[00:00] you need to login using the mysql root password, not the system root password [00:05] has anyone got personal experiance with dovcot vs courier for imap? i was told dovcot had in built duplicate checking, and "other goodies". i'm wondering if someone can attest to it from personal experiance [00:18] marshall: ur mysql installation needs a root user and password iirc [00:19] which iirc, is set up when you set up mysql [00:19] iirc? [00:19] if i recall correctly [00:19] ==iirc [00:19] i think i set a mysql password when i installed ubuntu server [00:20] hey, how do I get exim to listen on port 587? -- I tried to add daemon_smtp_ports = smtp : 587 to /etc/exim/conf.d/main/00_local_settings and restarted exim, but it still only listens on port 25 - any ideas? [01:05] anyone? hey, how do I get exim to listen on port 587? -- I tried to add daemon_smtp_ports = smtp : 587 to /etc/exim/conf.d/main/00_local_settings and restarted exim, but it still only listens on port 25 - any ideas? [01:08] hackeron, have you run dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low exim4-config ? you may see the option in there [01:09] * Kamping_Kaiser hasnt tried, so no useful input from me unfortunately [01:10] Kamping_Kaiser: yes, I have [01:10] andguent, i believe i set my mysql password when i installed it as part of LAMP [01:10] honestly I've never needed it, I assume you are trying to setup a custom email server at home to pass traffic through [01:10] andguent: yep :) [01:11] hackeron: sorry, i dont know anything more then google does, never rolled my own server, always went gmail or zimbra [01:12] marshall: Sorry i never saw your original question, i signed in half way through the troubleshooting. What are you trying to do? [01:12] andguent: well, I'm actually trying it to just relay email to my gmail - but I dont want to put my gmail password on every host. [01:13] ah, gotcha, i assume multiple linux servers all forwarding to your one master server? [01:13] andguent: exactly :) [01:14] andguent: but port 25 is often blocked, so I need my exim daemon to listen to 587 also [01:14] I'm lazy, if it were me I would just setup a throw away gmail account [01:14] andguent, i installed apache, php, mysql and phpmyadmin, im getting access denied for user (user)@(localhost) for both my regular account and my root accounts [01:15] marshall: trying from command line or something else? [01:15] andguent: so, one jut pointing the servers to my server where I can just useradd server1 -- or going through a full gmail registration, confirmation, creating self signed certificate on server, etc, etc? [01:15] andguent, command line and phpmyadmin [01:17] hackeron: i always use ssmtp for outbound email sending, more specifically for pushing script error messages. I'm only suggesting this way because I don't know exim or sendmail at all -- I've never needed to make a cert or any of that to send through gmail [01:17] marshall: when doing command line, can you post your exact command you are trying to use to get in? [01:17] marshall: what else have you tried to gain access? have you tried any password recovery options yet? [01:17] im able to get in when i do a regular mysql [01:17] but if i try to do mysql -u root [01:17] i get access denied for user [01:18] how am I supposed to set up mysql, i did everything pretty much how i was instructed to [01:18] this is a fresh LAMP install [01:18] then i installed phpmyadmin [01:18] andguent: hmmm? - I get your IP is dynamic and cannot be used [01:19] hackeron: exim or ssmtp? [01:20] andguent: well, postfix, lol - but I want to try exim [01:20] marshall: gotcha, let me find some root password reset options... i'm basically just going to google for mysql root password reset [01:20] andguent, thanks [01:23] andguent, ok, i got in when i used 'root' and the password i set before [01:23] andguent, sorry for hte trouble [01:23] marshall: no worries, glad you got in [01:24] andguent, is it possible to add my user account to the mysql admin? [01:24] if you ever have additional password issues, use "FLUSH PRIVILAGES;" like salt is used on ham, its saved some hair pulling for me before [01:25] what do you mean by 'mysql admin'? [02:50] how do I restart the "named" service when there is no "/etc/init.d/ named" ? I am trying to set up a dynamic dns service and I apparently need t0 "/etc/init.d/named restart" anyone help? [02:51] do I just substitute bind for named in that line, then? [02:55] alienseer23: erm, /etc/init.d/bind9 restart ? [02:56] if i stop bind9, I can still use the named command [02:56] I need to be able to start and stop named? [02:57] I