Install Mplayer and all codecs on Debian lenny
November 16th, 2010 by upa_kid
MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems. MPlayer supports a wide variety of media formats In addition to its wide range of supported formats MPlayer can also save all streamed content to a file.
Bellow we will show you how to install mplayer,mplayer skins and codecs in debian lenny
First...Watching Hard Drive Activity With iotop On Ubuntu 8.10 And Debian Lenny
November 12th, 2010 by jennyamy
This article shows how you can watch your hard drive activity with iotop on Ubuntu 8.10 and Debian Lenny. iotop watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel (requires 2.6.20 or later) and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads on the system. iotop displays columns for the I/O bandwidth read and written by each process/thread during the sampling period. It also displays...Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Debian Lenny)
November 12th, 2010 by jennyamy
This tutorial is Copyright (c) 2009 by Falko Timme. It is derived from a tutorial from Christoph Haas which you can find at http://workaround.org. You are free to use this tutorial under the Creative Commons license 2.5 or any later version.
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database....Chrooted SSH/SFTP Tutorial (Debian Lenny)
November 12th, 2010 by jennyamy
Since version 4.8, OpenSSH supports chrooting (see http://openssh.org/txt/release-4.8), so no patches are needed anymore. This tutorial describes how to give users chrooted SSH access. With this setup, you can give your users shell access without having to fear that they can see your whole system. Your users will be jailed in a specific directory which they will not be able to break out of. I will...Setting Up An NFS Server And Client On Debian Lenny
November 11th, 2010 by jennyamy
This guide explains how to set up an NFS server and an NFS client on Debian Lenny. NFS stands for Network File System; through NFS, a client can access (read, write) a remote share on an NFS server as if it was on the local hard disk.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
I’m using two Debian systems here:
NFS Server: server.example.com, IP address: 192.168.0.100
NFS...Creating A Fully Encrypted Para-Virtualised Xen Guest System Using Debian Lenny
November 11th, 2010 by jennyamy
This document explains how to set up a fully encrypted para-virtualized XEN instance. In this howto, the host system is running Debian Etch, while the guest system to be installed will be using Debian Lenny.
Introduction
If you are concerned about your privacy, you might want to consider using hard disk encryption to protect your valuable private data from spying eyes. Usually, the easiest way would...How To Set Up WebDAV With MySQL Authentication On Apache2 (Debian Lenny)
November 11th, 2010 by jennyamy
This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with MySQL authentication (using mod_auth_mysql) on Apache2 on a Debian Lenny server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload...
Integrating eAccelerator Into PHP5 And Lighttpd (Debian Lenny)
November 11th, 2010 by jennyamy
This guide explains how to integrate eAccelerator into PHP5 and lighttpd on a Debian Lenny system. From the eAccelerator project page: “eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes...How To Defend slowloris DDoS With mod_qos (Apache2 On Debian [Lenny])
November 11th, 2010 by jennyamy
From the Slowloris description:
Slowloris is designed so that a single machine (probably a Linux/UNIX machine since Windows appears to limit how many sockets you can have open at any given time) can easily tie up a typical web server or proxy server by locking up all of it’s threads as they patiently wait for more data. Some servers may have a smaller tolerance for timeouts than others, but...Install Drizzle On Debian Lenny
November 11th, 2010 by jennyamy
Drizzle is a Free Software/Open Source database management system (DBMS) that was forked from version 6.0 of the MySQL DBMS. Like MySQL, Drizzle has a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language. Drizzle is distributed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
Drizzle is written in the C++ programming language, and stores its string data in an UTF-8 format. It...
Monitoring Multiple Log Files At A Time With MultiTail On Debian Lenny
November 11th, 2010 by jennyamy
MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor a complete directory of files. Merging of two or even...How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Lenny)
November 11th, 2010 by jennyamy
This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Debian Lenny system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
In this tutorial I’m using a Debian Lenny system with two hard drives, /dev/sda...