1. Create the .desktop file:

   nano ~/.local/share/applications/Eclipse.desktop

   Paste this in:

   [Desktop Entry]
   Encoding=UTF-8
   Version=1.0
   Type=Application
   NoDisplay=false
   Exec=/path/to/eclipse/eclipse
   Name=Eclipse Comment=Launcher for Eclipse

   Each line is pretty self-explanatory. Edit to suit your needs. As soon as you save the file, you will be able to see your new shortcut in the list.

2. (Optional) Give the shortcut a nice-looking icon:
   You probably noticed that your icon is an ugly diamond. To pretty it up, you simply have to add one more line to the desktop file.

    Icon=/path/to/eclipse/eclipse.svg

   Your application may have included a png icon, but to make it really look nice, you should grab an SVG file of the logo from somewhere. Arch has a very simple packaging process which lets you examine all of the package building elements through their webpage at http://www.archlinux.org/packages/. I was able to grab the SVG which the package uses like this:

   wget -O eclipse.svg http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/eclipse.svg\?h\=packages/eclipse

Windows:
This server seemed to want the license file specified. You may need to launch the lmtools GUI tool and watch the status bar for the path to it. This is what mine looked like:

"c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\lmutil" lmstat -c "c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\license\license.lic" -a

Linux:

/home/esri/arcgis/license10.0/bin/lmutil lmstat -a

That will spit out the current license usage for all your products. To isolate the numbers we want to monitor, we will be piping the output into some other commands like find and cut.
I recommend using the GNU tools for windows http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. These examples use the built-in ‘find’ utility, and a ‘cut.exe’ tool i found googling around. I had overlooked the gnutools when I first set this up. My mistake can be your gain. With gnutools, it will be easy to isolate the output you want using ‘grep’ and ‘cut’. First, isolate the line you are looking for with grep. You will have to figure out what feature code you want to monitor. mine looks like this:

Windows:

"c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\lmutil" lmstat -c "c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\license\license.lic" -a | find /i "64300acd_f:"

Linux:

/home/esri/arcgis/license10.0/bin/lmutil lmstat -a | grep ARC/INFO

now that you have the right line,  you can trim the extra characters with ‘cut’. It will take some experimentation to get it right.:

Windows:

"c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\lmutil" lmstat -c "c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\license\license.lic" -a | find /i "64300acd_f:" | cut -c 62-64

Linux:

/home/esri/arcgis/license10.0/bin/lmutil lmstat -a | grep ARC/INFO | cut -c 59-61

The output now should be only the number of licenses being used.

To allow zabbix to monitor this value, we need to create a ‘UserParameter’ read up on it here: http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/config/user_parameters. This is what the parameter looks like on my servers:

Windows:

UserParameter=licenses.autocad.used,"c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\lmutil" lmstat -c "c:\program files\autodesk network license manager\license\license.lic" -a | find /i "64300acd_f:" | cut -c 62-64

Linux:

UserParameter=licenses.arcinfo.used,/home/esri/arcgis/license10.0/bin/lmutil lmstat -a | grep ARC/INFO | cut -c 59-61

Once you have the userparameter created on the license server, restart the agent and add an item in zabbix to begin collecting values.

Please read the FAQ regarding xbox360 file format compatibility.  It may help you pick better options for your particular files than the general ones i offer below.

The solution is simple: Use Avidemux.

