Category Archives: Distro

Nginx and worker_connections are more than open file resource limit warning

If you encounter this warning message under Linux: 2009/03/09 21:23:19 [warn] 26827#0: 4096 worker_connections are more than open file resource limit: 1024 A solution is to use the command ulimit in nginx start script, just before lunching nginx: [...] ulimit  -n 65536 [...]

Debian Lenny and perl locales warning messages

If like me you just have upgraded your Debian system to Lenny, you probably encounter the following warnings while launching perl: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:         LANGUAGE = (unset),         LC_ALL = (unset),         LANG = “fr_FR.UTF-8″     are supported and installed on your system. perl: [...]

Use multiple memcached daemons on FreeBSD

As you may know, when using memcached on 32-bit servers, processes can only address 4GB of virtual memory making the memcached daemon handle only 2 or 3 Gb of memory. If you want to address more memory, you need to launch multiple memcached daemons. I wrote an rc script , mmemcached, for FreeBSD to manage [...]

Follow your debian server updates by email with apticron

apticron is a shell script that send you an email report when new packages are available on your debian server. Install apticron As root, do: apt-get install apticron apticron configuration via /etc/apticron/apticron.conf To receive reports on your email change the EMAIL variable in the configuration file. By default, reports are sent to the root user. [...]