How to install Google Desktop And Gadgets in Ubuntu

How to install google Desktop and Gadgets in Ubuntu 9.10
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Now the Google applications coming to the Linux Desktop.Follow up the steps to configure that in your system.

Set the Repository
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Add the following line in /etc/apt/source.list or through graphical system-->administration--> software sources and manually add the line

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb stable non-free

Add Google signing key. you can do the same in graphically also.

wget -c https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

If you are getting any error while making signing key refer the following doc.

Verify this URL to Add google signing key through Graphically.

http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ubuntu704.html

Installing Google desktop
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$sudo aptitude update

$sudo aptitude install google-desktop-linux picasa

You can use your grphical package installer to install the other google applications.
Applications-->Ubuntu software center.
Search google then install whatever you want in google applications.


How to install Google Gadgets in Ubuntu 9.10
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Search the Google Applications in Repository.search your repo for Google Gadgets

$ apt-cache search google-gadgets
google-gadgets-common - Common files for QT and GTK+ versions of google-gadgets
google-gadgets-gst - GStreamer Module for Google Gadgets
google-gadgets-gtk - GTK+ Version of Google Gadgets
google-gadgets-qt - QT4 version of Google Gadgets
google-gadgets-xul - XULRunner module for Google Gadgets


$ sudo apt-get install google-gadgets*


Now you Have installed google desktop and gadgets in your ubuntu 9.10.

Thats All.

How to configure linux machine as Router

Hi,
I have given very simple steps to configure Linux Machine as router. Here we aregoing to use NAT option in firewall to make that.

1.Two lan cards.
eth0 - Connected with internet ( Public )
eth1 - Local Area Network ( Private )

2. Enable ipv4 packet forwarding ( run as a administrator or user with sudo power )

#echo "1" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
or
edit /etc/sysctl.conf and change 0 to 1 in net.ipv4.ip_forward
After that ran sysctl -p command to save that
#sysctl -p

3.Enable Iptables to handle NAT.

$/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

4.Save the Iptables rule
$/sbin/service iptables save

5.Check the iptable rule
$/sbin/iptables -t nat --list

Thats all.

How to install Denyhosts in linux

How to install Denyhosts in linux
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1.Download denyhosts from http://sourceforge.net/projects/denyhosts/files/

2.Pre-requisite
*Python 2.4 or Above

3.Check the SSH tcp_wrappers
*Login as a root user and edit the follwing file
*vim /ets/hosts.deny
*add the following line
*sshd: 127.0.0.1
*Save the file
*Attempt to connect to the local sshd server
*$ssh localhost
*You should see the follwing ssh error message:
*ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
*If the above error message was displayed , Then sshd has been compiled with tcp_wrappers
*If your clients to the sshe server, then your sshd has not been compiled with tcp_wrappers
*edit the file /etc/hosts.deny
*Remove the line that you added earlier (eg. sshd: 127.0.0.1 )
*Save the file

4. Extract the Denyhosts tar file
*tar -xvf DenyHosts-2.6.tar.gz
*mv DenyHosts-2.6 /usr/local/src/Denyhosts
*cd /usr/local/src/Denyhosts
*python setup.py install

5.Copy the sample cfg file
*cp /usr/share/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg-dist /usr/share/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg

6.Make denyhost as a daemon
*cp /usr/share/denyhosts/daemon-control-dist /etc/init.d/denyhosts
*cp /etc/init.d/denyhosts /etc/rc3.d/S99denyhosts
*cp /etc/init.d/denyhosts /etc/rc5.d/S99denyhosts
*/etc/init.d/denyhosts start

7.Configure denyhosts.cfg as you want
*vim /usr/share/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg

How To Setup PXE Boot in Linux

How to Setup PXE boot in linux

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This document how to set up pxe boot in linux. This assumes that you are using RHEL 5.2 or Centos5.2

0) Following packages need to be installed for PXE

*tftp-server

*dhcpd

*syslinux

*nfs

#yum install tftp-server dhcp syslinux

1) Before configuring PXE you should configure your locat mini network through dhcp ( Lot of doc available to configure dhcp )

2) Activate tftp in xinetd. changed disable=yes to disable=no in /etc/xinetd.d/tftp file. Then restart xinetd daemon.

