Still exciting to have new, beta but i find noting interesting so far. Minor improvements, driver updates, new hardware support etc.
here is the full announcement link.
Drop a line to share your opinion.
sure you can edit files manually , but i found that unlike other linux distros, debian don’t use a symlink for the time zone file. So in short just use
dpk-reconfigre tzdata
and select your timezone. Optionally you can install ntpdate package via apt-get install ntpdate and then use ntpdate-debian to sync the clock.
Most interesting thing i am waiting for in Redhat 6 is KVM virtualization including SPICE.
The CentOS team announced CentOS 5.5. Major changes in CentOS 5.5 compared to CentOS 5.4 include:
OpenOffice.org Update to version 3.1.1
Samba3x in version 3.3.8
PostgreSQL84 in version 8.4
Freeradius2
The latter three aren’t installed by default, but they can be used to upgrade from the still included older versions of these packages.
Other upgrades include newer version of the wireless drivers suite, including newer versions of the ath9k driver and the iwlwifi drivers. The GNU Debugger gdb, Valgrind and SystemTap also have been updated.
First of you need to know this is quick and very insecure way to run a dns. I recommend using chroot jail for bind, which i wont cover here.
We start with installing packages:
apt-get install bind9 bind9-doc dnsutils
then edit /etc/bind/named.conf.options to append following lines:
allow-recursion {
0.0.0.0/0 ;
};
I strongly recommend using real network that you wish dns to be accessible from, that will save you a lot of troubles.
And finally just start/restart bind9 with:
/etc/init.d/bind9 restart
To get ipset and iptables set module working, which means kernel modules as well, you need to install the following :
ipset, kernel headers and build essentials, you also need package named netfilter-extensions-source.
then run as root
module-assistant build netfilter-extensions-source
to test it simply run
ipset -N servers ipmap --network 192.168.0.0/16
First impressions, lets see, easy install, huge amount of features that are just godly for small office. There goes some of the list:
Well follow soon i will try it. Write a short intro and may be some tutorials on using it.
Meanwhile you can check their site: http://www.ebox-platform.com/
Just crossed over engadget and look at that pretty screenshots hit the more link:
Run:
apt-get install vim-nox
and then:
update-alternatives --config editor and select vim-nox:
evil:/tmp/# update-alternatives --config editor
There are 4 alternatives which provide `editor'.
Selection Alternative
-----------------------------------------------
1 /bin/ed
*+ 2 /bin/nano
3 /usr/bin/vim.tiny
4 /usr/bin/vim.nox
Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: <-- 4
Using '/usr/bin/vim.nox' to provide 'editor'.
evil:/tmp/#
Choose the one you like most, voila.
Shoud work on ubuntu and other derivates too.
Debian have their own way for doing things. Here is a quick fix up if mess with the mysql-maintain user.
If you end up having error like that one when restarting your mysql server:
armed:~# /etc/init.d/mysql restart Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld failed! Starting MySQL database server: mysqld already running. /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'
First you need to find out what is the password for your system:
armed:~# cat /etc/mysql/debian.cnf | grep pass password = x4FStDr29DDshTFqsf
and than add the user:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Something interesting i spotted on Karansbir’s blog:
Running dstat normally gives you something like this :
# dstat --nocolor ----total-cpu-usage---- -dsk/total- -net/total- ---paging-- ---system-- usr sys idl wai hiq siq| read writ| recv send| in out | int csw 3 0 97 0 0 0| 820k 456k| 0 0 | 800B 866B|1054 255
And you can split the disk metrics up based on devices using something like this :
# dstat -D sda,sdb,total --nocolor ----total-cpu-usage---- --dsk/sda-- --dsk/sdb-- -dsk/total- -net/total- ---paging-- ---system-- usr sys idl wai hiq siq| read writ: read writ: read writ| recv send| in out | int csw 1 1 97 0 0 0| 176k 77k: 30k 162k: 411k 478k| 0 0 |3608B 4005B|1447 1458 33 2 63 0 1 2| 0 0 : 0 216k: 0 432k|2470k 1611k| 0 0 |2915 6967 31 2 65 0 1 1| 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 |2210k 1338k| 0 0 |2866 6051
But you can also get deeper level device names / nodes to measure – which is required in many cases if you have drivers for storage creating nodes further down the tree than /dev. Eg. I have a setup where there are four mysql instances running, each with its own dedicated storage :
# mount | grep srv /dev/cciss/c0d1 on /var/lib/mysql/node1 type ext3 (rw) /dev/cciss/c0d2 on /var/lib/mysql/node2 type ext3 (rw) /dev/cciss/c0d3 on /var/lib/mysql/node3 type ext3 (rw) /dev/cciss/c0d4 on /var/lib/mysql/node4 type ext3 (rw) /dev/cciss/c0d5 on /srv/wal type ext3 (rw)
so in this case, to get dstat reporting working you need to mention just the component level, like this :
# dstat -D cciss/c0d1,cciss/c0d2,cciss/c0d3 --nocolor ----total-cpu-usage---- dsk/cciss/c dsk/cciss/c dsk/cciss/c -net/total- ---paging-- ---system-- usr sys idl wai hiq siq| read writ: read writ: read writ| recv send| in out | int csw 3 0 97 0 0 0| 209k 89k: 201k 86k: 204k 85k| 0 0 | 799B 865B|1055 256 90 1 8 1 0 0|3196k 68k: 764k 0 : 816k 24k|1067k 1650k| 0 0 |1999 609 95 1 3 1 0 0|2548k 0 : 0 4084k:2448k 5700k| 660k 791k| 0 0 |1611 571 96 1 2 1 0 0|2628k 0 : 808k 0 :1620k 0 | 352k 798k| 0 0 |1835 1605
And you get the details, for each block device.