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Local rsync mirror
I finally set up the local rsync mirror on my server – so that I don’t have to sync twice over the internet (the server syncs with the internet, the client syncs with the server). I followed the wiki-entry – there is not much to add to it, really… and it works flawlessly… If only [...]
Serious samba-problem
I just upgraded both my server and my client; now, I can’t mount the samba shares on the server any more! What basically happened first is that I just could not access them – after being inside one and doing simple stuff like “ls” (or browsing into one from a normal file dialog), the system [...]
Time not synced
Today, I found out that my server box is still running summer-time. And then, I noticed that I haven’t configured it to update itself via ntp, something I quickly did. Funny enough, ntp is already emerged, so the only thing left to do is configure /etc/conf.d/ntp-client to look like this: # /etc/conf.d/ntp-client NTPCLIENT_CMD=”ntpdate” NTPCLIENT_OPTS=”-s -b [...]
Server-conky on Desktop
After having experimented with VNC and no luck on this (I still do not have X on the server – at least, no running desktop), I finally managed to at least have a conky on the server that displays on my client. Here’s how I did it: First, I had to emerge conky on the [...]
Backup in Action
I blogged about my backup concept a while ago – and now, I finally managed to get at least the client side finished. The problem was that the tar-file with the backup stuff got too big – and this ended up in weird error messages. After some manual testing, I ended up with a final [...]
