This how-to will cover the basic installation of Debian linux and getting CCcam up

and running on it.

This How-to is still WIP by CC_Share

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First download the netinstall cd of debian linux

You can download it from the following URL:

Link http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/...86-netinst.iso

This will install the basic debian linux system on you're harddisk.

Boot the computer from the CD you just created.

Just press enter here to start the installation

Select the language you prefer

Select the country you're in. Based on the language it selects a default country

Here you can choose the keyboard layout. Make sure you select the proper layout

otherwise installation might prove to be quite tricky.

Set up the hostname of you're server here. I prefer to set up the first part of my

DYNDNS account info here.

Here you must enter the domain name. In the example above, you can see i put

dyndns.org here

Next up is the partition guide. Here you must choose

Quote:

Guided - Use entire disk

Select the right harddisk. Usually in a stand-alone server, there will just be one entry

Debian will let you choose to have everything in 1 partition, or have seperate partitions

for the important directory's. One advantage of having seperate partitions, You cannot

fill the root system by accident if you upload a lot to the home directory. Linux will

NOT boot correct , if the root filesystem is full

In the overview, You can check to see if all is set up correct before writing the changes

to harddisk. Once you press finish, it will show you the next screen if you are really sure

.

Once you select yes, It will write the changes to harddisk and format all partitions.

If Debian cannot guess you're timezone by looking at the bios, it will ask you for the

timezone

Next you will have to enter the root password. Do not choose an easy to guess password

if you want the server to be reachable from the internet. (if you want to use SSH for

example to manage the server from work)

Next is setting up an account to use for FTP transfer.

Again, do not use a simple to guess password. This account can also be used for SSH

If you have the option, allways choose a network server.

Make sure you select a fast and stable one.

Usually univercity servers prove to be fast and stable

In the software selection screen, select base system and webserver

One of the last things it needs to know, is where to place the grub bootloader. Usually it

is safe to place it on the MBR

Congratulations, You just installed a fresh new DEBIAN server.

As you might have noticed, during installation, debian uses dhcp to aquire an ip adress.

For a cardserver, it's not recommened to have it's IP adress handled by DHCP.

First thing we need to do is remove the DHCP and assign a static IP to the linux server

Assigning static IP Log in as root with the right password

then type in the following command

Code:

vim /etc/network/interfaces

now remove the following line

Code:

iface eth0 inet dhcp

and replace it with

Code:

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet static

address 192.168.1.225

netmask 255.255.255.0

broadcast 192.168.1.255

gateway 192.168.1.1

These IP adresses might be different for you're situation.

Remember to replace them with the numbers you need.

You can save the file with the following commands

Code:

<esc>:wq

Once the file is saved, you can restart the network and check if you're linux server is

running with it's new IP adress

Code:

/etc/init.d/networking restart

ifconfig

ifconfig should now look something like this

Quote:

cardserverBackup:/home# ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:10:D0:70

inet addr:192.168.1.225 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::250:4ff:fe1d:d27b/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:8931 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:6028 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:7585683 (7.2 MiB) TX bytes:916823 (895.3 KiB)

Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000

Installing SSH Next thing that needs to be done is install a SSH deamon.

This will allow you to log into the cardserver from you're own computer and the server

does not require a keyboard and monitor if you want to change something.

Code:

apt-get install openssh-server

Once SSH is installed, you can logout of the server,remove the keyboard and monitor as

we don't need it anymore.

Getting Putty We need to download putty so we can log in with SSH

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/.../x86/putty.exe

Remove the CD-ROM drive from the apt-get mirror list: To make sure the server does not need the CD-ROM anymore to update or install

software, we need to remove it from the mirror list of apt-get.

Code:

vim /etc/apt/sources.list

now remove the lines that point to the CD-ROM drive and save the file.

Quote:

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1

20070407-11:29]/ etch contrib main

Update apt-get software list To make sure, you locally have a good software list available, you have to update the

apt-get database

Code:

apt-get update

Installing FTP server To be able to transfer files between you're computer and the linux server, a FTP server

is needed.

During the installation it will ask you one question,. Answer it with "stand-alone"

This will consume a bit more memory but will prevent linux from spawning a new

process every time you log in.

Code:

apt-get install proftpd

The server is now installed and all the needed files are in place.

Now it's time to get it ready for CCcam.

First thing we need to do is make 6 directory's and adjust the parameters.

