Since a long time im maintaining the firewall by hand. If i add rules or am i delete rules, i’ll do that over the command line. This has some advantages and also some disadvantages. Editing firewall rules by hand has the positive effect that you begin to understood how to maintain this rules. The next …
Read More…Using make to backup a webserver
Sometimes im learning new stuff or i try other ways of doing the same job that i’ve done before. Today i thought i could use make for creating some backup routines instead off an old way where i’m actually just used a bunch of shell scripts. Cause make will give me more flexibility to define …
Read More…Howto: setting up a PGP keyserver with OpenLDAP
I’m glad to post this howto about setting up a PGP keyserver with OpenLDAP. The inital thread that finally leads to here starts at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gnupg-users&m=114028686432264&w=2 Many thanks to Peter Palfrader for providing the LDAP schema and especially to David Shaw for providing invaluable help and adding LDAP basic authentication to GnuPG. Used software: OpenLDAP 2.2.27, …
Read More…Upgrade to Ultimedia GNU/Linux from Debian 6.x
Source: http://ultimediaos.com/install.html This is the verry shortguide how to upgrade to Ultimedia GNU/Linux with X11 and Gnome-2 with a Debian netinstall CD or image. Ultimedia GNU/Linux OS is currently only x86 compatible, so there will be no 64Bit build available (if your CPU supports 64 Bit but you just have max 4 GB of RAM, …
Read More…Set up SSH keys
HOWTO: set up ssh keys Paul Keck, 2001 Getting Started First, install OpenSSH on two UNIX machines, hurly and burly. This works best using DSA keys and SSH2 by default as far as I can tell. All the other HOWTOs I’ve seen seem to deal with RSA keys and SSH1, and the instructions not surprisingly …
Read More…Debian GNU/Linux Derivatives/Guidelines
This page outlines aspects to take care while creating a derivative Debian distribution. For now it is just an outline to collect relevant information which could be formalized later on in the form of Specification. Intro Derivative Debian distributions vary in the domains of their specialization, user base, and the scale of modifications/extension they bring …
Read More…Apache2 and the trouble with BaiduSpider
Some time ago as the Ultimiedia linux project started, i realized that the web has changed. More and more attackers and bots are out there to bug websites and find security holes to breach them or just block them by unwanted requests and queries. Another issue is, that the robots.txt is not respected by such, …
Read More…Working on the Bash
This blog will show you the administrative usage of a linux shell and some tips and tricks. In the first round i’ll talk about some tricks and gimmicks the bash provides and also some experienced users are not knowing. After this i’m presenting some use case situations and some alias definitions for you .bashrc or …
Read More…Howto merge and build a Debian package for Ultimedia GNU/Linux (outdated)
To merge and build packages from Debian you’ll need the Ultimedia dpkg-extension which provides some bare written functions: Note: Ultimedia dpkg-extension was not intended to use in the community, it is a verry speacial script working on ultimedia/blade build systems. Defines a maintainer profile and includes verry related developer settings Defines a default dist profile …
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