This article is based on the excellent article on 5dollarwhitebox.org [http://www.5dollarwhitebox.org/wiki/index.php/Howtos_Linux-Vserver_With_LVM_And_Quotas] . At first install nessesary packages: # aptitude -t sarge-backports install lvm2\ util-vserver coreutils linux-image-2.6-vserver-686 Create Volume and Group (Replace '/dev/hda3' to your own…
I did reinstall the setup on a sarge box and here are the details: # echo "options ov511 force_palette=15" > /etc/modprobe.d/ov511 # mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0 # chown nobody:video /dev/video0 # chmod 640 /dev/video0 # ln -s /dev/video0 /dev/video Plug the…
At first, you need to enable serial ports in your BIOS and wire them up to the case front (if they aren't allready). Make sure you have the following in your /boot/grub/menu.lst: > serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal…
Today my goal was to get an AVM Fritz!Card running to send SMS via yaps [http://www.sta.to/ftp/yaps/]. Since on the old system is running kernel 2.4.x at the time of setup the only option was to use the capi driver and some hacks…
If you want to use X11 forwarding through ssh you need to modify your /etc/ssh/ssh_config: # echo "X11UseLocalhost no" > /etc/ssh/ssh_config # /etc/init.d/ssh restart…
Starting with installing some packages from backports.org [http://www.backports.org]: # aptitude install -t sarge-backports util-vserver \ linux-image-2.6-vserver-<arch> This may be a good moment to reboot your host system. :) Following the setup process of the virtual server [http://www.5dollarwhitebox.org/wiki/index.php/Howtos_Linux-Vserver_…
Since using Courier IMAP Server over the last tree years I thought it´s time to move on. At first, add these lines to /etc/apt/source.list: > deb http://mail.incase.de/cyrus22/ sarge main deb-src http://mail.incase.de/cyrus22/ sarge main Stopping MTA to prevent delivering…
Already the topic sounds like self flagellation, but what wouldn't you forced by customers? On this system we are housing customers we did inherit with a company fusion (dont ask more details). On Sunday morning our box for vhosting Sites with FP-extentions was beginning rebooting every 20 -…