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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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See all logged in users on Debian server

Possible Duplicate: How to know what user belongs to what ip on debian Is there a way to see a list of all current logged in user on a Debian server? Sometimes it is very useful to do so, e.g. before updating certain plugins etc. Any software or…
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My server doesn't seem to be caching anything well

I have a VPS from tocici (via BuildYourVPS). It's got 4 GB of RAM (2 GB of it "burst" RAM). This server has some severe performance issues, however. First, a quick explanation of what this server runs: Debian 5 Apache (generally up to date) fcgi…
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OSSEC: Unblock an IP and increase tresshold

I just set up OSSEC, but I accidentally shut myself out already from my home ip. So does OSSEC have a function to unblock an IP after it is blocked or do I need to do this manually in iptables ? Also does OSSEC provide a way to temporary ban IP's ?…
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Is there a tool available to pull down a debian package and all of the packages it depends on?

I manage a few apps that depend on specific versions of some packages. To make sure that I always have the correct versions, I created my own Apt repository. Now, I'm concerned that some of the packages I depend on will break because the packages…
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Why does this puppet node definition not run on the hostname it matches?

I'm running puppet 2.7.9 on a Debian Squeeze system. The box I'm targeting is named 'puppet' # hostname puppet # facter | grep hostname hostname => puppet # cat /etc/hosts | head -n2 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 puppet.example.com puppet My…
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best way to find vulnerabilities on a server hosting a large number of sites?

I've inherited a web server that's been compromised. Trying to figure out why apache was hanging and the causes of high server load, I found several copies of perlbot 4.5 in /tmp. I'm now trying to figure out how they got in the machine so I can…
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Apache SVN: Access to repository forbidden via client, HTTP is okay?

SVN on my webserver seems to have broken after I made some changes. It's configured to be part of one HTTPS virtual host, not universally accessible. My SVN clients give the error 'access to (repo) forbidden,' but if I go through the web interface…
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What log contains server crashes?

I'm having some problem with my Debian 2.6.38-3 server which **crashes* once every 3 month, but I can't figure out why. According to Pingdom the site died around 4 AM, but none of the logs I've looked at contains any info about any kind of…
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reinstalling full system on debian?

EXT2 boot drive got corrupted on a small debian box I'm running, nothing critical. An fsck took care of the fs level damage. The machine boots now, but there's apparently lots of little lib files and other stuff that got messed up when the drive…
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Sign an OpenSSL .CSR with Microsoft Certificate Authority

I'm in the process of building a Debian FreeRadius server that does 802.1x authentication for domain members. I would like to sign my radius server's SSL certificate (used for EAP-TLS) and leverage the domain's existing PKI. The radius server is…
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remove squid clearly

I'm hardly trying to remove squid completly, to reinstall it clearly. (Debian 6). So i used as root: apt-get remove --purge squid apt-get remove --purge squid3 but find / -name…
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Two server with same data in case one goes down

I actually own two linux web servers and I was wondering how I could make them work together in case one goes down. From what I found, cluster seems to be the closest, because it would replicate the data (for mysql as example) from srv1 to srv2, and…
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Linux - Bare Metal Restore from a Tar file

I make a backup of my Debian webserver on a daily basis. A full backup on Sunday, and differentials each other day of the week. The backup is made with Tar. I backup the whole system into the Tar file. If the HDD on my webserver dies, I got all my…
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pptpd on Debian doesn't write any logs

I'm trying to set up PPTP server with Debian Squeeze. The problem is nothing is being written in the logs (neither in messages nor in debug nor in daemon.log) though debug and dump options are set. The only line I get after pptpd restart is: # tail…
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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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