Posted by TechFiz on June 26, 2010
If you’re trying to install Debian Lenny on a XEN VM you might end up with the following error no matter which debian repository you use to install. can’t download file (/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/20090123lenny1/images/netboot/xen/vmlinuz) Resolution: Smiplest way to install lenny on xenserver5.5 is “install from URL:http://mirrors.cn99.com/debian/”. The above URL works perfectly on Citrix XENSERVER 5.5. Otherwise you [...]
Posted by TechFiz on December 10, 2009
Virtual Ethernet devices of the OpenVZ VM’s inside ProxMox is connected to a bridge. After installing ProxMox and creating virtual nodes, I found that public ips allocated inside VM’s were not reachable to world. A quick fix for this issue is to ensure that Proxy ARP and IP Forwarding is configured fine. Check these lines: [...]
Posted by TechFiz on October 29, 2009
This is a very common issue found in VirtualMin The Suexec command on your system is configured to only run scripts under /var/www, but the Virtualmin base directory is /home. CGI and PHP scripts run as domain owners will not be executed. To resolve this you will have to recompile apache with /home as a [...]
Posted by TechFiz on October 28, 2009
Looking for a web administration tool for your system? Try out Webmin. One of the very basic tools to manage your system. You can download the webmin package for different OS’s from the official website webmin.com. Once you have the .deb package for Ubuntu/Debian, you will be prompted to install some dependencies. So first get [...]
Posted by TechFiz on October 25, 2009
Hostname is stored in /etc/hostname file on Debian. This file is read at the boot time and name is setup using the init script /etc/init.d/hostname.sh To make changes to the hostname, first edit this file as follows: #sudo gedit /etc/hostname Once you’re done editing the hostname, save the file and run the following command to [...]
Posted by TechFiz on June 11, 2009
All I needed is to access my home directory hosted on a server quickly on a secure channel. FTP/Web based access were bit irritating as I could not read some of the IRC logs stored in unicode with ease. I quickly thought of installing and mounting the remote direct via sshfs (Secure Shell File System). [...]
