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Howard Dyckoff · Answered by: Rick

> from the Control Center select Appearance & Themes. Choose 
> Background from the sub-menu. Yeah, Background. Who knew?

DestroyFunc StartFunction
AddToFunc   StartFunction
+ I Test (Init) Exec exec my_application

+ I Exec exec my_application

> One of these apps issues a FvwmCommand. Does it take time for the
> FvwmCommandS FIFO server to start up before being reasonably able to
> begin issuing commands?

DestroyFunc StartFunction
AddToFunc   StartFunction
+ I Module FvwmEvent some_alias
+ I Test (Init) Exec exec feh --scale-bg some_image.jpg
+ I Test (Init) Exec exec xteddy -wm
+ I Module FvwmCommandS
+ I FvwmCommand 'Function myfunction'

DestroyFunc  StartFunction
AddToFunc    StartFunction
+ I Module FvwmEvent some_alias
+ I Test (Init) Exec exec feh --scale-bg some_image.jpg
+ I Test (Init) Exec exec xteddy -wm
+ I Module FvwmCommandS
+ I Schedule 900 FvwmCommand 'Function myfunction'

+ I PipeRead 'sleep 5 && echo "Function myfunction"'

+ I Exec sh -c 'sleep 3 && exec my_application'

> I ask this because I noticed that the FvwmCommand fails ... but then
> if the app issues it some time later it succeeds. Kinda strange ...
> should my app actually wait some time to give Fvwm time to finish it's
> initialization?

SetEnv myvariable 200

PipeRead 'echo SetEnv mynewvar $(($[myvariable] + 1))'

SetEnv mynewvar 201

SetEnv y PipeRead "echo $[2*$[x]]"

$ apt-cache search circuits

$ apt-cache --names-only search circuits

$ apt-cache install <name>

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get remove <name>

$ sudo apt-get --purge remove <name>

$ apt-cache showpkg x-window-manager

-- 
Cheers,                        The Technical Support Credo:  
Rick Moen                      Remember, there are no stupid questions, 
rick at linuxmafia.com            only stupid people asking questions.

> User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2

ben at Fenrir:~$ cat /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/pod/*|grep -c $
156874

#!/usr/bin/perl
open(INFILE,  "calendar")   or die "Can't open input.txt: $!";#outta curiosity, can INFILE be changed to another name, like CALFILE or something?
$searchme = shift;
#This just grabbed the search term from the command line. How do you get more than one term? must find out...
while (<INFILE>) {
       print if /$searchme/; #searches thru the file for the searchterm
    }
print "\n";#this just spits out a newline when all is done, so that the last result doesn't immediately precede the commandline.

> #outta
> curiosity, can INFILE be changed to another name, like CALFILE or
> something?

> $searchme = shift;
> #This just grabbed the search term from the command line. How do you
> get more than one term? must find out...

# Actually removes the elements from @ARGV
$a = shift;
$b = shift;
$c = shift;

# Does not remove, just copies them
( $a, $b, $c ) = @ARGV[0, 1, 2]

1) igpay atinlay
2) morse
3) that code one of the previous adventures came up with for the
spam-proof emails? (I think it was the one with the government
officials who extracted sysadmin or someone like that...)

------------- Start get_ip.sh ---------------
#!/bin/bash

IP=`host blah.dyndns.com`

# This reads in the OLD IP address he had
read OLD < OLD_IP.dat

# Get the current IP address
if [[ $IP =~ '(.*)has address (.*)' ]]
then
   if [ "$OLD" != "${BASH_REMATCH[2]}" ]# Didn't match so the IP changed
    then

# So We log the current date/time and the new IP to a file

      echo `date` ": Removing access for" $OLD "and giving access to" 
${BASH_REMATCH[2]} >> access_log.log

# Set the Static firewall rules

      Result=`/home/suramya/bin/S41firewall`

# Create a new rule to allow the current IP address access

      Result1=`iptables -A INPUT -s ${BASH_REMATCH[2]} -p tcp -m tcp 
--dport 22 -j ACCEPT`

# Drop all other connections to port 22

      `iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j DROP`

# Replace the old IP address with the new one

      echo ${BASH_REMATCH[2]} > OLD_IP.dat
    fi
fi

---------------- End get_ip.sh --------------

egrep '(.*)has address (.*)' <<< "$IP"

>   if [ "$OLD" != "${BASH_REMATCH[2]}" ]
>     # Didn't match so the IP changed 
>   then
>
>    # So We log the current date/time and the new IP to a file
>
>    echo `date` ": Removing access for" $OLD "and giving access to"
>    ${BASH_REMATCH[2]} >> access_log.log

> # Set the Static firewall rules
>
>       Result=`/home/suramya/bin/S41firewall`

> Hi Everyone,
>   Couldn't think of a better title than that, so if it didn't make sense 
> I blame the lack of caffeine.

