True transparency in CentOS

I have enabled transparency for my gnome terminal but I am always getting my desktop wallpaper as background of terminal after googling I found compiz missing.

Compiz is available in base repo itself.

sudo yum install compiz

After installing look for system-Preferences-WindowsTweak Manager and last option would give compiz and there enable transparency.

Getting load information via SSH

I have tried so many ways but finally happy with this

#!/bin/bash

for i in localhost 127.0.01
do
ssh raja@$i 'uptime | grep -o load.*'
done

The above script will produce load average from a remote system.

Screenshot missing in CentOS 6.6

I have made CentOS 6.6 Install but suddenly I have seen that screen-shot I'm unable to take.

to fix it you have to install

yum  install gnome-utils

Restore Permission on Home directory

This Post I am taking from askubuntu , not answered by me but posting in my blog so that it can help others in future.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/567599/emsudo-chmod-x-caused-me-cannot-open-anything

Note: This is the way like doing as undoing what you have done.

sudo chmod -x * -R

find . -type d

You will get an error like below 

find: 'xxxxx': Permission denied 

then do as

find . -type d -exec chmod +x {} \;

Fix conky hiding

I have installed and got some conky script but after system starting its hiding automatically and the only way I can see it while shutting down.

So I have googled and got some solution which can fix my problem.

Open your conkyrc file which is a hidden file  in home directory with

$ vim  .conkyrc

or

$ vim ~/.conkyrc

Find the area of below lines and make the configuration as I have mentioned.

own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type normal
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager 
own_window_transparent yes

Then save and exit from your conkyrc file.

Then in we have to reload the conky with updated configuration , so all you have to do is kill the conky and then start it again.

so In your terminal as root user do as

# killall conky & conky

or

$ su -c " killall conky & conky"

 
I hope that will help you.

See Open Ports in a Linux PC ( Localhost/Remote Machine)

I am writing a small post that will help you just to see what ports are open in  a particular remote/local machine.

we are going to use tool name as nc.

To install it , open your terminal and type as

 # yum install nc

                              After installing , you can use it with

nc -zv xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx <Port>

                                           for example:

nc -zv 192.168.1.100 80

                                          if you want to do that for 2-3 ports

nc -zv 192.168.1.100 80 8009

                                            if you want to do scanning for range of ports

nc -zv 192,168.1.100 80-8080

hope it will help you.

THANK YOU

Tutorial on .htpasswd and .htaccess with apache(httpd) in Linux

If there is a situation that have to dealt with like a public website but with some secret information.
How can we protect the information ? .

We can use .htpasswd and .htaccess in that time.

How  ? Lets see................

Open your terminal and type as

                        vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

and find line no : 334 to 338. This is the area of httpd.conf that dealt with .htaccess

    334 # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    335 # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    336 #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    337 #
    338     AllowOverride AuthConfig
 

Now look at line no 338 , before modifying it will look like

                     AllowOverride None

You have to modify it to

                     AllowOverride AuthConfig

Now make sure that if you have some website and VirtualHost configuration of that website is successfully completed.