Questions tagged [ubuntu-14.04]

Ubuntu 14.04, named "Trusty Tahr" is a Long Term Support release of Ubuntu Linux (released in April 2014). Note that http://askubuntu.com is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.

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Connecting to Meraki Client VPN from Ubuntu w strongswan and xl2tpd

I have a virtual appliance running Ubuntu 14 that I would like to connect to a remote network via Meraki Client VPN. I have found instructions for installing and configuring strongswan and xl2tpd on ...
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Exim not Listening on port 465 or 587 for TLS connection

I am configuring Exim on a Ubuntu server to send and receive mails via TLS. Followed many guides which shows on how to configure Exim with TLS but still my Exim doesn't listen on 465 or 587 Exim ...
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Different ssh authentication policies for different accounts

I know that I can disable SSH authentication with clear text password for root user (using PermitRootLogin) and enable it for all other users. But I need to disable text passwords for some list of ...
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SSH hangs on connecting to a specific server

I use ubuntu 14.04 and I connect through SSH to a dozen odd servers both physical machines and virtual ones on the cloud. On one of my servers I used to connect through an RSA Authentication Key, I ...
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Change the name of a symlink directory without breaking it?

I'm trying to go through the process of changing a symlink on ubuntu 14.04 LTS without breaking anything. Do I simply rename the folder and change the way the virtual hosts file points to the ...
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Laravel in subdirectory - Nginx and fastcgi config

I'm trying to set up various facilities laravel applications on my nginx server hhvm, but after much research and many attempts could not succeed. Could someone help me with this? Here is my current ...
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CodeIgniter nginx rewrite rules for i8ln URL's

I'm testing a site which is build with CodeIgniter on a development Vagrant box (Ubuntu TLS 14 with nginx 1.8.1 and PHP 5.6 with php-fpm) and CodeIgniter just seems to fail with nginx. After several ...
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SNMPD bind error in Ubuntu 14.04 Server

I am trying to get SNMPD working on my Zenoss server that runs Ubuntu Server 14.04. I installed it and configured it but when I start it up, i get the following error in syslog: Aug 14 08:19:16 ...
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Error in installing Jenkins

I am facing issues while installing jenkins on my ubuntu14.04 server. Java version is 1.8. Steps followed as root: wget --no-check-certificate -qO - https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian/jenkins.io.key | sudo ...
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Are Jenkins Debian Repo keys necessary

I am in the process of migrating an application that needs a running Jenkins instance on the same server. The deployment of the application happens through Ansible. In the steps, there is a ...
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Puppet: Error: Could not set 'file' on ensure: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known on Ubuntu 14.04 x64

I'm trying to use Puppet to deploy a server on Ubuntu 14.04 x64. I can ping the puppet server fine, and the server is set correctly in puppet.conf. Puppet can connect to the master, send its key, I ...
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Redis not starting on boot

I have installed the redis-server package on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, running in Amazon EC2. ii redis-server 2:2.8.4-2 amd64 ii redis-tools 2:2.8.4-2 amd64 It didn't start on boot. So I ran the ...
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Cannot get web root to be /var/www/html, despite setting it in apache2.conf and 000-default.conf

new to Linux and trying to set up a basic web server. I'm currently a bit confused, as the document root when you visit the server in a browser appears to be /var/www/. In both apache2.conf and 000-...
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SpamAssassin scores are oddly low + different from manual analysis, causing nearly all spam to go through

I'm having issues with SpamAssassin; it's assigning emails scores that are way lower than it should. In addition, the scores it's assigning as emails come in are different from the results of running ...
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Is it okay to have Pharos port open on Ubuntu LTS 14 cloud server?

I was running a port scan on my ubuntu server hosted on cloud. Here are the port scan results that showed up. I am okay with the http and https ports but I am not sure if the pharos port needed to be ...
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Modifying pam with Ansible

As part of a new server setup, I provision /etc/security/access.conf with user/group and src IP addresses of allowed ssh logins. This requires enabling pam_access in the /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam....
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How to configure a bridge between two interfaces in Ubuntu server 14.04?

