I have a MySQL instance on my PC, but by default it's turned off. However, when I leave my PC running overnight, the next morning I find this friendly email from a person called Cron:
error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log '
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
Job run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily terminated (exit status: 1) (mailing output)
Every VMWare guest should have the VMWare tools installed. This improves the performance of the VM, especially when the VMWare host is under heavy load. Here are the instructions to install these in a Debian Lenny guest system:
Debian is not (yet) my number one Linux distribution, and because of that I'm not really familiar with the procedures to do things cleanly regarding packages.
Some time ago I tried to install the Last.fm Player on a Debian system.
I must say I'm impressed with Debian so far. It still has not convinced me to drop Gentoo and start using Debian, Gentoo is simply too cool for that.
With both distro's it's always a bit iggy what will happen if you do emerge world or apt-get upgrade respectively. Most of the times things go well and you have an up-to-date system. Sometimes things go wrong.
