Apache Tomcat on my Linux server

I installed Apache Tomcat on my little Linux server (PIII-550Mz) since I’m going to test some java server application at home. I mainly based my installation on this howto with some little variation.

I first installed Java jdk 

 sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

 Then I downloaded Apache Tomcat from my nearest mirror server

wget http://apache.fis.uniroma2.it/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.18/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.18.tar.gz

 Then I installed it

tar -xzvf apache-tomcat-6.0.18.tar.gz
sudo mv apache-tomcat-6.0.18 /opt/
sudo ln -s /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/ /opt/tomcat

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Installing TrueCrypt on EEEBuntu

Short after buying the EEEPC I also bought a 320 GB external USB hard disk to be used in support to EEEPC small internal drive. I decided (mainly because of my job) to secure, using cryptography, at least one disk partition. I’m not sure the cryptography settings I did choose would work against any professional hacker but they should be enough to stop  most ‘curious‘ people who might, in any way, gain access to my disk . I decided to install TrueCrypt mainly because it’s a multi-platform application so I could possibly prepare encrypted partitions to be used from both Linux and windows computers.

 Installation

I first downloaded  truecrypt-6.1a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz  (the x86 32bit ubuntu compiled version) from its site downloads page. then I extracted and executed the installation program …

 tar -xvf truecrypt-6.1a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz
./truecrypt-6.1a-setup-ubuntu-x86 

The installation graphic user interface started and I simply had to click the ‘Install TrueCrrypt‘ button and then agreed with the software license. Once installation was completed TrueCrypt icon was automatically placed in the ‘other’ folder.

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Experimenting with Linux: MLDonkey

   My little Linux server (PIII-550) works usually as Bittorrent download machine with Torrentflux running on the Apache server.  I desired to expand my little machine capabilities by installing some more download software. MLDonkey is a peer-to-peer client which let you download shared files in various network protocols.

 I did choose the easy way to install it using apt-get command:

sudo apt-get install mldonkey-server

 then I stopped the mldonkey server and edited the downloads.ini file in order to enable web acces from computers in my local network:

sudo /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server stop

cd /var/lib/mldonkey/

sudo vim downloads.ini

 I so edited the file adding my local network address range to allowed ips variable:

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allowed_ips = [
  “127.0.0.1″;
  “192.168.30.2/254″;]

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