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If you are having issues with the SMTP Server, then sometimes you just wish you had a swiss army knife to test the same and then you would not have to spend your precious time on some silly mistake that you may have made. Your wish is now fulfilled.

Swiss Army Knife SMTP: A command line SMTP tester.  Swaks can test various aspects of your SMTP server, including TLS and AUTH.

swaks can be easily installed with :

sudo yum install swaks

To begin with, if you want to test the localhost then simply enter swaks, you will be asked for “to” address. And then there will be a attempt to send the mail. And you can see the messages on the console. Here’s an example:

To: =========================
=== Trying localhost:25…
=== Connected to ===============.
<-  220 amit.themafia.info ESMTP Exim 4.69 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:24:25 +0530
-> EHLO amit.themafia.info
<-  250-amit.themafia.info Hello ======================
<-  250-SIZE 52428800
<-  250-PIPELINING
<-  250-STARTTLS
<-  250 HELP
-> MAIL FROM:===========================
<-  250 OK
-> RCPT TO:================
<-  250 Accepted
-> DATA
<-  354 Enter message, ending with “.” on a line by itself
-> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:24:25 +0550
-> To:=====================
-> From: ===================================
-> Subject: test Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:24:25 +0550
-> X-Mailer: swaks v20061116.0 jetmore.org/john/code/#swaks
->
-> This is a test mailing
->
-> .
<-  250 OK id=1No8VV-0003bT-EC
-> QUIT
<-  221 amit.themafia.info closing connection
=== Connection closed with remote host.

For my own security, I have removed my email address and other things. Now, coming to other things.

Here are few of the options that you may find useful

-s ==> server

-f ==> from

-t ==> to

-l ==> input file

-d ==> data

–attach

-h ==> header

–protocol

HELO            AUTH    TLS     PORT
————————————————–
SMTP    HELO                            smtp  / 25
SSMTP   EHLO->HELO              -tlsc   smtps / 465
SSMTPA  EHLO->HELO      -a      -tlsc   smtps / 465
SMTPS   HELO                    -tlsc   smtps / 465
ESMTP   EHLO->HELO                      smtp  / 25
ESMTPA  EHLO->HELO      -a              smtp  / 25
ESMTPS  EHLO->HELO              -tls    smtp  / 25
ESMTPSA EHLO->HELO      -a      -tls    smtp  / 25
LMTP    LHLO                            lmtp  / 24
LMTPA   LHLO            -a              lmtp  / 24
LMTPS   LHLO                    -tls    lmtp  / 24
LMTPSA  LHLO            -a      -tls    lmtp  / 24

You can check other options in the man page or the help.

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Here is the installation instruction for Eclim for vim. I have not tried it as I did not require it, but if you need it.

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/eclim/eclim/1.4.8/eclim_1.4.8.tar.gz?use_mirror=biznetnetworks

sudo ant -Declipse.home=/usr/lib/eclipse -Dvim.files=/home/amitag/.vim -Dplugins=cdt

create ctgs using

ctags -R /usr/include/

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Here are two themes from Ian.. Link: http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-gtk2-and-metacity-themes.html

GTK-DarkTurrican.tar

GTK-LightTurrican.tar

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Home Page of fvwm.

So Now I am trying different window managers. My requirement is simple, alt+tab should allow me to swicht the windows and the window manager should be light but configurable and should show the programs/applications that are installed on my system. The last requirement comes from the fact that I am quite forgetful person and keep forgetting about the application to use for the particular purpose. So Window Manager should not be CPU and Memory hogging like Gnome or KDE but still should be decent and not like “X” or hackedbox.

So, I went back to fvwm. I remember using this some 8-9 years back as fvwm2. This is quite a interesting wm. Quite light and good one.

Heres a screenshot:

fvwm

and if you looking at installting this on your Fedora box then just type:

yum install fvwm

chao

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I had bash completion installed and after that I had made huge changes to my bashrc and also installed bashstyle. After this the bash-completion stopped working.

I had to spend a lot of time to figure out that the easiest solution was to source the bash-completion again in the end.

. /etc/bash_completion

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Ever wanted to have wallpaper downloaded from Flickr directly using the tags and then apply them as wallpaper, then the way to go is download Webilder here. Just do the regular stuff to install the same.

tar xvfz <filename>

cd <to the directory created>

./configure

make

sudo make install

And then right click on the gnome panel and add the widget. Configure the tags to download and the duration to change the wallpaper and enjoy.

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Problem:
I had a directory with very good collection of my scripts and very organized in folders. The structure is something like this, first I have the broad classification of the category. Then I have the name of the tool/script as the name of the directory. All these are perl/python or shell scripts and luckily labelled so with the extension. I want to add these to the GNome main (Applications) menu.
Solution:
Lets take it stepwise:
1)  Add new menu tools to the Applications menu. Go to /etc/xdg/menus
Open the file applications.menu and add the following before <DefaultMergeDirs/>

<!– Test  –>
<Menu>
<Name>Test</Name>
<!– Scan legacy dirs first, as later items take priority –>
<LegacyDir>/usr/share/applications/test </LegacyDir>
<Directory>X-GNOME-test.directory</Directory>
<OnlyUnallocated/>
<Include>
<And>
<Category>database</Category>
</And>
</Include>
</Menu> <!– End test –>

2) Now go to directory “/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged” and create a new file called “test-categories.menu” and put the following in the file:

<Menu>
<Name>Applications</Name>

<Menu>
<Name>Pentest</Name>
<Menu>
<Name>database</Name> <!– name of the directory in menu –>
<Directory>pentest-database.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<And>
<Category>database</Category> <!– This is the category that you need to add in the desktop file.–>
</And>
</Include>
</Menu>

</Menu>
</Menu>

You can include as many directory as you want.

