A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
This is a little trick to make the Thunderbird e-mail client check all folders for new mail without activating the “Check this folder for new messages” manually on all my folders. This is useful since I have my e-mail filters run on the server using procmail. Add the following line to your user.js (create the […]
To upgrade a Debian Etch (stable) installation to testing Debian Lenny (unstable), you can do the following steps Edit sources.list sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list change all occurences of the word etch for lenny, or stable for testing Do the update and upgrade sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade That is all that is needed to upgrade […]
Open a terminal window. Execute the following terminal command to install the necessary packages sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3 Execute the following terminal command sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh After you have done the above excercise, insert a DVD into your drive. Totem will open and the movie will be played.
WARNING! Only do the following on a unmounted filesystem and make sure the filesystems you are going to alter are cleanly unmounted before tuning them with the tune2fs or e2fsck utilities. (Boot from a LiveCD such as Knoppix if you need to.) Altering or tuning a filesystem while it is mounted can cause severe corruption! […]
To automatically start some software during startup, Debian has a system tool called update-rc Example on how to start the postfix daemon in all default runlevels update-rc.d postfix defaults