[FIXED] bind9 is running bind9 status reports failed!

bind9 runs in a chroot environment on lenny. The service can be started as usual: # /etc/init.d/bind9 start Starting domain name service...: bind9. Let’s check bind9 status: ` /etc/init.d/bind9 status bind9 is not running failed! ` Well, the first thing I did was to check the log file, in which I found no error related to named. So I tried another way to check the status: # rndc status version: 9....

December 19, 2010 · 1 min · 195 words · kenno

Can’t locate Net/LDAP.pm

On Debian: # apt-get install libnet-ldap-perl

October 25, 2010 · 1 min · 6 words · kenno

Enable sudo insults

Look for line begins with Defaults, and append insults to the end. Save it, and clear the sudo session (sudo -K), and try sudo with a wrong password. 🙂 Source: Enable sudo insults for some laughs

April 15, 2010 · 1 min · 36 words · kenno

Enable Japanese input on Debian/Ubuntu

Normally, I would install Scim and Anthy for Japanese input method on Debian. Recently, I found an easier way to achieve the same thing, which is to use IBus instead of Scim. Install ibus: sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-anthy ibus-gtk From the menu, System -> Preferences -> IBus Preference IBus Preference should detects that you have run IBus daemon yet, click “Yes” to run it. You’ll be asked to edit your ....

March 14, 2010 · 1 min · 150 words · kenno

Stopping hard drive clicking noise on MSI U100

Finally, the OS X has been removed from MSI Wind U100, and completely replaced by Debian (testing). Whenever the computer is idle, the hdd makes this weird clicking noise. To stop it, we can use hdparm to turn it off. ` kenno@tora:~$ sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda Source: MSI Wind – Gentoo Linux Wiki

November 28, 2009 · 1 min · 54 words · kenno