vsftpd 500 OOPS: cannot change directory: /users/ftp

One simple cause of this error is that THERE IS NO /users/ftp DIRECTORY ! :)

Windows 8 Memorex exPressit and Victorian LET font

My wife had been using Memorex exPressit Label Design Studio 4.3.0206 on Windows XP for almost 10 years.  She had made about 5000 different disk labels with it.  The Window XP machine just got slower and slower and slower over the years so we decided to buy a brand new Windows 8 HP laptop.  I hate the windows 8 UI BTW but that is besides the point.  I installed exPressit on the win8 laptop and low and behold there was no longer a "Victorian LET" font available on the new system.  Typical.  My wife called Microsoft support (I know that she did because she ended up crying).  Microsoft support sucks.  Once she mentioned Memorex exPressit MS support simply said it was not their problem.  So my wife got a hold of the Memorex/Surething support (http://www.memorex.com/en-us/Support/) and once she mentioned win8 the memorex support dummies said that expressit is only supported to Windows 7.  What a bunch of losers these "support" / "customer service" people are.  Really? Does anyone need these worthless waste of skin?  So she made plans to go to Staples (another bunch of worthless clods) to get them to install Windows 7 on the new laptop.  I realized (heck) I got windows 7 on my work laptop so I installed the version of exPressit the ignorant support people at Memorex said we should use and then slapped my wife's label design files on my win7 laptop.  Was the "Victorian LET" there? Of course not.  Using win7 solved nothing *BUZZARD* wrong answer losers at memorex support.

There is a happy ending to this story and the hero of this tale is this web site: http://fontzone.net
I 1) downloaded their version of  "Victorian LET" and then 2) opened up Control Panel (how to do this win8 is totally stupid and beyond the scope of this blog entry) 3) in the control panel I double clicked the Font icon and then 4) dragged the file I downloaded from fontzone.net into the Fonts dialog box.

So now when I start exPressit I can use and see the "Victorian LET" font.

a BIG thank you and $10 donation to fontzone and a middle finger to microsoft and memerox/surething customer support.

Device eth0 does not seem to be present

This blog has good info: http://aaronwalrath.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/cloned-red-hatcentosscientific-linux-virtual-machines-and-device-eth0-does-not-seem-to-be-present-message/

how to shutdown windows 8

Press the Stupid Window Key and the 'i' at the same time.  then click the power icon on the panel that appears.

... sorry I don't have annoying ads and didn't write a 5 page article about this subject

windows 8 sucks. I HATE 8

the cure for the crap UI of windows 8 is the same as is it was for all the other shitty microsoft products : http://cygwin.com

undefined symbol: rb_encdb_declare when building ruby

You can do the rvm thing but a quicker approuch is to use --disable-rdoc option when you run configure

rpmbuild error : # *** ERROR: No build ID note found in

If you get this error when executing rpmbuild add this line ...

%global debug_package %{nil}

... to the first line of your spec file.

Thanks to http://mumble.knobgoblin.org.uk/faqs.cgi

installing sqlite3 via ruby gem

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13039323/require-sqlite3-fails-after-gem-install-sqlite3

An actual working example of processing command lines with ruby

http://ruby.about.com/od/advancedruby/a/optionparser.htm

Thanks Michael Morin!

how to get vim to stop adding # comments

first do
:set formatoptions?
then to
:set formatoptions=

good infosec info blog

http://grutztopia.jingojango.net/2012/10/on-hph3c-and-schrodingers-disclosure.html

hacker tools to watch for

dsniff
kismet
ssh-mitm
ucsniff
arpspoof
airsniff

There is no '/boot' directory mounted on the source machine. It is required to create a bootable virtual machine. Mount the '/boot' directory on the source machine

Found an inserting link on theat VM converter error:

There is no '/boot' directory mounted on the source machine. It is required to create a bootable virtual machine. Mount the '/boot' directory on the source machine

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1182578#1182578

learning ruby regex

http://rubular.com/

dealing with dev/stage/prod in puppet

http://puppetlabs.com/blog/git-workflow-and-puppet-environments/

How to keep vim from clearing the screen on exit

echo "set t_ti= t_te=" >> ~/.vimrc

how to go landscape mode with android emulator

http://discuz-android.blogspot.com/2008/01/change-android-screen-landscapeportrait.html

