ODE -- Helpful Script
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From: Tom N on 30 Jan 2008 01:42 ODE The Other Desktop Environment For those of you who refuse to be harnessed by artificial user- interfaces like KDE, here's a helpful little script that allows you to keep a watch on traffic through your Internet interface. It's written for eth0, but that can easily be changed to ppp0 or whatever. The regular expression for grep can changed at will, too. In this case it looks for SYN packets (attempts to connect to your box and any responses your box makes) by default, but if you kill it with Ctrl- c it will show all the traffic, and then revert back if you kill it again. From the command line, you can enter this, substituting the name of your favorite x-terminal emulator (the options and args are standard): #rxvt -geometry 145X54 +sb -cr white -bg white -title teth -e teth.sh & (better to have it come up with startx using your window manager - change the geometry if required 'stty size' will tell you the geometry of a window in lines and columns) This requires the ethereal package, available on linuxpackages http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=7920 This works fine on 12.0. You'll need to create this file in /tmp, and change its permissions: #echo AAA > /tmp/teth.sh-file #chmod a+rw /tmp/teth.sh-file Put this in /usr/local/bin (without the column of # on the left) calling it teth.sh and running: #chmod ug+rwx /usr/local/bin/teth.sh ##!/bin/bash # #while : ; do #if ifconfig | grep [e]th0 &>/dev/null #then #if test `cat /tmp/teth.sh-file` = AAA #then echo "BBB" > /tmp/teth.sh-file #tethereal -t a -i eth0 | grep SYN #else echo "AAA" > /tmp/teth.sh-file #tethereal -t a -i eth0 #fi #else echo -e "\neth0 interface is down" && sleep 5 #fi #done # To kill the script, kill the window. From the developers of ODE, the Other Desktop Environment. Yes, that's a joke of sorts. But no more than KDE. Both are just collections of applications. ODE is for those seeking power and control, rather than those who want to be dependent on the yuppy geeks at KDE and their cutesy eye-candy and bullshit. Here are some useful links: http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/docs/linux/ar01s03.html http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/ http://www.onlamp.com/linux/cmd/ http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/guru.shtml http://www.unixguide.net/linux/linuxshortcuts.shtml http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/shortcut/index.php http://www.laynetworks.com/linux.htm You can use any window manager for ODE, but it should allow you to run it with the keyboard for the most part, allow you to configure it to bring up windows at startx with the same name and number every time, provide as uncluttered a workspace as possible, and have no exotic dependencies. Ratpoison is my choice. It's available like so: #wget -c http://www.sekurity.com/packages/12.0/ratpoison-1.4.2-i486-1_dxt.tgz Ratpoison also has the advantage of being based on GNU screen, which is a console mode window manager that allows you attach to remote screen sessions just as you can to remote X sessions. So you can basically master both apps at the same time, allowing you to work in the console and X environments at will. Tom Use this address. The other one is a spamtrap: calhobbit AT gmail DOT com
From: Tom N on 31 Jan 2008 03:33 On Jan 29, 10:42 pm, Tom N <simpleman....(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ODE > > The Other Desktop Environment > > For those of you who refuse to be harnessed by artificial user- > interfaces like KDE, > here's a helpful little script that allows you to keep a watch on > traffic > through your Internet interface. Added note: Put this at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.S: #echo AAA > /tmp/teth.sh-file # this is for /usr/local/bin/teth.sh (without the leading #) This will make it start in the right mode. Tom Use this address. The other one is a spamtrap: calhobbit AT gmail DOT com
From: ChuMaiFat on 1 Feb 2008 07:32 Tom N wrote: > ODE > > The Other Desktop Environment > > #rxvt -geometry 145X54 +sb -cr white -bg white -title teth -e teth.sh > & > This requires the ethereal package, available on linuxpackages > > http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=7920 > > This works fine on 12.0. > > You'll need to create this file in /tmp, and change its permissions: > > #echo AAA > /tmp/teth.sh-file > #chmod a+rw /tmp/teth.sh-file > > Put this in /usr/local/bin (without the column of # on the left) > calling it teth.sh and running: > > #chmod ug+rwx /usr/local/bin/teth.sh > > ##!/bin/bash > # > #while : ; do > #if ifconfig | grep [e]th0 &>/dev/null > #then > #if test `cat /tmp/teth.sh-file` = AAA > #then echo "BBB" > /tmp/teth.sh-file > #tethereal -t a -i eth0 | grep SYN > #else echo "AAA" > /tmp/teth.sh-file > #tethereal -t a -i eth0 > #fi > #else echo -e "\neth0 interface is down" && sleep 5 > #fi > #done > # > To kill the script, kill the window. > Tom Thanks very much for making your script available. I don't have much experience with bash but I am hoping to change that in the future. I followed your instructions and managed to get it going (sort of) but I think I must be doing something wrong. It does work, however I think I stuffed up the bit with the terminal right at the start, and consequently it looks fairly shitty compared to the rest of my desktop. I know you haven't actually released ODE yet, and I shouldn't expect support at this stage but I've taken a screen shot and was wondering whether you could have a look and see where I went wrong? http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?bc1fd3d927.png With kind regards Chu
From: Glyn Millington on 1 Feb 2008 09:09 ChuMaiFat <ChuMaiFat(a)winter.palace.org> writes: > http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?bc1fd3d927.png Is there ANY way we can make that image a modquote? :-) atb Glyn -- RTFM http://www.tldp.org/index.html GAFC http://slackbook.org/ The Official Source :-) STFW http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=alt.os.linux.slackware JFGI http://jfgi.us/
From: Mr Paul on 31 Jan 2008 20:00 On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:32:33 +0900, ChuMaiFat wrote: > I know you haven't actually released ODE yet, and I shouldn't expect > support at this stage but I've taken a screen shot and was wondering > whether you could have a look and see where I went wrong? > > http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?bc1fd3d927.png Beautiful! best Paul
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