Nxl67002 - Ubuntu

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Introduction

This is the configuration page for the Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS (amd64) partition on NXL67002.

Configuration Files

All configuration files can be found here.

Installed Applications

[2010-05-03] Gnome DO (gnome-do)
[2010-05-10] Midnight Commander (mc) [2010-05-31] see reference page. Use vi as standard viewer/editor.
[2010-05-10] Vim (vim)
[2010-05-10] Opera 10.53 beta
[2010-05-10] VirtualBox 3.2.0 (virtualbox-3.2) [2010-05-26] Local settings. Updated to 3.2! — See VirtualBox
[2010-05-10] Samba (smbclient smbfs)
[2010-05-10] KeePassX (keepassx)
[2010-05-11] Privoxy (privoxy)
[2010-05-11] AutoSSH (autossh)
[2010-05-11] apt-file (apt-file)
[2010-05-11] SSH Tunnel script (sshtunnel.pl, libssl-dev) Thierry Walrant's Perl script sshtunnel.pl
[2010-05-11] GNU C/C++ compiler (g++)
[2010-05-26] UltraEdit 1.2.0.7 (uex)
[2010-05-27] MBR (mbr) To create VirtualBox rawdisk
[2010-05-27] Courier IMAP (courier-imap courier-doc courier-imap-ssl) Install instructions and local settings
[2010-05-28] SSH (ssh) Local settings
[2010-05-28] p7zip (p7zip-full p7zip-rar)
[2010-05-28] dlocate (dlocate)
[2010-05-28] Thunderbird (thunderbird)
[2010-05-28] Synergy (synergy) Reference page. Added /usr/bin/synergyc to /etc/suoders
Added quick alias to ~/.bashrc
[2010-05-31] Courier-POP3 (courier-pop courier-pop-ssl)
[2010-05-31] Courier-MTA (courier-mta courier-mta-ssl) so that mails are sent to Courier mailboxes
[2010-05-31] AutoFS (autofs) See local config
[2010-05-31] XSel (xsel)
[2010-05-31] LAMP (apache2 php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql) See local config
[2010-05-31] PHPMyAdmin (phpmyadmin) Install for apache2 + configure phpmyadmin database + see local config
[2010-06-01] Psi (psi) See local config


Un-installed applications (by uninstall date): none

Automatic Updates

  • [2010-05-03] — Kernel — (linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic, replacing original linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic)

Simple Settings

  • GRUB — Added to file /etc/grub.d/40_custom: (Not needed anymore since VirtualBox boots Windows directly, so no risk of booting host again)
    set default="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (on /dev/sda2)"
  • CRON - cron script for automatic backup of wikis on Noekeon's (see config files).
  • PROXY - script for automatic setup of network environment (proxy, ssh...) (see config files).

Detailed System Settings

1st install

  • 1st install on [2010-05-03]
  • Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS amd64
  • Installation method: Net boot install from Internet using GRUB
  • Language: English
  • Location: Europe, Belgium Time
  • Computer name: NXL67002UX
  • Keyboard layout: USA, USA
  • Name: beq06659
  • Login name: beq06659
  • Update: Install security updates automatically
  • Software to install: Ubuntu Desktop
  • Partition: see main page

File System

  • For details, see /etc/fstab.
  • Windows partition:
    • C: → do not mount automatically. Risk of corruption if mounted while VirtualBox is running!
    • D: → mount as /windows/d.
  • File system structure:
/:                                        # /dev/sda7
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      data -> /mnt/data/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      net/
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      sage -> /data/sage-4.2.1/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      smb/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      windows/
/data:
  drwxr-xr-x altran    altran    altran/
  drwxr-xr-x beq06659  beq06659  beq06659/
  drwxr-xr-x beq06659  beq06659  sage-4.2.1/
  drwxr-xr-x www-data  root      www/
/home/beq06659:
  lrwxrwxrwx beq06659  beq06659  Maildir -> /data/beq06659/Maildir/
  lrwxrwxrwx beq06659  beq06659  backup -> /data/beq06659/backup/
/mnt:
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      data/    # /windows/d/andlinux/Drives/data.reiserfs.10G.dvi
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      winc/    # /dev/sda2
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      wind/    # /dev/sda5
/net:
  # NFS autofs
/smb:
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      mnemosyne/   # SMB autofs
/var:
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      www -> /data/www/
/windows:
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      d -> /mnt/wind/

Network

  • Edited /etc/hosts
  • Proxy configuration - network nxp:
    • sshproxy → connect to NXP proxy with sshtunnel (with NTLM auth. if needed); forward IMAP/SMTP ports; opens a SOCKS5 proxy
    • privoxy → forward to ssh SOCKS5 proxy. provide http proxy server.
    • apt-get, wget, browsers... → through privoxy (env. set in /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile, /etc/environment)
    • ftp → direct connection (no solution...)
  • Proxy configuration - network home:
    • sshproxy → direct connection; forward IMAP/SMTP ports; opens a SOCKS5 proxy (useless).
    • privoxy → direct connection. provide http proxy server.
    • apt-get, wget, browsers... → through privoxy (env. set in /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile, /etc/environment)
    • ftp → direct connection
  • SAMBA/NFS CLIENT - Mount mnemosyne shares as NFS autofs (see [1]) and as SMB autofs
    • Enabled/created the following automounters in /etc/auto.master:
      • /net           /etc/auto.net
/smb/mnemosyne /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne
    • Created configuration file /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne
    • Created SMB credential files /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne.* (see man mount.cifs)
    • Created path for mount points:
      • sudo mkdir /net
sudo mkdir -p /smb/mnemosyne
#ls /net/mnemosyne
#sudo mkdir -p /mnt/mnemosyne
#for i in /net/mnemosyne/volume1/*; do sudo ln -s $i /mnt/mnemosyne/$(basename $i); done

