nagios-plugins 1.4.3.0cvs.20060707-2 (-1bpo1) in bpo
Today Daniel Baumann did upload my new backport of nagios-plugins to bpo [http://www.backports.org], see also PTS [http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=waja@cyconet.org].…
WeatherTime plugin broken with latest (20060730) Slimserver 6.5
The WeatherTime plugin [http://inside.glnetworks.de/2006/03/11/weathertime-screensaver-plugin-for-slimserver/] is broken with the latest Slimserver [http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.5/] 6.5. > Couldn't push into new mode: [OFF.weathertime] !: Can't locate object method "bytesPerColumn" via package "…
LVM and Quota with Vserver on Debian
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…
Installing Creative Labs WebCam 3 on Debian 'sarge' GNU/Linux with camserv
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…
Wireless Bridge and WPA(2) on Linksys Router ... or how to look for a needle in a haystack
I was searching half a night and 2 hours today to get a Linksys Router working a wireless bridge with WPA(2) encryption. I tried Openwrt [http://openwrt.org] White Russian RC5 and DD-Wrt [http://www.dd-wrt.com] V23 SP1 and many combinations of WPA, WPA2, TKIP, AES. The bridge…
Enable serial console on Debian 'sarge' GNU/Linux
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…
WRTSL54GS debridged
Okay ... we got the serial port running (same like WRT54GS), so we could be more risky. After some tries I decided to work analog the WRT54G models. Successfull was the following modifications to factory (linksys) defaults: > nvram set vlan0ports="0 1 2 5*" nvram set vlan1ports="…
We got some Linksys WRTSL54GS imported from US
[https://log.cyconet.org/content/images/2006/06/wrtsl54gs.jpeg] Don´t ask how, but we got some units to europe. The first thing we does, was to install openwrt [http://www.openwrt.org] and to try debridge the switch to have multiple interfaces instead. We was able to remove…