am attempting to use the bind9 dynamic dns server for webmin [02:58] alienseer23: erm, what? -- bind9/named is the same thing [03:00] if i /etc/init.d/bind9 stop" and then type in named "anyting" I get response, is this normal? [03:02] this is why I don't understand...the program calls for the path to "Command to start named", and this should be /etc/init.d/bind9 start" right? [03:08] alienseer23: You may be confused... why are you typing in named "anything" ?? WHat are you trying to do when you type that? === DrUnKnMuNkY1 is now known as DrUnKnMuNkY [04:01] <[gquit]bombadil> if postfix is the default MTA for ubuntu, why do the packages for nagios and mailman install exim4 by default? [04:05] do they depend on exim4 ? [04:06] Kamping_Kaiser: Yes, mailman has: Depends: adduser, apache2 | httpd, cron, exim4 | mail-transport-agent, libc6 (>= 2.4), logrotate, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), pwgen, python (>= 2.3), python-support (>= 0.7.1), ucf [04:06] I think that's probably a packaging bug? [04:07] jmarsden, if postfix is already installed its a bug, if there was no existing mta, then exim would have got installed [04:15] Kamping_Kaiser: If postfix was already installed, it would satisfy the mail-transport-agent requirement so exim4 would not then be installed. [04:17] jmarsden, i would have thought that. [04:17] jmarsden, does mailman do the or depends as well? [04:18] Mailman's Depends I posted earlier. Did not yet check nagios... [04:18] er, sorry. nagios. [04:19] jmarsden: when I type in "named help" or anything after named, it gives me a response, was under the impression that if I stopped the bind9 service that any named shouldn't give back output? [04:19] alienseer23: When you stop named, it isn't running. When you then type named as a command, you run it... what are you trying to do here? [04:20] if you stop named it will stop listening for dns requests [04:20] by running named --help, your starting it again [04:21] so to start and stop named, I can use the command "/etc/init.d/bind9 start" or stop, yes the executable is still just 'named'...? [04:21] Kamping_Kaiser: nagios3 depends on nagios3-common which depends on bsd-mailx which says: Depends: base-files (>= 2.2.0), exim4 | mail-transport-agent, libc6 (>= 2.4), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0) [04:21] alienseer23: Yes. [04:21] jmarsden: I am trying to configure a bind 9 dynamic dns server module for webmin [04:22] thank you :D [04:22] jmarsden, i cant see why exim would be getting installed then. perhaps try `aptitude why exim4` (iirc that tells you the dependancy tree) [04:22] *shudder* webmin [04:23] Kamping_Kaiser: I think [gquit]bombadil was installing them with no MTA on his system, and in that case the instaler will pick the first one listed in an "or" depend to satisfy it. [04:23] Kamping_Kaiser: The solution is to install postfix first, then install mailman or nagios. [04:24] jmarsden, nod. i'm supprised an ubuntu server ships with no mta [04:24] Kamping_Kaiser: I would ditch webmin all together if I could find another webbased bind9 administration tool/control panel that worked with dynamic dns. [04:25] goal is to let people sign up to use a name server with dynamic dns capabilities ((climbing the learning curve)) [04:25] alienseer23: Why would your webmin module want you to be typing anything close to named "anything" at the command prompt? I suspect you are not doing what it wants you to? [04:26] Kamping_Kaiser: Security -- why have open ports you may not want open in a default install? [04:26] jmarsden: I meant I could type in "named" and getno outpur, but if I put anything at all after it then I would get output [04:26] jmarsden, because it doesnt have to listen externally, it just has to be there (including for things like not having exim4 accidentally installed, or sending email from the server) [04:27] alienseer23: man named to understand that [04:27] k [04:27] But basically you don't want to do either one of those things. [04:28] k [04:28] Start it from the init script, and if you need to modify its parameters edit /etc/default/bind9 [04:29] yeah, so far so good, just the named/bind9 dual identity thing had me a bit confused for a sec [04:30] binary program name == named, package name and so init script name = bind9 [04:30] sense! [04:31] I've been banging my head about the keyboard for a few hours, perhaps my true mistake is that I refuse to take breaks [04:31] Probably ;) So now you have discovered that piece of wisdom... take a break? [04:31] yes [04:32] I may have..let's see if I listen :D [05:27] Hi, Need Some help with