Fix: installing scponly on Debian 5.0
Scponly is used for chroot to limit server access for SSH and SFTP users. Unfortunately, the Debian package for scponly does not work with Debian 5.0. If you upgraded from Debian 4 to Debian 5 and are...
View ArticleFix: Webmin error “This Webmin module depends on the module phpini”
Upon updating Webmin, I noticed that there is a new package dependency that breaks the updates. To fix, you will need to get the phpini package from Webmin http://www.webmin.com/standard.html and...
View ArticleIssues with Debian Lenny and Tomcat 5.5
Is your Debian install of Tomcat 5.5 not working with your Webapp? Just a heads up for anyone with problems trying to get webapps working with Debian. I highly recommend installing Tomcat 6.0 from...
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Fix: Installing JDK on Debian Lenny jdk-6u12-docs.zip error
If you encounter the following error in Debian Lenny while installing Sun-Java-6: This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the JDK documentation. You will need to go download...
View ArticleKernel.org still down – Fix your apt sources
With kernel.org being down for the past few weeks, there isn't a clear indication of when they'll be back up. In the meantime, its a good time to check if you are using mirrors.kernel.org on your Linux...
View ArticleUpgrading Debian Lenny to Squeeze with MySQL for row-based-replication
I completed an upgrade of Debian Lenny to Squeeze on a production database server over the weekend. It went quite well and I had zero downtime thanks to my secondary database servers running in-place....
View ArticleDebian Lenny EOL 2/6/2012
Debian Lenny EOL in two months. Security support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (code name “lenny”) will end 2/6/2012. If you are still using Lenny, you should run a distribution update to Squeeze in the...
View ArticleHow to Clear Debian Apt Cache
If you are running on a server with limited space (e.g. VPS), you might need to manually clear out the Debian apt cache via this command: apt-get clean Or, keep the current version of the software:...
View ArticlePHPMyAdmin Security Update 1/22/2012
There is a PHPMyAdmin update today for Debian. It fixes XSS bug in the table tracking feature and an XML import plugin vulnerability. The stable version of Debian (squeeze) and testing (wheezy) are...
View ArticlePHP Security Update – 1/31/2012
There is an important Debian update for PHP today to fix a number of vulnerabilities such as regression and buffer overflows. The crypt_blowfish function also had a bug that did not properly handle...
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