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 [...]

Apr

15

Debian: remove unused packages

April 15, 2009 | 3 Comments

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 [...]

Apr

14

Access Subsonic via Apache

April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

Feb

18

Debian: from Etch to Lenny

February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment

Today (or yesterday as I write), Debian Lenny was released. If you with to upgrade, the procedure is as follow: Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all occurences of “etch” by “lenny” run apt-get update or aptitude update run aptitude upgrade run aptitude dist-upgrade The little discovery I made tonight was that apt needed keys to update [...]

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, [...]

Oct

18

Backup system

October 18, 2008 | 4 Comments

In the Spring, our DV camera died on us. As for most electronic devices, it was not worth fixing, so we saved money and got a new Canon DV Camera and started filming show openings again for various artists. Last month, we also returned from our holidays in America with something like 2000 new pictures. [...]

Jun

14

KDE4 on Debian Sid

June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

Well, with a running Debian Sid distribution, I am all set to test KDE 4. The installation process is simple enough but, before getting into it, remove any previous version of KDE. Here is how I’ve done it : I added references to experimental in /etc/apt/sources.list: 12deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental [...]

Jun

14

Debian: from testing to unstable

June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

KDE 4 has been announced for a long time and, since I first heard of it, I subscribed to the mailing list. I keep hearing about the new features the kde team for this new version and I’m really anxious to try out. Finally two days ago, I decided I wanted to install the beta [...]

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, [...]

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