Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB. As ...
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BIND9 - Noob issue on how to connect to the main domain
I'm pretty sure I'm doing something stupid, but let's ask anyway.
I'm trying to create "hostnames" on my LAN machines (eg. when you ping "chris", Chris' machine - IP 12.34.56.78 - respond to that).
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Forward access to Apache on a virtual machine (vmware)
I have setup a server in a virtual machine using VMWare.
The server is Apache running on Debian (the virtual machine). The host machine is Windows 7.
Now, I would like everyone on the LAN to be able ...
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apt-get update getting 404 on debian lenny
Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list
###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
###### Debian Update Repos
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates ...
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Debian 5.0 (lenny) apt sources fail?
For the past few days, I couldn't update our apt-sources on Debian 5.0 (lenny). I get the following errors.
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 ...
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ntop crashes at random times, how can I trace the cause?
I've recently installed ntop v3.3 on a Debian/Lenny server, which runs as a daemon with the web interface enabled.
However, it randomly crashes and logs don't report anything... I've tried the ...
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Debian 5 Lenny how to upgrade Python to 2.7 version to run Django app?
I'm configuring Debian 5 to run my Django app. The required application is required incompatible with Python 2.5 packages. I installed Python 2.7 and created the symlink python -> ...
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How can I prevent cron from filling up my root partition?
I'm using cron tasks every 3 mins, the result is logged in my cron.log. Also after executing (wget) certain php file, it's name (with 0 bytes filesize) is copied to root, spaming it - see the figure
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“You have to install development tools first” error when installing Rmagick gem on Debian Lenny
I am on Debian Lenny with Ruby 1.9.2 (under RVM). I installed ImageMagick, required by rmagick, from source following this guide.
Now I get the following output when trying to install rmagick with ...
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how do I install node.js on linode debian lenny?
I want to use nodejs on a linode machine that has debian lenny installed.
I want to have the latest version of nodejs and npm as well.
apt-get does not seem to know nodejs or possibly I don't know ...
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Install meteor server in debian (lenny)
I wonder how can I install this in a lenny machine. Well, this site has instructions on how to do this, but in step 3 I can't do cd /usr/local/meteor because this folder doesn't exist! How I can ...
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Debian Lenny php deb package with zend-multibyte enabled
Is there a repo somewhere with a Debian lenny binary package of php with zend-multibyte enabled?
I need it enabled, but I would like to continue using the deb packages for php to easily add php ...
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ERROR: Can't find the archive-keyring
I'm trying to upgrade my Debian Lenny to Squeeze. I've replaced the word lenny to squeeze in sources.list and ran
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
But after a while, I get this ...
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bind9 upgrade on Linux lenny distribution
I have to update my bind9 package in my Debian lenny server. Please suggest me what is the best way to do this. This server does not have internet connection. And this operation should not affect the ...
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64 bit HVM guest freezes while booting on Debian Lenny 64 bit Xen hypervisor
I'm trying to create an x86 64 bit guest machine on an old Debian Lenny x86 64 bit hypervisor using HVM. The physical CPU is a first generation Intel i7 with VT-x support. Xen recognizes the VT-x ...
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Where is my space on /var being used?
I'm a novice linux admin and now responsible for the OS of a 3 node Tomcat cluster.
(Tomcat is handled by the DEVs luckily.)
I got alarmed by our monitoring solution that /var on server01 has only ...
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Install package from stable on old stable on debian
I'm running Debian oldstable (Lenny) and upgrade is not in plan for the next two months at least.
I need to install the stable version of the erlang package, available at the stable (Squeeze) repos.
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Using daemontools under Debian
I need to monitor my postfix, dovecot and sasl process and start them if something go wrong.
I read about daemontools and I want it to monitor mail services.
Can I find somewhere step by step guide ...
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the server's certificate did not match its hostname multiple domains on same server
I have 3 websites host on a single server, and only one of those website is using SSL. I bought, configured and installed a GoDaddy certificate and it is working fine on all browsers (Chrome, FF, ...
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master.lock file + Postfix
I'm on Debian Lenny
My postfix don't start and i can't correct my error log
# /etc/init.d/./postfix status
postfix is not running.
mail.log :
fatal: open lock file /var/lib/postfix/master.lock: ...
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Debian Installer not working
I get:
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
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Nginx running on Debian lenny, how to add SSL?
Some time ago I installed Nginx and Passenger on Debian lenny with...
sudo apt-get install nginx
sudo gem install passenger
sudo passenger-install-nginx-module
This is what I get when I do nginx -V
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What is the most efficient way to serve PHP via Nginx on Debian Lenny?
I'm using Debian Lenny. I'm trying to switch over to from apache to nginx--and so far I like the transition. But everything I'm reading suggests to use php-fpm, but since Lenny comes with 5.2.6, FPM ...
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forward port 3306 from firewalled machine to desktop using SSH?
Here's the network setup:
Machine A (my PC) SSH 22 => Machine B (Linode with root access) SSH 21343 => Machine C (MySQL server).
I want to forward port 3306 from C through B to A, so I can use SQL ...
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How to enable Chinese on Debian lenny?
I have already
installed Chinese fonts
$ sudo apt-cache search chinese
$ sudo apt-get install ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ...
added locales
$ ...
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Warnings about partition tables on /dev/md? during preseed installation. (Debian Lenny)
I'm setting up an environment to install many Lenny machines at once and I need to avoid any dialog with the process, corner cases aside. One thing that consistently troubles me is that after my ...
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Apache dies, and never listens or repsonds again even after a reboot?
