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The 17th of September 2008 opens a new door for myself as I leave my old work place for a new one after 9 years. It's been a long time coming but I've finally found something interesting and new to change to.

I am now working for a company called Adeptra (www.adeptra.com) who specialises in automated voice calls. Very interesting technology even though alot of us sysadmins have done something like this in our life time already.

The system calls clients to inform of possibly security breach of their credit cards or even just that their payment for their bills are overdue.

I haven't heard the system yet but going from the demo on the site, the systems text to speech seems quite well put together and scripted.

I've worked on text to speech before and even speech recognition (funny episode when I told my machine to start IE and it started FireFox instead, maybe it knew better than to run IE. Kept me laughing for a while..) but the technology is a long way from perfection.

So it looks like alot of new reading material for me for some months to come and a new life to start over again but I will keep up the community mods/tweaks that I make from time to time.

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DTC Debian etch 4.0 setup

Written by DjTremors

Friday, 04 May 2007

Here is a howto to get DTC working on the latest Debian 4.0 Etch system.

First remove exim4 and install postfix

apt-get install --purge postfix

Make sure your server is configured with a FQDN ie dtc.domainhosting.com

Check Domain

hostname -d

# Check Hostname

hostname -s

# Check FQDN

hostname -f

Add GPLHost repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

deb ftp://ftp.gplhost.com/debian/ etch main

apt-get update

Change the verbose questioning of debian to medium otherwise it'll be on low which asks nothing.

dpkg-reconfigure debconf

Now install apache with mysql modules and php, etc.

apt-get install libapache2-mod-log-sql libapache2-mod-log-sql-mysql php-crypt-cbc sbox-dtc

Now install bind for DNS and DTC and postfix last.

apt-get install bind9

apt-get install dtc-toaster

apt-get install dtc-postfix-courier

Run the post installation script which does all the magic *cough*cough*

/usr/share/dtc/admin/install/install

Now the install script is a little buggy atm, so fix up permissions so dtc doesn't come back with Server Error 500 on the screen as well as make bind work properly by making bind part of the dtcgrp group.

chown dtc /var/lib/dtc/etc/vhost_check_dir

chown dtc /var/lib/dtc/etc/vhost_check_ssl_cert

chmod 770 /var/www/sites

chmod 770 /var/lib/dtc/etc/ssl/

chmod 770 /var/lib/dtc/etc/*.rrd

adduser bind dtcgrp

If you want the Package Installers, you need cvs and run the following commands.

apt-get install cvs # in case you didn't install it with the OS.

cd /usr/share/dtc/shared/

cvs -d :pserver: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it :/var/lib/cvs login

cvs -d :pserver: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it :/var/lib/cvs checkout dtc-package-installer

mv dtc-package-installer package-installer

Now, one gotcha which is a little too hard to go into fine detail here is that if you use NAT for your webserver, I noticed that DTC accepts your "YES" to using NAT but doesn't apply it in the install and puts your EXTERNAL IP in apaches conf.

What I had to do is edit /var/lib/dtc/etc/vhosts.conf and search replace the external IP with the internal and restart apache.

Then go to the Configuration page and turn NAT on and put the Internal IP (shows 192.168.0.2 which is not what you put on the installer).

It's a bug which myself and the developers will eventually get to it.Â

Good luck.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 June 2007 )

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