I'm excited by version 7 of
debhelper, in
particular the opportunity for debian/rules minimization. I suspect
this will lower the barrier for rapid, reasonable packaging of simple
software tools in a way that should be easy to audit and maintain.
The most-minimized debian/rules possible with it is just …
So i've been struggling with an Ubuntu 8.04 networked workstation. It
uses libpam-mount to
mount the user's homedir (actually, the mountpoint is one level up from
the homedir) automatically at login over CIFS.
One of the problems i ran into with this arrangement happened because i was following the …
I finally got to try out goodbye-microsoft.com this past weekend. It uses similar principles as UNetbootin, which Utumno recently wrote about. I had a donated machine in a computer lab i volunteer at with a flakey CD-ROM which i couldn't get to netboot. Since it had Windows already on …
There is a machine i have remote superuser access to which i know has
some interesting info on one of the VTs (/dev/tty2 in particular in
this case). I can try to scare up someone physically on-site to plug in
a monitor, and painfully transcribe the text there by …
I have the unfortunate circumstance of a xen machine with a single
static, public IP address that needs to host multiple virtual servers
internally. I don't want to bridge the main physical NIC to the virtual
hosts, so i've created a bridge over a dummy NIC, and am trying to …
I'm seeing more instances with hardware recently where the linux kernel gets an interrupt that it doesn't like or recognize, and it disables the IRQ entirely. Is there a way to get that IRQ re-enabled without restarting? My web searches haven't turned up anything fruitful.
To be clear, the error …
I just noticed that one of the bodegas in my neighborhood sells "universal remotes" for a few USD. These are designed to work with arbitrary televisions, and can be switched/programmed to emit various IR signals. I've got an NSLU2 running sid, which feeds audio to my stereo using mpd …
Does anyone have pointers for how to ask a modern debian system to prioritize certain interrupts (IRQs) ahead of others?
irqtune is the historical option, but it hasn't been updated for 10
years, and looks like a serious mess in
debian at the
moment (it's not in etch or lenny …
The recently announced patch for
openssl does a
good thing: it looks for services known to use libssl and offers to
restart them for you.
However, it doesn't seem to notice apache2, which relies heavily on
libssl when mod_ssl is enabled. You can check to see what services
still use …
Does anyone use the backup user for doing local system backups? or do
you create a new user specifically for that?
I ask because backup is debian-specific uid 34, provided by the
base-passwd package. But reading
/usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.txt.gz, i find only this:
backup Presumably so …