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kgoetzproprietarysucks: i think you can, i dont know how. (havent dealt with those redhatty things before)00:06
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pschulz01Greetings all! I have an interesting server problem..02:52
pschulz01We (work) are installing a new server and at the same time preparing some backup hardware should somethign go wrong..02:54
pschulz01The plan is to do nightly backups to a disk, and then be able to swap in the new hardware with the new disk, if required, and take off from where the backup was done.02:54
pschulz01There are issues with 'udev' wanting to keep network device names around (easy to fix) and an issue with sysklogd not starting up properly.02:56
pschulz01Hm.. I'll send my question to the mailing list.03:01
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Zylstra555are there any free, safe, good external SMTP servers, if you dont want to create your own?04:26
sommerZylstra555: usually your ISP will allow you to use theirs.04:27
sommerthere may be limits though04:27
Zylstra555sommer: Righto, I shall need to contact them04:27
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sergevnHow are the experiences with JeOS here in the channel? :)08:02
krautmoin08:05
sorensergevn: What do you want to know?08:32
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Burgundaviasoren: should I assign ebox bugs to you?08:39
sorenBurgundavia: Nah. I'll look at them, when I get to eBox on my list anyway.08:41
sorenBurgundavia: And if someone else feels like looking into it, they're more than welcome :)08:41
sergevnsoren: If someone has the "common" problems like with any new distro08:41
sorensergevn: It's not exactly a new distro, but yes, I have to admit it has a few annoying quirks.08:42
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tjaaltonwhee, a newer nfs-utils from debian fixes nfs mounts.. I'll merge it now (mathiaz being absent)09:13
sorentjaalton: Great, thanks.09:15
tjaaltonhuh, there was a sync request too, but that's bogus09:15
tjaaltonI'll close that once done09:15
tjaaltonactually, it could be synced, since the only change is for initscripts Depends, which is now obsolete09:21
tjaaltonuh no09:23
tjaaltonnot before sysvinit is merged :)09:24
sorentjaalton: So what are you waiting for? :)09:26
tjaaltonsoren: dput to finish :)09:26
soren(You're not identified to nickserv, by the way)09:26
sorentjaalton: Heh :)09:26
tjaaltonI'm not going to merge sysvinit if that's what you meant :)09:26
tjaaltonoh right, I changed my nick a couple of weeks ago..09:27
tjaaltondone09:28
tjaaltonI _think_ keybuk want's to deal with sysvinit himself ;)09:30
sorentjaalton: That was indeed what I meant, yes :)09:33
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mikonehey, for some reason my gutsy machine (just did an upgrade from feisty) does not "recognize" the root user anymore. when booting it tells me "only root can do that" several times when its supposed to mount the drives.09:58
sorenAll drives?09:58
Kamping_Kaisersounds like stuffs running as the wrong user, not lacking root09:58
mikoneyes.09:59
mikonethe boot process itself?09:59
Kamping_Kaiseryou using any fancy crypto stuff?09:59
sorenmikone: What is the precise output you get? Can you tell which commands it's trying to run?09:59
mikoneyes of course.. it will take a while because i cant access the computer remotely10:00
mikoneokay, first of all grub is loading the kernel image (starting up, loading... please wait), after that, kinit resolves the swap partitions name and searches for an image which it should resume from (none is found) and then it tells me that "No resume image (was found), doing normal boot" - the very next message already is "mount: only root can do that"10:06
mikoneso it probably tries to mount the partitions listed in fstab...10:06
sorenOk, so you can't actually see the commands it's trying to run.10:06
sorenCan you boot it without "splash quiet" on the kernel command line?10:06
mikoneyes, i will change it10:07
mikonethe first mounting error appears immediately after executing /scripts/init-bottom but it does not tell me how the mount command does look like10:10