> ------------- Start get_ip.sh ---------------
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> IP=`host blah.dyndns.com`
> 
> # This reads in the OLD IP address he had
> read OLD < OLD_IP.dat
> 
> # Get the current IP address
> if [[ $IP =~ '(.*)has address (.*)' ]]

ben@Fenrir:~$ host www.dyndns.com
www.dyndns.com          A       63.208.196.66

> then
>    if [ "$OLD" != "${BASH_REMATCH[2]}" ]# Didn't match so the IP changed
>     then
> 
> # So We log the current date/time and the new IP to a file
> 
>       echo `date` ": Removing access for" $OLD "and giving access to" 
> ${BASH_REMATCH[2]} >> access_log.log
> 
> # Set the Static firewall rules
> 
>       Result=`/home/suramya/bin/S41firewall`

> # Create a new rule to allow the current IP address access
> 
>       Result1=`iptables -A INPUT -s ${BASH_REMATCH[2]} -p tcp -m tcp 
> --dport 22 -j ACCEPT`

> # Drop all other connections to port 22
> 
>       `iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j DROP`

> # Replace the old IP address with the new one
> 
>       echo ${BASH_REMATCH[2]} > OLD_IP.dat
>     fi
> fi
> 
> ---------------- End get_ip.sh --------------

#!/bin/bash
# Created by Ben Okopnik on Fri Jun 23 11:14:59 EDT 2006

old=
new=`host www.dyndns.com|awk '{print $3}'`

[ "$old" != "$new" ] && {
	$HOME/bin/S41firewall
    /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s "$new" -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
    /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j DROP
	/bin/sed -i "s/^old=/&$new/" $0
}

grep -o "[[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*"
httpdaccess.log > ipaddresses.log

grep -o "[[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*"
httpdaccess.log | sort -u > ipaddresses.log | rzip ipaddresses.log

egrep -o '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' ./access.log

egrep -o '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}' ./access.log

 C - (now /24) 256 addresses (the first three octets fixed - 111.111.111.xxx)
 B - (now /16) ~65k addresses (the first two octets fixed - 111.111.xxx.xxx)
 A - (now /8) ~16.5m addresses (the first octet fixed - 111.xxx.xxx.xxx)

192.168.1.0/24 - 256 addresses - 24 significant bits with eight bits per
octave resulting in the first three octets fixed as with a class C subnet.

192.168.1.0/25 - 128 possible addresses
192.168.1.128/25 - 128 possible addresses

10.0.0.0/8
172.16.0.0/12
192.168.0.0/16

> One thing I did not do was to remove duplicate entries from the
> output. I should have run this from the shell instead.
>
> grep -o "[[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*"
> httpdaccess.log | sort -u > ipaddresses.log | rzip ipaddresses.log

egrep -o '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}' ./access.log | \
sort -u > ./ipaddresses.log && rzip ipaddresses.log

egrep -o '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}' ./access.log | \
sort -u  | rzip ipaddresses.log

> Here is the question: Q5 Using an httpd log (which will be provided
> on the subject forum) write a single command line using a pipeline
> of commands mentioned in The complete guide to Linux system
> administration: Chapter 5 to determine the top ten busiest dates (most
> objects accessed).

tail -n 500 ./access.log | \
egrep -o '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}' | \
sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr -t ' ' -k 1 

tail -n 500 ./access.log | awk  '$1 ~ [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+
{print $1}' \
| sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr -t ' ' -k 1

[15/Nov/2005:00:18:46 +0000]

tail -n 500 ./access.log | awk 'BEGIN {FS="["}; {print substr($2,0,11)};'

tail -n 500 ./access.log | \
awk 'BEGIN {FS="["} {a=split($2,array,":")};{for (i in array) $1 ~
/array[1]/; print $1, array[1]}'

> My lecturer has asked me to do the following with this file, But I
> cannot get this on one line:

> grep -o "[[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*[.][[:digit:]]*"
> httpdaccess.log > ipaddresses.log

egrep '\<([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\>'

> One thing I did not do was to remove duplicate entries from the
> output. I should have run this from the shell instead.

