Author Archives: Ajitabh
Highly Available Apache with mod_jk load balanced Tomcat
This how-to describes the procedure for setting up a highly available setup in which a pair of apache servers are load balancing a pair of tomcat servers. I have tested this configuration with Red Hat Enterprise 4, Fedora Core 5, … Continue reading
Configuring ALSA On Debian Sarge
I needed to configure ALSA on Sarge because I wanted to use Ekiga Softphone and although it supports OSS but the support is not good. It was fairly straight forward process to do that: ajitabhp@fimbles:~$ sudo apt-get install libesd-alsa0 \ … Continue reading
Backporting Ekiga Softphone
Since I use apt-pinning it was quite easy for me to install Ekiga from the backports. The first thing which I needed to do was to configure ALSA on sarge. Next I just installed Ekiga as: ajitabhp@fimbles:~$ sudo apt-get install … Continue reading
Filesystem in User Space
Setting up sshfs In order to setup sshfs on a debian system, I needed to install the sshfs packages: sudo apt-get install sshfs fuse-source module-assistant kernel-headers-2.6 sudo module-assistant build fuse sudo module-assistant install fuse While building the fuse module I … Continue reading
Apt Pinning
I normally stick with Debian Stable on my laptop. But atleast there was one package which I needed out of testing or unstable, git. So I thought of using the Debian backports repository. I followed the instructions to use the … Continue reading