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How to see debug logs for WireGuard (e.g. to see authentication attempts)

Assuming you are running a kernel which supports dynamic debugging, you can enable debug logs by executing: # modprobe wireguard # echo module wireguard +p > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/...
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After upgrade from Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 Bullseye security updates 404 not found

This is regarding change in Debian 11 repository structure. RTFM requires time, so bump answer here: For Debian bullseye, the security suite is now named bullseye-security instead of codename/updates ...
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bash: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found

This is the behaviour if you switched to root using su instead of su -, for example. In Debian 10 dpkg-reconfigure is located in /usr/sbin/, so it has to be in the PATH. Compare these two PATH-...
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``date`` in terminal now in 12hr format on Debian Buster

It seems the reason for this change is that in buster the en_US locale is updated. Since it is meant to represent US customs, which is to specify time in the 12 hour format, time is now shown as such, ...
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Fail2ban on Debian Buster - the right way to configure?

You only need to edit one file. To avoid problems during system upgrades, you should always copy jail.conf to jail.local and modify the latter only. The same for all other fail2ban config files. cp /...
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MariaDB memory use rises beyond configured size

With credit for the forumla due to Gordon's answer and the link therein, the following command will tell you how much your MySQL/MariaDB database needs: SELECT ROUND( ( @@GLOBAL.key_buffer_size ...
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bash: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found

From the wiki https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster Apparently I didn't read the other release notes Changes The su command in buster is provided by the util-linux source package, instead of the ...
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Debian - after update bind9 cannot create log in /var/log/bind

It sounds as though bind9 may not be allowed to write to the folder for other reasons. Check to see if AppArmor is running via aa-status. AppArmor is another mandatory access control mechanism for ...
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Create a custom /etc/init.d script in Debian 10 Buster

Smartass response: apt-get install sysvinit-core Disclaimer: I have not done this on Buster, don't try it on an important system. Assuming you'd like to stick with the new default since Jessie, ...
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clamav "killed" with no explanation

As mentioned in some of the other comments, the likely culprit is oom_killer or oom_reaper. You can check for this by tailing /var/log/messages while running clamscan. Ex: # Kick this off in a ...
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Debain 10 - Installing kernel 5 from backports

It's a bug in the package. The bug was already reported. The files were just missing, a patch is available in the bug report. It works like this: sudo su echo deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-...
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Nearly 100% disk utilization after upgrading to debian 10 without any reason

i'm quite convinced that 100% utilization shown for the underlying NVMe drives that are used to create md-raid is a kernel bug - see the related reports. temporarily upgrading to kernel 5.2 made the ...
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Recommended approach to build a 24-disk pooled SSD hot-set cache: RAID, LVM JBOD, etc?

You appear to be contradicting your needs - "My ideal solution would have each subdir (I have one self contained dataset per subdir) of / completely contained on a single disk" tells you that you don'...
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MariaDB memory use rises beyond configured size

The memory settings you listed are shared. There are also various buffers that are allocated per thread. Here is a link to a MySQL memory calculator: https://www.mysqlcalculator.com/
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rudder-relayd.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE - Permission denied

I think you should enable nesting mode with lxc on the host, I think with this command: lxc config set <id> security.nesting true
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"curl: command not found" on Debian 10 with PHP 7.3 installed successfully?

php7.3-curl is the package to do curl in php. If you want to use curl directly in terminal you need install curl (apt-get install curl)
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bash: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found

You can try sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales Instead of dpkg-reconfigure locales It works for me 😉
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How to update /etc/os-release

Both /etc/os-release and /etc/issue are in the base-files package. Make sure you have something like the following in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster main Followed ...
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Debian: Cannot install php7.4-curl -- depends not installable

debian10 comes with php7.3 and not php7.4 https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=php7 php 7.4 will be in next debian 11 (bullseye). You can add some ...
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Why is IPv6 disabled upon reboot even after configuring sysctl.conf?

I'm assuming that you are using these three packages to provide the options in use: ifupdown, bridge-utils, vlan. The two later provide the commands brctl and vconfig, both obsolete, but more ...
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Boot without nftables | Debian 10

Edit the kernel command line and try adding module_blacklist=nf_tables Upstream in the kernel, there is some possibly relevant fixes. Like this use after free bug fixed in 4.19.72 commit ...
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After upgrade from Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 Bullseye security updates 404 not found

If you followed the various Debian update tutorials out there, chances are you ended up with an incorrect /etc/apt/source.list As most "fixes" are listed sed command patches, they may not ...
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How do I enable IPv6 with Nginx on Debian 10

I continued my research and saw that between version 1.10.3 and version 1.14.2 Nginx had removed the flag --with-ipv6 to integrate by default the support of IPv6. Mystery solved. Source: http://nginx....
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Apache2: ports.conf vs Vhost

Ports can be changed in ports.conf alone. The various site configs contain definitions of what to serve on the open ports. This means that if you define a VirtualHost like this: <VirtualHost 0.0.0....
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Auto boot degraded RAID1 on Debian 10 (Buster)

Some (older) BIOSs only allow booting from the first connected drive. I have a similar setup/BIOS (both HDDs have grub properly installed) - I can only boot from the drive physically connected to the ...
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php-curl and php7.3-curl installed but curl_init() is "undefined function" (Debian buster)

You have php7.3-curl for PHP 7.3, but your PHP CLI is PHP 7.0 7.0.33-1~dotdeb+8.1 from Zend OPcache. Do you have php7.3-cli installed? If not, then sudo apt install php7.3-cli
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Why does docker say my container's disk is full when it's not (QubesOS)?

This is an issue with the way QubesOS also layers its disk space for AppVMs. This was the disk space on the docker host (the Debian 10 AppVM). Note that its 20G of free disk space is in /rw/ but that ...
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Recommended approach to build a 24-disk pooled SSD hot-set cache: RAID, LVM JBOD, etc?

I care more about performance, complexity of maintenance, and downtime more than lost data. Maximizing performance indicates you need to use some form of RAID-0 or RAID10, or LVM. Complexity of ...
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Cannot update apt https repositories via corporate proxy ("reading from proxy failed") on Debian 10 buster

It seems that the problem was the web proxy itself. After an upgrade, which fixed several SSL inspection issues, the problem went away.
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How to see debug logs for WireGuard (e.g. to see authentication attempts)

My version of logging users, script in crontab every 3 minutes. If inactivity less then 180 seconds, nothing doing, else appending to a log file. wg show all dump | grep 10.0 | awk 'BEGIN {}; {if (...
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