Questions tagged [debian]
Debian GNU/Linux is a widespread Linux distribution focusing on stability, security, and the free software philosophy.
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Samba 'smb passwd file' setting doesnt work
after upgrading debian from lenny to squeeze (and samba to 3.5.6 version) all user account seems to be deleted. I have to recreate them using smbpasswd -a username and then set new password.
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logrotate configuration file syntax - multiple wildcard entries possible?
Since the man page doesn't answer my question and I don't want to force a rotation cycle, I decided to ask the question here.
The man page for logrotate gives the following example:
"/var/log/...
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How to detect ubuntu in a shared bashrc?
I share my .bashrc (all my dotfiles, actually) between ubuntu and archlinux. Since the paths may vary between them, I'd like to run some commands only on ubuntu (and others only on archlinux). How can ...
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Xen fails to boot (timeout mounting /dev/sda2)
I am new to Xen and trying to follow the guide from the Debian Wiki's Xen entry. I have installed squeeze on a VMware Workstation image with plenty of space. The file storage is over LVM.
My newly ...
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utf8 hebrew on mysql console on debian (via putty on windows)
I have a my sql server running on a debian linux hosted at linode.com
some of my data has hebrew characters in it.
I am connecting to the server via putty ssh on windows 7.
when I run the sql admin ...
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nVidia performance with newer X and newer driver abysmal with Compiz
I recently upgraded Debian to Xorg 2.9.4 and installed nvidia-glx from experimental, version 260.19.21. This was somewhat of an uphill battle as the dependencies for the experimental nvidia-glx ...
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Fix a broken apache2 install on Debian Squeeze
I accidentally broke my apache2 install, and was wondering if I could completely remove apache2 and everything related to it, and then completely reinstall it starting from scratch?
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encrypt multiple systems (Windows 7 + deb)
I've installed two operating system on single drive with 3 partitions (#1 Windows 7, #2 Debian Squeeze, #some data). Grub 2 is installed in MBR and lets me choose which system to boot.
I would encrypt ...
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(Debian) cold boot from SD card fails
I have an ION/Atom board that i want to boot from a SD card inserted in a reader which is connected via USB. The reader is built into the frontpanel of the machine's case and it's connected directly ...
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How to pass custom options to configure when building a package with debuild?
Short background: I'm using Debian Sid. Currently the audacity package is conflicting with the pidgin package, because gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad are outdated. I'm trying to rebuild it, but one of the ...
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Lock users in a directory
File structure:
I have a VPS running Debian OS and would like to create user accounts on it.
I want it so that when the user logs in with FTP, everything in var appears to be their home directory ...
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Deb packages stay with my username
When I run the command:
dpkg -b myprog
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sudo dpkg -i myprog.deb
The file in /usr/bin and /usr/share/, etc. stay with my username as owner and creator of the file when all the other are with ...
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Debian - starting UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) before network interfaces are operational
I want to install UFW on Debian Lenny. Everything looks straightforward except that I don't know where to plug UFW startup script so that it configures iptables before hax0rs can break in.
I've ...
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Installing Mercurial on Debian using apt-get
I am trying to install Mercurial using apt-get on a web server running Debian. I would prefer to have the latest stable version of Mercurial but I would be happy with anything reasonably recent. I ...
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Why does apt-get remove gnome if I remove a package?
If I remove transmission-gtk it shows a long list of packages. It want to remove gnome completely. Is there a meta package I can install to keep my system together and I can remove an application that ...
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How to upload a patched package to a Launchpad PPA
I have a patch for gnome-terminal and already managed to create a PPA on launchpad. I also downloaded the source using apt-get source gnome-terminal.
Which steps do I have to do to create a .changes ...
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Cron ignoring an update to crontab
I've commented out a line in the crontab on a debian server, which I guess was there by default yet was causing me to get error emails every hour:
# m h dom mon dow user command
17 * * * * root ...
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Debian Squezee upgrade and python-imaging problem
Hi I have recently upgraded from debian lenny to squezee and I noticed some problems during upgrade with some python files. Now I have same problem with them and I need to resolve it so that I can ...
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how to compile the latest rdiff-backup in debian?
The problem here is that in my ubuntu desktop pc, the repositories contain the latest rdiff (1.2.8), but in my debian server, the repositories contain v1.2.5.
I get an error that the versions are ...
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Data recover from a different hard disk format
I had an ext3 formatted disk with Debian.
I copied files to another Debian in another pc.
Then I installed Windows 7 on that disk, with a new ntfs format.
Later, I realized I didn't copied some files ...
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How to switch between Linux virtual terminals over serial?
How do you switch between Linux virtual terminals over a serial terminal connection?
I'm trying to install Debian on a Beagleboard via the serial console. I'm using screen (screen /dev/ttyUSB0 ...
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Failing to extract a tar/bz2 file
File in question is http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/detail?name=wkhtmltopdf-0.10.0_rc2-static-i386.tar.bz2
meder@pc:~$ tar -xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.10.0_rc2-static-i386.tar.bz2
bzip2: (...
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Running C# exe at boot as daemon with non-root privileges on debian squeeze
I am in the process of setting up a "multi-server" (LAMP, MINECRAFT, FTP, SOCKS, FIREWALL, DHCP) on a Dell dimension 4400 I have the LAMP working now I am going for the minecraft server. I have a ...
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How to install debian oldstable from network?
I use PXE debian installer and install it from the local network mirror.
It only offers to install "squeeze - stable" despite of there are both squeeze and lenny on the mirror.
How to force it to ...
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Best practice to install Windows7 when Linux installed already
I have dual boot machine with XP+Debian Squeeze, booting is performed via GRUB2. I'd like to upgrade XP to Win7. I know that XP would overwrite my GRUB with it's bootloader, requiring me to reinstall ...
