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nealmcbI'm upgrading via aptitude (dapper), and again I'm running into odd broken dependencies.  It says that cupsys-bsd is broken, and suggests that I need to upgrade it in order to upgrade cupsys-client to 1.2.2 My problem is, why on earth does it think I don't want it to do that automatically??  does it think I placed some sort of hold on it or something??  I never do that sort of thing on purpose....12:38
ivoksyou are dist upgrading or what?12:41
nealmcbjust a normal "U" for upgrade12:41
ivoksso... you already have dapper?12:42
nealmcbyes12:42
ivoksso, it says that cupsys-bsd needs upgrading?12:42
nealmcbYeah.  in the aptitude gui, at the bottom "[1(1)/...]  Suggest 4 upgrades e: Examine  !: Apply  .: Next  ,: Previous"12:43
ivoksdoing sudo apt-get upgrade doesn't install new packages?12:43
nealmcbI've been told for years that aptitude was better than apt, since it keeps track of what you really want to install12:44
ivokssorry, but i don't see a problem12:44
ivoksit reminds you that you need to upgrade another package too12:45
ivoksand if you choose apply, everything should go ok12:45
nealmcbwhy does it ask me about cupsys-bsd, but not about cupsys-client?12:46
ivoksif that 'reminding' is a problem, maybe you shouldn't use tool which primary job is to remind you about additional upgrades :)12:46
nealmcbI didn't ask for anything in particular, and it comes up with not one, but four different things I have to approve12:46
ivoksthen don't use UI of aptitude12:47
ivoksjust run sudo aptitude upgrade12:47
ivoksor dist-upgrade12:47
nealmcbIf I understood what was different about the two situations, it wouldn't make me nervous12:47
ivoksdifference betwean what?12:47
ivoksdoh...12:48
nealmcbwhy does it ask me about cupsys-bsd, but not about cupsys-client?12:48
nealmcbboth need upgrading, but it makes a point of asking me about one of them12:48
ivoksif you select one package for upgrade, than it will ask you for another one12:49
nealmcbI didn't select anything in particular for upgrade - just a general "upgrade it all" but it starts asking questions about four packages out of the dozens that need upgrading12:50
ivoksmaybe cupsys needs additional library12:50
nealmcbthe other questions out-of-the-blue are about evolution-plugins , libc6-i686 and libglib2.0-data 12:51
ivoksand if you approve instalation of cupsys-client, then that library will get installed12:51
ivoksthus, you don't have to approve that for evey single package that depends on that library12:51
nealmcbI could see it warning me if I was asking to do something custom, like holding cupsys-client at an old version.  but I'm just trying to say "upgrade it all"12:51
ivoksyou don't listen or you don't understand?12:52
ivoksif new version of cups depends on a new library (which you don't have installed)12:52
ivoksthen, selecting upgrade of one cups package, selects that new library12:52
ivokssince that library will get installed, you don't have to approve installation of every single cups package12:53
ivoksthey don't need special approval, since you will have that library and everything is fine with them12:53
ivoksand, i'll repeat12:53
ivokswhy do you use aptitude UI if interaction makes you nervous? :)12:54
nealmcbBoth cupsys-client and cupsys-bsd are already installed, by default.  So it isn't an issue of needing a new library, as far as I can see12:54
ivoksok, for the test12:54
ivokswhen you do sudo apt-get dist-upgrade12:55
nealmcbI like a GUI that tells me what I need to know.  I'm curious why I need to know about these four upgrades, out of all the others out there12:55
ivoksdoes it say that it need aditional packages?12:55
nealmcbwhy dist-upgrade?12:55
ivoksthat's what aptitude is doing12:55
nealmcbI thought "U" was for just "upgrade", not "dist-upgrade"12:56
ivoksi don't use aptitude, sorry, i can't help you12:56
ivoks:)12:56
nealmcbAhh...12:56
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nealmcbfor the record, sudo aptitude upgrade says it will upgrade both cupsys-bsd and cupsys-client.  So I still want to know why the GUI is making a big deal about cupsys-bsd and a couple others, out of dozens of upgraded packages.12:59
ivokspress e?01:00
nealmcbyeah, "e" helps give info.  But what is the equivalent for the command line?01:04
nealmcbIt is just odd that the GUI treats these packages differently than the command line, and I want to know why, and if there is a way to turn that off.  It gets far worse at other times with aptitude - e.g. packages showing up for deletion which none of my colleagues remember marking for deletion.  , which makes me wonder if folks really don't recommend it any more, like they used to.01:06
nealmcbso maybe just doing it all from the command line, with apt-get or aptitude, is the answer for server administration these days?01:06
ivoksi've never used aptitude, and i'm runing linux servers for 10 years01:07
marnaudhi, I don't know if I'm at the good place for that, I have a question about logrotate, so maybe I'm not too off-topic and someone knows it well01:07
nealmcbwell, it was the default for either debian or ubuntu in 2004 or so as I recall01:07
