‘TrueCrypt is already running’ what to do

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Sebastian

I use Ubuntu and every second start I get this message while starting truecrypt, ‘TrueCrypt is already running’. I know it’s not running. I’m sure I haven’t started it. The problem is if you don’t cleanly finish your last truecrypt session the lock file stays in your home directory and tells truecrypt at its restart that a session of truecrypt is still running.
Continue reading →

Posted in debian | Tagged | 2 Comments

Setting up awstats on Debian Lenny

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Sebastian

Setting up awstats on Debian Lenny is a bit tricky. I will describe how to set up awstats and install the cron job for updating the awstats statistics automatically. The Last step will be to set up logrotate to not miss any user. Continue reading →

Posted in debian | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Installing the Vbox Guest Additions to a debian lenny vbox

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Sebastian

If your using virtual box its very nice to have the guest additions installed on your vbox system. It changes the vbox systems resolution according to its window size, copy and paste from vbox to main system and you don’t need to push an control button to leave the vbox system. Another nice feature is the time synchronization and the shared folder. Continue reading →

Posted in debian | Tagged | 1 Comment

Secure Apache – give them minimal information

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Sebastian

Before Hacker start penetrating your system they collect information about it. Our task is to show as less information as possible. To do so we need to change some default values in apaches config. By default it shows information about the OS version and the enabled modules. Continue reading →

Posted in apache | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Edit files on remote server with geany

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Sebastian

I’m using debian on my pc. It’s very easy to access remote servers file systems via ssh or ftp. My problem always was that it is not possible to edit them with geany, my favorite editor. So I’ve done some research. The first thing I found was fuse, but as I understood fuse is just a library used by other programs. Then I recognized SSHFS. Continue reading →

Posted in debian | Tagged , , | Leave a comment