Monitoring Tomcat with Munin on Debian GNU/Linux

To monitor Tomcat with Munin 2.0 on Debian GNU/Linux (tested on Debian Squeeze with Tomcat6 and Debian Backports), you need the following steps.

First, you need to install package tomcat6-admin which enables the Tomcat Manager app we will be using.

# apt-get install tomcat6-admin

Next, create a user with a manager role in Tomcat, editing /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml and adding the following two lines in the appropriate list.

More free software and open source good news from Europe

On the line of my latest post about Linagora, a European data researcher recently published the results of a study concluding in that the European Community is saving 450 billion euros per year thanks to Open Source software. In the same orientation, the APRIL (French Association for digital freedom) published a study reporting the substantial savings of the French Government thanks to Open

Congratulations to Linagora for a 15M€ contract with French Ministry

Linagora won a call for tender with the French Ministry of Finances for around 15 millions €, covering the maintenance and development for 260 different pieces of software! Congrats. Let's hope Chamilo gets included too :-) See the original article on Le Journal du Net, in French, here: http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/dsi/open-source-linagora-avec-bull-signe-avec-la-dgfip-1012.shtml

Fixes for Gallery 2 French translation in module 'core'

After years using G2, I finally fixed the fr.po for core module and submitted it to latest registered French translator of Gallery2 several weeks again. After review, he encoded the following tracker on SF.net for everybody to benefit from it, even if no G2 update is ever published again: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2846783&group_id=7130&atid=582564

As G2 is using gettext, updating it it fairly easy.

Enjoy!
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