On the emulator, after the Android system is started up, open another command window, type the following command line in the adb shell to change the screen to landscape:
# service call window 18 i32 1
type the following command line to change the screen to portrait:
# service call window 18 i32 0

the above didn't work but using the keypad's 7 key works (so does 9)

how to make button fill table cell

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12362879/how-to-make-button-fill-table-cell

Is there a css equivalent to android hint?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12362470/is-there-a-css-equivalent-to-android-hint

install dbi / sqlite for ruby with gem

[root@learn ruby_tut]# yum provides */gem
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: ftp.cse.buffalo.edu
 * extras: mirror.cogentco.com
rubygems-1.3.1-1.el5.noarch : The Ruby standard for packaging ruby libraries
Repo        : epel
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/gem



pe-rubygems-1.3.7-4.pe.el5.noarch : The Ruby standard for packaging ruby libraries
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Filename    : /opt/puppet/bin/gem


[root@learn ruby_tut]# /opt/puppet/bin/gem install --remote sqlite-ruby

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...

ERROR:  Error installing sqlite-ruby:

        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/opt/puppet/bin/ruby extconf.rb

mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /opt/puppet/lib/ruby/ruby.h

Gem files will remain installed in /opt/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite-ruby-2.2.3 for inspection.

Results logged to /opt/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite-ruby-2.2.3/ext/gem_make.out

DANG IT!

OK lets try this ...

[root@learn ruby_tut]# yum install rubygems

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

 * epel: ftp.cse.buffalo.edu

 * extras: mirror.cogentco.com

Setting up Install Process

Resolving Dependencies

--> Running transaction check

---> Package rubygems.noarch 0:1.3.1-1.el5 set to be updated

--> Processing Dependency: ruby-rdoc for package: rubygems

--> Finished Dependency Resolution

rubygems-1.3.1-1.el5.noarch from epel has depsolving problems

  --> Missing Dependency: ruby-rdoc is needed by package rubygems-1.3.1-1.el5.noarch (epel)

Error: Missing Dependency: ruby-rdoc is needed by package rubygems-1.3.1-1.el5.noarch (epel)

 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems

                        package-cleanup --dupes

                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

POO!

[root@learn ruby_tut]# yum --skip-broken install rubygems

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

 * epel: ftp.cse.buffalo.edu

 * extras: mirror.cogentco.com

Setting up Install Process

Resolving Dependencies

--> Running transaction check

---> Package rubygems.noarch 0:1.3.1-1.el5 set to be updated

--> Processing Dependency: ruby-rdoc for package: rubygems

--> Finished Dependency Resolution

rubygems-1.3.1-1.el5.noarch from epel has depsolving problems

  --> Missing Dependency: ruby-rdoc is needed by package rubygems-1.3.1-1.el5.noarch (epel)

Packages skipped because of dependency problems:

    rubygems-1.3.1-1.el5.noarch from epel

[root@learn ruby_tut]# yum install ruby-rdoc

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

 * epel: ftp.cse.buffalo.edu

 * extras: mirror.cogentco.com

Setting up Install Process

No package ruby-rdoc available.

Nothing to do

 F*%$@#!ING S^#(#$Y !!!

Ok let's try what ... says to do

[root@learn ruby_tut]# mkdir install

[root@learn ruby_tut]# cd install/

[root@learn install]# wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/63601/dbi-0.4.3.tar.gz

--2012-08-01 15:44:32--  http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/63601/dbi-0.4.3.tar.gz

Resolving rubyforge.org... 50.56.192.79

Connecting to rubyforge.org|50.56.192.79|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found

Location: http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/ruby-dbi/dbi-0.4.3.tar.gz [following]

--2012-08-01 15:44:32--  http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/ruby-dbi/dbi-0.4.3.tar.gz

Resolving files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk... 80.68.94.54

Connecting to files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk|80.68.94.54|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 81851 (80K) [application/x-gzip]

