On some of freshly installed servers (Debian Etch), I encountered these error messages in /var/log/munin/munin-node.log: Use of uninitialized value in eval {block} exit at /usr/sbin/munin-node line 456, <CHILD> line 8. What a great error message 🙂 After digging into Google results, I found it was just a problem with host_name variable in the configuration. Default …
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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: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â LANGUAGE = (unset), Â Â Â Â Â Â Â LC_ALL = (unset), Â Â Â Â Â Â Â LANG = “fr_FR.UTF-8” Â Â Â are supported and installed on your system. perl: …
Install Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on Debian Etch
Sun JRE is available in the non-free repository. You need to update your repositories configuration file (/etc/apt/sources.list). Add the following line: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free Update apt with apt-get update command and you’re ready to install the JRE. $ apt-get install sun-java5-jre Check your java binary: $ java -version java version “1.5.0_14” Java(TM) …
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. …