Date: 08/07/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

 One year after Red Hat acquired JBoss, the battle is finally beginning to heat up in the open source middleware space. In what was described as a “coming out party” for JBoss post merger, Red Hat and Dell disclosed at LinuxWorld 2007 plans to prebundle three middleware stacks on Dell’s PowerEdge Servers. “Partnering with Dell allows us to be much bolder in the middleware space,” [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/141748080/

Date: 08/07/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Don’t expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux kernel, said a top  Linux maintainer. At his LinuxWorld opening keynote, Andrew Morton made it very clear that the appointment of former OSDL CTO and Debian co-founder Ian Murdock to Sun’s OS platforms organization will not translate into a merging between the open source version of Solaris Unix [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/141710013/

Date: 08/08/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Motorola is close to releasing its much anticipated, first Linux-based Razr2 V8 handset in the U.S, ” said Christy M Wyatt, vice president of ecosystem and market development for Motorola during a LinuxWorld press conference. Showing off her own Linux Razr2, Wyatt was prevented by the company’s communications department from providing a more exact release date for [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142144188/

Date: 08/08/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian said the Linux industry must create a vendor neutral standard for application development or face the same fragmentation that killed Unix. Speaking before a packed audience at LinuxWorld at the Moscone Center Wednesday, the Novell CEO said the Linux Standards Base (LSB) is a good start but it’s not enough. A standard [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142078310/

Date: 08/08/07 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, html, linux

Ok there are way to many ways to do this and I am getting behind schedule so here we go:
-There is a lovely form (as it stands now in HTML); I want people to enter in data and then when they press submit a PDF is generated on the box and saved for later review by the client.
The end form is going to run on a Linux box with PHP that has limited access (think little to no console access).

Fpdf looked like the best choice but I do not want to build the PDF file if need be ( I can make it now via Acrobat Pro). That and I have found 0 examples (I live by them) that incorporates (and works!) HTML form work, $POST and FPDF.

In Acrobat Pro I can make a form, put a submit button and then give it an action; then it can magically export the data as FDF, HTML, XFDF or PDF. Horrible shame that there is no documentation to show how to catch it on the server side (email links assume the user has a email client on their machine).

At this point I just want this over and done; any hints or help?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/426872.html

Date: 08/08/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, html, linux

Ok there are way to many ways to do this and I am getting behind schedule so here we go:
-There is a lovely form (as it stands now in HTML); I want people to enter in data and then when they press submit a PDF is generated on the box and saved for later review by the client.
The end form is going to run on a Linux box with PHP that has limited access (think little to no console access).

Fpdf looked like the best choice but I do not want to build the PDF file if need be ( I can make it now via Acrobat Pro). That and I have found 0 examples (I live by them) that incorporates (and works!) HTML form work, $POST and FPDF.

In Acrobat Pro I can make a form, put a submit button and then give it an action; then it can magically export the data as FDF, HTML, XFDF or PDF. Horrible shame that there is no documentation to show how to catch it on the server side (email links assume the user has a email client on their machine).

At this point I just want this over and done; any hints or help?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/579519.html

Date: 08/09/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

The two biggest names in the Linux industry – Linus Torvalds and Red Hat –  skipped out on LinuxWorld again. It’s no surprise. Torvalds, the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel, rarely delivers keynotes or makes public appearances at conferences. His right-hand man, the No. 2 kernel maintainer Andrew Morton opened up the show [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142276338/

Date: 08/09/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, linux, microsoft

For open source backers who love to bash Microsoft (and other proprietary software companies), this LinuxWorld was not for you. At the conference in San Francisco, key industry figures emphasized the need for respect and cooperation between open source companies and Microsoft because of the reality that customers will be using a mix of open source [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142458385/

Date: 08/10/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

All the respect shown Big Green at Linuxworld can't mask the fact that its era is ending, and that in time the open source model will triumph.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142745897/

Date: 08/10/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: browser, virus, web, linux, yahoo

