Month: February 2010

How to : Confiugre Pidgin To Connect Microsoft OCS/LCS IM Server

Note:I am seeing so many people visiting this page, but leaving early.. please feel free to comment at comment section what problems you faced in installing PIDGIN, i am very much interested in helping you.. Good news for all the Linux lovers who are working in Corporate companies where most of the communication is through Microsoft OCS(Office Communicator Software)/IBM Same time IM clients. OCS is primarily used for IM communications, but if you want to use OCS in Linux it’s not possible till this point. Recently Pidgin started supporting SIP(Session Initiation Protocol) Protocol. So for the people how know about MS OCS. Here is the short notes for you. MS OCS is a proprietary software is an enterprise real-time communications server, providing the infrastructure for enterprise instant messaging, presence, file transfer, Peer to peer and multi-party voice and video calling, ad hoc and structured conferences (audio, video and web) and PSTN connectivity. These features are available within an organisation, between organisations, and with external users on the public Internet, or standard phones, on the PSTN as well as SIP trunking. --Wikipedia.org Its little bit tricky to install and use it. Here are the steps how to accomplish this. Note : By default Pidgin will not support MS OCS. We require a third party ( pidgin-sipe) to accesses MS OCS. Step1 : Check if pidgin is installed or not, From...

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How To : Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)

Guest post by Sandeep Yadav(http://linuxarea.webs.com/). He is having 2+ years of experience in Linux administration and he is a good at automating system admin task through shell scripting. You can reach him at sandeeprhce5@gmail.com.Now I will tell you how we can configure LTSP server for our lab with telnet, rdesktop, shell and startx ( for Linux log in).Step1 :a. Make sure DHCP server is installed and running properly on your systemb. Now install tftp server also on your machine and you can find it’s rpm on your Redhat DVD (5.0)c. Now install rdesktop rpm and it is also you can find on your redhat DVD (5.0)d. Configure your windows xp system with full terminal and remote desktop support for distribute rdesktop also over the network so that client can be run windows xp.e. Now download ltsp-4.1.0-1_2.iso image from it’s website (http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ltsp/isos/) and my package size is 100MB (apprx.).f. Now I am making dir test in filesystem (/) and extract this package in test directoryg. Now open readme file from test folder and read instructions carefully on how to install this package.h. After installation complete you need to configure ltsp server . Step 2 :Configure tftp for ltsp serverTFTP : TFTP is a simple file transfer protocol, used by ltsp to transfer the kernel to the workstations.XINETD : Xinetd is a powerful replacement for inetd, with advanced features, used by...

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Script to remove executables

Some times we require to remove executables from perticular directories.. This script will show how to do that.. #!/bin/bash#Author: Surendra kumar Anne(surendra@linuxnix.com)#Purpose: To find executables in a given folder and remove them.#Date/Time:09-Feb-2010.08:06echo “Please specify the directory, from which you want to delete the executables”read DIRVALfind $DIRVAL -executable -type f -exec rm -rf {} ;echo “deleted all the executables from $DIRVAL” Let me explain the above script..first line of the shell script is always she-bang statement, which is required by the system to know what type of script is this.. from the first line your system will come to know it’s a bash script.And next three lines are used for specifying Author,Purpose and Date(these three lines are not mandatory but a good scripting expert will provide them).Here echo commend is used to display a question to user.. Then user should provide from which directory he wants to delete the executables. Here i am using find command with -executable and -type option to find only executable files and then i am feeding them to find builtin -exec which will remove all the executables using rm...

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My name is Surendra Kumar Anne. I hail from Vijayawada which is cultural capital of south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. I am a Linux evangelist who believes in Hard work, A down to earth person, Likes to share knowledge with others, Loves dogs, Likes photography. At present I work at Bank of America as Sr. Analyst Systems and Administration. You can contact me at surendra (@) linuxnix dot com.