mikoneand i can't access any logs since it is not able to mount the partition which is bound to /var and the root partition itself is read only...10:11
sorenmikone: This sounds very odd indeed.10:20
sorenmikone: Is there anything interesting about your setup?10:21
sorenHow is it different from a standard install?10:21
mikoneyes, i've been changing the pam.d and nsswitch settings but resetted the settings to default already10:21
sorenWhat were your changes to nsswitch?10:22
mikonethey've been working before - i have a ldap server handling some user accounts but root still is in passwd of course10:22
mikonei added ldap as the third place to lookup10:22
mikoneafter compat and files10:22
mikonedo you think its something about nsswitch?10:23
sorenCould be.10:23
sorennsswitch defines how to resolve uid <-> usernames, for instance.10:23
sorenI *shouldn't* matter, of course, but it might have.10:24
mikoneyes, i think i understood it this far though i'm not sure how it could affect the boot process when only having a third place for resolving uids/names10:24
mikonei will give it a try and post my results as soon as i'm done10:25
mikonethanks for now :)10:25
sorenWell, fixing it now won't help much, I think.10:25
soren...although..10:25
sorenWell, it's hard to tell what the problem actually is, so it's hard to guess what would fix it. :)10:26
mikonewhat do you mean by "fixing it now"? doesn't it make a difference when changing the nsswitch configuration from a live cd or stomething?10:26
mikoneyes, the most terrible thing is not having access to any log files :)10:26
sorenThat could work.10:26
sorenFix the nsswitch.conf and run update-initramfs -u from a chroot into the file system.10:27
mikonethat probably is what i was missing. update-initramfs forces it to change what?10:27
sorenIt updates the initramfs :)10:28
sorenIt's the early userspace stuff that loads the drivers needed to mount your root file system.10:28
sorenAgain, it's hard to tell what the problem is, and doing this can't really make things worse :)10:30
mikonewell, changing nsswitch to look up groups/users in files only did not help. i will try to use compat and files only though i don't know what compat means :)10:33
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mikonethis is what happens when you're doing things you don't know anything about.. i think that's the lesson for today.10:35
mikonedo you think "update-passwd" could help too or does this not affect the early userspace?10:39
sorenmikone: Doesn't matter.10:42
mikonegladly i made a backup of the most important configurations prior to updating... i think i will reinstall the system now before wasting your and my time anymore. thank you very much for your help!!10:44
sorenIt's not trouble. Really.10:47
sorenWe might uncover an actual problem that needs to be fixed and even learn something in the process :)10:47
mikoneokay, that's true.. it would be great if it was possible to get some log files but i can't imagine how to do this when not having a root user at all :)10:49
mikonejust as a sidenote: when starting in recovery mode i end up having a terminal which predicts to be root@server. but as soon as running any commands requiring root permissions like mount it tells me "mount: only root can do this"10:51
sorenDo you have that prompt around still?10:52
mikonei may boot in recovery mode again, that's not a problem10:52
sorenCool.10:52
sorenDo that, please.10:52
mikoneof course :)10:52
soren...and say when it's ready.10:55
mikoneokay, that's funny. last time i've been running the knoppix live cd to perform the update-initramfs i also assigned a password to the root user. when starting in recovery mode now, it asks me for the root password (which it did not do formerly) and it really seem to check the password10:56
mikonehowever, i'm ready :)10:56
sorenThat's the way sulogin works.10:57
sorenIf the root user has a disabled password, it just dumps you at a root prompt. If it's got an actual password it asks you for it.10:57
sorenOk, what does id say?10:57
mikoneafter asking for the password it tells me that "bash: groups command not found" and the same for dircolors10:58
