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How to fix Java on Debian Lenny

Posted by on March 26, 2010 18 comments

This post was previously about getting Amazon ec2 API tools working on Debian Lenny when seeing something like this:

user@computer:$ ec2-describe-instances
Unexpected error:
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:208)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1611)

After number of comments it looked as a generic solution to java related problems so I’ve change the title.

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Debian Lenny and quota on /home

Posted by on January 26, 2010 No comments

There is a small how to here however it describes how to install on / partition. Here are clear instructions for /home. Read more »

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Nagios check_file_age mod

Posted by on December 22, 2009 No comments

As I don’t think in seconds about time and more like hours days etc. I’ve added this small bit of code to Nagios check_file_age script to display age in days. I’m using this to check PID file age for service that needs daily/weekly restarts. Read more »

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Installing memcached and libmemcache on Debian

Posted by on September 30, 2009 6 comments

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

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Find what is eating your disk space using Perl

Posted by on July 22, 2009 No comments

A while ago I’ve wrote a small script which I use to pin down the directories and files which suck off the space from the hard drives, usually it’s some user leaving to big log files, unused project files etc. This script will help you find those files or directories fast.
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