Category: Office

I have some bash scripts which I manually run a lot and they need to run with sudo. I also don’t want to be prompted for any password. Here is the solution.

1. Edit the /etc/sudoers:

   $ sudo vi /etc/sudoers

2. Add a new entry at the last (USERNAME is your account name).

   # User privilege specification
   root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
   
   # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
   %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
   
   # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
   %sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
   USERNAME        ALL=(ALL:ALL)   NOPASSWD:ALL
   
   # See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:
   
   #includedir /etc/sudoers.d
   

3. Restart the sudo service.

   $ sudo service sudo restart

4. Logout then login again. You won’t be prompted for the password anymore.

It’s very easy after googling…

$ cd /usr/share/applications
$ sudo cp LotusNotes8.5.desktop LotusNotes8.5-url.desktop
$ sudo vi LotusNotes8.5-url.desktop

The example:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Lotus Notes 8.5 Url
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/../notes-wrapper %u
Icon=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/shared/eclipse/features/com.ibm.notes.links.feature_8.5.4.20120906-1255/icons/notes.ico
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/notes
Categories=Application;Office;
NoDisplay=true

$ sudo update-desktop-database

Versions:

• Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS x86_64
• IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.4 x86

Reference: Comment 2 for bug 788673 – unable to open link with custom url-handlers

We have some python scripts for scheduled jobs. They are moved from a old machine and work very well automatically and manually. When we moved them to another machine, manually run them works fine. But they don’t work when we put them in corn.

After some search, there are two python versions in system. One is in /usr/bin and another one is in /usr/local/bin. Hmmm… That’s $PATH problem!

In bash shell, when we run the scripts manually, they are run by /usr/local/bin/python.

In cron, they are run by /usr/bin/python. Unfortunately, this version is too old to be compatible with our scripts.

Eclipse Kepler (4.3) is released on June 16, 2013. I want to try it on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Follow these steps for the installation:

1. Download Eclipse from eclipse.org
2. Extract the eclipse-xxx-xxx-xxx-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz using

   tar -zxvf eclipse-xxx-xxx-xxx-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
   

3. Switch to root

   sudo -i
   

4. Copy extracted folder to /opt and rename to eclipse_kepler

   cp -r eclipse /opt/eclipse_kepler
   

5. Create a desktop file and install it.

   gedit eclipse_kepler.desktop
   

   The content of eclipse_kepler.desktop:

   [Desktop Entry]
   Name=Eclipse 
   Type=Application
   Exec=/opt/eclipse_kepler/eclipse
   Terminal=false
   Icon=/opt/eclipse_kepler/icon.xpm
   Comment=Integrated Development Environment
   NoDisplay=false
   Categories=Development;IDE
   Name[en]=Eclipse Kepler
   

   Execute the following command to install it in the unity:

   desktop-file-install eclipse_kepler.desktop

6. Create a symlink in /usr/local/bin using

   cd /usr/local/bin
   ln -s /opt/eclipse_kepler/eclipse
   

7. Integrate the Eclipse menu in Unity top panel using

   cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/menuproxies && sudo sed -i 's/Eclipse/Xclipse/' libappmenu.so
   

8. Launch Eclipse

   /opt/eclipse_kepler/eclipse -clean &
   

9. Lock Eclipse to the launcher bar by clicking right button on Lock to Launcher

Reference:

• How to install Eclipse?
• Eclipse IDE’s Ubuntu Integrated Menus Hack

If you create some local user accounts in Windows for providing some services, but don’t want to let them show in Welcome Screen. You can add some settings in Windows Registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList]
"cyg_server"=dword:00000000

I have tried this in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. It works.
Google reference: “Hide Users on Welcome Screen in Windows”.