ivoksnealmcb: it was never default in ubuntu01:07
ivoksand never in debian01:07
ivoksdpkg is the only 'default' thing01:08
ivokseverything else is glue on top of it01:08
ivoksmarnaud: sure, just ask01:08
marnaudI have configured all my log files to be rotated once a month, and a rotation happened before she had to01:09
nealmcbduring installation of debian server pre-sarge in september of 2004, aptitude was the default01:09
nealmcbI don't know if sarge shipped that way or not01:09
marnaudI had chrony and I deinstalled it, I think it's that which is the problem because chrony has log files handled by logrotate01:10
ivoksmarnaud: all logs or just some of them?01:11
marnaudafter chrony was removed, the day after with the daily cron task, all my log files handled by logrotate were rotated01:11
marnaudivoks: all logs01:11
marnaudso I don't know if it's a normal behaviour or if this may be a bug01:12
ivoksmarnaud: how did you configure logrotate to rotate only once in a month?01:12
ivoksin every config in logrorate.d?01:12
marnaudI configured it in /et/logrotate.conf with monthly directive01:14
marnaudand all my config files in logrotate.d have monthly too01:15
ivoksbut... that file includes /etc/logrotate.d01:15
ivoksok01:15
marnaudI don't know exactly how function /var/lib/logrotate/status01:17
ivoksthat should be ok01:17
marnaudok so it's a normal behaviour ?01:17
ivoksit's not01:18
ivoks /var/lib/logrotate/status is status of when was the last time logs were rotated01:19
marnaudyes, this confirms they were rotated01:20
marnaudand not at the begin of the month as I must do normally01:20
ivokswelll01:22
ivoksyou can do this :)01:22
ivoksmv /etc/cron.daily/logrotate /etc/cron.monthly/01:22
marnaudI'm sorry, I should precise, this rotation happened 3 days ago01:24
ivokseven for syslog?01:24
marnaudand since this unusual rotation, there is not daily rotations01:24
marnaudthis problem happened once01:24
ivokshm...01:25
marnaudyes even for syslog01:25
ivoksdid you changed settings on that day?01:25
marnaudno01:25
marnaudthat's why I wonder what happened and if it may be a bug01:25
ivokslogrotate should start keeping it's own logs :)01:26
nealmcbSo now folks on another channel are saying that apt and aptitude are unreliable for doing upgrades - that update-manger is necessary, implying X11!!  Do folks here agree?01:28
foohmm, during the ubuntu install... I was told alt+f2.. setup network, install openssh-server... then I can ssh in remotely. Just wondering, is there anyway to run the installer remotely?01:29
foo:)01:29
marnaudok I will make some tries because I'm curious about this problem :)01:30
LaserJockmarnaud: I don't think update-manager is the recommended upgrade tool for servers01:35
LaserJockfor a normal desktop it's a bit better because it has some extra "stuff"01:36
marnaudLaserJock: sorry, I don't see why you talk me about update-manager :)01:37
LaserJockhmm?01:38
Burgworknealmcb: there is going to be a commandline updater01:39
nealmcbtell me more :-)01:39
nealmcbone that uses the same python logic behind update-manager?01:39
nealmcbburgwork ^^01:42
Burgworkyes01:42
nealmcbthanks01:43
Burgworkjusta  sec, getting the spec01:43
nealmcb:-)01:43
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Burgworkhttps://blueprints.beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-upgrade-tool01:44
ajmitchhi Burgwork 01:47
Burgwork hey ajmitch01:47
nealmcbBurgwork: thanks - I'll look at it later when I'm running firefox.  launchpad seems to have cookie and certificate problems, according to lynx01:51
LaserJocknealmcb: I think elinks works with Launchpad01:54
LaserJockI saw that bug in my bugmail today01:54
nealmcbLaserJock: thanks - I'll try that out... after my big upgrade finishes so I can install it....01:56
nealmcbLaserJock: elinks works - thanks02:12
nealmcbBurgwork: This site is accessible by launchpad admins and members of the Launchpad   Beta Testers team only.02:13
Burgworknealmcb: nuke the word "beta" out of the url02:13
nealmcbahh - but it is on the normal launchpad site...02:13
nealmcb:-)02:13
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exobuzzhello03:02
mralphabethello03:03
exobuzzi have a question. i asked it on #ubuntu but got no reply, but i guess this channel is more suited as its a server issue03:03
exobuzzanyway here goes: Im adding a usb hd to machine i have only remote access to. As such, I don't want to mount it from fstab, as that happens before networking is started, and in case of some failure, i want to be able to log in. So I intent to create an entry in fstab with noauto and "0" for fsck order so it doesnt get checked/mounted. Then I can mount later on. I want it mounted BEFORE apache/proftp etc as it will have files on03:03
exobuzzit needed by those daemons and others. Are the update-rc.d "defaults" suitable for this, ? does the system normally run fsck on every boot and fsck decides whether a disk is dirty or not?03:03
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InnatechIIRC, fsck is only run if the disk is found to be marked dirty @ startup, but I might be a little fuzzy on that. 03:13
exobuzzthanks. yeh i ran it a few times and it seems to be smart so i guess thats the right way03:15
