How to install OpenOffice 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10

There are some links for installing OpenOffice 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10.

http://yourubuntulinux.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-install-openoffice-30-on-ubuntu.html

Enjoy!

How to bridge your NIC on OpenBSD

Firstly, I'm very sorry because not posting in this blog for along time. This is because I'm quite busy for the ISO preparation in my company.

This is the how to for NIC bridging on OpenBSD:

1. Make sure you know what is your ethernet card by your OS such as eth0, em0 or etc. To look just use this command

ifconfig -a

2. For example you NIC is em0 and em1.

3. Create the file name hostname.em0, hostname.em1 and bridgename.bridge0 in /etc directory

4. Put word up in hostname.em0 and hostname.em1. Put sentence add em0 add em1 up in bridgename.bridge0.

5. restart you network by command

sh /etc/netstart

6. Finish

Easy right? Enjoy!

Fedora or CentOS?

Some say "which one is better?". This is my opinion and suggestion. There are base on Red Hat Linux. For my experience its easy to get the purpose or objective for this Linux to be implement. More peoples and websites suggesting the server purpose to be using by CentOS because it is an enterprise level OS based on Red Hat and for Fedora it is mostly for testing bed and more on user Desktop purpose. Fedora is bleeding edge and potentially unstable by design. For this reason, now you can easily define what is the best choice for you desktop or server.

References:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-distributions-5/fedora-or-centos-327996/
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=420347

Fedora main website:
http://fedoraproject.org/

CentOS main website:
http://www.centos.org/

Good stuff from Amazon.com

Here is some stuff from amazon related on information technology. You can direct shopping from here.

How to: Easy Intrusion Detection System (IDS) setup with EasyIDS

Last day, my boss ask me to install one IDS for our office. He just say "Please install the open source product". After seek on the internet for whole day, I found the EasyIDS. I have tested on my office's PC with details:

Pentium 4 2.8ghz
512MB DDR-RAM
40GB Hard disk
2 Network interface card (10/100baseT)
52X CD-ROM

This is the way I do it:
1. Download from the EasyIDS website http://www.skynet-solutions.net/easyids/

2. The download file is on ISO type which mean you can burn it to CD.

3. After burn on the CD, I just install the software with the CD-ROM boot first. You can setting the CD-ROM boot first in your BIOS setting.

4. I just follow the step by step until finish.

5. After it restart and update the patches, it display tty1 as the default with the black and white screen. You can login as root here.

6. After the EasyIDS properly setup you can go to another PC and open the browser. Type http://youreasyIDS. Its will popup the username and password. The default login is admin and the password is password.

7. After login, you see the interface base on ACID which some people call php-acid. This interface is easy to administrating the EasyIDS. I'm so glad this kind of software have develop by open source community. Thanks.

You can go to EasyIDS website http://www.skynet-solutions.net/easyids/ for more details.

EasyIDS Features:
Base on Centos 4.5
Snort
BASE
ACID
Oinkmaster
ntop

Thanks for EasyIDS team for develop this tools. Keep it up! :-)

Tomboy: The easiest Note-taking Program in Gnome

Relatively new application that has found its way into recent versions of almost all Linux distributions is Tomboy. It is in cross-indexing tool and a quick publisher all rolled into one. Tomboy is also very addictive and easy to use, and does away with the hassle of naming files and remembering the directory paths. It is an evolving application and the latest release is still at version 0.6.

To start:
1. Go to Application --> Accessories --> Tomboy Notes, which lunched Tomboy as an applet on your panel. Once lunched it remains active and you can access your note quickly from the applet icon till you log out or quit the applet.

2. To give automatic lunched Tomboy every time you boot the system; you can use this guide (for gnome):
- right-clicking on an empty space on the panel and selecting the 'Add to Panel' option. Once you have 'Add to Panel' window up, select the Tomboy Notes application and click the 'Add' button to add it in your panel.

Many feature Tomboy can do. For more infomation about Tomboy please visit http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/

How to block root to access ssh to your server (CentOS 5)

1. First open your terminal
2. vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
3. Find PermitRootLogin yes
4. Change PermitRootLogin no
5. Save and exit
6. Restart your sshd by type /etc/init.d/sshd restart

That's all.

How to give MySql Root Password

As default, Mysql database didn't have any password. For some security reason, you need give the Mysql with a password. This is the way how to give the password to your Mysql database.

