[00:31] I have postgres 8.4 running, but I also have 8.3 installed. How can I shut down 8.4 and start up 8.3 ? [00:38] ah ok. got it. sudo service postgresql-8.3 start [00:52] kirkland: howdy! have run into this bug 504530? [00:52] Launchpad bug 504530 in euca2ools "euca-register fails to register an image: register_image() takes at least 2 non-keyword arguments (1 given)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/504530 [00:52] kirkland: this is with the latest version of euca2ools in lucid [00:56] hi are there any chance i can increase my /var directory on my ubuntu server,during installation what i select on partion is the default.. [00:57] this is my df -h--->http://pastebin.com/m7c3cf665 [00:58] on my volume group i have this--->http://pastebin.com/m199f7cc0 [00:59] and my lv display--->http://pastebin.com/m7c83e8bd [00:59] anyone have idea..? [01:03] so, no free lvm space? [01:03] ivoks: how do i check it..? [01:04] you did vg and lvdisplay [01:04] how about pvdisplay [01:04] PV Size 297.85 GB / not usable 3.64 MB [01:04] why would you increase /var? [01:04] it's not separate partition [01:05] atm, it's size is 293GB :) [01:05] coz im having recordings on that directory and it getting full. [01:05] ? [01:05] im wrong [01:05] your / (which contains /var) is 4% in use [01:06] what i mean is, does /var directory gets its size on the main partition..? [01:06] yes [01:06] so it geeting the size of my 295.28 GB [01:07] *nod* [01:07] ow ok....i guess i dont need to increase it [01:07] you can't [01:07] you allocated all disk space to / [01:07] ok thanks.. [01:07] /var isn't separate partition anyway [01:07] its part of the /root directory right..? [01:08] nope [01:08] its part of / [01:08] ow ok whihc the size is 295 GB [01:08] /root is part of / [01:08] got it...more clear now [01:09] new to ubuntu? [01:09] http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/c23.html [01:10] yes, but i been studying it..it my server on production [01:10] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html [01:11] ^^^ good read [01:11] ivoks: Error: "^^" is not a valid command. [01:12] 'night [01:12] ivoks:one more thing where did you find that /var is only using 4%...? [01:12] ow ok goodnight [01:12] whole / uses only 4% [01:13] ok, i guess you are familiar with windows [01:13] imagine C = / [01:13] and C:\Windows = /var [01:13] ok thanks..yes clear now [01:14] notice that, unlike windows, /var (or any other path) can be directory or partition [01:15] so / is one partition, but /var can be another - this is not the case with your setup [01:16] ok [01:22] mathiaz: hey [01:22] mathiaz: hrm [01:22] mathiaz: let's poke nekro === dendrobates is now known as dendro-afk [02:32] Is anyone here? === dendro-afk is now known as dendrobates [02:38] Is anyone here? [02:50] hello to all. i have by incident deleted the mail log files in /var/log and now after restarting postfix the files are not created again. do i need to restart syslog to get the files back or do i need to create them itself? [02:51] *by accident [02:51] If the logs are created by syslog, you do not need to create them -- you might need to restart syslog, though. [02:51] If the logs are written directly by postfix, I don't know -- I would expect restarting postfix to be sufficient. [02:53] twb: thanks for your reply ! have restarted postfix and the files are not recreated. will try now to restart syslog [02:58] twb: after the restarting of syslog the files were recreated. need now to test if the logs are really written to the files. have the strange root:root ownership for this files. normally it should be if i am not wrong syslog:adm [02:59] Here, /var/log/mail.{err,info,log} are root:adm [02:59] That's on 8.04 with traditional syslog (not rsyslog) [03:00] twb: you are a genius. thank you a lot with helping me with this problem. the log files were recreated after the restart of syslog and postfix write to them with no problem :-) === dendrobates is now known as dendro-afk [03:07] It probably would have been sufficient to just pkill -HUP syslog [03:07] That is what logrotate will do each day, so this would have fixed itself tomorrow [03:18] did not thinked syslog is such intelegent to do this. love intelegent self repairing systems :-) [03:35] It's more an happy accident than "self healing" [03:46] twb: i have problem with recieving mails on my system. till yet i have used in main.cf the aliases file for maping the incoming mails to my user account now i have decided to use recipient_canonical file for this but this does not work. === erichammond1 is now known as erichammond [03:47] xperia: that is beyond me knowledge. [03:47] xperia: