Taken from the dpkg bot on #debian: where key is the key ID reported missing from aptitude
Background: A debian machine (unstable) with a 100Mb root/boot ext3 partition (hda1), a 500Mb swap space (hda2) and the rest of the disk under lvm2 (hda3). Problem: I use a custom kernel (needs the…
mplayer works best with the real time clock (rtc) device /dev/rtc. It also wants to be able to set frequency up to 1024 as a user. First make sure the rtc module is loaded - one way is to add rtc to…
An article popped up on debian-administration.org. I'm going to have to take a closer look at one of the comments: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/302#comment_6 If this can work well…
All you need to know is found here http://deb.riseup.net/storage/encryption/dmcrypt/ Comments Stock debian 2.6 kernel works just fine Stock debian kernel is modular - so looking in /proc/crypto before…
Note to self - here's the tar command you keep having to lookup
Trying out the RSS feed aggregator Planet from http://www.planetplanet.org/ This is the same aggregator used by Planet Debian amongst many others.
The script for monitoring exim4 mailstats does not take into account the greylist temporary reject - it shows as a true reject. The affected file is symlinked in at /etc/munin/plugins/exim_mailstats…
I have a 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 11g PCMCIA card lying around - 3CRWE154G72. I wanted to get it up and running using debian unstable. I've never got this card to play nice with the prism drivers…
Had a powercut over most of Oslo. When this box came up the partition table on /dev/hdb was totally gone. Now - this is not good since most of the partitions on the box are lvm2 partitions using…
Something new learned today: http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2004/02/css-ie-only Example - include an IE specific stylesheet (to correct for IE's CSS border model) without hacking the stylesheet to…
Just a note to self - to generate a new certificate
Update to WP 1.5.1.2 seems to have fixed the RSS feeds
For some reason the munin packages in debian sarge don't seem to include the spamstats plugin. I fetched the latest spamstats.in file from CVS - this is not ready to run as it needs to be processed by…
The dnslookup section of the exim4 config contains To allow one specific subnet thru change it: Here it allows the 192.168.3.x network.
Running xfce4 - and have no gnome control panel - but I needed to change the default browser. will tell you what is set - in my case "epiphany %s" I tend to use opera - so did the trick
Full details on http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-grub.php If you have LILO on the MBR then the grub-install device is the disk e.g. /dev/hda - not the root partition.
Sarge installation. Apache is 1.3.x (packaged). JBoss is 3.2.7 with tomcat. Aim: ajp13 working For each (or at least several) virtual host under apache we have an equivalent webapp running under jboss…
This machine is a debian sarge install (2.6 kernel). During installation - it was set up with root as ext3, some swap - and the rest of the disk as an lvm area. All partitions within this area are xfs…
Setting up subversion with svn+ssh access (non-DAV) on unstable. In migrating from woody with a combination of CVS and a backport of SVN 1.0 I would like to use SVN 1.1 to get the file system backend…