Debian GNU/Linux is a widespread linux distribution. Debian is one of the most popular Linux distributions available today, and is used as both a server and desktop operating system. This distribution focuses on stability and security, rather then frequent releases of new features. Many other ...
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While trying to install lighttpd on debian squeeze I get: 'Some packages could not be installed.'
I am trying to install lighttpd on my (virtual) Debian 6.0.4 64 bit system but after trying to use this command :
sudo apt-get install lighttpd
I get this error :
Reading package lists... Done
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Debian / Monit: mail is only sent to local system, not to outside address
I have a debian server and have monit installed and running. I use the following settings for alert mails:
set mailserver localhost # primary mailserver
set mail-format { from: monit@abc.test }
set ...
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Debian 3D Acceleration with Intel HD 3000
I'm looking at installing XBMC in Debian on a mATX PC I'll use as both a NAS and HTPC.
I am currently researching the actual components that will make up this computer and I'm considering how ...
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Logrotate olddir with date
it's possible to configure logrotate to create an olddir per day?
I'd like to get the same bash result, like this:
user@blade1022m:~$ date "+%y%m%d"
120208
In /etc/logrotate.conf (pseudo-code):
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Slack partition invisible at boot time after install Debian
I have Debian 6 _86 installed on sda4 and on sda5 Slackware ( Slackware has installed LILO on the beginning of sda5). Where and what to add so I can see Slack option at the boot time ( at the moment ...
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How to “fresh-clean” OS on the server?
Is there any fast and reliable way to remove everything not related to OS from the server?
In removing everything I mean:
Completely delete all packages and it's dependencies
Completely delete all ...
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How to enable WiFi bridged networking in VirtualBox ? [closed]
I would like to set up my virtual machine (Debian 6.0.4 64 bit) in VirtualBox on Windows 7 64 bit host OS.
When I launch my virtual machine with NAT networking option everything runs fine but when I ...
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gnome keyring password after changing distribution from fedora to debian
I changed one system from Fedora 14 to Debian stable. Our user homes are on a NFS share. So they have been exactly remounted into the new system. It seems all is running fine, but when using passwords ...
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How do I choose what shows up in PuTTY title bar from Linux?
In the PuTTY configuration there's an option in Terminal->Features called Disable remote-controlled window title changing. Without that enabled, the title bar of PuTTY will change every time I press ...
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Debian never use router gateway address in resolv.conf
Debian never use router gateway address in resolv.conf
How could I setup Debian to (never use router as Domain Name resolver)does not display the router gateway address (nameserver 192.168.1.1) in ...
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Is is possible to include additional non-diverted files in a config-package-dev package
I'm currently struggling with enhancing a package which uses config-package-dev to install a bunch of configurations for PostgreSQL. Those work fine but now I'd also like to include a ...
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generic tunnel utility though a single tcp connection?
I have a embedded Linux device (in it's own private LAN connected to other sensoric devices) that's connected to the Internet. I can already make a secure, direct TCP connection using a proprietary ...
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How do you control the permissions of files added to a reprepro managed repository
I've been using reprepro to set-up a number of Debian APT repositories for a spin-off of Ubuntu. The packages are all built by a buildbot which then submits them to the repository. However I'm having ...
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Booting linux system from chroot: is there a better way to do this?
I want to set up Grub menu entry to boot into chrooted system (installed chrooted debootstrap to avoid touching existing system too much).
Currently I do the following to attain it:
Install ...
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Remove a certain line from Bash history file
How can I remove a certain line from history's database?
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Fix for php 5.3.9 libxsl security “bug” fix
just this morning i updated my debian server to php 5.3.9 , change log (last item in list) has a fix for this bug and now when running any hosted site using XSL transforms i get:
Warning: ...
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break out of e2fsck on boot
Is it possible to somehow break out of e2fsck on boot?
My system runs e2fsck every 30 days, which is fine by me and I want it to stay that way. But sometimes when I turn on the computer and 30 days ...
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Apple Magic Trackpad (bluetooth) on Debian Squeeze
What do I have to do to get an Apple Magic Trackpad to "work" on a standard Debian Squeeze system?
Right now, the trackpad is connected to the machine over Bluetooth, and functions like a mouse: ...
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I can not find specific cron running at *:21 and *:56 on Debian
I am frustrated. I have two mystic crons running on our server, that I can not find by doing crontab -l. The good thing is these crons are sending mails. That is how I know those are running at :21m ...
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Anyway to verify updates were installed? [migrated]
I have vmware workstation installed and there's a bug in the installer that causes it to not use LSB headers for the scripts on Debian (debian run level scripts require lsb headers). This means that ...
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L2TP over IPSec on Debian [migrated]
I've configured the IPSec and XL2TPd daemons properly, both boot fine. At the moment, the issue I'm having is I get this message.
ipsec_setup: multiple ip addresses, using 127.0.0.2 on venet0
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kernel update vs distro version?
Is there a difference between kernel version and distro version?
For an example, I'm using Debian Squeeze and the kernel version by default is 2.6.32-5-amd64.
Does this mean that Squeeze only uses ...
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hook into displayport events
I have a triple monitor setup where I do not use the third monitor most of the time. The third monitor is connected to a receiver which is connected to the PC using HDMI.
The problem is that ...
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Install & update package on Debian without internet
There is computer with Debian, but no internet connection at one place and computer with Windows 7/Arch Linux at other place (my home) with internet connection. Is there a way to update and install ...
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Which commands do I need to update Debian, and how often should I update?
To update Linux, is the following all that's required?
aptitude update
aptitude safe-update
Also, how often should I update Debian? I just realized that I haven't updated for almost a month because ...
