Debian is a popular Linux distribution. Squeeze is also known as version 6.0.
Questions tagged [debian-squeeze]
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Pull php5 from DotDeb and ignore others packages
I have Debian squeeze installed and this is my /etc/apt/sources.list file:
# Debian packages for stable
deb http://ftp.lug.ro/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
# Security updates for stable
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main…

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How to run .ova appliance on Debian Squeeze XEN host?
I have a virtual appliance in a .ova format, but I need to run it on a XEN host. Xen host is running Debian Squeeze.
How can I do that?

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Setting up bind9 9.7.3 logging: no size limitation, no file swapping
bind is configured to limit the log file size to 2m and to add up to 3 versions of the log files.
During the testing of this bind server, is has occured that bind does not stop logging if the file size reaches more than 2m.
During the testing of…

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ps -o pcpu on Debian Squeeze is giving meaningless numbers
I'm trying to get the CPU percentage for processes on a busy server out of ps, but it's giving me nonsensical numbers. Here's a truncated example:
$ ps -eo pcpu,pid | sort -n
%CPU PID
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36.5 26403
38.6 28295
39.0 11741
42.6 11736
58.6…

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How to set up Dell OMSA tools on Debian 6 (Squeeze) (PE2950)
I assume I have set up them up incorrectly or am missing a library or dependency. When I log into the OMSA web interface I can't see anything
Also, omreport tells me nothing;
root@box:~# omreport storage controller
No controllers found
I assume…

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Tuning Snort Rules: COMMUNITY SIP TCP/IP message flooding directed to SIP proxy
This is a common problem in Snort, but I'm not sure why the rule triggers at all.
The rule below comes from the Debian repositories. Apparently it is designed to trigger when there are more than 300 hits on port 5060, and will only alert once…

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logrotate not deleting old files - glob failing
I'm stumped with this one. Any help is much appreciated...!
Logs in /var/log/HOSTS/cacheflow_access_log/ are configured to archive to /var/log/HOSTS/archived/cacheflow_access_log/ and compress. These are pretty big files so should only be kept for 1…

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Multiple IP Addresses in fail2ban
I just got a barrage of pop3-login attacks on one of my servers. I was surprised that fail2ban wasn't stopping them, then I realized that the service is listening on multiple IP addresses, and the attacker was spraying over all of them. Fail2ban…

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How can I use aptitude to remove old versions of a package?
I want to remove the 0.9.8o versions. Does anyone know how without breaking and destroy it's dependents.

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Do I need statd RPC ? Before disabling it, is there a way to check if it is a dependency?
I read the man page, and I think I don't need this. However, I am unsure and wanted to ask more information about it before disabling it. What is it? Before I disable this, is there a way to check to see if there is a dependency?

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Apache gets stuck while "reading request" and PID takes 100% CPU
Recently, somewhat coinciding with some server upgrades (although there were a variety of things that changed), Apache started ending up with some of its processes stuck in the "reading request" state. Each PID that gets in this state takes up 100%…

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Debian 6 or CentOS 6 - which one is easiest for latest versions of Ruby and Postgres?
I am getting a new server as I've messed up my current box, while trying to install Postgres 9 (on my CentOS 5.8 box). To cut a long story short, I removed postgres but yum decided to remove virtualmin-base as well, which broke my virtualmin install…

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Debian server loses /var mounting point
We have a server running Debian squeeze and randomly (once a month, more or less) the /var partition loses it's mounting point, so /var becomes a folder on / partition and main services start to fail.
Remounting the partition restores the mount…

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Installed Jenkins on a Debian Server and unable to connect on any port
I installed Jenkins on a Debian server and everything seems to have worked fine.
It says Jenkins is running and I am able to start and stop it using (/etc/init.d/jenkins start).
However I am unable to pull it up on a browser using any port for…

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Error updating Percona Server
I'm getting errors doing a regular aptitude safe-upgrade of percona-server-server-5.5, I'm already running a version of percona server 5.5
Setting up libmysqlclient18 (5.5.20-rel24.1-217.squeeze) ...
Setting up percona-server-common-5.5…

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