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As you probably know Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Codename "Lenny" has been released yesterday. This machine is already up to date:

hostname:/home/user# cat /etc/debian_version
5.0
hostname:/home/user#


If you also want upgrade to 5.0, give backup a thought or two first - especially when running a production system. When you're set just replace "etch" with "lenny" in /etc/apt/sources.list and hit aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade, grab a coffee and take a few minutes off.

You should then accept the very first debconf offer to regenerate your locales or you'll be bugged with messages like:

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.

If you haven't accepted the regeneration, you can fix that by executing hostname:/home/user# dpkg-reconfigure locales.

In case your'e running an email server and use saslauthd, you also should edit some things in your /etc/default/saslauthd or the service won't restart properly. As long as you haven't changed much there will be no harm through accepting the new config file. The updated config simply adds NAME="saslauthd" and
OPTIONS="-c -m /var/run/saslauthd". If you don't edit the file your saslauthd will warn you with: Short name (NAME) undefined in /etc/default/saslauthd, using default (warning) about the missing name and quit the startup process stating: No run directory defined for salsauthd, not starting.

This was the only config file I was forced to touch during the whole upgrade process. Feel free to report any other issues you experienced or just enjoy the painless evening.