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Debian or Ubuntu on a Sun Netra
[imported from my old site, not a new post (if that’s important)] I will probably expand on this at some stage, so for now it’s going to be short, but I recently put Debian onto a Sun Netra, which was...
View ArticleSolving “I have no name!@*”
[imported from my old site, not a new post (if that’s important)] So I’m not sure how, but I broke one of my Ubuntu virtual machines now, right at a about the worst possible time for it to break. The...
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Fixing tftpd-hpa on Lucid
Whilst working at IS, I’ve sent VMware servers to Accra, Nairobi, Lagos, Maputo, London, Durban, Cape Town and then of course to two sites in Johannesburg. The servers in Accra, Nairobi, Lagos and...
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The easiest way to fix apt missing key issues
Sorry, this is a bit lazy of me, but at the moment I can only confirm that this works on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. It might, however, work on other versions too, and maybe also with Debian of course. If...
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start-stop-daemon on CentOS/RHEL
(Note that I’ve only ever done this on CentOS 6.2. It should work in a lot of other places too though, especially other RHEL based distros.) I really wanted to use the Smokeping init script that comes...
View ArticleScripted setting of users passwords; RHEL/CentOS and now Ubuntu/Debian/others...
I’ve been setting users passwords successfully on CentOS/RHEL from within my kickstarts, using entries like this: echo p4ssw0rd | passwd --stdin username … however, that unfortunately doesn’t work on...
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