GNU/Linux

A simple way to find which DHCP server gave you an IP

 in GNU/Linux  tagged DHCP / DHCPACK / grep / IP / journalctl by

Recently, we were trying to find which DHCP server was responding to the messages on the network. Using a DHCP-enabled client on a Fedora 26 GNU/Linux we grepped the contents of journalctl to find the DHCP acknowledgment messages (DHCPACK) and figure out the IP of the DHCP server.

The command we used was the following:

sudo journalctl | grep DHCPACK;

And it gave us results such as the ones below:

[[email protected] ~]$ sudo journalctl | grep DHCPACK
Nov 12 13:08:28 sys-net dhclient[578]: DHCPACK from 10.1.101.252 (xid=0x80ec760c)
Nov 12 13:08:34 sys-net dhclient[720]: DHCPACK from 10.1.101.252 (xid=0x2ed6486f)
Nov 12 11:51:19 sys-net dhclient[1248]: DHCPACK from 10.1.101.252 (xid=0xe3dd491c)
Nov 12 12:02:09 sys-net dhclient[1407]: DHCPACK from 10.1.101.252 (xid=0x1fa42c2d)
Nov 12 12:11:03 sys-net dhclient[1508]: DHCPACK from 10.1.101.252 (xid=0x91c3990a)
Nov 12 12:14:06 sys-net dhclient[1607]: DHCPACK from 10.1.101.252 (xid=0x57ebb515)
Nov 12 12:19:27 sys-net dhclient[1710]: DHCPACK from 10.1.101.252 (xid=0x5450c250)
Nov 12 12:19:39 sys-net dhclient[1776]: DHCPACK from 10.1.101.252 (xid=0x2c38d517)
Nov 12 12:39:53 sys-net dhclient[1837]: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 (xid=0xe7a1182d)
Nov 12 12:40:51 sys-net dhclient[1837]: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 (xid=0xe7a1182d)
Nov 12 12:41:51 sys-net dhclient[1837]: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 (xid=0xe7a1182d)
Nov 12 12:42:44 sys-net dhclient[1837]: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 (xid=0xe7a1182d)
Nov 12 12:43:33 sys-net dhclient[1837]: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 (xid=0xe7a1182d)
Nov 12 12:44:31 sys-net dhclient[1837]: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 (xid=0xe7a1182d)
Nov 12 12:46:20 sys-net dhclient[2053]: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 (xid=0xbb006001)

It is important to use sudo or else you will not be seeing messages from other users and the system. As, only users in groups ‘adm’, ‘systemd-journal’, ‘wheel’ can see all messages.

youtube-dl does not work properly on Qubes 4.0 – Fedora 26

 in GNU/Linux  tagged dnf / fedora 26 / qubes / qubes 4.0 / qubes-os / youtube-dl by

While working on a GNU/Linux Fedora 26 virtual machine running under the Qubes 4.0 OS, we installed youtube-dl through dnf to download some media off the net.

sudo dnf install youtube-dl;

When we tried to use it, we got the error youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name. This issue was resolved years ago, so it led us to the conclusion that our version of youtube-dl was out of date. To test this hypothesis, we updated youtube-dl with pip.

sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl;

After the update was complete, we tried to use youtube-dl, this time with success!!

Full Logs:

[[email protected] Music]$ youtube-dl
bash: youtube-dl: command not found...
[[email protected] Music]$ sudo dnf install youtube-dl
Last metadata expiration check: 0:52:47 ago on Sat Nov 10 10:43:46 2018.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Installing:
youtube-dl noarch 2018.04.16-1.fc26 updates 2.6 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 1 Package

Total download size: 2.6 M
Installed size: 11 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
youtube-dl-2018.04.16-1.fc26.noarch.rpm 270 kB/s | 2.6 MB 00:09 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 258 kB/s | 2.6 MB 00:10 
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1 
Installing : youtube-dl-2018.04.16-1.fc26.noarch 1/1 
Running scriptlet: youtube-dl-2018.04.16-1.fc26.noarch 1/1 
Running as unit: run-rfddd15fff2d14d109826a90f59325e97.service
Verifying : youtube-dl-2018.04.16-1.fc26.noarch 1/1 
Notifying dom0 about installed applications

