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Upgrading Debian Squeeze to Wheezy - Should updatedb.conf be kept or replaced?
A similar question to Upgrading Debian Squeeze To Wheezy - Should conf' files be kept or replaced?, but in my case it concerns a different conf file and I am not on Linode.
I am upgrading a VMWare ...
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Error 'IO Error: Broken Pipe' when upgrading server from Debian Squeeze to Wheezy
As I am upgrading my virtual machine from Debian 6 (Squeeze) to 7 (Wheezy), I am seeing what appears to be a changelog (screenshot below).
So, I pressed the 'q' key to quit and proceed with the ...
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Upgrading Debian Squeeze To Wheezy - Should conf' files be kept or replaced?
I am currently upgrading my all-new Linode server running Debian 6 (Squeeze) to 7 (Wheezy) this way:
Updating current system:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Replace all ...
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Availability of software during update?
Imaging I am running a mail server, e.g. exim4 (or a database, a syslog daemon...). Now, while updating this package I would assume the application has to be stopped or at least restarted after ...
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Automatic security updates on Debian squeeze server
For a production Debian squeeze server, what are the best practices or recommendations for handling security updates? I have seen various articles on cron-apt, apticron, unattended-updates, apt cron ...
