Configuration Apple-pi - Raspbian

Configuration Page

Introduction

This is the configuration page for the Raspbian partition on Apple-pi.

Configuration Files

All configuration files can be found here.

Repositories

To be completed.

Installed Applications

Common applications

Some application from the Common configuration for Linux, namely:

sudo apt-get install git etckeeper libnss-mdns avahi-daemon mdns-scan mc autossh vim-gnome tmux

Essential

Git (git)

# Setup git repo main directory sudo useradd -s /usr/bin/git-shell -m git # User both for ssh: and git: protocol access (shell disabled) sudo su -p git # Notice -p since shell is disabled cd ~git mkdir git # This directory will store all .git repo mkdir .ssh cat ... >> .ssh/authorized_keys # Add keys of user that can use the ssh: protocol Install git-daemon (enable git: protocol): sudo apt-get install git-daemon-sysvinit sudo vi /etc/default/git-daemon # Change user to 'git' sudo /etc/init.d/git-daemon start # Start daemon Setup minecraft.git: sudo su -p git # or sudo su -s /bin/bash git cd ~git/git git init --bare minecraft.git cd minecraft.git touch git-daemon-export-ok git config --add daemon.receivepack true # no hyphen in receivepack! exit sudo ln -sf ~git/git/minecraft.git /var/cache/git/minecraft.git

Local Applications

Application (package)

[YYYY-MM-DD] Update Additional configuration settings

Uninstalled

Application (package)

[YYYY-MM-DD] Update Additional configuration settings

Settings

Network WIFI

Check that WiFi dongle is detected with lsusb lsusb # Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter Check that wireless device has an interface available with iwconfig [1] [2] iwconfig # wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"ManticoreNet" Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>" # Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:1D:7E:0C:24:5E # Bit Rate:150 Mb/s Sensitivity:0/0 # Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off # Power Management:off # Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=87/100 Noise level=0/100 # Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 # Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 We configure interface wlan0 to use WPA in roaming, and static ip address for network id home.[3] See man interfaces for instruction auto wlan0 tells that the interface should start automatically at boot wpa-roam implies that manual must be used To configure a static address, add an extra interface (here with name home), and configure this interface instead. The name must match name given in attribute id_str in file wpa_supplicant.conf. This allows to have different network configuration for different wireless networks. Wifi network credentials are stored in a separate file that only root can read File /etc/network/interfaces: auto wlan0 allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf iface home inet static address 172.19.100.107 netmask 255.255.0.0 gateway 172.19.3.1 File /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf: ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 network={ ssid="***********" psk="************" proto=RSN key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=CCMP TKIP group=CCMP TKIP id_str="home" } Bring up or down the interface with: sudo ifup wlan0 sudo ifdown wlan0 The following error messages can be ignored [4]: $ sudo ifup wlan0 ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

To Do

Issues

• Issue — Frequently losing WiFi connection, without reconect.

• Workaround — Use a cron script to detect and force reconnect * * * * /usr/local/bin/testwifi.sh 2> /var/log/testwifi.log
• Crontab line, edited with sudo crontab -e

*/2 * * * * /usr/local/bin/testwifi.sh > /var/log/testwifi.log 2>&1

• /usr/local/bin/testwifi.sh

#echo '/usr/local/bin/testwifi.sh log'
TESTIP=172.19.100.107

#ping -c4 ${TESTIP} > /dev/null
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 | grep --quiet $TESTIP

if [ $? != 0 ]
then
    logger -t $0 "WiFi seems down, restarting"
    sudo /sbin/ifdown --force wlan0
    sleep 10
    sudo /sbin/ifup wlan0
else
    #logger -t $0 "WiFi seems up."
fi

• To Do — Description

Done & Fixed

• Fixed — Issue description
  Fix description
• Done — Description