A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
aptitude is a text-based interface to the Debian GNU/Linux package system. It allows the user to view the list of packages and to perform package management tasks such as installing, upgrading, and removing packages. Actions may be performed from a visual interface or from the command-line.
Put this line in your ~/.vimrc set esckeys Another alternative is to install vim aptitude install vim And do the necessary changes on the settings file /etc/vim/vimrc
With the introduction of the Apache2 packages in Debian it is much simpler to create and use a secure SSL protected webserver than in the old days with Apache 1.3, here we’ll show how it is done. If you have Apache 2.x installed already then you’re good to go as you don’t need anything extra […]
By default, MySQL (on Debian) doesn’t listen on the public interface: #netstat -l tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1768/mysqld In /etc/mysql/my.cnf, comment out the bind line: #bind-address = 127.0.0.1 And restart MySQL. Then it will listen on the public interface, and you should be able to connect. #netstat -l tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* […]
I’ve just migrated a couple of servers from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot, and am very happy with the latter so far. I thought I’d share the courier2dovecot shell script I whipped together (based on the instructions I found in the migration how-to), for converting Courier-IMAP maildirs to Dovecot format. While the script is rather simple, it […]