Questions tagged [debian]
Debian is a popular and influential GNU/Linux distribution. Questions here should generally be about Debian Server.
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Multiple DocumentRoot in Apache2
We currently have a Turnkey appliance running with Debian and Apache2 for testing purposes.
The Apache config file looks like this:
ServerName localhost
<VirtualHost *:80>
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Backuppc won't backup due to no ping success
I have a working installation of BackupPC and I try to add a host, that is only reachable through a different host. For this reason, I created a ssh config file and reaching the host via rsync or ssh ...
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Bridged routing with KVM and independent IP addresses
I have a dedicated Server (at Hetzner), with Debian Jessie and und KVM for virtualization. For the two Virtual Machines I have two additional IP addresses (with extra MAC addresses), which are not ...
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cant access tty:job control turned off After dist-upgrade [closed]
i cannot boot my server anymore
what is the problem
plz help
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Local RPM/YUM repository on Debian
I manage a mix of Debian and CentOS servers.
I have a local DEB repository, kept up-to-date with apt-mirror, on a Debian server. Because this server has so much extra HD space, of 250GB at the moment, ...
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How to make KVM image like in EC2 AMI
We have few baremetal servers(with debian os), where we run multiple(100+) KVM machines - mostly debian and centos.
Those machines are on LVM or distributed file system(moosefs&glusterfs)
Is it ...
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Unable to add drive as active to array
I swapped out a failing drive using the following tutorial
First I removed the drive with:
mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdc1
mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sdc1
Added and formatted ...
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Self-signed TLS1.2 certificate handshake failure
I have been trying to set up a self-signed SSL cert on my Debian install as per this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-an-ecc-certificate-on-nginx-for-debian-8 ...
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How do I migrate Proxmox 3.x openVZ containers to Proxmox 4.x LXC?
I have just upgraded one of the Proxmox machines in a cluster from 3.4 to 4.2 following these instructions.
Normal VMs have migrated correctly. We had to change hard drives from virtio to ide so that ...
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Allowing node.js applications to run libpcap without sudo ("Symlink" issue )
I want to use the following command to allow usage of the libpcap package without to sudo (on a debian system):
sudo setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/nodejs
I'm getting this error:...
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how to force OS using which alias ip address
i have a server running debian with 2 ip address :
eth3 44.44.44.1
eth3:0 44.44.44.2
the problem is my outband request goes with second ip address "44.44.44.2"
how can i force OS to use primary ...
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Puppet: How to honor install_options of package() if specific package is installed already
If one thinks of a better title for this question: Please change it accordingly.
Environment:
Debian jessie 8.5
puppet master: 3.8.5
puppet agent: 3.7.2
apt: 1.0.9.8.3
Problem:
A specific package ...
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hetzner default nameservers not always resolving
I have couple of Hetzner 'root servers' (as they call it - dedicated co-located linux machines) and all of them experience the same problem (which i simply do not fully understand).
The domain www....
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How to resolve Debian virtual package dependency error
When attempting to update a locally-maintained package on a Debian wheezy system I get the following message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
local-tenielle : Depends: perl:any which ...
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System crashed - After reboot logs contain "^@" [duplicate]
I mentioned that my linux-server crashed suddenly without any warning.
In the syslog the following is shown:
Sep 1 15:13:47 example kernel: [4514929.741761] Firewall: *UDP_IN Blocked* IN=vmbr0 OUT= ...
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debian version wheezy or jessie
I am working on a server, not able to ask the former admin about this server.
it's a debian server.
uname -or gives 3.2.0-4-amd64 GNU/Linux
seem to indicate wheezy: https://packages.debian.org/nl/...
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increase size of guest virtual hdd in xen
I have an ancient xen 4.0 host system with LVM and only one Volume Group
Inside the VG there are a few logical volumes.
The Logical Volume i am talking about (slave) is a snapshot of another logical ...
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Debian Linux can't ping gateway
I'm having a strange networking issue where I can't ping my gateway or any machines in my lan. The request just times out. I CAN ping external hosts like google. I'm running Debian Jessie. The machine ...
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Add eth2, eth3 etc. instead of eth1:0, eth1:1 etc
I'm trying to create virtuel ethernet networks on my Debian machine.
I've got 4 static IPs assigned to the machine, and would like them to be virtuel present at eth2, eth3 etc. instead of eth1:0, eth1:...
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Can 'vagrant share' be used from behind firewall, that blocks pretty much everything?
My configuration:
ordinary PC computer
Debian 8 GNU/Linux 32bit as OS ( fresh, stock install w/o configuring any firewalls if they are configured they are done by installer )
latest vagrant ...
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SASL: How to delete all mech entries from a user?
I have a problem with my SASL database.
sasldblistusers2 shows following entries:
[email protected]: cmusaslsecretCRAM-MD5
[email protected]: cmusaslsecretPLAIN
[email protected]: userPassword
I ...
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Why is my linksys spa not recognizing hangup?
I have a Linksys SPA which is connected to my one asterisk server. When I receive an incoming call, the PSTN line of the Linksys is forwarding the call to my server. However, when it's going to the ...
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apt cannot verify signatures, does not update, neither does it fetch sources
I run Debian on a desktop computer. Because os some faulty cable, access to HD failed a couple of times, and this left my /var filesystem somewhat corrupted. It is a btrfs filesystem. So, I copied my ...
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PHP High CPU usage
I have a dedicated server with 2 processors, 4 cores and 16GB Ram i'm hosting some php applications that uses high php and mysql usage when i check top command i find that php and mysql consume about ...
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Debian BeagleBone Black inaccessible via SSH/ping over ethernet
Somewhat related to this question. I have a BeagleBone Black running Debian and am trying to use its ethernet port for internet (rather than USB sharing as is typical when getting it up and running).
