Tag Archive for 'OpenSource'

package updates

Published 11 months, 4 weeks ago in Uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , .

After Debian Squeeze was released last weekend, development will speed up again.
Today I uploaded a new postfwd package which ships also the postfwd2 script, a prefork server version.
I also started to orphan packages I’m not using anymore or having dead upstream. The first candidate was policyd-weight, fortunately Chris Butler took the package over.
I’m happy to be the first uploader into squeeze-backports with …. icinga.

Debian 6.0 ‘squeeze’ released

Published 12 months ago in Debian. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Our baby was release just some moments ago. Many thanks to all who made this happen, I’m very proud!
Also many thanks to the release team, ftpmaster, cd people, www-team, press folks and all who worked so hard today instead of having release party, to make it real.

OpenWRT WDS works like charm

Published 2 years, 3 months ago in OpenWRT and Uncategorized. 7 Comments Tags: , , , .

A try with OpenWRT 8.09 in April to setup a WDS with additional AP functionality and encryption, like described in the documentation, failed. So I keeped with my halfbroken solution running on DD-WRT, which is going a bit too commercial these days in my eyes.
Now I have found time to try OpenWRT again for this purpose, since the issue was fixed really fast. I just did setup a stock 8.09.1 installation and then dropped the following into /etc/config/wireless:

config ‘wifi-device’ ‘wl0′
      option ‘type’ ‘broadcom’
      option ‘channel’ ’5′
      option ‘disabled’ ’0′
config wifi-iface
      option device “wl0″
      option network lan
      option mode ap
      option ssid “OpenWrt”
      option encryption psk2
      option key “keyforclients”
config wifi-iface
      option device “wl0″
      option network lan
      option mode wds
      option bssid 00:16:B6:19:63:C8
      option ssid “OpenWrtWDS”
      option encryption psk2
      option key “pskforWDS”

And guess what? It worked like a charm! So I could replace the odd DD-WRT boxes. Anyways ... does anybody have an idea where to find the sourcecode of anything > v23 SP1?

[selfnote] Cloning/Backing up NTFS systems

Published 2 years, 4 months ago in Uncategorized. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , .

For some reasons, you may need to clone/backup NTFS based systems. Lets say your NTFS system is located at /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 is a spare partition where you can store your image.

At first you need to boot a live system to take an image:

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.mbr
ntfsclone -s -o – /dev/sda1 | bzip2 -9 -c > \
/mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.img.bz2

To restore the image you just need:

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
dd count=1 bs=446 if=/mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.mbr of=/dev/sda
cat /mnt/sdb1/xp_vbox.img.bz2 | bunzip2 -c | \
ntfsclone -r -O /dev/sda1 -

P.S. If you are elective in germany, have a look at this!

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