Openfire – Does your company need a private Instant Messanger Server

Installing Openfire on CentOS 5.5
The install process takes less than 15 minutes.

Do a basic install of CentOS with mySQL support and any other packages you want.
Installing Java:

If you don’t have Java install do the following:
Download Java from (java.com) and do the following:
mkdir /usr/java
cp jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin /usr/java
cd /usr/java
sh jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin
rpm -iv jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Installing Openfire 3.6.4:

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Learning Perl with SNMP Part I

Ok my first stab at it was great (snmp.pl)
#!/usr/bin/perl
$SNMP_GET_CMD = “snmpget -v1 -c public -Ovq”;
$SNMP_TARGET = “1.1.1.2″;
chomp($model = `${SNMP_GET_CMD} ${SNMP_TARGET} 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0`);
chomp($serial = `${SNMP_GET_CMD} ${SNMP_TARGET} 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.4.0`);
$model =~ s/\”//g;      # Ditch the quotes.
$serial =~ s/\”//g;
print <<END;
APC UPS                         ${SNMP_TARGET}
Model: ${model}         Serial No: ${serial}
END
The output:
APC UPS                         1.1.1.2
Model: 33:17:35:52.07         Serial No: NOC 555-555-5555
Basically I’m using snmp-get from a command line [...]

Diffrent Linux flavors

This is what my buddy MikeRoo said about the different Linux flavors:
Thin (slack/debian), there’s normal (mint/cent), there’s thick (pclinuxos) then there’s obese (fedora/suse).

Using SNMPget or SNMPwalk witha vendor MIB file

First, copy your .mib file into the directory where your script is located.
Then use snmpget in the following format:
snmpget [address] -c [community string] -v 1 -m [mib name] [object to scan]
Then use snmpwalk in the following format:
snmpwalk [address] -c [community string] -v 1 -m [mib name] [object to scan]

Installing BackTrack 3 on a USB

I found this great clip on youtube.com from phait08
I followed the entire video and it work, so I decide to post it on my site.
Check to see which Drive Letter your USB HD/Stick is using.
Here are the steps:

QtParted

QtParted is a great little program based on Parted(linux), it help me built my know bootable Knoppix USB Drive.
QTParted is a Partition Magic clone written in C++ using the Qt toolkit.