Installed:
youtube-dl.noarch 2018.04.16-1.fc26

Complete!
[[email protected] Music]$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=r6akoO34yUvK8ddtjnzL
 r6akoO34yUvK8ddtjnzL: Downloading webpage
 Downloading playlist: How to cook a banana
 playlist How to cook a banana: Downloading 18 videos
 Downloading video 1 of 18
 ir86d1hTSv1r: Downloading webpage
 ir86d1hTSv1r: Downloading video info webpage
 ir86d1hTSv1r: Extracting video information
 ir86d1hTSv1r: Downloading js player vfls4aurX
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1191, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1102, in _extract_signature_function
res = self._parse_sig_js(code)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1163, in _parse_sig_js
jscode, 'Initial JS player signature function name', group='sig')
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 808, in _search_regex
raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
(caused by RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract \x1b[0;34mInitial JS player signature function name\x1b[0m; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
[[email protected] Music]$ sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl
WARNING: Running pip install with root privileges is generally not a good idea. Try `pip install --user` instead.
Collecting youtube_dl
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/6c/a4/c2e3fbd8b9c7ccbca3f220c4fb0914926669bf9080fb8f2f4db4811706be/youtube_dl-2018.11.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.8MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.8MB 355kB/s 
Installing collected packages: youtube-dl
Successfully installed youtube-dl-2018.11.7
[[email protected] Music]$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=r6akoO34yUvK8ddtjnzL
 r6akoO34yUvK8ddtjnzL: Downloading webpage
 Downloading playlist: How to cook a banana
 playlist How to cook a banana: Downloading 18 videos
 Downloading video 1 of 18
 ir86d1hTSv1r: Downloading webpage
 ir86d1hTSv1r: Downloading video info webpage
 ir86d1hTSv1r: Downloading js player vfls4aurX
WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.

Qubes 4.0 with Fedora 26: Setup RPM Fusion and ffmpeg

 in GNU/Linux  tagged fedora / fedora 26 / ffmpeg / qubes / qubes 4.0 / qubes-os / rpmfusion by

Recently we wanted to process some media on a Fedora 26 running under a Qubes OS 4.0 installation, we decided to use ffmpeg which is not part of the default repositories but it can be found in the RPM Fusion repositories. To do so, first we updated our system and enabled the RPM Fusion repositories as follows:

sudo dnf update;

sudo dnf upgrade -y;

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm;

sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled rpmfusion-free rpmfusion-nonfree;

By default DNF on the template VM did not enable the rpmfusion repositories so we had to enable them manually with the last command above or else we would get the following error:

$ sudo dnf install ffmpeg;
Last metadata expiration check: 0:17:49 ago on Tue Oct 16 09:09:22 2018.
No match for argument: ffmpeg

Then, we updated the system once more so that the information from the new repositories would get downloaded to our system and then we performed the installation of ffmpeg. While installing ffmpeg, since it was the first time that we were using the new repositories we were asked to verify the keys that were imported. We were able to manually verify the keys from this page.

The commands used to install ffmpeg are the following:

sudo dnf update;

sudo dnf install ffmpeg;




 


 




 




Qubes 4.0: Installation crashes when installing qubes-mgmt-salt-base-topd.noarch
  in  GNU/Linux  tagged  bios  /  GeForce GTX 1050 Ti  /  install  /  legacy boot  /  mapbs  /  modprobe.blacklist=nouveau  /  noexitboot  /  nouveau  /  nvidia  /  qubes  /  qubes 4.0  /  rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau  /  secure boot  /  uefi   by  
 


Solution


    

  1. Disable Secure Boot from BIOS
    2. 

  2. On boot order, select Legacy Devices first, again from BIOS
    3. 

  3. At the first screen of the installer (like the image below), press the e button to edit the boot arguments, disabling the graphics card driver. For us what worked is the following:
    
mboot.c32 xen.gz console=none --- vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=Qubes-R4.0-x86_64 i915.alpha_support=1 mapbs=1 noexitboot=1 modprobe.blacklist=nouveau rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau -- initrd.img
    4. 

  4. Enjoy!
    5. 



Back Story


Recently, we were trying to install Qubes GNU/Linux version 4.0 on a Lenovo Legion Y520 that has NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 Ti installed. After disabling secure boot from the BIOS and then setting the default boot to be on Legacy Devices, we were able to boot the anaconda installer.


We proceeded into configuring the installation (set the timezone, the keyboard layout, created the administrator user and selected the disk for the installation) and we waited for the system to install. After some serious amount of time, we realized that the installer had crashed completely while installing qubes-mgmt-salt-base-topd.noarch. We restarted the process and tried again, this time the installed did not crash but it would get stuck at the same step. Following, we gave it a few more tries just in case it would work but unfortunately it would always result either crashing or getting infinitely stuck.


Following the guide at https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/uefi-troubleshooting/ and https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/nvidia-troubleshooting/ we modified the boot parameters of the installer to add mabps and noexitboot, then disable the nouveau driver for the graphics card and it worked like a charm.




 


 




 




Fedora 28: Setup RPM Fusion and ffmpeg
  in  GNU/Linux  tagged  fedora  /  ffmpeg  /  rpmfusion   by  
 


Recently we wanted to process some media on a Fedora 28, we decided to use ffmpeg which is not part of the default repositories but it can be found in the RPM Fusion repositories. To do so, first we updated our system and enabled the RPM Fusion repositories as follows:


sudo dnf update;

sudo dnf upgrade -y;

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm;




Then, we updated the system once more so that the information from the new repositories would get downloaded to our system and then we performed the installation of ffmpeg. While installing ffmpeg, since it was the first time that we were using the new repositories we were asked to verify the keys that were imported. We were able to manually verify the keys from this page.


