REQUIREMENTS: At first, you need a running tftp server and a rarp daemon to boot the installer on the box. # apt-get install rarpd atftpd # nano /etc/ethers Put IP and MAC into /etc/ethers file: > 00:03:ba:2b:a3:df 10.0.0.2 Run: # cd /tftpboot # wget…
Capisuite [http://www.capisuite.org/] is a fax and voicebox solution for capi on linux. I'm using it with a Fritz!Card 2.0 on debian. Assuming a working capi card, you only need: # apt-get install capisuite Then you need to customize capisuite.conf, fax.conf and answering_…
At first ... put the Card in! :-) Next I installed the following packages and all required dependencies: # aptitude install capiutils isdnactivecards \ isdnlog isdnlog-data isdnutils-base libcapi20-2 Now I got the source of the module from AVM [ftp://ftp.avm.de/cardware/fritzcrd.pci/linux/suse.91/fcpci-suse9.1-3.11-02.tar.gz]…
Today I thought about how to have different revisions of my project documentation which is a condition precedent to my degree. After weighting up CVS [https://www.cvshome.org/] and Subversion [http://subversion.tigris.org/] I decided to use Subversion. It wasn't such short like it looks here…
# /etc/init.d/bind9 stop We need to edit /etc/default/bind9 to run the daemon as the unprivileged user bind and chrooted to /var/lib/named, change the content to > OPTS="-u bind -t /var/lib/named". Creating all directories under /var/lib: # mkdir -p /var/…
> #!/usr/bin/perl # # Author: Florian Ragwitz # E-Mail: florian@gnoppix.org # die("Packagelist needed") if(!@ARGV); while(<>) { if(/^Package: (.*)$/) { print $1."n"; system("apt-get remove $1"); } } As argument is a file with package informations needed (can be found in /var/lib/apt/…
If you manage a whole bunch of servers or client workstations (or both), it comes in handy to update them all with just one command. (Credits: This is based on an article [http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2003/05/update/update.html] to be found in the "Linux…
Debian NEW Queue [http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/debian-NEW.html] FAQ of the German IRC Channel #debian.de [http://channel.debian.de/faq/] Why is package X not in testing yet? [http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl] Debian packages archive [http://snapshot.debian.net/] HOWTO - Install Debian Onto…