Saving to: `dbi-0.4.3.tar.gz'

100%[==========================================================================>] 81,851      78.1K/s   in 1.0s    

2012-08-01 15:44:35 (78.1 KB/s) - `dbi-0.4.3.tar.gz' saved [81851/81851]

[root@learn install]# tar !*

tar -xzf dbi-0.4.3.tar.gz

[root@learn install]# cd dbi-0.4.3

[root@learn dbi-0.4.3]# ruby setup.rb config --with=dbi,dbd_sqlite

config: unknown option --with=dbi,dbd_sqlite

Try 'ruby setup.rb --help' for detailed usage.

[root@learn dbi-0.4.3]# ruby setup.rb config

---> bin

<--- bin

---> lib

---> lib/dbi

---> lib/dbi/handles

<--- lib/dbi/handles

---> lib/dbi/sql

<--- lib/dbi/sql

---> lib/dbi/base_classes

<--- lib/dbi/base_classes

---> lib/dbi/utils

<--- lib/dbi/utils

<--- lib/dbi

<--- lib

[root@learn dbi-0.4.3]# ruby setup.rb setup

---> bin

updating shebang: dbi

updating shebang: test_broken_dbi

<--- bin

---> lib

---> lib/dbi

---> lib/dbi/handles

<--- lib/dbi/handles

---> lib/dbi/sql

<--- lib/dbi/sql

---> lib/dbi/base_classes

<--- lib/dbi/base_classes

---> lib/dbi/utils

<--- lib/dbi/utils

<--- lib/dbi

<--- lib

[root@learn dbi-0.4.3]# ruby setup.rb install

rm -f InstalledFiles

---> bin

mkdir -p /usr/bin

install dbi /usr/bin/

install test_broken_dbi /usr/bin/

<--- bin

---> lib

mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8

install dbi.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/

---> lib/dbi

mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install utils.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install columninfo.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install base_classes.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install handles.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install row.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install trace.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install binary.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install typeutil.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install types.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install sql.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install exceptions.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

install sql_type_constants.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi

---> lib/dbi/handles

mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/handles

install statement.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/handles

install driver.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/handles

install database.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/handles

<--- lib/dbi/handles

---> lib/dbi/sql

mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/sql

install preparedstatement.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/sql

<--- lib/dbi/sql

---> lib/dbi/base_classes

mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/base_classes

install statement.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/base_classes

install driver.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/base_classes

install database.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/base_classes

<--- lib/dbi/base_classes

---> lib/dbi/utils

mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/utils

install date.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/utils

install xmlformatter.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/utils

install time.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/utils

install tableformatter.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/utils

install timestamp.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbi/utils

<--- lib/dbi/utils

<--- lib/dbi

<--- lib

[root@learn dbi-0.4.3]# 

[root@learn dbi-0.4.3]# cd ..

[root@learn install]# wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60205/dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5.tar.gz

--2012-08-01 15:51:26--  http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60205/dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5.tar.gz

Resolving rubyforge.org... 50.56.192.79

Connecting to rubyforge.org|50.56.192.79|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found

Location: http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/ruby-dbi/dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5.tar.gz [following]

--2012-08-01 15:51:26--  http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/ruby-dbi/dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5.tar.gz

Resolving files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk... 80.68.94.54

Connecting to files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk|80.68.94.54|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 52156 (51K) [application/x-gzip]

Saving to: `dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5.tar.gz'

100%[==========================================================================>] 52,156      55.3K/s   in 0.9s    

2012-08-01 15:51:28 (55.3 KB/s) - `dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5.tar.gz' saved [52156/52156]

[root@learn install]# tar -xzf dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5.tar.gz 

[root@learn install]# cd dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5

[root@learn dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5]# ls

build  ChangeLog  lib  LICENSE  Rakefile  README  setup.rb  test

[root@learn dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5]# ruby setup.rb config

---> lib

---> lib/dbd

---> lib/dbd/sqlite3

<--- lib/dbd/sqlite3

<--- lib/dbd

<--- lib

[root@learn dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5]# ruby setup.rb setup