The commands used to install ffmpeg are the following:


sudo dnf update;

sudo dnf install ffmpeg;




Full Installation Log


[[email protected] ~]$ sudo dnf update
[sudo] password for xeirwn: 
Last metadata expiration check: 1:05:54 ago on Fri 28 Sep 2018 08:48:36 AM EEST.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[[email protected] ~]$ sudo dnf upgrade -y
Last metadata expiration check: 1:06:13 ago on Fri 28 Sep 2018 08:48:36 AM EEST.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[[email protected] ~]$ sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
Last metadata expiration check: 1:06:49 ago on Fri 28 Sep 2018 08:48:36 AM EEST.
rpmfusion-free-release-28.noarch.rpm                                      31 kB/s |  20 kB     00:00    
rpmfusion-nonfree-release-28.noarch.rpm                                   41 kB/s |  21 kB     00:00    
Dependencies resolved.
=========================================================================================================
 Package                              Arch              Version            Repository               Size
=========================================================================================================
Installing:
 rpmfusion-free-release               noarch            28-1               @commandline             20 k
 rpmfusion-nonfree-release            noarch            28-1               @commandline             21 k

Transaction Summary
=========================================================================================================
Install  2 Packages

Total size: 41 k
Installed size: 18 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                                 1/1 
  Installing       : rpmfusion-nonfree-release-28-1.noarch                                           1/2 
  Installing       : rpmfusion-free-release-28-1.noarch                                              2/2 
  Verifying        : rpmfusion-free-release-28-1.noarch                                              1/2 
  Verifying        : rpmfusion-nonfree-release-28-1.noarch                                           2/2 

Installed:
  rpmfusion-free-release.noarch 28-1                rpmfusion-nonfree-release.noarch 28-1               

Complete!
[[email protected] ~]$ sudo dnf update
RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Free - Updates                                152 kB/s | 481 kB     00:03    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Free                                          195 kB/s | 754 kB     00:03    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Nonfree - Updates                              59 kB/s |  85 kB     00:01    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Nonfree                                        72 kB/s | 208 kB     00:02    
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Fri 28 Sep 2018 09:56:01 AM EEST.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[[email protected] ~]$ sudo dnf install ffmpeg
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:01 ago on Fri 28 Sep 2018 09:56:01 AM EEST.
Dependencies resolved.
=========================================================================================================
 Package               Arch       Version                               Repository                  Size
=========================================================================================================
Installing:
 ffmpeg                x86_64     4.0.2-6.fc28                          rpmfusion-free-updates     1.3 M
Installing dependencies:
 clang5.0-libs         x86_64     5.0.1-3.fc28                          fedora                      12 M
 ffmpeg-libs           x86_64     4.0.2-6.fc28                          rpmfusion-free-updates     6.7 M
 hwloc-libs            x86_64     1.11.9-1.fc28                         fedora                     1.6 M
 libaom                x86_64     1.0.0-3.fc28                          updates                    1.2 M
 libass                x86_64     0.13.4-6.fc28                         updates                    104 k
 libavdevice           x86_64     4.0.2-6.fc28                          rpmfusion-free-updates      94 k
 libclc                x86_64     0.2.0-9.git1cb3fbf.fc27               fedora                     7.9 M
 libmfx                x86_64     1.23-3.fc28                           fedora                      35 k
 llvm5.0-libs          x86_64     5.0.1-7.fc28                          fedora                      15 M
 ocl-icd               x86_64     2.2.12-1.fc28                         fedora                      50 k
 opencl-filesystem     noarch     1.0-6.fc27                            fedora                     7.1 k
 opencore-amr          x86_64     0.1.5-3.fc28                          rpmfusion-free             180 k
 vid.stab              x86_64     1.1-4.20170830gitafc8ea9.fc28         fedora                      50 k
 vo-amrwbenc           x86_64     0.1.3-4.fc28                          rpmfusion-free              77 k
 x264-libs             x86_64     0.152-5.20171224gite9a5903.fc28       rpmfusion-free             575 k
 x265-libs             x86_64     2.7-3.fc28                            rpmfusion-free             1.7 M
 xvidcore              x86_64     1.3.5-1.fc28                          rpmfusion-free             268 k
 zvbi                  x86_64     0.2.35-5.fc28                         fedora                     423 k
Installing weak dependencies:
 beignet               x86_64     1.3.2-2.fc28                          fedora                     4.8 M
 mesa-libOpenCL        x86_64     18.0.5-4.fc28                         updates                    350 k
 pocl                  x86_64     1.1-4.fc28                            updates                     13 M