mikonebut nothing else10:58
mikoneand as it did before there are a lot of error messages from commands involved by the boot process which require root credentials10:58
sorenOk try "id -u" instead.10:58
sorenOh..10:59
sorenNow I know what you mean.10:59
sorenJust type "id" and tell me about the output.10:59
sorenI didn't mean "it" :)10:59
mikoneit could not find the command10:59
sorenAh.10:59
mikoneis it somewhere below /usr ?10:59
sorenYes.10:59
mikone:(10:59
* soren things10:59
mikonei'm afraid this partition is not available10:59
* soren thinks10:59
mikonethough i could copy its contents with knoppix11:00
sorenThat's ok. We'll figure it out.11:00
mikonei mean the contents of var partition to root partition11:00
mikoneerm, usr11:00
sorenOk, run "mount", locate your root partitino.11:00
sorenWhat's in the parentheses?11:00
mikonerw,errors=remount-ro11:01
sorenOk. What are the permissions on /bin/mount ?11:01
mikoneoh, i think i see the problem11:02
mikoneits uid 1501 which is the root user in the directory (ldap)11:02
mikonei mean thats the owner11:02
mikonethough "world" and "group" are allowed to read and execute11:03
* soren is on the phone11:03
mikone-rwxr-x-r-x11:03
mikoneit's not like i'm in a hurry... i already told my boss that i probably have to set it up again :>11:04
Kamping_Kaisertheres always `grep `whoami /etc/group /etc/passwd`` if you need to work out who you are :)11:04
mikonei'll give it a try11:04
sorenKamping_Kaiser: No, that's not good enough.11:05
mikonewhounfortunately whoami is not available too11:05
Kamping_Kaisergah. whoami is under /usr/ *grin*11:05
Kamping_Kaisersoren, i havent read the full scrollback... perhaps i should11:06
sorenKamping_Kaiser: Even if it wasn't, that wouldn't be good enough.11:06
* Kamping_Kaiser forgot the channel was active :$11:06
mikone:)11:06
Kamping_Kaiserback in 5-10 min ;)11:06
Kamping_Kaiserreadin11:06
Kamping_Kaiserg11:06
sorenmikone: So somehow someone managed to chown root:root /bin/mount  and change it to the ldap root user?11:06
mikoneshall i copy the contents of the partition mounted to /usr to the root partition now?11:06
sorenNo, don't bother.11:07
mikoneyes.. it probably looked up the ldap root user before the actual root user11:07
sorenchown 0:0 /bin/mount ; chmod 4755 /bin/mount11:07
mikoneit could have happened while upgrading11:07
sorenmikone: ...that really shouldn't happen.11:07
sorenmikone: If you added ldap at the end.11:07
mikonei did11:08
sorenmikone: And besides: Nothing should be ch{mod,own}ing /bin/mount11:08
sorenchown 0:0 /bin/mount ; chmod 4755 /bin/mount  <--- Those two commands are likely to fix everything.11:08
mikoneyarr, root is read only. i have to restart and boot from a recovery cd11:08
sorenNo, it's not.11:08
sorenYou said the parentheses said rw?11:08
mikonemaybe an error appeared and it was remounted11:09
sorendmesg?11:09
sorenOh, hang on.11:09
sorencat /proc/mounts11:09
soreninstead of running "mount"11:09
sorenThere might be several that looks like they're mounted on /. You need to find the one with the right block device at the start of the line.11:10
mikoneyou're right, it's mounted as rw11:10
mikoneah okay11:10
mikonei'm not sure about the uuid but there is one partition mounted read only11:10
mikonethis probably is the root partition11:10
mikoneyes it is11:10
Kamping_Kaiserbloody nss* stuff. caused me some issues on my server too.11:10
sorenmikone: Is /dev/shm mounted?11:11
mikonenope11:11
sorenCrap.11:11
Kamping_Kaiserchown 0:0?11:11
sorenread only filesystem.11:11
mikoneand yes Kamping_Kaiser, but one really should read some more documentations before playing around :>11:11
mikonedo you think starting the recovery cd could help?11:12
Kamping_Kaisermikone, hehe. lamont saved my but by telling me to use nscd, magically my libnss-ldap worked, pity it wont help you ;)11:12
sorenmikone: Sure, I just wanted to not have to do that. :)11:12
Kamping_Kaisertheres a way to remind / rw isnt there ? sometyhing like `mount -o rw /dev/rootDeviceHere`?11:13
sorenYes, but the problem is that mount is suid another user.11:13
mikone:)11:13
mikonei'm gonna reboot and put the proper access permissions on /bin/mount11:14
