By default Debian etch 32bit allows a maximum of 4 GB RAM. The limit can be raised up to 64 GB with a single apt-get command / kerenl update: apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem That’s it, reboot your system and you will be able to install up to 64GB of RAM to your system.
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Compiling the kernel from source on Debian is actually pretty simple thing to do. This guide has been tested on standard etch installation but will probably work on other versions and debian-like operating systems. The system is easy to break if not done right, compile and install the kernel at your own risk! Install required packages [...]
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Search installed packages: apt-cache search package Get details about a specific installed package: apt-cache show package
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First we’ll need to create a certificate signing request (CSR) containing the certificate application info and a private key. Make sure you don’t expose you’re private key (test.com.key) to the public or the safety of the encrypted information could be compromised. mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl cd /etc/apache2/ssl openssl req [...]
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The Apache web server can read .htaccess files located anywhere in your document root to perform different tasks and control settings without changing the configuration files. This may be useful where you don’t have access to change the configuration files or don’t want to mangle with the configuration files to perform easy [...]
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Pure-FTPd is a free, secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server. It doesn’t provide useless bells and whistles, but focuses on efficiency and ease of use. It provides simple answers to common needs, plus unique useful features for personal users as well as hosting providers. In this tutorial we’ll install [...]
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Lighttpd is a web server which is designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. Its low memory footprint (compared to other web servers), light CPU load and its speed goals make lighttpd suitable for servers that are suffering load problems, or for serving static [...]
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Setup Trac and Subversion First install packages for both Trac and Subversion. We’ll be using Apache to publish the Subversion repositories apt-get install python-setuptools trac subversion libapache2-svn Create the SVN repository directory structure, used to create new repositories later mkdir /var/svn/ mkdir /var/svn/tmpproject [...]
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Greylisting is a new weapon to use against spam in this great war being waged upon it. With this new shielding method, by which you may block out huge amounts of spam, you are sure to please your email clients! In name, as well as operation, greylisting is related to whitelisting and blacklisting. What happen is that each time a given [...]
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