squid/apache i m running website at my linux box now im trying to open my website but its working now gave me error in return can someoone help with " http://paste.ubuntu.com/76266/ " thanks. [05:28] *not working === nme_ is now known as nme [07:37] is console-kit-daemon required to work? [08:16] New bug: #301542 in nagios3 (main) "Bypass auth checks in Nagios (CVE-2008-5027, CVE-2008-5028)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/301542 [08:34] i have 12G of hard drive space on a new installation, with 360MB of ram. how big should swap be? [08:35] arooni-mobile: Anywhere from about 360MB to 2GB depending on what you will use the machine to do [08:35] jmarsden, i want it to take over the world [08:36] Probably 2GB will not be sufficient, make multiple swap partitions :-) [08:36] jmarsden, hehe [08:36] aweosme [08:36] Seriously -- if you want to run Eclipse and compile OpenOffice, you'll want plenty of swap (and plenty of hours...)... for normal use, you can use less swap [08:37] CAn you afford 1GB for swap? That's probably plenty for a normal use "desktop" type install [08:38] 360MB is a strange number... is this a virtual machine? [08:53] yes [08:53] chasetoys is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. ;;; how do i add that user to the sudoers [08:53] jmarsden, its what my client wants [08:53] cheap [08:53] ha [08:54] run visudo and add chasetoys to the admin group [08:54] er [08:54] or [08:54] scratch that. [08:54] "usermod -aG admin chasetoys" I think [08:55] double check that. Everyone in the admin group has full sudo privledges. [08:57] adduser chasetoys admin # should also work -- see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Allowing%20other%20users%20to%20run%20sudo [09:31] I'm trying to do exactly this but I want to log the results to a text file: https://forum.bytemark.co.uk/viewtopic.php?pid=1937 Anyone got an idea? [10:06] namaste [10:09] Shalom === MenZa_ is now known as MenZa === Bambi_BOFH is now known as Kamping_Kaiser [11:17] hai all, just join this room [11:17] never chat before in this room [11:17] let me introduce my self [11:18] my name salman, has join ubuntu-server for a while but not so active [11:19] from ? [11:19] thanks for you time! [11:19] my origin country you mean? [11:19] ya [11:19] indonesia [11:20] ummm [11:20] what about now / where are ya right now ? [11:20] solo [11:20] single? [11:21] lo0ol [11:21] ;] [11:21] nop! have 2 children! [11:21] :) [11:21] kool:> [11:21] bugfixe1 u know what bachay 2 hi achay :\ [11:22] New bug: #298928 in openldap (main) "apt-get produce an error when I tray install or unisntall slapd" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/298928 [11:23] so salman what do ya do ? [11:24] he is typing? [11:25] :D [11:25] yeps, hanging around this room! [11:26] guys, seriously, did you notice console-kit-daemon takes waaay too much cpu time at ubuntu-server 8.10? [11:27] any one here use 8.10 in production environment? [11:27] nme: nice j0ke :) well thanks! for entertaining :p [11:29] bugfixe1: "kind-of" production environment, 1 real server for my part-time job after my real job ;) and 1 virtual server for ldap testing purposes [11:30] as for me, too much of bleeding edge for production [11:39] yeps [11:39] currently i still use 8.04 LTS [12:46] <[gquit]bombadil> jmarsden: if ubuntu wants to make postfix their default mta, shouldn't it be specified explicitly for all packages that require an mta? [12:47] [gquit]bombadil: ETOOMUCHWORK [12:48] the longer term plan is to push a 'default-mail-transport-agent' package upstream, and have _that_ depend on postfix or exim4 depending on which distro [12:48] because for many of the packages, the MTA name would be the only change from debian [13:03] New bug: #286427 in tomcat6 (main) "Tomcat 6 should not require Java 6 " [Wishlist,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/286427 [13:03] New bug: #299436 in tomcat6 (main) "Tomcat 6 should not implement the TearDown spec" [Low,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/299436 [13:09] hi there! can anyone give me a hint to make my opencv compiling with libtools 2.2 again? [13:35] Running Ubuntu-server 8.10 > I am trying to get LDAP Authentication to work with my install of MediaWiki. I have installed the php5-ldap package and put a TLS cert in /etc/ssl/certs , how do I tell the openldap plugin where the certificate is? I have tried adding <> in /etc/ssh/openssl.cnf but seems like that is not working [13:37] Does this cert need to be symlinked to /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/* like the others in /etc/ssl/certs/? === Skyfury