Questions tagged [debian-buster]
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Network interfaces get stuck and need to turn off/on to resume traffic
I am using Asterisk on Ubuntu 18.04 and on Debian buster. The network interfaces (for SIP Signaling and RTP) get stuck after sometime (2-3 hours) and need to turn off/on the interfaces to resume the traffic.
H/W: HP Pro. DL380 and Dell PE R730…

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debian preseed select smallest drive for OS
So in my case I have a box with 2 drives 1 SSD small , usually 120 Gb and the rest bigger 500 or bigger, I need the OS always to be installed in the smallest drive and the second one to be left for data side.
Is there a way to detect the smallest…

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New virtual host on apache returns the default vhost, other times returns the normal content
I'm having some really strange behaviour on one of my Debian servers. When requesting stuff.com ( example ) or stuff.com/image.jpg, let's say 50% of the times I have the correct response, the other 50% of times I have an 404, in case of the image,…

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Is it safe to apply fail2ban on sshd "Received disconnect/Disconnected ... [preauth]" logs?
I'm seeing a lot of logs like these in /var/log/auth.log (Debian Buster):
Jan 2 17:10:17 mybox sshd[16304]: Received disconnect from 1.2.3.4 port 37792:11: Bye Bye [preauth]
Jan 2 17:10:17 mybox sshd[16304]: Disconnected from authenticating user…

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KVM quests "stuttering"/"freezing" intermittently on Debian 10
I'm using KVM on Debian 10 as host and for now two guests that are Debian 10 as well. The guests are "stuttering" frequently, what I mean by that is that like at least several times an hour a guest becomes unresponsive for like 10 seconds. If I have…

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Trouble installing packages from the Debian buster repository
Solved! See comments below for the solution.
I'm trying to install i3 on Debian buster and it can't find the package. I'm not sure what I'm missing so I can install this package.
These are the errors that I'm getting:
> apt install i3
Reading…

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BIND in a dedicated VM?
Recently I took up maintenance of another company network where BIND has been installed in a dedicated VM (ostensibly for security). The company uses Debian as a system for servers.
I have to say the concept intrigued me. Unless you have a dedicated…

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how does isc-dhcp-server start on debian 10 with systemd
I'm on a beaglebone black running a debian 10 console image.
A bit of an odd setup that I have, but I need to make it run that way.
The issue:
isc-dhcp-server fails to start at boot, but does start afterwards starting it by
hand, typing :
#systemctl…

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Error installing chrome remote desktop on headless debian buster linux host
I have a debian buster host (not on Google Cloud) and I am following the steps in this tutorial:
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/chrome-desktop-remote-on-compute-engine
However, when trying to authorize chrome remote desktop through…

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Boot without nftables | Debian 10
While rebooting our newest strorage servers, we're experiencing a kernel error (probably) caused by nftables. Please see attached call trace:
After configuring the server (incl nftables), everything worked fine. When we'd tried to reboot the…

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How do I change the time zone for mail.log files?
I'm using Debian buster. I changed the time zone with timedatectl and restarted postfix and dovecot but log records in mail.log are still showing UTC time. How do I fix this?

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Upgrade to openssh 8.3 (server) on debian 10 buster
Have a fairly vanilla Debian Buster (10) latest stable.
PCI Scan (sysnet/qualsys/worldpay) shows a PCI Compliance = NO vulnerability identified as CVE-2019-16905 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16905
It doesn't look like it will…

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Limiting resource use per user with cgroups/systemd
Debian 10: I want to limit memory, CPU etc for all users except root; I have found several articles about this, but so far they all revolve around cgconfig, which doesn't seem to be the way it is done now. I have seen some suggestions to use slices…

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Debian 10 and Intel I350 - Interfaces disabled after boot
I have a server with an Intel i350 quad nic on the motherboard (SuperMicro X9DRi-LN4F+).
This server ran in production for many years no problems (Debian 9).
Recently, I moved the server to a new location, upgraded the hard drives. I installed…

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Debian-based servers can authenticate users on OpenLDAP when RH-based servers cannot
I'm putting centralized authentication in my LAN infrastructure. The LDAP server is up and running, and all Debian/Ubuntu servers manage to authenticate users against the LDAP.
Now, all my CentOS8/Fedora32 machines just cannot. First, the…

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