210.49.49.147 - - [18/Apr/2004:22:59:44 +1000] "GET /ASGAP/gif/forest2.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 1857
203.40.195.112 - - [18/Apr/2004:23:01:33 +1000] "GET /ASGAP/gif/bguide.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 288
134.115.68.21 - - [18/Apr/2004:23:03:42 +1000] "GET /ASGAP/gif/forest.gif HTTP/1.0" 304 -
150.214.167.133 - - [18/Apr/2004:23:04:54 +1000] "GET /AFVL/tagasaste.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 3266
203.40.195.112 - - [18/Apr/2004:23:06:03 +1000] "GET /ASGAP/jpg/styphels.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 5318

IP identd user [dy/mon/year:hh:mm:ss zone] "request" status size

> I figure that we're down to a few possibilities:
> 
> 1. The modem is flaky.
>
> 2. The satellite connection is flaky (my friend has the same system and 
> is NOT having these problems).

> 3. I'm having a software problem. Buffer overflows or something. Which 
> means that a reboot would fix it (sometimes it does).

> 4. I'm having a hardware problem with the on board ethernet. Don't know 
> if a soft reboot would effect this, but the power cycle today didn't.

> Maybe I should have a router in the chain? Not sure what that would
> prove. 

wlan0 	Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:98:49:85:6D
        inet addr:192.168.1.116 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
        UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
        RX packets:6042 errors:10 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:10
        TX packets:6281 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
        RX bytes:5052344 (4.8 MiB) TX bytes:955796 (933.3 KiB) 

bob$ ping xplornet.com
PING xplornet.com (207.179.143.226) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- xplornet.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 6000ms

/etc/init.d/networking restart

#!/bin/ksh
y=0
for w in 1
do
     for z in 1 2 3
     do
          for x in 1 2 3 4 5
          do
               y=$(( ${y} + 1 ))
               echo ${y}
          done
     done
done | grep "somedata" >> /Some/output/file
for x in 1 2 3
do
     echo ${y}
done

done | (grep "somedata" >> /Some/output/file)

> My question is: Is there a way to explicitly tell ksh which side of
> the pipe should get forked? In the above example, I want the right

> side of the pipe forked, but ksh defaults to forking the left side.
> I've Googled "+ksh +pipe +subprocess" (I like the old AltaVista
> Syntax), with no luck. The book UNIX in a Nutshell has been no help. I
> tried putting the right side in parens:
>
> done | (grep "somedata" >> /Some/output/file)

foobar=0
while read line; do
  foobar="$((foobar + 1))"
done < /etc/passwd

echo $foobar

...
          do
               y=$(( ${y} + 1 ))
               echo ${y}
          done
     done
	  for x in 1 2 3
	  do
	       echo ${y} >&2
	  done
done | grep '[0-9]' >> output_file

...
          do
               y=$(( ${y} + 1 ))
               echo ${y}
			   out=`echo "$out $y"`
          done
     done
done | grep '[0-9]' >> output_file

echo $out

$ y=$(($y + 1))
$ echo $y
$ y=$(($y + 1)) | cat
$ echo $y

$ t=7
$ echo $t
$ t=6 | cat
$ echo $t

foobar=0
exec 4<&0 # Best to duplicate STDIN, else it's permenant.
exec 0< /etc/group
while read a; do
  ....
done

exec 0<&4 # Restore STDIN.
exec 4<&- # Close FD 4.

