Ubuntu Linux is a Debian derivative that aims to bring Linux mainstream. Ubuntu is named after the South African philosophy of "humanity towards others," and the community observes a Code of Conduct in an effort to keep the project civil and appealing to novices. Ubuntu versions are released every ...
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control which version of PostgreSQL starts
I have three versions of Postgres (8.4, 9.0, 9.1) running on my Ubuntu box. Each version is configured to listen on a different port. When I reboot the machine, only the 9.0 version starts ...
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How to perform repair operations on ddrescued image?
How can I perform Testdisk or fsck on HDD image file created by ddrescue? Can I mount it and then will it be writable drive? First thing I would like to try is to recover superblock on image.
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Ubuntu 10.04 RAID 10 rebuild status
I got an IBM x3550 M3 server, with 6x 300GB SAS HDD installed, running in RAID10. Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS is installed. For RAID card, I'm using ServeRAID M5014.
If a HDD is replaced, how can I know the ...
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Scan ext4 partition without mounting it
My Ubuntu HDD failed today(hardware). I can't mount it, but there are some files which I need to recover before I get manufacturer replacement. Is there any software which will let me scan device ...
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I'm trying to set up 2 virtual host on a new VPS using apache 2.x on a Ubuntu server
Output from apache2 restart:
* Restarting web server apache2 [Thu Feb 09 01:19:34 2012] [warn] NameVirtualHost xx.xx.xxx.xxx:80 has no VirtualHosts
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I'm trying to set up 2 virtual host on a new VPS using apache 2.x on a Ubuntu server
Output when trying "apache2 restart"
* Restarting web server apache2
[Thu Feb 09 00:55:09 2012] [warn] NameVirtualHost 71.19.144.240:80 has no ...
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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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memcached not restarting properly start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 8175: No such process
im having some really weird and annoying issue with memcached. im running ubuntu server 10.04lts on a linode instance. i am using fabric with a django project and part of the fabric script allows the ...
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Setting up a Linux client for OpenLDAP over SSL
I'm trying to set up SSL with a server running OpenLDAP (and using OpenSSL, not GnuTLS).
The server seems to be working fine: I can authenticate using ldap:// and can also use ldaps:// from Apache ...
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Changing Nginx server location for ISPConfig
I installed ISPConfig on Ubuntu. It was configured for one NGinx install but I had to move to a different Nginx install. Now how can I make ISPConfig aware of this new location and forget about the ...
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How to setup Ubuntu for WordPress and stay SECURE?
I am switching to one or RackSpace's cloud servers, and I got it up and running fine. The problem is that one of my websites use WordPress. For WordPress to be able to automatically update, or upload ...
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The server is losing connection. Is it a hardware issue or a software issue?
I have a proxy server (with Squid3) setup in an old machine.
Recently, while downloading, I lose the connection. At that time, I can't even SSH into the proxy. When I press a key in the keyboard (of ...
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Setting up Thin, Bundler and Ubuntu
I have a very simple Ruby application which uses Thin and Bundler that I need to stick on an Ubuntu box.
I've got as far as getting Ruby, bundler etc installed on the server, but am having trouble ...
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How to share Internet connection with Ubuntu Virtual Machine?
I have Windows Server 2008 R2 as host and Installed Ubuntu 11.04 as Virtual Machine using Virtual Box. My proxy is configured using URL. I tried configuring in the networking settings and also with ...
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Copy/Mirror traffic to different port - iptables
I have nginx running on port 80 and apache running on port 8080
I want to transfer all the traffic to both nginx and apache asynchronously i.e the performance of one server wont be dependent on the ...
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Configuring static route in ubuntu
Number of NIC card of my desktop = 2.
eth0: 10.255.2.191
netmask 255.255.255.0
default gateway 10.255.2.1
broadcast 255.255.255.0
I have bought a switch and want to provide Internet service to ...
