Part I.  Miscellaneous subjects (and those still to be sorted)
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Part I.  Miscellaneous subjects (and those still to be sorted)

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AD-kerberized nfs4 mount fails
The Problem
Solution
Debian Package Building
dpkg-buildpackage
debuild
pdebuild
Cowbuilder
Git-Buildpackage
Citrix ICAclient 13.0.0 on Ubuntu 14.04
Getting the software
Fixing the package
installing the new package
Using the receiver/ICA client
Why alter the dependencies
ldap_id_mapping fail
The Problem
Investigation
Puppet Glossary
Puppet Language Glossary
Puppet Technology Glossary
Homemade Puppet Course
Setting up the Puppet Master
Environments
Various Commands
Installing Dashboard
Using Hiera
Xen VMs for Puppet course
Installing Xen
LVM space for virtual hosts
A virtual Network
Creating a Xen Virtual Machine
Many VMs
Nameserving the Virtual Network
Kerberized NFS cron jobs
RecordMyDesktop
Citrix Receiver on Precise
Introduction
Package Contents
Fails
Installation of the deb package
Firefox Cache outside $HOME
APT Pinning
Killing process groups
Precise print to iPrint
The Problem
Listing Printers, and printing to the iPrint server
More information about iPrint queues
Getting PPD info from iPrint (unsuccesful)
Libglitz for Precise
Packaging iPrint
Allow user to configure CUPS
OOM Killer without lack of memory
Hypothesis
What can we do?
Background reading
AFmirror
Preparing the external disk for boot
System configuration
Use when booting from the mirror disk
Using the mirror disk with an Out-Of-the-Box Ubuntu Precise
Clients of the mirror
Burning images
Amanda on NSLU2
NSLU2 to Wheezy
Tarski's World on 64-bit Ubuntu
No Foreman on Wheezy
Using the installer
Build Foreman packages for Wheezy
Install Foreman
Configure Foreman
Wheezy Puppetmaster
Securing the Puppet Master
Basic Puppetmaster installation
Connecting the first client
Do something to the client
Install and configure PuppetDB
Using Passenger
Upgrading Postgres
Default A4 in PPD
Git-buildpackage
Kerberized OpenSSH
FlexC++ and BisonC++
OpenWRT BackFire on WRT54G
Windows 7 cannot find Brother network scanner
Single Repository Dependency Graph
Fixing msktutil
msktutil fails to build
Making msktutil compile
NFS state manager failed
NFS "state manager failed" messages in syslog
Order-only dependencies in Makefile
Domain Search Override
Manpage to Text
man to txt
Debian/Ubuntu Linux with AD Authentication
The situation
Prerequisites
Outline
Kerberos may need AD nameserving
Debian/Ubuntu Linux with AD Kerberos Server
Kerberos Basics
Troubleshooting
Querying AD with ldapsearch
Troubleshooting
UIDs from AD LDAP in Debian/Ubuntu Linux, with libnsswitch
UIDs from AD LDAP in Debian/Ubuntu Linux, with sssd
Sssd-based authentication when simple bind isn't allowed
Troubleshooting
Joining an Active Directory domain with Debian/Ubuntu Linux
Mounting a Windows share from Debian/Ubuntu Linux, using AD authentication
Mounting without DFS
Mounting with DFS
Ubuntu NFS4 server/client with AD Kerberos/LDAP
Kerberos config for NFS4 (both server and client)
The NFS4 Server
The NFS4 Client
Troubleshooting
Debian Squeeze based Samba server with AD Kerberos and LDAP
PXE install of SLES11SP1
Shared Library Bookmarks
Repackaging the RES Automation Manager Agent for Ubuntu
Introduction
The RPM Package
First Steps in Repackaging
A better package
Package Creation and Use
CSS for the Apprentice's Notes
NFS4 delegations: negative speedup
Turning Off Memory Overcommit on Linux
Local Package Directory in APT
Resizing an XFS filesystem on a multipath device
Fetching Config from Git
Compiling flexc++
Getting a Process' Ancestry Bash
Autotools C++0x
Autotools on C++
Tivoli 6.2.2.0 on Debian/Ubuntu
Avahi “.local” domains
Citrix Receiver on Lucid
Debootstrap onto headless Soekris
Ubuntu as Active Directory Client
The testing environment
Mounting a share from a Windows PC
Trying to mount a DFS share
What works, and what doesn't
A few relevant bookmarks
Retrieving contents of unlinked files still open
/tmp Still Full after Atop Removed
State Manager Failed on NFSv4 Server
PostgreSQL Tricks
Using MPlayer to Mark Files for Delete
Grep OpenLDAP Log for Failed Connections
RW Filesystem overlay with UnionFS
Fix Corrupt Heimdal Kerberos Database
Debian Installer with multiple disks
Installing Lucid with Maverick installer
Corporate Thunderbird Config
Removing Conffiles in Debian packages
Kerberos Ticket Renewal
The problems
Enlarging the maximum renewable lifetime
Automatically renewing tickets
Frozen mirror
Single-stage frozen mirror
Two-stage frozen mirror
Upstart wait job
Delaying jobs in upstart without touching the jobscript in /etc/init
For the impatient
Rationale
Experiment: without job-2
Experiment: with job-2
Interpretation
Scripted psql login
Movie grabbing from miniDV-camcorder
OpenVPN-config
VMWare ESX Console incompatible with Firefox 3.6
Which vendors' SAN volumes are mounted?