     (echo "#!/bin/ksh"
      echo "y=${y}") > /a/temp/file
done | grep "somedata" >> /Some/output/file
. /a/temp/file
rm /a/temp/file
for x in 1 2 3

bilbrey@vimes:~$ apt-cache search excel | grep excel
w3m - WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
libdbd-excel-perl - provides an SQL interface (via DBI) for accessing Excel files
libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl - access information from Excel Spreadsheets
libspreadsheet-parseexcel-simple-perl - A simple interface to Excel data
libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl - create Excel spreadsheets
plopfolio.app - Clone of Serence's excellent KlipFolio for GNUstep
w3mmee - WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames, MB extension

id:2:initdefault:

T4:respawn:/bin/su - some_user -c startx

#!/bin/sh
java /path/to/my_java_application
exec fvwm

chmod 700 ~/.xinitrc

AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=your-user

su - my_user -c java /path/to/java_application &

crl             = $dir/ca-crl.pem

nsCaRevocationUrl               = https://cert.yourdomain.net/ca-crl.pem

void init(void)
{
        if (buffer_left != NULL) {
                buffer_left = g_malloc0(sizeof(gfloat) * BUFFER_LENGTH);
        }
        if (buffer_right != NULL) {
                buffer_right = g_malloc0(sizeof(gfloat) *
                BUFFER_LENGTH);
        }
}

mkdir -p /package
chmod 1755 /package
cd /package
wget http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
tar zxpf daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
cd admin/daemontools-0.76

cd ~
wget http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz
tar zxpf ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz
cd ucspi-tcp-0.88

cd ~
wget http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/djbdns-1.05.tar.gz
tar zxpf djbdns-1.05.tar.gz
cd djbdns-1.05
echo gcc -O2 -include /usr/include/errno.h > conf-cc
make

groupadd dnscache
groupadd dnslog
useradd -g dnscache dnscache
useradd -g dnslog dnslog

dnscache-conf dnscache dnslog /etc/dnscache

echo 192.168.0.1 > /etc/dnscache/env/IP

touch /etc/dnscache/root/ip/192.168.0

groupadd tinydns
useradd -g tinydns tinydns
tinydns-conf tinydns dnslog /etc/tinydns 35.45.55.65

+example.com:35.45.55.65:86400

Cwww.example.com:example.com.:60

@example.com::mail.example.com.:10:86400

&example.com::ns0.example.com.:86400

Zexample.com:ns0.example.com.:hostmaster.example.com.:2005090312:7200:7200:2419200:604800

Zexample.com:ns0.example.com.:hostmaster.example.com.:2005090312:7200:7200:2419200:604800
&example.com::ns0.example.com.:86400
@example.com::mail.example.com.:10:86400
Cwww.example.com:example.com.:60
+example.com:35.45.55.65:86400
+mail.example.com:35.45.55.65:86400
+ns0.example.com:35.45.55.65:86400

ln -s /etc/tinydns /service
ln -s /etc/dnscache /service

root      2241  0.0  0.0  1276   256 ?        S    Jul27   0:00 supervise dnscache
root      2250  0.0  0.0  1276   256 ?        S    Jul27   0:00 supervise tinydns
dnscache  2252  0.0  0.1  2860  1588 ?        S    Jul27   7:02 /usr/local/bin/dnscache
dnslog    2254  0.0  0.1  1416   328 ?        S    Jul27   0:42 multilog t ./main
tinydns   2265  0.0  0.0  1532   320 ?        S    Jul27   0:31 /usr/local/bin/tinydns
dnslog    2272  0.0  0.0  1416   328 ?        S    Jul27   0:10 multilog t ./main

SV:123456:respawn:/services/svscanboot

kill -HUP 1

tail -F current

@4000000044e38ce704a37e0c starting tinydns

@4000000044e38d0f165dc2ec starting

nslookup – 192.168.0.1
set q=mx
yahoo.com

yahoo.com mail exchanger = 1 mx2.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com mail exchanger = 1 mx3.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com mail exchanger = 5 mx4.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com mail exchanger = 1 mx1.mail.yahoo.com.

nslookup – 35.45.55.65
set q=mx
example.com

tinydns-conf tinydns dnslog /etc/tinyforge
cd /etc/tinyforge/root
echo '.:' > data

make
echo '127.0.0.7' > /etc/tinyforge/env/IP

ifconfig lo:1 127.0.0.7

ln -s /etc/tinyforge /service

 >>> from powershell import *
>>> shell.get_service(name="*")
[  ... prints a list of running services (daemons) ...]
 >>> My.Computer.Audio.Play("tada.wav")
 >>> rule = Literal("The") + "quick" + "brown"
>>> rule += Word("P", "hnoty")
>>> rule.parseString("The quick brown Python")
["The", "quick", "brown", "Python", {}]
slocate schema | grep schema$

local4.*                /var/log/slapd.log

Anyname | contains | MyAnyname
Display Name | contains | MyDisplayName
etc.

