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jamminScottK-uds:  I missed ivoks. (Had issues with an RFP that needed immediate attention, so got on late.)  Are ya'll gonna be in that time zone for a while?00:15
ScottK-udsUDS is all day tomorrow.  His home time zone is one hour different than this one.00:16
ScottK-udsjammin: Did you install the mysql packages?  They aren't required since the database may be remote.00:16
uvirtbot`New bug: #234171 in mysql-dfsg-5.0 (main) "mysql server 5.0.22 CREATE statements not replicable" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/23417100:16
ScottK-udsWhen I discussed it with him today, he ran the script and created a database successfully on his laptop as a test.00:17
jamminYep.  Mysql is up, running and available, and not serving any other purpose beyond becoming the catalog for bacula.00:17
jamminChecking the databases (and user table) before and after the config shows nothing happened.00:18
ScottK-udsOK.  Well I know it works in at least some cases because he did it.00:18
ScottK-udsI'd try to catch up with him then.00:18
jamminI don't get any errors (or anything in logs I've found so far) to indicate why.00:19
ScottK-udsI don't know much about it, so I don't have any further suggestion.s00:19
ScottK-uds.s/s.00:19
jamminI figure it must work for most, since searches aren't turning up many people sqawking about it.  But uninstalling everything related (with a purge) including mysql and starting over from scratch gives the same result.  Pretty weird.  Yeah, I probably need to catch him.  Would email be appropriate, or just check in here when I can?00:21
ScottK-udsI'd suggest either catch him here or file a bug.00:23
ScottK-udsI did discuss it with him, so he's familiar with the problem and knows your IRC nick.00:24
jamminCool beans.  I'll try to catch here.  Maybe type up all I can think of beforehand for reference, and/or for filing as a bug if it turns out it is. Thanks a bunch.00:26
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jamminHey ScottK-uds, you'll never guess what just happened.01:33
ScottK-udsIt works?01:34
ScottK-udsjammin: ^^^01:34
jamminHeh... yep.  I blew it all away for the third time, in order to document it nicely as I went along.  Of course that meant it would work.   :)01:35
ScottK-udsAll's well that ends well.  Any idea what was different?01:35
jamminI've been writing up both experiences from memory now, and the only thing I can think of is...01:35
jamminThis last time when I apt-get purged it all, I double checked to see that it did exactly that.01:36
jamminIn starting over, wanted to be sure it was truly starting over.  The /etc/bacula directory was still there, with everything in it.01:37
ScottK-udsInteresting.  Did you have bacula installed before you upgraded to Hardy?01:37
jamminI do know that on a previous try I'd emptied that by hand, excepting some examples I stuffed in a subdir.01:38
jamminYes... I upgraded (in two dist-upgrade steps) from 6.10 to hardy, and bacula had been working before then.01:38
jamminI wasn't too suprised when it no longer did.  That's why I stashed my old configs for reference and tried to blow it away and start over.01:39
ScottK-udsOK.  That's worth knowing.  If you removed stuff from /etc by hand, that can get things confused.01:39
daveosxHI All01:40
jamminThat was after apt-get purging it, though.  (I think.  It was at least a remove.)01:40
daveosxGot a strange network pulsation any Ideas ?01:41
ScottK-udsIf you apt-get remove, remove conffiles by hand and then reinstall, it can get confused.01:41
daveosxIntel MB dual wan two different servers two different locations01:41
jamminYeah, that's why I usually use a purge.01:42
jamminI wonder if I just slipped somewhere.01:42
ScottK-udsOK.  I'll mention to him that it might be an upgrade issue then.01:42
jamminWhen I did the reinstall, everything was fine, except it failed to create /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf.   The other conf files were there.01:43
jamminBecause that file was missing, the bacula-director-mysql threw an error message about it.01:43
