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Problem: one have a printer shared for networks printing and connected to a windows machine. From the other side, there is Linux-powered machine with CUPS installed and we want to print on windows shared printer.

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Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software by Adobe Systems. These applications use Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) as their native file format.Adobe Reader (formerly called Acrobat Reader) is available as a no-charge download from Adobe’s web site, and allows the viewing and printing of PDF files.

Adobe Reader Requirements for Linux

• 32-bit Intel Pentium processor or equivalent
• Red Hat Linux WS 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 and Ubuntu 6.10,Debian 3.1 and Above.
• GNOME or KDE desktop environment
• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• Up to 125 MB of available hard-disk space
• GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 or higher
• Firefox 1.5 or higher; Mozilla 1.73 or higher

Adobe Reader Features

• Support for playing Multimedia-enabled PDF documents for supported media types (linux). Play Flash, Real media and more!
• Support for participating in Shared Reviews along with other users of Adobe Reader 8.x on Unix, and Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8.x on Win/Mac. Collaborate right inside the Reader.
• Improvements in Commenting and Drawing Markup tools.
• New tools such as Loupe Tool, Pan and Zoom. Expand your horizons, and control what you want to see.
• Support for dynamically rendered bar code generation in forms.
• Updated Review Tracker with inbuilt support for RSS feeds. Use the Reader as your RSS feed reader!
• New 2D and 3D measuring tools for more accurate control of architectural drawings.
• Printing: New support for Booklet Printing and Low Resolution printing of secured documents.
• Significant performance improvement for certain types of forms via direct rendering for Dynamic Forms.
• Support for documents created with Adobe Acrobat 3D including navigation, cross-section and rendering.
• Accessibility: Support for Orca.
• Various new additions to the Manage Digital ID feature, including support for Roaming Credentials, support for Cryptographic Tokens and Smart Cards (PKCS#11 compliant).
• Support for adding a Digital Signature Field in documents which have been “Reader Enabled” through Acrobat Professional on Win/Mac.
• Support for viewing PDF Packages - get an organized view of your PDFs in a single well-defined interface.
• Support for the PRC format for 3D data.
• Beyond Reader: New help resources that contains up-to-date information on Adobe products, Adobe Reader and how it can be used with Adobe’s other products.
• Adobe Help Viewer - a self-contained, one-stop shop for all help related to the Reader
• Improved Search capabilities, including searching of sub-documents in a PDF Package, improved searching of attachments, etc.

Install Adobe Reader 8.1.1 on Debian

First you need to download Adobe Reader 8.1.1 from here or here

Now you have AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i386.deb package you need to install this .deb package using the following command

#dpkg -i AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i386.deb

This will install adobe reader 8.1.1.

If you want to open this application you need to go to Applications—>Office—>Adobe Reader 8

First time when you open you should see the following screen here you need to click on accept

Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen

Adobe reader version details

Enjoy your new Adobe Reader

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ssh (SSH client) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands on a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.

We all know, by default installation of openssh daemon service (sshd), it binds itself to all existing IP address from given host.

Alternatively, if you wish to bind sshd service to selected IP address, this is possible by simply editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.

First, always make a backup copy of conf files you wish to edit.

# cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.backup

Launch your fave text editor and edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

#vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Go to specific lines that shows

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ListenAddress *
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If you wish to bind ssh to existing 2 IP address, let’s say 192.168.1.5 and 192.168.1.7 , this could be done by changing the above sshd_config lines to

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ListenAddress 192.168.1.5
ListenAddress 192.168.1.7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

and Restart sshd daemon using the following command

# service sshd restart

One applicable instance that his can be useful is that when you have a group of ssh users and there are times you need to disconnect all those currently logged in ssh users except your own remote ssh connections. This can be simply done by shutting down the other interface from where those ssh users are currently connected. And ofcourse, you need to be currently connected with the other interface before shutting down the other interface or IP address.

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If you’ve just bought a new desktop,laptop or server and the box says the box is powered by 2 processors, you can actually verify that.

Here’s how to display the number of processor of your linux box.

Simply issue the following command as root

# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor

Everything in linux is files. This command simply retrieves the number of processors that linux detected from /proc/cpuinfo and displays it. Usually, the processor number comes at the first set of line from issuing the command.

Here’s what the command returned for me:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
processor : 0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

which means You have 1 processor with a processor ID number 0. Processor counting starts with 0.
So if you have a PC with core duo, you will probably have 2 lines that says 0 and 1.That is 2 processors.

