debian

apache 2 on debian wheezy upgrade failure

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After running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on a Debian Wheezy server package apache2-mpm-prefork:amd64 was removed and package apache2-mpm-itk:amd64 installed instead.  After this change in Apache worker, all Virtualhosts sites on the server stopped working, with the following error format in the logs: [Mon Nov 21 09:57:41 2016] [emerg] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (13)Permission denied: mod_fcgid: can’t … Read more

debian post-installation

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Useful utilities I like to install after a fresh Debian installation (or on a running system): vim-nox debfoster localepurge htop iotop mytop latencytop sysstat debian-archive-keyring (to avoid apt-get update warnings) apticron (list available updates of installed packages along with the differences in the two versions) hdparm (measure I/O speeds) virt-what (decide if we are running inside … Read more