1. Go in to Mysql by type mysql

2. Type update user set password=password ('yourpassword') where user='root'; and enter. yourpassword mean enter your own password.

3. Type flush privileges

4. Exit mysql

To test:

1. Go in to Mysql by type mysql -u root -p and enter

2. It promt you to enter the password. Enter you password given before.

3. If you can login with you password, it mean your work is successfully.

Error after install Phpmyadmin

Last day my friend had asked me about the error after install phpmyadmin in his Linux.

The error say
"The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret)"

This is the solution:
1. Go to phpmyadmin directory on your linux. Eg: /usr/share/phpmyadmin (in Centos5).

2. File the config.inc.php with your favorite editor eg. vi

3. Find $cfg ['blowfish_secret'] = ' ';

4. Fill in the password or phassphrase, example
$cfg ['blowfish_secret'] = ' 123456';

5. Save and quit the editor. That all

How to: Resetting Mysql root password

Sometimes, you cannot remember the mysql password. After try many time to login, you still cannot login to database. This is the solution.

1. You need to open 2 terminal/shell.

At terminal 1:
2. At terminal 1, stop your mysql deamon if it running: $ /etc/init.d/mysqld stop and enter. The mysql deamon is stop now.
3. Type $ mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables


Terminal 2:
4. Change root password to new password: mysql> update user set password=password('newpassword') where user='root';
5. Flush mysql privileges: mysql> flush privileges;
6. Exit mysql: mysql> exit
7. Restart mysql: $ /etc/init.d/mysqld start

After finish all process, go to your terminal 1 and press Ctrl-C on your keyboard.

Thats all.

How to: Install Network Monitoring Tool (Nagios+Nagmin+Webmin+Mysql+Apache2+RRDTool+NMAP) on OpenSUSE 10.2

These are step by step how to setup network monitoring tool on OpenSUSE 10.2:

Install MySql, RRDTool, NMAP and Apache2:
1. Open the YaST software management. Select package mysql, mysql-client, mysql-shared, rrdtool, nmap and apache2. (*Accept all dependencies)
2. After install all package run this command mysqladmin -u root password "yourpassword"
3. Start mysql by run this command rcmysql start
4. Make this service automatically start after reboot by type chkconfig mysql on
5. Start apache2 by typing rcapache2 start
6. Make apache2 auto start after reboot by typing chkconfig apache2 on

Install Webmin:
1. Download webmin from webmin.com. I recommend you to download the noarch package for support all machine architecture. Save it, such as at your desktop.
2. Go to your desktop and type rpm -Uvh webmin_name
3. Start webmin by typing /etc/init.d/webmin start
4. Log in to webmin interface by opening your browser and type https://localhost:10000

Install Nagios:
1. Open YaST and select libcrypt, perl-Net-SNMP, fping, postgresql-libs, radiusclient, apache2, gd, and perl-URI.
2. Download nagios package (nagios-2.5-24.i586.rpm, nagios-nrpe-2.5.2-28.i586.rpm , nagios-nsca-2.5-39.i586.rpm , nagios-plugins-1.4.5-5.i586.rpm , nagios-plugins-extras-1.4.5-5.i586.rpm , nagios-plugins-sap-ccms-0.7.3-38.i586.rpm and nagios-www-2.5-24.i586.rpm )
at http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/.
I recommend use nagios version 2.5 because most stable and many package are supported.
3. Install all these packages by typing rpm -Uvh nagios*.rpm
4. Start nagios by typing rcnagios start
5. Make nagios autostart after reboot by type chkconfig nagios on
6. Check your nagios by typing http://localhost/nagios/ on your browser (firefox etc)

Install Nagmin:
Nagmin is a webmin module. To install:
1. Download nagmin from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77010
I recommend you to download nagmin-2.1.0.tar.gz . It is because easy to install by a setup script. Other nagmin doesn't have a setup script.
2. Extract the nagmin by typing tar xvzf yournagminname .
3. Go to the nagmin folder and type ./setup to intall. Follow this guide

Database name to use or create : [Enter]
Nagios Root directory : /etc/nagios [Enter]
Nagios ETC directory : /etc/nagios [Enter]
Nagmin root directory : [Enter]
Nagios Configuration File: : [Enter]
CGI Configuration File: : [Enter]
Entries will be displayed for accuracy, select Y to continue.
Script will continue with its process.
Select N to question for viewing the SQL file
Select Y to other question