I am a Linux man. I am familiar with most Linux's. I enjoy Linux and understand the filesystem layout etc.
Unfortunetly geing the Junior tech I sometimes have to be the computer whooping boy. So, when a Windows luser decides to install the latest virus on his laptop, I have to figure it out.
Unfortunetly I've been out of the Windows world for so long, I am challenged by this latest problem.
The CD rom is busted (firmware I think). It's a laptop, so no disk access. And now recently the web browser won't work. When I say won't work, I mean that the system pings www.yahoo.com, but the web browser (ie and FF) say that Unable to Connect.
Windows Firewall is on, off, it doesn't matter.
This is XP with sp2.
Oh btw, NOD32 said it does/did have a virus but I can't pull it up again.

So my question is, what is causing the browser to not be able to pull up pages.

Any help is appreciated. thx

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1096690.html

Date: 08/13/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

SCO lost. Novell owns the UnixWare copyrights SCO claimed. So does this mean any legal threat from Microsoft against Linux is over? I don't think so. Here's why.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/143649296/

Date: 08/14/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: programming, linux

Many CEOs with even less personality than Jim Zemlin have been turned into media stars. Linux, as an operating system and a programming movement, needs such a star.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/144022800/

Date: 08/16/07 (Security)    Keywords: linux

One question that I get asked on almost a daily basis is why I don't abandon the Windows platform and shift over to using Mac.  When I posted my "30 things I've learned from using Linux …" post, the point that raised the most discussion was #27:The more I use...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=689

Date: 08/17/07 (Security)    Keywords: security, linux, hosting

The Gentoo Project has removed a server hosting several sites and services after the discovery of a potentially serious command injection vulnerability.The open-source group, which produces a popular Linux distribution, said the security hole was verified within http://packages.gentoo.org."The Infrastructure team verified the vulnerability and the server was immediately taken...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=456

Date: 08/21/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: linux

A guide to easily disable IPv6 support on your Linux workstation / server: 1. Add the two lines, if not already present, to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off For Fedora 7 you should add the command to blacklist instead as shown below: blacklist net-pf-10 Note: I haven’t personally tested on Fedora 7. Note: Try to copy-paste these lines instead [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-disable-ipv6-on-fedora-linux-why/

Date: 08/23/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: linux

According to DesktopLinux.com’s just completed survey, the number of Desktop Linux users has more than doubled in 2006, and Ubuntu remains the no. 1 Linux distribution of choice for desktop users. The survey comprised of a self-selected sample size of 38, 500 users. This year’s survey produced 38,500 votes versus 14,535 votes over the same number [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/desktop-linux-users-double-in-2006/

Date: 08/23/07 (Security)    Keywords: java, security, linux, google

Ten months ago (October 2006), a member of Google's security team discovered and reported two code execution vulnerabilities in Sun's Java ICC (image) profile parsing code.Seven months later (May 2007), Sun issued an update (JDK 1.5.0_11-b03) that was available for Window, Solaris, and Linux.One big problem. It's August 2007...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=469

Date: 08/29/07 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: linux

Is there a common utility for Windows that allows someone to set the blocksize of a drive and format that scsi tape in a particular blocksize? For instance, in Linux I would use:

mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 1024

To set the blocksize of the drive to 1024.

tar -cvf /dev/st0 /etc/hosts -b 2

This would write a file to the tape in the drive and force a 1024 blocksize.

Is there something similar in Windows that does this. Like a command in ntbackup? I'm looking for a solution that would be common to all Windows systems.

Thanks in advance

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/63343.html

Date: 08/30/07 (Software)    Keywords: web, linux, spam

Greetings and Salutations!
I have an interesting issue.

I am running a mail / domain controller on SELinux.
There is a webmin interface installed.
There is webmail.
The mail service is a variation of sendmail called SquirrelMail.
The mail server is also running ClamAV and SpamAssassin.