---> lib

---> lib/dbd

---> lib/dbd/sqlite3

<--- lib/dbd/sqlite3

<--- lib/dbd

<--- lib

[root@learn dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5]# ruby setup.rb install

rm -f InstalledFiles

---> lib

mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8

---> lib/dbd

mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbd

install SQLite3.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbd

---> lib/dbd/sqlite3

mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbd/sqlite3

install statement.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbd/sqlite3

install database.rb /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/dbd/sqlite3

<--- lib/dbd/sqlite3

<--- lib/dbd

<--- lib

[root@learn dbd-sqlite3-1.2.5]# 

learning ruby ... good websites

http://sqlite-ruby.rubyforge.org/
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_database_access.htm
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-dbi/

LVM How to

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

Still struggling to learn Android development. Geez does it really be this difficult?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12172832/android-myfirstapp-webview-dies-with-unable-to-start-activity

disable or enable ipv6 RHEL6

http://www.vargasmas.com/2011/07/how-to-disableenable-ipv6-support-in.html

patch diff rpm

http://bradthemad.org/tech/notes/patching_rpms.php

Summary:

% diff -uNr package-1.0/ package-1.0p/ > ../SOURCES/package-1.0-my.patch

• Adding the patch to the package

Next, add the patch to the specfile, so it will be applied when building the package. There may be other patches already, and they are applied in order of their number in the specfile, so number yours appropriately. Add to %_topdir/SPECS/package.spec, in the top section where the name, version, and source lines are:

Patch0: package-1.0-my.patch

Farther down, there will be a section that deals with preparing for the build. Add a patch command that corresponds with the patch line above, typically right after %setup:

%prep
%setup ...
%patch0 -p1

puppet mirror

write software that integrates visible systems and generates puppet manifest for them as best as can be done. 

Missing Info from Android Building Your First App Tutorial

The android tutorial for "Build Your First App" (http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html) is excellent, but they leave a couple of things out that I had to figure out for myself.  I am developing on ubuntu linux and following the command line version of the tut.  When I got to this part of the tut:

http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/running-app.html

I ran into the error "could not find javac" when I ran "ant debug".
I had to install javac like so ...

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk

The next problem was that I kept getting ...


error: device not found
- waiting for device -

... when I executed:

red@ubuntu:~/android/workspace/MyFirstApp$ adb install bin/MyFirstApp-debug.apk


... I found out that I need to start the "server" like so ....


red@ubuntu:~/android/workspace/MyFirstApp$ adb kill-server
red@ubuntu:~/android/workspace/MyFirstApp$ adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
red@ubuntu:~/android/workspace/MyFirstApp$ adb install bin/MyFirstApp-debug.apk
100 KB/s (37439 bytes in 0.363s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/MyFirstApp-debug.apk
Success

nsupdate increments the zone's serial number for you

redcricket@rpz-tx1-1-l:~$ dig +short rpz.red-cricket-blog.com soa @localhost
rpz-tx1-1-l.red-cricket-blog.com. csirt.red-cricket-blog.com. 1344659785 3600 900 2592000 7200
redcricket@rpz-tx1-1-l:~$ sudo /usr/bin/nsupdate
> server localhost
> update del rbc.red-cricket-blog.com.rpz.red-cricket-blog.com 300 CNAME redcricket-lnx.red-cricket-blog.com
> send
>
> quit
redcricket@rpz-tx1-1-l:~$ dig +short rpz.red-cricket-blog.com soa @localhost
rpz-tx1-1-l.red-cricket-blog.com. csirt.red-cricket-blog.com. 1344659786 3600 900 2592000 7200

non-alphanumeric javascript

http://patriciopalladino.com/blog/2012/08/09/non-alphanumeric-javascript.html

Puppet question sent to puppet users google group (can template file be installed from RPM on agent?)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/8K7vW8cvQ1YJ

Hulk SMASH!

http://www.sectorix.com/2012/05/17/hulk-web-server-dos-tool/

5 free tools to send anonymous messages

http://www.csoonline.com/article/494865/an-investigator-s-toolkit-5-free-tools-to-send-anonymous-messages

How Online Black Markets Work

http://www.csoonline.com/article/705316/how-online-black-markets-work

Rugged OS

Rugged OS is being used in a wide range of applications, including

  traffic control, power generation, and even U.S. Navy bases.  The

  backdoor was first found over a year ago, and RuggedCom have so

  far refused to patch out the exploit."

