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If you have Fedora Core 5/6 or CentOS 5 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on your server and are experiencing troubles with respect to upgrades (forced or otherwise) of Click Be! or Fantastico or Universina, please check the wget version that you have on your server.

If it is wget-1.10.2-3.3.fc5 or wget-1.10.2-7.el5 or wget-1.10.2-8.fc6.1, we suggest that you replace it immediately with an older and/or stabler version. This version does not honor the “-P” switch.

An alternate version that we suggest is wget-1.10.2-3.2.1

You can use the following commands for this purpose.

For 32-bit:

rpm -qa wget ;
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/wget-1.10.2-3.2.1.i386.rpm
rpm -e wget ;
rpm -ivh –force wget-1.10.2-3.2.1.i386.rpm ;
rpm -qa wget ;

For 64-bit:

rpm -qa wget ;
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/x86_64/os/Fedora/wget-1.10.2-15.fc7.x86_64.rpm ;
rpm -e wget ;
rpm -ivh –force wget-1.10.2-15.fc7.x86_64.rpm ;
rpm -qa wget ;

Note: You must execute the commands shown above as root.

You will also want to put wget on /etc/yum.conf’s exclude= line so the OS doesn’t automatically reinstall the buggy version.

Reports suggest that the version of wget included with Fedora Core 7 does not have this problem, so that may be a better option for some people.

Hurray! EvDO works even on Hardy and this time it was simple and easy.

Today Ubuntu released an upgrade for the kernel 2.6.24-15-generic which found to be having a very good airprime kernel module which is required to identify the BSNL EvDO USB device.

You might have read my previous hack on BSNL EvDO, it was bit hard to get the USB device working.

This is what I did on my console after upgrading the kernel to new version :

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.24-15-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/airprime.ko

I just went ahead and added airprime into /etc/modules and restarted my system to get USB device working when ever I insert it. (This is just to ensure that the module gets loaded all the time)

Fantastico is an automated tool for installing forums and other php softwares into your webhosting account via Web hosting control panel “Cpanel”

Here is how you can jump in and do a fresh install / upgrade of Fantastico on a Cpanel Server

SSH to your server(s) and enter following commands:

cd /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi
wget -N http://files.betaservant.com/files/free/fantastico_whm_admin.tgz
tar -xzpf fantastico_whm_admin.tgz

Now go to WHM, login as root and follow the link

WHM -> Add-Ons -> Fantastico De Luxe WHM Admin (scroll down the left menu).

Upon loading, Fantastico De Luxe WHM Admin will auto-update your existing installation (if existing). All admin files (masterfiles, tarballs, settings etc) will be moved to or created at /var/netenberg.

You need a license to run this. So, don’t forget to purchase it
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If any one wants to send emails from an external email client like Kmail, Evolution, Ourlook express etc, he need not provide authentication details if he pop’s emails from his account before sending emails. If you’ve already read mails from the server, the servers lets you send emails at the same time by allowing relay for your IP (Global ip which will be allocated by your ISP when you connect to internet. To find the global ip use “What is My IP“.

Pop-Before-SMTP feature allow the email account which gets authenticated to pop emails by adding the users IP to relay hosts list for some time. Most of the administrators have it on in their servers as some lazy users don’t like to provide authentication details once again for sending emails. This could turn out to be an issue when there is a worm, spyware or virus on your users computers. The virus or spyware can utilizing open relay to send spam from the servers.

I was just trying to remove this feature from Qmail server and here is the step used to disable it. You need to read the documentation or wiki for other email servers to achieve the same result.

You can disable POP before SMTP by uncommenting “disable_external_relay” in ~vpopmail/etc/vlimits.default.

Have you disabled this on any other email server? Share it with me.

As soon as I install Linux I need all multimedia tools. group chat applications, codec’s etc.

Medibuntu repo bring in many of these so that I can quickly get it installed and start using them in minutes.

• Non-Free Media Codecs (w32codecs, libdvdcss, etc)
• Acroread
• Google Earth
• RealPlayer
• Skype
• Popular Media Players without stripped codecs (amarok, xmms, mplayer, kaffeine, k3b)

Now Ubuntu Hardy Heron is hitting the roads in few days and you might start searching for the applications supported on Hardy. Your search ends here, Just add Medibuntu repo to your system and you’re ready to start installing 3rd party applications on your Ubuntu installation.

How to install Medibubntu repo ?

It’s simple, Run the following lines at the console

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

How to install applications after this?

Don’t be kidding. You know how to do it. Use Synaptic package manager or apt-get or aptitude on the console.

Ex:

• sudo apt-get install skype

• sudo aptitude install k3b

Let me know if you face any issues while using this Medibuntu repo.

Google Docs, Google’s Online Office Suite is now in “Local Languages”.

(Kannada,Hindi, Telugu, Tamil etc.)

Find my google docs account in Kannada.

This 2nd Image tells you how you need to change the language in Settings.

Enjoy Localization!!