Hampshire Linux Users Group

Introduction

This is intended as an FAQ / Tips page to do with managing a Debian system. It’s a work in progress, so make sure that if you find something useful, and it is not listed, that you add it. I’ll get around to categorising this list, but these tips are answering a lot of questions that appear on the mailing list.

Apt-get returns the error: “E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room”

This is caused because the cache is too small to handle all of the packages in the flavour of Debian that you are using. [continued…]

Intended Audience

In today’s fast paced world, the importance of Search Engine Optimisation and Usability has been thrust into the limelight. More and more companies and employers are hearing the buzz that is SEO, and want you to ensure them that their new website will deliver. They all want to be top of the search engines and we all know that that will rarely happen. There are however things we can do to help the issue and to make life a little easier for those lovable bots and spiders who crawl our pages.

Introduction

Whether you believe the fact that [continued…]

This page will describe how to set up Linux so that it works with redundant networks links to the local switch or pair of switches.

Converting from mbox to Maildir

Introduction

This article describes how to convert from mbox to Maildir format. Maildirs have quite a few advantages over mbox format, especially when you have a lot of users with large mailboxes. Another big advantage is that with dovecot and Maildirs, users can create sub-folders.

These notes are specific to my situation. I wasn’t able to find a complete guide to doing this anywhere, so hopefully it’ll serve as a good guide to others. My system uses:

• Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r2
• dovecot (POP3 and IMAPS)
• exim4 (exim4-daemon-heavy)
• procmail (some users have a ~/.procmailrc and there’s [continued…]