Transaction Summary
=========================================================================================================
Install  22 Packages

Total download size: 67 M
Installed size: 253 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/22): libaom-1.0.0-3.fc28.x86_64.rpm                                   250 kB/s | 1.2 MB     00:05    
(2/22): libmfx-1.23-3.fc28.x86_64.rpm                                     63 kB/s |  35 kB     00:00    
(3/22): ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.fc28.x86_64.rpm                                 180 kB/s |  50 kB     00:00    
(4/22): vid.stab-1.1-4.20170830gitafc8ea9.fc28.x86_64.rpm                 58 kB/s |  50 kB     00:00    
(5/22): zvbi-0.2.35-5.fc28.x86_64.rpm                                    192 kB/s | 423 kB     00:02    
(6/22): ffmpeg-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64.rpm                                   140 kB/s | 1.3 MB     00:09    
(7/22): vo-amrwbenc-0.1.3-4.fc28.x86_64.rpm                               26 kB/s |  77 kB     00:02    
(8/22): opencore-amr-0.1.5-3.fc28.x86_64.rpm                              15 kB/s | 180 kB     00:12    
(9/22): x264-libs-0.152-5.20171224gite9a5903.fc28.x86_64.rpm              65 kB/s | 575 kB     00:08    
(10/22): xvidcore-1.3.5-1.fc28.x86_64.rpm                                 65 kB/s | 268 kB     00:04    
(11/22): libavdevice-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64.rpm                              53 kB/s |  94 kB     00:01    
(12/22): libass-0.13.4-6.fc28.x86_64.rpm                                 141 kB/s | 104 kB     00:00    
(13/22): beignet-1.3.2-2.fc28.x86_64.rpm                                 460 kB/s | 4.8 MB     00:10    
(14/22): x265-libs-2.7-3.fc28.x86_64.rpm                                  87 kB/s | 1.7 MB     00:20    
(15/22): clang5.0-libs-5.0.1-3.fc28.x86_64.rpm                           506 kB/s |  12 MB     00:23    
(16/22): opencl-filesystem-1.0-6.fc27.noarch.rpm                          54 kB/s | 7.1 kB     00:00    
(17/22): ffmpeg-libs-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64.rpm                             107 kB/s | 6.7 MB     01:04    
(18/22): hwloc-libs-1.11.9-1.fc28.x86_64.rpm                             343 kB/s | 1.6 MB     00:04    
(19/22): mesa-libOpenCL-18.0.5-4.fc28.x86_64.rpm                         225 kB/s | 350 kB     00:01    
(20/22): llvm5.0-libs-5.0.1-7.fc28.x86_64.rpm                            412 kB/s |  15 MB     00:36    
(21/22): libclc-0.2.0-9.git1cb3fbf.fc27.x86_64.rpm                       544 kB/s | 7.9 MB     00:14    
(22/22): pocl-1.1-4.fc28.x86_64.rpm                                      390 kB/s |  13 MB     00:34    
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                    685 kB/s |  67 MB     01:39     
warning: /var/cache/dnf/rpmfusion-free-updates-18aab6236926d6fd/packages/ffmpeg-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 09eab3f2: NOKEY
Importing GPG key 0x09EAB3F2:
 Userid     : "RPM Fusion free repository for Fedora (28) <[email protected]>"
 Fingerprint: 3424 9D2C B375 8B55 48E2 874F C08D 3269 09EA B3F2
 From       : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-28
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                                 1/1 
  Installing       : opencl-filesystem-1.0-6.fc27.noarch                                            1/22 
  Installing       : llvm5.0-libs-5.0.1-7.fc28.x86_64                                               2/22 
  Running scriptlet: llvm5.0-libs-5.0.1-7.fc28.x86_64                                               2/22 
  Installing       : clang5.0-libs-5.0.1-3.fc28.x86_64                                              3/22 
  Installing       : beignet-1.3.2-2.fc28.x86_64                                                    4/22 
  Installing       : libclc-0.2.0-9.git1cb3fbf.fc27.x86_64                                          5/22 
  Installing       : hwloc-libs-1.11.9-1.fc28.x86_64                                                6/22 
  Installing       : pocl-1.1-4.fc28.x86_64                                                         7/22 
  Installing       : mesa-libOpenCL-18.0.5-4.fc28.x86_64                                            8/22 
  Running scriptlet: mesa-libOpenCL-18.0.5-4.fc28.x86_64                                            8/22 
  Installing       : ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.fc28.x86_64                                                   9/22 
  Running scriptlet: ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.fc28.x86_64                                                   9/22 
  Installing       : libass-0.13.4-6.fc28.x86_64                                                   10/22 
  Installing       : xvidcore-1.3.5-1.fc28.x86_64                                                  11/22 
  Installing       : x265-libs-2.7-3.fc28.x86_64                                                   12/22 
  Installing       : x264-libs-0.152-5.20171224gite9a5903.fc28.x86_64                              13/22 
  Running scriptlet: x264-libs-0.152-5.20171224gite9a5903.fc28.x86_64                              13/22 
  Installing       : vo-amrwbenc-0.1.3-4.fc28.x86_64                                               14/22 
  Running scriptlet: vo-amrwbenc-0.1.3-4.fc28.x86_64                                               14/22 
  Installing       : opencore-amr-0.1.5-3.fc28.x86_64                                              15/22 
  Running scriptlet: opencore-amr-0.1.5-3.fc28.x86_64                                              15/22 
  Installing       : zvbi-0.2.35-5.fc28.x86_64                                                     16/22 
  Running scriptlet: zvbi-0.2.35-5.fc28.x86_64                                                     16/22 
  Installing       : vid.stab-1.1-4.20170830gitafc8ea9.fc28.x86_64                                 17/22 
  Running scriptlet: vid.stab-1.1-4.20170830gitafc8ea9.fc28.x86_64                                 17/22 
  Installing       : libmfx-1.23-3.fc28.x86_64                                                     18/22 
  Running scriptlet: libmfx-1.23-3.fc28.x86_64                                                     18/22 
  Installing       : libaom-1.0.0-3.fc28.x86_64                                                    19/22 
  Installing       : ffmpeg-libs-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64                                               20/22 
  Running scriptlet: ffmpeg-libs-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64                                               20/22 
  Installing       : libavdevice-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64                                               21/22 
  Running scriptlet: libavdevice-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64                                               21/22 
  Installing       : ffmpeg-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64                                                    22/22 
  Running scriptlet: ffmpeg-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64                                                    22/22 
  Verifying        : ffmpeg-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64                                                     1/22 
  Verifying        : ffmpeg-libs-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64                                                2/22 
  Verifying        : libaom-1.0.0-3.fc28.x86_64                                                     3/22 
  Verifying        : libmfx-1.23-3.fc28.x86_64                                                      4/22 
  Verifying        : ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.fc28.x86_64                                                   5/22 
  Verifying        : vid.stab-1.1-4.20170830gitafc8ea9.fc28.x86_64                                  6/22 
  Verifying        : zvbi-0.2.35-5.fc28.x86_64                                                      7/22 
  Verifying        : opencore-amr-0.1.5-3.fc28.x86_64                                               8/22 
  Verifying        : vo-amrwbenc-0.1.3-4.fc28.x86_64                                                9/22 
  Verifying        : x264-libs-0.152-5.20171224gite9a5903.fc28.x86_64                              10/22 
  Verifying        : x265-libs-2.7-3.fc28.x86_64                                                   11/22 
  Verifying        : xvidcore-1.3.5-1.fc28.x86_64                                                  12/22 
  Verifying        : libavdevice-4.0.2-6.fc28.x86_64                                               13/22 
  Verifying        : libass-0.13.4-6.fc28.x86_64                                                   14/22 
  Verifying        : beignet-1.3.2-2.fc28.x86_64                                                   15/22 
  Verifying        : clang5.0-libs-5.0.1-3.fc28.x86_64                                             16/22 
  Verifying        : llvm5.0-libs-5.0.1-7.fc28.x86_64                                              17/22 
  Verifying        : opencl-filesystem-1.0-6.fc27.noarch                                           18/22 
  Verifying        : pocl-1.1-4.fc28.x86_64                                                        19/22 
  Verifying        : hwloc-libs-1.11.9-1.fc28.x86_64                                               20/22 
  Verifying        : mesa-libOpenCL-18.0.5-4.fc28.x86_64                                           21/22 
  Verifying        : libclc-0.2.0-9.git1cb3fbf.fc27.x86_64                                         22/22 

