Author: rdircio

1. Install pptpd.

 sudo apt-get install pptpd

2. the contents of my pptpd.conf:

option /etc/ppp/pptpd-options
debug dump
logwtmp
localip 192.168.2.6
remoteip 192.168.2.230-239

The local IP address is the IP address of your server, the one in ifconfig. The remote IPs are a range you would like the remote user to use on your LAN.

3. My /etc/ppp/pptpd-options:

name pptpd
refuse-pap
refuse-chap
refuse-mschap
require-mschap-v2
require-mppe-128
proxyarp
nodefaultroute
lock
nobsdcomp

4. Add user names and passwords for the users you want to give access to your vpn.

 rdpm pptpd mypassword *

5. Enable ipv4 forwarding in /etc/sysctl.conf:

net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

6. enable the ipv4 forwarding setting

sysctl -p

7. restart pptpd

/etc/init.d/pptpd restart

 

xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=32 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure" 4
xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=32 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Width" 8
xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=8 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling" 1 1
xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=8 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Edge Scrolling" 0 0 0
xinput set-button-map "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

[root@aserver tmp]# for d in $(ls /sys/block/dm-*/dev); do echo -n “$d “;cat $d ; done
/sys/block/dm-0/dev 253:0
/sys/block/dm-10/dev 253:10
/sys/block/dm-11/dev 253:11
/sys/block/dm-1/dev 253:1
/sys/block/dm-2/dev 253:2
/sys/block/dm-3/dev 253:3
/sys/block/dm-4/dev 253:4
/sys/block/dm-5/dev 253:5
/sys/block/dm-6/dev 253:6
/sys/block/dm-7/dev 253:7
/sys/block/dm-8/dev 253:8
/sys/block/dm-9/dev 253:9

[root@aserver tmp]# ls -la /dev/mapper/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 300 Sep 9 00:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 31840 Sep 24 17:37 ..
crw——- 1 root root 10, 63 Sep 9 00:37 control
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 11 Sep 9 00:38 oradg-ora_backups_vol
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 9 Sep 9 00:38 oradg-ora_log_vol
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 8 Sep 9 00:38 oradg-ora_opt_vol
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 10 Sep 9 00:38 oradg-ora_vendor_vol
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 5 Sep 9 00:37 sysvg-home
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 1 Sep 9 00:37 sysvg-opt
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 7 Sep 9 00:37 sysvg-optCA
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 0 Sep 9 00:37 sysvg-root
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 6 Sep 9 00:37 sysvg-swap
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 4 Sep 9 00:37 sysvg-tmp
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 2 Sep 9 00:37 sysvg-usr
brw-rw—- 1 root disk 253, 3 Sep 9 00:37 sysvg-var

perl -pi -e ‘s/FINDTEXT/REPLACETEXT/’ file.x

rdircio@pc:~$ nmap -sP 192.168.2.0/24

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-09-11 09:43 CDT
Nmap scan report for router.darkstar (192.168.2.1)
Host is up (0.0032s latency).
Nmap scan report for kraftek.com (192.168.2.6)
Host is up (0.0030s latency).
Nmap scan report for pc (192.168.2.10)
Host is up (0.000073s latency).
Nmap scan report for appletv (192.168.2.20)
Host is up (0.062s latency).
Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (4 hosts up) scanned in 3.72 seconds

%s/,/^M/g

the “^M” is generated by typing  ctl-V+ctl-M