Jun  9 11:08:12 ahostname slapd[13144]: conn=349441 op=1 SRCH
base="ou=my,dc=base,dc=dn"
scope=2 deref=0
filter="(|(cn=*myanyname*)
          (givenName=*myanyname*)
          (sn=*myanyname*)
          (?=undefined)
          (?=undefined)
          (cn=*mydisplayname*)
          (?=undefined)
          (?=undefined)
          (mail=*myemail*)
          (?=undefined)
          (homePhone=*MyAnyNumber*)
          (telephoneNumber=*MyAnyNumber*)
          (?=undefined)
          (pager=*MyAnyNumber*)
          (mobile=*MyAnyNumber*)
          (telephoneNumber=*MyWorkPhone*)
          (homePhone=*MyHomePhone*)
          (?=undefined)
          (pager=*MyPager*)
          (mobile=*MyMobile*)
          (l=*mycity*)
          (street=*mystreet*)
          (title=*mytitle*)
          (?=undefined)
          (?=undefined))
"Jun  9 11:08:12 ahostname slapd[13144]: conn=349441 op=1
SRCH attr=company o title modifytimestamp mozillaCustom4 custom4
mozillaHomeUrl homeurl mozillaCustom2 custom2 mozillaHomeCountryName
department departmentnumber ou orgunit mobile cellphone carphone
mozillaHomeState mozillaCustom1 custom1mozillaNickname xmozillanickname
mozillaWorkUrl workurl fax facsimiletelephonenumber st region
telephoneNumber mozillaHomeStreet mozillaSecondEmail xmozillasecondemail
nsAIMid nscpaimscreenname street streetaddress postOfficeBox l locality
homePhone description notes cn commonname givenName
mozillaHomePostalCode mozillaHomeLocalityName mozillaCustom3 custom3
mozillaWorkStreet2 mozillaUseHtmlMail xmozillausehtmlmail
mozillaHomeStreet2 postalCode zip c countryname pager pagerphone mail sn
surname birthyear

Name contains MyName
E-mail contains MyEmail
First Name contains MyFirst
Last Name contains MyLast
Organization contains MyOrg

Common Attributes           | Outlook Express   | Thunderbird
========================================================================
c                           |                   |
cn, commonName              | Name              |
department                  |                   |
facsimileTelephoneNumber    |                   |
givenName                   | First Name        | Any Name
homePhone                   |                   | Any Number, Home Phone
l                           |                   | City
mail                        | E-mail            | Email
mobile                      |                   | Any Number, Mobile
o                           | Organization      |
ou                          |                   |
pager                       |                   | Any Number, Pager
postalCode                  |                   |
sn, surname                 | Last Name         | Any Name
st, street                  |                   | Street
streetAddress               |                   |
telephoneNumber             |                   | Any Number, Work Phone
title                       |                   | Title

kill -SIGHUP
include         /etc/ldap/schema/yellowbank.sample.schema

index objectClass           pres,eq
index cn,sn,uid,memberUid   pres,eq,approx,sub
index givenName,mail        pres,eq,approx,sub

# OID Macros
#
# Yellowbank's IANA Assigned OID
objectIdentifier  yOID                        1.3.6.1.4.1.25948
#
objectIdentifier  yNonUnique                  yOID:1
objectIdentifier  yPedagogy                   yOID:2
objectIdentifier  yProduction                 yOID:3
#
# Note that OID's are used for more than just LDAP.
objectIdentifier  ypSNMP                      yPedagogy:1
objectIdentifier  ypLDAP                      yPedagogy:2
#
objectIdentifier  ypAttributeType             ypLDAP:1
objectIdentifier  ypObjectClass               ypLDAP:2
#
objectIdentifier  ypPersonAttribute           ypAttributeType:1
objectIdentifier  ypAssetAttribute            ypAttributeType:2
objectIdentifier  ypApplicationAttribute      ypAttributeType:3
objectIdentifier  ypFacilityAttribute         ypAttributeType:4
objectIdentifier  ypOrganizationAttribute     ypAttributeType:5
#
objectIdentifier  ypSakaiAttribute            ypApplicationAttribute:1
#
objectIdentifier  ypPersonObject              ypObjectClass:1

