Check your hard drive status. Is it old ? Almost dead ?

September 22, 2013 12:20 | Leave a Comment |

One thing you should pay attention to is the wealth of your hard drive. You have to keep in mine that a hard drive alive is a hard drive dying. It exists one useful command to analyze your hard drive sensors and give you an idea of its age.

First, try to find your hard drive name. Mine is /dev/sda

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Update your Debian 6 Squeeze to Debian 7 Wheezy OVH

September 22, 2013 02:46 | 5 Comments |

Today I updated my old Debian 6 Squeeze to Debian 7 Wheezy. Actually, it was quite simple.

First, make a last update of your packages.

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Install and maintain packages with apt-get

April 10, 2013 09:12 | 2 Comments |

Apt-get is a little tool that will let you install, remove, update your different softs or typically called system packages. Usually when you want to install a new soft on your Windows for example, you need to download it from a specific website. We are trying to avoid this on Linux. A well-maintained Linux system is the one with softs or packages coming from the same repository saved in a sources.list file on your system.

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Information about your Linux system distribution

March 25, 2013 10:07 | Leave a Comment |

It’s not always easy to look for your Linux distribution name and version. Sometimes you will need those information because you are asked, for example on a support forum to resolve your problems.

There are a few simple and useful commands that will help you for this.

Distribution name and version

This command will be helpful to find the distribution name and it’s version like Debian X, Fedora X, Ubuntu X, etc. Read More →

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Useful Linux bash search commands

March 22, 2013 14:50 | Leave a Comment |

Here is some useful commands you should have around you when you’re looking for something on your hard drive.

Find in content files

This linux command can be used if you want to find something into content files. Be sure to be in the desired directory where you want to start the search. It can take a while because of the (-r) recursion. It will display number lines with the -n parameter. grep –help to find more parameters. Read More →

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Debian Security Update – php5 – 05 Mar 2013

March 6, 2013 11:06 | Leave a Comment |

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, the web scripting language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

  • CVE-2013-1635 If a PHP application accepted untrusted SOAP object input remotely from clients, an attacker could read system files readable for the webserver.
  • CVE-2013-1643 The soap.wsdl_cache_dir function did not take PHP open_basedir restrictions into account. Note that Debian advises against relying on open_basedir restrictions for security. Read More →
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Debian Security Update – Apache2 – 04 Mar 2013

March 5, 2013 11:26 | Leave a Comment |

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the Apache HTTPD server.

  • CVE-2012-3499 The modules mod_info, mod_status, mod_imagemap, mod_ldap, and mod_proxy_ftp did not properly escape hostnames and URIs in HTML output, causing cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
  • CVE-2012-4558 Mod_proxy_balancer did not properly escape hostnames and URIs in its balancer-manager interface, causing a cross site scripting vulnerability.
  • CVE-2013-1048 Hayawardh Vijayakumar noticed that the apache2ctl script created the lock directory in an unsafe manner, allowing a local attacker to gain elevated privileges via a symlink attack. This is a Debian specific issue. Read More →
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Drupal 7 Optimizations, Make it faster in one single line !

March 5, 2013 11:06 | Leave a Comment |

I just discovered something today that should interest lots of people :P Did you know Drupal saves each notice and error in his report logs ? If you have a custom script that generates for example 1000 notices, Drupal does 1000 notice database inserts before you get results. The script execution will never fail and you won’t be warned of these. Read More →

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How to deal with translated nodes programmatically

February 26, 2013 12:08 | 5 Comments |

I had to import four different languages nodes into my Drupal 7 installation programmatically. It’s easy when you know where to begin with.

First, you have to enable different languages you will use into your Drupal administration. For example, I used

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How to update to last kernel your debian 6 OVH box ?

February 26, 2013 11:06 | 1 Comment |

I have a kimsufi Debian server on OVH.com and I want to update its Linux Debian kernel. As said on http://help.ovh.co.uk/KernelInstall, it is very easy.

You need to retrieve with a wget command the two last bzImage and System.map files from ftp://ftp.ovh.net/made-in-ovh/bzImage/latest-production specially adapted for OVH servers. You should use production releases as they are more stable that test releases, usually … Read More →

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