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adduser and addgroup in $PATH with apt-get install
After upgrading a server from Debian Lenny to Squeeze, I have a problem with the updates of dbus and vsftpd.
I get the following error message (translated from German by Google Translate):
dbus ...
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Monitoring small subsets of multiple networks
What would be good software for monitoring multiple small and disparate networks?
My company sells a product that requires deployment of a number of Linux servers on a customer's network (typically ...
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ssh from username1@client to host using username2@destination
Forgive the possibly simple question, but I cannot seem to find a good solution.
A backup job needs to rsync files to a destination host, over ssh. The only login available to me is ...
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How to access and store data on multi-server setup
My application uses a RESTful api to receive requests from users and generate files on demand. When the file has been made, it responds back with a dl link to said file.
When this was on a single ...
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Why would my servers be losing partition tables?
Over three consecutive days, three of our servers have lost their partition tables. Two of the machines were running linux and the third was a windows machine and all of these servers are on an ...
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Lightweight (plug and play) machine resource monitoring utility?
I need to monitor my Ubuntu Linux server performance, prior to diving into nagios / zabbix type of "enterprise server monitoring" solutions I would prefer something more lightweight.
My requirements ...
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Could you suggest me a good Linux Distro for running tomcat in text mode?
I'm trying to build a reliable and stable server for running jsp application in an Intranet, and I would like to mantain the maximum available resources for the server. I'm considering to use a Linux ...
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Memory not being freed on VPS
I had a VPS with DirectAdmin running on CentOS 5.7 with 512 MB RAM with Apache and MySQL. The problem I was having with it was that it was using around 115 MB RAM upon boot and this was rising to 200 ...
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Dedicated Server Specification Advice for MYSQL/PHP Website
Im buying a dedicated server to run an existing website which receives 90,000 visitors per day. The specification is below. The website isnt too complicated, mainly mysql searches of a table ...
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VPS security best practice [migrated]
I've just signed up for a linux VPS to host a website I've been creating and I need some advice on the best approach to secure it.
I've previously been hosting it off a VM in the house, but I want to ...
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Samba: Alias User In One Share
I use Samba to power my home fileserver. I have several shares, and I use local users to log in ("security = user").
Let's say the share "SpShare" is located at /SpShare. All files within the ...
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subdomain to subdomain forward with masking
I want to forward with mask from one server to another server.
In Server One:
www.abc.com
test.abc.com
live.abc.com
In Server Two:
http://ipaddress/folder1
http://ipaddress/folder2
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connect mysql from php without yum command manually
I am trying to connect to mysql from php, it says i have not configured mysql-php, call to undefined function:mysql_connect();. My server is not registered with RHN, hence i cannot yum install ...
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Apache 2.2.21 / apache2handler wrong version?
I have compile apache 2.2.21 under ubuntu server
from console I can get this:
vangelis# /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -v
"Server version: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) Server built: Jan 7 2012 12:30:44"
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Running rsync doesn't give desired results
I have a linux box that has a Windows 7 share mounted. The Linux box has a cron job to copy the contents of the Win7 share to another location on the Linux box -- a backup.
The script run is simply ...
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ext4 stable enough for databases?
Is ext4 stable enough for databases and virtual machines? The data integrity issues were due to the data not being really written to the disk and being in the cache which would be cleared after a ...
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ext3 will trim be supported?
Current linux kernel version supports trim however Debian Squeeze uses an old version that does not.
As I understand, the trim support is in the linux kernel itself and not a specific filesystem. ...
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Confidential data storage server for Linux [closed]
I am looking for out-of-box software solution for Linux to share a confidential data.
The protocol to download files does not make any difference, even HTTP sounds good ;)
It's needed for the storage ...
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Linux server not connecting to Windows share suddenly
I have a Ubuntu box running in a windows LAN. The Ubuntu box has the following line in /etc/fstab:
//192.168.47.130/Data /hqserver cifs ...
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Is LXC secure enough for VPS hosting?
Right now I'm using Linux VServer for VPS hosting. But it's lacking some functionality I need (ex. cpu usage virtualization, quota support for guests, etc.) so I'm thinking about switching to OpenVZ ...
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Most efficient way of checking idle users on linux captive portal?
I am building a basic captive portal script, with support for idle timeout. I managed to create iptables rules on authentication in the browser.
However, I'm not sure how to detect users that are ...
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transfer SSL certifcate from one CentOs machine to another
I have been tasked with transferring SSL certificates from one server to another for a website. I know nothing about this but have been reading that if everything is the same on the 2 servers then I ...
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How To Create User's Virtualization Environment
what i want to do is to create user virtulized environment (online)
i want to create an environment that my user connect to my server online & they will have there own online pc .. may be its ...
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some startup-scripts are ignored (on debian 6.0)
After updating some stuff on one of my debian-servers it ignores "some" of the scripts it should run at startup (from "init.d").
For example Postfix, Memcached or other daemons are startet, but ...
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DNS records serial number
How important is it to change the serial number for every db.xxx.yyy record. Can I keep the serial number the same for at least 2 records.