Kamping_Kaiserah... is it time to chroot this in a live cd and run chkrootkit yet? ;)11:14
sorenKamping_Kaiser: And it's -o remount,rw11:14
sorenHang on...11:14
mikonesure :)11:14
sorenmikone: You say it's -rwxr-xr-x ? Not -rwsr-xr-x ?11:15
mikoneuhh, i THINK its -rwxr-xr-x but i just rebooted.. it will take a minute or so11:15
Kamping_Kaiseri was supprisingly close. thanks for the correction though11:15
sorenKamping_Kaiser: :) Without the remount option it'll just say "already mounted. Go away. kthxbye"11:16
Kamping_Kaisersoren, fair enough :) at least its nice enough to tell you it wont, unix's arnt always that nice :)11:17
mikonesoren, it definitely is -rwxr-xr-x11:19
mikonei changed to ownership now11:19
sorenmikone: In that case, mounting should have worked.11:20
sorenMeh. Try it anyway :)11:20
mikoneokay ;)11:21
mikonerunning the chmod command is still required?11:21
mikoneand if so, for umount to? because this file seems to have the same problem...11:21
mikoneYOU SAVED MY DAY!11:25
mikonei'm not going to spend hours on reinstalling the whole system11:26
mikoneyou are GREAT!!11:26
MenZasoren is, indeed, great.11:26
* MenZa worships soren.11:26
MenZasoren, did you ever go through the ubunut-dk members' list?11:26
* soren laughs11:26
sorenMenZa: No, someone said he'd send out the minutes from the meeting. I figured I'd do it then.11:27
MenZaoh wait.11:27
MenZa#ubuntu-server, right. >_>11:27
MenZaThe.. minutes?11:27
soren"referatet" :)11:28
MenZaThe summary ;)?11:28
MenZaHmm11:28
sorenIt's called "minutes". Go figure.11:28
MenZaYeah, I haven't received that yet11:28
Kamping_Kaiser*fanboys soren *11:28
mikonei just noticed :)11:28
MenZaInteresting, soren11:28
MenZaI still have the logs, if you want the names now, or we could wait for sbc's referat.11:29
MenZa;P11:29
MenZaoh wait11:29
sorenI've got plenty of logs :)11:30
MenZaI don't have the logs; they're on my desktop computer.11:30
MenZaAlright. :)11:30
sorenBah, I'll do it now.11:30
MenZa:D11:30
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attunixI customized my Ubuntu Server distro installation to have a python script run on startup from /etc/rc.local . How do I make this installed distribution into a Live or Install CD?12:15
attunixI customized my Ubuntu Server distro installation to have a python script run on startup from /etc/rc.local . How do I make this installed distribution into a Live or Install CD?12:16
attunixwoops sorry :P12:16
sorenHi, ivoks.12:31
ivokshi12:31
_rubenany thoughts on bug #141601 yet, i added some info (output of ps)12:32
ubotuLaunchpad bug 141601 in tasksel "tasksel packages stays at 100%" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/14160112:32
soren_ruben: Nope.12:33
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_rubensoren: just curious mostly, since tasksel isnt something you'd use daily .. but having a (little bit more) bug-free release would be nice ;-) .. any extra info i could gather to help this case?12:35
soren_ruben: i've poked the apt dude. He might be able to work something out.12:36
_rubenah ok12:36
ivoksi got bitten by that bug12:38
ivoksi tought i fscked something with my patch, but looks like i'm not alone :D12:38
_rubenheh12:38
sorenHmm... I think it's a debconf issue, actually.12:44
GargoyleCan I use crossover cables with nic bonding in the modes for increased performance?12:51
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_rubenGargoyle: in theory i'd say yes, but never tried in practice13:03
soren_ruben: ... I think I've fixed it.13:05
sorenGargoyle: "in the modes" ?13:05
Gargoylesoren: Yeah, like mode 1 is just fail over, 1 nic does all the work till it fails then the other one takes over13:09
sorenAh.13:09
sorenSo the question is whether or not it works with crossover cables?13:09
_rubensoren: nice .. if only i could get WoL to work on that box i could've tried a possible fix right away :/13:12
_rubenthe box is supposed to support WoL, just doesnt seem to work :/13:12
soren_ruben: Etherwake works better for me.13:12
Gargoylesoren: Yeah, but not mode 1, I was thinking of the link aggregation modes13:12
soren_ruben: I have not hardware that supports WoL as implemented in the wakeonlan package.13:13
