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Using Git as a means to sync zabbix instances
So in our environment, we are using a custom build of Zabbix as a monitoring solution. We have Zabbix deployed to four different sites, and would like to ensure that the build is consistent across all ...
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Setup git on an Internal Server [Ubuntu]
I'm new to Ubuntu.
I've been following this Setting Up the Server to config git on a Ubuntu machine (MyUbuntu).
I created a Git account and my authorized_key is in /Home/git/.ssh
ssh-rsa
...
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List linux users
I need to find a group in linux that doesn't appear in my /etc/groups file.
I run the following command and get an error
sudo adduser --disabled-login --gecos 'GitLab' git
adduser: The group `git' ...
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Git 1.8.2 source (from master branch) fails to build, can't find “dl” library symbols [closed]
# Compiling git 1.8.2 source from master branch sources.
$ make configure
$ LIBS="-ldl" LDFLAGS="-L/sandbox/builds/lib -L/sandbox/builds/ssl" CPPFLAGS="-I/sandbox/builds/include ...
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Write issues on Linux Samba shares with OS X clients
Our web development company has a Linux server with a Samba share which employees use to develop websites. On the Samba share are numerous directories which serve as document roots for a webserver ...
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SSH Connection timed out even without a valid key
So I have done the same process over and over again and everytime worked perfectly, but on thie particular server it just won't work.
I've tried any written suggestion on the Internet + serverfault ...
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SSH failing from script, working on command line (Git)
Have 3 servers: Local, Bare, Development.
The following workflow works perfectly:
1. Make my local changes
2. git push to Bare
3. ssh into Bare
4. $ ssh ip.of.Development.server "cd ...
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Authenticate Git virtual users via PAM
Can Git authenticate virtual users via PAM? In particular, would Git require some additional utility, such as gitolite or gitosis?
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How to keep groups when pulling with git
I have a staging site that is a working directory of a git repository. How to set up git to let a developer pull out a branch or release without changing the group of the modified files?
An example. ...
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git auto complete freezes terminal when password required
When executing a command such as this
git pull origin BRANCH-1
and hitting tab (auto complete)
I get a password prompt like so:
git pull origin BRANCH-1Password:
Then the terminal freezes. The ...
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Unable to setup git with jailed user
I have performed below steps to setup jailed user
here username is test3
mkdir -p /home/test3/{dev,etc,lib,usr,bin}
mkdir -p /home/test3/usr/bin
chown root.test3 /home/test3
mknod -m 666 ...
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disable viewgit download option
I installed the web browsing interface viewgit on my server, in order to
manage my git repositories. Everything works pretty well, but I bothered by the
download option of every file.
Is there a ...
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Where's the conventionnal place to store git repositories in a linux file system tree?
If I make an analogy with the hosting of a web server, I would say that git's data should be in /var/git, so my git repository would be in /var/git/myrepo
Q: Is that the right guess ?
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Installing Git on Ubuntu 12.04
I installed git with gitolite on my vserver using this tutorial.
But I've got a problem to clone the gitolite-admin repo to my computer.
The user is created with the option --disabled-password
But ...
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SSH does not allow the use of a key with group readable permissions
I have a development git server that deploys to a live server when the live branch is pushed to.
Every user has their own login and therefore the post-receive hook which does the live deployment is ...
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which git returns /usr/bin/git however there is not such path, how do I reinstall git correctly?
I managed to get git to stop working (Mac OSX Mountain Lion)
When I type "git" it doesn't say command not found, just shows an empty line,
Pressing enter again, exits, and does nothing (yes, I know ...
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How to allow a git hook to run an executable with sudo by modifying /etc/sudoers
I'm using a git post-update hook to run a command via sudo, and I get the error: sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo. I believe I need to modify /etc/sudoers but I don't know how to do this. ...
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Installing git with no idea about machine configuration
I have a user account on a Linux server (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, according to this). It apparently has no package managers in the $PATH (yum, apt-get, pkg, pkg-add, emerge, pacman), and it does not ...
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Steps to install & configure Git server, stucked … :(
I've a CentOS 6.2 server and will like to install & configure a Git Server there. I read a lot of documentation at this [1] and [2] for example but I'm stucked because it's a bit complex than SVN ...
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Can't access directory on linux - sticky dir [closed]
My IT guy did something to my git hosting folder, I can't access it from git user, when I login with root I can access the filder, I noticed that it's shown with green background in bash, what to I ...
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GIT ubuntu 12.04 [closed]
I was wondering if anyone has installed git and gitosis on ubuntu 12.04 if not what is the best version to go for on the new version of ubuntu?
Any recommendations on the best way to set up GIT are ...
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deploy git project and permission issue
I have project hosted with gitolite on my own server, and I would like to deploy the whole project from gitolite bare repository to apache accessible place, by post-receive hook.
I have next hook ...
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git repo for dotfiles - clone to homefolder
I'm learning git, and the test case I'm using it for is keeping a repo of my linux profile settings (.bashrc .profile .tmux.conf etc)
on my main machine, the repo is created at the home folder:
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Linux user group configuration for Git bare repository
I'm using a Ubuntu box to host my bare Git repositories for developers to work off.
