Questions tagged [debian-jessie]
Debian 8.0 ("Jessie") was initially released on April 26th, 2015. Long term support is available until June 30th, 2020.
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Docker: failed to add the pair interfaces (operation not supported)
After installing Docker, I am getting an error when I try to run the Hello World example:
Error response from daemon: Cannot start container ...
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Cannot install openjdk-8-jre-headless on Debian Jessie
This Friday I saw that I had 2 held back packages for some reason when I ran apt-get upgrade, so naturally I did what any inexperienced sysadmin would do and uninstalled the packages in the hopes that ...
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Supervisor sock file missing
I installed Supervisor (v3.1.2) to manage ElastAlert but when I run supervisorctl it sometimes throws this error:
unix:///var/run/supervisor.sock no such file
and other times it throws this error:
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How to back up a running Linode server?
We want to take a backup of everything on our Debian server, which is running remotely on the other side of the world (hosted by Linode), without shutting it down.
This system is running shell, email,...
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Debian 8 : No LSB modules are available
When I run lsb_release on Debian 8, following error is appeared:
No LSB modules are available.
Is there any missing file causes this problem?
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systemd's journalctl: how to filter by message?
journalctl looks like a great tool for looking through logs, but I'm stuck on what feels like a simple ask: I want to see all cron messages that contain the phrase update-ipsets.
Of course I can do ...
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Restarting networking on Debian Jessie
I would like to know which is the right method to restart networking service in Debian Jessie.
I know that I can use:
service networking restart
or
/etc/init.d/networking restart
that anyway gave ...
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Debian jessie nginx with openssl 1.0.2 to use ALPN rather than NPN
I am running debian jessie on my server and recently upgraded to new nginx web server with http/2 support (nginx 1.10). As today, it works great and webserver is delivering content with http2 protocol....
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PostgreSQL exits after being started
My PostgreSQL 9.5 server on Debian 8 (Jessie) keeps exiting directly after being started via service postgresql start:
# service postgresql status
● postgresql.service - PostgreSQL RDBMS
Loaded: ...
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LFTP: certificate common name doesn't match requested host name
Using lftp to upload files to a remote server from two computers on my network. Using the exact same code this works fine on one and doesn't work on the other.
Transcripts of a problem session and a ...
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OpenDKIM not signing mail
So I'm having trouble with getting OpenDKIM to sign my messages, but I'm hitting a wall as to what might causing it:
On Debian Jessie, with Postfix and OpenDKIM.
My /etc/opendkim.conf:
Syslog ...
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delete rsnapshot directories
Looking to move from rsnapshot backups to something like backupninja. I'm having trouble finding a definitive answer on how to delete the rsnapshot backups.
From what I understand many of the files ...
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How to add new persistent disk without rebooting the server?
I've got a running instance on GCP and would like to add another persistent disk into it. But it will not show up.
It's an n1-standard-1 instance with a 10 GB storage (named s03). I created another ...
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Debian Jessie samba start on boot
I'm having issues starting samba on boot on Debian Jessie. I do not understand how to do it as it seems that the samba script wrapper is deliberately made not to work.
I tried to issue a update-rc.d ...
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Is there a way to keep ClamAV updated on Debian 8?
Since upgrading to Debian 8 my syslog is full of
...freshclam[17851]: WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
...freshclam[17851]: WARNING: Local version: 0.98.7 Recommended version: 0.99
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configure multiple sshd instances on debian 8 (jessie) systemd
I would like to run two sshd daemons on debian 8 (using openssh), one for administration and one for sftp.
This used to be quite easy in debian 7 but with systemd it is more difficult.
So far I ...
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Why is Debian Jessie systemd reloading my Apache server every morning?
After upgrading a web server from Debian Wheezy to Debian Jessie, the following log entries appear in the system log every morning. The times vary somewhat, but it seems to always happen at ...