_rubensoren: i've used the 'wol' command/package on openwrt and some windows tool as well13:13
sorenGargoyle: I've not understood your question. If you're asking if bonding works with crossover cables, then the asnwer is yes.13:13
sorenGargoyle: It's quite agnostic to that sort of hting.13:14
sorenAnd typing is hard.13:14
soren_ruben: Ok. I think wol on openwrt does the same as etherwake.13:14
_rubensoren: ah13:15
soren_ruben: Which is good.. :)13:15
_rubensoren: its a dell machine, have read mixed experiences with wol on the 'net and dells13:16
sorenGargoyle: If you've got Linux on both ends, I don't even think they both have to be ethernet. They could be ppp+wifi+ethernet+atm+whatever.13:16
Gargoyleohhh13:17
frippzI'm looking to upgrade the NIC in an Ubuntu-server to a gigabit variant. any recommendations?13:20
sorenfrippz: Intel cards are usually a fairly good bet.13:30
_rubenno probs with intel here either13:30
frippzgreat, thanks guys. I suspected that Intel would be a good bet :)13:33
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mruizHi all. I'm using Ubuntu Dapper and I want to connect Active Directory with Squid through squid_ldap_auth. I tried to test the connection using /usr/lib/squid/ldap_auth but I can't obtain results... I used -d (debug) flag without output.13:51
_rubenhmm ... how do i get my hands on "the apt from gutsy-proposed", as suggested in bug #14160113:52
ubotuLaunchpad bug 141601 in tasksel "tasksel packages stays at 100%" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/14160113:52
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nealmcbsoren - on saturday my hard drive got messed up, while I was nailing down some more info on my gutsy/qemu/jeos experiences.  But when I rebooted in recovery mode (and with no silly splash screen), I got this:  alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid-ad2c6.......2a3 does not exist, dropping to a shell.  I was uploading the qcow2 with some nice snapshots, but that didn't complete before my system went down....15:10
nealmcbby the way, I had needed ata_piix.blacklist=yes on boot to do the cdrom install in the first place, but I didn't seem to need that when booting the installed disk.15:11
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hoarycripplehello15:24
somerville32lo15:25
hoarycrippleon #ubuntu I was informed that ubuntu server contains a server specific kernel and no gui.  I'm assuming it is possible to install X, but what are the kernel differences?15:25
hoarycrippleis there somewhere I can read about the differences?15:26
nealmcbhttp://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/371064115:26
hoarycripplethanks!15:27
nealmcb:-)15:27
sommernealmcb: that link is everywhere... doh15:28
nealmcbsommer: yeah - I'm looking forward to having that documented on our own pages ;-)15:29
sommernealmcb: I plan on asking a couple of quesitons concerning that in the meeting15:31
nijabasommer: please do :)15:31
hoarycrippleok, so I looked at the diff.  looks like all the modules for sound etc are being built in both server and desktop kernels.15:32
nealmcbhoarycripple: right - pretty minor differences15:32
nealmcb...in terms of functionality - mainly tuning15:32
hoarycrippleand are the package lists the same?  I don't see different repos for server edition.15:33
nealmcbhoarycripple: same repos, different default packages.  and most of us don't recommend x11 on a server :-)15:37
hoarycripplei'm actually planning on trying it on a desktop computer.  just interested to see if I'll notice any difference.  especially with the deadline scheduler and preemption turned off15:41
hoarycripplei've got a quad xeon for the desktop which does mostly video editing with cinelerra and is also used as a digital audio workstation (ardour).15:42
hoarycripplewould you guys just recommend sticking to desktop kernel?15:43
nealmcbI'm no expert but my guess would be that more frequent clock interrupts etc would make it more responsive for interactive editing with the desktop kernel15:43
hoarycripplethanks for the info.  i'm now having second thoughts about server edition :)15:46
nealmcbit's great for servers!15:48
