Filesystem notification initialization error — contact your mail administrator (check for configuration errors with the FAM/Gamin library)

by Grant Brown

posted July 7, 2011

category Debian, Knowledge Base

This error can be seen in your mail client and is often caused by Courier. If you are the system administrator of the mail server, simply install libgamin as follows: If you are root: apt-get install gamin If not: sudo apt-get install gamin Restart all of your courier services as follows (requires you to be [...]

Set timezone on debian

by Grant Brown

posted June 14, 2011

category Debian, Knowledge Base

The package responsible for the timezone is tzdata. I\’ve found the information needed here. The other informations you might find with google are a bit confusing – at least for me. You can (re)configure it with dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Automated backups to FTP server using rsync and curlftpfs

by Grant Brown

posted June 6, 2011

category Debian, Knowledge Base

Using curlftpfs and FUSE, a ftp site is mapped to the local file system and rsync will backup files to the ftp server automatically. 1. Install required packages apt-get install curlftpfs rsync 2. Create directory to mount the ftp site mkdir /mnt/ftpbackup 3. Add the curlftpfs mount into fstab to make it mount everytime the [...]

Install XCache

by Grant Brown

posted June 6, 2011

category Debian, Knowledge Base, PHP

XCache is a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load. It overcomes a lot of problems that has been with other competing opcachers such as being able to be used with new PHP versions. 1. Installing the XCache package apt-get install php5-xcache 2. [...]

Running Apache2 virtual hosts as different users with mpm-itk

by Grant Brown

posted June 6, 2011

category Apache, Debian, Knowledge Base

apache2-mpm-itk is an MPM (Multi-Processing Module) for the Apache web server. mpm-itk allows you to run each of your vhost under a separate uid and gid — in short, the scripts and configuration files for one vhost no longer have to be readable for all the other vhosts. 1. Install the apache2-mpm-itk package apt-get install [...]