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Installing 32bit gcc on Debian squeeze x64
I need to install the 32bit gcc because i get this error:
libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work Aborted
I try this:
apt-get install lib32gcc1
Does not find the package
I ...
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What window-manager is this? [closed]
What is window manager is this picture dispalying?
I was very impressed by Fabrice Bellards javascript "linux in browser" to put it mildly. Search for Fabrice Bellards at Stackoverflow and you can ...
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limits.conf ulimits not being applied to chrooted processes
We allow users to execute scripts on our servers. Our security model involves chrooting them. We want to be able to apply ulimit restrictions to them, and the best way to do it would seem to be in ...
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SSH remote login without password is very slow
SSH Client - Mac OS X Lion
SSH Server - Debian
/etc/hosts on Mac -> [IP of Debian] mydebian
Public key of Mac has already been put to authorized_key in root@mydebian:/root/.ssh
'UseDNS no' has been ...
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How to monitor the network activity of a Java application on Linux in detail?
Let's say I have a third-party java application.
It is a .jar which I run in a usual manner: java -jar app.jar
How can I monitor what it sends and gets through the network on a Debian-based system?
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Move Grub to a different drive
I recently added a new ssd to my machine which I intended to have as my main drive. I installed crunchbang and everything went fine, except I unthinkingly accepted updating/overwriting the MBR on my ...
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How can I backup my Debian VPS to my local Windows Server?
I've just set up my VPS (Debian 6) and configured everything nicely and I now want to get a backup in place. I have a Windows 2008 server running at home that I would like to use if possible. Is there ...
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Slow ethernet connection on Lenovo IdeaPad s10
I got this netbook from my friend when he bought a new one. All it needed was a charger and it was up and running again. I wiped his HD and installed Debian (crunchbang) and noticed immediately that ...
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bcm43xx wlan driver in debian wheezy
the described method to get the wifi working under debian wheezy (broadcom bcm43xx) in the debian wiki ( http://wiki.debian.org/wl#Wheezy ) worked for me....yesterday.
after rebooting the computer ( ...
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what to do when fstab breaks?
Which is the best way to fix broken fstab?
I think that i could do that with some live linux distro. First serch for partitions and mount them to temporary created /temproot. Manually mount partitions ...
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Linux on USB with / mounted on Pendrive?
I'm wondering how to install Linux Ubuntu/Mint on Pendrive so that / (root fs) is mounted
directly on USB in RW mode ?
I think that most installers simply copy the installation CD onto pendrive. And ...
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hide gnome panel using gconftool-2? (not autohide)
How do I hide the gnome panel completely? (not autohide)
Basically, I have a triple monitor setup but only use dual monitor most of the time. Because the third monitor is off and is hdmi/displayport, ...
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When you do “apt-get install” where are the .deb files stored?
I am trying to copy all of the packages I have installed on one Debian machine to another Debian machine without doing another apt-get install and downloading all of the package all over again.
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Why can't bash display symbols like æ, ø and å?
I have a file I've called æøå.js (just an example), and when I run ls in the directory where it's stored I get
root@chu:~/projects/someproject/server# ls src
a.js b.js ??????.js
So it seems such ...
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Where are the “program files” in Debian?
I'm new to Linux and not really sure how file system works
When you install a program on windows it stores the programs files into the Program files folder and creates an icon in the start menu. If ...
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How to add bash-completion to user www-data?
when logged in as user 'www-data' on my debian server (squeeze) i want to use bash-completion. I follewed this guide, but i doesn't succeed:
it is working for all regular users but not for www-data!
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Install .deb on Mac?
I recently came across this open source compressor that I want to use in my mac app, but it seems to be available for linux/debian.
Is there any way I could use it on mac?
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tasksel/first and multiselect in Debian Preseed Package Selection
A section in the appendix on automating the installation using preseeding discusses the preseed configuration file.
For package selection the following example is given:
#tasksel tasksel/first ...
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Can't run Katawa Shojo game, failes with “undefined symbol: SDL_RWFromFile” [closed]
I was trying to run the freeware game Katawa Shojo, and I cannot run the Katawa Shojo.sh file. One problem is that when the filepath has spaces (it comes in a folder 'Katawa Shojo' to start with) it ...
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How do I set up Debian 6.0.3 to work with serial terminal?
My problem is that most guides on the Internet I've found explain how to enable serial terminal on GRUB 1 and it appears that they moved to GRUB 2 on Debian.
I'm running Debian inside VMware and have ...
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fglrx driver doesn't start DRI in Debian Wheezy
I have a Toshiba Satellite P745D-SP4161M laptop with a AMD Radeon HD 6620G graphics card and a AMD A8-3500M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics CPU. I have dual boot with Windows 7 and Debian Wheezy/Sid.
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Unable to upgrade libc6 on Debian
I tried to update a system of mine, with which I had no problems whatsoever, and ran into problem while executing a aptitude full-upgrade. The update ran through normally till I got this error :
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Uploading and updating ubuntu repository with new deb
My problem is as follows:
I have an ubuntu package repository which I want to update with some packages.
I've been browsing around trying to figure out how this is done and came across 'dput'. ...
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How do I get my disks to spin down after one hour?
I'm currently configuring a new home server, and I am trying to get the disks to spin down after one hour. But they do not spin down.
Setup
I have my entire system on an ssd: /dev/sda. I have three ...
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Changing apperance of gui applications run under ratpoison/Xorg?
I recently started a question where I wanted to know how to run the most minimal Linux desktop (Use gnu-screen and X instead of desktop environment?). And the conclusion was that I would need a window ...
