Artur Krzywanski » lenny

Disable root account [Debian]

Artur — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:01:14 +0000

One of things I like about Ubuntu is that root’s account is disabled by default and you need to use sudo. Here is how to make Debian work the same way. Install SUDO user@computer:$ apt-get install sudo Add yourself to …

Ruby on Rails and Ruby Gems on Debian Lenny using backports

Artur — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:21:34 +0000

There’s a thing about Debian… it’s super stable, but the devs always want newer software, so if they need Ruby you have a choice of compiling it from source as I previously described here or better using the Debian Backports. …

Installing Riak on ec2

Artur — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:17:44 +0000

Riak is something like memcached, a data store, key value db. I’m not a programmer so don’t realy know the differance between these two and never used it for anything but I was asked to installl it on ec2 and …

ImageMagick & RMagick

Artur — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:04:22 +0000

ImageMagick lenny package sucks. Espacially if You want RMagick gem on the box. Here is how to get it working: Install required packages user@computer:$ apt-get install libfreetype6-dev gsfonts libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev Download, compile and install ImageMagick user@computer:$ cd /usr/local/src/wget …

Puppet installation on Debian Lenny

Artur — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:01:30 +0000

Here is the easiest way of getting latest puppet installed on Lenny when you start from scratch: First install puppet from gem. You need to have Ruby and RubyGems for it, more here Install puppet gem: user@computer:$ gem install puppet …

Debian Lenny and quota on /home

Artur — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:39:31 +0000

There is a small how to here however it describes how to install on / partition. Here are clear instructions for /home. Login as root, do not use sudo, you will not be able to unmount /home partition if you …