Category: Debian

Debian 10 Disable Tracker

This works. There are a lot of examples out there that don’t work. I found that an additional edit (bottom) made all the difference. These are the typical changes you’ll find online. https://gist.github.com/vancluever/d34b41eb77e6d077887c But here is the change that made all the difference for me. Edit all the tracker files and change X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled to False. re. sudo vi /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false

nftables Beginner Examples

The first things you need to do and the commands that you need. Save and Translate your iptables rule into nftables rules when migrating from iptables to nftables are: Save iptables rules to text file iptables-save -c > iptables-saved-backup.txt Translate iptables rules to nftables text file iptables-restore-translate -f iptables-saved-backup.txt > ruleset.nft Active nftables rules nft -f ruleset.nft NOTE You should...

Systemd ssh Reverse Tunnel on Debian 9 Stretch

I have used rc.local for years to setup an ssh reverse tunnel on boot under Debian up until Stretch. Now like many others I imagine, I’ve had to convert to systemd. I read everything I could about the choice for deprecating rc.local for systemd. I can say that systemd may be powerful, but systemd’s complexity entails a huge learning-curve for...

Setup LAMP Server Debian 9 Apache 2.4 MarianDB Php 7

Prerequisite is a fresh remote server with Debian 9 Stretch installed and booted From remote terminal Block all traffic iptable -F iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP Create a User sudo useradd -d /home/username -m username Set the User’s Password sudo passwd username Add the User to the Admin Group sudo adduser username adm...

Mariadb Disable Auto Start on Desktop

How to prevent MariaDB from automatically starting up on a desktop is not the same as prior Mysql versions. Instead of using the remove from rc method, you use systemd (systemctl). But there is nothing in the documentation about that. sudo systemctl disable mysqld Found here: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/109435/how-to-avoid-start-mysql-services-at-system-boot/ For some reason the MariaDB documentation thinks its a good idea to have...

Fail2ban ERROR /bin/sh iptables No such file or directory

In Fail2ban version 0.9 running on Debian 9 server fail2ban.action [17325]: ERROR -n -L INPUT | grep -q ‘f2b- [ \t]’ — stderr: b’/bin/sh: iptables: No such file or directory\n’ [edit] /etc/fail2ban/action.d/iptables-common.conf [change] iptables = iptables [to] /sbin/iptables = iptables

Debian 9 Stretch Apache 2.4 MariaDB 10.1.26 PHP 7.0

Installation notes for Debian 9 Apache 2.4 MariaDB 10.1.26 PHP 7.0 differ somewhat from prior LAMP installations. Also included here are notes on PSAD and Fail2ban. PSAD requires netstat which is no longer included in Debian 9 apt-get install net-tools apt-get install apache2 apt-get install software-properties-common apt-get install mariadb-server sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation sudo mysql -v

SSH Reverse Tunnel Not Working Mystery

When using autossh to create a reverse tunnel, sometimes, mysteriously (for the moment), on the remote server, the connect is refused, returning this message in syslog/messages autossh[7451]: 127.0.0.1:{port}: Connection refused The problem is autossh process is running (pid 7451) but frozen ( thats the mystery ) The solution: sudo kill $(ps aux | grep ‘autossh’ | awk ‘{print $2}’)

How To Set Up Password Authentication in Apache2

sudo apt-get install apache2-utils ( FIRST USER only ( -c ) option to create file, or you will wipe all your existing logins !!! ) sudo htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/.htpasswd username1only sudo htpasswd /etc/apache2/.htpasswd username2etc Conventional setup sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf ( In which case you must specify the Directory to be protected ) <Directory “/var/www/www.example.com/administrator”> AuthType Basic AuthName “Restricted Content” AuthUserFile...

LAMP upgrade to mysql 5.6 PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress

WordPress Running on Debian 7 LAMP After upgrading to MYSQL 5.6 from 5.5 I encountered several problems, first of which was a completely broken MySQL then Apache2.3 and PHP complained. This ultimately cleaned up the mess: sudo dpkg –purge mysql-client-core-5.6 sudo dpkg –purge mysql-client sudo dpkg –purge mysql-server-core-5.6 sudo dpkg –purge mysql-common sudo dpkg –purge mysql sudo apt-get –purge remove...

Disable IPV6 on Debian 10

Three (3) steps to completely eliminate IPV6 on your system. Step 3 applies only if you are using SSH in daemon mode (on a server). The following should work for all Debian. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Stop the Kernel Logging ipv6

To disable IPv6 on all interfaces system wide sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf add this line net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 Or To disable IPv6 on an interface only net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1 sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf or reboot

DD Used Space Only Image File Using Gzip Solved

The problem is how to create an img of a disk (or storage of any kind) while not saving the entire unused space – shrink empty disk space with dd. Like many similar problems, I found many posts about how to save the img of a disk and remove empty partitions. Most are obsolete or did not work as specified, which...