Ubuntu 12.04, named "Precise Pangolin" is the current Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu Linux. LTS releases receive updates for 5 years and have available paid support from Canonical. The version number comes from the year and month of release (April of 2012).
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How to confine FTP users to a root directory securely
I need to provide multiple users FTP logins, some able to write, some only to read, to a single FTP root directory. I very much want to restrict access so that they cannot see the file system above ...
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No HTTP connectivity in vbox guests with bridged network
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 Server x86. Network connectivity is on eth2 for the host server (the 10ge card). I installed VirtualBox 4.2 using the downloadable deb package from VirtualBox's website. ...
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Where does all my resurces beeing used? [duplicate]
EC2 instance. Im aware of Xen virtualizing stalls CPU, does it also give me RAM when I "need" it? I can't figure out whats using almost 600mb ram in a idle terminalserver powering Apache/MySQL
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rsnapshot frequently ext3-fs error: “ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced:”
I've having following problem frequently on our backupserver. I'll try to explain the issue in the hope somebody could clarify why and how to fix it
Setup details
We have a DELL r200 server attached ...
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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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How to Configure a FTP Service where different user groups have different permissions for a single Directory
(using Ubuntu 12.04)
I need to set up an FTP service where a specific set of users can write to the directory an another set can only read.
I'm thinking that it's hard to do for a single directory, ...
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Adding a existing (raid) harddisk to esxi without data loss
My previous install was an Ubuntu-Server 12.04 installation without VMWare.
There i had 1 OS disk with 750GB and 2 other disks (both 2TB) in RAID1.
I decided to virtualize my server so i can add ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Unmet Dependencies when running apt-get [duplicate]
When running apt-get I keep getting errors regarding unmet dependencies.
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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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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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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Poor query performance over the network for Postgres server
I'm running Postgres 9.2 server on Ubuntu 12.04 x64 box. I have a simple database with one of the tables containing 5m rows. If I try to select all the records from this table locally it takes no more ...
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Cannot view User Accounts on Linux Ubuntu 12.04
I am working on a fresh install of Linux Ubuntu 12.04 and for some reason I cannot seem to access the User Accounts. Through terminal I am able to establish ssh connection to the root account and to ...
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Configuring Bind dns with webmin
I am new to VPS. I have recently bought a new VPS and trying to set up Bind DNS server on it using webmin.
My VPS provider has provided me with three IPS.
Main IP: 50.*.*.10
Additional IP 1: ...
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Need help in configuring LDAP acl
I am trying to configure acl in such a way users with attribute allowedService with application name can only login to that particular application.
We have users as follows:
dn: ...
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Bulk BIND zones creation [closed]
How can I create zones for 50 domains on Ubuntu 12 VPS? I have webmin (which allows me to use BIND to create/ manage zones). I was able to figure out what gets created to add a zone successfully.
But ...
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preventing squid forwarding loop with IPtables
I have a web application, and I'd like to limit file upload size.
I thought I'd try using squid for this, via its directive request_body_size_max.
I have my webserver running on port 8080, and I've ...
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Install Navicat for MySQL on Linux Ubuntu 12.04
How do I install Navicat on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04?
I have just configured a new Ubuntu 12.04. Because I'm not so familiar with the command line, I prefer to use Ubuntu Desktop so that I can have a ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 VPS doesn't boot with mysql in nsswitch.conf
1and1 VPS ("dynamic cloud server") does not boot any more as soon as mysql lookup is enabled in nsswitch.conf - any suggestions appreciated.
Minimal setup to reproduce the problem:
install Ubuntu ...
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Prioritise repositories in Ubuntu
We have a few PPA sources on some of our servers which we stick into /etc/apt/sources.list.d . Some of these repos provide same packages (in terms of names) but different versions and possibly ...
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Allow developers to deploy to server but not login (ssh) to server
This might be impossible but this is what I would like:
Allow the developer to login to server via Capistrano so that he can deploy changes. e.g. cap deploy
Do not allow the developer to login to ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 bandwitdh problems [closed]
I'm expecting some bandwidth problems with my new installation of Ubuntu 12.04. I've tried to disable IPV6, look into dmesg, hostname, dns resolution, etc. But nothing seems to be crashing it's a new ...
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Apache: apachectl restart does NOT reload envvars
Okay, so on a fresh ubuntu 12.04, I install the lamp stack via:
sudo tasksel install lamp-server
The next thing I want to do is change the User and Group that apache runs as and restart.
Should be ...
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Changing the Virtualmin, Webmin and Usermin default ports
I am attempting to change the default ports for Virtualmin, Webmin and Usermin on an Ubuntu 12.04 server.
After doing the below, I am only able to access the Usermin console.
Opened port 9988 on ...
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No buffer space available and tuning with sysctl
Not really a network guy so please bear with me.
I'm currently hosting a web application that sends UDP to all IP addresses in it's subnet periodically. That's 2048 IPs. My problem is it throws No ...
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Installing Perl Modules with XAMPP and Ubuntu [closed]
I have been looking everywhere but I seem to be failing to get it. I want to install a perl module on my current XAMPP setup with Ubuntu . I have looked and tried everywhere and these two seemed ...
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Unable to login applications using LDAP alias
We have several applications and we are able to integrate LDAP successfully.
In application we have given base dn as ou=People,dc=geo,dc=com and the user dn: uid=geo_pc,ou=People,dc=geo,dc=com can ...
