Remove (obliterate) trees from subversion repository

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 ```…

Backup and restore a Windows partition

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.…

php5 (5.1.6-1~bpo.1) with tidy and PDO

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…

Running different policyd-weight instances

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…

Different Postfix Access Policy Delegation

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,…

FuzzyOcr on Debian sarge

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…

My Ipod 5G arrived

[https://log.cyconet.org/content/images/2006/08/black_ipod_thumb.jpg] Today my 30 GB Ipod 5G arrived. I ordered a refurbished one ... the difference to a band new one is, that there is left the stylish paper box, dock adapter for universal dock and the soft case. It…

Some more packages to bpo

Today nobse [http://www.inittab.de/] did some work on bpo NEW queue [http://www.backports.org/debian/new.html] and accepted 19 packages at once. So some more of my backports available on bpo, which are: * nagios-plugins: 1.4.3.0cvs.20060707-2bpo1 * egroupware: 1.2-104.dfsg-0bpo1 * gallery2: 2.1.…