diochnos/tips/customizing
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General Information
General information about what sort of customizations can be found in this webpage.
Regarding linux, the distribution that I have in mind is debian.
Linux
Information specific to linux will show up here.
Terminal Related
Below are my standard customizations for using the terminal.
.bash_aliases
This is the file that I am using.
.bashrc
I introduce the following two lines in the top of .bashrc:
- export PATH="$HOME/bin:/opt/bin:$PATH"
- export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
Moreover, in order to have a timestamp presented in the bash history I add the following line:
- export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%y/%m/%d %T "
.bash_profile
This is the file that I am using.
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X Windows
Below are some standard customizations using X Windows.
.xinitrc
This is the file that I am using (debian squeeze + WindowMaker).
.Xresources
This is the file that I am using (debian squeeze + WindowMaker).
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Apache - PHP
In order to make apache work and enable PHP the following should be done:
- install the packages php5, libapache2-mod-php5 (or the latest phpX package)
- create symbolic links under the directory /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ to the files ../mods-available/userdir.conf and ../mods-available/userdir.load
- edit the file /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf and comment out the 5 lines that are indicated inside the file so that php is enabled.
Port Forwarding
In order to make Apache responsive to the outside world we have to forward the following ports and protocols:
- 80, TCP
- 443, TCP/UDP
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fail2ban
Copy /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf to /etc/fail2ban/jail.local and edit that file. I tend to give bantime at least 1800 instead of the 600 default seconds. Maximum number of retries also changes to 3 from 6.
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apt-get update/upgrade
Updating/upgrading the system using apt-get, times out for some servers when using IPv6. Instead one can use commands like the following one and force the use of IPv4.
apt-get -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true update/upgrade
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LaTeX
Information specific to texlive.
Path for Packages
Up until debian squeeze (6.0) the directory for the packages of texlive used to be /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex. However, after migrating to wheezy (7.0) it appears that this path has moved to /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex.
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lpr
For double-sided (portrait) printing lpr needs the option: -o sides=two-sided-long-edge
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MAC OS
Information specific to MAC OS will show up here.
igraph
After upgrading to Mavericks (10.9.x) I installed MacPorts under a custom directory: /opt/macports/latest. For the configuration of the latest igraph version 0.7.0 (as of this writing; link) I used the following command:
./configure LIBS=-L/opt/macports/latest/lib CFLAGS=-I/opt/macports/latest/include --prefix=/opt/igraph/0.7.0-pre
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