exobuzzand looking at things the update-rc.d defaults use S20 for my script, which SHOULD be ok. as apache/proftpd are S50/S91 (this is a sysv machine no upstart etc03:16
exobuzzok rebooting to test it :)03:19
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exobuzzwell. that seems to work nicely03:29
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Kamping_Kaisersorry i took a while to leave -admin, i was out11:42
Kamping_Kaiserin this instance does 'server'=ltsp server?11:42
shawarmaDepends.11:47
shawarma:-)11:47
shawarmaKamping_Kaiser: What's the problem?11:48
Kamping_Kaiseri was wondering if an ltsp server has support until 2009 or 2011.11:48
shawarmaKamping_Kaiser: Dapper is supported until 2011.11:56
Kamping_Kaisershawarma, for ltsp servers though? because desktop is only 3 years (ie 2009), with servers until 201111:57
shawarmaKamping_Kaiser: I'm not entirely sure (don't work for Canonical).11:57
Kamping_Kaisershawarma, ok. i'll muse over my best course of action for a day or two then :)11:58
shawarmaKamping_Kaiser: You could drop Canonical an e-mail and ask them.11:59
shawarmaKamping_Kaiser: they're very friendly, don't bite, and usually reply pretty quickly.11:59
Kamping_Kaisershawarma, would canonical be the correct place to ask? i dont have any support contracts with tehm11:59
Kamping_Kaiser*them11:59
shawarmaThey decide for how long there's going to be support on stuff.12:00
shawarmahttp://www.canonical.com/support/webtolead12:00
Kamping_Kaiserthanks12:01
shawarmaany time12:03
shawarmaKamping_Kaiser: You could try in #ubuntu-devel too.12:03
Kamping_Kaisershawarma, hm. think i'll not do that :)12:04
[miles] mmm why is ubuntu-servers version of SpamAssassin so out of date?12:11
shawarma[miles] : spamassassin | 3.1.7-2ubuntu1 | http://se.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages12:12
shawarma[miles] : Is that so bad?12:12
[miles] for 6.06LTS12:12
[miles] sorry12:12
[miles] should have said12:12
shawarma[miles] : Well, you answered it yourself. 6.06 means June 2006.12:13
[miles] shawarma: yeah...12:13
[miles] shawarma: I know that12:13
[miles] shawarma: but for a server... SA is quite a critical package in some situations12:14
[miles] shawarma: like the situation im in12:14
[miles] shawarma: I've compiled the latest SA tarball now12:14
shawarma[miles] : http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper-backports/mail/spamassassin12:14
shawarma[miles] : Unsupported, though.12:15
[miles] shawarma: mm ok12:15
[miles] thanks12:15
[miles] I'll keep that in mind12:15
[miles] shawarma: actually, due to the server being a spam firewall, I think I'll try to start rolling my own .deb's12:16
[miles] and keep the base Ubuntu Server 6.0612:16
shawarma[miles] : that's on option, too.12:16
[miles] shawarma: you know if there is any nice tools to build a .deb from a tarball? like rpmbuild has?12:17
shawarma[miles] : I'm not familiar with rpmbuild.12:18
[miles] ah ok np12:20
shawarma[miles] : Is it something like checkinstall?12:20
[miles] no idea mate12:21
[miles] never attemtpted to package .deb's12:21
shawarmaTry a quick 'apt-cache show checkinstall'. See if the description fits your needs.12:22
[miles] ok thanks will do12:23
[miles] just hacking a perl SA pluggin12:23
[miles] then I'll try12:23
shawarmak12:24
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[miles] lionel: good day12:54
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mvocan someone with apache expertise can give me a hint how to reproduce https://beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+bug/95325 ? I tried it in various ways and seem to be getting nowhere02:10
lionelhi [miles] 02:34
lionel(and sorry for the delay)02:34
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necritehi 02:56
necritei have to make one step by step doc for ubuntu server installation02:56
necritei have to knoe when ubuntu server instalation ask you for network configuration02:57
necriteanyone remember that?02:57
ivokswhen? during installation :)03:03
ivoksit loads drivers first03:04
ivoksiirc03:04
necriteivoks, mhh but it make all interfaces as DHCP .. 03:07
ivoksright03:07
necritei find one post :)03:07
ivokswait... i know where you can find this info03:08
necritenice :D03:08
ivokshttp://www.howtoforge.com/samba_domaincontroller_setup_ubuntu_6.1003:08
ivoksthere, picture by picture03:08
ivoksso, that would be after scaning CDROM03:10
ivoksit it is a net boot installation03:10
necritei dont know why ppl need this things :S03:10
ivoksthen it is after keyboard layout03:10
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[miles] hi lionel and me also, sorry for the delay03:58
[miles] jaja03:58
[miles] lionel: went to carrefour to have a MAJOR argument with them03:58
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r00tintheb0xHey guys, how can i forward X from a server to my Gnome desktop?09:55
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nealmcbr00tintheb0x: ssh does x forwarding10:20
r00tintheb0xnealmcb, yeah i got it from Ubuntu+110:21
r00tintheb0xthanks10:21
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radevilhello 11:53
theacolyteAfternoon11:53

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