Category Archives: Debian

Linux: Setup ntp server

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linux can, of course 🙂 , act as an ntp server.

For debian 9 the following steps are necessary.
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Samba: Setup for Windows Previous Versions Support


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this post describes how to setup samba to provide filesystem snapshots to Windows in its “Previous Versions” tab.

Install your prefered Linux Distribution. In this tutorial debian 9 stretch.
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Debian: Set python 3 as default

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debian is still delivered with 2.7 as the default version of python. /usr/bin/python is in fact a symlink to the current default versions binary.

The update-alternatives scripts allows to change this.
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Debian: Shutdown when pressing power button

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when you install Debian with just the Standard minium System utilities a power off by pressing the power button is not possible.

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Debian: git error gnutls_handshake() failed: Public key signature verification has failed.

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I’m on debian testing and cloning from a git repository fails with error: “gnutls_handshake() failed: Public key signature verification has failed” occured.
git is linked against the libcurl3-gnutls library. Newer versions have a bug when using git over a https proxy.
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