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For the last few months, our office building has been doing a lot of generator testing and sometimes these tests went out of schedule. We began to worry about the office servers, as constant power failures may cause data corruptions although we use reiserfs for all of the disks. My colleague and I look for [...]

Final Steps on Server What we did in part 1 was to sync the repository. Now we need to make sure that our APT Server can serve the files for use by client machines. For this purpose, you can either choose to export the filesystem using NFS, or using Samba. I chose NFS. In the [...]

If you have a bunch of Debian machines to be taken care of, you must have been using APT a lot. APT is incredible, but if you use it to update multiple machines, you’ll be bored to death waiting each and individual machine to download packages. What if I tell you there’s a way we [...]

To Debian junkies out there, Debian 3.1 codenamed ‘Sarge’ has been declared stable on 6th of June 2005. Read more about it here: http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606