attributetype ( ypOrganizationAttribute:1.2006.08.20.1
  NAME 'department'
  DESC 'Department Name'
  EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
  SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
  ORDERING caseIgnoreOrderingMatch
  SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15{128}
  SINGLE-VALUE )

objectclass ( ypPersonObject:1.2006.08.20.1
  NAME 'ypContact'
  DESC 'Yellowbank Contact'
  SUP top
  STRUCTURAL
  MUST ( cn $ sn $ mail )
  MAY ( c $ department $ facsimileTelephoneNumber $ givenName $
        homePhone $ l $ mobile $ o $ ou $ pager $ postalCode $
        st $ streetAddress $ telephoneNumber $ title $ description ) )

objectclass ( ypPersonObject:2.2006.08.20.1
  NAME 'ypLoginAccount'
  DESC 'Yellowbank Contact'
  SUP ypContact
  STRUCTURAL
  MAY ( userPassword $ memberUid ) )

top <- ypContact <- ypLoginAccount

objectclass ( 1.1.2.2.1
  NAME 'myPhotoObject'
  DESC 'mixin myPhoto'
  AUXILIARY
  MAY myPhoto )

dn: blah blah
objectClass: top
objectClass: ypLoginAccount
objectClass: myPhotoObject
cn: aname
sn: lname
...

dn: blah blah
objectClass: top
objectClass: ypLoginAccount
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
cn: aname
sn: lname
...

dn: cn=wile,ou=someplace,ou=meaningful,dc=to,dc=you
cn: wile
userPassword: {SHA}Wfi6Kd1nmjpbtmzcFqCnvEqIPzs=
givenName: Wile
mail: wile.coyote@acme.com
l: Los Lobos Hermanos
o: ACME
sn: Coyote
description: Malnourished but dogged
memberUid: coyote
memberUid: mammal
memberUid: emaciated
objectClass: top
objectClass: ypLoginAccount

ben@Fenrir:~# head -60 /usr/share/dict/words > /dev/lp0

ben@Fenrir:~$ ls -l /dev/lp0 
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 2004-04-28 23:43 /dev/lp0

ben@Fenrir:~# modinfo lp

ben@Fenrir:~$ dmesg|egrep -1 'parport|lp'
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
mtrr: 0xa8000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xa8000000,0x4000000

	lpr article.pdf

> (The two remove off to L. User's office and look at the monitor on
> L. User's desktop, where a terminal window is displaying the command:
>     lpr article.pdf

ben@Fenrir:~$ apt-cache show magicfilter|perl -wne'print if /^ /'
 Magicfilter is a customizable, extensible automatic printer filter.
 It uses its own magic database (a la file(1)) to decide how to print
 out a given print job.

$ apt-cache search cups

$ sudo apt-get install cupsys-client

$ lpstat -h <server_ip>
$ echo ServerName <server_ip> >> $HOME/.cupsrc
$ lpstat
$ lp file_name

sudo /etc/init.d/hotplug restart

(in XP) 
-> new printer
   -> network printer
      -> connect to printer on internet and enter:       
         http://CUPSHOST:631/printers/PRINTERNAME

> At this point, the basic printer test (i.e., dumping text to the device)
> should be working fine. Install your choice of queue manager (e.g.,
> 'CUPS', 'lpr', 'lprng', etc.) and the appropriate
> filters/drivers/definition files for your printer (Gnome-Print,
> 'hp-ppd', 'linuxprinting.org-ppds', etc.) You're ready to go!

find / -xdev -iname \*xk35\*

root@2[~]# gunzip /usr/share/ppd/linuxprinting.org-gs-builtin/Xerox/Xerox-WorkCentre_XK35c-lex5700.ppd.gz
root@2[~]# cp /usr/share/ppd/linuxprinting.org-gs-builtin/Xerox/Xerox-WorkCentre_XK35c-lex5700.ppd /usr/share/cups/model/
root@2[~]# /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.

Welcome to Gutenprint 5.0.0-rc3!  Please read these release notes
carefully.

[...]

