Debian Aptitude

1. aptitude update: Update the local cache of available packages (formerly apt-get update.
2. aptitude upgrade: Upgrade available packages (formerly apt-get upgrade).
3. aptitude dist-upgrade: Upgrade available packages even if it means removing stuff (formerly apt-get dist-upgrade).
4. aptitude install pkgname: Install package (formerly apt-get install).
5. aptitude remove pkgname: Uninstall package (formerly apt-get remove).
6. aptitude purge pkgname: Uninstall package and config files (formerly apt-get --purge remove).
7. aptitude search string: Search for a package with "string" in the name or description (formerly apt-cache search string).
8. aptitude show pkgname: Show detailed of a package (formerly apt-cache show pkgname).
9. aptitude clean: Delete downloaded package files (formerly apt-get clean).
10. aptitude autoclean: Delete only out-of-date package files but keep current ones (formerly apt-get autoclean).
11. aptitude hold pkgname: Fix a package at its current version and don't upgrade it automatically (formerly an obscure echo-to-file command). unhold to remove the hold.

MySQL connection from an external host

MySQL permits the connection from localhost by default. For permitting the connection from an external host, it needs to set up in the following procedure. Add account to the user table of Database mysql.

[root@4a-o01-b3 ~]# mysql -u root -p ※Loging to MySQL by root.
Enter password: ※response password

mysql> select user,host from mysql.user;
+------+--------------------------+
| user | host                     |
+------+--------------------------+
| root | 127.0.0.1                |
| root | example.com              |
| root | localhost                |
+------+--------------------------+



■The items of the above-mentioned setup are as follows.

root@127.0.0.1 - IP Address "127.0.0.1(Namely, a local host)"can be accessed by user root.

root@example.com - HOST "example.com(Here, this is also a local host. )"can be accessed by user root.

root@localhost - localhost "localhost(Namely, a local host)"can be accessed by user root.

Only connection from a localhost can be performed in this stage.
Run following command to permit the connection from an external host. (※Fo example, username "bogati"、The external host who connects"nepal.com"、DB to be used "test" is set up)。


mysql> show databases; ※ Check a list of the existing database.
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| test               |
+--------------------+

mysql> grant all privileges on test.* to bogati@"nepal.com" identified by 'password' with grant option;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (1.00 sec)

mysql> select * from user where user="bogati"\G ※ check of executed command.
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Host: nepal.com
User: bogati
Password: *94BDCEBE19083CE2A1F959FD02F964C7AF4CFC29

...................................................

■Moreover, to connect from all the hosts, a wild card is specified as follows.

mysql> grant all privileges on test.* to bogati@"%" identified by 'password' with grant option;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from user where user="bogati" && host="%"\G ※ check of executed command.
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Host: %
User: bogati
Password: *94BDCEBE19083CE2A1F959FD02F964C7AF4CFC29

...................................................

■To connect from all the hosts of LAN set up as follows.

mysql> grant all privileges on test.* to bogati@"192.168.122.%" identified by 'password' with grant option;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from user where user="bogati" && host="192.168.122.%"\G ※ check of executed command.
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Host: 192.168.122.%
User: bogati
Password: *94BDCEBE19083CE2A1F959FD02F964C7AF4CFC29


■To connect from an external host.

After setting up the permission from an external host.
check that whether login is actually possible from an external host or not.
Since it becomes conditions that MySQL is installed in an external host also , when there is no environment, it is necessary to install.

Now connect from nepal.com

[root@nepal.com]# mysql -h example.com -u bogati -p

After the execution of the above-mentioned command, if login is successful, it will be the completion of a setting.


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Installing VMware tools on lenny

There is a better way installing ‘open-vm-tools’:

1. Adding ‘contrib’ and ‘non-free’ to ‘/etc/apt/sources.list’

deb http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free



# apt-get update
# apt-get install module-assistant open-vm-source open-vm-tools
# module-assistant prepare
# module-assistant build open-vm-source
# module-assistant install open-vm-source
# reboot

Install WordPress on Debian Lenny

First, update your DNS and point blog.example.com to the server.

# aptitude install mysql-server php5 wordpress



# chown :www-data /etc/wordpress/*
# mkdir /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads
# chown www-data:www-data /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads
# chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes


Create /etc/apache2/sites-available/blog file

ServerName blog.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/blog.example.com/

AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all


Run the following commands:

# a2ensite blog
# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
# ln -s /usr/share/wordpress /var/www/blog.example.com
# cd /usr/share/doc/wordpress/examples
# sh setup-mysql -n blog blog.example.com


Now, access http://blog.example.com/ to continue the configuration of wordpress.

Shell script for Monitering Mailman process

#----------------------------
# Monitering of mailman process
#----------------------------

unsent=`ls -l /var/spool/mailman/in/ | grep -v grep | grep -c ".pck"`
isAlive=`ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -c "mailmanctl"`
_host=`hostname`
_to=bogati@test.com

if [ $unsent -ne 0 ]; then
/etc/init.d/mailman restart > /dev/null 2>&1

/usr/sbin/sendmail -t <To: $_to
Subject: Mailman has been restarted.

Mailman has been restarted on $_host

EOF

elif [ $isAlive -eq 0 ]; then
        /etc/init.d/mailman start > /dev/null 2>&1

/usr/sbin/sendmail -t <To: $_to
Subject: Mailman has been started.

Mailman has been started on $_host

EOF

fi