Nov

4

Debian Lenny: updating to SVN 1.6.4

November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

Working with Windwos users on my SVN repository, I needed to upgrade SVN to match with their Tortoise version. Here are the steps to do so:

add the line below to /etc/apt/sources.list
1deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

get the public key from lenny-backports running the following command
1wget -O – http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add -

run aptitude update
install subversion [...]

Jun

7

Debian: Naming USB devices with uDev

June 7, 2009 | 1 Comment

I use three different small backup drives as three backup volumes. I turn them on on sunday, the backup scripts runs overnight, and I turn them off on monday morning. I’ve shared the backup script in a previous post.
The problem is that the backup script  starts by mounting the backup drives. It expects them to [...]

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 [...]

Oct

24

Scanning for virus

October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

So now we have a backup system archiving our valuable data weekly. The problem is, these data come from different computers running different OS, some of them also come from friend’s computers or even the World Wide Web. The problem is that we can not guarantee that these files are virus free. But at least, [...]

Jun

8

Debian Etch and the Realtek ALC888 sounds chipset

June 8, 2008 | 1 Comment

Until recently, my Etch based server was running without any sound driver. But I’ve heard about MPD and since that server also stores my music collection, I wanted to give it a try. Sound output then became necessary.
The mainboard is an Asrock ALIveNF6G-VSTA and, like the user manual and the Internet will tell you, the [...]

May

28

CloneZilla: clone your hard drive

May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment

About a year ago, when it was time for me to upgrade from Sarge to Etch, I decided to backup my whole Debian system before trying the risky aptitude dist-upgrade. I used g4u to clone my hard drive on another drive of the same size and even tested that, replacing the current drive with the [...]

Apr

13

Debian Lenny: install nvidia drivers

April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment

Because my motherboard (ASUS P5K) and its SATA hard disk were not recognized by the Sarge installer I decided to install Debian testing aka Lenny. The installation was smooth (thanks to all the work done by the installer team) and most of my hardware was identified automatically (including for example the volume up/down buttons on [...]

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