Installed:
  ffmpeg.x86_64 4.0.2-6.fc28                                  beignet.x86_64 1.3.2-2.fc28                
  mesa-libOpenCL.x86_64 18.0.5-4.fc28                         pocl.x86_64 1.1-4.fc28                     
  clang5.0-libs.x86_64 5.0.1-3.fc28                           ffmpeg-libs.x86_64 4.0.2-6.fc28            
  hwloc-libs.x86_64 1.11.9-1.fc28                             libaom.x86_64 1.0.0-3.fc28                 
  libass.x86_64 0.13.4-6.fc28                                 libavdevice.x86_64 4.0.2-6.fc28            
  libclc.x86_64 0.2.0-9.git1cb3fbf.fc27                       libmfx.x86_64 1.23-3.fc28                  
  llvm5.0-libs.x86_64 5.0.1-7.fc28                            ocl-icd.x86_64 2.2.12-1.fc28               
  opencl-filesystem.noarch 1.0-6.fc27                         opencore-amr.x86_64 0.1.5-3.fc28           
  vid.stab.x86_64 1.1-4.20170830gitafc8ea9.fc28               vo-amrwbenc.x86_64 0.1.3-4.fc28            
  x264-libs.x86_64 0.152-5.20171224gite9a5903.fc28            x265-libs.x86_64 2.7-3.fc28                
  xvidcore.x86_64 1.3.5-1.fc28                                zvbi.x86_64 0.2.35-5.fc28                  

Complete!