jamminI put a fresh file in that place (from /usr/share/bacula-common/defconfig), and after that doing a dpgk-reconfigure on bacula-director-mysql was successful... but never actually touched the database.01:45
jamminI was pretty positive I started over completely (with purges) to try it again, but with the same result.  I must not have, since on this third try I somehow got it right.  :)01:46
ScottK-udsOdd.01:47
jamminThanks for listening, anyway.  Sometimes just bouncing it all off of someone elses head clears up the cruft in ones own, I guess...01:47
daveosxAny help on network issues?01:48
jamminshoot01:49
ScottK-udsSure.01:49
ScottK-udsGood night.  I need to get to bed.01:49
jammindang, I gotta run... thanks yall01:49
daveosxGot a pulsation on my network full to 0 once a second02:00
mralphabetdaveosx: how in the world are you measureing that02:24
daveosxsystem monitor02:35
daveosxmralphabet what about flow control settings?02:42
uvirtbot`New bug: #234196 in openldap2.3 (main) "dnPrettyNormal: Assertion `pretty != ((void *)0)' failed." [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/23419602:47
flybackyo03:37
flybackis there any guide to all the install options you can script03:37
cyris|hows everyones evening?03:52
cyris|whoa what a day :/03:52
cyris|I'm trying to install ebox using the ubuntu server guide, but I keep getting the following errors, any ideas anyone? http://rafb.net/p/sE5RJr45.html04:04
* flyback is having such a bad anxienty attack about events from many yrs ago he is not sure he's going to live to see tomarrow04:15
cyris|sounds pretty ruff flyback04:18
cyris|nm about my ebox problem, i think i got her fixed04:21
cyris|UGH maybe not04:22
keithclarkOk, I've tried my best to find a replacement for Access and I cannot.  I choose not to crawl back to Windows so I guess I have no choice but to learn the command line driven mySQL.  Anyone know of a great beginners tutorial out there?  Something that really explains the whole thing really well and easy?05:20
uvirtbot`New bug: #231898 in evolution-exchange "evolution-exchange-storage SIGABRT (dup-of: 215904)" [Unknown,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/23189805:25
_rubenhmm .. my need to tweak my /var/log filesystem .. syslog stopped logging to some files which reached 2G05:36
_rubens/my/may05:43
krautmoin08:23
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kaii_ruben: you may just want to rotate earlier09:30
zulmathiaz: #234171 mysql sru?09:38
mathiazzul: may be - the diff should be looked at first09:44
zulmathiaz:  yep09:45
oly-does anyone know a location i can get hardy server netboot files other than the cd ?10:19
oly-i can get the desktop ones from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/installer-i386/current/images/ for example10:19
oly-or do i just pass a parameter to the standard desktop installer to do a server install10:21
hadsI don't know but I'm interested. How about the jeos image?10:26
hads(which is at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/jeos/releases/8.04/release/ if you're interested)10:28
oly-well thats for an iso not for the netboot files10:30
oly-i would be intrested in knowing where i can get netboot files on the web for jeos as well10:30
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oly-aha looks like you just use the standard netboot image with extra parameters  when launching it10:32
KanashimiHi there. I just upgraded a Ubuntu server edition system to 8.04. In the same it decided to remove tmda from the system, which is a required package for the system in question. Is there any way to install tmda in hardy at the moment through apt-get? Or do I need to build the sourcecode myself outside the package system?10:33
Kamping_Kaisercan you give more info?10:35
KanashimiI ran 'do-release-upgrade' on the system, which was I think 7.04 originally. At the end of the process it decided to list tmda and python-tmda as packages to remove.10:37
ivoksso, you are at 7.10 now?10:38
KanashimiTried to reinstall by 'apt-get install tmda' but getting 'Package tmda is not available, but is referred to by another package.'10:38
ivoksthere are no tmda related packages in 8.0410:38
Kamping_Kaiserwhat is tmda? (sorry my ignorance)10:39
sorentagged message delivery something, probably.10:39
