corkscrew (not screwdriver!)

I can't believe I didn't have a post about corkscrew already!

This is a great link:

http://www.mtu.net/~engstrom/ssh-proxy.php

install corkscrew via apt (synaptic/aptitude/apt-get whatever)

Edit your ~/.ssh/config file:


Host my.server my.other.server
    ProxyCommand corkscrew proxy.domain.com 8080 %h %p ~/.ssh/proxy_auth
    User remoteuser


in ~/.ssh/proxy_auth put:


username:password


It's a pain if you don't use the Host line because you have to comment the ProxyCommand line when you need to access a local machine (i.e. not through the proxy server)

Talking about proxies... a LONG time ago in another country (oots mon!) I used to use APS - I don't know if I'll need it again, but just in case, there it is.

VMware

I'm using the Debian Etch image from here with VMware Player

To get it to use a UK keyboard mapping I needed to do

loadkeys uk

for console, and

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and/or

setxkbmap -layout "gb"

for X.

You also might need to start networking manually, and I exported my proxy details:


export http_proxy="http://proxy-server:port/"


Then ran synaptic - NICE - hadn't used it before.
Upgraded to a 686 kernel from the 486 one, stripped out all the gnome packages and put in fluxbox and wdm instead - it's much faster now.

I also did this

dhclient kept overwriting /etc/resolv.conf so I added this to /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf


supersede domain-name-servers ns1-ip-address, ns2-ip-address;
supersede domain-name "domain.com";


as per one of the answers here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=7239