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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

mail on Debian

So... I guess I thought I was smart enough to set up a Debian server all by myself... and it looks like I'm not even able to get basic email to work! :roll: Bleh... I could set up apache, php, mysql and have everything working... but email ? What the…...

May 27, 2006 · 3 min · François Planque

Live monitoring a web server

Today I learnt to sort of monitor my webserver live. And I learnt it the hard way... :-/ The LAMP servers kept crashing every 2 hours and I could not even log on with SSH. I had to hard reset them. Here's how I managed to watch them dying in real time.…...

August 13, 2005 · 3 min · François Planque