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I'm not sure if I set this up properly. I want to start Eclipse CDT on my Ubuntu 8.04 install using X11 through VNC. When I try to run eclipse through vnc viewer command line using ./eclipse it hangs for a few seconds then fails. No error message is output …

I have a question similar to this, [url]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/457050/how-to-display-text-in-system-tray-icon-with-win32-api[/url] I tried his solution but it's not working for me. I get a small 4x16 white image as the system icon instead of text and I can't understand why. I'm not using MFC/.NET just win32 api. [CODE] void UpdateIcon(HWND hWnd){ NOTIFYICONDATA nid; …

1) I was following a guide to setup bind again after I formatted to Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS. [url]http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/dns-configuration.html#dns-primarymaster-configuration[/url] I can get my domain example.com to resolve but I want "www.example.com" to resolve to the actual domain on the web. I don't have a webserver setup on my domain at the …

I recently installed vsftpd and can't see any files I put in the nopriv_user folder. I want to be able to login anonymously without a password, see files to download and upload files to a pub folder. After installing and configuring vsftpd I created the ftp_priv user by doing "sudo …

Does enabling all the sysctl.conf settings impact the performance(speed) of my network connection? #ubuntu. I had enabled few to prevent some spoofing and MIM attack even though I experience none. Any suggestion regarding this? [CODE] # # /etc/sysctl.conf - Configuration file for setting system variables # See /etc/sysctl.d/ for additional …

I want to start some C++ development on my 3 year old, un-updated 8.04 ubuntu desktop machine. I tried, sudo apt-get install build-essential and got, [CODE] sudo apt-get install build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean …

I've been trying to match some incoming strings from a mud(text based rpg) and I'm having some trouble. I need a regex that will match the <mob> tag in these strings. You can have a separate regex per sentence to match the surrounding text. You would stomp <mob> into the …

When I share a new folder on my XP box it isn't picked up by samba after a while. If I immediately connect to the network and share a folder samba picks it up. After about 10 minutes if I share another folder samba won't pick it up. I notice …

I was monitoring some ftp browsing and noticed that for each directory I clicked a new pasv command was sent to the ftp server. This meant that a new tcp connection was created on a new port every time I requested a directory. To ensure smooth browsing I have to …

I'm trying to run multiple instances of squid and I've followed the available directions. The second instance of squid throws an error when it tries to open it's access log file. [CODE] Jan 1 10:32:12 desktop squid[15527]: Squid Parent: child process 15529 started Jan 1 10:32:12 desktop (squid): Cannot open …

There is a squid process listening on a random port with protocol udp each time I start squid and I'm not sure what it does. I do a "ps -ef | grep squid" and get [CODE] root 22110 1 0 18:24 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/squid3 -D -sYC proxy 22113 22110 0 …

My iptables script is getting bloated, redundant, and there's code duplication everywhere, how can I clean it up? Use shell script functions? Develop it in a different language, like python?

I'm running fully update Ubuntu 8.04 (as of today). I did a "users" out of the blue and saw "root shwick shwick" and I only had two ssh sessions open to my gateway. I checked if there was an additional ssh client running, as that is the only thing that …

I'm running ubuntu 8.04 with vnc4server. I'm trying to get my vnc server to listen on a specific interface. I don't want it listening on localhost, I want it listening on a virtual tun interface I setup, tun0, ip 10.6.7.0. I tried adding the "-interface" option to the vnc4server script …

I'm going with connection level authentication, so as soon as the ssl connection is established the user is authenticated. As a result I want to disable csrs(certificate signing requests) from the client. Otherwise any client could just submit a csr and be able to connect. How do I disable certificate …

I have openvpn 2.1_rc7 running on ubuntu 8.04. I set up a user that has all traffic and dns pushed through the vpn. On windows the vpn client works just fine, all traffic and dns requests are pushed through the vpn. When I boot the windows pc with a live …

I created a new user, l4d1, then logged into it with "su l4d1". What is with the new shell? It's just a question mark "?", no command completion or command history. The l4d1 user doesn't have a password and can only be logged into with "su l4d1".

I'm having many little problems with my gigabit network. My hard drive reads at 85 MB/s, so why am I downloading from the ftp server at 68 MB/s? How could I diagnose what is eating those 17 MB/s? Why does my windows machine have a slow 326 Mbit/s transmit speed …

Ubuntu 8.04 + OpenVpn 2.1_rc7 I noticed in my syslog when I start OpenVpn that it still recognizes my original "test" users, client1 and sysadmin1. I created/signed certificates for those users, but I deleted the certificates for them. Why are they still being allotted ips from the pool? Can I …

I'm running ubuntu 8.04 and x11vnc 0.9.3. I'm having trouble getting it running. When I run "x11vnc" with no arguments, it tries to open :0 but fails: [CODE] 08/12/2008 20:51:56 *** XOpenDisplay failed (:0) *** x11vnc was unable to open the X DISPLAY: ":0", it cannot continue. [/CODE] When I …

I'm going through the openvpn howto, section "Configuring client-specific rules and access policies", [url]http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html#policy[/url]. I understand how the network is segregated, different subnets for employees, sys admins and contractors. I don't understand how openvpn identifies a user as either an employee, sys admin or contractor. Is that what the next …

I'm on a network with one gateway and one windows pc on the lan. I wanted to test OpenVPN so I VPNed to the gateway, using default server.conf. This works fine. Then I configured server.conf to push the LAN subnet to the client. After vpning in a second time I …

I have a home network set up with ubuntu 8.04 as the gateway pc and a windows pc on the lan. When I try to upload a file to ubuntu I get slow speeds. smbget from linux: 200kb/s sftp put from windows: 100kb/s pscp put from windows: 35 kb/s ftp …

I have an install script that sets some environment variables. To run the script I have to use the source command. The script has to be run as sudo because the environment variables need to be set for the root account. The problem is you can't execute "sudo source installScript". …

I'm running ubuntu 8.04 and openVPN 2.1_rc7. I'm stuck on running the vars script in the openVPN setup, [url]http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html#pki[/url]. I've run the vars script a number of ways, but it never creates the keys directory. I've tried, sudo sh vars sudo sh ./vars source vars source ./vars sudo /bin/bash ./vars …

Running ubuntu 8.04 and Samba version 3.0.28a. I'm trying to restrict the number of directories users can share with the "usershare max shares" option. I set it to 3 but I can still share directories with 10 files in them from my windows machine (XP). Here is smb.conf. [CODE] [global] …

Running ubuntu 8.04. Recently I was making some iptables rules to allow samba services. As a proof of concept: [CODE] iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m udp --dport 137 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i …

Running ubuntu 8.04. I'm using the recent module in two different chains SSH_PROTECT and FTP_PROTECT. What I want is for an ip to be allowed to make a new connection to SSH port 22 once every 60 seconds and FTP port 21 once every 30 seconds. [CODE]iptables -N SSH_PROTECT iptables …

I'm trying to set up a secure ftp transfer between my linux machine and my internet gateway running ubuntu 8.04. I have vsftpd installed but I can't get PASV connection to work with putty. My ubuntu firewall blocks everything except ssh. From my windows XP machine I establish a connection …

Running ubuntu 8.04 I wanted to separate the cron logs from the auth logs, so in /etc/syslog.conf I uncommented the line "cron.* /var/log/cron.log". I also wanted to cleanse the auth logs, so I deleted all of them. I then restarted and tried to login via ssh, but there were no …