My history of commands

Based on kagesenshi's post titled Me! Me!, I also want to know what commands were used by me regularly. So:

[zamri@localhost ~]$ history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
126 ssh
100 ls
97 smbclient
86 cd
76 su
58 wine
48 ping
35 joe
32 exit
17 ps

There you go. The ouput isn't surprising. I did lots of ssh to my servers and wine (ahaaa!! surprise!), I played windows games a lot for the last 4 months. Now I stop playing 'em completely. It is boring when you always win. :P

clamav 0.93 released

I just feel like it was yesterday I upgraded my clamav to 0.92.1. Now it is version 0.93. I gotta upgrade it ASAP. Thanks to the spirit of OSS. The excitement will never end. :)

Changes since 0.92.1:

  * libclamav:
   - New logic in scan limits: provides much more efficient protection against
     DoS attacks but also results in different command line and config options
     to clamscan and clamd (see below)
   - New/improved modules: unzip, SIS, cabinet, CHM, SZDD, text normalisator,
     entity converter
   - Improved filetype detection; filetype definitions can be remotely updated
   - Support for .cld containers (which replace .inc directories)
   - Improved pattern matcher and signature formats
   - More efficient scanning of HTML files
   - Many other improvements

 * clamd:
   - NEW CONFIG FILE OPTIONS: MaxScanSize, MaxFileSize, MaxRecursion, MaxFiles
   - ** THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED **: MailMaxRecursion,
     ArchiveMaxFileSize, ArchiveMaxRecursion, ArchiveMaxFiles,
     ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio, ArchiveBlockMax

 * clamscan:
   - NEW CMDLINE OPTIONS: --max-filesize, --max-scansize
   - REMOVED OPTIONS: --block-max, --max-space, --max-ratio

 * freshclam:
   - NEW CONFIG OPTION CompressLocalDatabase
   - NEW CMDLINE SWITCH --no-warnings
   - main.inc and daily.inc directories are no longer used by ClamAV; please
     remove them manually from your database directory

Please note the new config file options.

Well... happy upgrading!. :)

Yakuake - An easy access console

Yakuake (Yet Another Kuake KDE terminal emulator) is a KDE console application that I use the most for months now. Before, I used to use konsole but after installing yakuake, I rarely use konsole anymore. The most important feature is the quick easy access to it by pressing a key. The key is configurable. I can't remember what is the default key for it but I choose F8 because the default is used by another application.

Installing yakuake
Debian - use synaptic or aptitude or apt-get install yakuake
Mandriva - use graphical rpmdrake or urpmi yakuake
other distros - please consult your distro documentation.

I have read a Linux mag (don't know which) that it is favorite among KDE developers and will be replacing konsole. I don't know whether this is true. Anyone can confirm this?

References:
Yakuake home page (new update)
Yakuake - An easy access konsole for KDE
More info : http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29153

dbmail 2.2.10 released

I have just upgraded my dbmail to 2.2.10. There are bugs fixed. So upgrade is highly recommended.

Changes since 2.2.9:

- - PostgreSQL 8.3 compatibility (# 676).
- - Duplicate key errors and other insertion problems ( #685, #686).

Download:
http://www.dbmail.org/download/2.2/dbmail-2.2.10.tar.gz

Debian etch backport:
deb http://debian.nfgd.net/debian stable main

Full changelog:
http://git.dbmail.eu/?p=paul/dbmail;a=shortlog;h=v2.2.10

Refer my previous post on how to upgrade dbmail (without database schema change).

Transparent proxy with squid 2.6

I have upgraded my squid from 2.5 STABLE13 to 2.6 STABLE18. Transparent proxy is setup differently in this version. You need this directives in squid.conf (usually in /etc or /usr/local/etc or /usr/local/squid/etc, check with your distro).

acl our_networks src 192.168.2.0/24 127.0.0.1
http_access allow our_networks
http_port 192.168.2.1:3128 transparent
always_direct allow all

where 192.168.2.1 is your proxy server IP address.


If you have flushed your iptables, create new rule:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i  eth0 -p tcp –dport  80 -j REDIRECT –to-port 3128

where 3128 is the port where squid is running.

References:
http://www.deckle.co.za/squid-users-guide/Transparent_Caching/Proxy

Squid - File size limit exceeded

Yesterday (15th Feb 2008) my squid died unexpectedly. I tried to restart it several times but to no avail. So I tried to see what went wrong by debugging and ran it in foreground. So,

squid -NCd3

N = put it in foreground
C = don't catch fatal signals
d = set debug level (3 is the level)

It threw a bunch of messages with the last line was File size limit exceeded. Just like this but I got no core dumped!. With no clue how to solve it, I recompiled squid (2.6-stable17) with extra parameters (with-max-fd=8192 and --with-large-files):

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-icmp --enable-kill-parent-hack --enable-ssl --enable-linux-netfilter --enable-large-cache-files --enable-follow-x-forwarded-for --with-large-files

It solved it. Shane reported here that this happens when file store.log is bigger that 2 GB. Disabling the use of store.log (or other relevant files for that matter) will get rid of this problem.

dbmail 2.2.9 released

From dbmail mailing-list (Feb, 9 2008):

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of DBMail version 2.2.9, the latest in the stable/production series.

THis is a bugfix maintenance release.

Bugs fixed since 2.2.8:

DBMail - 2.2.9
==============
- 0000668: [Command-Line programs (dbmail-users, dbmail-util)]
dbmail-export segmentation fault and mbox compatibility (paul)
- 0000663: [Authentication layer] Authldap module reloads when it try to recconect
- 0000662: [Authentication layer] Ability to bypass authentication on Active Directory
- 0000660: [IMAP daemon] imapd provides better inetd compatability (paul)

Changelog:

http://git.dbmail.eu/?p=paul/dbmail;a=shortlog;h=v2.2.9

Download:

http://www.dbmail.org/download/2.2/dbmail-2.2.9.tar.gz


kind regards,
Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl

What is dbmail?
Read here