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Let us say that you want to rename all of your “.php5″ files to “.php” files. You can use for loop.

for old in *.php5; do cp $old `basename $old .php5`.php; done

Thats all there is to it. Let us say you need to rename index.php5 to index.php. The way above snippet works is that it loops through current directory and finds all the files with extension “.php5″ and processes ‘one by one. In our index.php5 file example, it finds index.php5 file, does a cp index.php5 `basename index.php5 .php5`.php Tag: Rename multiple files to another extension in LinuxRename multiple files to another extension in Linux

Many of us would like to use our GMail accounts in Evolution, and to a lesser degree Thunderbird and KMail. Here is a step by step guide on how to configure Evolution, Thunderbird and KMail to access you GMail account.

The first step is to log in to your GMail account and to click on Settings and click on the Forwarding and POP tab. Under POP Download select Enable POP for all mail and click Save Changes.

Log out of GMail and go to your UBUNTU or Linux install.

Evolution

Start Evolution

If you have not used Evolution before, or haven’t set up an account the New Account Wizard will launch. Click Forward.

Type in your Full Name and your Gmail Email Address and click Forawrd.

Select SMTP as the Server Type. The Server is smtp.gmail.com. Encryption is TLS, Authentication is Plain and fill in your full Gmail Email Address. Click Forward.

Give your account a name, it does not have to be anything Logical. Click Forward.

Select the current Time Zone and click Forward.

Click Apply.

If the New Account Wizard doesn’t launch, then in Evolution go to Edit – Preferences and click on Mail Accounts. Edit the info so that it matches the information above and you will be able to send and receive GMail.

Thunderbird

Start Thunderbird

Select “File,” “New,” Account, the New Account Wizard will launch. On the window that pops up select “email account,” and next.

Then type in your name in the top box, and your full GMail email address in the bottom, and click next.

On the next window select “POP” as the type of incoming server, then name the incoming server “pop.gmail.com”.

It doesn’t matter if “Use Global Inbox is enabled” is checked, it makes all of your email accounts report to the same inbox, check it or uncheck it as you wish, and click next.

After that make your user name is the same as your email address and click next

Then type in an account name (eg: inbox, gmail, home) this is what you click on to access this account and can be whatever you want, and click next.

Click Finish.

Next click on Edit - Account Settings in Thunderbird and from the menu of the new window select “server settings.” Click SSL and the port will automatically switch to 995.

Click on Outgoing Server (SMTP) and specify smtp.gmail.com as the outgoing mail server, and select SSL as the encryption and the port will automatically switch to 465. Type in your full GMail email address and click ok.

Kmail

Start Kmail

Go to “Settings,” then “Configure Kmail”

Click on accounts
Click “Add”

Select POP3 on the window that pops up and OK

On this window type in whatever you want your account to be called under “Account Name.” Then type your login, which is your entire email address, and your password. Next for the host type in “pop.gmail.com,” and change the port to 950. Change the rest of the settings to your liking.

Then on the top tab, arrow over to “Extras” For encryption select “Use ssl for secure mail download,” and for Authentication Method, select “Clear Text.”

Here’s how to configure gmail outbound in Kmail.

Go to settings, configure kmail
Go to accounts and sending
Go to add, on the box that pops up select smtp and OK
The host is smtp.gmail.com
The port is 465

Check the box that says server requires authentication
*Your login is your email address (with the @gmail.com at the end)
Type your password

Go to security and check the ssl box.

Click OK, then apply

Go to identities, click modify, and type in your email address.

You can find the full article with screenshots here

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ProFTPD is a proven, high-performance, scalable FTP server written from scratch, with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. Naturally, ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple ‘virtual’ FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility.

phpftpwho is a program written in PHP that tells you the status of your local FTP server. It uses the unix/linux command ftpwho and formats and displays the information. The program is licensed under the GPL license.

phpftpwho Requirements

A webserver, Apache is a great one.

A recent version of PHP.

The FTP server Proftpd.

A Unix/Linux operating system.

Install Apache Webserver with PHP Support

If you want to install Apache Webserver with PHP Support check here

Install Proftpd Server

If you want to Install Proftpd Server check here

Install phpftpwho

Note :- phpftpwho must be installed on the same machine that is running Proftpd server.

