Ubuntu modifications

2006-01-15 09:26 UTC - Color highlighting

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1. enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then eval "`dircolors -b`" alias ls='ls --color=auto' fi </pre>

FreeNX?

• Main howto is here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreeNX.
• Need to stop gdm to sort icons out.
• Run nxserver --adduser and -passwd to give user ability to login

How to get proper screen size using xfce4 session on freenx - http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=128374

Freenx on dapper AMD64

Big pain in the ass. Tried a compilation as some suggested -- but failed with seg fault.

In the end manually download 5ish packages from http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/kanotix/unstable/ and force installed them.

Then needed to make sure my non standard port was setup in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

Needed to edit /etc/nxserver/node.conf

• SSHD_PORT=50200
• ENABLE_PASSDB_AUTHENTICATION="1"
• ENABLE_USER_DB="1"
• COMMAND_XAUTH=/usr/bin/xauth -- this file has apparently moved. I was getting protocol mismatch errors on client without it.

2006-01-24 19:54 UTC - Reinstall i386 Ubuntu

The guide here http://users.piuha.net/martti/comp/ubuntu/install.html is excellent.

Added sources, installed loads of packages, editted /etc/hdparm.conf etc.

Azureus installation instuctions https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AzureusHowTo?highlight=%28azureus%29

/etc/ssh/sshd_config - add new line 'PORT 50200', and change 'PasswordAuthentication? no'

2006-01-25 18:18 UTC - DDClient

Install debian package ddclient

• Choose www.dyndns.org
• DNS is bigbob.dyndns.org

Then manually edit /etc/ddclient.conf to set "use=web" and delete "if"

2006-02-02 11:11 UTC - SMB

Install 'samba' and run 'sudo smbpasswd rob' to enable windows sharing.

Webmin - /usr/share/webmin/changepasswd.pl

CD Burner - install gnomebaker

Allow reading DVDs - run "sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh"

2006-04-22 22:18 UTC Install AMD64

Restricted Formats -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats -- Very good guide, covering gstreamer add-ons, java, and dvd

Re-compile freenx for AMD64 -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=54417

Change SSHD port -- /etc/nxserver/node.conf -- set SSHD_PORT=50200

/etc/default/acpi-support -- Power saving setting. Lock screen after resume.

dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets -- Allow applet to change CPU frequency

RobNeild? 2006-08-02 09:42 UTC Remove splash

/boot/grub/menu.lst -- Add "defoptions=" and remove "splash quiet" from kernel

RobNeild? 2006-08-31 16:51 UTC SUDO timeout

/etc/sudoers -- timestamp_timeout=1440

RobNeild? 2006-08-30 12:57 UTC Build package

sudo apt-get build-dep ogmrip

sudo apt-get install fakeroot

fakeroot apt-get --build source ogmrip

dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot

fakeroot debian/rules clean

dpkg-buildpackage -sa -S -rfakeroot

dpkg-source -x ogmrip_0.10.0-rc3-2.dsc

dch -i

sudo apt-get --purge remove ogmrip

sudo apt-get build-dep ogmrip

fakeroot apt-get --build source ogmrip

sudo dpkg -i ogmrip*deb

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RobNeild? 2006-09-08 16:39 UTC Encrypted home dirs

http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/Default.aspx?pageindex=7&pageid=26

No password for sudo

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1. Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL </pre>