4. Now acces webmin and install the Nagmin plugin

Configure Nagmin setting:
Configure Nagmin Nagios by clicking Module Config in webmin. Change the configuration to the following value:
Nagios BIN directory /usr/bin
Nagios ETC directory /etc/nagios
Nagios LIBEXEC directory /usr/lib/nagios/plugins

5. Open your terminal and type vi /etc/nagios/cgi.cfg
find use_authentication=1; chage 1 to 0
find default_user_name = user, chage the user by deamon

6. Save and quit.

7. Now install NagMin module for webmin. To install go to Webmin --> Webmin Configuration --> Webmin Modules. Install the nagmin module from the nagmin folder that you extract before. The file name is look like nagmin-2.x.x.wbm

The Error
1. (Error: version issue):
Some error found when your login webmin --> Server --> nagMIN Network Monitoring.

Error message:
The MySQL client program /usr/bin/mysql does not appear to be the correct version. Webmin only supports MySQL versions 3 and above.

The command /usr/bin/mysql -V returned :

/usr/bin/mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.22, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.0

Suggested fix:
open terminal and type vi /usr/libexec/webmin/nagmin/index.cgi
find "distrib" and add "| 5" after 4 at same line
save and quit the vi.

2. error found when your login webmin --> Server --> nagMIN Network Monitoring --> in column System Databases --> nagios

error message:

"Error - Perl execution failed
Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at /path/to/mysql.pm line 113"

Suggested fix:

Location mysql.pm on Suse /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi/DBD/mysql.pm

At around line 109 of mysql.pm:

------------------------------------
  # Avoid warnings for undefined values
  $username ||= '';
  $password ||= '';

  # create a 'blank' dbh
  my($this, $privateAttrHash) = (undef, $attrhash);
  $privateAttrHash = { %$privateAttrHash,
'Name' => $dsn,
'user' => $username,
'password' => $password
  };
-------------------------------------

Needs to be changed to

-------------------------------------
 # Avoid warnings for undefined values
  $username ||= '';
  $password ||= '';
  $attrhash ||= {};

  # create a 'blank' dbh
  my($this, $privateAttrHash) = (undef, $attrhash);
  $privateAttrHash = { %$privateAttrHash,
'Name' => $dsn,
'user' => $username,
'password' => $password
  };

Finish.

Job scheduler (Crontab) for Linux

Crontab is a tool for scheduling tasks for the computer to run. It will automate the jobs that needs to be done but will be difficult to be done by human because of time limitation. There are only 4 options for crontab which are -u, -e, -l and -r and the usage is described below:

• crontab -l - list all the crontab on standard output
• crontab -e - edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables
• crontab -r - remove the current crontab
  
• crontab -u - specify the user
• example: $ crontab -u username -l - this command will list the crontab belongs to the username

Crontab is set by running the crontab -e command and add the necessary time and the command to be run on that particular time. Crontab scheduling format are as below:

* * * * * command to be run

1st * is for minutes (0-59)
2nd * is for hour (0-23)
3rd * is for day of month (1-31)
4th * is for month of year (1-12)
5th * is for day of the week (0-7) where 0=Sunday and 7=Sunday

Example:
To backup your pc using rsnapshot everyday at 7.30 a.m.;

1. Open terminal and type crontab -e
2. In crontab area type; 30 7 * * * /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot daily
3. save your crontab setting and exit
   

How to: Know your mysql and php is connect properly

How to know your mysql and php is connect properly. From my experience I like to share this knowledge.

1) Install the php and mysql in Linux properly with common configuration.
2) Create user and set the password in your database.
2) Create a php file like testdb.php and follow this code. Save it and transfer this file to your webroot. For examples on redhat base is /var/www/htdocs/html or Suse /srv/www/html.
3) Open your browser and type such as http://localhost/testdb.php

If success, the result will show you like Connecting... Using training2

How to: Install Network Storage Server on CentOS 5 (Samba)

This is the step to install Samba Server on CentOS 5.

1) Open your terminal and login as root

2) type yum install samba and wait until it complete install.

3) Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf with your favorite editor like vi

4) Find workgroup = (yourgroup), server string = (your description), security = share.

