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Testing Post from MarsEdit Offine Blog Editor

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:12:20 +0000

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[HowTo] set VPS Timezone

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:51:43 +0000

First nuke the currently set timezone: rm -rf /etc/localtime 2>/dev/null; unlink /etc/localtime 2>/dev/null
Then, decide what timezone you want: find /usr/share/zoneinfo/ | more

Once you know the filename representing your timezone, use ln as follows. In this example, I will set the VPS to EST, my favorite timezone.

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime

[HowTo] Download from Premium Rapidshare in Linux Console

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:13:34 +0000

The following method is using wget in Linux. First thing is to save the cookies for your premium account login to Rapidshare

wget–save-cookies ~/.cookies/rapidshare –post-data “login=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD” -O - https://ssl.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/premiumzone.cgi > /dev/null

Then you can start download Rapidshare content with the following line:

wget -c –load-cookies ~/.cookies/rapidshare

[HowTo]Setup Zabbix Agent for Linux

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:07:42 +0000

1. wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zabbix/zabbix-1.4.5.tar.gz?download

2. tar -vxzf zabbix-1.4.5.tar.gz

3. cd zabbix-1.4.5

4. ./configure –enable-agent –with-mysql –with-libcurl

5. make install

6. mkdir /etc/zabbix

7. cp misc/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf /etc/zabbix/

8. cp misc/init.d/redhat/8.0/zabbix_agentd /etc/init.d/

9. chmod +x /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd

10. adduser zabbix

11. chkconfig zabbix_agentd on

12. Edit /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf, set Server to your Zabbix Server ip/domain and Hostname to your agent hostname.

13. Edit /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd, set progdir to /usr/local/sbin

14. /etc/init.d/zabbix_agentd start

15. After than add the host to zabbix server and you can start monitor your agent server now.

[HowTo] Install Network Driver for P5GC-MX Under Ubuntu

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:47:29 +0000

I was installing Ubuntu on Asus P5GC-MX, the install process was flawlessness, however the onboard lan wasn’t love my Ubuntu, it wont detect the onboard LAN adapter. Therefore, i dig around in internet and finally i found a solution as below:

Download atl2-204tar and extract it
tar -vxzf atl2-2.0.4.tar.bz
cd atl2-2.0.4
make
sudo cp ./atl2.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe atl2
dmesg
ifconfig -a

And…..CONGRATUTION!!!!! I got it working YEAH!!!

Little Tips for vsftpd

admin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:09:14 +0000

Every time i setup a vsftpd server, i have to dig around in google to find the right syntax to be put in vsftpd.conf to enable jail users and use local server time, as many of us know that the syntax does not include in the default configuration file, so this time i decide to post it here for my own reference.

Lock ftp user to his folder only

chroot_local_user=YES

Force vsftpd to use local time

use_localtime=YES

HowTo: Install Zabbix Server & Zabbix Agent

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:10:51 +0000

Zabbix is a system which allow you to monitor multiple server within your local area network or even across Internet. It comes with a nice web front end which let you monitor many things that happen in the servers on your web browser, isn’t great? Basically, it runs an application in a master server, they call it Zabbix Server, and a Zabbix Agent in the server that you want to monitor. Therefore, you will have to install them separately. Agent will report almost everything you wan to the Master Server, after it received the data it starts to process for you and let you access to them in your web browser. The web script is written in PHP and using MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite, and it have to be installed in the Master Server as well (Maybe it can be installed separately, but i never tried that). I will only jot down the installation guide for both Server and Agent and is for MySQL only, maybe later for the configuration and settings, they are quite complicated but trust me, they worth a learn. This guide tested in CentOS 5.1 and Fedora Core 8.

[ZABBIX SERVER INSTALLATION GUIDE]

First of all make sure you have your Apache, MySQL and PHP installed in the server.

1. Download the latest version from Zabbix, and untar it.

2. Create zabbix database and import data

$ mysql -u root -p password
mysql> create database zabbix;
mysql> quit;
$ cd create/schema
$ mysql zabbix -u root -p password < mysql.sql
$ cd ../data
$ mysql zabbix -u root -p password < data.sql
$ mysql zabbix -u root -p password < images_mysql.sql

3. Go zabbix root directory which you just untar, configure and the make install

$ ./configure –enable-server –with-mysql –with-libcurl
$ make install

4. Copy startup script and config file.

$ mkdir /etc/zabbix
$ cp misc/conf/* /etc/zabbix/
$ cp misc/init.d/redhat/8.0/* /etc/init.d/
$ chmod +x /etc/init.d/zabbix_*

5. Create user zabbix, and then start the service.

$ adduser zabbix
$ service zabbix_server start

6. Copy front end web scripts in frontends/php/ into your web server document directory. DONE! You can access the frontend through your browser now. Continue to install Zabbix Agent so that you get your server data process in the Zabbix Server.