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DNS Server Routing
I have a local DNS server setup to resolve things like myserver.mydomain.com myserver2.mydomain.com to specific internal servers. Now if i map those subdomains externally to the external ip of my ...
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Upgrade back to php 5.3 in Ubuntu 11.04
Running 11.04 and I downgraded down to php5.2 due to some needs. I don't remember how. I'd like to get back up to 5.3 now. I'm trying to use apt-get upgrade but I get the following messages:
$ sudo ...
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Improving TCP performance over a gigabit network with lots of connections and high traffic of small packets
I’m trying to improve my TCP throughput over a “gigabit network with lots of connections and high traffic of small packets”. My server OS is Ubuntu 11.10 Server 64bit.
There are about 50.000 (and ...
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Is there any way to detect when nginx has completed a graceful shutdown?
I have a ruby on rails application which is running on passenger and nginx, with one main webserver and multiple application servers. I am trying to update my deployment process in order to minimize ...
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Recover the deleted files in ubuntu + amazon ec2
How I would recover the recent deleted files from amazon ec2 ubuntu server.For example The all "tar" files are removed unfortunately in amazon ec2 + ubuntu 11.04 instance.
The removed files should be ...
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Swap on Ubuntu and CentOS
I have two questions, which is both related to a swap partition or file.
Is it possible to install either Ubuntu or CentOS without a swap configured, without tinkering?
Live CDs like Ubuntu, is ...
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recovering data from raid1 component disk
Need to recover data from raid1 component disk using ubuntu live usb disk. The existing software raid was broken. After many attempts, I removed degraded raid setup from BIOS but ubuntu live could not ...
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Will a SSD cache increase Native ZFS performance for me?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop x64 with Native ZFS using a mirrored pool of 2x2 TB 6.0 Gbps hard drives. My issue is that I'm only getting about 30 Mb/s read/write at any time, I would think my system ...
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Linux shell script - Is it possible to capture the output of a command and use it in another command
So I want to automate the process of uploading a file to Rackspace. Here's what I need to do:
First, I type:
curl -D - \
-H "X-Auth-Key: 123456789abcdefghijk" \
-H "X-Auth-User: ...
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How do I automatically add Cassandra nodes to Windows DNS?
I'm working on building a new Cassandra cluster and I'd like to create a DNS record that will hold the IP addresses of all of the nodes. I build all of my servers in the cloud and they automatically ...
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What is faster hard drive system for a server, SSD, SAS, RamDisk?
I hope this is the correct section, this is my first time here, I have a question please.
I think that a lot of people are asking this question in this period.
We are managing a server of a game ...
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Why is this flag not working?
Ok so i want to view the ram and have it run continuously
root@another:/etc/mysql/database_backups# free -mt
total used free shared buffers cached
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GUI not working on my Ubuntu 10.04.3 after restarting
GUI mode is not working on my machine after I restarted it and it is throwing error
"GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP ...
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Ubuntu Server SSH does not autostart
I use a VPS with Ubuntu 10.04. After I performed "apt-get upgrade", the ssh daemon stopped working and does not automatically start when I restart my server. I have only access to files (edit, create ...
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set up linode without a domain name
I read somewhere that a linode can be set up without a domain pointing to it, but I was unsure of how to tackle that. I noticed in the getting started guide it has an entry about updating your ...
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ubuntu crontab -e “/usr/bin/sensible-editor” killed; signal 9 (no core dumped)
Welcome to Ubuntu 11.04 (GNU/Linux 2.6.32-042stab037.1 x86_64)
user@server:~$ crontab -e
no crontab for user - using an empty one
Select an editor. To change later, run 'select-editor'.
1. /bin/ed
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Ubuntu client could not connect to kerio on server 2003
We have Ubuntu on or network (AD). The server is Windows 2003 and Kerio Control is running as firewall on it.
All windows client are using Internet correctly but one Ubuntu client could not browse ...
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Configuring Virtual Hosts - nginx and passenger phusion on Ubuntu
I was able to successfully configure nginx and passenger phusion. I now have the following configuration
server {listen 80 server_name **sub1.example.com** root /home/user/app1/public }
server ...
