Hi Folks, I have a Microsoft keyboard with a series of non-standard buttons such as "Mail", "Search" , "Web/Home" etc. It would be nice to be able to bind these keys so they execute arbitrary programs. Does anybody know how to do this in Debian Etch? Thanks in advance, Simon...
How can I pipe the new password to smbpasswd so I can automate my installation process. ...
In the linux file system, where should user scripts be placed? I'm thinking specifically python scripts to be called by cron. ...
When compiling from source, I never know which configure flags to use to optimize the compilation for my environment. Assume the following hardware/OS: Single Core, 2 GHz Intel 512MB Ram Debian 4 I usually just go with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local Should I be doing anything else? ...
Hello, I wrote a quick program in python to add a gtk GUI to a cli program. I was wondering how I can create an installer using distutils. Since it's just a GUI frontend for a command line app it only works in *nix anyway so I'm not worried about it being cross platform. my main goal is to create a .deb package for debian/ubuntu users,...
I want to build a decently performing, but above all stable Linux system for home server use, on a reasonable budget. Sadly, I have several bad experiences trying to install Linux on recently purchased hardware. Whilst pretty much every component runs on Windows, Linux support is sometimes flaky or just plain nonexistent. Which off-the...
I have a laptop running Ubuntu that I would like to act as a Subversion server. Both for myself to commit to locally, and for others remotely. What are the steps required to get this working? Please include steps to: get and configure Apache, and necessary modules (I know there are other ways to create a SVN server, but I would like it...
What would you choose for a server used for web hosting, dns and email and why? ...
(a little off topic - although SVN is a key programming tool....) How do you install svn 1.5 on debian etch? The svn 1.5 packages available for etch are 1.4 and I really need the cool new merge tracking feature in svn1.5 (according to CollabNet its as good as ClearCase...an interesting statement in oh so many ways). So, what's the le...
I'd like to install some presentation templates, but don't know where to put them... Thanks a lot ...
VMware server 1.0.7 installed with vmware-package Debian GNU/Linux testing (lenny) Kernel 2.6.26-1-686 vmware-any-any-update117d had to change VMMON_VERSION from 168 to 138 in vmmon-only/include/iocontrols.h to make vmware-server recognize vmmon When trying to start a VM, vmmon complains in dmesg: Sep 21 03:20:04 pita kernel: [ 2701....
VMware server 1.0.7 installed with vmware-package Debian GNU/Linux testing (lenny) Kernel 2.6.26-1-686 There were several compile problems when trying to build the binary kernel modules from the vmware-server-kernel-source package made by vmware-package from the VMware server tarball. Recently VMware has updated their kernel module so...
What is the web interface tool that Debian or Ubuntu use for publicizing their custom repositories on the web? Like packages.debian.org Is such tool open sourced, so that it could be re-used for a custom repository? ...
I've got a Debian Etch system running Exim4-daemon-heavy. The system is open to the internet, but the intention is that it will only receive legitimate mail coming from a spam-filtering service, which runs as a proxy ahead of it. (I can't just limit access to those IPs though, because I do have some authorized users who relay via my se...
I have the source of a program (taken from cvs/svn/git/...) and I'd like to build a Debian/Ubuntu package for it. The package is present in the repositories, but: It is an older version (lacking features I need) I need slightly different compile options than the default. What is the easiest way of doing it? I am concerned about a cou...
Here's what I would like. Start with a virtual sytem with no installed packages. Then I invoke a tool similar to apt-get to ask it to compute the dependencies and mark all the packages that would be installed as installed. Let this be clear: it says the packages are installed, but they are no files actually installed. Then if I ask for ...
I have Apache running on a public-facing Debian server, and am a bit worried about the security of the installation. This is a machine that hosts several free-time hobby projects, so none of us who use the machine really have the time to constantly watch for upstream patches, stay aware of security issues, etc. But I would like to keep t...
I've got a stock Debian Etch system, using Exim4. The domains are mostly local but there are some that are remote. To handle the delivery of remote mail I use the Debian configuration file: /etc/exim4/hubbed_hosts This file lists the domain names, and remote MX machines to deliver to. For example: example.org: mx.example.com ...
I have Apache 2 running on a VPS server (running Debian). I recently changed the timezone on the server (using dpkg-reconfigure tzdata) from America/New_York to America/Los_Angeles to match my move across country. I have also rebooted the virtual machine since making the change. However, the Apache processes seem to flitter between ti...
My primary partition has become full on Debian and I don't appear to be able to resize it while the system is running... How can I make space on this partition? Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 259M 259M 0 100% / tmpfs 443M 0 443M 0% /lib/init/rw udev ...