=====Convert Red Hat to Debian Squeeze Remotely on a Live system===== Last week i was confronted with a compromised custom Asterisk (Elastix) based PBX that suffered security issues, both in the configuration, such as easy passwords very lenient permissions, as well as the normal CentOS provided security updates since some software/drivers outside of the...
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Just another collection of nuts
Not much to see here, its just a collection of notes and howto’s.
In case you are interested in Linux and specifically Debian it might be interesting, but do note that not everything is a 100% finished or guaranteed to work..
otherwise…. just move along folks!!
Attach a signature to your mails
Setting up some text to appear below every e-mail we make. First we need to prepare a little text file with a program like Mousepad or Word Pad or note pad (no MS Word or OpenOffice)
Reply above the quote & Forward messages inline
Lets change some settings in Thunderbird. Many will hate us thoroughly for what we are about to do, but many more will be confused if we don’t. First we...
Set up an e-mail account
Lets setup an e-mail account in Thunderbird. First make sure you have the following details available. e-mail adress: username: incoming server: outgoing server: When we have all these available...
Set an “out of office” reply
Let people know when you are on a holiday. To set up the auto-reply we go to the Zimbra webmail and login with our account details.
Theming this site
Since the purpose of this site is to SEO this site and its content i decided not to go for a stylish look but a rather dull and plain...
Lets make a sitemap
Apparently most of the search engines can make use of sitemaps, basically a .xml file with links to pages on your site, the date they were modified and some...
Change the links to something readable
The default link to a page or post in wordpress looks something like this http://www.songshu.org/?p=123 , the page is indicated with a number and since we use DNS because...
make a debian installation usb
make a debian installation usb To download the installer we do as follows $ wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz and we will also need the same iso file as when making an...
replacing disfuctioning Marvel ethernet controller
There were problems in the past with the sky2 driver and it still seems to act up once in a while. to replace it and to have sure the...
setup RAID 10
host.cipar.net (192.168.1.1) The base for this setup is Debian Etch dom0, we will use the 64 bits edition to make use of the little extra speed advantage. We only...
apt-cacher
apt.cipar.net (192.168.1.12) A local apt cache for the desktop and server installations and security updates, combine the debian, ubuntu, the medibuntu and a custom repo. installation newvserver --vsroot /VSERVERS...
backup files with rsnapshot
backup.cipar.net (192.168.1.13) The domU that will act as the back up server will be the only one placed on the 2 terabyte disks in the RAID1 setup. Besides keeping...
customise the ubuntu installer
The Plan. to remaster the Hardy Heron netboot mini.iso so it will do the following. install everything i want without asking any questions. install the packages i want including...
avantfax on debian
fax.cipar.net (192.168.1.10) The hylafax server receives and sends faxes and is accessible via Avantfax on http://192.168.1.10 THE AVANTFAX PART OF THIS THIS PAGE IS OUTDATEd by the avantfax debian.sh...
sync zimbra contacts with funambol
Funambol Lets try to hook up funambol.cipar.net with the zimbra installation at mailro.songshu.org so that we can sync the calendars and contact lists with e-mail clients like thunderbird and...
zimbra in a linux Vserver
mailro.songshu.org (192.168.1.86) Installation newvserver --vsroot /VSERVERS --hostname mailro --domain songshu.org --ip 192.168.1.86/24 --dist etch --arch i386 --mirror http://192.168.1.12:3142/debian.apt-get.eu/debian --interface dummy0 Your current time zone is set to Unknown Do...
setup a debian apt-mirror
mirror.cipar.net (192.168.1.18) http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man1/apt-mirror.1.html a local mirror for debian and ubuntu Installation newvserver --vsroot /VSERVERS --hostname mirror --domain cipar.net --ip 192.168.1.18/24 --dist etch --mirror http://192.168.1.12:3142/debian.apt-get.eu/debian --interface dummy0 Your current time...
bind9 in a Vserver
ns0.cipar.net (192.168.1.17) This will be the resolving nameserver available to the local network, and the authoritive for the domains. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/355 Installation newvserver --vsroot /VSERVERS --hostname ns0 --domain cipar.net --ip...
a webcache for the local network
proxy.cipar.net (192.168.1.14) http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man8/squid.8.html a webcache for the local network http://blog.last.fm/2007/08/30/squid-optimization-guide not really sure in how far this optimalisations are optimal for this particulair setting, but it works with or...
Getting High with Lenny
Getting High with Lenny The aim here is to set up some high available services on Debian Lenny (at this moment still due to be released) Most of the...
hylafax lenny vserver
HylaFAX http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man5/hylafax-server.5.html Hylafax runs very well in a Vserver, all that needs to be done extra compared to a “normal” install is to copy the /dev/ttyS0 so Hylafx can...
avantfax_install_script
Debian Avantfax install script improvement WORK IN PROGRESS!!!!! Avantfax works really well on Debian but it is not officially supported by Avantfax so the install script is lacking, i...
Replacing a failing disk
S.M.A.R.T. giving warnings http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man8/smartctl.8.html lately I've been receiving S.M.A.R.T. warnings by mail about one of the disks in a RAID10 array, the mails came in pairs like below. SMART...
online debian manpages
Recently i have been practicing my “website building skills” a little, nothing special but making a nice website was simply a thing i never did so i just want...
roundcube installeren
ik ga er hier van uit dat er al een werkende versie van apache en mysql aanwezig is Roundcube downloaden De laatste versie van Roundcube is te vinden op...
the road to Lucid Lynx
Have been using Xubuntu for the last several years as my desktop of choice since the days of the first LTS Dapper Drake, the XFCE desktop proved to me...
mobiel internet modem 904 KPN
KPN levert de “Mobiel Internet Modem 904″ , zoals ze zelf deze “Dongel” noemen. Het feit dat ze een “dongle” “dongel” noemen en het KPN type nummer overeenkomt met...
New Lucid Lynx theme (and why it sucks)
WOW!!!! After years of promises there finally has been a mayor overhaul of the Ubuntu theme after the “Brown Human Theme” that we have been accustomed to for so...
Karmic Koala bugs
strange colors in firefox when displaying images the below post fixed it, just set the default 2 to 0 http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=403836&forumId=1 EDIT:::::: OK, have been working on the BETA now...
Karmic Koala, first impression
MMM OK, the boot up is fast with the new upstart and the new log in screen looks promising even though its still a little rough around the etches....
Karmic Koala installation
As mentioned in the the post the road to Lucid Lynx i will be trying out Karmic Koala Gnome version as a test to see if i can transition...