3) Now we need to setup the pxe environment. You should have linux in cd format.On the first CD or in DVD you can find a folder 'isolinux'.In that dir you will find two files vmlinuz and initrd.img. These are the kernel & initrd.img that the RH/FC bootable CDs use to get the installer (anaconda) booted for performing the installation . Copy both of those files into /tftpboot and make sure that they are world readable .

Next, you need the actual pxe boot linux kernel (what is actually run immediately after your PXE boot client box gets a DHCP lease). In this case, that file is pxelinux.0, and is part of the syslinux RPM. you can find it at "/usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0" . Copy that file into /tftpboot and make sure that it is world readable.

4) Next we need to configure pxelinux. First create the directory /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg (and make it world readable). Inside that directory you need to create a number of zero size files (use touch):

Ex: My IP is 11.1.0.0/16

So i have converted my ip to hexadecimal . Follow this links to convert that

http://www.kloth.net/services/iplocate.php

Then create files using touch

0B0200

0B020

0B02

0B0

0B

0

01-04-4B-80-80-80-03

First 8 Digit hexadecimal . You can use first 6 digit and make the empty file.

The last entry is the MAC address of your PXE boot client's NIC (with dashes substituted for the colons), with '01' pre-pended. The "01" at the front represents a hardware type of Ethernet, so pxelinux.0 see's the configuration string as an IP address.

5) Now create the default pxelinux configuration inside the new file

#vim /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

prompt 1

default linux

timeout 100

label linux

kernel vmlinuz

append initrd=initrd.img noapic acpi=off ks=nfs:11.1.0.5:/u1/Centos/ks.cfg

(Lot of doc available to create ks.cfg in linux)

9) Sample ks.cfg file

#vim /u1/Centos/ks.cfg

# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

install

nfs --server=11.1.0.5 --dir=/u1/Centos

lang en_US.UTF-8

keyboard us

text

network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp

rootpw --iscrypted $1$nqP5r3zm$82An6lClteT0q4n4Jb3BR.

firewall --disabled

authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5

selinux --disabled

timezone --utc Asia/Calcutta

bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda

# The following is the partition information you requested

# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed

# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is

# not guaranteed to work

clearpart --all --drives=sda

part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda

part pv.6 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda

volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.6

logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=256 --grow --maxsize=512

logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow

reboot

%packages

@development-libs

@editors

@text-internet

@dialup

@core

@base

@web-server

@admin-tools

@development-tools

kexec-tools

device-mapper-multipath

imake

-sysreport

6) Now you need to put the full contents of your Linux distro (all CDs) somewhere on disk. I put it under /u1/Centos/i386 folder.

7)Then we have to configure NFS

8) Lets see PXE by NFS

activate NFS in your system

#cat /etc/exports

9) Now you can add the mac address of the machine which you are going to install pxe installation like below

10) Need to make some changes in dhcpd file

Add two lines for Boot from lan in dhcpd.conf file

allow bootp;

allow booting;

10) See the sample dhcpd.conf file

[root@node1 ~]# cat /etc/dhcpd.conf

ddns-update-style interim;

ignore client-updates;

allow bootp;

allow booting;

subnet 11.1.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {

# --- default gateway

option routers 11.1.0.5;

option subnet-mask 255.255.0.0;

option nis-domain "karthik.sk";

option domain-name "domain.org";

option domain-name-servers 11.1.0.5, 11.1.0.2;

option time-offset -18000; # Eastern Standard Time

# option ntp-servers 192.168.1.1;

# option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.1;

# --- Selects point-to-point node (default is hybrid). Don't change this unless

# -- you understand Netbios very well

# option netbios-node-type 2;

range dynamic-bootp 11.1.1.10 11.1.1.200;

default-lease-time 21600;

max-lease-time 43200;

# we want the nameserver to appear at a fixed address

host ns {

next-server marvin.redhat.com;

hardware ethernet 12:34:56:78:AB:CD;

fixed-address 207.175.42.254;

}

}

# Group the PXE bootable hosts together

group {

# PXE-specific configuration directives...

next-server 11.1.0.5;

# You need an entry like this for every host

# unless you're using dynamic addresses

host monitoring.karthik.sk {

hardware ethernet 00:0c:29:ab:40:6a;

#fixed-address 11.1.0.6;

filename "pxelinux.0";

}

}