Ubuntu Linux is a Debian derivative that aims to bring Linux mainstream. Questions on this site should generally refer to Ubuntu Server. Note that http://askubuntu.com is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.
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fdisk -l ouputs nothing
I have a dedicated server at 1and1. If I try to boot normally the server never initializes and I'm unable to contact it either by ssh or serial console. I can only reach it if I boot in rescue mode.
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Apache mod_fastcgi correct configuration for virtual host?
I'm configuring mod_fastcgi on my vps. I put main directive in httpd.conf (ubuntu 12.04):
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
Alias /php5.fastcgi /var/www/fastcgi/php5.fastcgi
AddHandler ...
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How do I identify which website on my server is under heavy traffic?
I currently host one website on a server which many other websites use connect to via an API.
When I use the terminal command 'top' I can see www-data is the main culprit for my server running slow.
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s3cmd fails to put files
I'm trying to put mysql dump file on s3 bucket. It gives an error like ;
sudo ./backup.sh
WARNING: Module python-magic is not available. Guessing MIME types based on file extensions.
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Using ebtables to drop packets out of bridge and route via Tinc VPN
We have a bridge set up on Ubuntu to link our LAN to our gateway which is on the same subnet. We need this to be able to control the traffic and are not currently in a position to change subnets so we ...
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Unattended Net-install Ubuntu over Wifi [closed]
What i would like to accomplish is to be able to plug in a USB stick and boot the pc into an unattended installation of Ubuntu. The USB installation will have the drivers and details needed to join ...
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vsftpd can't access from linux
I have ubuntu 12.04 lts server with vsftpd-ext installed (for allow-writable-chroot). it has been working solid, even with ftps support(I have my manually signed certificate for this).
until now I ...
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How can I set up my own VPN on my cloud server? [closed]
What I want to do is to have a VPN that I can connect to from when travelling to get a safer and faster connection. I have OSX - can I set it up so that I can use OSX's built in VPN service?
My ...
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Ubuntu Server command line terminal extremely slow
I recently installed Ubuntu Server 12.04 on a computer with the following specs:
Pentium 4
1.5GB RAM
80GB HD
Installation went smoothly and at first it worked well. However, after doing package ...
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How can I configure a Ubuntu LAMP web server with permissions like CPanel?
I know how to set up a LAMP stack on Ubuntu pretty well for a single website / single user, but I'd like to allow multiple users to host multiple sites on a single server.
This is for different ...
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Accessing DLNA over VPN [migrated]
I have set up a VPN server using OpenVPN on my home Ubuntu 10 box as a means to access my home network drives and media drives whilst at work and on the move. I get a valid connection, can ping and ...
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Problems running screen without root permissions
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on a VPS and have problems running screen for non root users.
Screen is working fine with root though.
When I run it as root and hit "tty" I receive the following output:
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Ubuntu Server DDoS protection
I've seen many articles on DDoS protection, but none work. I need protection for a socket server i'm running on the server. It's running on port 9876 and it's for a flash-based game. when it gets ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 KVM host high load with idle ubuntu 12.04 guests
I am stuck with this one.
Clean install Ubuntu 12.04 server 64bit on two physical machines. Machines are identical except one has 8GB RAM and the problem machine has 32GB RAM, both machines were ...
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Can memcache invoke a script to reload itself after startup on Ubuntu?
Since memcache stores everything in ram, it will lose its store after a node recovers from failure. Does memcache offer a hook to invoke a script after it starts up? We want that script to do ...
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Send email from linux server through remote linux smtp server using PHP [closed]
Here's my setup
Ubuntu Database server that runs scripts that need to be able to send emails
Ubuntu Web Server that has sendmail setup on it that used to run scripts that send emails
Is what I need ...
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Diskless client nfs boot fails [closed]
For a school project I need to create an ubuntu diskless client. I'm using vmware fusion. I've encountered various problems that took me a while to solve, but now I'm at a standstill.
I've been using ...
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User-level vs system-level limits on Linux
I wrote a small program that opens a bunch of files and played with open files limit on Ubuntu(as root). I was surprised to see that only user-level limits had effect on max number of files open.
I ...
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mod_deflate is working but send wrong headers
I'm using mod_deflate to server gzip content for js and css files.
Using curl I can see that it works and I can see the code but Chrome still thinks it's gzip content and NOT stylesheets/javascript ...
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Setting up an apache site on an Ubuntu server installed in virtualbox [closed]
I have computer, Windows 7 is installed on it. I am developing some PHP projects with apache servers and I have installed virtualbox to have a virtual computer. To upgrade the virtual computer, I have ...
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Nginx workers as Ubuntu's www-data user - where to store temporary files? [closed]
I've been following along Dimitri Aivaliotis's Mastering Nginx book for setting up my own web server on an EC2 instance and I would like to adapt it to a default Ubuntu 12.04LTS AMI. The author ...
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Ubuntu GRE local ip address, wan ip of router, or ip of ubuntu server
I have an ubuntu server behind a router that I am configuring to have a GRE tunnel to another remote device across the interwebs.
in the config, I add the line:
pre-up iptunnel add tun1 mode gre ...
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Cron job is occupying my server [closed]
I wrote two PHP scripts. First one is adding users to one another system calling its API functions. Another script is connecting to FTP, downloads the file, and analyze it.
Tuesday I scheduled two ...
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Determine which process owns an flock'ed file
I have a Bash script that runs in multiple processess concurrently. The relevant portion looks like this:
flock /var/lock/my_lock my_command
Given that /var/lock/my_lock exists, is there a way to ...
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Windows Azure Ubuntu - 500 OOPS: priv_sock_get_cmd error while making an FTP connection
I have created a VM on Windows Azure and running Ubuntu on that I have been able to successfully communicate using the http protocol on port 80
However, I am not able to make a successful FTP ...