3) Many Epson printers (specifically, the Epson Stylus Color 740 and
      all newer printers) will not respond to ASCII text without a
      special "activation" sequence (specifically, this command takes
      the printers out of "packet mode").  A brand new printer, or one
      that has been connected to a Wind0ws system, may or may not work
      in packet mode.  Therefore, the common suggestion to test a
      printer port by sending plain text to it may not work for these
      printers; failure to print in this fashion is not a positive
      indication that the printer or the connection is malfunctioning.
      These printers are, however, able to print plain text *after* the
      activation sequence is sent.

      A suggestion would be to first verify that the printer is capable
      of returning ink levels.  This may be done via

      escputil -i -r /dev/lp0

      (or whatever device your printer is connected to in place of
      /dev/lp0).  If this returns status, it demonstrates that the link
      between your computer and printer is working.

[NUL][NUL][NUL][ESC][SOH]@EJL[SP][SP][SP][SP][SP][NL][ESC]@

:r! grep 23 /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Port 23

----- Forwarded message from Abraham Thomas <thomas@> -----

Guest poem submitted by William Grey, <wgrey@>:

"Windows is Shutting Down"

Windows is shutting down, and grammar are 
On their last leg. So what am we to do?
A letter of complaint go just so far,
Proving the only one in step are you.

Better, perhaps, to simply let it goes.
A sentence have to be screwed pretty bad 
Before they gets to where you doesnt knows 
The meaning what it must of meant to had.

The meteor have hit. Extinction spread,
But evolution do not stop for that.
A mutant languages rise from the dead
And all them rules is suddenly old hat.

Too bad for we, us what has had so long
The best seat from the only game in town.
But there it am, and whom can say its wrong?
Those are the break. Windows is shutting down.

       -- Clive James

----- End forwarded message -----

September 2006 (#130):

Mailbag

Mailbag

Desktop Icon Text Color under KDE

Linux VMware and Novell

Passwords

FVWM Init

Need help on ...errr.... developing?

An article series I wonder what happened to...

Need some help to check a script for unexpected security issues

Need help with grep

Eth0 debugging Bob van der Poel

Old pipe problem - new twist.

Excel and Serial Port

Running applications at startup

Talkback

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News Bytes

Contents:

News in General

Virtual Headaches

Where was Red Hat? [a no-show at LinuxWorld]

LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006 Debuts Two New Developer Sub-Conferences

AJAX Bringing Web 2.0 to Web Services - Survey Results

IDC Predicts Open Source Software Will Grow Fastest in Government Sector

Linux fastest-growing Operating System in the industry according to Gartner, IDC

AMD, Intel continue chip war, price cuts

CollabNet and O'Reilly Team to Deliver Global Software Developer Networks

Lenovo and Novell Unveil Linux-based ThinkPad Mobile Workstation

Apple adds more Open Source to its Sauce

-- Intel Kernel Sources

-- Mac OS Forge for Community Projects

-- New Open Source Calendaring Server can replace Exchange

-- Apache-Licensed Bonjour and Launchd sources

Conferences and Events

Distro news

Linspire Releases Freespire 1.0 Desktop Linux OS

NetBSD 3.0.1

SLAX Standard Edition v 5.1.7b

Fedora Core 6 Test 2 / EOL FC 1, 2

SimplyMEPIS 6.0 Released

Security News

Debian.Org Server restored after Security Compromise

Software and Product News

Komodo 4.0 Previews at OSCON 2006

nworks Plug-in for VMware ESX Server Integrates With HP OpenView

MindTouch Simplifies SOA Development for the Mono Community

New Class of Semiconductor Devices; Multi-Core Processing Solutions

UModel R2 provides affordable Modeling

Magical Realism... (non-Linux news of general interest)

Spiceworks Launches Free IT Management Software

Neural Sensing Technology Highlighted in Nature

EclipseCon Conference 2006: The Way of Eclipse

ALF -- Integration the Open Source Way

Corona Project - a Tool Services Framework

Rich Client Platform - RCP

Session Summaries

State of Eclipse

Comparing Eclipse to Visual Studio

Why You Should Use Eclipse RCP (in 10 minutes)

Testing Applications Using the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP)

What's New in UML2

Eclipse User Assistance: Lessons from the trenches

AJAX and Eclipse

PHP IDE

Comparing Conferences

DNS techniques

Introduction

Getting Required Parts

daemontools

ucspi-tcp

djbdns

Installing Daemontools

Installing ucspi-tcp

djbdns

Configuring the DNS Cache

Configuring the DNS Server

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