At the moment I'm creating a user account for each developer on the box because it doubles as a filestore and local ...
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What is the Difference between svn and git [closed]
What are the pros and cons of git and svn. We are suppose to use a subversion systems. Any body have a idea.
Thanks in advance.
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Separate git accounts on linux server
I have a lot of git repositories on my linux (ubuntu) server. I access all of them with the Apache user www-data. This worked great in the past because I was the only web developer. Now I have ...
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Getting error installing Git on centos server
I am trying to install git on centos 5.5 and i am getting this error:
git-email-1.7.7.3-1.w5.x86_64 from webtatic has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: perl(Net::SMTP::SSL) is needed ...
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Permission error with git on linux with bare shared repo
I've got a bare central repo that has this option turned on:
git config core.sharedRepository true
For some reason, the other users on this CentOS machine that pulls/pushes from the central repo ...
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Permissions in a multiuser Linux environment
This question has been asked many times, but I haven't found a solution for this type of permission.
I have a VPS with multiple websites in chroot, each one running with a unique user, without root ...
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Managing nginx configurations
My goal is to be able to update my server configurations (eg, nginx) quickly and easily using version control (eg, git). One requirement I had in mind was to have the configurations stored inside the ...
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Install gitolite without needing public key(s)?
All of our developers run Windows workstations. We run a Linux development server. I've been wanting to try out running our own git server on the dev server.
After some research I've settled on ...
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Sudo Error “ you must have a tty to run sudo”
I am trying to run the following command:
sudo git pull;
I get the following error:
Command failed: sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
The command is being run from a nodejs server ...
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GIT Private Repository - SSH Access to Sub Domain on MediaTemple.net
I created a GIT Repository on one of my servers at MediaTemple.net the one I'm using is a (gs) Server. The repo was created on a subdomain (git.example.com)
I then created two user accounts with SSH ...
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How can I install the current stable version of Git on CentOS?
I'm interested in installing Git on a CentOS Linux 5.4 host.
The installation instructions in the Pro Git book online offer two avenues: installing from source or using the host's package management ...
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Point apache to NAS folder?
I have a NAS on which I have a RAID 10 array that I use as my GIT repository, I like my clients to have access to the site's builds right down to the latest commit.
My plan is like so:
____________ ...
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Git daemon doesn't work properly when run from xinetd
I'm trying to set up a git public repository for my team.
I have installed Git on a linux box (RedHat 5.6).
As a first step, i'm trying to configure Git to use the git protocol, by setting it up to ...
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Two asterisks in filename **/*
What does a file name like some_directory/**/* mean? It's a part of git's .gitignore file.
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Installing packages without internet access
I am trying to install git on a SUSE linux server that, to all intents and purposes, doesn't have internet access. It would appear that I also need to install some dependencies for git.
Is there ...
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Gitosis & an existing repository
I've successfully installed Gitosis. I added a repositories to it. However the Gitosis docs are very sparse, so I have a question:
I've got a working copy of some repository on the same machine where ...
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Sudoers config to allow arguments for git post-commit script
We have a git post-commit script that needs to be run with Git and Trac, when someone commits something a hook is a called that runs the command:
trac-admin /path/to/trac changeset added "reponame" ...
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VCS System that preserves Unix file permissions?
I'm looking for a simple revision control system for server configs. Something like works like git, but preserves Unix file permissions. And is NOT RCS.
Any tips?
Thanks!
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Version-control of configuration files with different home names?
I have recently decided to use a version-control system to share my configuration files between my different linux installs.
After reading another thread I found on this subject, I'm planning to do ...
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Which *light* ubuntu to use as a git central server?
At my company we're currently using a self-deployed copy of the http://gitorious.org code to manage our repositories..
It's an absolute monster!!
Gitorious is a very heavy ruby on rails app and the ...
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Git not found by yum..installed from source but git still not recognized
I have a Centos server that I tried to yum install git and git-core and all that and I just consistently got the error message that the git package wasn't found. So I installed it from source ...
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Update Git super repository automatically when a submodule gets updated
in our company we have a huge code base (>100000 files) and so we keep it in several git repositories. So we have a forest of repositories and one super repository containing only submodule references ...
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Use git for multiple server configuration files
We have migrated a lot of source code over to git and are very happy with our current solution. We would like to have our server configuration files versioned on the same system, but there are a few ...
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Putting a whole linux server under source control (git)
I am thinking about putting my whole linux server under version control using git. The reason behind it being that that might be the easiest way to detect malicious modifications/rootkits. All I would ...
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Git with Password rather than public key
I have a git server running for a small group to check into and I am wondering if there is a way to set it up so the user can log in with their password rather than having to use a public key?
Thanks ...
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gitolite post commit hook to update redmine's repository
I currently have a ubuntu server machine which has gitolite and redmine installed. Redmine accesses repository copies which are updated using a cron task.
Having a cron task to pull the updates seems ...
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push commits to git (gitolite) repository messes up file permissions (no more trac access)
already posted here so feel free to answer there.
everytime i commit/push something to the git server the file permissions change (all added/edited files in the repository have no read and execute ...