nealmcbyou can switch the kernel later if you like, in either direction15:49
hoarycrippleahh, so I can just apt-get the desktop kernel if necessary?15:50
nijabahoarycripple: exactly15:50
nijababut I would recommend the other way around to start with15:51
hoarycrippleok, cool.  that decides it...going to give it a try.  thanks guys.15:51
hoarycrippleoh, just one more thing:15:51
_rubenhmm .. the stuff that article mentions concerning sudo and all seems a bit flawed, no?15:52
hoarycripplein desktop edition, no matter what I tried, normal users were still able to shutdown the computer. (followed many instructions from ubuntuforums and blogs etc...)  I'm guessing that normal users cannot shutdown/reboot server.  Is this correct?15:52
nijabaServer meeting in 5m in #ubuntu-meeting15:55
nealmcb_ruben: you mean the first part of that article?  yeah - I think the way sudo works in ubuntu is great, and she's just missing some techniques15:55
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nealmcbhopefully we can also get some progress on this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc/+bug/12229715:59
ubotuLaunchpad bug 122297 in ubuntu-doc "Server Guide draft has higher Google rank than released version" [Medium,Confirmed]15:59
danpfor a given release, does the release-updates collection include the release-security collection?16:03
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kshahwhen i first installed ubuntu-server I created my user and my pass which is the root pass, now I want to grant someone else root access, is placing them in sudoers enough? Or should I change the root pass (if so, how?) and make myself a new pass and place myself in sudoers?16:25
mralphabetetc/sudoers I believe16:28
kshahmralphabet: After install is my password and the root password the same? since I'm not in the sudoers file but I can run commands as sudo16:33
somerville32kshah, no16:34
kshahso if I want to grant someone else root access how should I do that?16:34
somerville32kshah, You are in the sudoer file16:34
kshahI am>?16:34
somerville32kshah, admin (a group) is a member of sudoers16:34
kshahoh16:34
mralphabetsudo password != root password16:34
kshahoh i see...16:34
kshahi see16:34
somerville32"sudo password" == your password16:35
kshahso adding a user to sudoers via sudo visudo is ...16:35
mralphabetdandy16:35
mralphabetwill solve most if not all of your questions16:36
kshahso they can run commands as sudo with their own pass?16:36
kshahall i have to do is adduser, and add that user to sudoers and they can do everyhing i can do?16:36
mralphabetyou should be fine16:37
kshahgreat thx16:37
leonelFor an ubuntu cluster  for  math calculations is  redhat-cluster-suite   right for the task ?16:40
sorenleonel: Depends on your setup really. Do they use shared storage? How do the computing tasks get assigned to nodes?16:43
leonelgood question   I was asked  what was the  ubuntu cluster  way  to do it16:43
leoneland found that package in main16:43
sorenredhat-cluser-suite is indeed the clustering software of choice in Ubuntu. However, depending on your setup, you might not need anything like that at all.16:45
leonelsoren: here arrived  kab  which asked me  that  ..16:46
leonelkab:  can you explain your needs more  ?16:46
kabhi soren16:46
sorenHEllo16:46
kabok, I was talking with leonel about a linux cluster with ubuntu16:47
kaba PhD Chemical that need a Cluster ask me about that16:48
kabI don't know nothing about Clusters16:48
kabMr Chemical said me that they want to run RedHat XYZ Version because it have a Cluster Solution16:49
kabAnd I begin google for ubuntu solutions like redhat16:49
kabLeonel said me that ubuntu has the same solution (redhat-cluster-suite)16:50
sorenThat's right.16:50
kabso, thats very nice to me16:50
sorenWell, if he actually knows what he's doing, and he knows that he needs rcs, Ubuntu will work just fine.16:50
kabMr Chemical is using a privative software called Gaussian16:50
kabbut he needs too, program in any language that can do paralels jobs16:51
kabI suggested python16:51
kabso the cluster is for do calculus (Mathematics)16:52
kabthe nodes are heterogenous16:53
kabsoren this is the software that mr Chemical wants to run http://www.gaussian.com/16:55
