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Debian FTP archive for Etch – archive.debian.org

July 9th, 2010 · 21 Comments · Debian

Debian Etch has been discontinued for a while now, and in an ideal world everyone has upgraded to lenny a long time ago. Still, this is not always possible and there are some systems out there that are still running etch, some for a good reason, some just because their admins are lazy . Recently [...]

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cvs [checkout aborted]: absolute pathnames invalid for server

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Debian, drupal, Security, Tips and Tricks

Absolute Path Error: cvs [checkout aborted]: absolute pathnames invalid for server (specified `/path/drupalsite/’) Ok, I got the error above when I performed Drupal CVS update on our Debian server (newly installed CVS 1.12.13). The same command works on other server with older CVS installation. The issue is the reference to local cvs directory where I [...]

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Problem with Lilo Boot Loader

October 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Debian, Installation

Lately, we installed additional memory on our Debian (lenny) servers and installed ‘bigmem’ kernel for our 32-bit systems to recognize more than 3GB of ram. Bigmem kernel installations went fine on servers with Grub as their boot loader – most of them uses Grub. But on one machine with Lilo as boot loader, it didn’t [...]

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HowTo display PHP errors when you don’t have access to php.ini

September 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Centos, CLI, Debian, HowTo, sysadmin, Tips and Tricks

If you are using a shared server, or just have a limited account on your Buy Cipro Online company servers, you might not have access to your php configuration file php.ini (this is usually found under /etc/php.ini in rhel/centos and /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini in debian/ubuntu). Still, in many situations it might be needed to enable php errors [...]

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hpacucli: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

September 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Debian, Installation

Problem: I got this error when installing hpacucli on Lenny and i can’t find it on my default repo.  Others have similar problem. Solution: I just installed a package directly from packages.debian.org and this worked fine for my hpacucli in Lenny. Any idea why this library is not included anymore?

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New Debian apt keys

June 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Debian, sysadmin

Running apt-get update gives an error message: W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 9AA38DCD55BE302B W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems A check [...]

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