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I've been running a SSH server on my Ubuntu box for several years. Lets see who has been trying to get in.
awk 'gsub(".*sshd.*Failed password for (invalid user )?", "") {print $1}' /var/log/auth.log* | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10

I upgraded my trusty Ubuntu box the other week. Sadly all was not smooth. After the packages had been downloaded and upgraded I rebooted the box. Tried connecting to the box via SSH…no response…dug out a VGA cable and was greeted by the following.

I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 yesterday and one of the new features is a theme called New Wave. Here is what the file browser looks like.

checking MOZ_PANGO_LIBS... -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lz -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
checking for gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.0 gnome-vfs-module-2.0 >= 2.0... checking for gconf-2.0 >= 1.2.1... checking for libgnome-2.0 >= 2.0... checking for libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.2.0... checking for dbus-glib-1 >= 0.60... yes
checking MOZ_DBUS_GLIB_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
checking MOZ_DBUS_GLIB_LIBS... -ldbus-glib-1 -ldbus-1 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
checking for snd_pcm_open...

If you downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 from Adobe. You will find that when you launch Adobe Reader no window will appear. You may notice the Adobe Reader start up script acroread in your process list. If you run Adobe Reader from the terminal you will see "expr: Syntax error" repeated endlessly. This can be fixed ...