3) Now the fun part of creating the desktop files that link to the perl/python or the shell scripts and actually populate the menu. Note: Until the menu contains any item, the menu will not appear. Okay, go to directory “/usr/share/applications/test“. Create a shell script with  the following and run it in the directory containing your scripts, and then “mv *.desktop /usr/share/applications/test”:

for i in $(find . -type f -executable)
do

##Get the directory name from the full path
dir=$(dirname $i)
cat=$(echo $dir|awk -F/ ‘{print $2}’)
name=$(echo $dir|awk -F/ ‘{print $3}’)

## Find the type of the file
[[ "${i}"  =~ sh$ ]] && type=sh;
[[ "${i}"  =~ pl$ ]] && type=pl;
[[ "${i}"  =~ py$ ]] && type=py;
if [[ "$type" = "pl" ]]
then
exec=perl
elif [[ "$type" = "sh" ]]
then
exec=bash
else
exec=python
fi
[[ "${type}" =~ ^$ ]] || (
##echo “creating file”
cat <<EOF >test_$(basename $i).desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=$name – $(basename $i $type)
GenericName=$name – $(basename $i $type)
Exec=xterm -title “$name – $(basename $i)” -e ‘$exec /tools/pentest/$dir/$(basename $i)’
Terminal=true
Categories=$cat
EOF
)
##echo $i $dir $cat $type
unset type
done

And you are done.. Do leave me a comment if you like it.

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I have been looking to do this for sometime. The bash history is per
session basis and the last session to quit overwrites the bash_history
file and thus all other terminals started between the time last terminal
lasted does not get to write the commands in the history file. Secondly
the history gets cluttered with lot of duplicate entries and entries
with ls and cd commands. So finally I added these to the bashrc file:

#Ignore these commands for inclusion in the history file
export HISTIGNORE=”history *:cd *:df *:exit:fg:bg:file
*:ll:ls:mc:top:clear:$HISTIGNORE”
export HISTIGNORE=”&:ls:[bf]g:exit:cd:history:*.bash_history”
#append to the histofy file
shopt -s histappend
#Write the history immediately after the command execution
PROMPT_COMMAND=`history -a`
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
#Erase duplicates from history
export HISTCONTROL=erasedups

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Ok, this is mostly a Linux advocacy and I kind of completely agree with this.

Here’s the main text, but dont forget to go to the page to read the comments( quite good and interesting thoughts by lot of people).

OK group…let’s see a show of hands…

How many people believe that the current way Linux markets itself is sufficient? That would be the combination of apathy, inertia and a smattering of guerrilla marketing.

Good, Good….yeah, that’s a majority all right. Thanks for taking your hand out of the Cheeto’s bag long enough to be inconvenienced. You might want to wipe it against your t-shirt before you begin your flaming response.

Which is unlikely. If you are reading this blog or any publication that might post this blog, you more than likely don’t fit into this group

Now, how many of you think that we need to get the word out to the everyday computer user and let them know they have a choice in the way they operate their computers?

Oops…Well, that was expected as well. Now you know what it’s like to be a Ron Paul Supporter.

So…one more question then we’ll wrap this up.

How many of you feel comfortable that Linux has a firm hold on the penguin as an unofficial trademark of Linux?

My goodness. There is a veritable sea of hands in the air. That’s a good thing. Well, at least we agree on something.

Now let me show you how a consensus of opinion is as reliable as an unbooted Windows server. Not to mention those that hold said opinion.

Many of you in the first group I queried can take pride in this. Congratulations to everyone who made this possible.

Excuse the poor photograph. This billboard picture was taken on IH 35 in Austin from the upper deck in a car doing 70 mph. Stopping on the upper deck for any reason is almost certain catastrophe. It’s good enough however to make the point.

Microsoft has now successfully claimed the penguin as their “symbol”. Yep, I see it coming…”What’s the big deal helios? So they use a flock of penguins to advertise.” If those words come out of your mouth, I would make certain they weren’t heard too loudly. Ask yourself this. Why penguins? How many tens of thousands of other animals could they have chosen?

Why penguins? It’s obvious if you just spend a few minutes thinking about it.

These billboards are going up all over the United States. I’ve called Microsoft numerous times Friday to get a statement but they’ve yet to respond.

By the way, the rest of the text from that sign reads “Life Without Walls”.

That is funny in itself. Microsoft trying to equate itself with freedom. They better hope people continue to ignore their EULA.

So…let’s keep on handing out cd’s, holding our Lindependence events, flooding You Tube with Cube videos ad nauseum and anything else we can think of that reaches hundreds of people in a months time. Microsoft is reaching millions a day.

And their doing it with your penguin.

Guerrilla marketing…now that’s effective. Instead of getting the community organized into some sort of legitimate promotional entity, and Heaven knows we’ve tried… we’ve screwed around and let Microsoft take the one thing we thought they could never touch. Don’t forget…Linus chose the penguin himself as our mascot/symbol.

Congratulations to all who made this possible.

All-Righty Then

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