Implementing fax and vbox server with capisuite and FaxGW

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_…

Installing an AVM Fritz!Card 2.0

At first ... put the Card in! :-) Next I installed the following packages and all required dependencies: # aptitude install capiutils isdnactivecards \ isdnlog isdnlog-data isdnutils-base libcapi20-2 Now I got the source of the module from AVM [ftp://ftp.avm.de/cardware/fritzcrd.pci/linux/suse.91/fcpci-suse9.1-3.11-02.tar.gz]…

Openwrt migration

Since the Linksys firmware for the WRT54G isn't really flexible and the Sveasoft firmware sucks cause this license issues I migrated all my boxes to Openwrt [http://openwrt.org]. Openwrt is a minimal firmware with support for add-on packages ... this makes it more flexible for personal use. At…

Securing Proftpd

You can put these lines into /etc/proftpd.conf > DefaultRoot ~ IdentLookups off ServerIdent on "FTP Server ready."…

Getting started with Subversion

Today I thought about how to have different revisions of my project documentation which is a condition precedent to my degree. After weighting up CVS [https://www.cvshome.org/] and Subversion [http://subversion.tigris.org/] I decided to use Subversion. It wasn't such short like it looks here…

BIND chrooted on Debian Sarge

# /etc/init.d/bind9 stop We need to edit /etc/default/bind9 to run the daemon as the unprivileged user bind and chrooted to /var/lib/named, change the content to > OPTS="-u bind -t /var/lib/named". Creating all directories under /var/lib: # mkdir -p /var/…

Using unused memory on my WRT54G V2

I was reading a bit around about openwrt and I recognized, that with 16 MB it wont be fun with 2 MB spare memory. After reading some FAQs and Wikis I found out, that some V2 are shipped with 32 MB but only 16 MB enables ... this rocks .. more space…