Munin and Use of uninitializer value in eval

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 … 

 

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) …