At first, you need to enable serial ports in your BIOS and wire them up to the case front (if they aren't allready). Make sure you have the following in your /boot/grub/menu.lst: > serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal…
Today my goal was to get an AVM Fritz!Card running to send SMS via yaps [http://www.sta.to/ftp/yaps/]. Since on the old system is running kernel 2.4.x at the time of setup the only option was to use the capi driver and some hacks…
If you want to use X11 forwarding through ssh you need to modify your /etc/ssh/ssh_config: # echo "X11UseLocalhost no" > /etc/ssh/ssh_config # /etc/init.d/ssh restart…
Starting with installing some packages from backports.org [http://www.backports.org]: # aptitude install -t sarge-backports util-vserver \ linux-image-2.6-vserver-<arch> This may be a good moment to reboot your host system. :) Following the setup process of the virtual server [http://www.5dollarwhitebox.org/wiki/index.php/Howtos_Linux-Vserver_…
Since using Courier IMAP Server over the last tree years I thought it´s time to move on. At first, add these lines to /etc/apt/source.list: > deb http://mail.incase.de/cyrus22/ sarge main deb-src http://mail.incase.de/cyrus22/ sarge main Stopping MTA to prevent delivering…
Already the topic sounds like self flagellation, but what wouldn't you forced by customers? On this system we are housing customers we did inherit with a company fusion (dont ask more details). On Sunday morning our box for vhosting Sites with FP-extentions was beginning rebooting every 20 -…
REQUIREMENTS: At first, you need a running tftp server and a rarp daemon to boot the installer on the box. # apt-get install rarpd atftpd # nano /etc/ethers Put IP and MAC into /etc/ethers file: > 00:03:ba:2b:a3:df 10.0.0.2 Run: # cd /tftpboot # wget…
Capisuite [http://www.capisuite.org/] is a fax and voicebox solution for capi on linux. I'm using it with a Fritz!Card 2.0 on debian. Assuming a working capi card, you only need: # apt-get install capisuite Then you need to customize capisuite.conf, fax.conf and answering_…