Questions tagged [debian-wheezy]
Debian is a popular Linux distribution. The codename Wheezy stands for version 7.0 which is now EOL. It was released on 2013-05-04.
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Debian Wheezy IPv6 isn't configured with ifup post-up hook
We recently set up a server on Debian Wheezy Beta 3 (x86_64) which has a native IPv6 connection.
We configured the eth0 interface to get the IPv6 configuration through some post-up hook commands in /...
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Connect a computer through VPN with a different network
Hi,
I would like to connect to a computer through a vpn in another network.
My computer (Debian 7.11) is in the network 192.168.2.0/24. My gateway (192.168.2.1) is a VPN router. It connects to ...
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VRF on Linux using network namespaces
My ultimate goal is to implement Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) in Linux. The method that seems to be most widely accepted is to set up different network name spaces (one for each separate ...
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Install package from oldstable (wheezy) to stable (jessie)
I want to install the package which is missing in jessie from wheezy. It is like backport the other way. I need gcc-4.7, but jessie provides only gcc-4.9. Unstable provides gcc-4.7 only for arm ...
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Dovecot Sieve does not run?
I'm quite new to Dovecot but it has worked out for me pretty good so far for me.
I run dovecot with postfix and amavis and spamassassin and it works out all fine, mails get tagged as junk, sending, ...
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How do I force my Debian system to update GnuTLS?
After the news broke that GnuTLS is broken
hacker news | arstechnica
I would like to know how to find out if my system(s) Debian 7.1 Stable & Debian 7.1 Testing are safe and more specifically ...
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Download speed low over http but Iperf is showing a high bandwidth
I was trying to download some files off of a server that I recently started renting. It is a dedicated server located in Paris-FR. I believe the box is in online.net's datacenter. I am renting it from ...
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Restrict SMB user from changing password
On a server running Debian Wheezy and Samba ver 3 with a tdb backend, how do I restrict a single user from changing the password? This account is one of 2 generic accounts, one for students and one ...
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ldap-authentication without sambaSamAccount on linux smb/cifs server (e.g. samba)
i'm currently running samba-3.5.6 on a debian/wheezy host to act as the fileserver for our department's w32-clients.
authentication is done via OpenLDAP, where each user-dn has an objectclass:...
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Meaning of postgresql log "using stale statistics instead of current ones because stats collector is not responding"
I have a Postgresql 9.1+134wheezy4 running on Debian 7 Wheezy. From 2015-02-07 on (I guess it has been backported then, see below) I regularly see the following line in /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-...
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ip6tables port redirect with TPROXY on IPv6 only
Our server is IPv6 only connected and an applications listen to port 8080 at private network, but we need port 80 at public Internet.
On purpose of testing, when opening the firewall for port 8080, ...
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Debian Wheezy and SUID Perl
I just upgraded a Debian Lenny box to Wheezy, and found that suidperl is gone. Googling reveals that the upstream maintainers removed it;
I need suidperl to run our mail installation, Open Webmail.
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Cron Daemon Wget blocked
I've got nginx on Debian 7 without cpanel.
I am seting-up my Crontab like this:
*/45 * * * * wget "http://example.com/cron-url.php" >/dev/null 2>&1
The above cron is being blocked with ...
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RAID6 mdraid -> LVM -> EXT4 root with GRUB2?
2012-03-31 Debian Wheezy daily build in VirtualBox 4.1.2, 6 disk devices.
My steps to reproduce so far:
Setup one partition, using the entire disk, as a physical volume for RAID, per disk
Setup a ...
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Is Debian package ifenslave really necessary for bonding?
This piece of Debian documentation states that package ifenslave is necessary for bonding:
First install the ifenslave package, necessary to enable bonding
Yet I know of two Debian 7.10 (wheezy) ...
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ntpd servers stuck in init state when defined by hostname, but sync correctly when defined by IP address
I started having an issue on a couple of our colo servers which is causing a fair bit of head scratching.
