen the value of environment variable in command terminal in ubuntu. it is not showing any change. Can any one tell me, how can i change environment variable in linux gcc.

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Linux Learner

shutdown function in linux

learner71 — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:53:59 GMT

Hi,
once i call shutdown function for socket for data transmission. it stop data transmission. can i re-enable to data transmission for socket. how can i do that?

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Linux Learner

installing the latest linux mint

o-madsen — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:53:26 GMT

If I always want to have the latest linux mint installed, and I got a special homefolder on a seperate drive, what do I need to do when I install a new version so I can keep the homefolder, username and password?

Ole

linux socket TCP control

learner71 — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:53:08 GMT

Hi,
In TCP protocol, it send the data to server and receive acknowledgement. if failed receive acknowledgement, then it will send again same data. it will try this for certain time. how can i control in socket created in linux? not seen any option in setsockopt function. is there any function exist to control this?

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Linux Learner

virtual to physical address in driver

nbg2006 — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:47:49 GMT

I have opened a device driver with a 16 KB kernel space using dma_alloc_coherent.

I have a user program which has 10 KB of data which is in a buffer created by malloc.
now when I do a fwrite in which I call copy_from_user to copy the data from user space to kernel space after which the starting address is given to a peripheral which picks it up. Now instead of doing the copy_from_user is it possible to just give the physical address of the user buffer by using virt_to_phys(buf) since buf pointer is already there in copy_from_user api? I tried that but it is not working . Is there some other way to avoid the copy_from_user?

Could I send the virtual address of the 16 KB kernel space and then use that as the buffer in the user program?

[SOLVED] restoring Grub2 to MBR

DonaldUK — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:29:27 GMT

My laptop has both openSUSE 12.2 and Slackware 14 on separate partitions. Slackware updates recently left me unable to boot into Slackware without installing lilo to the MBR. I did this, checked Slackware was OK. Now I have lilo on the MBR. I try to load openSuSE and get to my log in page where the screen freezes leaving me unable to typ in my password and login. So - I want to restore Grub2 from openSuSE to the MBR. I have booted up Slackware, done chroot to get into openSuSE and have tried "grub2-install /dev/sda". I get the follwing error
Path `/boot/grub2' is not readable by GRUB on boot.

I've tried searching for answers to this and tried various approaches, nothing seems to work. What am I doing wrong?

Donald

mdns avahi: resolve type A records

bmarien — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:17:16 GMT

Hi All,

We have a use case where we need to detect network devices using multicast dns (aka mdns, avahi, bonjour,...). (These are IP camera's configured with static ip addresses configured outside the current subnet)

I found the avahi-utils packages which allows me to query the lokal network.
It will resolve the device i'm looking for.

However i can not figure out how to display all the results embedded in the mdns response. using wireshark i can actually see the PTR, SRV, TXT and A records.
I'm specifically interested in these A records.

Fyi, eventually i'd like to script the detection/network configuration. So using wireshark is not a valid solution.

The query i use now= avahi-browse -d local _axis-video._tcp -t -r -p
System is debian and network is ipv4.

Any help greatly appreciated.

LXer: SFTP Jail (chroot) with Active Directory authentication

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:11:05 GMT

Published at LXer:

How-To secure SFTP using chroot with AD authentication restricting by Group as well as having a public area for users.

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"urgent" help me?

nidishady — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:05:21 GMT

i have already installed windows7 now i want to install cent os how to install cent os?i tried to install using custom layout mode it's saying not enough space in the disk though i have 80 gb for linux in that drice where i want to install cent os please help me?i tried to install in logical drive...where i do have two primary and one extended logical drive...

Advancing with Linux

Cookieman — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:42:32 GMT

Hi all

I have been using linux on and off for a couple of years now (Dual booting with Windows)- mainly with the more user/begginer friendly orientated distro's. I decided to move over to booting under Linux on its own just over a month ago on a permanent basis running UbuntuGNOME 13.04 x64. (Previous distros I have used include mainly Fedora and I have also ran Mandriva in the past.)

Now I am settling nicely into Linux I would like to advance a little further and actually learn something. I have been thinking of moving up to Debian 7 as I do hear it is rock solid and a rolling distro which means I would not need to reinstall every x amount of months. The only thing I do worry about debian is the FOSS side of things as I know the debian community seem very particular about the subject.

Most of what I have achieved in Linux so far has been by simply copying and pasting commands into bash, mainly ones that I have found on various websites from articles such as 'things to do after installing' for getting my software up and running. I would like to break down what I am doing, and look at how things work under linux so I can learn from it. Would debian be a good place to advance to, and to learn from, or would you be thinking of moving to say CentOS or Arch instead (or would this be aiming to hight at this point.)

I must also mention that my 7 year old daughter also uses this computer and she loves using google earth and is used to using google chrome browser for websites she like to visit - so whatever I move to, I will need ensure Google earth and chrome runs smoothly without any problem!