I am trying to configure a bridge between two interfaces em1 and em2 in Ubuntu server 14.04. This is my configuration: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto em1 iface em1 inet dhcp auto em2 iface ...
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How can I create a GPT partition label and mount the partition using its label in Ubuntu?

I'm trying to assign a partition label to a GPT partition, and use that partition label as an identifier for mounting in Ubuntu 14.04. So first I setup GPT and created a partition on the volume: ~# ...
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How to fix AH02565: Certificate and private key do not match

We have an application hosted on Ubuntu apache server and letsencrypt SSL is installed there. Now i want to change Letsencrypt ssl certificate by Digicert certificate. I followed the Digicert ssl ...
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How can I upgrade Python to 2.7.9 on Ubuntu 14.4?

Ubuntu 14.4 comes with Python 2.7.6 built-in, but I'd like to upgrade it to 2.7.9 (it has security features that I want). Is that even possible? If so, how can this be achieved?
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auth log file shows wrong time?

I was looking at the auth log of my server, and I was surprised to see that the times are offset. root@server:/home/admin# date Tue Jan 12 09:51:36 CET 2016 root@server:/home/admin# tail /var/log/...
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Cannot get client to pass DNS queries through openVPN tunnel

I cannot get my openVPN client machine (Windows 10) to pass DNS queries through the VPN tunnel. I am pushing 10.0.0.1 as a DNS server and the VPN connection shows that it is the DNS server for that ...
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Update certificates and OpenSSL on Ubuntu 14.04 and still getting expired LetsEncrypt certificate errors? [closed]

In my office one of the systems is still running Ubuntu 14.04. This system has been affected by the Let's Encrypt expired root certificate problem: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-...
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Postfix completely ignores relayhost setting in main.cf

I am having trouble sending email to my relay host. All mail is being directly delivered. postconf -n: alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases append_dot_mydomain = no biff ...
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RemainAfterExit in Upstart

Is there an Upstart equivalent to systemd's RemainAfterExit? I have an upstart task that exec's a script that completes quickly when the task is started. However, I would still like that task to ...
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GlusterFS failing to mount at boot with Ubuntu 14.04

Previously I asked about mounting GlusterFS at boot in an Ubuntu 12.04 server and the answer was that this was buggy in 12.04 and worked in 14.04. Curious I gave it a try on a virtual machine running ...
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Is Committed_AS in /proc/meminfo really the correct number for allocated virtual memory in Linux? It is less than used/RSS

I am collecting numbers for monitoring HPC servers and am debating the policy for handing out memory (overcommit or not). I wanted to show users a number on how much virtual memory their processes (...
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TCPdump write permission error when using -w option

I faced a very weird error, I'm running tcpdump by the root and want to log the output, when I do tcpdump -i eth0 -w logs/local.dump it works fine, but when I set the output path like bellow, I get ...
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Access denied trying to login to Ubuntu 14.04 (Authentication with Active Directory) [closed]

I'm trying to set up my Ubuntu 14.04 print server to authenticate users with my Active Directory server, I've followed all of the steps using the following tutorial: http://www.kiloroot.com/add-...
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Amazon ec2 Ubuntu no ssh after update and reboot

I have Ubuntu 14.04 server (LAMP), running on Amazon ec2. On my client machine I run Putty with imported SSH key. Session is saved, so there is no changes always. I had no errors during connection and ...
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GCE project-wide SSH keys not propogating

I have noticed in my GCE cluster that when I add an SSH key to the project metadata that it is then automatically added to /home/[user]/.ssh/authorized_keys. This is the behaviour I expect (and desire ...
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Can't create an apt mirror using debmirror

I'm trying to create a mirror in my local machine, but I can't verify the gpg signatures. Followed these steps: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Debmirror The only difference I created the ...
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Remove index.php from URL Apache 2.4

I have been trying to remove index.php from my application since a day. I have tried everything but am not able to remove it. The problem is - I am not allowed to have .htaccess file in the project ...
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Missing MD5Sums control file