Code:

mkdir /emu

mkdir /emu/cccam

mkdir /emu/script

mkdir /emu/log

mkdir /var/etc

mkdir /var/keys

chmod 777 /emu

chmod 777 /emu/*

chown <username> /emu

chown <username> /emu/*

The username started above is the username you created during the installation. This

name is going to be used for file transfer.

Startup script for CCcam To prevent from having to change directory all the time we're gonna place a script on

the server so CCcam can be started from any directory on the server.

Code:

vim /emu/script/cccam

Code:

#!/bin/sh

CAMNAME="CCcam Server"

# end

# This method starts CCcam

start_cam ()

{

/emu/cccam/CCcam.x86 &

sleep 2

}

# This method stops CCcam

stop_cam ()

{

pkill CCcam.x86

}

case "$1" in

start)

echo "[SCRIPT] $1: $CAMNAME"

start_cam

;;

stop)

echo "[SCRIPT] $1: $CAMNAME"

stop_cam

;;

restart)

echo "Restaring $CAMNAME"

stop_cam

start_cam

;;

*)

"$0" stop

exit 1

;;

esac

exit 0

Code:

chmod 755 /emu/script/cccam

ln /emu/script/cccam /bin/cccam

Now you can simply start, stop or restart CCcam from any directory by simply typing

Code:

cccam start

cccam stop

cccam restart

Upload CCcam Now use a FTP program to upload CCcam.x86 and CCcam.cfg to /emu/cccam

Making CCcam executable Use putty again to give CCcam.x86 execution rights

Code:

chmod 755 /emu/cccam/CCcam.x86

Config update script When you're running a big server, restoring connections can take some time then you

change you're config file. I like to do my config changes once a day. I use this script to

backup the old config and put the new config in place. This is done at 3am so my peers

don't notice it and they don't suffer from a freezing picture every time you make a

change.

Code:

vim /emu/script/configupdate.sh

Code:

#!/bin/sh

#Script to process new config and backup old one.

#Script designed and written by CC_Share

SOURCE=/emu/cccam

TARGET=/var/etc

FILE=CCcam.cfg

BACKUPDIR=/var/backup

CONFIGOLD=CCcam.old

if test -f $SOURCE/$FILE ; then

echo "New Config Present"

if test -d $BACKUPDIR ; then

if test -f $BACKUPDIR/$CONFIGOLD ; then

echo "Removing OLD config file from backup directory"

rm $BACKUPDIR/$CONFIGOLD

else

echo "No OLD config to remove."

fi

if test -f $BACKUPDIR/$FILE ; then

echo "Renaming Backup to old config"

cp $BACKUPDIR/$FILE $BACKUPDIR/$CONFIGOLD

rm $BACKUPDIR/$FILE

else

echo "No Backupfile present yet"

fi

if test -f $TARGET/$FILE ; then

echo "Copying Original config to Backup directory"

cp $TARGET/$FILE $BACKUPDIR

rm $TARGET/$FILE

else

echo "No Original Config File Present!?!?"

fi

else

echo "Backup directory does not exist."

echo "making new directory"

mkdir $BACKUPDIR

if test -f $TARGET/$FILE ; then

echo "Copying Original config to Backup directory"

cp $TARGET/$FILE $BACKUPDIR

else

echo "No Original Config File Present!?!?"

fi

fi

echo "Moving New config file to "$TARGET

cp $SOURCE/$FILE $TARGET

rm $SOURCE/$FILE

else

echo "No New Config present, Nothing to process"

fi

exit

Code:

chmod 755 /emu/script/configupdate.sh

Putting configupdate in crontab To make sure the config update script will run at 3 am everynight, we can place it in the

crontab.

Code:

cd /etc

vim crontab

and add the following line to it

Code:

00 3 * * * root /emu/script/./configupdate.sh

>>/emu/log/configupdate.log 2>&1

This will run the script every day at 3am, and it's output will be writen in

/emu/log/configupdate.log so you can check on occasion if all went well.

Putting CCcam in bootsequence

There's only one more thing to do. Add CCcam to the startup so it will start on the next

reboot.

Code:

vim /etc/rc.local

and add the following line at the bottom

Code:

/bin/cccam start &

test the config update script created earlier to see if that works

Code:

/emu/script/./configupdate.sh

If it works, you can reboot the server and check if CCcam is running.

Good luck