Mirror SVN Repository can be useful to offload server or If you have developers at different location OR you have requirement to keep offsite mirror ready for recovery. I have used svn proxy. It works fine, but this can not be used for developers sitting in different location as this will not forward commit requests [...]
Full Story »LibreOffice silent Installation -Windows
With the release of latest LibreOffice I had to move most of my windows users from old openoffice to new libreoffice. This turns out very simple with the use of few windows commands. Here 192.168.3.2\soft_deploy is public share, which is to dump libreoffice installer. Uninstall OpenOffice wmic product where name="OpenOffice.org 3.2" call uninstall /nointeractive Install [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Bugzilla 4.0 to 4.2
With the latest release of Bugzilla, you get many features. Such as… HTML Bugmail Improved Searching System Accessibility Improvements Auditing of All Changes Within Bugzilla Displaying a Custom Field Value Based on Multiple Values of Another Field Release Notes Make sure you have all dependencies covered, such as Mysql, perl modules as mentioned in release [...]
Full Story »Change htpasswd using web page
During svn configuration you must have created htpasswd file for user auth, using chpasswd you can let users change their password using web page. Following are the steps to install & configure chpasswd for svn users. Download chpasswd from install chpasswd tar zxvf chpasswd-2.2.4.tar.gz cd chpasswd-2.2.4 ./configure && make && make install following are the [...]
Full Story »OpenVpn client on Fedora
Configuring OpenVpn on Linux is the easiest thing todo. For windows you need to install openvpn client, whereas same can be done on linux using network manager. Following snaps demonstrates configuration. For OpenVpn with pop3 Auth For OpenVpn with client cert Advance config, applicable for all type of auth Here you configure all configs relevant [...]
Full Story »How to Install Fonts – Linux
This is for Linux beginners / Windows ditcher, Once you are on Linux you might need to install fonts. So that your sent mails, websites look as it should look on windows. May be diff reasons you need to install fonts. Its simple. All you need to do is to create separate folder under /usr/share/fonts, [...]
Full Story »OpenVpn Server with passwd Auth
This config will help admins to auth openvpn from local linux system users. compile auth-pam from openvpn source cd /root/openvpn-2.1.3/plugin/auth-pam make cp openvpn-auth-pam.so /etc/openvpn/ apped following in server.conf plugin /etc/openvpn/openvpn-auth-pam.so /etc/pam.d/login This is all needs to be done at server end. at client end append following line in client.conf auth-user-pass you can create users without [...]
Full Story »OpenVpn Server with Virtual Users
This may come for handy for a admins who prefers openvpn with virtual users, rather having users auth from ldap / pop. compile auth-pam from openvpn source cd /root/openvpn-2.1.3/plugin/auth-pam make cp openvpn-auth-pam.so /etc/openvpn/ download & install pam-pam_pwd pam for virtual user. cat /etc/pam.d/vuser auth required pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/openvpn/users account required pam_permit.so Append following in server.conf [...]
Full Story »Random Wallpaper – Gnome
I am not a big fan of wallpapers, I usually keep it blank. But this changed On 27th Sept as my wife delivered a beautiful baby boy. Since then my wife clicks few photos a day which I keep as wallpaper, like any new father. There is no inbuilt option to randomize wallpapers on gnome. [...]
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