5) Go to the bottom of smb.conf and remove ; to enable the purpose.
;[myshare]
; comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff
; path = /usr/somewhere/shared
; valid users = mary fred
; public = no
; writable = yes
; printable = no
; create mask = 0765

example:
[marketing_sharing_file]
comment = Saled Item
path = /home/marketing_department
; valid users = nobody
guest ok = yes
writeable = yes
; printable = no
create mask = 0777

After you edit, save and exit.

Thats all. Easy!

How to: Complete Install Simple Mail Server in 30 minute including webmail

This is some guide to install mail server in 30 minute. That easy!

1) List of software that you need to install.
a. Postfix for MTA
b. Dovecot for IMAP/POP3 support
c. SquirrelMail for webmail
d. Webmin for web base administrator

2) Install CentOS 5 as common
At (I suggest you tick)
Development package
Develoment lib
Development tools
Gnome Software development
Java development
Legacy software
X software Development
Server
Mail server
-postfix
-Dovecot
-SquirrelMail
-Thunderbird
Server configuration
Webserver
Base System
Base
X windows system

and follow the Centos installation step until finish.

3) Login you the CentOS 5 as root. Install webmin for easy administration soon
rpm -Uvh (your_webmin_package.rpm)

4) After that, open terminal and start this process. (postfix, dovecot, httpd)

5) After you restart the services, test you postfix. To test follow this step:
a. open terminal
type:
telnet localhost 25
EHLO localhost
MAIL FROM: (your email address eg: skymack@foodmalaysia.net)
RCPT TO: (recipient address)
DATA
(type your message here)
.
QUIT

OR

telnet foodmalays.net 25
helo foodmalaysia.net
mail from: sender@foodmalaysia.net
rcpt to: recipientname@mydomain.com
data
subject: (you email title)
to: recipientname@mydomain.com
Write the message here
.
quit

6) After testing you postfix running succesfully, open you webmin eg: http://localhost:10000 with your browser.
Login to your webmin and go to servers --> Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server. Select Networking & protocol --> serve mail protocol --> (press ctrl on you keyboard) and select IMAP and POP3. Save it.

7) Create user:
Open terminal. Type useradd -m (youruser) and enter.
To give password:
passwd (youruser) and enter

8) Open your internet browser and type, http://localhost/webmail and you will go directly to your webmail (squirrelmail). Fill in you username and password that you created before.

9) Try to send your email to you own name. If it receive the mail its consider your email server is successfully installed.

10) To setup email server and live for world, you must go to setup DNS server, change the server name and get the fix IP number. That all.

eyeOS: New open source web operating system.

Portable applications can come in handy when you are on the move, but there are situations when using them is not an option. For instance, before you connect an external hard disk or a USB stick to a public computer, you have to ask permission. More importantly, even if you get permission, you can never be sure what kind of nasty viruses and malware you will be getting on your storage device. But why bother with portable applications at all when you can have your very own Web-based operating system bundled with a few essential applications? That's the promise of eyeOS -- an impressive and surprisingly useful open source Web-based OS.

Main link:
http://www.eyeos.org/

To download:
http://www.eyeos.org/downloads

Some screen shots:
































Ghost Virtual Computer
See also ghost virtual computer. Its same like eyeOS that running on interner browser but it is not a open source product. It is free hosted services and allow people to register as free. Never worry about your data. It can be access anyway.

Main website:
http://g.ho.st/home/

Some picture from ghost virtual computer. Picture take from my ghost virtual pc account:
































How to install eyeOS?

The installation is very easy and can be done in 5 minutes...

1) Open your terminal/shell

2) Go to web root directory such as /var/www(redhat base) or /srv/www(SuSe
Linux)
eg: cd /var/www

3) Download the package from http://www.eyeos.org/downloads
eg: wget (file download address)
You can download it in tar.gz or .zip format

4) Extract and place it in your web root
eg: tar xvzf (file name)

5) Give full permission to the package.
eg: chmod 777 (extracted file name)

6) Run the install.php on your browser and follow the instructions.

World's First Integrated Open Source Smart Phone (OpenMoko)

OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms.

The Neo 1973 boasts the following hardware specifications

• 2.8" VGA TFT color display
• Touchscreen, usable with stylus or fingers
• 266MHz Samsung System on a Chip (SOC)
• USB 1.1, switchable between Client and Host (unpowered)
• Integrated AGPS
• 2.5G GSM – quad band, voice, CSD, GPRS
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Micro SD slot
• High Quality audio codec

Read more about OpenMoko at http://www.openmoko.com/index.html

How to install Automatix2 on Feisty Fawn(Ubuntu 7.04)

These is the easy step to install Automatix on Ubuntu 7.04:

1. Go to this link http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installation










2. Select your machine architecture. For this example, I choose 2.1 Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty i386) because my machine is i386 base architecture.

