=====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...
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 error (CurrentPendingSector) detected on host: host This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: host DNS domain: cipar.net NIS domain: (none)...
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 would like to improve that and any feedback would be appreciated. The first time i installed Avantfax on Debian Etch there was only an install...
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 reach it from within the Vserver. It is absolutely not needed to have Hylafax run in a Vserver but since this is a “low profile”...
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 documentation available for such a setup i found on the net are based on Xen but i prefer to use Vserver for the “virtualisation” because...
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 without. and at least for a small office environment i can see no noticable difference with the naked eye. Installation newvserver --vsroot /VSERVERS --hostname proxy...
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 192.168.1.17/24 --dist etch --mirror http://192.168.1.12:3142/debian.apt-get.eu/debian --interface dummy0 Your current time zone is set to Unknown Do you want to change that? : Enter for default...
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 zone is set to Unknown Do you want to change that? : Enter for default Enable shadow passwords? <Yes> enter the root password Create a...
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 you want to change that? : Enter for default Enable shadow passwords? Yes enter the root password Create a normal user account now? No Choose...
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 mobile devices blackberrys and such. Installation you can get it to run on 64bit i guess but you will have to change some paths for...