This windows environment is killing me. :<
I am trying make a distribution tarball (e.g. make dist-bzip2). I get permission denied errors.
$ make distcheck{ test ! -d “vboxbg-0.0″ || { find “vboxbg-0.0″ -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ‘;’ && rm -fr “vboxbg-0.0″; }; } test -d “vboxbg-0.0″ || mkdir “vboxbg-0.0″
cp: failed to preserve [...]
Posts under ‘System Administration’
Permission Issues on Cygwin
PXE Booting a VirtualBox guest
Last article I described howto setup an infrastructure to install Debian over the network. This time I will look at building an actual server.
As I currently do not have a local Debian mirror nor do I particularly wish to go through the trouble a resource commitment to maintain one, I decided to try out apt-cacher-ng. [...]
Debian Network Installation
Since I need to rebuild my infrastructure almost from scratch, I will document the steps, procedures, etc here. That way if I have to go through this exercise again, it should be easier.
I am going to be working with VirtualBox mainly because it is easier and faster than dealing with physical machines. My instance of [...]
Automated System Administration
Well it has been since last summer or maybe earlier that most of my systems wanted to fail. I am just now getting around to doing something about it. I understand why my children’s systems and my wife’s system fails quite regularly…. They are probably 8 or 9 years old. Pentium M and Pentium III [...]