try #postfix [03:47] okay [03:47] they are only heavy snoobish :-) [03:48] xperia: you mean they don't want to answer your questions? [03:51] if you ask too much specific question mostly you will read answer like noob ubuntu user :-) to be a ubunut user how want a good bleeding edge system is not easy today. [03:52] Well, Ubuntu isn't about the bleeding edge. [03:52] If you want the very latest versions, you could try LFS, or SourceMage, or Gentoo. [03:55] with bleeding edge i mean having a full configured system that allow you to have a good mailserver for recieving and sending with multiple email adresses. web and dns server with multiple domains and other things that are beyond the default setup. [03:56] if you have question related to this tasks geting a answer as a ubuntu user in other chanels isnt that easy. [04:00] xperia: have you read the "Smart Questions HOWTO"? [04:03] twb: ☺ [04:04] JanC: some context, please [04:04] I also doubt the Postfix people care about what OS you use ;) [04:05] twb: the problem is that the people dont are interested to help when somebody ask a specific question. i have asked this question here since 5 min in postfix and till yet nobody answered. [04:05] do i need to have the aliases file in main.cf for maping incoming mails to my user account or can i use only this line here for this purpose. [04:05] recipient_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/recipient_canonical [04:05] xperia: don't expect a response within five minutes. [04:05] eh, 5 min is not exactly a long time [04:05] xperia: if the channel is slow, it might take HOURS to get a reply. [04:08] yeah this could be. maybe the ubuntu-server irc chanell is unique as nearly all the time people are here with good knoweledge and answer question fast. if all chanelles would be this way a lot of prblems could be allready solved and time can be saved [04:12] That's because #ubuntu-server isn't a specialist channel, and isn't full of newbies. [04:12] #emacs is similar. === dendro-afk is now known as dendrobates [05:14] okay have solved my postfix problems now. the bug was related to the file /etc/mailname [05:15] if this file contain a different location than localhost mails recieved will be not resolved on the mashine. [05:15] thanks for the help see you next time [05:16] New bug: #504615 in eucalyptus (main) "add redirect to default index.html on CLC" [Wishlist,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/504615 [05:17] hi all, I am trying to fix a problem. apt seems to be broken and apt-get update keeps telling me that the files I am downloading are not bzip2 files [05:17] Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Translation-en_US [210B] [05:17] 98% [2 Translation-en_US bzip2 0] [Waiting for headers] [Connecting to bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. [05:18] Ive tried these exact same repos on another box (ubuntu karmic desktop) and it works fine [05:19] anyone have any idea on what might be wrong? === erichammond1 is now known as erichammond === dendrobates is now known as dendro-afk [07:12] ttx: hey [07:12] kirkland: hey, still up ? [07:12] ttx: yeah, been busy [07:12] ttx: i just uploaded eucalyptus [07:12] ah ok [07:12] so it probably didn't make the last cd iso build [07:13] will ask for a manual trigger [07:13] 2am at alpha2, 3am at alpha3... [07:13] ttx: heh [07:14] kirkland: did you spend some time testing ? [07:15] kirkland: aka "did it start an instance" ? [07:15] kirkland: kernel team fixed the tun thing yesterday [07:15] ttx: i did some testing [07:15] ttx: i didn't get an instance running, though [07:15] kirkland: any issue you want to pass on ? [07:16] ttx: might not have had the kernel [07:16] kirkland: ok, then that's the subject of your tomorrow and of my today [07:16] kirkland: good night :) [07:16] ttx: i'm finishing the minutes now [07:16] kirkland: arh :) [07:17] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100106 [07:18] ok [07:18] ttx: oh, one more ... [07:18] ttx: https://launchpad.net/bugs/461202 [07:18] Launchpad bug 461202 in eucalyptus "After purging and removing /var/lib/eucalyptus image store is out of sync" [Low,Fix released] [07:18] ttx: i couldn't reproduce that one [07:18] ttx: so i marked it fix released [07:18] ttx: it would be nice if you could confirm that [07:18] ttx: it's pretty easy [07:19] kirkland: will try [07:19] ttx: i did test your changes [07:19] ttx: they did install, start up [07:19] ttx: but there are still some upstart issues [07:20] kirkland: ok, will look with todays daily [07:21] ttx: now i'm calling it a night [08:30] Hello! [08:30] does anyone know whats gping on here? http://pastebin.com/d3e621f6b [08:44] I want to show the grub boot menu on startup what file to i need to edit? [08:46] hello to all. i have problem building software with bitbake on my uuntu server. after some 20 to 30 minutes i am getting this error message here [08:46] running task 1 of 2542 (id: 15, .../recipes/shasum/shasum-native.bb, do setscene) [08:46] running task 2 of 2542 (id: 75, .../recipes/coreutils/coreutils-native_7.2.bb,do setscene) [08:46] Out of Memory: Kill Process 11335 (python) [08:46] ERROR: Task 15 shasum-native.bb do setscene failed [08:46] it looks like python use nearly all the ram and somehow the kernel shut it down in the middle of the build proccess [08:47] people told me this is related to my operating system [08:47] how can i fix this ? [08:50] put more RAM in the computer? :-) [08:52] obviously there's some memleak, or you don't have enough ram for that build process if it's eating up all your memory [08:54] cemc: thanks for sugesstion. cant beleve that ram is the problem as the machine has 1GB RAM. have tryed to build it on a other machine iwth debian/ubuntu and i am getting also the same error message [08:58] 1GB is not a lot nowadays [08:58] did you try building it on a machine with more RAM ? [08:58] like 2GB, 4GB ? [08:59] hmmm not till yet will ask other people how had successfull builded the software how much ram did they had. [09:00] xperia: is that some opensource software, maybe I can download it and try building it if it's not too complicated, have 4gb ram in here [09:00] also on Ubuntu Karmic [09:03] cemc yeah it is open source software. it is called open embedded and is used to run linux on pocket pc phones like this here [09:03] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9vg2TU0wew [09:04] give me just a moment to post the few instructions === erichammond1 is now known as erichammond [09:05] cemc: http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Getting_Started [09:07] okay have aksed now the other people too and they have told me that they build this on machines with about 3 to 4 GB RAM [09:07] so need a new machine in this case hmm bad [09:08] cemc: you dont need anymore to do this. you will need a lot of time only to clone the repo with git. time for setting up the environment will take 2 to 3 Hours. [09:09] xperia: is there any readme file with requirements for building? [09:09] where it says maybe ummm... RAM: 2+GB ? :) [09:11] yes that i have also searched but didnt find it till yet. it dont even prove if the build system has enoght recources for doing this. cant answe this question as i am self searching the answer for it :-) [09:11] I can't find menu.1st what do i used to edit the grub menu [09:12] I can't find menu.1st what do i used to edit the grub menu [09:12] need some gamer system with quad core cpu [09:12] sabgenton_: what ubuntu version? [09:12] server kamic [09:12] karmic [09:13] !grub2 | sabgenton_ [09:13] sabgenton_: GRUB2 is the default Ubuntu boot manager in Karmic. For more information and troubleshooting on GRUB2 please refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2 [09:13] oh yeah its version 2 now [09:13] indeed :) [09:14] I did a distro-upgrade and when it got to the grub-pc package it screwed up cause I had my ide cables reversed [09:14] stupid thing [09:15] well it might be my fault I'll tell lmore later [09:17] morning [09:47] crazy on install of karmic /boot/grub/grub.cfg had hardrives based on /dev/sd somthing [09:48] i did an up date an now it's based on a UUID [09:48] I guess its so it knows what hardrive what even if there /dev/sd* location changes [09:49] !uuid | sabgenton_ yes [09:49] sabgenton_ yes: To see a list of your devices/partitions and their corresponding UUID's, run this command in a !shell: « sudo blkid » (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibAtaForAtaDisks for the rationale behind the transition to UUID) [09:50] is this feature newer than the initial karmic release [09:50] ? [09:51] guntbert: why didn't karmix have this when i first installed? [09:51] was it not release at that point? [09:51] sabgenton_: its defintely not new - why it is implemented in step - no idea === erichammond1 is now known as erichammond [10:02] guntbert: in step? [10:03] sabgenton_: ah "in steps" - sorry [10:03] ah sorry [10:05] has anyone ever had a glich where at the ubuntu login prompt it gets sorta superimposed with a root prompt? [10:05] sabgenton_: no - care to !pastebin that? [10:07] i tryed typing something at this root@ubuntu prompt and then it said invaild comand [10:07] and sometimes it said invalid login or whatever l [10:07] like it was switching back and forth [10:07] guntbert: can't it's