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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 ...
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