is now known as skyfury [14:59] aleka: have you included keys in ldap config? olcTLS* ? [15:12] New bug: #279645 in tomcat6 (main) "libservlet2.5-java has no javadocs" [Wishlist,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/279645 [15:13] is there any working shell like scponly, where i could define an umask? [15:18] nme: The LDAP server is not locally on my Ubuntu machine... I am connecting to a Novell eDirectory server' === MenZa is now known as MenZa_Aries [15:49] * Faust-C wishes he had eDir [16:00] hi [16:01] I am learning about ubuntu-server and im trying to get proxy squid working. It all went well till now that ive tried to get auth working.. I cant understand what im supposed to do from the squid.conf, would anybody be so kind as to give me a helpng hand? [16:06] New bug: #283852 in tomcat6 (main) "tomcat6 does not include tomcat-dbcp.jar" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/283852 [16:13] feve1, have you looked at wiki? [16:13] and imo it would be simpler to use transparent proxy [16:29] hey there [16:43] for some reason, my apache doesnt want to serve .png images [16:45] marshall: what's it do instead? === MenZa_Aries is now known as MenZa [16:52] tonyyarusso, when i try to access the image itself i get forbidden [16:52] marshall: And you're *sure* the file permissions are correct? [16:53] i put the file on the server under my username [16:54] ok... the web doesnt recognize me as jeff i guess [16:54] marshall: Can you give me the output of ls -l for the file? [16:54] i changed the permissions and they work properly now [16:54] :) [16:55] speaking of apache [16:55] i need to create a VM [16:55] im using ubuntu over SLES [16:55] need to get started asap [16:55] i dont want to have to change all the permissions by hand every time though, how do i avoid this? [16:56] marshall, you can set it in apache.conf iirc [16:57] New bug: #297367 in samba (main) "Samba files open as locked" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/297367 [16:58] hi does anyone know anything about software raid and grub [16:59] gabbler, what do you want to know [17:01] faust-c, hi, i have got ubuntu server running on a two disk software raid solution and i have read that grub will be installed on one of the root drives but not the other, i assume i need to install grub on this other drive so if the primary goes down (with grub) the other will still function if it has to reboot [17:02] gabbler, ic [17:02] hmm im in a similair boat [17:02] faust-c, i need to know how to find out where grub is and then install it on the other root drive [17:02] oh :) [17:02] but from what ive read youll boot up live cd and re-install grub [17:02] you can find out where it is by filesystem type [17:03] md will be raid and grub will be ext2 (default file system) [17:03] so how could i find out if it is on md0 or md1? [17:06] it wont be on either [17:06] grub is outside of raid isnt it (or is that LVM) [17:06] apparently fromwhat i have read it is in raid 1 which is what i have chosen [17:07] and yea lvm doesn't support grub or the boot folder [17:09] faust-c, i have to go but if i find out anythin i will let you know :) [17:09] k thx [17:09] Faust-C, whats an iirc [17:10] if i recall correctly [17:12] ok [17:22] Faust-C, how do i change that in my apache.conf [17:22] idk off the top of my head [17:24] if i pastebin my apache.conf, do you think you could tell me? [17:24] You're using 1.3.xx ? [17:25] genii, me? [17:25] marshall: Yes [17:25] apache2 [17:26] marshall: Then the releveant files will be: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/ports.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default [17:29] genii, im trying to make it so when i transfer a png image into my /var/www directory I dont have to change the permissions myself every time [17:31] hi lads, is it possible to know if a specific package is planned to be upgraded/backported to hardy, or is it possible to vote for the upgrade? [17:31] marshall: If you make the user who adds to the /var/www a member of group www-data they should be able to add there with write mask of 750,755 or such [17:34] genii, i changed the owner of /var/www to jeff (myself) [17:35] does that make a difference? [17:35] marshall: That is not a tactic which is good [17:35] marshall: The reserved user www-data is for this purpose. [17:36] genii, how come? [17:36] o [17:36] should i change the owner back to root? [17:36] then add myself to www-data? [17:36] marshall: web browser for instance is as user www-data and so on [17:36] marshall: Yes [17:38] genii, i will be able to upload stuff via ssh in this