Preferences

  • Appearance
    • Fonts: All font size set to 8, except Title → 9.
  • Keyboard Layout (System-Wide)
    • Layout: Belgium (default) + USA, no separate layout
    • Options: Capslock affects all keys, Alt+CapsLock or Right Ctrl+Right Shift switch layout, right alt chooses 3rd level.
    (because Alt+Shift,Left Ctrl+Left Shift prevents ctrl-alt-shift shortcuts to work, Right Ctrl conflicts with VirtualBox)
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Action Shortcut Remark
    Home Folder Win-E (Mod4-E) Hack Super is mapped to Win keys not needed anymore it seems
    Expo key Shift-Win-E (Shift-Mod4-E)
    Activate the window menu Shift-Alt-Space was conflicting with Gnome DO shortcut
  • Window List Panel (see here)
    • Window List Content → Show windows from all workspace
    • Restoring Minimized Windows → Restore to native workspace

Detailed Application Settings

Courier IMAP

  • Install (reference here):
    • Create directories for web-based administration
    • SSL Certificate: /etc/courier/pop3d.pem, /etc/courier/imapd.pem
    • Postfix configuration: local only
    • System mail name: nxl67002ux.wbi.nxp.com
    • Created /etc/courier/userdb, and kept entries for root, localuser and beq06659
    • Use password from /etc/courier/userdb (method authuserdb).

Gnome DO

  • Autostart, Quiet mode, notification icon, Glass theme
  • Launch key: <alt>+space (! disable first Gnome global shortcut for Activate the window menu)

LAMP

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql
# --> Defined password for MySQL root user
sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
# --> Added lines at line 32:
#     #MIP CUSTOM
#     ServerName "nxl67002ux"
# Restart apache server to activate php module...
sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart

# Move www root dir to /data disk
sudo mv /var/www /data
sudo ln -s /f /data/www /var/www
  • Apache configuration file is at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
  • By default, Apache root http directory is /var/www
# Create database that will store local copies of noekeon.org crypto and mikiwiki wiki, and todolist
mysql --user=root -p mysql
mysql> CREATE DATABASE cryptokiwi;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cryptokiwi.* TO kiwi@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> CREATE DATABASE mikiwiki;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mikiwiki.* TO miki@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> CREATE DATABASE mikido;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mikido.* TO miki@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> quit

Nautilus

  • Default view: List View
  • Display, date format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
  • List View: zoom 33%

Psi

(recovered from previous settings on Gryphon at ~/.psi)

  • Gnome: Added Psi as startup program (Psi, /usr/bin/psi, Communicate over the jabber network).
  • Options → Events → Enable popup notifications (all notifications)
  • Modify Account... → Changed resource to work-ux
  • Modify Account... → Automatically reconnect if disconnected.

SSH

  • Installed SSH-Tunnel
  • Files recovered from other installation (ssh-tunnel v2.26 + patch):
/usr/local/bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-agent-refresh_andlinux.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-agent-refresh.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-tunnel.pl
  • User beq06659 - configuration file in directory ~/.ssh:
    • id_rsa || id_rsa.pub || authorized_keys || config* || proxy.conf* || clbanner.txt

Terminal

  • Set default window size (system-wide) to 150x43
  • Disabled menu shortcut key (F10) (conflicts with midnight commander)
  • Set scrollback to 5120 lines

VirtualBox

  • Installed with apt, version 3.2.0
  • Create user vbox (disabled, uid 7000, group vboxusers + groups cdrom, audio, video, plugdev). This user will store VirtualBox settings and disks.
  • Create vmdk to boot windows partition /dev/sda2. Update the MBR code to remove GRUB. Repeat this every time the partitions change:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=opensource.mbr bs=512 count=1
sudo apt-get install mbr                                 # For command "install-mbr"
sudo install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 opensource.mbr
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename nxl67002-sda2-mbr.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2 -relative -mbr opensource.mbr
  • Give RW access to user vbox on /dev/sda2. For this create a new udev rule in file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-custom.rules:
# Rules to change the ownership of /dev/sda2 to user "vbox" (vbox will boot /dev/sda2 in VirtualBox + follow least privilege principle)
# reference: http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#ownership
KERNEL=="sda2", SUBSYSTEM=="block", OWNER="vbox"
  • Allow user beq06659 to launch VirtualBox through user vbox. Add to /etc/sudoers:
beq06659	ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/su vbox -c VirtualBox
  • Helper function to add to e.g. ~/.bashrc :
function winbox() {
	#First allow user vbox to connect to X11
	xhost +SI:localuser:vbox
	sudo su vbox -c VirtualBox&
}
  • Host-only network vboxnet0
    • IPv4 address/mask 192.168.11.150/255.255.255.0 (same as AndLinux)
    • DHCP Server address/mask 192.168.11.1/255.255.255.0, Lower/Upper address bound 192.168.11.2/192.168.11.99
  • Virtual machine NXL67002
    • Base Memory 1536 MB, 2 cpus, VT-x/AMD-V enabled, Nested Paging enabled
    • Video memory 48 MB, 2 monitors, 3D accel enabled, 2D accel enabled
    • Audio host driver PulseAudio, controller ICH AC97
    • Network PCnet-FAST III, bridged, eth0
    • Network PCnet-FAST III, Host-only adapter, vboxnet0
    • Machine folder: permanent, full access, /windows/d as d
    • Default layount: seamless mode, extended desktop (windows taskbar on external monitor, gnome taskbar on primary monitor, workspace switcher panel on top bar)

To Do

Nothing so far...

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