It is almost time to retire my perl based bloging server software known as blosxom. It has performed well. However, my page count is starting to get high, and blosxom is taking longer and longer to process. For now, I've moved it to faster hardware while I work on a different blog delivery mechanism (I hope to have Wt on C++ with PostgreSQL running the back-end soon). Continue reading "Blosxom Reinstall on Debian Lenny 5.0.1" »
Sunday, June 28. 2009
Blosxom Reinstall on Debian Lenny 5.0.1
Perl Mason Install
Installing mason v1.42 from Mason HQ is quite straight-forward:
- apt-get install build-essential
- apt-get install libapache2-mod-apreq2
- apt-get install libapreq2-dev
- apt-get install libapache2-request-perl
- ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/apreq.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/apreq.load
- perl -MCPAN -eshell
- install HTML::Mason
VMWare Mouse Release on Debian Lenny Guest
A simple message to myself. When installing a Debian Lenny 5.0.1 KDE guest in VMWare Workstation hosted on Windows XP, a few steps are required in order to move into and out of the guest without the ctrl-alt mouse release sequence:
- apt-get install build-essential on the guest
- apt-get install linux-headers-...
- build and install the VMWare toolkit in the guest
- add 'Option "CorePointer"' to the mouse section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- add 'Option "CoreKeyBoard"' to the keyboard section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- restart KDE
A visit to a VMWare Community describes a couple of additional steps for getting the VMWare Shared Folders (HGFS) Share to work inside of Lenny 5.0.1 as well. Basically, in the /etc/fstab file, which VMWare updates when you perform a tool install, append ',uid=1000,gid=1000' to the 'ttl=5' portion of the .host line, so it looks something like:
.host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults,ttl=5,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
The actual value to be used in place of 1000 is what ever your uid,gid are for your current window session. This an be determined at the command line by:
echo ${UID}
Without the uid/gid values in the fstab file, the share is made available for the root user. Anyway, after the restart, by using the file explorer, go to /mnt/hgfs to see the volumes.
Web Statistics with awstats on Debian Lenny 5.0.1
On an old system, I used Webalizer to analyze Apache log files. On a newer system I thought I'd give awstats a try. I had two options, install via the original source, or install via apt-get. Considering the number of files and directories involved, I decided to go with the Debian package manager to install awstats. Continue reading "Web Statistics with awstats on Debian Lenny 5.0.1" »