 


 




 




NetCat (nc) as a webserver
  in  Bash  /  GNU/Linux  tagged  nc  /  NetCat  /  webserver   by  
 


Recently, we needed to perform some tests in a network. Specifically, we wanted to check the configuration of a firewall and see what IP are blocked and/or which ports are allowed to go through. To do so, we used NetCat to setup a small web-server to perform our tests.


Netcat (often abbreviated to nc) is a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections using TCP or UDP. Netcat is designed to be a dependable back-end that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and investigation tool, since it can produce almost any kind of connection its user could need and has a number of built-in capabilities.


From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat


while true;
do
  echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n<h1>$(hostname) is live</h1>$(date)" | nc -vl -p 5555;
done




or in one line


while true; do echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n<h1>$(hostname) is live</h1>$(date)" | nc -vl -p 5555; done




Explanation of code:


    

  • The above code creates an infinite loop that calls nc in listening mode, we had to do this as nc will terminate as soon as it serves one client.
    • 

  • Using echo we create an html 200 response along with a small “webpage”.
    • 

  • While generating the webpage, echo -e will execute the commands hostname and date to get the current system values adding them to the resulted text.
    • 

  • The resulted text is then piped to nc to be served as a response to any incoming clients.
    • 

  • The date and time that nc will show to the client is not the current date and time when visiting the webpage but the one that was when echo was executed.
    • 



nc parameters:


    

  • -v, --verbose Sets the verbosity level and it can be used several times to increase it even further
    • 

  • -l, --listen Instructs nc to bind and listen for incoming connections (just like a web-server)
    • 

  • -p, --source-portwith port parameter specifies the source port to be used by nc
    • 



 


 




 




Missing dependencies for udacity/FCND-Controls C++ project (Flying Car Nanodegree Program)
  in  GNU/Linux  tagged  cmake  /  FCND  /  flying car  /  freeglut  /  nanodegree  /  qt5  /  qt5core  /  udacity   by  
 


While taking the Flying Car Nanodegree Program at the third chapter, named Controls, you will be asked to compile a C++ project and build a controller from https://github.com/udacity/FCND-Controls-CPP. On a standard Fedora installation some packages are missing and you will get an error, to resolve that issue you need to install the following two packages on your system:


sudo dnf install -y qt5-devel freeglut-devel;




 


Without these packages you would get the following errors:


CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:29 (find_package):
By not providing "FindQt5Core.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5Core", but
CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5Core" with any
of the following names:

Qt5CoreConfig.cmake
qt5core-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "Qt5Core" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"Qt5Core_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
"Qt5Core" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
been installed.


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:137 (message):
Could NOT find GLUT (missing: GLUT_glut_LIBRARY GLUT_INCLUDE_DIR)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:378 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
/usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindGLUT.cmake:116 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
CMakeLists.txt:34 (find_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/xeirwn/Downloads/Flying Car/03 - Controls/14 - Control of a 3D Quadrotor/FCND-Controls-CPP/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".


 


 




 




YARA on Fedora
  in  GNU/Linux  tagged  fedora  /  yara   by  
 


YARA is a tool aimed at (but not limited to) helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families (or whatever you want to describe) based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strings and a boolean expression which determine its logic.


Recently, we tried to compile YARA on a Fedora 23 GNU/Linux (running through a qubes-os version 3).

As the installation guide is directed towards Ubuntu/Debian users, we soon found out that the installation had some missing dependencies. Below, you will find all the steps we followed to download YARA / install its dependencies and build it enabling as all optional features.


sudo dnf install automake libtool make gcc flex bison jansson-devel jansson openssl openssl-devel file-libs file-devel python-magic python3-magic;

git clone https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara; # Or download a release from: https://github.com/virustotal/yara/releases/tag/v3.8.1

cd yara;

./bootstrap.sh;

./configure --enable-cuckoo --enable-magic --enable-dotnet;

make;

sudo make install;




This information is an extension to the installation guide.


 


 




 




Install Gnome Boxes on Kali Linux
  in  GNU/Linux  tagged  boxes  /  debian  /  gnome  /  gnome boxes  /  kali  /  qemu  /  ubuntu  /  usermod   by  
 


Our solution in getting Gnome Boxes to work on Kali Linux (which is a Debian-derived Linux distribution just like Ubuntu) is the following:


First install Gnome Boxes along with all needed virtualization software:


sudo apt-get install -y gnome-boxes qemu-kvm libvirt0 virt-manager bridge-utils;




Then, edit the file /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf to uncomment the following line:


#user = "root"


Finally, restart the host machine and your Gnome Boxes will be ready to use.