1. Install avidemux. To install it is simple. It’s in the Ubuntu repositories and I imagine you can also find it in other distros quite easily.
2. Open avidemux and open the mkv you want to convert. If prompted some garbage about 264 and safemode, just use safe mode and dont worry about it.
3. Select File -> Properties. This will tell you some info on the formats in use in your video file. Take this opportunity to identify what the xbox doesn’t like. When you are finished, click OK. If you want a second opinion, open up the folder with your mkv in it. Right click -> properties -> Audio/Video tab. This will also tell you the video and audio formats.
4. We obviously know that it wont play a video in a MKV container, so first thing to do is change the “Format” dropdown to say “MP4″ (you can, of course use AVI, but the majority of files I run into are h.264 and aac audio. For this combo, you want mp4…)
5. From the Properties menu, recall the video codec. H264 files show as “AVC1″ inside of avidemux. I’m sure theres a technical reason for this, but do you want to talk about it or watch your video?
   Most of the time, you can leave the video droptown in avidemux on “Copy” this is nice because it means that your processor wont be re-encoding the video. This saves you quality and time.
6. From the properties menu, recall the audio codec. If you have a video with AAC stereo audio, leave the dropdown on “copy”.
   This is where most of my files need some love. Many MKV’s have 5.1 surround audio tracks. This is great, but not for an xbox360. To mix the audio down to stereo, select AAC on the audio dropdown, then click “filters”. In the mixer dropdown, select “stereo”.
7. Click “save”. Avidemux will prompt you for a filename for the converted file. It does not default a file extension, so do yourself and your xbox a favor and add one yourself like “<videoname>.mp4″.

Once avidemux is finished with your file, it’s ready to go.

http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

aptitude install bwm-ng

Then, just type ‘bwm-ng’ in the command line. It will give you something like this:

bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 5.000s), press 'h' for help
  input: /proc/net/dev type: rate
  -         iface                   Rx                   Tx                Total
  ==============================================================================
               lo:           0.00 KB/s            0.00 KB/s            0.00 KB/s
             eth0:        2221.47 KB/s           48.13 KB/s         2269.60 KB/s
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            total:        2221.47 KB/s           48.13 KB/s         2269.60 KB/s

Pressing the “h” key while it is running wil actually pull up a nice menu to change some of the options you are looking at.

bwm-ng is very basic, “iptraf” is another tool that provides some more functionality if you want to drill further into what is moving in and out of your box.

Best of all, all of the tools used in the process run perfectly in WINE, or directly on my Linux desktop.

BEWS_12.5.2213_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-SAP_AGENTS.tar.gz\BEWS_12.5.2213_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-SAP_AGENTS.tar\pkgs\Linux\VRTSralus.tar.gz\VRTSralus.tar\VRTSralus-12.5.2213-0.i386.deb

Unfortunately, the Deb package doesn’t specify It’s dependencies. You need to manually install the libstdc++5 package.

aptitude install libstdc++5

You can follow the rest of the install here: http://insanelabs.com/debian/linux-symantec-backup-exec-12-and-debian-etch-3264/

login as root.

to set up the filesystem:

cd /home
mkdir HR
chgrp corporate_HR HR
chmod 2771 HR

set up the share:

[HR]
comment    =    share for corporate HR group
readonly    =   no
inherrit owner    =    yes
inherit permissions    =    yes
authorized users    =    @ACME\corporate_HR @ACME\admins
force group    =    ACME\corporate_HR

aptitude purge network-manager-gnome network-manager 

If this is a VMware Virtual machine, install VMware tools. The prerequisites for Debian Lenny are:

aptitude install build-essential openssl libssl-dev linux-headers-$(uname -r) psmiscapt

You may have to manually create a DNS entry for your server. Just to be safe, do that now.

If you plan to support NTFS-like ACL’s, install support for it now.

aptitude install acl

now, you need to mount the partition with ACL’s enabled, to do this, edit your /etc/fstab.

nano /etc/fstab

The line I needed looked like this:

/dev/sda9 / ext3 acl,defaults 0 1

The important part is to get “acl” into the options list. Dont forget the comma.
I recommend rebooting just to make sure your fstab is set before you continue.
It’s easy to screw something up here and make your system unbootable, so if you reboot, and cant get your system back up and running, get into single user mode, and use this command. (You will have to adjust /dev/sda1 to your root partition. In my experience, it is usually /dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1. Use fdisk -l to list the partitions on the disk.

mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1

Now lets get the samba and kerberos software packages installed.

aptitude install samba ntpdate smbclient winbind krb5-config krb5-user

Put in the Workgroup/domain info when prompted if you like. They will set up some .conf files for you, but we’re not going to use them anyways. We wont worry about WINS for now.
Now lets stop samba and winbind:

/etc/init.d/samba stop /etc/init.d/winbind stop

move the /etc/samba files somewhere

mkdir /etc/samba/vanillaconf mv /etc/samba/* /etc/samba/vanillaconf/

create your own /etc/samba/smb.conf: Make sure that the domain and realm fields are all caps.