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Is there any reason to use fail2ban with SSH password logins disabled?
I am setting up an Ubuntu server hosted by Linode.
I am stepping through their security guide and they recommend installing fail2ban after disabling password based SSH logins.
I don't see the point ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 strange locale behavior
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with Vagrant. And I'm having hard time understanding what's wrong with locales on my system.
When I login to my box via ssh
$ vagrant ssh
and try to run something locale ...
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Restrict users to certain applications only
We are using many applications like zabbix, phabricator, AC etc. We need to integrate LDAP in all these applications. These application support LDAP but not group based authentication.
Please let us ...
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How to boot copied partition
I have just ghosted an Ubuntu (12.04) instance from a 200GB HD to a 1TB HD. The ghosted instance has two mounted storage partitions both of about 100GB each and I have the following partition table:
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GlusterFS Mount Keeps Disconnecting Randomly
We are using GlusterFS to provide a distributed file system on 2 web servers which use a shared media directory and cache. So i have created 2 gluster volumes (media and var) and have mounted these in ...
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Run fail2ban without banning
It is possible to run fail2ban in some kind of "simulation mode" so it does not ban but log somewhere who it would have ban?
Running fail2ban on Ubuntu 12.04.
Thanks
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How to run a shell script on my amazon instance when it bootsup?
I have my amazon instance, i need to add a shell script to its rc.local file so that the shell script executes when i boot my instance.
how to set permission to my shell script in rc.local file?
if i ...
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How to make bash script executable to run during bootup(rc.local)
This is how my rc.local looks:
#!/bin/bash -e
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# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
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Virtuozzo Containers Tools Updates
Each time i try to run Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Tools Updates to install the 10 updates which are available i receive the error below.
Virtuozzo tools update 4.7.0-119
Virtuozzo tools update ...
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How to configure ubuntu server with LDAP group based authentication
By installing libnss-ldap we are able to integrate an Ubuntu server with ldap (openldap). But we are unable to configure ldap group based authentication.
We need to configure in such a way that user ...
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SSH won't work after associating Elastic IP on Amazon Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit micro instance
This morning my EC2 and elastic IP were working fine. All of a sudden, all hell broke loose and my EC2 won't access through my elastic IP anymore. When I did a ssh -vvv I get
debug1: Connecting ...
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Weird permissions error with error_log
I am having a very strange issue with error_log. For some strange reason, error_log cannot write to any file under a symbolic link. Here is the structure:
/var/www # apache root, rwx for group ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 AMD64 vs. i386 servers on AWS EC2 [closed]
Are there any important (e.g. performance) differences between AMD64 and i386 AMIs on AWS - assuming both have EBS-backed storage? Can also assume micro instances in a US availability zone.
Are the ...
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Ubuntu will not see more than 8GB [closed]
I'm using the 64bit Ubuntu 12.04LTS and it will not see more than 8GB ram, I have 16GB currently installed, I am testing KVM as a hyper visor.
System info :
ASRock 970 Extreme3
AMD FX-6100
16GB-Kit ...
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Invalid system activity (sysstat) file on Ubuntu server
I'm periodically getting this message from the daily cron on my server. (I don't get this message every day.)
/etc/cron.daily/sysstat:
Invalid system activity file: /var/log/sysstat//sa28
Here's ...
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Cant connect to mysql server
I'm trying to configure a freshly installed mysql server to listen on port 3306.
I've removed skip_networking, I have changed bind-address=172.20.33.1 (which is my server ip) and it completely ...
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libcurl Reporting Different Version Between Commands
I previously had cURL 7.22.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 Server.. but I now need to upgrade to cURL 7.30.0.
I've done the following to compile this version for Ubuntu:
wget ...
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OpenVZ - Ubuntu 12.04 unable to enter
I've setup an Ubuntu 12.04 on OpenVZ, it's been created and appears to start up fine. When I try to enter the OS it just hangs.
I've ran ps aux with the exec and it returns:
USER PID %CPU %MEM ...
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How to Build nginx 1.4.0 and ngx_pagespeed in Ubuntu/Debian? [closed]
How to Build nginx 1.4.0 and ngx_pagespeed in Ubuntu
Create a directory to download necessary packages (optional) :
mkdir pagespeed && cd pagespeed
Make sure that you have latest version ...
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How do I install Ruby 2.0.0 correctly on Ubuntu 12.04? [closed]
I installed RVM successfully, but when I issue this command:
sudo apt-get update
or:
rvm install 2.0.0
I have these errors:
W: Failed to fetch ...
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Cache LDAP users from Server 2008 to Ubuntu
Is there a way to cache user creds from a Windows Server 2008 to a Ubuntu server?
We have 2 internal Active Directory servers on Windows Server 2008 and we have many different applications that use ...
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Sane permissions for webroot using Apache-MPM-ITK
I've installed apache2-mpm-itk on a new VPS to run multiple sites on the same server with isolation following the directions here: http://www.webtatic.com/packages/httpd-itk/. I want to lock it down ...
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Organizing Chef resources and extending cookbooks: Apache2 package + Compiled PHP
I'm trying to understand how to organize my Chef kitchen and extend the functionality of Opscode community cookbooks. Disclaimer: n00b.
PLANNED STACK
Ubuntu 12.04.2
Apache2 (package)
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PaaS with Ejabberd installation in place
I am looking into moving from a VPS based hosting to a scallable one with one of the PaaS providers. All what I have seen, is providing support for the server side languages and databases.
All this ...
