Tue 13 January 2015
Current Version of Debian to be used is Etch Version 4 To retrieve Debian you should use bittorrent you need only DVD 1 images an be retrieved from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r4a/i386/bt-dvd/ Once you have the image it should be burned to a …
Tue 13 January 2015
Below is the procedure to put linux machines under subversion control First on the subversion server create a directory svnadmin create svn/simon-test-vm All the work now is done on the workstation or server you wish to have under subversion control First import the initial repository contents root@simon-test-vm:/# svn …
Tue 23 December 2014
Adding Virus checking to Linux servers is a fairly easy task and is all fairly standard stuff. here it goes apt-get update && apt-get install clamav clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam clamav-unofficial-sigs clamtk /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam restart /usr/bin/freshclam this will install the tools you need to allow virus scanning this install …
Sun 23 November 2014
After years of being a systems administrator, the one thing I remember is the look on the face of somebody thats asks for a data recovery on a system where they have lost all the family photos the wedding videos. Its not the face when they ask the questions its …
Mon 13 October 2014
I run aprx I-Gate for RF feed to aprs.is to support the local area network. I develop on a 64 bit version of debian (Testing) but run the node on a 32bit version of stable. Here is my setup and package requirement On the stable system you need to …
Wed 08 October 2014
Often you need to archive data from one machine to another on a regular basis, it’s handy to automate this process as it’s very easy to forget with a busy schedule. However on a linux machine its fairly easy to script to take care of this automation. First …
Mon 29 September 2014
‘Shellshock’ Bash is an environment that has been used for many years on Unix type systems namely Linux and Apple Mac (OSX). It has recently been discovered that bash can be compromised. Access is gained via server access tools like the force command feature in opens the mod_cgi and …
Thu 17 April 2014
Interesting problem causing all the local machines syncing with ntp to fail. This was after an upgrade to wheezy but think it may have been there before. Anyhow fix config is: /etc/ntp.conf, configuration for ntpd; see ntp.conf(5) for help driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift Fixes …
Tue 15 April 2014
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