  The exploit is trivial: each device has a permanent "factory" user, and

  an automatically generated password derived from the MAC.

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/P777CP7SDJM/backdoor-in-rugg

edos-systems-infrastructure-military-systems-vulnerable

samba exploit

http://pastie.org/3765420

interesting infosec story on slash dot

Slashdotted: <http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/04/04/1536224/att-microcell-disassembly-security-flaws-exposed>. Is this <http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns341/ns973/att_microcell.html>?

You know your trouble when you cable guy is smarter than your rocket scientist.

You know your trouble when you cable guy is smarter than your rocket scientist.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120322_nasa_teething_troubles_teach_a_dnssec_lesson/

When building RPM for Perl module XML::SAX, make install for XML::SAX fails with Can't locate XML/SAX/ParserFactory.pm error message

Given this %install section in the spec file:

        ...
        %prep
        %global
        %setup
        %build
        /usr/bin/perl/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
        make
        make test
        %install
        rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
        make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT > %{_topdir}/%{name}.install.out
        ...

if you get this error:

        Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7597
        + umask 022
        + cd /users/red/tasks/perl-5.14-for-cel5.03/platform/vendor_perl/perl-XML-SAX/BUILD
        + cd perl-XML-SAX-0.99
        + rm -rf /users/red/tasks/perl-5.14-for-cel5.03/platform/vendor_perl/perl-XML-SAX/BUILDROOT/perl-XML-SAX-0.99-1.i386
        + make install DESTDIR=/users/red/tasks/perl-5.14-for-cel5.03/platform/vendor_perl/perl-XML-SAX/BUILDROOT/perl-XML-SAX-0.99-1.i386
        Can't locate XML/SAX/ParserFactory.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/bin/perl-5.14.1/lib/eman_perl/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/bin/perl-5.14.1/lib/eman_perl /usr/bin/perl-5.14.1/lib/vendor_perl/5.14.1/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/bin/perl-5.14.1/lib/vendor_perl/5.14.1 /usr/bin/perl-5.14.1/lib/5.14.1/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/bin/perl-5.14.1/lib/5.14.1 /usr/bin/perl-5.14.1/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/perl-5.14.1/lib/vendor_perl/5.14.1/XML/SAX.pm line 18.
        BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/perl-5.14.1/lib/vendor_perl/5.14.1/XML/SAX.pm line 18.
        Compilation failed in require.
        BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
        make[1]: *** [install_sax_pureperl] Error 2
        error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7597 (%install)


        RPM build errors:
            Macro % has illegal name (%define)
            Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7597 (%install)
        make: *** [perl-XML-SAX-0.99-1.i386.rpm] Error 1

You need to add the line ...

        export PERL5LIB=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/bin/perl-5.14.1/lib/vendor_perl/5.14.1

... so your spec looks like this ...

        %prep
        %global
        %setup
        %build
        /usr/bin/perl/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
        make
        make test
        %install
        rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
        export PERL5LIB=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/bin/perl-5.14.1/lib/vendor_perl/5.14.1
        make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT > %{_topdir}/%{name}.install.out

How To Make Ubuntu Apache2 Listen on another port

red@ubuntu:/etc/apache2$ sudo cp ports.conf ports.conf_old
red@ubuntu:/etc/apache2$ vim ports.conf
red@ubuntu:/etc/apache2$ sudo vim ports.conf
red@ubuntu:/etc/apache2$ diff ports.conf ports.conf_old
8c8
< NameVirtualHost *:*
---
> NameVirtualHost *:80
10d9
< Listen 81

dealing with spaces in shell script for loops

SAVEIFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
for policy in `/usr/SD/bin/nrcmd -r -N doofus -P 1234 policy listnames`
do
        echo "$policy"
done
IFS=$SAVEIFS

Perl cpan module GD make fails with t/GD.t ........ Not a CODE reference ... DynaLoader.pm line 213.

