Questions tagged [debian-squeeze]

Debian is a popular Linux distribution. Squeeze is also known as version 6.0.

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Screen - No more PTYs - Cannot start screen's on Debian VPS

I've gotten a newly imaged Debian 6 32 bit VPS. While configuring I tried to test screen as a number of my scripts run using it. Root has no problem running screen. But of course this is unacceptable. The message I received is "No more PTY's. Sorry…
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Disabling a startup service

I am using insserv -r nfs-common to disable RPC. How do I know if it worked? Is there a way to list the services starting up? Is it supposed to disappear from /etc/init.d (because it still there)?
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over ssh -X : DISPLAY is not set

I try connect over ssh with ssh -X user@host but I get $ xterm xterm Xt error: Can't open display: xterm: DISPLAY is not set $ echo $DISPLAY # ... nothing In my sshd_config I have X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 EDIT In…
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Upgrading Lenny to Squeeze over ssh

I am running an ISPConfig3 server with Lenny which I want to upgrade the Squeeze, however... I am not at the terminal and the server is in my server-hall. Can I upgrade Lenny to Squeeze over SSH? I checked the update list and both openssh-client &…
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VPS with Debian Squeeze cannot forwward email - Name service error for name=gmail.com type=MX: Host not found, try again

I have postfix set-up on my Debian VPS, I can: send emails receive emails on my server But forwarding emails from my server to gmail does not work! I configured google's DNS through /etc/resolv.conf I can ping google.com and with dig I also find…
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Why are some web clients requesting a page named "cache"?

We see errors like this in the apache error log: [Thu May 17 14:32:35 2012] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] File does not exist: /home/www-data/mywebsite.com/r/cache, referer: http://www.mywebsite.com/r/1010 It is strange because: There is no…
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Randomly getting Postfix SSL_accept error / Dovecot TLS handshaking Disconnected

I have this really weird problem since a couple of days/weeks: more and more people are reporting problems connecting to the mail servers (Dovecot IMAP and POP3 as well as Postfix SMTP) in SSL mode. They are running on two separate Debian 6.ß…
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Openldap/Sasl/GSSAPI on Debian: Key table entry not found

The goal: to make an OpenLDAP server to authenticate using Kerberos V via GSSAPI Setup: several virtual machines running on freshly installed/updated Debian Squeeze A master KDC server kdc.example.com A LDAP server, running…
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How to set locale in Debian 6.0.3?

How to set locale in Debian 6.0.3? $…
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debian squeeze - startup order of services

for some reason i need to start apache2 only after mysql is running on one of the servers. i've tried: renaming scripts in /etc/rc2.d to give S0Xmysql lower number than S0Yapache2 - but it did not help. editing /etc/init.d/apache2 and adding…
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Loopback Device Not Configured On Boot

My knowledge of network interfaces on linux is limited at best, so I was hoping someone could help me figure out the best solution to a problem I have inadvertently caused. After boot, the loopback device on my workstation doesn't appear to exist.…
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Complete solution to upgrade PostgreSQL on debian production server

I'm using Debian 6 (Squeeze) in production for a couple of websites. I decided to use postgresql backports so that I could use PostgreSQL 9.0 features. I thought that it would remain 9.0 and receive updates to that major version. Unfortunetly…
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Why does TERM=xterm have to be set for my script to work correctly when remotely executed?

I'm attempting to automate the installation of a Debian server (debian 6.0 squeeze 64bit). Part of the installation requires the Sun JRE package to be installed. This package has a licence agreement, which has to be accepted. I have a script which…
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Using PostgreSQL 9.0 and PostGIS 1.5 on Debian Squeeze

I have installed PostgreSQL 9.0 (postgresql) and PostGIS 1.5 (postgis) from Debian Backports on my freshly installed Squeeze (stable). However, when trying to create a PostGIS-enabled database, I noticed that I’m missing the “enabler script”…
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KVM guests are very slow after host upgrade to Debian Squeeze

Yesterday I upgraded a Debian Lenny server to Squeeze. This server hosts two KVM guests. One has run Debian Squeeze itself all along, the other was originally Debian Lenny, upgraded to Squeeze the day before. Everything appears to be working fine,…
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