Long story


Recently, we were setting up a Kali Linux machine and one of the requirements was to add virtualization support so that the user could execute virtual machines doing.. other stuff. We started by installing gnome-boxes only (hoping that would be enough)


sudo apt-get install -y gnome-boxes;




.. but we got an error:


Boxes cannot access the virtualization backend


Apparently, installing gnome-boxes only, the dependency system did not automatically assume we would need to install an engine to handle the virtual machines, so we had to install the following as well:


sudo apt-get install -y qemu-kvm libvirt0 virt-manager bridge-utils;




After the installation, we tried  to create a new virtual machine but it would fail when we tried to start it. After looking into the logs we found the following useful information:


State: GVIR_DOMAIN_STATE_SHUTOFF


It seems that our user (even if it was root) could not start the QEMU process. To fix this issue we had to modify the file /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf and uncomment the following line:


#user = "root"


from this section


# The user for QEMU processes run by the system instance. It can be
# specified as a user name or as a user id. The qemu driver will try to
# parse this value first as a name and then, if the name doesn't exist,
# as a user id.
#
# Since a sequence of digits is a valid user name, a leading plus sign
# can be used to ensure that a user id will not be interpreted as a user
# name.
#
# Some examples of valid values are:
#
# user = "qemu" # A user named "qemu"
# user = "+0" # Super user (uid=0)
# user = "100" # A user named "100" or a user with uid=100
#
#user = "root"

# The group for QEMU processes run by the system instance. It can be
# specified in a similar way to user.
#group = "root"


After doing this change and restarting the host machine we were able to start and use any virtual machine in Gnome Boxes.


Extra information


In this case, we were using Kali Linux, where people usually operate it using the root account only.

On other installations, like on an Ubuntu installation you would need to handle differently the last step that requires you to edit the /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf file.


Specifically, the best way to handle this issue on a multi-user environment (like Ubuntu) would be to replace the following line:


#group = "root"


with this


group = "kvm"


and then add yourself to the kvm group before restarting the host machine


sudo usermod -a -G kvm $USER;




Doing so, it allows you to enable access to the virtualization services to multiple users of you choice instead of limiting it to one account.


 


 




 




Custom terminator layout with multiple tabs and terminals
  in  Bash  /  GNU/Linux  tagged  alias  /  bash  /  bashrc  /  config  /  ssh  /  template  /  terminator   by  
 


The following terminator layout (
Terminator Layout	(75 downloads)
) opens 3 different tabs, the first two tabs contain only one terminal each and the third one has 4 terminals in a 2×2 matrix.

Each of these tabs have their own custom name set and following each terminal has its name set to make it easier for the user to recognize the purpose of each one.



Terminator Layout	(75 downloads)



After opening these terminals, the configuration file, contains specific commands to be executed by each terminal, allowing you to automate a some trivial part of your day to day operations.

In this example, each terminal will navigate to a specific project or connect via ssh to some server, then it will perform some operation like performing a git pull and finally it will preserve the connection for you by starting a new bash instance to continue using that terminal.


Feel free to edit the layout and create a custom configuration for your tabs / the terminals and the commands.


Installation / Usage


    

  1. Replace the config (
Terminator Layout	(75 downloads)
) file in your home user folder ~/.config/terminator/  with the one we provide
    
(In nautilus press Ctrl+H to view hidden files and folders if you cannot find the .config folder)
    2. 

  2. Open terminator and execute the following:
    
terminator -l init;
    3. 



If you want to create an alias for this command:

Open .bashrc file at your home user folder and add the following


alias my-init="terminator -l init"


For any new terminal in terminator, executing my-init will spawn a new window of terminator that has all the configuration from the file loaded into it.


Contents of 
Terminator Layout	(75 downloads)



