Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell

Amphetadesk is essential
to keep abreast of the news/memes of the day. It isn’t yet a debian
package, so you have to manually track down dependancies — which are:

libcompress-zlib-perl - Perl module for creation and manipulation of gzip files
libtime-modules-perl
- Various Perl modules for time/date manipulation
www-perl - WWW client/server libr
ary for Perl (aka LWP)
libxml-sax-expat-perl - Perl module for a SAX2 driver for Expat (XML::Parser)

First pass at getting the re-installed debian home server back to
being productive — a whole raft of tools for admin, web, printing,
email, genealogy, palmpilot, monitoring tools, music, etc.

apache — Versatile, high
-performance HTTP server
aptitude — curses-based ap
t frontend
atop — Monitor for system reso
urces and process activity
bittorrent — Scatter
-gather network file transfer
blosxom — A lightweight y
et feature-packed weblog application
cdrecord — A command line
CD writing tool
cupsys — Common UNIX Pri
nting System(tm) - server
cupsys-client —
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
darkstat — a network traff
ic analyzer
emacs21 — The GNU Emacs e
ditor.
ettercap — Multipurpose sn
iffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN
ethstatus — Console
-based ethernet statistics monitor
fetchmail — SSL ena
bled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder
gkrellm — Multiple stacke
d system monitors: 1 process [client]
iptraf — Interactive Col
orful IP LAN Monitor
jpilot — A GTK app to mo
dify the contents of your Palm Pilots DB’s
jpilot-plugins —
Plugins for jpilot (Palm Pilot desktop)
lifelines — Text-ba
sed genealogy software
lifelines-doc —
Documentation for lifelines, a genealogy software system
lifelines-reports
— Reports for lifelines, a genealogy software system
links — Character mode
WWW browser
lm-sensors — Utiliti
es to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
mutt — Text-based mailreader s
upporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading
netjuke — Web-Based Audio
Streaming Jukebox
ndiff — Compares two nm
ap scans
pilot-link — Tools t
o communicate with a 3COM Pilot PDA over a serial port.
popularity-contest
— Vote for your favourite packages automatically.
samba — A LanManager li
ke file and printer server for Unix.
smartmontools —
control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T.
smbclient — A LanMa
nager like simple client for Unix.
snmp — NET SNMP (Simple Networ
k Management Protocol) Apps.
snmpd — NET SNMP (Simpl
e Network Management Protocol) Agents.
snmptrapfmt — configu
rable snmp trap handler daemon for snmpd.
spamassassin — Perl-ba
sed spam filter using text analysis
spamc — Client for perl
-based spam filtering daemon
squid — Internet Object
Cache (WWW proxy cache)
ssh — Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp r
eplacement (OpenSSH)
sudo — Provide limited super u
ser privileges to specific users
swat — Samba Web Administratio
n Tool
tightvncserver —
Virtual network computing server software
usbutils — USB console uti
lities
wget — retrieves files from th
e web

Post install steps:

• run defoma-psfont-installer
• edit apache’s configuration to set hostname
• edit squid.conf to set visible_hostname
• edit snmptrapfmt to catch traps from linksys router

The home linux server has been rebuilt there were enough extra pieces
to build a second PC that the kids will use.

Since the debian needed to be reinstalled, I’m going to start tracking
package additions here. Perhaps some other debhead will find the info
useful/helpful and it will be handy to have around the next
time I build a home server. So bookmark
here

Hardware configuration:

• AMD 1.8Ghz
• 384MiB memory
• ASUS KV7-333 mobo
• 2×40GiB disk. Disk 0 has 8G for /, 512M for swap and the rest is
  /home. The second disk is in to 20G partitions, one for images (I’ve
  been scanning old snapshots) and music (I’ve been ripping our
  collection of CDs and using netjuke)
• two crappy CD drives
• old floppy drive
• old floppy drive
• cheap tulip-based NIC

Started the install using dwhedon’s debian install
cd (only 10M) and pulled the rest across our DSL. So far just a
minimal installation with no Gnome/KDE/X stuff since this server will
spend most of the time headless.

Given that most of the new scanners from HP are not supported under
Linux, it was nice to see that this printer/copier/scanner works fine.

Here are the packages I needed:

apt-get install hpoj hpoj-xojpanel  hpscanpbm libsane-extras

Scan directly from gimp (File->Acquire->Xsane), sane or the command line scanimage.

• dnstop — sniff & watch dns traffi
  c
• dirvish — multiple backups of onl
  ine storage, uses ssh. Currently my
  laptop gets rsync’ed to the work desktop, but it isn’t done frequently
  or consistently enough…
• springgraph — creates graphs
  of nodes. It could be handy to use it to graph genealogy relationships.
  application?
• jnettop — sniffs and graphs netwo
  rk traffic. I’m a sucker for
  network traffic graphers.
• pornview — just because it has s
  uch a great name

It is getting time to go geocaching with the kids and that
means time to install GPS managment software on the debian laptop

Don’t tell anyone but I’ve been using the free Windows program
that geocaching.com provides
do download waypoints into the GPS.


apt-get gpsdrive dgpsip gpsman gpstrans


freshmeat mentioned GPS Manager which may be
interesting. Unfortunately no screen shots and requires gpspoint2 which also has a
pretty description-free website. Hard to know if it is worth the
effort to download and compile…

At work swapped out the large scale Xerox printer for a shiny
large scale HP
LaserJet 9000 printer and now seemed like a good time to get cups
working on the laptop…


apt-get install cupsys cupsomatic-ppd


It is time to once again to see if evolution is a little bit more
reliable with sharing data with my palm pilot. Previous versions have
more than once messed up my address book and/or datebook info usually
by adding duplicate entries.

In order to have evolution talk to the palm, i needed to install a
boat load of debian packages.

apt-get install gnome-help ref="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=sawfish-gno
me&searchon=names&version=all&release=all">sawfish-gnome gnome-control-center gnome-utils

Sigh — I still can’t fully sync my palm pilot with evolution.
AddressDB seems to transfer the info, but then times out and doesn’t
call the next conduits. Turning off the Address conduit seems to let
the datebook and todo list synch up. Then turning the Address conduit
on again makes everything work. Strange.

At work our group has migrated our email from an old UNIX system to a
shiny new
Linux system and need to copy files from the old to new system
using Samba. Yeah I could have used NFS, but my uid/gid are different
on the two systems and Samba is just easier.

So my laptop gets installed a bunch of Samba stuff:

apt-get install linneigh
borhood xsmbrowser "http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=samba&searchon=
names&version=all&release=all">samba >klisa

tramp is an excellent secure replace
ment for
the venerable ange-ftp.