KanashimiTagged Message Delivery Agent, an anti-spam solution for whitelisting/autowhitelisting/blacklisting.10:39
KanashimiChallenge system, etc.10:39
\shlooks like it's removed from the archives10:39
Kamping_Kaisernod10:39
KanashimiHmm, rather inconvenient for the package to suddenly disappear like that without anything to replace it. Seems like I'll have to set it up from source then?10:40
ivokshttp://www.mail-archive.com/tmda-workers@tmda.net/msg03100.html10:41
KanashimiAh.. I see, hm. Yeah, I guess I'll have to do the source install. Thanks for the info.10:41
Kamping_KaiserMIA maintainers are a bit of a problem :/10:42
KanashimiMm, indeed.10:44
KanashimiWas a bit nasty surprise as such.10:44
Kamping_Kaiseri have the same problem with bugzilla310:44
KanashimiHm, oh? Package obsoleted due to maintainer missing?10:48
ivoksdue maintainer missing and nobody wanted to maintain it10:49
ivoksso, if there's no intrest in public, why maintain it?10:49
Kamping_KaiserKanashimi, in bugzillas case, no one is packaging it (the bugzilla2 maintainer abandoned the package)10:49
KanashimiHeh, well, I do find tmda at least quite useful myself. First I heard about the whole thing now, having been happily using it before this upgrade.10:50
KanashimiKamping_Kaiser: Ah, I see :/ I guess there's the sourcecode solution if nothing else at least.10:51
Kamping_KaiserKanashimi, yeah, which is what i'm going to be deploying. (i have zip packaging skills unfortunately)10:51
Kamping_Kaisermore annoyingly, it looks like the debianisation of bugzilla3 started, and after a weekish was abandoned (12 months ago)10:52
KanashimiThere we go, back in action with the filter again. Challenges and passthroughs working.10:52
Kamping_Kaiser\o/10:52
Kanashimi:)10:52
Kamping_Kaiser:)10:52
KanashimiAh *nods*. Well wish you good luck with getting it running. Is of course a lot more inconvenient to have to manage packages manually. One of the big reasons why I set up the system with Ubuntu in the first place -- the earlier system was built from scratch, with all manual updating. Interesting project and was very customized, worked well. But just came to be too much10:55
Kanashimiwork.10:55
Kamping_Kaiseryeah, source packages are a pita10:56
sorenwuh?11:14
KanashimiHm?11:14
sorenSource packages are a pita?11:15
ivoksyeah... pita, in croatian, means - a pie11:16
ivoks:D11:16
Kamping_Kaiserivoks, rofl11:16
Kamping_Kaisersoren, er, 'packages' wasnt meant to be there11:16
sorenAh.11:19
sorenWell, source is sexy, too.11:20
Kamping_Kaiserwonder if it would be worth making recompiled packages for calendarserver (from sid) available for people, or just let them use a tarball. its not like they need a backport, just a recompile11:23
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vhristevhi11:34
vhristevcan someone help me with Load balancing11:34
KanashimiWhat kind of load balancing are you referring to?11:36
KanashimiI'm not terribly familiar with the subject but maybe I can give some pointers in the right direction.11:37
vhristevKanashimi11:38
vhristevFor now i use 1 box with HAPROXY + apache web servers11:38
vhristevbut I want to switch to nginx web servers11:38
vhristevand Im not sure if nginx can use Haproxy cookie11:38
KanashimiAh, not familiar with haproxy/nginx unfortunately.11:39
vhristevwhat you use11:39
vhristevI think in future to switch everything to be with NGINX11:39
vhristevnow I search for solution with Nginx11:40
vhristevNginx reverse proxy (some kind upstream )11:40
KanashimiWell, theres round robin DNS setups and such with multiple systems.11:40
vhristevyeaa but its not good idea11:41
vhristevits too slow to up and down servers11:42
vhristevi have 6 box with for 1-n site11:42
vhristev1 haproxy + web11:42
vhristev+ 3 webs11:42
vhristev+ 1 Mysql11:42
vhristev+ 1 memcache + flash server11:42
vhristevservers are different11:43
vhristevone with Xeon other Quad Xeon more memoryh11:43
vhristevmemory11:43
vhristevIn haproxy I have optin WEIGHT 1~25011:44
vhristevI can make more connections to go on Quad Xeon server11:44
vhristev9;11:44
uvirtbot`New bug: #234268 in mysql-dfsg-5.0 (main) "mysql online help out of date: help min does not work" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/23426811:48
