Software and Patches

Patches

See this page for a the collected patches

HowTos

Postfix SASL/TLS

HowTo quickly enable SASL and TLS on Debian/Woody with Postfix

Software

album

One another album script to create a image based album.

ruucpd

Remote UUCP Daemon - Call the uucico daemon from an rlogin session initiated by a RAS Server like the 3Com Total Control (Now UTStarCom) and take the username as granted.

ruucpd

MafPOP

Experimental POP-3 Server with ldap support

gennfsboot

Quick hacked shell script to create a NFS Root with debootstrap and modify it to run read-only e.g. reuse the same root for hundrets of clients.

diald

Massive Dial on demand daemon. Calls an external script for every IP Packet received from a TUN/TAP interface. Does some rudimentary duplicate detection and spawns multiple scripts at once.

xtract

XBox XISO extract utility. Already had been proven to be wrong on some cornercases. There are to many broken XISO generation utilities out there.

dpartm

Debian Partial Mirror script necessary since the Package Pool restructuring.

Installserver

Simple Debian Installserver. Boots from NFS and selects a profile by MAC Address. Partitions disks, installs a base system and calls modification scripts.

genisovh

A tool for generating fake SGI ISO Volumeheader to trick the SGI Prom into believing there is a Volume Header on the ISO9660 disk. Enables to boot kernels or arcboot from an ISO9660 disk.

decodevh

A tool to decode all the little bits in the SGI Irix Volume Header

asyncsnmp

Fast asynchronous snmp poller based on the net-snmp library using the multi session api for session/event handling.

fsnmp

Fast asynchronous snmp poller based on the net-snmp library using its own session/retransmit handling. Superseeded by asyncsnmp.

libpam-storepw

A PAM plugin for storing the username/password as an smbmount credential which enables people to use the autofs automounter to mount samba file shares.

How to use the libpam-storepw with autofs and cifs to get SAMBA unix homedirs.

ipacct

IP Accounting Software based on reading cisco netflow or snmp readouts and summing ip volume summed by networks into a mysql db.

Distributions and Build systems

Mips Cross Toolchain

How to create a mips kernel cross toolchain from the various gcc/binutils versions

Laptops and other Hardware

Linux on the IBM ThinkPad T21

Details on running Linux on the ThinkPad T21.

Linux on the Sony Vaio PCG-C1MHP

Details on the Sony Vaio PCG-C1MHP aka Picturebook.

Linux on the Netstation 8364-EXX

What is the Netstation 8364-EXX or Netvista 2800 and how can we boot a linux on it

T-Sinus 154

Disassembling the Firmware of an T-Sinus154 (SE) from the German Telekom

Disassemble of a T-Sinus 154 Firmware

Aurora

Begin of a Linux Kernel Driver for the Aurora Aries 8000/16000 PCI MultiSerial cards.