This article was first written in December 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/192).To rename a Debian system, it is not enough to change the /etc/hostname file, you probably need to change some references to the old name elsewhere. This article tries to pinpoint the files where it would be needed to change it.
This article was first written in November 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/186).Some people used devfs under Woody, or under their previous Sarge install. When going kernel 2.6, it may be useful to revert or upgrade to udev instead. The problem is that their nomenclatura is different, so your system may be rendered unbootable.
This article was first written in November 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/185).Getty is known to be memory-hungry. Let's replace it with something lighter, which works in most cases: fgetty On Debian Sarge and up, it is already packaged, so sudo apt-get install fgetty will do the trick. But this is not sufficent for it to be installed instead of getty. You will have to edit /etc/inittab. Warning: this is a very dangerous file to edit, as it may render your system unbootable.
This article was first written in November 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/184).Here are some links about interesting drafts of a Debian Packaging Web Applications Policy. https://alioth.debian.org/projects/webapps-common/ http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/ DB Apps Packaging Policy
This article was first written in October 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/179).To use Bonding Ethernet for High-Availability (failover) on Debian (Sarge or Sid with a 2.6.x kernel [1]) you need to:
iface bond0 inet s
This article was first written in October 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/180).Starting from Debian Sarge, the Samba version which ship with Debian is 3.0.x.
This article was first written in September 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/174).It may seem natural that Java should be available on Solaris. Actually, it is, but Solaris 8 for example features an obsolete JRE (Java Runtime Environment), JRE 1.2. Let us see how to install a r(d)ecent JRE on Solaris. Download the JRE for Solaris, and for your architecture.
This article was first written in September 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/170).To install a CUPS server on Debian Woody, just:
$ sudo apt-get install cupsysIf you want to connect HP printers, also install package hp-ppd, it contains a lot of printer definitions (PPD - Postscript Printer Definition) for HP printers. Then connect to the machine on port 631 (Ex: http://localhost:631) using your favorite web browser and add your printer(s).
This article was first written in September 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/169).We made a proposal for a policy about backporting packages of GNOME 2.2 for Debian Woody.
This article was first written in July 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/142).To use Bonding Ethernet for High-Availability (fail-over) on Debian (Woody, Sarge or Sid with a 2.4.x kernel) you need to: