Questions tagged [ubuntu]
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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What are RES interrupts (from Munin)
Our server recently had a very bad day, and one of the indicators/reasons seems to be that RES interrupts are douple their normal value, but what does this mean ?
(other interrupts: LOC+100%, eth1/...
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Merging partitions in Ubuntu 9.10
The current partition setup on my laptop install looks something like this -
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 ...
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Setting up FTP server on ubuntu so user XXXX has only acess to /var/www/
I tried using vsftpd but the result was that my user had access to the whole filesystem.
I created a group www, changed /var/www to belong to that group and then added the new user 'ftpuser' to this ...
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How I can find out why a user can't connect to Ubuntu Linux?
We're using SSH with public key authentication.
The user can connect from one machine, but not from another machine on a different network.
He was previously able to connect.
When we run ssh with -...
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how to make local domain name available to people on LAN
IN my Ubuntu server i have My source Matrix installed.
I acces the page by typing
http://ubuntu.matrix.local
i want to access the same from other poeple computer on the same LAN.
How can i do ...
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Webalizer geolocation on Mac
I have installed Webalizer on Ubuntu with Synaptic Package Manager and it works just fine.
Then I installed Webalizer on Mac (10.6.2) with http://webalizer.darwinports.com/. But geolocation does not ...
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Create a "controlled" APT proxy
Do you have any experience/scrips creating a controlled APT proxy (*)?
Currently, I'm using apt-cacher to speed up installs/updates in my LAN, but as its name says, it's only a cache (and a good one ...
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Postgres 8.3 and 8.4 in Ubuntu 9.10
After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 I've got 2 istances of Postgres DB on my system: a running 8.4 on port 5433 and the original 8.3 from old distribution stopped on port 5432.
I tryed to change ...
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Problem installing php5-cli on ubuntu
I want to install php5-cli on ubuntu but i keep getting this error
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
php5-cli is already the newest ...
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touch command in Linux
I'm rather new to this server-config stuff.
I'm following the ubuntu tutorial on OpenSSL and I came across the command echo '01' > serial && touch index.txt and i'm not quite sure what it'...
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VMWare ESXi virtual machine can contact the gateway but not the DNS server
I am having a bit of a strange issue. I have a VMWare ESXi server with two virtual machines running on it. They are running just fine and can communicate on the network without a problem.
I am now ...
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crontab -e fails to run
when i run "crontab -e" i get:
/usr/bin/editor: line 40: /tmp/crontab.BTXqyZ/crontab: Permission denied
/usr/bin/editor: line 40: exec: /tmp/crontab.BTXqyZ/crontab: cannot execute: Success
crontab: "/...
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How to Clean Up Ubuntu Grub Boot Menu After Upgrades
Recently I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 - the Karmic Koala - released in October 2009 .I upgraded using update manager many times. So each time I update it is adding one menu in boot screen like ...
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Error applying iptables rules using iptables-restore
Hi I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 on a VPS. I'm getting an error if I apply a iptables rule. Here is what I have done.
1.Saved the existing rules
iptables-save > /etc/iptables.up.rules
Created iptables....
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OpenVPN error "Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: Permission denied (errno=13)"
Hi I get the following error when I try to run openvpn in my Ubuntu Server
Fri Jan 8 02:12:59 2010 OpenVPN 2.1_rc11 i486-pc-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] built on Mar 9 2009
Fri Jan 8 ...
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Issues with HTTPS and landing pages?
We are going to setup HTTPS for a rails app but I was wondering if there would be any issues with the landing page if it were on HTTPS as well?
Ideally, we would like to have the landing page on HTTP,...
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How to automount home directory from remote machine?
I have two computers connected in network and I would like them to share my home directory. I thought of mounting on one of them home directory from another computer.
I may happen that one of those ...
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zsh colored files directories
I have a host for my VM, when it had a fresh install of Ubuntu the bash shell had colored directories and files.
How do I duplicate this with ZSH, i've customized my PS1 but I want to customize the ...
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Rails environment takes a long time to start in on VM
I have my development rails codebase running on a VirtualBox virtual machine (Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit server) with the codebase mounted as a share (originally via SMB/CIFS but now as a VirtualBox shared ...
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Services not starting on boot (but will start manually) on Ubuntu 9.10
After rebooting my machine, I have found many services have stopped starting automatically. If I start them with their init scripts once the machine is booted, they start without any problems. ...
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Ubuntu Update Manager won't update when "Install Updates" is clicked
I press the "Install Updates", Update Manager goes on to refreshing the updates list but does not install them.
I can install the updates through apt-get though. What could be the problem?
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VMware Studio: create Ubuntu 64bit virtual appliance
I'm using VMware Studio 2 to create virtual appliances.
Now we want to make an appliance of a 64 bit Ubuntu distro, but it's not in the template list, like Redhat 64bit and CentOS 64bit.
Is there a ...
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ubuntu - how can I avoid typing a password on every admin action?
I just set-up ubuntu 9.10 on my computer, and I'm trying to figure out how to avoid typing a password on every action that requires sudo privileges. I just want to type a password once on login and ...
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Ubuntu Linux install from USB - no partition table
I am using Ubuntu Live CD version 9.10 32 bit. I can see my other FAT32 drives and access them in the Live session but when I try to install, the drives are unmounted (their shortcuts are removed from ...
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Can not ssh into ubuntu server using <servername>.local (on one server but not the other)
I have two servers and one seems to have configured something "out of the box" to allow "ssh servername.local" to work. I really like this and looked into it, but I don't see any difference in their ...
