How do I successfully change the hostname on Debian 4? I tried in /etc/hosts but it seems that there is another place where this is stored.
How do I open port 22 for ssh from outside computers on Debian linux??
Thank you much in advance
Keith Henriques
I have a samba share configured in smb.conf as such...
security = user
[Downloads]
path = /home/dwnloads/files
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
And I can brow...
I'm currently configuring a Samba server on a Debian box and everything is going fine at the moment, except for this small issue.
Basically I need my users to have their primary unix group ...
Hi Experts,
I have to configure my squid to allowed and disallow user by mac address. Three files are involved "mac_full_access.acl", "mac_limited_access.acl" to where all mac addresses li...
Hello everybody,
i don't know what's happened,but when i've rebooted debian 4.0,i've seen the following error message :
<0> kernel panic -not syncing : attempted to kill the idle task.
...
httpd.conf apears blank in apache2?
Hi all, i have a Linux Server running Debian etch with apache2. I have the web server running fine but when i just tried to edit the httpd.conf (nano /et...
Argh! How do i fix this?
===cut from terminal===
> apt-get install php5-curl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This ...
Experts,
How to extract only the IP address from these lines?
Connection from [189.58.21.163] refused
Connection from [200.127.199.147] refused
Thanks in advance... :)
Hi all,
I'm interested in throttling outgoing messages to specific domains. I
have looked into postfix-policyd before, which included sender
throttling ( one sender -> all domains throttl...
I have a new Dell R300 quad core xeon rack server that needs to run several VMs on it. I was trying to install the amd64 debian image on it today but ran into problems because the network car...
I'm new to Perl and CPAN and I'm attempting to install a little package called Perlbal. This is what CPAN does (in debian etch) at the end the dependency queue, when it tries to start the impo...
Hi,
I want to install Debian or Ubuntu on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 430 CDT laptop but I'd prefer Debian. However, there are a few things you need to know first of all. Firstly, the laptop i...
Hi,
I'm running Debian Etch from a Compact Flash card, on a Soekris 5501. Now this box will be installed on a remote site, with no UPS protection, and no on site support. To minimise the c...
When doing
apt-get install libapache-mod-ssl
I get the following error message:
Package libapache-mod-ssl is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that ...
Hi all,
I've got squid runing on my debian box as a transparent proxy. I've blocked certain sites. How ever I want to unblock these sites at lunchtime. Below is my setup:
acl blocked_sit...
Hey all,
I'm not really a linux guru, so I've come to ask for your help. I have a system that does passive network monitoring, that we no longer have support on, but we are sitll using (the...
Hi,
I am having trouble getting my linux box to shutdown based on ACPI. I have been trying to troubleshoot it and below is what I have so far...
doing "cat /proc/acpi/event" doesn't sho...
I am administering a Windows network and am trying to use Linux servers as File/Print/DNS/DHCP servers in some of our remote locations. I have the File/Print/DNS part down but can not get Win...
I just installed Debian OS and am tryin to configure it as a proxy server. How do I go about editing squid.conf.
This is a fresh installation. I have not edited /etc/hosts etc.
Hi! I'm re-installing my (Debian Etch) OS remotely via SSH using debootstrap. I've just come to the point where I am about to install the kernel. The following (attached) packages are availabl...
I am trying to upgrade the kernel into my linux server sarge. I current have the kernel version 2.4.18 and I would like to upgrade to 2.6.25. It is because I want to add an external usb hard d...
I have a Debian System with 2 NIC's. I would like to implement this box in between the network switch and the router acting as a packet sniffing passthrough point. My idea is to change absol...
I would like to know if its possible how to 'mirror' a folder across two drives.
Ideally I would like to have somehting 'watch' a directory. and everytime there is a change, its written to ...