KanashimiHm, well unfortunately not very familiar with the subject myself. Wish you good luck though.11:53
KanashimiTake care all.12:07
faulkes-INBOX: Downloading message header 65229 of 202355213:11
* faulkes- sighs13:11
Kamping_Kaiserfaulkes-, you should use your inbox for ssl entropy :)13:14
faulkes-were this my inbox rm -rf would suffice13:15
Kamping_Kaiserhahaha13:15
faulkes-unfortunately this is a customers13:15
Kamping_Kaiserare you doing a sitei visit, or reading their email for some other reason?13:15
faulkes-we process there mail for them13:16
faulkes-well, I don't, my staff and our application does13:16
Kamping_Kaisernod13:17
faulkes-they unfortunately never automated removal of old messages from the inbox13:17
_rubenkaii: rotating more often is smth i thought of, then again, rotating more than once a day doesnt appeal much to me13:17
faulkes-hrmm, think I just killed thunderbird telling it to drop 50k messages13:19
* faulkes- waits for it to come back13:19
* Kamping_Kaiser has had problems with t.bird expireing mail after a week.13:21
faulkes-well, I only use it when I have to manually go in for stuff13:22
faulkes-heh, it's making the fan on the laptop turn on13:22
uvirtbot`New bug: #227464 in php5 (main) "PHP 5.2.6 fixes important security bugs" [Unknown,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/22746413:41
psufangot a problem13:43
psufanmy pxe boot server auto scripts ubuntu 6.06lts and gives it -url 10.10.10.whatever which works great for the installer cycle but once you are at a command prompt then it's hosed if you still don't have that pxe server vm up13:44
psufanhow can I tell it NOT to change the installed apt-get sources.list file when done installin13:44
psufanit's also a mega pain because I can't handle vi :P13:45
Deepslearn vi, use 'easier' editors like nano/pico13:55
gegemaMy ubuntu 8.04 server install's current time is 5 minutes later that what it should be. Shold I force in a new time entry or is there a way to synch it with a time server?13:57
Deepssee the ubuntu server guide for information about ntp13:58
gegemaDeeps: Will Do . Thanks13:59
psufandeeps14:08
psufanI can't use nano if I can't apt-get anything14:09
psufansee my problem? :P14:09
ivoksno14:10
psufanI can't apt-get to install nano14:12
psufanand I need nano to fix apt-get14:12
ivoksnano is installed by default14:12
ivoksas vim-tiny14:12
psufanwell then my installer is canucking something up then14:15
psufannope nano not installed14:27
psufanmabye that's the problem I need to adjust the installer script to make sure it does install nano14:27
psufanor something14:27
psufancan someone look at this install script and tell me if it14:41
psufanis doing minimal install or something14:41
psufanhttp://pastebin.com/m2c06340c14:42
ivoksit installs almost nothing14:44
psufanah14:44
psufanso what should I change it to14:44
ivokswhat do you want to install?14:44
ivoksubuntu server, ubuntu desktop?14:44
psufanI don't know how to script it I was relying on the uba14 vm pxe server14:44
psufanserver14:44
psufanit's on headless blades14:44
ivoksput ubuntu-minimal and ubuntu-standard for packages14:45
psufanany way to make it avoid changing the sources.list to what the installer used14:45
ivoksyou can setup your own sources.list14:46
psufanso put those 2 lines right under the packages line?14:46
ivoksbut i mostly user preseeding, not kickstart14:46
psufanwell default is fine I just don't know how to tell it that14:46
psufanugh14:46
psufani'm blind14:46
ivokspsufan: remove all the packages you added and put just those two14:47
psufanhad to take a full dosage of a digestive system pill and it makes my vision blurry for a while14:47
psufanI didn't put those the pxe appliance did :P14:47
psufanbut gotcha14:47
ivokspxe appliance?14:47
psufanuba1414:47
ivoksuba14?14:47
ivoks??14:47
psufanit has os templates for several windows and linux versions14:47
psufanit extratcs tje kernel sets up pxe boot, scripts the install and waits for a machine to pxe net boot14:48
ivoksyou know there's a GUI for setting up kickstart in ubuntu?14:48
ivokssystem-config-kickstart14:49
ivokswith it you can setup your own kickstart file14:49
psufanyeah well this is fine for now I think14:50
