Debian – Install Webmin
Webmin is a great little tool for admin your server from a web interface. And it’s really easy to install. To download the package (version…
SSH Server (OpenSSH) – Change listening port
Many reasons for changing the listening port of your SSH server. You only have 1 public IP, and a bunch of virtual machines on a virtual network,…
Debian – Install package proxy using apt-cacher
When dealing with lots of Debian installs (or a Debian network), using a package proxy can save you a lot of bandwidth and time. Apt-cacher is a…
Minecraft server – Debian variants
Minecraft have become unbelievable popular. Simple graphics in a huge sandbox with total freedom seems to do the tricks. We will assume the server is about empty…
VirtualBox – Creating & controlling virtual machines in headless mode
Create… Create the virtual machine, named MySQL in this example: VBoxManage createvm –name “MySQL” –register We give it 512MB ram, enable acpi, boot on dvd and a…
Debian – Installing headless VirtualBox
I find Virtualbox easy to work with, and usually stable. For performance I would check out KVM or XEN HVM instead. Update! The larger Linux distros are…
Debian/Ubuntu – Simple trick to free memory
To free up some memory claimed by pagefile, dentries and inodes. Pagefile is virtual memory. Dentries and inodes are used for your hard drive files. This should…
Debian – Basic LAMP
Setup a basic LAMP, enables you to host cool web applications. LAMP is Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP (guess Perl or Python should qualify as well). I…
Debian – Install MySQL with remote root access
A few simple steps to install MySQL with remote root access on a Debian system. Out of the box, as default, the root user can only log…
Debian Static IP how to
Debian Static IP Debian Static IP. If you need to change your IP from Dynamic (DHCP) to static, I have presented a method here for doing it….