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How to use the Debian scons-doc package
I installed the scons-doc package for my Mint Debian, but then I don't know how to access the documentation. I have tried to google search, but did not find any useful information. Any help is ...
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Can Debian identify rarely used packages?
I'd like to find a tool that could tell me which Debian packages on my system have been rarely or never used, perhaps by looking at file lists and access times. This is to find candidates for ...
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What are the practical differences in stability between Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx & Debian as a server?
I know Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, but I don't know how to evaluate the risks of using 10.04 Lucid Lynx built on Debian unstable. It's a home server in my basement, but clients will have access and ...
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Configure Apache to serve multiple subdomains via HTTP + HTTPS
I have a virtual server hosted at ISP with 2 public IPv4 addresses. I want to run several subdomains (more than 2) with Apache and serve them via both HTTP and HTTPS. The SSL cert is a wildcard one ...
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exporting a virtualbox VDI to a harddrive to boot it natively
I have a VirtualBox 3.1.2 image of Debian 5.0.2 running on Windows XP SP3. I would like to export that Debian image to a USB harddrive such that I could boot to that drive and run it natively. Is that ...
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Debian 5.0.8 won't detect my ethernet adapter
I'm installing Debian 5.0.8 on a Dell Latitude E6410 using the network install x86 CD.
Unfortunately, it won't detect my Ethernet adapter. Specifically, I get the error: No Ethernet card was ...
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Not getting gigbit from a gigabit link?
I just upgraded my LAN to gigabit. This is what netperf has to say about things.
Before:
marcus@lt:~$ netperf -H 192.168.1.1
TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 192.168.1.1 (192....
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Installing Linux, IDE or SATA?
THE QUESTION:
Is there an advantage to installing Linux on a SATA or IDE drive? I'm hoping to stream media from this server so would it be best to keep the faster SATA disks for that data?
FURTHER ...
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Using Mersenne twister to wipe disks
Currently when I want to wipe a USB disk with pseudorandom data in Linux I do the following:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb conv=notrunc
urandom is very, very slow, it gets to the point where the ...
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how to install debian to Windows 7 from disk?
my OS is Windows 7 and I want install Debian, I have download Debian .iso, how could I install it from disk, I try to use grub4dos, I extract grldr to my C:\ ,but there is already a file called grldr, ...
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Prevent poweroff on Debian when the physical power button is pressed
I'm on Debian-Lenny.
I want to change the action taken by the system when the power button is pressed. How do I modify the system such that it does not power off when it gets an Power Button ACPI ...
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find -exec command works on Debian Squeeze but not Ubuntu 10.04
In a shell script (interpreter /bin/bash), the following works on Debian Squeeze:
find ~/bin/ '!' -type d -exec dos2unix {} \;
Now, I know that for some reason that dos2unix was renamed to fromdos ...
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Can I use DirectX Graphics in Windows with Xen Virtualization?
I want to setup a server on my home network running both Windows and Linux simultaneously (no dual boot). I plan to use the Linux instance as a File Server, and the Windows installation will mainly be ...
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Installing Ubuntu server on VirtualBox - stuck on language selection screen
I have VirtualBox 3.0 on top of Windows 7x64 and a copy of Ubuntu server x64 I want to install on it. It will happily boot off the image, ask me to select my installer language and then one of the ...
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How to name files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ to be ignored without warnings?
N: Ignoring file 'cloudera.list_' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
N: Ignoring file 'opera.list_' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an ...
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Recursive search for files that hold some specific text
How do I recursively generate a text file which has a list of all files on my server which contain a specific string anywhere in the files?
I know the following command can be used to replace a ...
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copy on write, less redundant data
I have a folder containing a lot of pictures and a program to update some of the pictures.
I want to make a new folder with copy of the old picture and run the program on them but I want to save ...
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Is Aircrack-ng illegal? [closed]
I just found out about this Linux-based network toolset called Aircrack-ng. It’s pretty interesting, and I’m learning how to use it. But it just occurred to me that, like a lot of Linux programs, it’s ...
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Setup DNS on my server so I can put my IPs in as nameservers of my domain provider
Basically, my unmanaged VPS provider doesn't supply me with nameserver which I can use with my domain provider to route domain to my server.
As I've been told:
You need to configure the custom DNS ...
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After my laptop wakes up from sleeping/hibernating, the LCD/brightness is very low. How can I set it to default?
In Power Management Preferences, On AC Power tab, I have brightness to 100%. "Dim display when idle" is not checked.
I know for sure my LCD brightness is capable of going higher, because if I hit Fn ...
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apticron, apt-get dist-upgrade and aptitude
I'm confused, on my debian server I've gotten the daily "updates available" message by apticron. I normally then just use aptitude to install the upgrades. Today I got a message which shows two ...
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Virtualbox in Bridged Adapter mode?
I have Headless VirtualBox set up on my Debian machine and windows xp as guest. It works well. My Network is set to "nat". It works also well but the upload speed is very low.
I want to set the ...
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Debian Testing install USB menu does not respond to keyboard
I'm trying to install Debian Testing onto my Acer Aspire One ZG5 using the testing versions of boot.img and debian-testing-i386-CD-1.iso. I previously installed (two days ago) the latest release of ...
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OOM-Killer called every now and then
I have a dedicated server where I've installed apache2, as well as rails-passenger. Although i have 2GBs of RAM and most times about 1,5GB is free, there are some random times where I loose ssh and ...
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Monitor new packages in installed repositories?
I'd like to know which new packages (brand new, not the updated ones) have appeared in my installed repos. Just in case there can be something useful :)
I guess it should be a simple bash script to ...
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