[ZABBIX AGENT INSTALLATION GUIDE]

1. Download the latest version from Zabbix, and untar it.

2. configure and make install

$ ./configure –enable-agent –with-mysql –with-libcurl
$ make install

3. Copy startup script and config file.

$ mkdir /etc/zabbix
$ cp misc/conf/* /etc/zabbix/
$ cp misc/init.d/redhat/8.0/* /etc/init.d/
$ chmod +x /etc/init.d/zabbix_*

4. Edit /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf, set the Server and Hostname.

4. Create user zabbix, and then start the service.

$ adduser zabbix
$ service zabbix_agentd start

Thats all for the installation for Zabbix Server and the Agent, if you want to install the agent in the Master server, you can add in –enable-agent in the configure option. You can also use SNMP instead of using Agent, but i have not tried on that yet.

HowTo: Mouse over music preview in Ubuntu

admin — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:23:30 +0000

I saw a clip in youtube few days back, a person showing off his Ubuntu with the features of mouse over music preview, which means by putting mouse cursor on top of the music file icon, it will start to play the song without the needs of playing the song in a music player. I was attracted by this features and it’s really useful when i want to search for song in a thousand song by just moving my mouse cursor one by one. I start to search around for the work around, i tried many ways suggested in forums and blog but i still cant make it work. However at last i manage to make it work by installing things below, but so far i only test it in Hardy Heron.

Things to be installed

ubuntu-restricted-extras
mpg123
mpg123-esd
pulseaudio-esound-compat
vorbis-tools

You can install from synaptic or by the method below

$ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras mpg123-esd pulseaudio-esound-compat vorbis-tools

HowTo: CJK(Chinese, Japanese, Korean) in Wine Application

admin — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:24:38 +0000

If you are installing CJK(Chinese, Japanese, Koean) application in ordinary fresh installed wine, you will see a lots of funny character instead of the one of the CJK which is readable. Follow the guide below to get your CJK application display properly in wine. Tested on Ubuntu Feisty and Hardy.

1. Open the terminal and execute the following

$sudo touch /var/lib/locales/supported.d/ja
$sudo touch /var/lib/locales/supported.d/kr
$sudo touch /var/lib/locales/supported.d/zh

2. Open each of the file that you have just created and paste in the line as below

[/var/lib/locales/supported.d/ja]

ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8
ja_JP SJIS
ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP

[/var/lib/locales/supported.d/kr]

ko_KR.UTF-8 UTF-8
ko_KR.EUC-KR EUC-KR

[/var/lib/locales/supported.d/zh]

zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8
zh_TW.UTF-8 UTF-8
zh_CN GB2312
zh_CN.GBK GBK
zh_CN.GB18030 GB18030
zh_TW Big5

3. Execute the following in terminal

$ dpkg-reconfigure locales

4. Install true Chinese font

$ apt-get install ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-mikachan ttf-mona ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-saxanami-mincho ttf-vlgothic ttf-alee ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming ttf-baekmuk ttf-unfonts ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming

5. Install Vera Sans YuanTi. By right we should download this tar file from Chinese Ubuntu Project site, but i just found out the link is dead and is hard to find this file in internet. But don’t worry i have uploaded one copy to my server. Follow the instrucstion below to get this step done.

$ wget http://www.warrence.com/resources/verasansyuanti.tar.gz
$ tar -vxzf verasansyuanti.tar.gz
$ mv verasansyuanti /usr/share/fonts
$ fc-cache -f

6. This step we will install ies4linux(Internet Explorer). After the installation of ies4linux, it will contain most of the major system DLLs. So what we do now is Install and run ies4linux and then copy the neccessary file to wine.

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install cabextract wine
$ cd ~
$ wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
$ tar zxpvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
$ cd ies4linux-*
$ ./ies4linux
$ ./ie6

7. After running Internet Explorer 6, close it and do the following.

The following execution will remove all wine App, you are require to install back those wine App after this guide.

$ rm -rf ~/.wine/*
$ cp -r ~/.ies4linux/ie6/* ~/.wine/

8. Install Winelocale

$ cd ~
$ wget http://www.cinnamonpirate.com/pub/software/sh/wineloc-0.41.tar.gz
$ tar zxpvf wineloc-0.41.tar.gz
$ cd wineloc-0.41
$ ./install

9. DONE! Now you can start your CJK Application like the example below

$ wineloc -l zh_CN /path/to/executable.exe

Sonork IM in Ubuntu using Wine

admin — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:15:56 +0000

The first time i install sonork IM using wine was last year but failed, it wont read the history record from data file when you open chat screen. When new message arrive i got the notification but when i open the chat screen it was empty, i can only see the incoming message if i keep the sender’s chat screen open before he or she send me the message. Sonork IM is an internet messenger application which is not popular at all, but some of the company are using it as a private messenging network, because it is not well known enough so i can hardly find any information in google regarding problem in running sonork IM using wine and its solution. I tried crossover office as well but no hope. So i conclude to myself that sonork IM not compatible at all with wine. Until recently i bring it out to try again because i need to stick with linux base OS for some my research, this time somehow i make it to works, i don’t know how it would work in this way, but i just work.

The trick to make it work is really simple, for the 3rd step in the installation wizard, there is an “advanced…” button, after clicking on it you will see that you can actually set your own data and tmp path for Sonork IM. For Data folder i set it to my Ubuntu file system /home/warrence/sonork/data, as for tmp folder i set it to /tmp. Thats all!