psufanother than fixing that sources.list file also hmm14:50
psufanhow do I add a line to that script to auto add a bootoption to grub14:52
psufanconsole=ttyS0,38400 in this case14:52
psufanit has a line for the pxe startup but I don't think it's perm14:53
bordyhey folks14:53
psufanthink I found it14:56
psufanbootloader --location=mbr --append="hdd=ide-scsi ide=nodma"14:56
psufanthx14:59
psufanyou mentioning kickstart was what I needed to google for14:59
phil^someone mentioned the browser based game desktop tower defense in some bug on launchpad..15:13
gegemaMy apache access and error logs are being rotated with a 2 day difference. I touched access.log1 with error.log1, assuming logrotate looks at the date stamp of those files when running... but still, my error.log is being rotated 2 days after my access log >> this becomes a problem when trying to figure something out and one thing is in one file in access log but in 2 different files in error log for the same time period... any ideas how to get these15:14
phil^(which lowers my efficiancy at work quite a lot :p )15:15
Deepslink15:15
phil^http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Maps.asp15:16
phil^but don't make me responsible :)15:16
dthackergegema: look in /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 and check the policies15:16
phil^sorry, it's /game.asp15:16
Deepsyep i'm there15:16
gegemadthacker: What is the pastebin used in this chan? so I can post my logrotate.d apache2 policies (which are pretty much what comes with the default install, except for a prerotate script I added for awstats)15:19
dthackerhmm, my link has disappeared.15:20
dthackeroops, he's gone15:20
dthackerhe's back!15:20
dthackergegema: use anything, I'm not picky15:21
gegemasorry... went to #ubuntu to get the pastebin site and closed the wrong tab :)15:21
gegemadthacker: http://paste.ubuntu.com/14095/15:22
dthackergegema: so the goal is "All apache logs should be rotated once per week, unless empty."15:24
gegemacorrect15:26
gegemabut somehow, access log and error log are being rotated in different days15:26
dthackerhave you tried running manually with the -f option to force rotate?  That my synchroize the status.15:28
dthackerbtw that's kept in /var/lib/logrotate/status15:28
gegemadthacker: checking ..15:29
dthackeroh my spelling has gone to heck....15:30
gegema:)15:30
gegemaIn the logrotate status, both acess and error log have the same  date stamp15:31
gegemadthacker: so your suggesting I try -force rotating all my logs and see if that syncs up the two apache logs?15:32
dthackerI the error log ever empty?15:32
dthackergegema:  yes. Then see if the behavior continues after the force.15:33
gegemaalrighty  - thanks for the tip dthacker!!15:34
dthackernp. :)15:35
dthackergegema: one other possiblity.   Apache may have logrotate directives as well, I think.  Take a look at your config.15:36
dthackermaybe not.15:38
cyris|http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-get-wife.png15:38
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dthackerI don't see a rotate directive in the apache docs.  Ignore that advice15:40
dthackercyris|: made my day.  :)15:41
cyris|dthacker, made my too :D15:41
gegemaare there any known issues of using screen within PuTTY? I have tried using it a couple of times and when trying to re-attach a screen, PuTTY just freezes... could be key-bindings I guess15:48
Deepsthe issue almost certainly isn't putty15:50
alex_joniany pointers on setting up software RAID5 on a new 8.04 server install?15:50
gegemaDeeps: what would it be in your opinion then?15:51
Deepsgegema: depends on what you mean by 'freezing'15:52
* alex_joni has 3 x 500G HDDs.. what would be the best way to set things up?15:52
psufananyway to keep the --url line in kickstart from becoming the default sources.list15:56
psufanin the installed os15:56
psufanbbl15:59
gegemadthacker: Still around?16:24
phil^gegema: I use putty sometimes in combination with screen. like screen -R asd [...] <ctrl>+<A> - <D> (to detach)16:26
phil^never saw anything freeze at that point16:27
psufanas part of the automated install process for pxe booted machines and headless uda14 pxe server vm, scripts ubuntu 6.06lts with this line16:51
