tag/debiandmo.cahttp://www.dmo.ca//tag/debian/dmo.caikiwiki2009-11-01T13:26:32ZSetting up etckeeperhttp://www.dmo.ca//blog/20080412173201/2009-05-16T01:45:14Z2009-05-16T01:45:14Z
<p><a href="http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/etckeeper/">etckeeper</a> is a tool, packaged in
Debian, that lets you track revisions to /etc in a Git repository. Here's how
to install and configure it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dmo.ca//tag/debian/../../blog/20080412173201/#more">more</a></p>
Configuring bind9 in a chroot, lenny versionhttp://www.dmo.ca//blog/20081009143754/2009-11-01T13:26:32Z2009-05-16T01:45:14Z
<p>A while ago, I blogged the <a href="http://www.dmo.ca/blog/20080412165627">chrooting of bind9 on
Debian</a>, so I wouldn't forget how to do it. Things have
changed slightly for Lenny, so here's the update.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dmo.ca//tag/debian/../../blog/20081009143754/#more">more</a></p>
Fixing the name of App::Ack on Debianhttp://www.dmo.ca//blog/fixing-ack-on-debian/2009-05-16T01:45:14Z2009-05-16T01:45:14Z
<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/ack/ack">ack</a> is a great "programmer's grep" tool.
If you don't already use it, check it out. Now, ack is packaged as part of
Debian Testing (Lenny), but unfortunately there's a name conflict. Debian
already ships a Kanji code converter named ack, so the ack that <em>I</em> want gets
renamed to ack-grep.</p>
<p>I want to run 'ack' on all my systems, not 'ack' on some and 'ack-grep' on
others, so I abused Debian's 'alternatives' system to let me do this with:</p>
<pre><code> update-alternatives --install ack ack /usr/bin/ack-grep 100
</code></pre>
<p>And voila, it creates me a /usr/bin/ack that Just Works, and is known to Debian
so future packages won't (I hope) break that symlink.</p>
Configuring Bind9 in a chroothttp://www.dmo.ca//blog/20080412165627/2009-05-16T01:45:14Z2009-05-16T01:45:14Z
<p>Every now and then, I move my nameserver to a new machine, and I have to google
for the recipe for chrooting it on Debian. So, this time, I'm documenting it
here.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dmo.ca//tag/debian/../../blog/20080412165627/#more">more</a></p>