[01:14] <osmosis> whats been updated on vmbuilder since hardy?  now at karmic?  huge diff?
[01:28] <osmosis> uhh  virt-install  or  vmbuilder?  The docs reference them both.
[02:50] <tos> how to i start the mouse deamon for gnome-desktop   ??????????????
[03:00] <jpds> tos: Try #ubuntu, this place is for server support.
[06:27] <MTecknology> bug 1
[08:06] <sabgenton> hey all
[08:07] <sabgenton> how do put the iso on to usb
[08:07] <sabgenton> so i can install from usb
[08:07] <jmarsden> sabgenton: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
[08:08] <sabgenton> the usb creator from the desktop iso does not seem to work with it server iso
[08:09] <sabgenton> jmarsden: is there a usb-creator that works with the server iso?
[08:11] <jmarsden> I'm not sure... it shouldn't matter.  What error are you getting?  Worst case, try unetbootin instead.
[08:13] <sabgenton> yeah i'll do that
[08:13] <sabgenton> just wanted to use the offica
[08:13] <sabgenton> l
[08:13] <sabgenton> meah mis as well
[08:13] <sabgenton> md5 check sums do not match
[08:14] <sabgenton> there some flags u can use for the cli isn't there?
[08:15] <sabgenton> the iso checks against the digest md5 so I'm not shure whats not matching
[08:15] <sabgenton> unless the usb creator only works with the desktop iso not server
[08:17] <jmarsden> The ubuntu-creator-gtk help says it requires a "Ubuntu Desktop Edition" ...
[08:17] <jmarsden> Not many people want to boot servers from USB sticks, I suspect... most servers have hard drives they can boot from :)
[08:51] <sabgenton> jmarsden: not all servers have cd to boot from
[08:51] <sabgenton> but ok cheers
[08:52] <jmarsden> sabgenton: If they have a SATA interface on the motherboard you can find a spare SATA CDROM drive and add it temporarily for initial OS installation.
[08:53] <jmarsden> Or try a USB external CDROm drive, most modern motherboards can boot from those.
[08:53] <sabgenton> usb stick is more conveniant
[08:54] <sabgenton> I have no spare  cdrom/dvdrom drive at the moment
[08:56] <jmarsden> sabgenton: Fair enough.  If you do much server building it might be worth investing in some spare parts... but for now unetbootin should get you going.
[08:57] <sabgenton> I had a ide to usb cable once I could just atache any external ide drive to the compture via the cable
[08:57] <sabgenton> and it came with a molex power adapter
[08:57] <sabgenton> to wall plug
[09:16] <sabgenton> jmarsden: this was an easy solution http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/u910/USB-Installer-for-Ubuntu-v0.2.exe
[09:23] <Alpha61> Is Ubuntu Server's out of the box security settings very vulnerable and weak?
[10:04] <MTecknology> Alpha61: no
[10:05] <MTecknology> Alpha61: it's actually very secure by default. There's only a few things I change
[10:10] <Alpha61> Thanks :D
[10:10] <MTecknology> np
[10:12] <Alpha61> Working on Wordpress for testing purpose and trying to change the ownership of wp-content folder so the httpd server can read and write in that folder. A link to wordpress only assumes that the server name is www and the group name is www. How about on Ubuntu on out-of-box settings?
[10:13] <Alpha61> i meant a link on wordpress website. sorry
[10:13] <MTecknology> www-data:www-data
[10:13] <Alpha61> I'll try that. Thank you very much Mtech!
[10:13] <MTecknology> np :)
[10:17] <MTecknology> sleepy time; 04:17
[10:17] <MTecknology> Alpha61: good luck
[10:17] <MTecknology> !info wordpress
[10:18] <MTecknology> Alpha61: You could also try to install it from the repos; I've never done it though.
[10:18] <Alpha61> I finished installing it
[10:18] <MTecknology> cool
[10:18] <Alpha61> and changing the folder ownership worked! Thanks
[10:18] <MTecknology> :)
[10:18] <Alpha61> but now uploading theme doesn't work.
[10:19] <Alpha61> maybe FTP server doesn't run on default on Ubuntu Server?
[10:19] <MTecknology> chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress
[10:20] <Alpha61> I'm new to Server stuff. I used to mess around with desktops and destroy partition lol) sorry unnecessary info on irc channel
[10:20] <Alpha61> MTek: I did that
[10:20] <MTecknology> :P I used to do that a lot as well
[10:21] <Alpha61> Failed to connect to FTP Server server:21
[10:21] <MTecknology> oh
[10:21] <Alpha61> on the wordpress dashboard
[10:21] <MTecknology> no - no default ftp server
[10:21] <MTecknology> use rsync or scp
[10:21] <MTecknology> I have to pass out now....
[10:21] <MTecknology> g'night
[10:21] <Alpha61> thanks for helping
[10:22] <Alpha61> gnight
[12:12] <clusty> ahoy
[12:42] <Maleko> how do you resize hd partition through ssh
[12:43] <bittin_> cfdisk or fdisk
[12:57] <Maleko> is it safe to use on live partition?
[13:00] <RoyK> Maleko: mounted?????
[13:01] <Maleko> RoyK, yes. its a remote server with a single partition only
[13:06] <RoyK> don't do it
[13:06] <RoyK> that is, it is possible, and it might perhaps even work
[13:06] <RoyK> but if it crashes, it crashes big time
[13:07] <RoyK> MTecknology: that chown command is NOT good
[13:12] <Maleko> RoyK, http://pastebin.com/d1fbfde62
[13:12] <Maleko> 3 partitions actually
[13:12] <RoyK> and what are you trying to do?