I as alerted to clock skew on a couple of servers, and when I went to investigate ntpq -=p ...
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Allow port scans for specific addresses in psad
How to enable port scans for specific address (or range) in psad?
By default I get a lot of logs coming from my own monitoring service. How can I tell psad to treat my addresses or domains as trusted ...
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E: Package 'libapache2-mod-fastcgi' has no installation candidate --- Debian Server
apt-get install libapache2-mod-fastcgi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libapache2-mod-fastcgi is not available, but is referred to by ...
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How to completely (all the packages were installed) remove or disable the tasksel desktop environment?
I accidentally installed desktop environment at the debian install. Now I'm trying to remove it but no chance: tasksel remove desktop changed only i to u if tasksel --list-tasks.
sudo apt-get remove ...
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"Session terminated, terminating shell...killed"
I have several boxen running Debian Wheezy. They appear to have the highly annoying problem that pressing ctrl+c in a shell that has been su:d to root will kill su, not whatever is running in the root ...
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Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy: Unresolved Dependencies
So I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy and Dovecot failed to resolve dependencies:
dpkg: error processing dovecot-pop3d (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were ...
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Duplicity error: BackendException: ssh connection to SERVER_IP:22 failed: Unknown server SERVER_IP
I'm trying to setup a backup system with Duplicity. I have a server that I want to backup to another SFTP server.
If I try to connect via sftp it works fine:
root@SERVER:~# sftp user@SFTP_IP
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Resume from suspend/hibernation on LAN activity
I have Debian Wheezy 7.2 running on a HP Thin Client. This little box acts as a file server and is only used from time to time, so I don't want it to run 24/7 but it has to be available when it's ...
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IPTABLES for multiple Public IP Addresses
Currently i have two servers Running Debian 7 with HA Active/Passive setup using Pacemaker and Corosync as follows:
node1->IP->xx.xx.xx.1
node2->IP->xx.xx.xx.2
VIP(Floating IP) ->xx.xx....
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SSH via terminal succeeds, but same SSH connection via Ansible fails on same machine?
Can anyone possibly shed any light on why this is happening?
I am logged into machine A, the client, with user basicuser. When I try to run an ansible playbook on machine B (server machine, as ...
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MySQL - The server quit without updating PID file
I have installed MySQL 5.6.16 on Debain 7.4.
But i encountered problems with starting mysql, where every time i start mysql i get this error:
The server quit without updating PID file (/var/run/...
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Wheezy processes die periodically
I have a very weird problem. Certain processes on my mail server, but not all, die periodically (every second month or so). A few of the process that die are:
ssh
dovecot
postfix
Processes that don'...
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How to configure postfix on Ubuntu to relay emails through Office 365 (SMTP) with TLS
I'm attempting to setup a postfix relay to our new Office365 setup for some internal devices on our network that require this specific setup. I've been trying various sites with configs and ...
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Auto-Reboot on Kernel BUG (not tainted, “fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed”)
I'm running a sometimes highly loaded Debian 7 VM with the latest 3.2.x kernel on a XenServer 6.2 host.
Sometimes this VM runs into the following state:
Ping is okay, All Services unreachable (...
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What are recommended permissions for files in /var/log? [closed]
I am working on tightening the security for various servers (mainly Debian Linux), and one of the tasks is to tighten permissions on files in /var/log so that files are not world readable. But there ...
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2xAMD Opteron 6128 with libvirt, Physical CPU 13 doesn't exist
I need help with libvirt(?) problem.
Server specs:
ProLiant DL165 G7
2x AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6128
System:
Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy)
3.2.0-3-amd64
libvirt 0.9.12-5
kvm 1:1.1.2+dfsg-2
$ ...
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SMB service is running on port 445 / Why / What process
I am currently trying to 'harden' all my servers, starting by turning of all services I dont need.
This one is a nginx reverse proxy and metasploit says
smb 445 tcp filtered
http://gyazo.com/...
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installing git from debian wheezy backports: anyway i see old package version
I need to install git 1.8.* version.
