Debian upgrade to Lenny completed

I upgraded my webserver to Debian Lenny last night. It went almost without problems. This was because I followed the release notes. This helped a whole lot.

Still this morning there was a small problem that I didn't notice yesterday. I didn't receive any email. So I took a look in the exim4 mainlog at /var/log/exim4/mainlog. It contained the following message:

lowest numbered MX record points to local host: servername

All messages that should be delivered in a local mailbox were frozen. The solution was actually quite simple. First I needed to change one line in a config file. It contained something that looked like: DEBCONFxxxDEBCONF. This is a line that would normally be replaced by the update-exim4.conf script. But that doesn't work anymore.

Now the files conf.d/main/005_local_hostnames contains a line like this:

MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS = localhost:servername:dsearch;/etc/exim4/virtual

All hostnames on this line should be delivered locally.

Upgrading to Debian Lenny

One month ago Debian released a new version of their operating system. The new version is called Lenny. These release notes contain a list of things you need to do to upgrade without problems.

This afternoon I upgraded a virtual machine image and tonight I will upgrade my server. By doing it this way I found a few problems I will have that I can fix then or before they will happen.

CD Ripping on Debian

Today I fixed my computer. It now will rip cd's, without being really slow. Actually I only had to install a new kernel. I now use 2.6.8 instead of 2.6.7.

Ripping cd's with sound-juicer is really simple.

My New Debian Setup

Yesterday I installed a new Debian setup. I used Redhat before, but I began to show signs of old age.

Now I have Gnome 2.6 and some more nice stuff. There are some many packages, that I'm not yet sure what to install.