Download phpftpwho from here using the following command in apache web server root document folder (/var/www)

#wget http://www.rivetcode.com/files/phpftpwho/phpftpwho-0_9.tar.gz

Now you have tar.gz file you need to extract using the following command

tar xzvf phpftpwho-0_9.tar.gz

Now you should be having phpftpwho folder in your apache root document folder(/var/www)

If you want to access your phpftpwho program you need to go to http://yourserverip/phpftpwho

Now you need to login into the ftp server and refresh your phpftpwho page you should see similar to the following screen

Security configuration

If you want to configure security for phpftpwho you need to create a .htaccess file under phpftpwho folder in /var/www/ so that any one who is trying to access this page it will prompt for username and password.

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bzip2 and bunzip2 are file compression and decompression utilities. The bzip2 and bunzip2 utilities are newer than gzip and gunzip and are not as common yet, but they are rapidly gaining popularity. The bzip2 utility is capable of greater compression ratios than gzip. Therefore, a bzip2 file can be 10-20% smaller than a gzip version of the same file. Usually, files that have been compressed by bzip2 will have a .bz2 extension.

Installing bzip2 in debian

#apt-get install bzip2

Uncompressing a bzip2 File Using bunzip2

To uncompress a bzip2 file, execute the following command:

#bunzip2 filename.txt.bz2 (where filename.txt.bz2 is the name of the file you wish to uncompress)

The result of this operation is a file called filename.txt. By default, bunzip2 will delete the filename.txt.bz2 file.

Compressing a File Using bzip2

To compress a file using bzip2, execute the following command:

#bzip2 filename.txt (where filename.txt is the name of the file you wish to compress)

The result of this operation is a file called filename.txt.bz2. By default, bzip2 will delete the filename.txt file.

Available Options

#bzip2 --help

bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 1.0.2, 30-Dec-2001.

usage: bzip2 [flags and input files in any order]

-h –help print this message
-d –decompress force decompression
-z –compress force compression
-k –keep keep (don’t delete) input files
-f –force overwrite existing output files
-t –test test compressed file integrity
-c –stdout output to standard out
-q –quiet suppress noncritical error messages
-v –verbose be verbose (a 2nd -v gives more)
-L –license display software version & license
-V –version display software version & license
-s –small use less memory (at most 2500k)
-1 .. -9 set block size to 100k .. 900k
–fast alias for -1
–best alias for -9

If invoked as `bzip2′, default action is to compress.
as `bunzip2′, default action is to decompress.
as `bzcat’, default action is to decompress to stdout.

If no file names are given, bzip2 compresses or decompresses
from standard input to standard output. You can combine
short flags, so `-v -4′ means the same as -v4 or -4v, &c.

If you want more option you need to check bzip2 man page using the following command

#man bzip2

Create and Extract .gz Files
gzip and gunzip are GNU file compression and decompression utilities. Usually, files that have been compressed by gzip will have a .gz extension. However, sometimes you may see a file that has a .tgz extension. This is a TAR file that has been compressed by gzip. The .tgz extension is a shorthand version for the .tar.gz extension. This type of file must be uncompressed with gunzip before it can be untarred. However, there is a way to use the tar command to uncompress the file and untar it at the same time. For more information, see the tar: Tape Archive Files guide.

Installing gzip in Debian

#apt-get install gzip

Uncompressing a gzip File Using gunzip

To uncompress a gzip file, execute the following command:

#gunzip filename.txt.gz (where filename.txt.gz is the name of the file you wish to uncompress)

The result of this operation is a file called filename.txt. By default, gunzip will delete the filename.txt.gz file.

Compressing a File Using gzip

To compress a file using gzip, execute the following command:

#gzip filename.txt (where filename.txt is the name of the file you wish to compress)

The result of this operation is a file called filename.txt.gz. By default, gzip will delete the filename.txt file.

Available Options

#gzip -h
gzip 1.3.5
(2002-09-30)
usage: gzip [-cdfhlLnNrtvV19] [-S suffix] [file …]
-c –stdout write on standard output, keep original files unchanged
-d –decompress decompress
-f –force force overwrite of output file and compress links
-h –help give this help
-l –list list compressed file contents
-L –license display software license
-n –no-name do not save or restore the original name and time stamp
-N –name save or restore the original name and time stamp
-q –quiet suppress all warnings
-r –recursive operate recursively on directories
-S .suf –suffix .suf use suffix .suf on compressed files
-t –test test compressed file integrity
-v –verbose verbose mode
-V –version display version number
-1 –fast compress faster
-9 –best compress better
–rsyncable Make rsync-friendly archive
file… files to (de)compress. If none given, use standard input.

If you want more option you need to check gzip man page using the following command

#man gzip

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