Tag: Debian

Configuring a Debian exim server for internet delivery

I wanted an Exim server which could send mail on its own without the use of another SMTP server. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on July 20, 2010, at 11:07 | No comments

Finnix Linux Live CD

Finnix is another Linux Live CD. Like SystemRescueCD, it's not intended for the average desktop user, and does not include any desktops, productivity tools, or sound support, in order to keep distribution size low. But Finnix is based on Debian, not Gentoo.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 2 months ago, on June 29, 2010, at 12:06 | No comments

Damn Small Linux

Damn Small Linux (or DSL) is another Linux distribution that deserves a closer look someday. It's light enough that it should even run on a 486DX with 16MB of RAM and it can run fully in RAM with only 128MB of RAM.

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By Rowan Rodrik, 2 months ago, on June 29, 2010, at 12:06 | No comments

RubyGems nuisances

Because I used it successfully before, I decided to use scrAPI to scrape the entries from the old Aihato guestbook. After preprocessing the HTML a bit, I finally got beyond an endless debugging sessions (which cumulated in me discovering a whole collection of nested <html> tags, which forbad any type of sensible parsing of the page). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 months ago, on June 21, 2010, at 17:06 | 1 comment

Upgrading Samba from Lenny-backports

For some reason, after upgrading to the Samba version from Lenny-backports I needed to support Windows 7 profiles, the workstations suffered from severe problems. The entire profile seemed to be read-only, even though they weren't on disk. I couldn't change any setting and reverting profile configuration from backups didn't help. In the end, the only thing that fixed it was recreating the user profile, both server and client side. This was an upgrade from 3.2.5 to 3.4.7. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 months ago, on March 29, 2010, at 13:03 | No comments

Adding a virtual network interface on Debian

When clustering machines, you make it possible for a failover node to be accessible on the same address as the primary node by having a virtual network interface. In Debian, you can add one like this: Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 months ago, on March 26, 2010, at 17:03 | No comments

Installing Samba from lenny-backports

With our new Windows 7 machines, we need at least samba 3.3.7. However, our server with Debian stable doesn't have that in its repository. So, I was forced to install samba with lenny-backports. Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 months ago, on March 17, 2010, at 12:03 | No comments

Saving and loading iptables rules on Debian

For some reason, Debian can't do "/etc/init.d/iptables save". So, we have to fix something ourselves. I used this article as source, which also has some useful comments. Apparently, the iptables initscript used to exist... Read More »
By halfgaar, 7 months ago, on February 03, 2010, at 14:02 | No comments

Installing Xen with Lenny guest on a Debian machine

This will explain how to install the paravirtualization software Xen on Debian. It is more involved than KVM, but more elegant if you can setup up a dedicated machine to run virtual machines (in fact, KVM on Debian seems quite clunky). I use this Debian wiki page as base. Read More »
By halfgaar, 7 months ago, on January 31, 2010, at 20:01 | No comments

Configuring a static IP address on Debian

This is a simple netconfig for a static IP address on a Debian machine. In /etc/network/interfaces, replace your eth0 (or whatever) with this: Read More »
By halfgaar, 7 months ago, on January 31, 2010, at 20:01 | No comments