I added backports to my sources.list;
Removed current installed git via apt-get remove git;
Executed apt-get update to update my packages list
aptitude show git ...
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Gmail is Unreachable from Google Compute Engine
I have been getting network is unreachable errors every time i try to use php to mail something out.
alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [2a00:1450:4010:c03::1a] Network is unreachable
alt3.gmail-smtp-...
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VNC Server for a Headless Debian box?
Which VNC Server can I use to run graphical applications (i.e. X Clients) on a headless Debian Wheezy box?
Usually I don't need graphical applications on servers but from time to time there are ...
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ACCEPT statements in policy DROP
I'm trying to set up some rules using IPtables under Debian (Wheezy) and have been running in to some problems i think.
The policy of INPUT is set to DROP.
Does this drop everything based on the ...
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Postfix cannot authenticate against SASL
My system is Debian 7 aka Wheezy with postfix, courier, and mysql installed. Courier works well and if I issue
testsaslauthd -u user@domain -p password -f /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux -s ...
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solr php extension fails to run on newest Debian Wheezy
I'm trying to use the Solr PHP extension on the recently-upgraded Debian Wheezy. It installs both from PECL and from sources flawlessly but instead of giving me expected functionality it gives me this ...
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Linux block udp on low-level against DDOS
My server is currently under DDOS attack with nearly 500k UDP packets per second.
UDP is blocked in iptables but the processor is still overloaded.
Any way to block UDP on a lower level to not pass ...
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Adding second IP to server
I have a Debian 7 box that will host multiple domains. I'm trying to add a second IP, but every time I try /etc/init.d/network stop && /etc/init.d/network start, I get this error:
RTNETLINK ...
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How do I make sure sftp server is VSFTPD?
On a Wheezy server, I used: aptitude install vsftpd.
I edited the config file at /etc/vsftpd, disabled anonymous login, enabled local accounts, enabled FTP write, enabled the user vsftpduser, ...
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Host key verification failed even though known_hosts is correct
I am running a Debian 7 Wheezy server and are having problems with connecting to other servers over SSH. This problem only occurs while running SSH through crontab, and not otherwise (logged in as the ...
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How to change mailx?
I am having a problem in my VMs.
I used the same template (Debian 7min) in OpenVZ, but for whatever reason those two are using a different mailx. I have a small script which I use to send statusmails:...
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sudo apt-get update is not updating repositories in Debian Wheezy
I am trying to update repositories using following command but it is failing:
sudo apt-get update
Here is the output of above command:
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg
Hit http://deb....
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DNSSEC key-file not found
This is actually a follow-up on my previous question (my problem was solved) it can be found here:
DNSSEC sign-zone results in fatal failure
However, I still want to use dnssec-signzone when creating ...
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opendkim incoming not verified
I've installed opendkim with postfix on Debian Wheezy. Outgoing mail is getting DKIM signatures. The smtpd and non-smtpd milter spec is the same.
Incoming mail seems not to be verified - in a ...
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How can I install only the proxmox kernel on Debian on Wheezy
I'm going to run two servers with OpenVZ on Wheezy. Since there are sadly no OpenVZ kernels in debian anymore I want to use the Proxmox kernel instead.
I'm doing all replication with scripts I have ...
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Adding Virtio block devices at runtime in Libvirt KVM
I'm running Debian Wheezy Beta 4 with KVM based guest systems which run the same operating system. I'm using LibVirt to manage the virtualisation.
What I would like to do is to attach an LVM based ...
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OpenVPN and client-connect scripts
I have an OpenVPN server (2.3.2) on Debian Wheezy operating in bridged mode. Everything's working fine in terms of the client connecting and getting access to the network(s) it needs.
Im trying to add ...
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Nagios not starting after boot
I have a small Nagios 4.1.1 install I just completed. It's running on a Raspberry Pi using Raspbian. Checks out okay, and when I start it manually using /etc/init.d/nagios start it works fine.
I've ...