[13:13] <RoyK> looks like a system installed on an 80gig drive, a small /boot partition, 4 gigs swap and the rest for the root
[13:13] <Maleko> free up some spaces on the largest partition and make a new partition out of it
[13:13] <RoyK> is sda3 your root?
[13:14] <RoyK> wtf do you want to split the partition????
[13:14] <RoyK> if you want something like that, make a subdirectory and bind-mount it somewhere
[13:14] <Maleko> calm down.
[13:14] <RoyK> or make a file with dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M count=numberofmegs, mkfs on that and mount -o loop
[13:15] <RoyK> shrinking a filesystem on linux is not trivial
[13:16] <RoyK> hm
[13:16] <RoyK> seems i'm wrong
[13:16] <RoyK> resize2fs can shrink ext[234]
[13:17] <RoyK> still, I don't see the point unless you want to install another OS on the box
[13:18] <Maleko> i actually intend to use the partition as a temporary backup space
[13:18] <RoyK> if so, I'd rather just make a loopback device
[13:18] <RoyK> or something
[13:18] <RoyK> if your drive dies, all the partitions die as well
[13:20] <Maleko> loopback still reside on same partition no?
[13:20] <Maleko> loopback dev
[13:20] <RoyK> well, the file on which the loopback device resides obviously resides on a partition, yes
[13:20] <RoyK> but the chance of a filesystem corruption is _small_
[13:21] <RoyK> far smaller than the chance of messing up while resizing a partition
[13:23] <Maleko> but that is troublesome if you were to recover deleted data from the partition, i guess? you might end up overwriting the data itself when you try to write it back
[13:23] <RoyK> not with loopback
[13:23] <Maleko> why is that?
[13:23] <RoyK> use dd to create an empty file, say, 10GB
[13:24] <RoyK> mkfs on that and mount it -o loop
[13:24] <RoyK> that file won't be touched by the rest of the fs
[13:24] <Maleko> ahh..
[13:25] <RoyK> dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/file bs=1M count=10k && mke2fs -Fj /path/to/file && mount -o loop /path/to/file /some/place
[13:25] <Maleko> i guess i'll go with that idea
[13:25] <RoyK> add it to the fstab and you're done
[14:49] <Bondi> Is there a default username and password for the Ubuntu Cloud admin page?
[18:20] <dudko> hi. please, I am running LAMP on Ubuntu 9.10 desktop edition and I'd like to acces my localhost via browser with my free DNS adress. Could somebody help me?
[18:24] <jmarsden> dudko: Install apache2 ; configure your router to port forward port 80 to the Ubuntu machine ; point your "free DNS address" to your public IP address.
[18:26] <dudko> does it work?
[18:26] <dudko> http://dudko.gotdns.com/
[18:27] <jmarsden> dudko: Yes.  I see the standard default "It works" page there.
[18:28] <dudko> I can't belive, that it was som simple... thank you jmarsden. I disabled firewall for http port in router. And firewall in Ubuntu<
[18:28] <dudko> ?
[18:29] <jmarsden> There is no packet filter (firewall) enabled on Ubuntu systems by default.  You can install ufw if you want to add a simple one.
[18:30] <dudko> gr8. thanks man.
[18:30] <jmarsden> You're welcome.
[20:43] <MTecknology> How can I track down what is causing a lot of messages to be sent from root to root@localhost ?
[20:44] <MTecknology> Jan  1 11:12:45 obtinio sendmail[8133]: o01BCjlk008133: from=root, size=424, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201001011112.o01BCjlk008133@server.domain.com>, relay=root@localhost
[20:45] <ScottK> Mail logs?
[20:46] <MTecknology> ScottK: thanks.. I shoulda thought to look there
[20:46] <MTecknology> I guess uptrack thinks it needs to email me.....
[23:38] <sabgenton> could anybody kindly tell me the boot line for the server live cd?
[23:40] <MTecknology> sabgenton: hm?
[23:42] <jmarsden> sabgenton: Do you mean    Boot Options = /cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-server.seed initrd=/install/initrd.gz quiet --
[23:42] <sabgenton> yeah thats it!
[23:42] <sabgenton> thanks
[23:42] <sabgenton> so that what comes up on the boot menu?
[23:43] <sabgenton> if you choose edit this line
[23:43] <sabgenton> or whatever
[23:44] <jmarsden> sabgenton: Yes.
[23:44] <jmarsden> I just booted in it a virtualbox VM so I could see it.
[23:44] <jmarsden> It's what is displayed when you use F6 from the installer screen.
[23:45] <sabgenton> :D
[23:45] <sabgenton> thx
[23:45] <jmarsden> You're welcome
[23:53] <sabgenton>  Boot Options = /cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-server.seed
[23:54] <sabgenton> jmarsden: is that a line?
[23:54] <sabgenton> with spaces?
[23:55] <jmarsden> sabgenton: That is what is displayed on screen.  With spaces.  That does not mean that is exactly what you need to enter in a config file...
[23:55] <sabgenton> no im try to enter that at boot
[23:56] <sabgenton> the same way u saw the line
[23:56] <sabgenton> only my lines differnt
[23:56] <sabgenton> so want to change it
[23:56] <sabgenton> its just ubuntu.seed not ubuntu-server.seed
[23:57] <sabgenton> do you think boot options is the heading then /cdr... is the acutual settings?
[23:57] <jmarsden> Then either you have a different server ISO (I used ubuntu-9.10-server-amd64.iso) or you are doing something odd.
[23:58] <jmarsden> Just boot from your CD, hit F6, and edit your line to be the way you want.
[23:59] <MatBoy> what kind of security emails do you guys receive from websites ?
[23:59] <sabgenton> basicly I tryed usiing a program to put the iso on usb