[02:57] <lwizardl> hi
[02:57] <lwizardl> i'm new to ubuntu servers can someone help me with static ip config (terminal)
[02:59] <lwizardl> I have settings set but i'm not sure if they are correct
[03:00] <lwizardl> iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.125 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.1 broadcast 192.168.1.1 gateway 192.168.1.1
[03:02] <neuralis> lwizardl: that broadcast is wrong, and the 'network' is unnecessary.
[03:03] <neuralis> you want broadcast to be 192.168.1.255.
[03:03] <neuralis> in the future, please ask general ubuntu questions on #ubuntu.
[03:07] <lwizardl> neuralis: i did a few hours ago
[12:32] <joelbryan> anyone tried supplying rsync with a password?
[12:33] <spike> joelbryan: eer, you mean using a rsync server?
[12:34] <joelbryan> not using an rsync server, just fifo supplied password
[12:34] <infinity> ...
[12:34] <spike> eh?
[12:34] <infinity> You would only need a password if the remote server requires one.
[12:34] <infinity> In which case, "RSYNC_PASSWORD=foobar rsync ..." works fine.
[12:35] <spike> joelbryan: password for what? tunnelling rsync with ssh so supplying a pwd to ssh?
[12:35] <infinity> or "rsync --password-file=/path/to/file", if you don't want it in your eivnronment.
[12:35] <joelbryan> mkfifo param.fifo;  rsync file.txt user@server:/dir 0< param.fifo; echo "$password" &;
[12:35] <joelbryan> not using an rsync server
[12:35] <infinity> If tunelling over ssh, (via "rsync -e ssh ...", then you just type a password when SSH prompts you.
[12:35] <joelbryan> just plain ftp server
[12:36] <infinity> rsync has nothing to do with ftp.
[12:36] <spike> 'morning infinity
[12:36] <joelbryan> --password-file= only works with rsync servers
[12:38] <joelbryan> if the server is just plain ftp, it asks for a password, that doesn't work well with bash scripts.
[12:39] <neuralis> joelbryan: you're not making sense. ftp and rsync are totally separate concepts.
[12:39] <infinity> joelbryan: You can't rsync against an FTP server.
[12:39] <joelbryan> yes, i've tried it.
[12:39] <infinity> joelbryan: If you're doing "rsync -e ssh user@host:...", you're tunelling over SSH, and SSH will handle the password/key authenetication, not rsync.
[12:40] <infinity> Oh, clever.  If you use the "user@host:/path" construct, rsync ASSUMES "-e ssh"...
[12:41] <infinity> joelbryan: You're using SSH, you just don't know it.
[12:41] <joelbryan> ok
[12:41] <infinity> joelbryan: If you want passwordless auth, generate a keypair, and toss the public key in the remote host's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
[12:41] <allee> infinity: AFAIC it assumes -e rsh.  it's just that rsh defaults to ssh
[12:41] <allee> + in debian/kubuntu
[12:42] <infinity> Unless you have an actual rsh installed and change the alternative, right.
[12:43] <infinity> joelbryan: Best to explicitely specify "-e ssh" for that reason, since your script can't guarantee that "I'm blindly using rsh" will always work as expected.
[12:45] <allee> Anyone interested in commenting/testing mpich v2 pkgs (I'm working on gfortran addition) and (later) ganglia v3?  Or should I first goto #-motu?
[12:45] <joelbryan> ok, I'll try it. thanks :-)
[01:00] <neuralis> allee: there were some efforts to package ganglia v3, but it's tricky, so we decided not to for dapper
[01:03] <fabbione> allee: if the pkgs are in universe ask -motu
[01:03] <fabbione> neuralis: infinity just did a nice -server cleanup... today's images are sliiiim :)
[01:04] <neuralis> fabbione: i went and checked it out when colin posted to u-d
[01:04] <neuralis> infinity: awesome work
[01:04] <fabbione> hehe
[01:05] <neuralis> fabbione: i haven't had time to play with the 'install a LAMP server' bit; what's the extra package selection there?