If you are getting these errors when trying to install the CPAN Perl module GD (http://search.cpan.org/~lds/GD-2.46/) ...


make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 ... "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
Not a CODE reference at ... DynaLoader.pm line 213.
END failed--call queue aborted at blib/lib/GD.pm line 213.
Compilation failed in require at t/GD.t line 14.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/GD.t line 14.
t/GD.t ........
Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Failed 12/12 subtests
Not a CODE reference at ... DynaLoader.pm line 213.
END failed--call queue aborted at ... perl-GD-2.46/blib/lib/GD.pm line 213.
Compilation failed in require at ... perl-GD-2.46/blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm line 45.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ... perl-GD-2.46/blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm line 45.
Compilation failed in require at t/Polyline.t line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/Polyline.t line 10.
t/Polyline.t ..
Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Failed 1/1 subtests

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/GD.t      (Wstat: 512 Tests: 1 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  1
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 12 tests but ran 1.
t/Polyline.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 1 tests but ran 0.
Files=2, Tests=1,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr  0.00 sys +  0.04 cusr  0.01 csys =  0.07 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 2/2 test programs. 1/1 subtests failed.
make[1]: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2

... you need run make like so ...

make CCFLAGS="-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"

Evil uses of Perl

http://perlmonks.com/?node_id=953710

Direct shellcode execution in MS Office macros

http://www.scriptjunkie.us/2012/01/direct-shellcode-execution-in-ms-office-macros/

How To Determine What Process is Listening on Which Port

From : http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/what-process-has-open-linux-port/

# netstat -tulpn


# ls -l /proc/1138/exe

# netstat -tulpn | grep :80
Sample outputs:

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1607/apache2

fuser command

Find out the processes PID that opened tcp port 7000, enter:
# fuser 7000/tcp
Sample outputs:

7000/tcp:             3813

Finally, find out process name associated with PID # 3813, enter:
# ls -l /proc/3813/exe
Sample outputs:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 vivek vivek 0 2010-10-29 11:00 /proc/3813/exe -> /usr/bin/transmission

/usr/bin/transmission is a bittorrent client, enter:
# man transmission
OR
# whatis transmission
Sample outputs:

transmission (1)     - a bittorrent client

Task: Find Out Current Working Directory Of a Process

To find out current working directory of a process called bittorrent or pid 3813, enter:
# ls -l /proc/3813/cwd

Software Bug makes webcams publicly accessible (cool :)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/thousands-of-webcams-made-publicly-accessible-by-software-bug/

Ghost Domain Names: Revoked Yet Still Resolvable

https://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-1033

Gaining root shell via mempodipper

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-root-exploit-due-to-memory-access-Update-2-1419834.html

DNSSEC clients for chrome and firefox!

Dan York york@isoc.org via dnssec-deployment.org	6:19 AM (8 hours ago)
to Ondřej, dnssec-deploym.

Ondřej,

That's awesome!  Thanks for passing along the news and I've added a page about the extension to our Deploy360 site at:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/how-to-add-dnssec-support-to-google-chrome/

Previously I had added a page on the Firefox extension:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/how-to-add-dnssec-support-to-mozilla-firefox/

Although after I had posted that page there was an ensuing discussion in multiple different channels about what the best user experience for DNSSEC really is.  I tried to capture those discussion points in this blog post:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2012/01/what-is-the-correct-user-experience-for-dnssec-in-a-web-browser/

Again, as a Chrome user I have to say THANKS for creating the extension and I look forward to seeing how it evolves. (and hopefully Chrome will add the missing API at some point).

Regards,

Dan

How to list columns of a sqlite table

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/604939/how-can-i-get-the-list-of-a-columns-in-a-table-for-a-sqlite-database


sqlite> pragma table_info(people);
0|first_name|varchar|0||0
1|last_name|varchar|0||0
2|email_address|varchar|0||0

How to crack wifi wpa passwords with reaver

http://lifehacker.com/5873407/how-to-crack-a-wi+fi-networks-wpa-password-with-reaver