The Mythryll Log

automatic update for wordpress

http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2009/Wordpress-Automatic-Update-Asking-for-FTP

Retrieve and Restore Cisco configs with SNMP

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080094aa6.shtml

Mysql remote access

i got this from http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-enable-remote-access-to-mysql-database-server.html

Also take under consideration this http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?34,92009,92068#msg-92068

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=252842

http://blog.johan-mares.be/ict/linux/installing-a-virtual-ubuntu-lamp-server-on-mac-os-x-using-virtualbox/

parental control in windows 7

Check this page, it explains how you can set up parental controls in windows 7 with pictures.
http://www.techtalkz.com/windows-7/516005-how-configure-parental-controls-windows-7-a.html

Raiding mother in world of warcraft

Take a look at link below, it’s a raiding mother’s view of the ever lasting issue: casual vs harcore in the World of Warcraft.
http://www.raidwarning.net/2009/11/rw-guest-blog-casual-vs-hardcore-is-it-really-a-big-deal/
A list of the slash commands available to use in wow chat
http://www.wowwiki.com/List_of_slash_commands

Notes

These are a few tips I have found in youtube about special tasks in World of Warcraft.

Howto Install Mysql Database Server with Phpmyadmin Frontend

I took this from here http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-mysql-database-server-with-phpmyadmin-frontend.html

MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.

Installing Mysql database in Ubuntu

sudo aptitude install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev

This will complete the installation of mysql server 5.0.45 in ubuntu gutsy.

Configuring Mysql in ubuntu

MySQL initially only allows connections from the localhost (127.0.0.1). We’ll need to remove that restriction if you wish to make it accessible to everyone on the internet. Open the file /etc/mysql/my.cnf

sudo gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Find the line bind-address = 127.0.0.1 and comment it out
…
#bind-address = 127.0.0.1
…

You can check your configuration using the following command

#netstat -tap

Output Looks like below

tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 4997/mysqld

MySQL comes with no root password as default. This is a huge security risk. You’ll need to set one. So that the local computer gets root access as well, you’ll need to set a password for that too. The local-machine-name is the name of the computer you’re working on. For more information see here

sudo mysqladmin -u root password your-new-password

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Manage Mysql using Phpmyadmin

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats and is available in 54 languages. GPL License information.

Install phpmyadmin in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install phpmyadmin

This will complete the installation.

Now you need to goto http://serverip/phpmyadmin/

Login using your mysql root as username and password

How to install GUI in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Server

I have taken this from http://www.ubuntugeek.com/3171.html

We have already discussed how to install ubuntu 9.10 LAMP server .If you are a new user and not familiar with command prompt you can install GUI for your ubuntu LAMP server using one of  the 2 options

1) Install desktop Environment

2) Install Webmin

1) Install desktop Environment

First you nee to make sure you have enabled Universe and multiverse repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list file once you have enable you need to use the following command to install GUI

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

The above command will install GNOME desktop

If you wan to install a graphical desktop manager without some of the desktop addons like Evolution and OpenOffice, but continue to use the server flavor kernel use the following command

sudo aptitude install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop

If you want to install light weight desktop install xfce using the following command

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

If you want to install KDE desktop use the following command

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

2) Install Webmin in Ubuntu 9.10 server

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.Currently There is no Webmin package in the Ubuntu repositories.This tutorial will explain how to Install Webmin in Ubuntu Karmic

You can install webmin as your ubuntu server web interface to configure apache2,mysql,FTp servers and many more.Now we will see how to install webmin in Ubuntu 9.10

Preparing your system

First you need to install the following packages

sudo aptitude install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

Now download the latest webmin using the following command or from here

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.500_all.deb

Now we have webmin_1.500_all.deb package install this package using the following command

sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.500_all.deb

This will complete the installation.

Using the Webmin APT repository

If you like to install and update Webmin via APT, edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file on your system

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

add the line

deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib

Save and exit the file

You should also fetch and install my GPG key with which the repository is signed, with the commands : cd /root

wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc

sudo apt-key add jcameron-key.asc

You will now be able to install with the commands

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install webmin

All dependencies should be resolved automatically.