[01:05] <fabbione> neuralis: apache2+php5+mysql out of the box
[01:05] <fabbione> it should just work
[01:06] <neuralis> fabbione: nice. i'll see if i can get a couple of sentences about it added to the chapter.
[01:06] <fabbione> neat
[01:06] <fabbione> now i need to find a pic of myself...
[01:06] <neuralis> fabbione: hehe, for the interview?
[01:06] <fabbione> a Linux Magasine is asking for one to add to an interview
[01:06] <fabbione> yeah
[01:07] <fabbione> they might as well play darts with it :P
[01:07] <neuralis> i think there were a bunch of your pics among the various ubz pics people had posted
[01:07] <fabbione> yeah that's for sure
[01:07] <fabbione> but i meant to find one that will look almost normal
[01:07] <neuralis> that'll be more difficult :)
[01:08] <fabbione> exactly
[01:09] <fabbione> and i can't even shoot a new one
[01:09] <fabbione> my wife did try to cut my hairs 2 days ago
[01:09] <fabbione> i look like a skinhead-nazi-whatever
[01:09] <neuralis> that's pretty hilarious
[01:09] <neuralis> is she an aspiring hairdresser?
[01:09] <fabbione> and publishing such a photo the day after the left wing of the parlament is at the italian gov again won't work
[01:10] <fabbione> no she was just pissed at me
[01:10] <neuralis> she was pissed, and you let her go that close to your head with a pair of scissors?!
[01:10] <neuralis> you must like living dangerously.. ;)
[01:12] <fabbione> she was pissed that i didn't cut my hairs for 6 weeks :) and she did use (wrongly) the machine
[01:12] <fabbione> hence the skinhead look
[01:12] <neuralis> gotcha
[01:13] <neuralis> so you know what i want? i want a launchpad module that uses bzr branches for writing a book. because the current process of writing a book with and mailing a word document back and forth with your editor is just stunningly inefficient. i want that, and a pony.
[01:14] <fabbione> ROFL
[01:24] <spike> neuralis: I was looking at something like that with latex+svn/moin+macro tex->wiki, then the editor could do corrections on the wiki and those coverted back to tex
[01:24] <spike> neuralis: but of course it depends on the complexity of tex, you cant really convert complex stuff to wiki syntax
[01:26] <neuralis> spike: i'm not talking about copy editing as much as the write-send-receive annotated-write cycle
[01:27] <neuralis> spike: currently, 'change tracking' in word gets (ab)used to do book development, and that's just idiotic.
[06:55] <spike> mmmh, do you guys know of any way to create a ram disk out of real memory and not VM?
[06:55] <spike> I dont want it to swap
[06:56] <hunger> spike: Use it... then it won't get swapped out.
[06:56] <spike> I want something I can sure about will stay in ram, whatever happens, at worst it'll be just destroyed
[06:56] <spike> I guess gpg does something like that to prevent keys being dumped to the hd,  but I'm not sure
[06:56] <hunger> spike: Why?
[06:57] <spike> why what?
[06:57] <hunger> spike: Why do you want the data destroyed but never swapped out?
[06:59] <spike> hunger: my own amusement
[06:59] <hunger> spike: Oh:-) I thought something security related maybe:-)
[07:03] <spike> hunger: well, that's where it originated , but it's just too pointless to be addressed like that, so I went with "my own amusement"
[07:03] <spike> hunger:working on extending https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EncryptedFilesystemHowto with LUKS and stuff
[07:06] <spike> hunger: and that thing just came up to my mind, but I cant really see any practical application. Yet I just remembered a couple of times me writing down pwds on files while doing stuff before moving them to the proper encrypted place, and I thought I was actually leaving traces since that file existed on the disk
[07:07] <spike> hunger: and that took me to the ramdisk that never swaps :)
[07:13] <spike> seems actually someone got a use of that :)
[07:13] <spike> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html
[07:13] <spike> Why did I write this document? Because I needed to setup a 16 MB ramdisk for viewing and creating encrypted documents. I did not want the unencrypted documents to be written to any physical media on my workstation.