Here’s a how-to for building a recent Linux kernel on your Debian GNU/Linux box: You will need to do all this as root. It’s serious business building new Linux kernels su – The dash after the su command makes it behave as if you had logged in as root directly, a full login environment is [...]
I recently set out to learn more about git, the new content manager for source code. “New”, as in much younger than Subversion, and a hell of a lot younger than CVS! No one I know personally uses git yet, but I see the Ruby on Rails community starting to use it a bit, so I decided I had [...]
Using only free and open source software, this how-to will help you accomplish the following: Setup a transparent web proxy (no browser configuration required). “Bad internet sites” will be filtered and unreachable. Setup an iptables-based NAT. 1) All these commands need to be ran as root. If you prefer to use sudo then obviously you’ll [...]
I’ve just spent my afternoon evaluating mod_rails. I must say I am very, very impressed so far. The install is fairly simple. Here’s how I did mine: First I installed the “passenger” gem: gem install passenger Next, I used passenger to build a mod_rails module for Apache: passenger-install-apache2-module At the end of the mod_rails build process, [...]
If you’re using a flavor of *nix that has an rc.local file, and then you start using Debian GNU/Linux, you might be wondering where your rc.local file is. Quite simply, it’s not there. Here’s how to add it. Create a new file named /etc/init.d/local like this: #!/bin/sh # put startup stuff here Make the file [...]
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Posted 05 December 2006
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