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How do I successfully change the hostname on Debian 4? I tried in /etc/hosts but it seems that there is another place where this is stored.
I am installing something on a debian 4r3 server that requires the package compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138.i386 What is the recommended way of installing? I have tried yum, but I couldnt f...
Out of old habit I deleted this file, thinking it would get recreated upon reboot like it did on Etch. well.. The file didn't get recreated and my network is not working after booting unles...
I have a samba share configured in smb.conf as such... security = user [Downloads]   path = /home/dwnloads/files   browseable = yes   read only = no   guest ok = no And I can brow...
hello experts, i am completely new to linux world. My job is to make debian linux root read only which will be mounted on compact flash. i created symlinks to mtab,resolv.conf,adjtime from ...
How do I open port 22 for ssh from outside computers on Debian linux?? Thank you much in advance Keith Henriques
I'm currently configuring a Samba server on a Debian box and everything is going fine at the moment, except for this small issue. Basically I need my users to have their primary unix group ...
Experts, How to extract only the IP address from these lines? Connection from [189.58.21.163] refused Connection from [200.127.199.147] refused Thanks in advance... :)
Hi - I'm trying to virtualize a Debian Linux machine to be hosted on VMware ESX 3.5 - I'm following the instructions listed in this blog: http://virtualaleph.blogspot.com/2007/05/virtual...
I'm trying to set up an IPSec VPN Server using Debian.  The server will be connecting to a Linksys WRV200 VPN Router.  I managed to do it once by accident through multiple tutorials and using ...
Hello, a girlfriend installed debian linux in spanish. But we dont speak that language. So is it possible to change the language in an other one and how ? regards insi01
I have a new Dell R300 quad core xeon rack server that needs to run several VMs on it.  I was trying to install the amd64 debian image on it today but ran into problems because the network car...
Argh! How do i fix this? ===cut from terminal=== > apt-get install php5-curl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This ...
hi! i've got a Debian 3.1 system with a 2 Gb /var partition and want to resize it to 10 Gb without moving any existing data. What is the best procedure to do that? Thanks!
On one of my machines (Virtual machine running Debian on VMWare ESX OS), I unexpectedly got: "Clocksource tsc unstable (detlta = 4689558902 ns)" on my console. I was able to get a login pro...
Hi all, I'm interested in throttling outgoing messages to specific domains. I have looked into postfix-policyd before, which included sender throttling ( one sender -> all domains throttl...
Hello everybody, i don't know what's happened,but when i've rebooted debian 4.0,i've seen the following error message : <0> kernel panic -not syncing : attempted to kill the idle task. ...
Hi Experts, I have to configure my squid to allowed and disallow user by mac address. Three files are involved "mac_full_access.acl",  "mac_limited_access.acl" to where all mac addresses li...
Hi all. I am migrating a server from Postfix with mailboxes (system users) to Qmail with Maildirs (virtual users). I'm using vpopmail for the backend. The postfix accounts are on FreeBSD of...
I was wondering how to list the package updates with apt-get and Debian. With Redhat, I use "yum list updates" and get something like: 377 packages excluded due to repository priority pr...
Hello, the situation is like this: We have a big Pool of public IP-Adresses. Let's say from   x.x.100.x   to   x.x.150.x Our DNS-Server is sending all requests from x.x.116.x-Net to the...
httpd.conf apears blank in apache2? Hi all, i have a Linux Server running Debian etch with apache2. I have the web server running fine but when i just tried to edit the httpd.conf (nano /et...
I have installed debian etch with "standard system" on an old 64mb computer. Then I installed xorg and xfce4.  startx brings up xfce4 but mouse doesn't work. tried ro run mozilla and got th...
I have tried to install mod_perl2, Apache2::request and Apache2::ASP on Debian Etch with Apache2. I've used CPAN and tried manually doing them from source files. I'm new to unix and I cann...
Hi, I want to install Debian or Ubuntu on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 430 CDT laptop but I'd prefer Debian. However, there are a few things you need to know first of all. Firstly, the laptop i...