psufanurl --url=http://10.0.0.104/ubuntu/ub606s/16:51
psufanwhich works great for the install but breaks the system's apt-get if the vm pxe server is no longer running16:51
psufanany way to tell it to stick to the default urls after the install is done16:52
psufanit changes all the lines in sources.list to 10.0.0.10416:52
CarlFKpsufan: um... huh?16:53
CarlFKforgive my ignorance, but are you using a preseed file?16:54
CarlFKmy problem: tar czvf foo.tgz bar errored: invalid option -- c16:59
psufanwhat is a preseed file?16:59
CarlFKpsufan: preseed stuff: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LocalNet#head-52c4d21520b498e09fe97a2eed47bd4942c3529517:03
CarlFKpsufan: "d-i     mirror/http/hostname foo" is related to what you are talking about, which is why I asked.  but if you aren't using a preseed file, then it doesn't matter17:05
phil^when using md5sum on a file I get different results on 2 servers (one is ARM the other x86 arch.)17:08
phil^but when I just pipe some random text to it - the hash is equal on both servers17:08
psufanI just want the sources.list to be the installer defaults17:09
psufanand not get changed to the 10.0.0.104 used during install17:09
phil^I'm just asking myself what could be the reason for this behaviour...17:09
psufanonce it's installed to hard disk I want the default sources.list17:09
psufanuh I know it's cause of --url but you need that for the install17:21
psufanI am not stupid17:21
psufanstoned out of my skull right now cause I had to take a full strength bentyl but otherwise ok17:21
DarkJusticeI was wondering if anyone could point me to very specific instructions on how to set up a web server and nameserver for kubuntu .. such as Nameserver for Dummies or something. I'm brand new to linux. Also is there any program like cPanel for kubuntu that is free? Thanks17:48
CarlFKDarkJustice: the hard part of both of those is figuring out what you wan to do.  how you do it is much easier once the goal is well defined17:58
psufanugh17:59
psufanall I want to do is have a stock sources.list after the install and it seems impossible to find out how17:59
DarkJusticeCarlFK: ohh sorry I should have been more specific. I'm trying to host 3 websites of my own on my kubuntu box. And I'd like my domain names to point to the box as well.17:59
CarlFKsounds like you don't really need to do your own DNS, so don't18:00
DarkJusticewell that would eliminate a step, tha'ts always good18:01
* psufan smashes his head into the wall18:01
mdzphil^: a bug18:02
mdzphil^: or, a difference between the files18:02
CarlFKDarkJustice: sudo apt-get install apache218:05
phil^ the file had been copied via scp to both hosts18:06
DarkJusticeCarlFK: ok thank you I am going to get a coffee refill after I run that and will brb18:07
DarkJusticeok seems apache installed fine18:12
stefgHi, i've spent the whole day trying to get WinXP clients to authenticate against a hardy-box with ebox in order to have access to their samba /home-shares. Since i'm inexperienced with ldap (that's what ebox uses) i'm a bit lost. Do i need to touch smb.conf manually to get it going, or am i simply making a mistake in setting up the accounts in ebox?18:13
stefgso accessing group (samba) shares works, but trying to access the users /home/samba/<user>  share always prompts me for user/pass, and won't accept even the right password. i can connect from another ubuntu-box, so there must be something garbled with accepting the authentication from the win clients. Anyone who can shed some light on this (google can't really)18:20
cyris|stefg, make sure that the windows accounts have the same user/pass as the accounts in ldap18:22
stefgcyris|: of course i did... so i even had a spare (win-) laptop where i could setup test accounts to test authentication.... no go ...18:23
cyris|stefg, so the win clients can access shares expect for the ones in /home/samba/%username% ?18:23
cyris|stefg, sorry have to go, i wasn't helping anyways :D18:25
stefgcyris|: right. they can access a 'public' share (which i set up manually in smb.conf, made browsable and writable) and they can access a group folder set up in ebox. but they can't access their personal /home-share18:25
stefgcyris|: thanks for tryinf anyway18:26