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Dependencies from a .deb file
Given just a .deb file, how do I get the list of dependencies?
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ffmpeg on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) Server
I'm trying to get ffmpeg running on my server so I can use the PHP Video Toolkit successfully. I'm currently setting up my testing platform, which is a 32-bit Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Server.
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Stuck on Login PhpMyAdmin [closed]
I've isntalled phpmyadmin via apt-get.
I've set the apache env-vars to the correct user:group.
I've set ownership of /etc/apache2 and /etc/phpmyadmin to this user:group.
I've restarted both apache2 ...
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Why would anacron not be running?
I have a Ubuntu system that has anacron installed. However I'm pretty sure it's not running. It's not running the commands in /etc/cron.daily to rotate the syslog files (I'm using sysklog, which has ...
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Determining the minimum set of packages while building a customized Ubuntu install CD
I am customizing an Ubuntu install CD. The requirements are that everything needed be included on the CD. I'd also like to remove everything that's not needed. The use case is not a general purpose PC,...
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Is a reboot required to refresh permissions after adding a user to a new group?
On ubuntu server, I've noticed more than once now that after adding a user to a group that user doesn't have group permissions until I reboot the system. For example:
User 'hudson' needs permission ...
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How can I tell if my server is running Ubuntu as 64-bit or 32-bit [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Determine Linux Server’s Architecture (32 or 64 bit)
I want to install a package and it has a version for 32-bit ubuntu and 64-bit. How can I tell which one is running ...
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useradd with 755 permissions
I d like to set the home directories permissions as 755 when i add the user via useradd.
How can i do this?
Thanks.
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How can I install software packages to an Ubuntu system with no internet access?
I have two Ubuntu systems, neither has any internet access. One has some software installed (via apt) which I would like to install on the other system. How can I do this? I have a USB stick I can ...
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new domain not pointing to the right server
i recently bought a new domain and pointed it to another host. i decided to move to more powerful server so then the following day, I added an A record for my dedicated server 23.23.23.23 on my ...
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Zimbra - NFS vs. iSCSI
We are going to be migrating our mail server from postfix/courier to Zimbra over the next few months. We've run a prototype server over an iSCSI LUN exported from a Dell Equallogic quite successfully. ...
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How to configure remote access to SVN
I've installed SVN on my Ubuntu 9.10 server - running on EC2.
What are the options for allowing access to SVN for a set of remote users? I was going down the path of svn+ssh but then does that mean ...
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Problem Moving Ubuntu Server 9.04 from VMWare Workstation to ESX Server
I moved a VMWare client (using the VMWare vCenter Converter) from a VMWare Workstation 7 host to an ESX V3.5 host. Everything seems to have gone correctly but when I power on the VMWare image the ...
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How can I stop Apache starting every time I start Ubuntu Desktop?
In previous Ubuntu Desktop versions, I remember a "Services" GUI app which enabled me to select / deselect from a list of service type software like Apache web server and thus tell the system whether ...
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I have some questions regarding VPS and what I should order? [closed]
I have a classifieds website, with around 50thousand ads put in every month. I don't have any more statistics than this. I use PHP and MySql currently, and I am about to install Sphinx or SOLR on ...
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access linksys router admin module remotely if linksys is behind a linux router
My linksys wireless router is behind a Linux router and I would like to access the linksys router's admin module remotely.
How do I configure iptables so I can open the admin module?
iptables -t nat ...
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How to configure logwatch to monitor a custom log file
Ubuntu Server 9.10
Hi Guys,
Could someone point me to some instructions for how to get logwatch to monitor a custom log file? I have a dropbox solution that documents uploads/downloads to a log ...
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What does an ubuntu preseed file look like for a minimal install?
What does an ubuntu preseed file look like for a minimal install? My current preseed file installs about 400 packages and is serveral 100MBs.
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Run 32-bit Java VM on 64-bit Linux (Ubuntu)
I use a VPS on Rackspace which only offers 64-bit operating systems (I'm running Ubuntu 9.04). I'm deploying Java applications to the VPS and found that the 64-bit version of the JDK uses a lot more ...
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Centralized accounts and multiple logins
I'm thinking of setting up LDAP+NFS to handle centralized /home directories for our LAN users, but I was wondering, what would happen upon login from multiple machines with the same user? Are there ...
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patch management for software compiled from source
I'm doing research into building a lamp server in ubuntu or debian for an intranet. Pretty much everything I have seen recommends building from source, chrooting all the components and such for ...
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How to debug Ubuntu/Cisco VPN issues
I'm trying to connect an Ubuntu laptop (9.10) with some kind of Cisco VPN device; I don't know what's on the other end, and I'm not likely to find out exactly what. I know my company allows VPN from ...
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RAID1: How do I "Fail" a drive that's marked as "removed"?
I have (had) a RAID 1 array (2 disk mirror) and one of the disks, sda, failed. So I've replaced the bad disk with a new one, but seem to be stuck on how to get the second drive back up and running as ...
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lsb-base-logging script and "INITOUTPUT" variable in Ubuntu
I had some troubles installing Mysql server on an ubuntu machine. after some searching I found the init script of Mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql) tries calling the "/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh" shell script, ...
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Installing rtorrent on my ubuntu server
I am try to install rtorrent on my ubuntu server.
I ran these commands and they worked fine.
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-xmlrpc-c
make
and then when i tried to use make install i guess it ...