TCP window scaling
The Symptoms
The First, Somewhat Rigorous Solution
The background and the drawback
The Somewhat Subtler Solution
NTFS on Linux
Hostname -f fail
Redundant OpenBSD 4.8 firewall
Introduction
Installing the OS
Setting up a user and keys
Setting up rsync from the control interface
Setting up the network interfaces
Turning on PF
Setting up CARP
Setting up DHCP
Making DHCP redundant
Setting up BIND
Making BIND redundant
Setting up Kerberos
Making Kerberos redundant
Setting up LDAP
Making LDAP redundant
More PF rules
Investigation: offline NFSv4 caching (not yet)
Troubleshooting upstart jobs
Using sshfs
Upstart job dependencies
Upstart Jobs
List Processes I/O
Intel Fortran Compiler on 64-bit Lucid
Scripted creation of VMs in VirtualBox
Creating RAIDs
Adding Apps to KDE menu
Adding SAN volumes
Keytabs to the Kerberos client
Packaging CGAL-Python
Comparing package lists
Updating firmware
File as Block Device
CD writing
HPET timekeepin
Reprepro setup
Introduction
“Repository, distro, component, section, area”, WTF?
The repository layout
Creating the repositories
Zabbix Database Cleanup
NVidia X: Multiple Rotated Monitors
OpenBSD 4.7 Install (half automatic)
Installing the OS
Resizing images to identical width
WRT54G v7.0 Wireless
LinkSys WRT54G OpenWRT revisited
Introduction
Upgrading the OpenWRT version on WRT54G nr. 2
Login configuration
Enable TFTP boot from the router
Benchmarking Linux
COMSOL license management
Saving Emacs macros
Configuring Apt to update automatically
Karmic fails to cleanup /tmp
Wall trhough Landscape
CIFS-shared file not readable: locked
Editing TaskJuggler files with Emacs
First steps in Screen
Generating a ListServ Mailing List
Resizing and rotating images
Kerberized NFSv4, Lenny server, Karmic client
Building the Hydra
Novell Zenworks 10 Imaging cannot handle ext4fs
CIFS: text file busy
Delegating SSH authorization to local user
An LWPUserLoggerDB query
Locales and paper size on Ubuntu Karmic
Lens
Zabbix on Lenny to monitor Karmic
Booting a HP6730b laptop with the LWP
Fixing Zenworks Imaging so it will image Linux
Red Hat's SPICE on Ubuntu Karmic
Landscape failing certificate chain
The problem
The solution
KVM virtual LWP
Getting BIOS data with dmidecode
Blinking a SUN blade
XFS Quota under Samba
Linux clients of Novell NSS servers
ILOM/PXE SUN blade installation
KVM VM creation
Scripted MD5 passwd hashes
IP numbers in e-mail addresses
NTP settings on 64-bit Debian with VMWare revisited
re-reading the partition table
XML vs. web template engines
64-bit DebianOpenSSL adn BIND
ergonomic keyboard buying
A Configuration Repository idea
Introduction
What is configuration?
What is not configuration?
Storing Configuration and the Unit of Configuration
Parametrization and its implications
Finding the authoratative nameserver
HP TPM
The problem at hand
Theoretical solutions
A poor but practical solution
Some more useful CPU bookmarks
OWL
Links
Mail migration
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