This is very strange! Running debian Lenny 32bit. Have Apache/MySql 5.5.15/Mongo and Memcached running on a dev machine. This is the second time this happened after running a complex query in Mysql. ...
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How can I get a as-recent-as-possible version of crypt installed in Debian 5.0?
I want to use bcrypt in php (before php 5.3), and to do that I need to get crypt installed appropriately on my debian server.
On ubuntu, I have crypt installed, but on debian it's not there:
man ...
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Some Apache requests are slow, most complete instantly
I have two Dell R410 web servers (2x quad core Xeon E5520 w/ 8gb ram) running Debian 5 stable. Their patching had been neglected for a while, so recently we did a patching run to bring everything up ...
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Debian Lenny, Python 2.7 and mod_wsgi
I am running a Debian Lenny box, which comes with Python 2.5.2. I would like to run Python 2.7 for my WSGI apps only, keeping 2.5 as default for the system, but I cannot get it to work.
First, I ...
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Why isn't fail2ban blocking failures?
This below is the output of fail2ban log. Nothing more shows up, but in auth.log I see like hundreds of failures for root user login (someone is bad ass brute forcing).
2011-07-06 01:48:16,249 ...
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Why do I get GPG error when running apt-update for lenny-backports?
Alright, so I'm trying to upgrade (if you could call it so) to lenny-backports as seen here, but I ran into this error when running apt-get update:
W: GPG error: http://backports.debian.org ...
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Is debian lenny-backports safe to use on lenny?
I want to upgrade my packages to newer versions but my server is still on lenny. I've read a bit that lenny-backports may come in help here. Could you please tell me what to do to upgrade to ...
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error installing php-pear on Debian Lenny
[ps]$ sudo apt-get install php-pear
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
php-pear
0 upgraded, 1 ...
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debian lenny mod_php with 5.2 and php-cgi with 5.3
I still have Debian Lenny on a server, witch runs a script that isn't 5.3 compatible.
That script runs mod-php 5.2.x with apache2
I now like to install php-cgi 5.3 running as fastcgi, maybe even ...
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is it possible to deploy squeeze domU under Lenny dom0?
is it possible to deploy squeeze domU under Lenny dom0 ?
using xen-tools and debootrap for example
any big problems if possible??
regards
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Postfix qmgr process causes heavy overload on mailservers
We are using Postfix as MTA for our e-mailmarketing software and once in a while we see that the load on one of the mailservers rises above 5.
The load is caused by the qmgr-process which is the ...
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Server Alias With wildcard subdomain
So i am using WordPress network sub-domain setup. I had to put a *.mydomain.com as a server alias but now i also have a site subdomain.mydomain.com that leads to another directory. Is there a way of ...
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How do I install a new schema for OpenLDAP on Debian 5 with dynamic config=cn backend?
I'm importing an openldap database from another server and while importing, I got some errors with some users, the problem is that the mozillaAbPersonAlpha is not a valid objectClass.
#!ERROR [LDAP ...
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Setup sendmail to relay to another smtp?
My host provides an smtp server for sending mail. I want to setup sendmail to relay all emails to the hosts smtp server. How do you do that?
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Can't install perl-suid on Debian 5
I'm trying to install perl-suid needed for some script I've downloaded and getting the following
$ sudo apt-get install perl-suid
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
perl-suid: Depends: ...
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How to configure bind9 to accept connections from other machines
I'm sure this has been asked in some form before but I'm completely new to DNS and inexperienced with Linux, so bear with me :)
I have a VPS from OVH hosting that I've managed to configure to suit my ...
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Load average at 1, even though I've stopped all services!
I have a virtual server running Debian 5 where any action is very slow (like password verification when logging in via SSH or doing su). I checked the load average, which is hovering around 1-2. Then ...
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Bacula over s3fs
We are constantly running out of space on our backup server so I want to move the backups to S3. Does it make sense to run Bacula on top of s3fs? Does anybody have experience with that? Is it ...
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Installing both rails2 and rails3 on the same server
I have a VPS running debian lenny, and I currently am running a Ruby on Rails application that uses Rails 2.3.5. This application works fine by itself, and uses Apache 2.2 with mod_rails.
I would ...
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apt-get fails to, well, apt-get
I'm working on a virgin debian 5 image on a VPS. To be honest, this may not be the brightest VPS provider in the world and I suspect their image isn't perfect.
apt-get fails for everything:
# ...
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dkim signature not present or bad format
I'm going mad with dkim-filter + postfix. My message are signed but Gmail notify me errors like "dkim=neutral(no signature)" or "dkim=neutral(bad format)"
I don't know what is wrong. I've generated ...
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Debian Lenny apt-get install php5-cli Unmet dependencies help?
first time poster - long time reader and learner.
Have been trying in vain for 2 weeks now to sort out a messed up PHP5.3 install on a Debian 5 (lenny) box. Each time I attempt to apt-get install ...
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How to upgrade apache, php, mysql
I'm looking to update our web server, and my experience with updating is slim. I have done clean installs of apache, php, and mysql, but this will be my first time upgrading. Hoping someone can give ...
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debian boot hide all messages
I am trying to configure a debian Lenny server to hide all technical messages on screen during boot, up until the invite to login (in CLI, no X server). As a bonus, it would be great if I can add some ...
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How valuable is TCP Window Scaling?
On a busy† Debian Lenny server of mine I am considering disabling TCP Window Scaling. Why?
I'd like to enable syn cookies, which disables TCP Window Scaling. This server is locally firewalled and ...
