Debian is a popular and influential GNU/Linux distribution. Questions here should generally be about Debian Server.
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routing traffic - iptables
Im trying to route some traffic on my lan.
I have a squid3 server on 192.168.0.1:3128 and all web traffic is going through squid3. (Transparent via iptables)
And now I have a testing server up and ...
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MySQL keeps crashing: InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
I have a simple webserver (Debian 6.0 x86, DirectAdmin with 1 GB of memory and still 10 GB free space, mySQl version 5.5.9), however the mySQL server keeps crashing and I need to kill all mySQL ...
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Backup root partition with dd without downtime
Is there a way to remount / as read-only and buffer new writes in RAM, so can backup the / media with dd?
I want to create a bootable image from my SoHo-Server (Debian 6) without a live cd or any ...
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SSHd not logging Failed publickey attempts
On Debian Squeeze I have sshd set up to not permit password logins and require key based authentication.
I notice that when I attempt to log in from the WAN into my box with a bad SSH key, I do not ...
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apt-cache under Debian 6.0 displays a packet both as a dependency and conflict at the same time
Could somebody explain how can a syslinux packet both depend on and conflict with syslinux-common:
martin@IBM:~$ dpkg -l syslinux syslinux-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
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Technology for short-lived private VMs
I'm trying to build a system that will run short-lived (CI and test builds) of software components, it's mandatory according to my requirements that each live on a private host. I'm taking that ...
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When changing passwords, how to let one PAM module check for old passwords and another to save new ones?
Our server is currently using the blowfish cipher to store passwords and it uses pam_unix2. We'd like to gradually switch to SHA. The idea is that all newly changed passwords would be hashed with SHA. ...
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VirtualBox: issue with symlinks in shared folders
Some time ago there was a thread to exact the same problem: Can't create symlinks in virtualbox shared folders. Now it's closed (why?). So I start a new one, because I've got this issue now and cannot ...
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Do some debian builds not have lsb_release?
A .deb package I am releasing expects that it can call lsb_release. One customer using Debian 6.0.5 indicated that the lsb_release command (even in the terminal) produces a command not found error. ...
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Debian server is killing my network
I have a Debian 6.0 server and everything was running fine with it. This server is my environnement so I can develop web application.
Since yesterday, the server is doing something to the network and ...
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Debian Squeeze Preseed Installation “The current kernel doesn't support the Logical Volume Manager. You may need to load the lvm-mod module.”
I'm attempting to install Debian Squeeze via an instalinux.com image pre-seeded with more or less default settings. (Only notable addition is the openssh server, which is a clickable option in the ...
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Are these malicious requests in my apache access log?
So I noticed that my apache access log is filled with these :
180.179.206.84 - - [06/Feb/2013:14:35:45 -0500] "GET ...
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run nfs server version 3 only
I'm a RHEL guy, and new to debian/ubuntu, I have just setup an nfs server, and when I mount a share on a client, it uses version 4, how can I get the server to run with nfs version 3 only?
PS: our ...
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Group permission inheritance and umask
Edit: in my case virtual_use_local_privs=TRUE did the trick.
i'm trying to force newly created files and directories inside foo/ directory to be owned by nginx user and to set the right permissions ...
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Horde webmail install - 'webmail-install not found'
I'm trying to install Horde Webmail on my Debian server, but I got stuck on error. I followed manual on http://www.horde.org/apps/webmail/docs/INSTALL. After installing through pear, I'm supposed to ...
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Suggested list of backup excludes
I am backing up a server installation of Debian 6.0.6 "Squeeze".
My question is, what is a good starting list of places that do NOT need to be backed up. Some examples of things that, to my knowledge ...
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Speed up CIFS remote file shares
In my office I have a Debian server, a Ubuntu workstation, and a Windows laptop. I have a samba share directory on the server where I keep my source code. I access the files in this directory on both ...
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PAM error on reboot of the RADIUS client
I have a debian squeeze machine that acts as RADIUS client talking with the Freeradius server. I have configured PAM on the client, so made following changes.
Added radiusd to /etc/pam.d which ...
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Unable to import Virtuabox VM onto Headless Server
I have a Virtual Image on my Windows Machine. I want to transfer it to my Headless Debian Server. I've installed VirtualBox on the Debian machine.
On the windows machine ive exported the file as a ...
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How to prevent ntpd to listen on 0.0.0.0:123?
ntpd listens on numerous interfaces by default, I only want it to listen on 127.0.0.1:123 since I only want the localhost to sync the time.
How to do that, I tried by editing /etc/default/ntp on ...
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Postfix - Cannot set myhostname
I simply fail to set myhostname for postfix. I am running Debian 6.0.
I simply want to call:
postconf -e "myhostname = mail.mydomain.com"
service postfix restart
in order to prevent mails getting ...
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Varnish not showing custom headers
In my Varnish 3 configuration (default.vcl) I configured the following to pass along information via the response headers:
sub vcl_deliver {
if (obj.hits > 0) {
set resp.http.X-Cache = ...
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Squid squidGuard on Debian 6
I have an ADSL connection with a modem sagem (NAT) and connect one machine to cable >(fedora17 = 192.168.1.2) into this machine I installed oracle virtualbox and in this I >have two machine connected ...
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Debian Wheezy No longer booting. Freezes after setting kernel variables
My Debian (Wheezy) server has been running smoothly for a very long time with no indications of any problems. I had it running 24/7 so it was always on. The other day my power went out and when I ...
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How to solve IP conflicts on local server?
