Debian

1. Install Postfix and SASL 
   apt-get install postfix sasl2-bin
2. edit /etc/default/saslauthd, change the following:
   START=yes
    
3. Start saslauthd:
   /etc/init.d/saslauthd start
4. test if saslauthd is working:
   testsaslauthd -u username -p password
5. Stop saslauthd:
   /etc/init.d/saslauthd stop
6. Create file /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf:
   pwcheck_method: saslauthd
    
7. edit /etc/postfix/main.cf :
   

This error message happens after I did an upgrade to Debian 5.0 (lenny)

perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Then choose en_US.UTF-8 and it's fixed.

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In my configuration, my server's network is 10.1.1.0 and my VPN is 10.1.10.0, in order to access the server side networks, you need to enable the forwarding and masquerading, here's the steps:

$echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

$iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.1.10.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
*Assuming your nic is eth0 and your vpn network is 10.1.10.0

1. change /etc/apt/sources.list , replace etch to lenny. here's my example:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
2. apt-get install apt dpkg aptitude
3. apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
4. apt-get dist-upgrade

Somebody skipped step 3 and also works fine. Now your server is running Lenny. In my case, I don't even have to reboot the machine.

 

While running apt-get update, I found one of the source repository debian.cn99.com is not responding, so I checked the Debian mirror page, there's another repository "www.anheng.com.cn" good enough in China, so I decide to switch my repository to it. Here's the steps:

1. download install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz from www.adobe.com
2. extract to a folder, close your browser, then run ./flashplayer-installer
3. when asking installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape, or Opera browser, typein /usr/lib/iceweasel
4. start browser, in the address type in about:plugins

When open a virtual machine created with vmware server 1.0 with vmware workstation 6.0, which is running debian 4.0r0,
the eth0 won't start by reporting the following error:

linuxvm1:/etc/network# ifup eth0
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Failed to bring up eth0.

The solution:
1. run ifconfig -a

1. apt-get install atftpd atftp
2. mkdir /tftpboot
3. chmod 777 /tftpboot
4. /etc/init.d/atftpd start

notice:
1. I prefer it start as a standalone server instead requires inetd
2. if atftpd isn't start, you'll need to check if it set USE_INETD=true in 2 files: /etc/default/atftpd and /etc/init.d/atftpd
just commend out that 2 line and it shall able to start.
3. the log file is /var/log/syslog

Recently I'm using PRADO framework for some web application development. It comes to deploy to the server side.
The server is running Debian 3.1r3

• apt-get install php5-dev php5-mysql php5-sybase php5-sqlite libmysqlclient-dev freetds-dev
  
• apt-get install make
• pecl install PDO
• pecl install PDO_SQLITE
• pecl install PDO_MYSQL
• pecl install PDO_DBLIB

At the last step, it report:
pear/PDO_DBLIB requires PHP extension "pdo" (version >= 1.0)
No valid packages found
install failed