Forgive my Linux newbness.... I've just run this: dpkg -C and it returned the following: The following packages are missing the md5sums control file in the database, they need to be reinstalled: ...
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About Let's encrypt ACMEv1 deprecation. How to make certificate renewal work again in Ubuntu 14.04? [closed]

I'm running an old Ubuntu 14.04 server. It has been running without issues for years now but, with the recent deprecation of ACMEv1 i can't renew the certificates again. I have googled about how to ...
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Address already in use, could not bind to address [::]:443

I am trying to set up SSL within my ubuntu 14.04 server. After generating my self-signed RSA certificate and setting up all necessary configuration, my server failed to start. All my /var/log/apache2/...
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Restore of mysql dump looks different on ubuntu 20.04

Every day I backup my wiki database with the following command on a Linux 14.04 on mysql 5.5.62 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root my_wiki > wiki.`date +"%m-%d-%Y_%T"`.sql When I restore the ...
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Unable to install mongoDB Community Edition on Ubuntu 14.04

I have created an instance in Alibaba Cloud Simple Application Server with Ubuntu 14.04 as system Image. I am trying to install MongoDB CE on the server by following the official documentation here I ...
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Attempting to purge mysql* with apt-get, unable to do so without interaction

I'm attempting to purge MySQL completely from Ubuntu 14.04 non-interactively but can't get past a dialog that requires me to say Yes/No. I'm running this command: sudo apt-get purge -y mysql* Which ...
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How to "safely" shutdown/restart a Galera cluster?

First time setting up Galera (Ubuntu 14.04) and I'm unable to restart the cluster after rebooting my nodes. I'm following the this guide and it doesn't exactly mention how to handle a shutdown or ...
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Mongod stuck in stop/waiting on Ubuntu 14.04

I installed MongoDB on Ubuntu 14.04 as per the documentation. It runs and works fine, except that it mysteriously stops every few hours and requires a manual restart with service mongod restart to get ...
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Use SNI with pip/pypi on Ubuntu 14 Trusty

pip no longer works on old versions of Python 2, because https://pypi.python.org/ now requires Server Name Indication (SNI), which isn't available in Python 2.7.6, the version of Python that comes ...
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OpenVPN 2.4.3 connection issues with AES-256-GCM

I am using OpenVPN 2.4.3 and EasyRSA-3.0.1. My Tunnelblick connection fails with cipher AES-256-GCM not found even though it's listed in openvpn --show-ciphers It works if I change it to use AES-...
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MySQL server does not start after moving data dir

I am trying to move MySQL's data dir to an external drive on an odroid (raspberry-like mini computer). I am using Ubuntu 14.04. I changed the paths in all configuration files containing /var/lib/...
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Understanding Apache rules in <Directory> directive

I have tried reading the manual although to be honest I am still finding it hard to understand and get my head around what the Order/Allow actually does. I have the following code inside a virtual ...
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Unable to update Phusion Passenger on Ubuntu 14.04: gnutls_handshake() failed:

I installed Phusion Passenger on Ubunut 14.04 a number of months back using the HOWTO here: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/install/apache/install/oss/trusty/ Recently, while updating system ...
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How to run zabbix agent as root in Ubuntu 14.04?

We have some legacy servers which runs on ubuntu 14.04 and we need to execute zabbix-agentd as root for getting some performance information. zabbix-agentd version = 5.0 I've followed this guide but ...
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HAProxy timeouts after 1-2 minutes of load

I am switching our web load balance from Nginx to HAProxy. Currently our setup is working fine in nginx but we want to be more redundant with service checking. Our backend is Golang app. To keep ...
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Nagios-Plugin "check_radius" missing in Ubuntu 14.04?

Since I asked this question already on askubuntu but nobody answered for a week perhaps here somebody knows the answere (https://askubuntu.com/questions/462162/nagios-plugin-check-radius-missing-in-...
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How to auto-start unprivileged lxc containers?

On Ubuntu 14.04, I have created an unprivileged container that I can manually start and stop. But I would like this to start and stop along with the system. I have added the following to the ...

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