gone now [10:07] but it's kind a worrying :/ [10:08] sabgenton_: you never should have a prompt root@ubuntu - don't enable the root account [10:08] its not enabled! [10:08] !noroot | sabgenton_ [10:08] sabgenton_: We do not support having a root password set. See !root and !wfm for more information. [10:08] and i hadn't log on and gone sudo -i ether [10:09] guntbert: I rember one time it was a real pain not being able to scp as root [10:10] but anyway i'm not using the root at all [10:10] sabgenton_: ah that was you ... [10:10] ? [10:10] lol [10:10] couple of years ago [10:10] 5 [10:10] ish [10:11] sabgenton_: ok - my error - sorry - we had someone with that last week [10:11] ah [10:13] guntbert: did you tell him to passwd root then when done sudo usermod -p '!' root back [10:13] ? [10:13] (no harm?) [10:14] sabgenton_: no - I only listened to the conversation [10:14] ah see [10:14] well did someone else sugest it? [10:15] or was it considered a no no [10:15] sabgenton_: I really don't remember details [10:15] seems a bit strange not to suport it [10:16] is it somthing strange - the reason [10:16] or does ubuntu just not suport people acdently typing things with no protection of "do sudo first" [10:17] what if I need to rsync some stuff only root has access to to/from an ubuntu box (or between two ubuntu boxes)? rsyncd isn't too recommended either ;) [10:18] hmm! [10:18] whats the big deall in not suporting it [10:19] the only reason i can thing of is users stuffing things cause they don't have the little promt warning "use sudo" [10:19] probably it opens up a lot more problems in general, if people (who don't have some degree of knowledge) start using root and breaking stuff ;) [10:19] yeah that I understand as above^ [10:21] but i I need to rsync like you said and then I have a problem with rsync (unrelated to sudo vs root) are they now going to "not support me" because i didn't use sudo (imposble / impactical) [10:21] ? [10:21] seems strange [10:21] to use the linux term [10:21] FUD [10:22] I'm not really trying to fight or anything just want to know if theres something I'm missing in the tecnical [10:22] out side of lots of noobs getting carryed away [10:22] another way is to go to #linux and treat your problem as a general linux problem, disregarding the distro a bit ;) [10:23] just be careful not to mess up anything really ubuntu-specific ;) [10:23] heh [10:23] hehe [10:23] it's just linux :) [10:23] with some flavouring, heh [10:24] cemc: its funney the politics in distro chanels :) [10:24] / irc in general [10:24] if you need root, use root, just know about the dangers, and don't recommend to other people :) [10:24] sabgenton_: you did read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo of course [11:23] is there any difference between SATA I, II and III? [11:23] are they compatible? [11:39] is this correct for crontab? 05 0-12,17-23/2 * * * (every other hour except from 12-17) ? [11:42] cemc: http://adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference [12:18] hi, i need help in setting up thin client [12:19] i m planning to use linux as thin client [12:19] is xubuntu good to go? [13:07] New bug: #497831 in eucalyptus (main) "Eucalyptus-SC doesn't ask the cluster-name question" [High,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/497831 [13:14] Hey guys, throughout the night someone has been attempting to log in to ssh on my server, what's some kind of good software to automatically block an IP after a certain number of failed logins? I [13:14] am using Ubuntu 9.04 [13:15] Hellsheep: fail2ban [13:15] Thanks :D [13:15] works well - interfaces with iptables to block IPs for some time after a certain amount of failed logins [13:15] Cool cool, sounds like exactly what i want [13:16] :) [13:16] Is it quite easy to configure? [13:16] Bit of a noob with servers :P [13:16] yeah [13:16] brb [13:16] kk [13:17] Hellsheep: The defaults work fine for most people [13:18] Or just use SSH keys for login and block off passwords. [13:20] Thanks :) [13:20] I found some docs on it and am reading it now :) [13:20] Hellsheep: I'm using that on 20+ servers with linux and solaris - works well :) [13:21] Awesome :) [13:21] I had something like [13:21] 500-700 login attemps [13:21] I cant count exactly :P [13:22] I dunno how to [13:22] xD [13:22] Is it really worth reporting the IP's at all? [13:22] nah [13:22] it's just worms [13:22] ah i see [13:22] just block them for 30 minutes or something [13:23] blocking them too long will make it hard if you fail yourself :þ [13:25] :) [13:26] there was some thought of adding cumulatively increasing blocks, but I don't think it's been done yet [13:26] anyway - should be trivial [13:26] Is [13:26] Maxretry the number of login attemps [13:26] Before getting banned [13:27] oh - it's in already? [13:27] * RoyK checks [13:27] Hmm [13:27] I have "maxretry" [13:27] Below the time to ban them [13:29] maxretry means how many times they can retry before getting banned [13:29] Ah cool [13:30] what I meant was 'if x.x.x.x is banned and the ban is removed and x.x.x.x tries another n times, the next time it fails, it's banned for x*2^failcount minutes [13:30] Ohhh yep i see [13:30] not a big issue, though [13:30] All configured :D [13:30] That was easy [13:31] Hellsheep: what's the ip? [13:31] My IP? [13:31] yeah - lemme try :D [13:31] For the server [13:31] kk [13:31] 69.162.115.201 [13:31] Anyone know how to resolve the issue where an Outlook user sends email to a blackberry phone and its all gobbedly gook because all of the tags are showing and you are basically reading a bunch of HTML. [13:33] Hellsheep: hm. eight attempts and still not blocked [13:33] O.o [13:33] Hmm [13:33] check logs [13:33] It was set to 6 [13:33] i see the logs [13:34] set it to 3 [13:34] Jan 8 16:34:52 basetek sshd[20080]: Failed password for root from port 61249 ssh2 [13:34] no ip? [13:34] I removed it [13:34] in case [13:34] :P [13:34] Jan 8 16:34:52 basetek sshd[20080]: Failed password for root from 81.191.198.164 port 61249 ssh2 [13:34] Thats it [13:34] that's mine [13:34] people can find my IP if they want it anyway :) [13:34] Hellsheep: is fail2ban running? [13:35] Yep [13:35] One question [13:35] Could it be related to iptables not being configured? [13:35] no [13:35] it configures iptables [13:36] iptables -I INPUT -s x.x.x.x -j DROP [13:36] that sort of thing [13:36] ah okay [13:36] try iptables -vnL [13:36] see if that shows anything [13:36] Chain fail2ban-ssh (1 references) [13:36] pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination [13:36] 0 0 RETURN all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 [13:36] Only thing relating to fail2ban in there [13:37] hm.. seems fail2ban isn't parsing the logs, then [13:37] Lemme check i got it right [13:37] Okay, webmin reports my failed ssh in /var/logauth.log [13:38] I think i have it set to /var/log/logauth.log [13:38] Thats why. [13:38] My bad lol [13:38] :) [13:38] set max to 3 [13:38] lemme test again [13:38] Okay go again [13:39] 2010-01-08 16:40:48,197 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [ssh] Ban 81.191.198.164 [13:39] :) [13:40] Chain fail2ban-ssh (1 references) [13:40] pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination [13:40] 17 912 DROP all -- * * 81.191.198.164 0.0.0.0/0 [13:40] 0 0 RETURN all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 [13:40] Much better [13:40] :D [13:41] mm, fail2ban is nice. [13:45] Thanks for that RoyK [13:47] Hellsheep: :) [13:49] Hellsheep: looks like it parsed auth.log before I tried to login again [13:49] it was banned on first attempt [13:59] mathiaz: running a few mins late, sorry [13:59] jiboumans: ok [14:03] -24˚C [14:03] fuck this country [14:04] mathiaz: eta 1 min :) [14:04] RoyK: watch the language please [14:04] jussi01: do we have another anti-swearing bot? [14:05] jussi01: I use the English language. Any other prefferd? [14:05] preferred, perhaps [14:05] RoyK: the ubuntu channels have some guidelines, please follow them [14:05] !guidelines [14:05] The guidelines for using the Ubuntu channels can be found here: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcGuidelines [14:05] jussi01: such as not using English? [14:05] !language | RoyK [14:05] RoyK: Please watch your language and topic to help keep this channel family friendly. [14:06] jussi01: most families knows English, sir [14:06] jussi01: or do you mean "palin friendly"? [14:07] RoyK: ok, please dont swear, as expressly stated in the guidelines [14:07] jussi01: can you please tell me what is wrong with weighting expressions? [14:08] jussi01: explain why the hell you don't want me to use certain amounts of certain languages [14:08] there's no kids in here anyway [14:08] none that haven't grown accostumed to common language, anyway [14:09] jussi01: or are you just a shell script, unable to answer straight questions? [14:10] * RoyK finds it strange that some idiot like jussi01 just complains about the language and doesn't say anything else in here [14:10] fucking bot [14:11] RoyK: Calm down. [14:12] RoyK: thanks for your patience.... my connection died... :/ [14:12] I wonde wtf wrote those "guidelines" [14:12] wonder [14:12] does everything have to be church-friendly? [14:13] RoyK: Dude. Quit being an arse. [14:13] soren: I'm not [14:13] There you go again. [14:13]