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Debian is a popular and influential GNU/Linux distribution. Questions here should generally be about Debian Server.

Debian GNU/Linux its one of the oldest and more popular Linux distributions. The Debian project was started in 1993 by Ian Murdock (the name Debian is a junction of Debra + Ian, his girlfriend at the time). Debian strongest points are the portability, stability and commitment to the free software ideal.

The current Debian version (6.0, code named Squeeze) has more than 29.000 software packages available on nine platforms (including SPARC, ARM, PowerPC), and 2 platforms supporting the FreeBSD kernel (Debian GNU/kfreebsd on i386 and amd64). The Debian APT package management provides dependency management and strong update and upgrade capabilities.

Debian maintains normally 3 versions of its repositories: stable (the current release), testing (the next release), unstable (new packages and versions). After debian makes a new release, the previous stable release is maintained for one year, and is re-labed oldstable. Squeeze also included the backports repository where some software from the testing will be made available to the stable release, and updates (previously named volatile) to deal with software that evolves too fast. Debian also makes point releases with aggregated updates and updated tools, those keep the release name but update the version like Debian 6.1 for example.

Debian has a Social Contract with its users and will only distribute on its main distribution software that is compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.Those two devices were created on the early days of the distribution and also are the basis for Open Source Initiative's Open Source Definition.

The Debian project organization counts with the Debian Project Leader, the Debian Project Secretary and the Debian Developers. The developers are responsible for the releases, packaging software, managing the FTPs, security and so on. Each Project Leader is elected for a period of one year and any Developer can be a candidate.

Ubuntu Linux uses Debian as its base, as well as other well known distributions like Maemo, Mint, Knoppix and several others. The Wikipedia article has also more details about the distribution, as well as Debian's official site.

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Is there a debian lenny patch to allow apt-get to work with sftp?

I would like to write things like this in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb sftp://someuser@some.server.org/path other stuff When I try this, apt-get complains that there is no sftp method for apt: # apt-get update E: The method driver…
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Dell PowerEdge R7525 + Nvidia A16

We have a PowerEdge R7525 server with nvidia A16 graphics card on debian 11. But we have about 50% lower gpu performance than other servers. I suspect it's the missing "Above 4G decoding" option in the BIOS. According to nvidia this server should…
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Apache2 - Run Apache as the user's account

I just got my very own Linux (Debian Stable) server, and installed Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL. It's supposed to be used for hosting of my own and others websites. As it is now, Apache is running as its own user. That means that I need to "chown" all…
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Jenkins refuses to start - unknown argument --ajp13Port=-1

My jenkins installation on Debian was upgraded (using apt) - and now jenkins refuses to start. I can see the following in the log: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unrecognized option: --ajp13Port=-1 My jenkins…
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LinuxPTP slave not using master and sync timeout tx announce timeout

And: I'm using G8316 as swtich with ptp transparent enable and Mellanox 354 adapter. Ports using LACP bonding and trunk. First: Server A ptp4l -m -l 7 -i xxxx -i xxxx -S I can capture ServerA boardcast package in ServerB, And ptp counter show…
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Sending remaining network traffic with RSYSLOG to specific file

I'm trying to concentrate logs from multiple equipments from multiple clients on my RSYSLOG server. My server runs on Debian 11 with RSYSLOG v8.2102 The configuration is quite simple at the moment: I've simply allowed UDP and TCP connections in…
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Cannot delete a folder with undefined number (many) of files in it

I have a folder with many files inside, i can't known number of files because I can't do ls or other listing command. These files are temporary so I tried rm -rf my-folder but it takes too many time, and I get disconnected from the server. I…
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`dpkg -l` to only show installed packages?

On Debian/Ubuntu, dpkg can show me packages, include the version and what's installed (e.g. dpkg -l postgresql\*). But that shows all packages that it knows about, whether installed or not. Is it possible to make dpkg only show me the installed…
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How to permanently remove /dev/zram0 as swap in Armbian

My Armbian Bullseye system insists on setting up swap space on /dev/zram0. I don't want it to, as I have created a swap partition that I would prefer to use. But I can't find how to permanently remove the swap space /dev/zram0. It can be removed…
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How can I add `snd-aloop` kernel module on public Debian 10(buster) image provided by GCP?

Background I am trying to enable snd-aloop module on a Compute Engine instance running public Debian 10 (buster) image provided by GCP. Output of uname -a: Linux *** 4.19.0-18-cloud-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.208-1 (2021-09-29) x86_64…
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How can I find who is preventing disks spin down

The problem After upgrading NAS system from Buster to Bullseye disks cannot spin down. My NAS setup 5x mechanical disk WD RED, no RAID, ext4 without journaling Debian Bullseye, kernel 5.10 system is loading from sixth SSD disk (not to wake up…
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Load average greater than number of CPUs

Why load average is greater than number of cores CPUs? But, htop command is not showing which process are using so much CPU load average.
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Unwanted DHCP setting on server

I'm configuring a new Debian 11 server running on a private network. It is determinedly taking a DHCP address in addition to the static IP I am manually configuring. I don't understand where it gets the DHCP address and how I can turn that…
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SSH Timeouts with ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax

What I want to accomplish is to simply terminate inactive SSH sessions. Just because the user is logged in does not mean that the user is doing something. I need the SSH daemon to logout users after X seconds of inactivity. Debian Bullseye as well…
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How to encrypt user password in Freeradius

I recently set up a freeradius server and would like to change the user password that is presently in cleartext to encrypted in the /etc/freeradius/3.0/users file. This is what it looks like on the server. When I authenticate on the server, I can…
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