A Month of PHP Bugs started March:

 

Quote:This initiative is an effort to improve the security of PHP. However we will not concentrate on problems in the PHP language that might result in insecure PHP applications, but on security vulnerabilities in the PHP core. During March 2007 old and new security vulnerabilities in the Zend Engine, the PHP core and the PHP extensions will be disclosed on a day by day basis. We will also point out necessary changes in the current vulnerability management process used by the PHP Security Response Team.

hi all,

 

you may (or may not) have noticed that a new section has been added to the forums

 

linux news

 

this area will contain snippets of articles posted on the internet on a daily (or so) basis including links to the original stories and where the article was linked from

 

I am considering expanding this section in the future and may move it to the 'front page' of linux-noob.com (currently, the front page is dominated by the 'how do i?' forum.

 

cheers

anyweb

Quote:"Last week, the Gentoo project entered the lowest point of its 7-year old existence. The single most telling statement attesting to this fact is this brief excerpt from the current issue of Gentoo Weekly News. 'The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project: Daniel Robbins; the following developers recently left the Gentoo project: Daniel Robbins' Yes, this is the same Daniel Robbins who founded Gentoo Linux back in the year 2000 and who left the project in 2004 for personal reasons. He officially re-joined the Gentoo development team two weeks ago - only to resign a few days later. The reason? Strong personal attacks by some of the current developers of the project."

Quote:atamyrat reminds us that last November it was announced that the French Parliament had decided to switch to Linux. At that time the distro had not been determined. It will be Ubuntu: "[T]wo companies, Linagora and Unilog, have been selected to provide the members of the Parliament as well as their assistants new computers containing free software. This will amount to 1,154 new computers running Ubuntu prior to the start of the next session which occurs in June 2007."

Quote:"Sometimes GCC emits something that can be described as Haiku poems - and you have no clue as to what it really is complaining about. This page is a collection of such gems, their meaning in English and how to solve the problem."

Quote:OpenAddict 'reviews PCLinuxOS 2007 Beta 2, and concludes: "In all honesty, any review of PCLOS will be lacking as the qualities that make PCLOS what it is are in the details. There is no one' shining point regarding this distro. The whole PCLinuxOS distribution is the shining point."

Quote:After the recent switch to the Ubuntu code base, Freespire has restarted their development process with the first alpha release of Freespire 2.0: "Freespire version 2.0 Alpha1U (1.2.42) is now available for download." The new release uses the latest Linux kernel 2.6.20, X.Org 7.2 and KDE 3.5.6, but many Freespire-specific features have yet to be implemented.

Quote:"Debian GNU/Linux used to have a reputation as the toughest GNU/Linux distribution to install, yet the easiest to maintain. In fact, Debian's package management system has played a huge role in the proliferation of projects based on Debian. Suffice it to say that anyone who can install their own operating system can generally install Debian Etch with little or no trouble. If you've never installed Debian before, it's fairly easy to walk through the default installation without realizing you have options. Let's explore the Debian Installer, to find out just what options we do have."

Quote:Mandriva has launched the beta program for version 4.0 of its Corporate Desktop. "Mandriva is pleased to announce the launch of the beta program of Corporate Desktop 4.0, the brand new version of its enterprise-dedicated work station. Ergonomic, secure, comprehensive, easy to use and to administer: by consulting its corporate clients and by exploiting its experience in the desktop area, Mandriva developed Corporate Desktop 4.0, a distribution that can be installed in less than 10 minutes and extensively customized thanks to a new post-installation tool."

install rsync (ie. on debian use apt-get install rsync) on the host machine and client machine

 

HOST MACHINE

 

cp /usr/share/doc/rsync/examples/rsyncd.conf /etc/rsyncd.conf

 

edit /etc/rsyncd.conf to your requirements

the only bit i changed was the path of the folder i wanted to rsync.

 

edit /etc/default/rsync and change

RSYNC_ENABLE=false to RSYNC_ENABLE=true

 

/etc/init.d/rsync start

 

do a netstat -l and you should now see that rsync is listening on port 873

 

CLIENT MACHINE

 

to activate rsync

rsync -av host::ftp /client/rsync'd/folder

 

ftp is the name of the default module in /etc/rsyncd.conf you can change this to anything you want in the config or add new modules for different folders to rsync. you might get error messages if you try and rsync a folder what shares different file systems.