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How to check when Linux was installed

If you have several servers to maintain like I do, at some point you'll want to know how old exactly an installation of Debian (or another flavor or Linux) has gotten since you last wiped it clean... So how do you check the install date? I found t…...

September 27, 2012 · 1 min · François Planque

How to fix apt-get missing keys (Debian)

Lately, my Debian servers have been bugging me with stuff like this everytime I tried to apt-get update:W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs:XYZ123W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems...

May 28, 2009 · 2 min · François Planque

How to manage MySQL binary log space (Debian)

So it turns out that what is filling up my root partition is my MySQL binary logs.A collection of fat files in /var/log/mysql ...So I had several options: Move the logs to a different partition Increase the size of the root partition D…...

October 15, 2007 · 2 min · François Planque

Why is my Linux root partition full?

Oh my... nothing puts a server down on its knees more than a root partition with 0% free space. Oh well, ok, maybe being dugg beats it. But still, when you have a full partition, you're in trouble... First thing is to find what is using that much spac…...

October 15, 2007 · 2 min · François Planque

TLS IMAP with Courier on Debian

Welcome back to the daily emailing setup on Debian... The default private key for the courier IMAP server is for localhost, whiwh will issue warnings in the mail client. To generate a new (self signed) private key, you need to do this: rm…...

July 20, 2006 · 1 min · François Planque

Mailman on Debian

Installing the mailman package on Debian is easy... but at some point, you gotta run into exim4 configuration again! Fact is exim4 does not by default and strongly discourages using piping to programs in /etc/aliases... which unfortunately is the way…...

July 19, 2006 · 2 min · François Planque

Sending mail on Debian

Another late night trying to configure that Debian exim4 thingy... I want to send email from Thunderbird using my Debian box as an SMTP relay. The mailserver (exim4) will refuse to relay anything to an external domain if you're not properly…...

July 19, 2006 · 2 min · François Planque