Cheers all

LXer: Google I/O 2013: Voice Search on the Desktop Using Google

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:20:49 GMT

Published at LXer:

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz reviews the newest piece of technology to come out of Google I/O 2013, Google Voice Search. Available today in Chrome 27.

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Window snapping in mutter

Knightron — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:45:00 GMT

Hello guys; i've ran kde for quite some time now. I dislike some things about kde though, but i love kwin. I have installed Mate into Debian Wheezy, but i knew i'd miss some features that kwin provided. kwin causes graphical issues with mate, gnome and xfce for some reason though. I have been looking into alternative window managers i can use with mate. One feature i desire is window snapping. xfwm4 is pretty good, but it leaves a little to be desired. i've seen videos of mutter window snapping too. I have installed mutter 3.4.1-5 and have it running in a Mate session under Debian, but the window snapping doesn't seem to be working. I'm guessing it's disabled or not possible in this version. I have looked it up, but the the results seem to be cumulated with Ubuntu, Unity and compiz information. How can i enable this feature for Mutter in Debian.

Thank you

Linux remote configuration app... for dummies

displace — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:40:03 GMT

I'm trying to setup a device that's acting as a LAN audio player running mpd (the mpd is controlled over LAN). It's basically a diy-NAS with speakers attached running headless debian. The device is currently up and running, but it's going to be given away to people who don't have a clue about linux. They'll need to be able to configure certain parameters of the device. So I was wondering... rather than giving these people full shell access, is there an easier way?

Is there an app (a c/c++ daemon or perhaps a python script) for linux which allows remote users to admin the device, and edit certain options? Perhaps a app that listens on a given TCP port? Then I can create my own custom GUI in VB.NET that people are going to use on their Windows PC's to connect to this port and configure the player. The linux app should be able to edit various settings in /etc folder and possibly restart services afterwards. But it should expose only certain configuration options, not all of them. I.e. I'd like to allow users to edit the "workgroup" parameter inside /etc/samba/smb.conf file, but not any of the other options. It should also be possible to configure the WiFi, select a country (for CRDA), etc.

Another idea I had was to run a http server and host a web configuration interface. I have heard of webmin, but it offers way too many options for my setup. Is there a simpler webgui that can be configured to display appropriate options?

Best regards!

LXer: Raspberry Pis Fedora becomes Pidora

LXer — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:20:23 GMT

Can't read a partition

Cyberman — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:57:31 GMT

I have a 70GB partition that is "Partition Type" Linux, as described in disk utility (Ubuntu 13.10). I cannot seem to mount it or read it. I want to access it before I delete the partition to see if there is anything on there that I want.

I can't access it.
How do I access it?

Values at x-axis fall in between xtics in gnuplot

vjramana — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:45:05 GMT

I am trying to plot a graph where the x-values fall in between xtics.

For example, I want my xtics to be

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C72 C73 C74 C75 C76 C77 C78 C79 C80 C81

and the points fall in between C72 C73 ; C73 C74 ; C74 C75 ; and so on.

My data points are

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> 2.5 0.17509 C72
> 3.5 0.220434 C73
> 4.5 0.164918 C74
> 5.5 0.172477 C75
> 6.5 0.156145 C76
> 7.5 0.171699 C77
> 8.5 0.165199 C78
> 9.5 0.191207 C79
> 10.5 0.211656 C80
> 11.5 0.202233 C81

I used xticlabels() in the script definitions as below:

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#OUTPUT
set terminal pngcairo size 650,450 enhanced dash
set output "xplot_gauche_malto-thermo.png"
set style line 4 lt 4 lw 10 # Please DISABLE pause -1

#MICRO
set macro
labelFONT="font 'arial,22'"
scaleFONT="font 'arial,18'"
scaleFONT2="font 'arial,18'"
keyFONT="font 'arial,18'"

# AXIS DEFINITIONS
set xrange [0:12]
set yrange [0:0.8]
set xtic (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11) @scaleFONT2
set ytic @scaleFONT
set boxwidth 0.8
set size square

#PLOT
plot "all_dihedrals_in_layers_malto.dat" using 1:2:xticlabels(3) with linespoints lw 2 linecolor rgb "black" pointtype 1 pointsize 2 title ""

If I use the code as above, to get a plot using only column 1 and 2 from data file (as given above) I get the points fall in between 2-3, 3-4, 4-5 and so on.

Unfortunately if I use "xticlabels()", I don't get the graph as I wanted where the point supposed to fall in between C72-C73, C73-C74, C74-C75 and so on.

Appreciate in advance for any help. Thanks

Module Installation in kernel

naveen.rathore — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:21:30 GMT

Hi Guys,

I want to load a c program in my kernel ,please suggest how i can can compile it and load to the kernel and boot successfully.

Thank sin advance