[global_config]
[keybindings]
[layouts]
  [[default]]
    [[[child1]]]
      parent = window0
      type = Terminal
    [[[window0]]]
      parent = ""
      type = Window
  [[init]]
    [[[child0]]]
      fullscreen = False
      last_active_window = True
      maximised = True
      order = 0
      parent = ""
      position = 0:26
      size = 1918, 1002
      title = /bin/bash
      type = Window
    [[[child1]]]
      active_page = 0
      labels = www, MA, all other, dev logs, staging logs, live logs
      last_active_term = d3c317d7-964a-4625-96d0-39deb5166072, 93ce7874-059e-4794-b337-7b640654a3d6, db090e6f-07e4-431e-ad86-a8b6cb965b5e, 906a5f4d-a3af-4da8-8385-673b132e7edd, 1b48b3b9-216c-470b-be53-ec1e8c6fdc0b, cb7d737c-a064-4e0e-ad5e-59c47d7bdd3b
      order = 0
      parent = child0
      type = Notebook
    [[[child11]]]
      order = 3
      parent = child1
      position = 956
      ratio = 0.500261643119
      type = HPaned
    [[[child14]]]
      order = 4
      parent = child1
      position = 956
      ratio = 0.500261643119
      type = HPaned
    [[[child17]]]
      order = 5
      parent = child1
      position = 956
      ratio = 0.500261643119
      type = HPaned
    [[[child4]]]
      order = 2
      parent = child1
      position = 956
      ratio = 0.500261643119
      type = HPaned
    [[[child5]]]
      order = 0
      parent = child4
      position = 481
      ratio = 0.500520291363
      type = VPaned
    [[[child8]]]
      order = 1
      parent = child4
      position = 481
      ratio = 0.500520291363
      type = VPaned
    [[[terminal10]]]
      command = cd /vhosts/www.example.com/; git pull; bash
      order = 1
      parent = child8
      profile = default
      title = www.example.com
      type = Terminal
      uuid = db090e6f-07e4-431e-ad86-a8b6cb965b5e
    [[[terminal12]]]
      command = "ssh -t git 'cd vhosts/www.bytefreaks.net/ci_applications/registration_forms/logs/; ll; bash'"
      directory = ""
      order = 0
      parent = child11
      profile = default
      title = WWW dev logs
      type = Terminal
      uuid = 4c08356b-b516-4286-8b6d-ba071f1394f3
    [[[terminal13]]]
      command = "ssh -t git 'cd vhosts/my.bytefreaks.net/symfony/var/logs/; ll; bash'"
      directory = ""
      order = 1
      parent = child11
      profile = default
      title = MA dev logs
      type = Terminal
      uuid = 906a5f4d-a3af-4da8-8385-673b132e7edd
    [[[terminal15]]]
      command = "ssh -t ptl-web3 'cd /data/var/www/vhosts/staging-www.bytefreaks.net/htdocs/ci_applications/registration_forms/logs/; ls -la; bash'"
      order = 0
      parent = child14
      profile = default
      title = WWW staging logs
      type = Terminal
      uuid = 1b48b3b9-216c-470b-be53-ec1e8c6fdc0b
    [[[terminal16]]]
      command = "ssh -t ptl-web3 'cd /data/var/www/vhosts/staging-my.bytefreaks.net/htdocs/symfony/var/logs/; ls -la; bash'"
      order = 1
      parent = child14
      profile = default
      title = MA staging logs
      type = Terminal
      uuid = e26e94cd-855a-44ff-9c67-66b1c03bac56
    [[[terminal18]]]
      command = "ssh -t ptl-web3 'cd /data/var/www/vhosts/www.bytefreaks.net/htdocs/ci_applications/registration_forms/logs/; ls -la; bash'"
      directory = ""
      order = 0
      parent = child17
      profile = default
      title = WWW Live logs
      type = Terminal
      uuid = 70466609-2d01-45d2-84b4-e377b111e540
    [[[terminal19]]]
      command = "ssh -t ptl-web3 'cd /data/var/www/vhosts/my.bytefreaks.net/htdocs/symfony/var/logs/; ls -la; bash'"
      directory = ""
      order = 1
      parent = child17
      profile = default
      title = MA Live logs
      type = Terminal
      uuid = cb7d737c-a064-4e0e-ad5e-59c47d7bdd3b
    [[[terminal2]]]
      command = cd /vhosts/www.bytefreaks.net/; git pull; bash
      order = 0
      parent = child1
      profile = default
      title = www.bytefreaks.net
      type = Terminal
      uuid = d3c317d7-964a-4625-96d0-39deb5166072
    [[[terminal3]]]
      command = cd /vhosts/my.bytefreaks.net/; git pull; bash
      order = 1
      parent = child1
      profile = default
      title = my.bytefreaks.net
      type = Terminal
      uuid = 93ce7874-059e-4794-b337-7b640654a3d6
    [[[terminal6]]]
      command = cd /vhosts/www.michanicos.com/; git pull; bash
      order = 0
      parent = child5
      profile = default
      title = www.michanicos.com
      type = Terminal
      uuid = 2f204209-0c0b-4fab-b883-95f95f5d38e9
    [[[terminal7]]]
      command = cd /vhosts/www.etea.com.cy/; git pull; bash
      order = 1
      parent = child5
      profile = default
      title = www.etea.com.cy
      type = Terminal
      uuid = 6f801914-5225-4e1f-b54c-f48540274614
    [[[terminal9]]]
      command = cd /vhosts/www.ieee.org/; git pull; bash
      order = 0
      parent = child8
      profile = default
      title = www.ieee.org
      type = Terminal
      uuid = 3dbfe3a7-2e25-4e7d-bb02-dc4aeeeda47f
[plugins]
[profiles]
  [[default]]
    background_darkness = 0.8
    cursor_color = "#ffffff"
    foreground_color = "#ffffff"