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Debian jessie upgrade OpenSSH server to latest
I have a Debian 8 server for a customer that is failing a PCI scan, presumably running:
nmap -p 22 -sV customer.edu
which returns
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 6.7p1 Debian 5+deb8u7
This should be ...
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What does auditd log by default (i.e. when no rules are defined?)
I installed auditd and audispd-plugins on my Debian Jessie machine and didn't touch any configuration. I see events being written to /var/log/audit/audit.log, for example:
type=LOGIN msg=audit(...
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/var/run directory creation even though service is disabled
Usually, directories to store pid's or similar are created by the startup scripts of the services. (See this question)
However, I just noticed that these directories are still re-created after a ...
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Debian 8: can't get ClamAV to listen on TCP 3310
I am trying to get Clamav-daemon running on a Debian 8 system so that it will listen on TCP port 3310. I have done the following:
aptitude install clamav-daemon
Then modified /etc/clamav/clamd.conf ...
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IPTables: How to log and set a specific log file
Is it possible log all dropped connections by IPTables and set a iptables.log file for logging in /var/log/?
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Why do I get status code 2 and what does It mean?
Here is my result of service nginx status command.
(Debian 8 64bit)
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2015-09-18 12:20:23 CEST; 2h 29min ...
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Is there a way to flush docker's embedded dns cache?
I'm working in an environment where sometimes the DNS server flakes out and tells you it can't resolve a host (eg. lookup of "github.com" fails). It's transient, and usually recovers fairly quickly. ...
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postfix/smtp: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp – but /var/spool/postfix/etc/services exists
I am running a Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 box with Postfix 2.11.3-1 as MTA. All of a sudden, that is, with no change to the MTA setup, mails stopped being delivered, and the following error started showing ...
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How to check if Postfix was compiled with support for Dovecot SASL?
The Dovecot instructions state:
Since version 2.3, Postfix supports SMTP AUTH through Dovecot SASL as
introduced in the Dovecot 1.0 series. If using Postfix obtained from a
binary (such as a ....
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How to get rid of "defer (-52): Retry time not yet reached" exim4 logs?
I have such a logs in mainlog of exim4. All I do with exim4 is learn only so all mails are fake. Now I try to manage theese logs that appear frequently:
2016-12-20 14:28:01 1cJ2UW-0006Yq-3m == root@...
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How to disable core dumps on Debian 8
I pretend I've already tried everything out there, but my Debian 8 keeps creating core dumps when something crashes. It's happening about once or twice in a month. It's a production server for a few ...
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Debian 8 resolv.conf overwritten by IPv6 autoconfiguration/DHCP when DHCP disabled
I have recently installed Debian 8 on a network with IPv6 DHCP Enabled. /etc/resolv.conf is being overwritten by the IPv6 DHCP entires continually despite the fact that all IPv6 DHCP is disabled, ...
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ZFS - Zpool disk replace results in restarting resilver process that never ends
I replaced a broken drive with a type already used in my pool for some time. The problem I face is that the resilver process seems to be stuck in a restart-loop. Whenever I check the zpool status I ...
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Install package from oldstable (wheezy) to stable (jessie)
I want to install the package which is missing in jessie from wheezy. It is like backport the other way. I need gcc-4.7, but jessie provides only gcc-4.9. Unstable provides gcc-4.7 only for arm ...
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Replace characters in a sieve variable
When I register on websites I use their domain in my email, for example [email protected]. I'd like to file each domain into a separate IMAP folder using sieve and I've created the script ...
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Varnish 503 Backend Fetch Failed when varnish 4.1 is started as service on Debian 8
I am new to varnish. Whenever I am trying to acess our backend via varnish I am getting the below error:-
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>503 Backend fetch failed&...
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Unbound refuses requests from localhost even though `access-control: 127.0.0.1 allow_snoop`
This is my unbound.conf
server:
interface: 0.0.0.0
access-control: 10.0.0.0/8 allow_snoop
access-control: 127.0.0.1 allow_snoop
access-control: 192.168.0.0/16 allow_snoop
...