sorenkab: Well, the thing is that if they don't share any ressources, there's no point. I've seen clustering solutions where a job server just advertises jobs, and nodes pick them up and send the result back. If they don't respond within a reasonable timeframe, the job gets offered up for another node to work on.16:55
sorenIn that case, there's no need at all for something like rcs.16:56
soren..because they don't share any ressources, so all you really need is a monitoring facility to discover dead nodes so that you can replace them.16:57
kabsoren ok16:57
sorenWithout any details about what you actually need from the clustering solution, it's hard to advice you properly, I'm afraid.16:58
kabsoren let me study a little more, and I will ask you, sure if you want16:59
sorenkab: Well, if you feel you've got all the info you need from me, I'm fine. :)17:02
danpis there any ubuntu-specific info for setting up RCS things in ubuntu?17:03
danpi'm going to be testing clustered samba with it soon17:03
sorendanp: Not that I can think of, no.17:05
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sorendanp: We follow upstream (RedHat) quite closely, so their docs should be fine.17:05
danpcool17:05
nealmcbsoren: did you see my note a few hours ago here about qemu, jeos and /dev/disk/by-uuid-ad2c6.......2a3 does not exist, dropping to a shell17:19
sorennealmcb: Yes. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that it works with images created by the vm-builder and not if you install from a CD.17:20
nealmcbboy that vm builder is good stuff :-)17:20
nealmcbI'm just trying to get my laptop back in operation so I can play some more with it17:21
nealmcbzul: have you tried the jeos iso with xen?17:22
zulnealmcb: nope im still trying to port xen to 2.6.2417:23
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proprietarysuckssince there is apparently no way to stop ubuntu from stopping an automatic kickstart-based installation to ask if it's ok to continue since it can't contact security.ubuntu.com, I mirrored the entire security.ubuntu.com website locally and now I'm having trouble getting the host file on the installer changed18:05
proprietarysucksanyone have a working pre script on ubuntu or know how to edit the hosts file in some other way?18:06
mralphabetproprietarysucks: can you echo x.x.x.x s.u.c >> /etc/hosts ?18:13
proprietarysucksthat's the first thing I tried18:17
proprietarysucksI think I have finally found my answer however18:17
mralphabetoh?18:17
proprietarysucksfor everyone in here's information I'll share =]18:17
proprietarysuckskickstarts for ubuntu have the added command 'preseed'18:17
proprietarysucksso in your normal, redhat-style kickstart for ubuntu you can simply add 'preseed apt-setup/security_host string' anywhere18:18
proprietarysucksthat will simply disable the security updates18:19
proprietarysucksverifying right now18:19
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jewardHow can I install the server kernel on gutsy so that I can use all 4G of RAM in my laptop?19:11
jewardjust install linux-server?19:15
leonellinux-image-2.6.22-14-server19:15
leonelmy  generic  version :CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y19:16
leonel   19:16
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jcengineerwhat happened to /etc/initab ?21:01
fujin_anyone know where I might procure a 7.10 'driver cd'?21:02
ivoksjcengineer: ubuntu doesn't use sysV21:03
jcengineerhow do i setup a console on a serial then /21:04
ivoksjcengineer: check out /etc/event.d/21:05
jcengineerhm tty1 is allready running ?21:07
jcengineerit doesn't start at tty0?21:08
ivoksyou are asking for ttyS1, right?21:08
ivoksor ttyS021:08
ivoksttySX != ttyX21:08
jcengineeryes sorry21:08
jcengineeri dont see it there21:08
ivokscreate it21:09
ivoksyou can just copy tty1 to ttyS021:09
ivoksand edit it21:09
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CharlieSuDoes anyone know how to take a SSL certificate that was generated for Apache and turn it into something that can be used by Tomcat?  I'm not proxying connection through Apache..22:27
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