psufanis this the correct syntax for kickstart for ubuntu server18:33
psufanbootloader --append console=ttyS1,3840018:33
psufancause the installer is saying unrecongised option18:33
voidwalkerhello. i want a hassle-free apache mysql php mail server installed18:44
voidwalkerwill ubuntu do this for me?18:44
voidwalkeri mean, the hassle-free part18:44
W8TAHhi folks -- im adding a user on a hardy server -- i want this user to be equivalent in rights etc to the one that is created during start up -- can someone point me to the right howto?18:45
nicolab80Hi! I'm trying to install hardy server under VirtualBox but I've just experienced a lot of different errors18:52
nicolab80the installtion hang18:52
nicolab80any idea?18:53
phil^yay! week is finally over... happy weekend to everyone ;)18:58
CarlFKvoidwalker: yes.19:49
psufanwhy do you nimrods default ubuntu-server to quiet and splash on a server?20:03
psufanespically since a large number of servers are headless20:06
gegemain my iptable, I just added a DROP rule for an IP to test >>> however, packets are still not being dropped from that source and the IP can still access webpages on the server...anyone intesreted in helping me figure this out?20:53
alex_jonidid you add it to the beginning of the chain?20:54
alex_joniiptables -I 0 ... ?20:54
alex_joniif you do iptables -A .. then it gets appended to the end, so it might catch another ACCEPT rule first20:54
gegemaalex_joni: well... the reason I am doubting the whole process is, because I am not manually adding the rules, it is being added by fail2ban in a fail2ban-web chain, which fail2ban gets from a Mediawiki extension ... the idea being , to ban people who try to brute force my wiki login20:58
alex_jonigegema: that beats me then..20:58
alex_joniI always do "iptables .." by hand :)20:58
gegemagive me a short sytax to add ip 123.45 to chain foo-bar with  target DROP please21:00
alex_joniiptables -I 0 foo-bar -s 123.45 -j DROP21:01
alex_jonior something similar (but man iptables usually is helpfull enough ;)21:02
psufanWHAT21:35
psufanTHE21:35
psufanFUCK21:35
psufanwhy would the grub options quiet and splash actually make console=ttyS1,38400 work!??!?!21:35
psufanfuck me gently with a chainsaw21:36
psufanwait now it's working without it21:38
* psufan is about to kill himself21:38
* alex_joni puts the chain-saw back21:39
psufanthis is the most screwed up shit I have seen in 15+ yrs of it21:39
psufanthe only logical thing I can come up with is grub corrupts it's config fiiles randomly during a install21:41
psufan- /boot/grub/menu.1st is the correct file to edit right?21:41
alex_joniyah21:41
psufanthen wtf21:41
psufanugh21:42
* psufan throws in the towel21:49
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Miguel`Hi23:09
Miguel`Is it possible to reinstall Ubuntu Server trought SSH?23:09
ScottK-udsMiguel`: Not with the standard CD image.23:09
Miguel`Problem is I don't have a CD Reader on my server23:11
ScottK-udsHow about USB?23:11
ScottK-udsMiguel`: ^^^23:12
Miguel`That's a possibility23:12
ScottK-udsThere is a wiki page on wiki.ubuntu.com that tells you how to make a bootable USB image out of a standard Ubuntu ISO.23:12
Miguel`But would it be possible w/o attaching a screen & keyboard?23:12
ScottK-udsProbably not.23:13
Miguel`Cauze if I do all the trouble to get my server out of the closet, I wouldn't mind wiring it up23:13
ScottK-udsWhy do you have to reinstall?23:14
Miguel`Because I first installed it to test some things out, now I want a fresh start23:15
ScottK-udsOK.  Generally with Ubuntu you can just change it to be what you want and end up in the same place with much less effort.23:16
Miguel`I would like to return to the basic install with SSH23:17
ScottK-udsThen just purge the packages you added.23:18
Miguel`And all the files I edited/added, they would also stay on the hard disk23:19
ScottK-udsIf you purge, then the config files would go.23:20
ScottK-udsUp to you of course, but I don't typically reinstall for such things.23:20
Miguel`Is there a way to see all the packages that aren't installed 'standard'?23:21
ScottK-udsI think so, but I don't recall exactly how.23:22
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