The OKI MFP 5460 ES (Executive Series) was a bit difficult to set up with scanner support when used as a network printer. I have seen better documentation.
It says it support sending scanned files to E-mail, FTP, CIFS and Twain, but not how.
What i didn’t know in the beginning was that CIFS = SMB (Common [...]
NB! This is the new post on how to install OWFS on Debian 6.0 squeeze. For the current Debian 5.0 lenny version see here: OWFS on Debian 5.0 (lenny). Also, it may give useful tips if problems occur.
If you are using a kernel newer than 2.6.18, which Debian 6.0 is, libusb-0.1.12 must be used because [...]
NB! New and updated tutorial: OWFS on Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
1-Wire is a device communications bus system designed by Dallas Semiconductor. It provides low-speed data, signaling and power over a single signal, albeit using two wires, one for ground, one for power and data. 1-Wire is similar in concept to I²C, but with lower data rates [...]
I suddenly found a problem with my current exim4 configuration.
A specific domain is said to be local, but only some of the e-mail users are moved to this current server. Mail is actually received from an external mailserver, so the users on this local systems receive their mail from a fetchmail command.
If they are to [...]
If you read this, it is probably already too late, but remember this command.
It is very important not to write anything to the disk. Do not even close a program before you have re-mounted the system.
This re-mounts /home as read-only:
:~$ sudo mount -o remount,ro /home
If you have X running, now is the time to kill [...]
Zoneminder produces a lot of logging which finds its way in to /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog.
To move this logging to a single zoneminder logfile, one must edit the rsyslog config file.
This works as a simple hack for Zoneminder 1.24.2 until they have fixed this problem.
Open rsyslog and place codeline 1 and 2 at the very top [...]
Zoneminder depend on perl modules. If an automated filter routine does not work, it may be because of missing modules.
To figure out what is missing run zmfilter in console.
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:/usr/local/bin$ sudo ./zmfilter.pl
If the problem lies with perl, you will find it complaining for a missing module.
Install a missing module with the command shown below. In my case I [...]