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Debian-Lenny is the codename for Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0.

Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB. As of Jan 3, 2012, the current stable Debian version is 6, or "Squeeze". Version 7, "Wheezy" is in active development.

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How to patch CVE-2015-0235 (GHOST) on Debian Lenny and Squeeze?

There is a right way to patch GHOST on Debian Lenny and Squeeze? According to this link there are no plans to patch Lenny https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0235 Thanks!
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Where is my space on /var being used?

I'm a novice linux admin and now responsible for the OS of a 3 node Tomcat cluster. (Tomcat is handled by the DEVs luckily.) I got alarmed by our monitoring solution that /var on server01 has only 172MB left of free space. Most likely because…
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Some Apache requests are slow, most complete instantly

I have two Dell R410 web servers (2x quad core Xeon E5520 w/ 8gb ram) running Debian 5 stable. Their patching had been neglected for a while, so recently we did a patching run to bring everything up to date - neccessitated by a new version of the…
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How valuable is TCP Window Scaling?

On a busy† Debian Lenny server of mine I am considering disabling TCP Window Scaling. Why? I'd like to enable syn cookies, which disables TCP Window Scaling. This server is locally firewalled and the protection against syn flood attacks could be…
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Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze upgrade problems

Yesterday I made a dist-upgrade on my Debian Lenny server. I thought it will be easy as an usual upgrade, but it's not. I got a lot of problem after the update: # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state…
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where is the last commands file

When using the command line as root in Debian I get last commands executed as root. Where are those saved, what is the default file path and how can I find it? thanks
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How to change the temporary upload directory nginx/passenger?

When a user uploads /tmp/stream* files are created during the upload. How do I can I change the temporary upload directory from: /tmp to: /home/user/tmp Running: nginx 0.8.53 Phusion Passenger 2.2.15 (mod_rails/mod_rack) Debian Lenny
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LVM is reporting I/O errors, but the disk reports no problems. Argh

I've started seeing errors reported by LVM on certain Logical Volumes (and by Xen when attempting to create virtual machines on these LVs). But I've run tests on the disk, and can't see any hardware problems. We're running a XEN/Linux (Debian Lenny)…
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Converting Debian fstab to use UUIDs via linux-base?

We have a few Debian 5 systems that are still using /dev/hda in the fstab. We'd like to covert them to using UUIDs. This is supposed to be done automatically via the "linux-base" package (postinst), but for some reason it's not kicking in (perhaps…
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How should I upgrade debian/xen machines from etch to lenny

I manage a server that currently runs Debian/Etch, and Xen 3.0. Each virtual machine is also running Debian/Etch. Lenny is the next release of Debian, and includes Xen 3.2. Unfortunately, I believe there is no automatic upgrade path (via…
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Load average at 1, even though I've stopped all services!

I have a virtual server running Debian 5 where any action is very slow (like password verification when logging in via SSH or doing su). I checked the load average, which is hovering around 1-2. Then I stopped all services (apache, mysql, postfix,…
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Strange ifup/ifdown behaviour on Debian Lenny

First of all, here is my /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.10.4.142 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.10.4.1 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 10.10.4.138 netmask…
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/dev/fuse "permission denied" even when member of fuse group

I have a backup script scheduled on a Debian 5.0 x86 server, via sshfs. However, when I attempt to mount the remote directory, I receive: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied ls -l /dev/fuse returns: crwxrwxr-x 1 root fuse 10, 229 2010-11-12…
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Disk encryption in Debian

I have a Debian Lenny server running a production application. Recently, we are being asked by a consultant to enable disk encryption for data security. He believes full disk encryption will require us to wipe disks clean and start the server setup…
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How do I install Python 2.6 on Debian 5.0 (lenny) using apt-get?

After some digging and experimentation, I figured out how to install Python 2.6 on Debian 5.0 using apt-get. So I thought it best to post on SF as a question and answer. I know this can be manually built and installed, but many people prefer to use…
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