I’ve posted a recipe for chrooting MySQL on Debian sarge a while ago. These instructions no longer work out of the box for newer MySQL packages from Debian and Ubuntu. The main problem is that the startup script added a few extra checks and script invocations that don’t understand the chroot environment. So here’s an [...]
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Chrooting Recent MySQL Versions on Debian and Ubuntu
Saturday, December 30th, 2006Sun Java Packages for Debian and Ubuntu
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006Sun now allows redistribution of Java by Linux and Open-Solaris distributions. As a result of this move, there are now packages of Sun’s Java for Debian and Ubuntu. The packaging code is largely based on the code we are using for Blackdown Java for some years. The code is available under the MIT license from [...]
LVM Snapshots With Debian Sarge and Linux 2.6.16
Sunday, April 9th, 2006I have upgraded this server to kernel 2.6.16.2. The next backup cycle resulted in a minor disaster: The backup process deadlocked at removing the first LVM2 snapshot and the snapshot source volumes were blocking write accesses. A cleanup shutdown was impossible and I had to hard-reset the machine. After some searching I found out that [...]
Securing WordPress 2 Admin Access With SSL
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006A few people have asked for an updated version of my Securing WordPress Admin Access With SSL guide. So here is an updated version for WordPress 2! The situation has not changed much since WordPress 1.5: WordPress 2.0 still does not support HTTPS access to the admin area when the rest of the blog is [...]
XOrg 6.9 evdev Fix for Big-Endian Machines
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006The new evdev driver in XOrg 6.9 is broken on big-endian machines (e.g. powerpc). Here’s a patch that fixes the problem.
