Apr

15

Debian: remove unused packages

April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

Two days ago, I ran into a strange problem with my email server which refused to send any more emails. It turned out my hard drive was full… I started by emptying the tmp directory and running aptitude clean and aptitude autoclean but that wasn’t enough to free enough space to allow me to breathe [...]

Apr

15

Debian, read the bootup messages

April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

While Debian boots, several warning, error or information messages appear and quickly disappear from the screen. If you wish to log these messages in order to consult them later on, you need to enable the bootlog by editing a single configuration file.
1vi /etc/default/bootlogd
The file should say something like
1BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No
Simply ,change it to
1BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes
You should now have these [...]

Apr

14

Access Subsonic via Apache

April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment

I have setup Subsonic on my server last week as a standalone applicaiton. That means that Subsonic runs its own webserver. The only drawback of this method of deployment is that, to access the application, I had to type http://<subsonic server>:8080.
To access Subsonic while using port 80, I enabled the mod_proxy and added a VirtualHost [...]

Apr

9

Install Subsonic on Debian Etch

April 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

Subsonic is a web application allowing you to stream or download your music collection over the Internet. It is the newest application of the kind after the famous Ampache and Jinzora. I have recently tried Ampache but was disapointed by the user experience so when Framasoft added a notice about Subsonic, I was immediatly interested.
The installation is [...]