Today I lost accidentally all my debian packages on our ftp server [ftp://ftp.cyconet.org]. This was a point where I thought, it may be a good idea to setup a working repository. So I backported reprepro [http://packages.debian.org/reprepro] and installed it. Some scripts by side…
Since I was building already a couple packages for bpo [http://backports.org] I was thinking, it may a good idea to start packaging some of my most common tools for Debian GNU/Linux [http://www.debian.org]. You may think its bad timing, but better late than never! So…
If you need to wipe all traces for some objects in your svn repository, you can do something like this: # svnadmin dump REPOS_PATH | svndumpfilter \ <include|exclude> $string | \ svnadmin load REPOS_PATH_NEW # mv REPOS_PATH REPOS_PATH_backup && REPOS_PATH_NEW \ REPOS_PATH ``` …
Today I discovered 'ntfsclone' which is included in debian in the 'ntfsprogs' package. For example if you wanna try to backup your /dev/hda3 to a remote host: foobar:~ # ntfsclone --save-image --output - /edv/hda3 | \ ssh $remotehost '( cat > xp.img )' remotehost:~ # cat xp.…
Since a long time we need php5 with tidy and PDO. Until last week we was using: > deb http://people.debian.org/~dexter php5.1 sarge But it stalled at 5.1.4 So we did need a solution how to get a recent and maintained php5 package. There…
Why run different instances of policyd-weight [http://policyd-weight.org/]? Cause you may want use different scorings based on Access Policy Delegation [http://blog.waja.info/2006/09/20/different-postfix-access-policy-delegation/]. At first you need make a copy of policyd-weight and modify it, since Robert didn't implement a switch to…
Today I got some hints how to use different Access Policy Delegation [http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_POLICY_README.html] with postfix [http://www.postfix.org]. This it opens the possibility to use different check_policy_service [http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_POLICY_README.html] in dependency on sender address,…
This article covers the installation of FuzzyOcr on Debian sarge including update to packages from backports.org [http://backports.org]. For informations how to install packages from bpo see here [http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions]! Update spamassassin: # aptitude -t sarge-backports install spamassassin Keep in mind, that…