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Cannot start XML defined Linux Container, faulty cgroup mount
Using ubuntu 13.04 latest; i've installed lxc and various other tools
Here's my XML definition:
<domain type='lxc'>
<name>vm1</name>
<memory>500000</memory>
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How to add a module to already installed nginx? [closed]
I have installed nginx 1.4.0 from Ubuntu ppa. I have made all configurations so it works properly, but know i found out that i need some extra modules.
How can I add a module now? Please help :-)
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Best Linux Distribution for Scientific Computing? [closed]
I recently bought a new laptop to be used for scientific research when I'm at home. The machine has Intel i7 processor with 8 cores, 4 GB of RAM, and a graphic card from Nvidia (2 GB, Ivy Bridge). The ...
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What are the drawback if I use 127.0.0.1 instead of 127.0.1.1 in my host file?
Ubuntu default host file is something like
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 myhostname
Will there be any drawback if I change to:
127.0.0.1 localhost myhostname
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MAAS JUJU still get bad archive mirror
I'm trying to install maas nodes by using the PXE BOOT method. I follow the maas wiki tutorial step by step. I get all node ready and juju bootstrap was great :)
But I still get "bad archive mirror" ...
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ISPConfig 1 User/Group All Sites
Question below got closed in Stackoverflow, more appropriate here.
I'm running ISPConfig 3, Nginx, PHP5-FPM, and Ubuntu 12.10.
The purpose of the VPS is to serve multiple websites for our clients. I ...
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Virtual Box Router - Windows Host, Linux Guest [migrated]
I currently have Ubuntu Server running as the Guest OS in Virtual Box on a Windows 7 Host.
The Ubuntu Server gets its IP from DHCP and is Bridged to the my Network Adapter.
I've disabled Internet ...
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Can i give ftp access to default user (ubuntu in my case)?
By default in amazon ec2 ubuntu instances, a "ubuntu" user is created without password (only with amazon security passkeys).
If i create a password to this user, will it destroy my instance ?
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Program using /etc/network/interfaces?
The file is configured for a static ip ethernet connection. I do not have isc-dhcp-client nor network-manager. So which is the program that actually uses /etc/network/interfaces to make the connection ...
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IMAP Folders with Ubuntu 12.04 mail server: postfix-courier-ssltls-spamassassin-clamav-amavis
I setup this mail server a few days ago according to this tutorial, worked fantastic:
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How do I configure Nginx to be a forward proxy which requires a username and password? [duplicate]
Right now I have a proxy set up at MyDomain.com:8080, but I'd like to have it secured.
To get this proxy setup I added this to my nginx config file:
server {
listen 8080;
location / {
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App got press, then servers got owned. I added 8 more servers, STILL too slow [duplicate]
Our new app has received a lot of press today, and is getting thousands of new users every hour... but it has become so slow that it's unusable.
We're using Rails 3 patched to latest, ubuntu, ...
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Zentyal 3.0: Ubuntu 12.04 updated: gmail smtp sending spam
as of now I have stopped the zentyal mail service
I only have one user setup
as soon as I start it the service backup and run mailq from any system user it is full and keeps trying to send emails as ...
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Secure way to have a user that can move and change files in a FTP folder structure?
We have an FTP where customers can drop their files. We want to run a script that sweeps the files out of the folders every 15 minutes.
The current permission and folder structure looks like this:
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Show number of open files on Ubuntu [closed]
Trying to get an idea of how many open files I'm currently using so I can tune my limits.conf file. Is there a way to get Ubuntu to spit out the current open files so I can use this to tune? I found a ...
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Fail with ab test with nginx, two workers and 1024 connections?
I'm doing some tests with nginx 1.4.1 and Node.js 0.10.5 on my development machine (P8700 Dual Core 2.53Ghz, 4Gb RAM running Xubuntu x64). Unfortunately I can't do ab with 100000 requests with a ...
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NFS mount has stopped working on ESXi
We have had around 20 hosts connected to an NFS share running from an Ubuntu server. The other day they all lost connection. We have rebooted the NFS server to rule out any services going funny.
When ...
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Apache Virtual Host not working on .com domain
I have got a strange problem.
I have two domains: mysite.co.uk and mysite.com, which need to point to the same directory on my server. The VHost for mysite.co.uk works perfectly. However, mysite.com ...
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Simple Policy Based Routing for matching source packet to return packet
I have two ADSL modem-routers and a server all in the same statically-assigned IP address range (192.168.0.1/24).
Internet 1 -- (1.1.1.1) Modem 1 (192.168.0.1) -- Switch -- (192.168.0.3) Server
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Disable ptrace on Debian
Is there a way to disable ptrace on debian.
I would like to see if there is something similar to what is done here for ubuntu: http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/375990
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Which user should cron jobs run as?
Ubuntu server with users
root
www-data
mywebsite1
mywebsite2
There are multiple websites hosted on this server, each with their own user.
Each website has their own cron jobs mostly ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 - OpenLDAP invalid crendetials
I'm trying to follow the Ubuntu official OpenLDAPServer guide with no success.
When I tried to log into the server it says( ...
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Best Pratices for Error and Access Log Files [closed]
I got a server which has at the moment a lot of access and error logs. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and Nginx.
My question is what would be the best pratices to keep this files under control but not loose ...
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Dovecot Forward Spam
I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge on how this idea can be done. It's not a requirement but more of an idea I came up with that I don't know how to word my google searches to find out if it's ...
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Simple upstart script for nodejs + forever on Ubuntu
I'm using Ubuntu Sever 12.04. I have a nodejs application which I want to run like so:
NODE_ENV=production PORT=3001 APP_PATH=/var/www/myapp forever -a -l /var/www/myapp/forever.log -o ...