3. Click on http://www.getautomatix.com/apt/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/automatix2_1.1-4.11-7.04feisty_i386.deb
to download the software. See picture.









4. The package installer will pop up like picture below. Choose the default. Open with Gdebi Package Installer













5. Wait until finish. To open Automatix2, go to your desktop and click on Application --> System Tools --> Automatix

Thats all. Easy!

Antivirus, Spyware and Antispam Softwares (open source)

1. ClamWin
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003. Stay virus and Spyware free with ClamWin.
http://www.clamwin.com/

2. OpenAntiVirus
OpenAntiVirus.org is an OpenSource project - if anyone misses features or finds flaws she's welcome to contribute suggestions, criticism, and -even better- superior solutions to the project.
http://www.openantivirus.org/status.php 3.

3. ClamAv
Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.
http://www.clamav.net/

4. Vulnwatch
Vulnwatch is the first open source spyware software.
http://seclists.org/vulnwatch/2005/q2/0015.html

5.Winpooch (Anti spyware and trojan protection)
Winpooch is a Windows watchdog, free and open source. Anti spyware and anti trojan, it gives a full protection against local or external attacks by scanning the activity of programs in real time. Associated with ClamWin antivirus, Winpooch keeps safe your computer against virus.
http://winpooch.free.fr/home/index.php

6. MailScanner
A Free antivirus and Antispam filter. Over 1 million downloads.
http://www.mailscanner.info/

7. SpamBayes
The SpamBayes project is working on developing a statistical (commonly, although a little inaccurately, referred to as Bayesian) anti-spam filter, initially based on the work of Paul Graham. The major difference between this and other, similar projects is the emphasis on testing newer approaches to scoring messages. While most anti-spam projects are still working with the original graham algorithm, we found that a number of alternate methods yielded a more useful response. This is documented on the background page.

SpamBayes is not a single application. The core code is a message classifier, however there are several applications available as part of the SpamBayes project which use the classifier in specific contexts. For the most part, the current crop of applications all operate on the client side of things, however, a number of people have experimented with using SpamBayes on mail servers to classify incoming mail for multiple users. The table below outlines the main applications which are part of the SpamBayes distribution.
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

8. SpamPal
SpamPal sits between your email program and your mailbox, checking email as it arrives. Anything identified as spam gets tagged with a special header. Configure your email client to filter anything with this header into a separate folder, and spam is simply and efficiently whisked away. You can review the folder's contents at will or simply dump the stuff unread.
www.spampal.org

Top 10 open source Windows applications

1. Mozilla Firefox (Web browser)
Fast and secure internet browser
http://mozilla.org/firefox/

2. Mozilla Thunderbird (Email client)
Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail.
http://mozilla.org/thunderbird/

3. Open Office (Office suite)
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
http://www.openoffice.org/

4. Gaim (Instant messenger)
Chat on any service you'd like - AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, Jabber, ICQ - with this multi-platform, tabbed IM client.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

5. ClamWin (Antivirus)
Norton bugging you again to break out the credit card and subscribe? Uninstall! ClamWin is free anti-virus software with automatic updates and scheduled scans, no credit card required.
http://www.clamwin.com/

6. VLC Media Player (Audio/video player)
Got a video or audio file Windows Media Player or Quicktime can't play? Betcha VLC can.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

7. KeePass (Password manager)
Another app you really don't hear a lot about, but for anyone with more than 6 different passwords, KeePass is indispensable.
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

8. Cygwin (Unix command line emulator)

That DOS command line just doesn't cut it. Wanna turn into a CLI ninja on your PC? You need Cygwin.
http://cygwin.com/

9. Eraser (Data deletion utility)
Before you donate, sell or trash your hard drive, you want to make sure there are no traces of your private data on it. Eraser uses the same algorithm the government uses to wipe your hard drive clean.
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/

10. TrueCrypt (File encryption utility)
You've got a folder full of files you don't want anyone to access but you. Lock it (or an entire thumb drive) up with the free TrueCrypt software.
http://www.truecrypt.org/

Some references:
http://lifehacker.com/
www.clamwin.com/
http://softlabsav.softlabs.net/