Thanks
Jean
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How to secure a dedicated Linux box for e-commerce use? [closed]
My question has been asked, and I have done a lot of research. But I have yet to get a list of straight forward steps to get this done. I do not ask for an exhaustive explanation, just a really good ...
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Cannot open any web page after configuring squid server
I am using centos 5.5 and have a server at eth2 with IP 202.51.176.42 and share the network into eth0 with 192.168.10.1. I try to block all user to access facebook. So that i install squid proxy ...
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Server behind DMZ firewall won't respond
I have a DMZ server set up to forward specific ports to a couple of machines. The intended behavior is for me to send a request to the DMZ on a specific port, and have the machine that's inaccessible ...
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How to find biggest folder in CentOS using a command
Our disk on our VPS is somehow magically full, I was manually looking for any big files, even used a command to print all files bigger then 500MB, I got no results.
Is there a command which would ...
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max files per directory in ext4
I manage an application that contains a filestore in which all the files are stored with the filenames equal to their md5 sums. All files are stored in one directory. Currently there are thousands, ...
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Automatically ban IP address if it accesses a certain URL
I'm getting bored by all those muieblackcat's and similar scripts ran on web sites. Can I block an IP address (for example with iptables) automatically, like for a hour or so, as soon as it accesses ...
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getting an error massage “E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)” in debian
I am trying to install java in my debian server but when I am running any of these command getting an error massage every time that is -
insserv: Starting tomcat depends on rmnologin and therefore on ...
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VPS eating RAM?
I have a VPS with 512MB RAM with 1GB Burst from TelVPS. There is no swap space for the VPS.
I had a discussion regarding this with my service provider but they said that they dont provide swap space ...
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Why does my user account keep getting added to the Samba database on reboot?
This is a cross-post from Ask Ubuntu, but because it's not specific to Ubuntu and since I haven't gotten much of a response I wanted to ask it here as well.
I have my Samba server setup to use ...
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Monit: Customize alert message to include command output
I would like to customize the Monit's alert message, so that whenever I get an alert, the email also includes the output of a command like top, so that I will already know more details about what ...
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Questions about migrating a web server
I am about to migrate my web server. I am using Ubuntu Server on both systems. I've never done this and I need to know what I should look out for. Can I just copy the var directory?
I have many ...
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Kernel updates without rebooting
Similar to some of the topics touched on in this question, Rebooting servers for kernel updates, I was curious if there was a way in which one could apply kernel updates to the system without ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 server change ip
I have ubuntu 10.04 server configured to ip address x.x.x.200 and also have windows server 2003 with ip address x.x.x.100 (already setup as www.some-domain.com)
Currently i trying to shutdown windows ...
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Setting vsftpd to allow me uploading to /var/www, got 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/root
I'm using an Amazon EC2 istance as developer and testing machine. Since i'm on windows i can't mount the virtual EBS volume for editing purposes. Too bad.
For this reason i've installed and ...
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NGINX timeout after +200 concurrent connections
This is my nginx.conf (I've updated config to make sure that there is no PHP involved or any other bottlenecks):
user nginx;
worker_processes 4;
worker_rlimit_nofile 10240;
pid ...
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Turn off 302 redirect and automatically redirect
I am testing redirects using curl on my localhost. When I run this command:
$curl "test.test.com/landing/0192"
I get this output:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
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MasterShaper alternative
I'm looking for an alternative to MasterShaper, something possibly web-based which could allow me to manage QoS easily.
Actually MasterShaper still looks supported, but would like to understand if ...
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Launch application to linux console on startup
I have a small router without a keyboard and mouse, and I'd like to have it display network statistics using "jnettop" whenever the machine is booted up. How can I get the machine to display this ...
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Strange network traffic on my dedicated server. How to find out what is causing it
I noticed a trange outgoing traffic in my dedicated server. I'd like to know how could I find out what is the reason to this.
One day traffic
One week traffic
As you can see, there are bursts of ...
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Crontab — scheduling my backups
I want to do a backup every Friday night (no, this is not the whole backup routine, just part of it). Each Friday night's backup will not be overwritten until 4 weeks later. So, essentially, I have a ...
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Server configurations for hosting MySQL database
I have a web application which uses a MySQL database hosted on a virtual server. I've been using this server when I started the application and when the database was really small. Now it has grown and ...
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How can a CentOS 6 guest running in VirtualBox be configured as a LAMP server that can be accessed from the Windows host?
I was able to conect Centos6 on Virtual Box to Windows (I can ping in both directions) with Host-only Adapter (for connection between the two) and NAT Adapter (to enable Linux on VB to connect to the ...
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apt-get install Error
syslogd during install give following error from the server? How to diagnose this problem
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Selecting previously deselected package sysklogd.
(Reading ...
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What is a reasonable number of users who can connect to a server at the same time?
I have a server which allows only 2 connection at the same time. This can be a pain as you can't login if you are third. In another instance (if I remember correctly), the maximum allowed was 5 users.
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SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script not allowed to access directory owned by uid
I am running a dedicated server with multiple websites. I have created a global directory for common scripts for all websites, rather than repeating them in every website directory.
How can I make ...