group? [17:38] marshall: You can also study how virtual server dirs are set up in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default to allow execute, etc [17:38] genii, hmm [17:38] marshall: Yes, once "jeff" is in group www-data if you ssh in as that, it will have write privs to /var/www [17:39] ok [17:39] mpi: you can search launchpad as it would be published there and you can enter a upgrade request on launchpad for said package as far as I know. [17:41] zoopster, thanks! Ive found my way to the launchpad ubuntu-backports site and am currently filing a request... [17:41] whats the command to add myself to a group again? [17:42] marshall: sudo usermod -G newgroupname -a username [17:42] Or the -a at end [17:43] marshall: My syntax of it may be rusty, I'm normally just editing /etc/group [17:55] genii, i think i added myself to www-data but now when i try to access my png in the browser it says im forbidden again [17:55] genii, i changed the owner of /var/www back to root === mcasadevall is now known as NCommander [17:57] check the permissions on the file [17:57] marshall: What says result: ls -l /var/www/pngfilename.png ? [17:57] www-data user needs to be able to read the file [17:59] genii, -rw------- 1 jeff jeff 39625 2008-11-24 12:32 ./me/bg.png [18:00] marshall: You might want to +r them there, or use an umask [19:36] I take it no one using Macbook Pro's and 8.10 are having this problem? DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 4224 bytes at device 0000:0b:00.0 [19:37] nijaba: This is the error we saw on my Mac this week [19:37] zoopster: i'm not sure you'll get the best return-on-investment asking that question in this channel [19:38] zoopster: i'd start by searching Launchpad, which you can do from http://people.ubuntu.com/~kirkland/search.html [19:38] bummer [19:38] it's already at kernel.org [19:38] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811 [19:38] bugzilla.kernel.org bug 11811 in network-wireless "ath9k / DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 4224 bytes at device 0000:0b:00.0" [High,Assigned] === ogra_ is now known as ogra === espacious_ is now known as espacious === liberfiasco is now known as libervisco [21:21] looking for backup suggestions... multiple servers need incremental multi-day backups in a production environment. backups will be done over nfs or rsync to a backup server. what are you guys using? a solution such as amanda, backuppc? or are you rolling your own rsync scripts? [21:22] !backup | slicslak [21:22] slicslak: There are many ways to back your system up. Here's a few: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem , https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DuplicityBackupHowto , https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup , https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MondoMindi - See also !sbackup and !cloning [21:22] backuppc is sweet [21:25] * hads likes rdiff-backup [21:27] haven't heard of that one [21:27] i recall rsnapshot being pretty nice. backuppc looks like it has some nice guis to impress management. :) [21:33] rdiff-backup is like rsnapshot except it (rdiff-backup) stores diffs of files rather than hard links so can save a lot of space depending on what you are backing up. The trade-off being a little longer run time. [21:33] But if you're looking for GUIs etc. then it won't impress management. [21:40] dar [21:41] i just dont like that it seems as if most opensource backup solutions are tedious to setup and maintain [21:42] Faust-C: Which commercial closed source ones are fun to set up and maintain? ;) [21:42] *shrug* seems the opposite to me. [21:42] jmarsden|work, atm i dont like either [21:42] i still havent found anything that i would like to use w/ users and servers [21:45] Sounds like you have very specific needs. There are a lot of reasonable choices out there. Bacula? Amanda? http://www.restore-backup.com/ even? [21:45] yeah im looking at those 2 [21:45] primary issue is training co-workers [21:45] i can use anything, but that cant be said for my peers [21:49] jmarsden|work, thanks for that link [21:49] never heard of that before [21:50] Faust-C: No problem. [22:50] Hi, I virtualized a Ubuntu 7.10 server into vmware server and I need it to configure the pcnet32 card (or should it be vmxnet?). Can anyone help with with this? [23:21] problem solved: cleared /etc/udev/rules.d/70-...net...; replaced eth1 with eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces; restarted udev and networking. [23:35] cool, thanks for the discussion (re: backup) guys. i'll evaluate a few next and make a decision.