Ubuntu in particular don’t allow logins by the root user by default. However, the user created at system installation time can use sudo to switch to root. Webmin will allow any user who has this sudo capability to login with full root privileges.

Now you need to open your web browser and enter the following

Old guild in trouble

My old guild is in trouble. Not too many users left, we ll try and figure out how many are left and then try to liven things up a little.
Sure hope we make it.
Meeting on Thursday night, 22:10 server time.

install vmware tools on ubuntu server

I took the article below from http://www.gorillapond.com/2009/03/09/install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-linux-reborn/

If you work much with virtual machines, you know how important installing VMware Tools can be. Even without the graphical interface of Linux (called X11), there are a number of important features that installing VMware Tools offers you and you really shouldn’t skip it. I’ve struggled with installing VMware Tools on Ubuntu Linux in the past, and I hope you find this guide helpful in making it even quicker and easier. It seems newer versions of Ubuntu and VMware Tools broke my previous instructions. Luck for us, VMware and Ubuntu contributors have made the process easier than it was in the past.

Now for a little back story: VMware has released the source code for VMware Tools as an open source project called open-vm-tools located at Sourceforge. By itself, this isn’t helpful because open-vm-tools does not include an installer and therefore you would need to run shell scripts to merge the working bits of open-vm-tools into the traditional VMware Tools installer. Let’s all be glad we can avoid that mess.

Contributors of Ubuntu have taken open-vm-tools and created a installable package for Ubuntu, and included it in the standard software repositories so you can install it easily. This means upgrades should be much easier in the future, and these directions should hopefully continue to work into the future. Let’s get down to it.

Notes:

* I have tested this on Ubuntu 8.10 Server (Intrepid Ibex) but it should work just as well on the Desktop edition. If this doesn’t work for you, try my old instructions.
* This only sets up the basics of VMware Tools for a terminal install of Ubuntu, like Server edition. If you want the copy/paste integration and other goodies available for Ubuntu with a graphical interface, you need to install an additional software package called open-vm-toolbox in step 3. I’m not sure what else is required, please leave a comment if you figure it out.
* You must execute all of these commands either using sudo or otherwise with root-level access. This means putting sudo in front of the commands, or creating a root terminal with sudo bash.

1. Let’s get your virtual machine ready:

I’ll assume you just finished installing Ubuntu and we need to install all the updated versions of included software.

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

2. Reboot:

Since we probably just upgraded the Linux kernel, let’s reboot now to make sure we’re booted from the newest kernel.

reboot
3. Install the Ubuntu package for open-vm-tools:

Log back in and make sure you continue running these commands as root or using sudo.

apt-get install open-vm-tools
4. Bring back the network connection so we can continue:

At this point, the installation of the package killed your network connection for no good reason and we need it to continue. I hope you weren’t using SSH yet! Let’s bring the connection back up so we can keep working.

modprobe pcnet32
/etc/init.d/networking restart5. Build and install the kernel modules:

The current version of the Ubuntu open-vm-tools package installs files in the right spots, but it doesn’t actually build the various kernel modules (drivers) necessary for VMware Tools to actually work. Let’s build them now.

Note: If the second command fails take a look at my comment below for a fix.

module-assistant prepare open-vm
module-assistant auto-install open-vm

6. Reconfigure and rebuild initramfs:

I’m a little sketchy on the details here, but from what I’ve learned, the boot process doesn’t have access to the VMware accelerated NIC (vmxnet) kernel module at boot time and it fails to load. So if we include it inside initramfs, it will have access to the vmxnet module, and we will get a network connection at bootup. Very handy!

echo vmxnet >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
update-initramfs -u

7. Reboot for the last time:

reboot
8. Dance!

At this point everything should be great! You have all the features of VMware Tools, and didn’t pull your hair out in the process! Win-win! You can do a little dance, nobody is watching!