Browsing articles tagged with "debianlenny - Admins Goodies"
Oct 11, 2012
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Zimbra server status showing red in control panel

I have been having a weird problem with Zimbra(7.1.4_GA_2555.DEBIAN5) lately: On the (web)control panel the status keep changing to red every few days. When this is happens the output of zmcontrol status still shows running: antispam Running antivirus Running imapproxy Running ldap Running logger Running mailbox Running memcached Running mta Running snmp Running spell Running stats Running zmconfigd Running Every thing runs fine except automated mail forwarding from one account to another(which is critical for [...]

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Jun 17, 2012
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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 & openssh-server are being kept back… however, I feel unsure to if I can and should proceed. This is what apt-get shows me when running apt-get upgrade: The following packages [...]

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Mar 29, 2012
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apt-get update getting 404 on debian lenny

Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list ###### Debian Main Repos deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free###### Debian Update Repos deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny-proposed-updates main contrib non-free When I do: # apt-get update I’m getting some good lines, then: Err http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80] Err http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80] Err http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny-proposed-updates/main Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80] Err http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny-proposed-updates/contrib Packages [...]

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Mar 28, 2012
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Debian 5.0 (lenny) apt sources fail?

For the past few days, I couldn’t update our apt-sources on Debian 5.0 (lenny). I get the following errors. W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/contrib/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/contrib/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/non-free/source/Sources 404 [...]

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Mar 26, 2012
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Debian lenny apt sources fail?

since a few days i can’t update our apt-sources on debian lenny. i get the following errors: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/contrib/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/contrib/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.12 80]W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/non-free/source/Sources 404 Not Found [...]

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Feb 26, 2012
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Debian 5 Lenny how to upgrade Python to 2.7 version to run Django app?

I’m configuring Debian 5 to run my Django app. The required application is required incompatible with Python 2.5 packages. I installed Python 2.7 and created the symlink python -> /usr/bin/python2.7/bin/python. After I installed mod_wsgi ./configure –with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7/bin/python and added to httpd.conf WSGIPythonHome /usr/bin/python2.7/bin/python. Now I have a couple of problems. At first – after I manually installed setuptools and pip, at calling pip install -r requirements.txt of I have got an error: raceback (most recent call [...]

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Dec 27, 2011
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how do I install node.js on linode debian lenny?

I want to use nodejs on a linode machine that has debian lenny installed. I want to have the latest version of nodejs and npm as well. apt-get does not seem to know nodejs or possibly I don’t know how to use it. in here: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.6/ i see many files but I don’t know which of them I should use for the install (nor how). I am guessing that I need node-v0.6.6.pkg but again, this [...]

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Dec 12, 2011
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Install meteor server in debian (lenny)

I wonder how can I install this in a lenny machine. Well, this site has instructions on how to do this, but in step 3 I can’t do cd /usr/local/meteor because this folder doesn’t exist! How I can connect meteor server with apache2 and php? **I don’t know what version of Perl I have installed but when I type perl into the bash, doesn’t output command doesn’t exist.. Any help, would be useful. I want [...]

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Oct 16, 2011
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Warnings about partition tables on /dev/md? during preseed installation. (Debian Lenny)

I’m setting up an environment to install many Lenny machines at once and I need to avoid any dialog with the process, corner cases aside. One thing that consistently troubles me is that after my preseeded disk recipe creates Linux RAID-1 devices, the installer warns me about how the kernel could not re-read the partition table on each MD device. When I do a manual installation and try to use debconf-get-selections to preseed another installation, [...]

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Oct 6, 2011
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Using daemontools under Debian

I need to monitor my postfix, dovecot and sasl process and start them if something go wrong. I read about daemontools and I want it to monitor mail services. Can I find somewhere step by step guide to setup daemontools on Debian? I’ve already installed daemontools and daemontools-run packages. daemontools is not really a meant to be used as a monitoring system for existing services. It is more of a framework for creating daemonized services [...]

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