debian

During some experiments I wanted to check if it is possible to install java, using puppet. This turned out to be quite simple. All that was needed where 2 simple scripts. The first shell script simply installs the puppet and a depended puppet module. #!/bin/sh sudo apt-get install puppet sudo puppet module install puppetlabs/apt sudo puppet apply java.puppet The second file (called java.puppet) should be placed in the same directory and will update apt, accept the java license and install java7, and make it the default java version....

Updating a SSD firmware might seem like a big step on linux, as the biggest audience for the ssd manufacturers are windows users. This means that a lot of tooling and documentation is around on the internet explaining on how todo this on a windows based system. In the case of OCZ the tool used to update the firmware is linux based, or at least there is a linux based version available....

Some time ago I had to reinstall a deb based system, which meant installing the packages and configure them. During the configuration I had to rethink how the system was originally configured, without having a proper backup of the system. Some of issues where that the backup contained some configuration files, but files referenced where not included. To overcome this problem I started creating a small piece of code (and placed it on github) which implements the following idea:...

With Debian it is relative easy to setup ipv6 using aiccu. This can be done using the following steps (assuming you already have an account at www.sixxs.net): install aiccu sudo apt-get install aiccu edit de /etc/network/interfaces add the following entries: auto sixxs iface sixxs inet6 manual up ip link set mtu 1480 dev $IFACE pre-up invoke-rc.d aiccu start post-down invoke-rc.d aiccu stop disable the automatic start of aiccu sudo update-rc.d aiccu disable bring the interface up using the command...