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Ubuntu PPTP Server & Windows PPTP Client: connected, but no responding
all!
I have a PPTP-server based on Ubuntu Server 11.04. It works fine, about 30 clients are connected without problems. These clients are DFL-210 and Mikrotik gateways.
VPN_WAN_IP=10.0.0.1
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How to start/stop/restart ApacheDS 1.5.7 on Ubuntu 11.04
I installed the .DEB package of ApacheDS 1.5.7 on a clean Ubuntu 11.04 server. I got the DEB from here. It installed and started itself automatically and was running, but I don't know how to ...
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Configure Windows 7 and Ubuntu firewall to prevent LOIC or HOIC attacks [closed]
My laptop is connected most of the time to college network, and I want to keep my laptop safe from LOIC attacks without having to monitor any suspicious activities from any of the IP on the network. ...
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Simple Apache2 Reverse Proxy config not working
I've installed Apache2 on 2 ubuntu 11.10 VMs and I am trying to get a very basic Reverse Proxy working.
I have nothing but the default site setup on each. I want to go to http://server.com/app and ...
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Package 'vim' has no installation candidate [migrated]
I installed ubuntu inside windows 7 using VMware. I wanted to execute a c program in ubuntu.
when I tried I got like this,
b@ubuntu:~/examples$ vim a.c
The program 'vim' can be found in the ...
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Cannot start up haproxy
Using ubuntu as my server I'm trying to set up load balancing using HAProxy.
When I try to run using "haproxy -f haproxy.cfg" i get this error.
[WARNING] 035/115820 (1148) : [haproxy.main()] ...
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Custom www-data user in Ubuntu
I use apache2-mpm-itk to run one of my web applications with a custom uid and gid, both for audit and security reasons. This works nicely, however I am not sure what kind of privileges this user would ...
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Can I put /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow on an NFS share?
OK, this may be a dumb question but I'm wondering if I can export /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow from an NFS server and mount those files over the local ones on the client machine. The goal ...
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cannot connect to ftp server from lan?
i am trying to make my ftp server accessible (for download only) by other computers on my LAN using anonymous user and without password, when i connect to it from the same pc using filezilla it works ...
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Apache server crashes and does not resume with a high load
We recently moved our Wordpress blog to a dedicated server (Apache) that already served ~4,000 pages daily. Yesterday the server crashed. We had a high volume of visitors to the blog, ~4,000 with a ...
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poll: best VPS with only necessary features of high/unlimited bandwidth and fast speed? [closed]
Trying to set up nodes for cjdns (https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns), and would love input. Alternatives include TonidoPlug or PogoPlug, but they require some setup and a fast home internet ...
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Squid is dropping the connection. When I log in to the proxy, it starts to work
Im facing a really strange problem here... I have a Squid proxy setup in a small machine (1GHz, 640MB Ram). Today, I started downloading the Ubuntu Alpha CD image (712 MB). After some time, the ...
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How can I privately distribute an Ubuntu (Debian) package that overrides any official release?
I occasionally need to make minor source modifications to standard Ubuntu packages for use on a collection of servers that I manage. I would like to publish these on a PPA (such as launchpad.net) so ...
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Is there a tool available to pull down a debian package and all of the packages it depends on?
I manage a few apps that depend on specific versions of some packages. To make sure that I always have the correct versions, I created my own Apt repository. Now, I'm concerned that some of the ...
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Authenticating Samba share with AD OU
I'm wanting to link Samba to Active Directory so that I can apply permissions to a share respective to the OU that windows user belongs to.
Im not entirely sure of where to start, I've currently just ...
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Managing user and group information for a lab using Linux and /home mounted from a data node
Our lab consists of multiple desktop machines and a data node, all running Ubuntu Linux. The desktop machines mount /home from the data node. Files and users in /home are managed using UIDs and GIDs ...