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Routing between virtual interfaces on debian GNU/Linux
I have some hard time with routing between two virtual interfaces. Here is the setup.
1 physical interface (eth0 192.168.1.51)
1 alias interface (eth0:1 192.168.10.1)
1 alias interface (eth0:2 192....
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debian- [ERROR] MySQL server not working "Unit mysql.service entered failed state."
This my first time setting a MySQL server on debian. I was trying to install Joomla! using this tutorial: docs.joomla.org/Installing_Joomla_on_Debian_Linux
I ended up installing bitnami and ...
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ZFS As Root Filesystem On New Linux Machine?
I am new to Linux and will be building a storage server using either Ubuntu or Debian (haven't decided which, yet). I will be installing ZFS as the storage file system. What I need help with is ...
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How to install Puppet entirely within your Home Directory?
I'd like to use Puppet from Google Cloud Platform's Cloud Shell.
If you're not familiar with it, Cloud Shell is a temporary Debian instance. The only changes that persist from session to session are ...
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Debain Jessie Apache 2.4 config
I tried to configure my Apache 2.4 Debian Webserver for a PHP-POST File Upload. But I´m doubtful if I understand it right and wanted to ask before I use it. I need a tmp directory for the fileupload ...
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Monitor RAID on a Dell PowerEdge T100
I have a small server Dell PowerEdge T100 with a RAID1 array built with a Dell RAID SAS controller with Debian 5 as s.o.
Is there any way to monitor it, and/or to receive notification about raid ...
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NAT on small network inside a bigger network
I our lab we have a small network of 4 Debian machines, connected through a router in a LAN. One of these machines (the server) have internet connection provided by the bigger network of the building. ...
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how to get rid of awstat www-data daemon?
I have successfully installed awstats on my webserver. I have created a cron job that runs as root every third hour. And it works perfectly, but i keep receiving "mails" every 10 minutes saying that ...
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Postfix doesn't send mail to external servers
My Postfix Server won't send mail to every other server then localhost.
I use vitrual users and domains on a Debian 8.5 system. It seems that outgoing mail is delivered to spamassassin, which tries ...
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How to temporarily remove RAID5 drives
Situation:
I have a 3-drive (SSD) software RAID5 (mdadm) array (SATA) on the server (Linux Debian 8.5) for data only. I need to temporarily remove these drives in order to do something with some ...
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rsyslog: Log some messages only to specific file
My firewall logs get written to my custom iptables.log file, but also to kern.log, messages, and syslog. I don't want these messages duplicated in all these logs.
What is wrong with my config?
$ cat ...
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how to remove systemd from debian Wheezy
I have Debian Wheezy. by mistake, I have installed systemd. it seems that it was not installed well but now it became default init manager. I can not reboot and can not restart services.
apt-get ...
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Debian: Systemd fails to start apache process
When I am trying to run Apache2 reload, I am getting the following error. What am I doing wrong?
/etc/apache2# journalctl -xn
-- Logs begin at So 2016-08-07 18:21:40 CEST, end at Do 2016-08-18 12:33:...
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mod rewrite not working after dist-upgrade debian 7 to 8
I needed to upgrade my Debian OS version on a server, from 7 to 8.
So i did :
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
to have the latest wheezy packages, then
change in /etc/apt/source.list (and other ...
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Squid3 athentication whit MS server Active Direcory
Is there an easy way for Squid to use MS AD database?
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How do I allow a normal user to restart a supervisor group without password?
I am trying to allow a user in the group deployer to restart a supervisor group without a password; this is the content of my /etc/sudoers.d/deploy:
%deployer ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/service ...
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Debian 7, Hyper-v network problems
I have Debian 7.9 as one of hyper-v guests (on window server 2012R2). This Debian has legacy network adapter on hyper-v settings. I have been pinging Debian host constantly, there is 4-22% packet lost,...
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One IP address with multiple nat servers on one domain
Is it possible to use one domain to connect with servers in NAT?
Example
example.ltd - > 12.12.12.12
nat1.example.ltd - > 12.12.12.12 - > 192.168.1.100
nat2.example.ltd - > 12.12.12.12 - ...
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libnss_extrausers does not recognize user
I tried setting up libnss_extrausers on debian jessie, but it does not work.
I installed it with: apt-get install libnss-extrausers
and changed /etc/nsswitch.conf to
passwd: compat ...
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exim4 using wrong mail server hostname
Email no longer works on my Linux box (Debian 6) since our corporate IT group changed the gateway IP address and the hostname of the corporate mail server. I have changed the gateway address on the PC ...
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Is it possible for a debian package to be installed by multiple names through apt?
I have a package foo-new, which many new users know by its old name foo-old, so they try to execute apt install foo-old which does not work.
Is it possible through a control field to make a package ...
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Unknown user on a custom mail server
I made a custom mail server with Postfix and Dovecot from this tutorial : https://www.tictech.info/post/mail_preparation but I have a problem.
I can send mails from my custom server to an Outlook ...
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How to redirect to DocumentRoot by URL
How I can get files from a directory according to request url in Apache2? I really forgot how to do that.
It's something like:
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName panel.mywebsite.com
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routing multiple IPs on a single bond device - debian linux
I'm using linux server with nginx and additional IP-addresses for various web-sites.
It has main eth0 device with ipv4 (xx.xxx.210.245) and ipv6 (xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:ffff:6189:d2f5) and bond0 (xx....
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Debian Lost filesystem. Corrupted filesystem [closed]
I have a file system bug/error.
My dedicated server cannot start.
OVH started my dedicated server in rescue mode, and:
root@rescue:~# parted /dev/sda 'print'
Model: ATA SAMSUNG MZ7LM240 (scsi)
Disk /...