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 …It looks like debian etch just received its first point release, updating many useful packages with little nagging details that didn't make it into the first release.
Aside from the security fixes, one update i'm particularly happy to see
is the fix of the libneon26 kerberos/GSSAPI authentication mechanism,
which …