[global] workgroup = ((DOMAIN)) server string = %h server wins support = no security = ads realm = ((DOMAIN)).COM encrypt passwords = yes obey pam restrictions = yes winbind use default domain = yes winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes template shell = /bin/bash idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 

sync time

ntpdate ((domain controller))

now that samba knows what domain its part of, and we have a basic config for it, we need to get the authentication part working. Kerberos is the softare that communicates with your Active Directory domain to authenticate users.

nano /etc/krb5.conf

configure domain in /etc/krb5.conf. important parts:

[libdefaults] default_realm = ((domain)).COM [realms] ((DOMAIN.COM)) = { kdc = ((domain controller)) kdc = ((backup DC)) admin_server = (domain controller)) } [domain_realm] .(domain).com = (domain controller).(domain).COM

do a test by typing:

kinit [username]

then type:

klist

if you get some output looking like this, you are ready to go.

Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_0 Default principal: (username)@(domain).COM Valid starting Expires Service principal 04/27/09 13:54:23 04/27/09 23:54:26 krbtgt/(domain).COM@(domain).COM renew until 04/27/09 23:54:23

To get Debian to recognize your Active Directory users, you need to update /etc/nsswitch.conf

nano /etc/nsswitch.conf

add “winbind” to the passwd and group lines. if you have “compat” in the line, put in like this:

passwd: compat winbind passwd_compat: winbind group: compat winbind group_compat: winbind 

Now start samba and winbind back up

/etc/init.d/winbind start /etc/init.d/samba start

Join your machine to the domain.

net ads join -U (administrative user)

You should see

Joined '(server name)' to realm '(domain).com'

If you see

No DNS domain configured for '(servername)'. Unable to perform DNS Update. DNS update failed!

Don’t worry. Just create an entry in your DNS server for the samba machine.
Test if winbind is working properly with

wbinfo -t

If you get

checking the trust secret via RPC calls failed Could not check secret

Then restart winbind:

/etc/init.d/winbind restart

allow AD accounts to logon to the machine:

# /etc/pam.d/common-account account sufficient pam_winbind.so account required pam_unix.so 

# /etc/pam.d/common-auth auth sufficient pam_winbind.so auth required pam_unix.so use_first_pass nullok_secure

# /etc/pam.d/common-session session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0066 session sufficient pam_winbind.so session required pam_unix.so

It is critical that “obey pam restrictions” is set to “yes”. in your smb.conf for these pam settings to take effect.There are some other changes to these Pam.d settings i decided to make upon putting the server into production. I will write about that in another page [link].

Now, give your admin group from AD root access to the box

aptitude install sudo visudo

add this line:

%(domain)\\(admin's group) ALL =(ALL) ALL

When creating shares, to give an AD user access to a share, use:(More info in the future)

valid users = (domain)\username

to give an AD group access to a share, use:

valid users = @(domain)\groupname

Sometimes, I have to reboot my windows client machine to make it work… fyi.
Sources:

• O’reilly Samba book 3rd Edition.
• http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/battista/documentation/winbind/index.html
• …Countless articles, mailing lists, forums.

gksudo kate /boot/grub/menu.lst

take the ‘kernel’ line and add ‘single’ to the end. Like this:

kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=3699a36a-dd96-4186-8028-43776214c01e ro quiet splash single

~/.mozilla/firefox/[unique-alphanumeric-string].default/persdict.dat

just edit the file and remove your mistaken ‘custom’ word.