Questions tagged [debian-lenny]

Debian-Lenny is the codename for Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0.

Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB. As of Jan 3, 2012, the current stable Debian version is 6, or "Squeeze". Version 7, "Wheezy" is in active development.

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Disable a service from starting at all runlevels?

I have a service foo which currently starts at runlevel 3 and above. How can I stop it from doing so, without using update-rc.d foo stop 3 ., which (if I understand it correctly) would turn off the service at each runlevel change. (ie., if I was at…
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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…
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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…
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Is there a "standard" way to make daemon in Debian?

I need to create a daemon from the application in Debian. Is there any standard tool for this in Debian like "upstart" in Ubuntu? I need only start-stop commands, to start a program as a daemon with some options and a pid file and kill it with pid…
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SSL certificate: unable to get local issuer certificate

I'm running Debian (Lenny). When I run this: curl --ssl https://www.google.com I get this error: curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html curl performs SSL…
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Best sysctl.conf configuration for high load - extremely busy content streaming server

What is the best sysctl.conf configuration for a high load, extremely busy content streaming server ? The server fetches the content from remote servers like amazon, s3, etc. then uses php to dynamically stream the content to user without saving it…
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How do I delete a svn repository?

So, I created a repository like so: svnadmin create /path/to/repository What's the equivalent for deleting? I couldn't find it.
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Why does the Debian Lenny git package not install git?

If I run the following command on Debian Lenny: apt-get install git ... I'm unable to use git: # git --version bash: git: command not found
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How to configure bind9 to accept connections from other machines

I'm sure this has been asked in some form before but I'm completely new to DNS and inexperienced with Linux, so bear with me :) I have a VPS from OVH hosting that I've managed to configure to suit my needs fairly well but I can't seem to get the DNS…
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Server Alias With wildcard subdomain

I am using WordPress network subdomain setup. I had to put *.mydomain.com as a server alias but now I also have a site subdomain.mydomain.com that leads to another directory. Is there a way of doing this since when I type subdomain.mydomain.com it…
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mysql error 1062 'duplicate entry' when restoring backup

Sorry, I seen similar threads but I still couldn't find it addressing my issue plus, I needed some more info on this. Requirement: To create an exact replica 'db4' of an existing DB 'db3'. Procedure followed: mysqldump -uuser -ppass db3 > db3.sql…
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How do I install a new schema for OpenLDAP on Debian 5 with dynamic config=cn backend?

I'm importing an OpenLDAP database from another server and while importing, I got some errors with some users, the problem is that the mozillaAbPersonAlpha is not a valid objectClass. #!ERROR [LDAP Error Code 21 - objectClass: value #3 invalid per…
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Too many sleeping processes?

I'm running Debian Lenny (x86_64) on a cloud VPS (Xen) and top command tells me there are 210 processes running and 209 are sleeping: top - 14:49:29 up 15:18, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.05 Tasks: 210 total, 1 running, 209 sleeping, 0…
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Nginx + PHP 5.3.3 (with php-fpm) - memory usage?

I recently bought Xen VPS (linode.com) with Debian 5.0 Lenny (i386), 512MB RAM. At the moment I have only three small websites (built with Drupal) with about 600 users per day in total running on this server. As a web server I use nginx 0.7.67 (PHP…
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How to patch CVE-2015-0235 (GHOST) on Debian Lenny and Squeeze?

There is a right way to patch GHOST on Debian Lenny and Squeeze? According to this link there are no plans to patch Lenny https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0235 Thanks!
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