Reading the ...
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Postgresql 9.4 clusters not auto starting on Debian
I have Debian 8.2 x64 and Postgresql 9.4 (from repo). I've recreated default cluster in different location like this:
# service postgresql stop
# pg_dropcluster 9.4 main
# pg_createcluster -d /srv/...
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Trouble creating PID file in systemd service script [duplicate]
I'm trying to get RipRight installed on Debian, for which there doesn't appear to be any pre-built package. I'm having difficulty getting a systemd script working to start/stop RipRight running as a ...
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Getting HTTP/2 Working on Apache 2.4.29 on Debian 8
I am trying to update my apache2 (Apache/2.4.29 (Debian 8)) server to support http2
but after enabling http2
with following code, it does not work because of mpm_prefork does not support http2
<...
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dnsmasq returns (false) "bogus" result for DNSSEC validation
I'm running a local Debian 8.1 installation with a DNSSEC-validating DNS-Resolver called dnsmasq (version 2.72-3+deb8u1).
I set it up to return a SERVFAIL if it isn't able to validate a DNSSEC-...
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/home /opt /tmp /usr /var on a single partition of another hard drive Debian 8 [closed]
I have a production server for which I would like to move the /home, /opt, /tmp, /user, /var to the ~300GB partition specially created for this purpose.
No straightforward explanation found on how to ...
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Permission denied in SSH to Debian 8.5 using root user although PermitRootLogin is yes
I'm trying to SSH to my Debian 8.5 using root user. The password is correct because I can login to Debian using local console. PermitRootLogin is equal to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and server is ...
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Debian 8 Jessie not displaying startup services and messages
Recently I setup a new box with Debian 8 Jessie (I used Debian 6 and 7 on other boxes). I was disappointed to see the startup messages only on 2 or 3 text lines. No more list of startup services ...
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Disk I/O and load average peaks once every hour
We have updated our server from Debian Wheezy to Jessie and from php5.6 to php7.0, but now we have a disk I/O and load average peak exactly every hour. The exact time depends on the system start time.
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Can not connect to the Debian 8 servers with CuteFTP
Just installed a new server with Debian8 (jessie) system.
Many years use CuteFTP to upload/synchronize files on home computer and server using SFTP connection. Unfortunately, CuteFTP can not connect ...
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CGroups memory limit not working
I am trying to limit memory usage for a LXC container using CGroups, but I can't limit the memory.
# lxc-cgroup -n maxdaniel981 memory.limit_in_bytes 134217728
lxc_container: failed to assign '...
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service apache2 restart leads to "Error: No space left on device"
If I do
me@server:/home/me# service apache2 restart
on my LXC-VPS (node-server is not under heavy load) I'm getting
Error: No space left on device
df -h tells me that there is plenty enough ...
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SSL-connection refused after install
I have installed apache2 and OpenSSL
I installed OpenSSL this way:
sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl
sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/apache2/ssl/...
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Service "netfilter-persistent" fails to start
When starting "netfilter-persistent", it fails as below:
May 10 19:41:53 debian systemd[1]: Starting netfilter persistent configuration...
-- Subject: Unit netfilter-persistent.service has begun with ...
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Wrong release number for Debian "7" instead of 8 information
I upgraded to Jessie last recently and when doing a lsb_release -a it reports that the release is 7 (instead of 8) and codename Jessie.
I did an update && upgrade && dist-upgrade when ...
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hpn-ssh on Debian 8 (Jessie)
I'm refering this this project: https://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh
I'm running Debian 8, with OpenSSH_6.7p1 Debian-5+deb8u1, OpenSSL 1.0.1k 8 Jan 2015 and hpn-ssh doesn't have a patch for this ...
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Linux, apache2, modsecurity blocks Google reCAPTCHA variables
I have a Debian Jessie box, Apache 2.4 and default mod_security enabled with base rules activated.
When I try to implement a Google reCAPTCHA solution in a PHP code, modsecurity blocks page with ...
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