Setting up Bootlog for Debian

Edit file /etc/default/bootlogd


Change

# Run bootlogd at startup ?
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No

to

# Run bootlogd at startup ?
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes

Warning: SuexecUserGroup directive requires SUEXEC wrapper.

Apache is obviously complaining about suexec in the apache error logs. I finally found the solution.


apt-get install apache2-suexec

ntpd[3122]: kernel time sync error 0001

The solution to this problem is updating the kernel because of a newer ntpd version.

Upgrading Debian Etch to Debian Lenny

Ensure your Etch installation is up to date (aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade). Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and change all non-local mentions of "etch" or "stable" to "lenny". aptitude update; aptitude install aptitude; aptitude safe-upgrade; aptitude full-upgrade.

warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied

The solution to this problem is as follows:



adduser postfix sasl

updating debian / ubuntu

To update your debian/ubuntu system, you will need to run;

apt-get update


then


apt-get upgrade -y