Static IP in Debian Squeeze

[jayd512]

I did it!

Congratulations, Amanda!
Great job on sticking with it!

[Lazydog]

I did it!

It is a GREAT feeling when you accomplish something on your own, isn't it?
This is what we should be doing here, directing instead of telling you the answers.

[amanda099]

Congratulations, Amanda!
Great job on sticking with it!

Bananas are my favorite fruit

It is a GREAT feeling when you accomplish something on your own, isn't it?

Ironically ? It's my Debian System and it was me who decide what to do with it eventually, so in away I did it hehehe ...

A bigger mission ahead: A web Server for my own websites Amanda

[amanda099]

There is an error saying that "....mail system is possibly broken, failed..." every time I reboot my Debian. It happens really fast that I couldn't read the whole sentence.
Is that a side-effect of purging Network Manager ? There wasn't such error before.

Amanda

[cynwulf]

It's probably coming from exim4. Safe to ignore or clear the /var/log/exim4/paniclog it refers to and restart the exim4 service. If it comes back at the next boot, read the log (or read/post the log anyway if you prefer)...

cat /var/log/exim4/paniclog

Commonly this appears when you disable ipv6... but post the log contents first.

//edit: The paniclog is probably full of errors simply because your network has been down.

[dsnook]

Good job Amanda,
I know a lot of people that would have given up by now. Way to stick with it.

I did it!
After commenting out the first two lines under "The primary network interface" in /etc/network/interfaces, restart networking, then bring up the interface.

Thank you guys for all the help and patience as you walked me through the process : Jay, Roberts & Cynwulf & Dsnook. I was successful ! What a relief to get this done. The wired connection has been made. This is awesome. Mucho Gracius !

Amanda

[amanda099]

restart the exim4 service

Is this the command line for restarting the exim4 service
/etc/rc.d/init.d/exim

The paniclog is probably full of errors simply because your network has been down.

Actually there are 3 lines of errors in the paniclog and I have cleared them all.
There were red errors all over the place just after Jeg purged Network Manager and rebooted Debian. But now only one remaining: "....mail system is possibly broken, failed..."

[amanda099]

Good job Amanda,
I know a lot of people that would have given up by now. Way to stick with it.

The benefits of hosting my own websites will outweigh all that !

[amanda099]

There's also a probably related issue: I can't use my gmail, it just be frozen and unresponsive.
This issue has always been there since I installed Debian but I have chosen to ignore that for some times now.
Amanda

[amanda099]

... but post the log contents first.

I have cleared all 3 lines of errors in /var/log/exim4/paniclog
and restarted exim4 service.

I received the following:

lucky@cornucopia:~$ sudo service exim4 restart
Stopping MTA for restart: exim4_listener.
Restarting MTA: exim4.
ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken ... failed!

The error saying that "..../var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken, failed..." still there when I reboot my Debian. The /var/log/exim4/paniclog is empty !

Amanda