Tuesday a problem appeared around 11AM where the outbound mail service just stalls.
I starting looking at the queue and I noticed an inordinate amount of replies to bad addresses from the Mailer Daemon that are timing out. On peeking in on them I discovered that they are bouncebacks on emails sent to bad addresses here and that they are spam (no surprise there). Many of these messages are stalling in the queue and I suspected that this was the problem. Clearing the queue did not fix the issue, but restarting sendmail did and still does make the outbound process work.

So, last night, I updated ClamAV (no update needed), sendmail (update completed) and SA (update completed).
I hoped that the problem would go away but it did not. In fact, it is now worse. The frequency that I must manually restart the sendmail service has gone up.

In an effort to provide less overall interruption to my users I created a cron task to do this for me.
Here is the script:
#/bin/bash
#this is to restart sendmail
date >>/etc/mailcron.log
service sendmail stop>>/etc/mailcron.log
service sendmail start>>/etc/mailcron.log
echo "mailtab1 process done
">>/etc/mailcron.log

Now, here is the interesting part.
The cron is set to run every 10 minutes (minutes ending in 3)
It runs.
The output put into the log file when it runs automatically is incomplete:
Thu Aug 30 11:23:01 EDT 2007
mailtab1 process done

So, obviously the script it running, but it is only time-stamping and informing me that it is done.

The more interesting part is that when I run the task manually it works:
Thu Aug 30 11:25:19 EDT 2007
Shutting down sm-client: [ OK ]
Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
mailtab1 process done

WHY?

I need a solution to one (or, preferably, both) of these problems. I also have a second script that does the mailreload command.

My current plan, based on some of the mail server logs showing errors with the ClamAV milter, is to uninstall and reinstall clamav tonight afterhours. Thoughts?


Cross-posted all over the place

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/software/75058.html

Date: 08/30/07 (Computer Help)    Keywords: web, linux, spam

Greetings and Salutations!
I have an interesting issue.

I am running a mail / domain controller on SELinux.
There is a webmin interface installed.
There is webmail.
The mail service is a variation of sendmail called SquirrelMail.
The mail server is also running ClamAV and SpamAssassin.

Tuesday a problem appeared around 11AM where the outbound mail service just stalls.
I starting looking at the queue and I noticed an inordinate amount of replies to bad addresses from the Mailer Daemon that are timing out. On peeking in on them I discovered that they are bouncebacks on emails sent to bad addresses here and that they are spam (no surprise there). Many of these messages are stalling in the queue and I suspected that this was the problem. Clearing the queue did not fix the issue, but restarting sendmail did and still does make the outbound process work.

So, last night, I updated ClamAV (no update needed), sendmail (update completed) and SA (update completed).
I hoped that the problem would go away but it did not. In fact, it is now worse. The frequency that I must manually restart the sendmail service has gone up.

In an effort to provide less overall interruption to my users I created a cron task to do this for me.
Here is the script:
#/bin/bash
#this is to restart sendmail
date >>/etc/mailcron.log
service sendmail stop>>/etc/mailcron.log
service sendmail start>>/etc/mailcron.log
echo "mailtab1 process done
">>/etc/mailcron.log

Now, here is the interesting part.
The cron is set to run every 10 minutes (minutes ending in 3)
It runs.
The output put into the log file when it runs automatically is incomplete:
Thu Aug 30 11:23:01 EDT 2007
mailtab1 process done

So, obviously the script it running, but it is only time-stamping and informing me that it is done.

The more interesting part is that when I run the task manually it works:
Thu Aug 30 11:25:19 EDT 2007
Shutting down sm-client: [ OK ]
Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
mailtab1 process done

WHY?

I need a solution to one (or, preferably, both) of these problems. I also have a second script that does the mailreload command.

My current plan, based on some of the mail server logs showing errors with the ClamAV milter, is to uninstall and reinstall clamav tonight afterhours. Thoughts?


Cross-posted all over the place

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/812585.html