I am configuring the network for a new server(Debian 6), it has a public IP and a local one, with 2 network connections, the server is a proliant G4, for some reason when I connected it on the eth1 ...
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Apache serves garbage content
I've set up an apache2 (Apache/2.2.16) on a VirtualBox (4.2.6) driven Debian (6.0.6) running on a Mac OS 10.7 host system. I mount a shared folder by fstab with the following configuration:
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warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line xx: host name/name mismatch
I've whitelisted my own domains in /etc/hosts.allow
ALL: localhost, .domain.tld
plus all of my IP adresses.
I also have about 4k lines in /etc/hosts.deny.
Everything works but I do not understand ...
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Samba password not persisting
I have a samba on debian setup with the following smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
# Debug logging information
log level = 2
max log size = 50
debug timestamp = yes
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How to determine if a Debian upgrade updated the kernel
Let's say I have just done an aptitude safe-upgrade on a Debian system, but I was not paying attention so I did not notice if the kernel was updated or not.
How can I now determine if there was a ...
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Debian squeeze without xorg? [closed]
I'd like to install a small Debian server (as a template), which contains only the necessary packages. Even though I select only the ssh server and the Standard utilities at the software selection ...
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is anyone maintaining a haproxy 1.7 deb package? [closed]
haproxy 1.5 v17 handles ssl certificates. from my use so far it's pretty stable.
is anyone maintaining a .deb for 1.7? I am uniquely unqualified to do so.
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Postfix deliver mail to correct mail server based on MX Records
We are using Debian and postfix to send mail for our CMS. Our website and email use the same domain but our email is hosted elsewhere. So, sadly when our server tries to send some mail (from some ...
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Explain to me why this configuration redirects by apache
I was finally able to duplicate my Magento store and now i'm able to develop in/with git.
The Copy is stored in /var/www.dev
So i thought i duplicate my apache/site-available/shop to dev.shop in the ...
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Missing lxc administration tools
Do you know how to backup and/or clone a lxc container ?
I'm under Debian 6, and there is no lxc-clone, lxc-backup commands !?
Lxc administration seems pretty tough...
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CA root certificate in pam_ldap configuration will not work without tls_checkpeer no
Systems are Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu Precise with identical configurations. Version of libpam-ldap is 184-8.5 on both distros.
Everything works fine with the following configuration in ...
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Error installing mysql, any way to fix it?
I was installing mysql with apt-get install mysql-server (like I always did) before that I had done an apt-get update (I am using Debian 6), and when I installed I found this problem, pretty common as ...
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I appear to be getting a recurring dependency, how do I fix this?
I am trying to install make - normally I just type sudo apt-get install make and it works, but on this server I am getting the following;
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
git-core: ...
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Debian Network boot with a VLAN (DHCP + TFTP)
I've been given 34 servers (HP Proliant) to use for HPC. Due to the server owners' request, 33 of these will need to act as diskless thick clients, and one will act as DHCP and TFTP server to enable ...
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Puppet do wrong command for create user
I have 2 debian boxes. One with puppetmaster, second with puppetd.
# puppet -V
2.7.18
In manifest i have:
group {
"tipadima":
ensure => present,
}
user {
"tipadima":
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does putting an nic into promicuous mode intro a significant amount of latency [closed]
I am thinking about setting up snort to act as an intrusion detection system on a machine running debian that I use as a router. Snort would be listening on the internet side (not really any ...
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Installing phpmyadmin on debian
I'm setting up a LAMP server, I installed apache2, mysql, and phpmyadmin via apt-get install, but I can't find phpadmin. It should be in 127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin, right? However, ...
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IP Tables though Simple Router Machine
I have being setting myself up a router, for mainly for dns+dhcp functionality (mess about with alot of virtual machines). I have two interfaces eth0 and eth1. Eth0 can be see as the WAN with eth1 for ...
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lxc vm access outside the host
On Debian 64bit, I configured a lxc like this :
host ip : 172.16.0.25
vm guest on this host : 172.16.0.44
I've done the bridge on my host
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
up ...
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How can I report bandwidth usage over x days, broken down by port and protocol?
I need to generate reports showing bandwidth usage broken down by port and protocol, based on all data sent/received over the last x days, in a fairly simple and secure way.
Storing full traffic ...
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how to configure properly the network on debian 6? [duplicate]
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why I cannot configure the network on my server when I try to install Debian 6?
I just installed Debian 6 and I have no network, I cannot connect to internet or ...
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why I cannot configure the network on my server when I try to install Debian 6?
I am trying to install Debian Squeeze on a server(old one), when comes the part of network, it shows me the options
Broadcom Corporation Netxtrem BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (as eth0 and
eth2)
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lxc-console only works once
I have a debian-squeeze host-system on which I have installed lxc.
i created a (squeeze) container, and started it. then I'm trying to get inside the container with lxc-console. everything works fine ...
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OpenVZ container stuck in suspend
I have an issue with vzdump --suspend. I end up with a container stuck in suspend, and I cannot enter or stop it. Do any you know how to force the container to stop, without having to restart the HN?
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How can I isolate my Apache and MySQL installations on the same server? [closed]
I have a 8GB RAM Linux server which will be running Apache and mysql. First I was thinking of chrooting mysql (and apache) but then thought of putting mysql in a virtual machine on the same server, ...
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RRAS on Server 2003 R2 kills internet connection on client
I have RRAS set up and working on my Server 2003 R2 machine, and vpn is working. I understand the setting to change on a windows machine to also provine internet on the client. But what about linux. I ...
