[00:07] I cannot perform any write operations on my drive anymore. This is a KVM host. Other KVM hosts on the server are operating properly. [00:08] I tried stopping the host (virsh shutdown hostname),and it stopped. [00:09] But now it won't start back up: virsh start hostname says: "error: failed to create logfile /var/log/libvirt/qemu/hostname.log: Read-only file system [00:09] tauren: maybe you need to fsck it? [00:10] And trying "sudo fsck /dev/vol/partitionname" returns with "Superblock invalid" [00:10] fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/mapper/vol-hostname [00:10] The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 [00:11] SpamapS, that's what I'm thinking too. Any ideas why fsck would fail? [00:11] again, the rest of the server is working fine, so I think its related to just this one partition. [00:12] I've not done such things with kvm.. but I'd suspect there's a partition table on the lvm block device maybe? [00:13] hmm, maybe so. not sure how to check that. [00:14] SpamapS, yeah, from my notes I built it with a root, swap and /var partition [00:15] so do you know how I would run fsck on those partitions from the host system? [00:18] tauren: maybe kpartx? [00:18] ah, yes. it's been years since i used that. I'll have to figure it out again. thanks for the idea! [00:19] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1262207 [00:19] got the idea from that [00:20] thanks, looks like that will help [00:52] I have a remote ubuntu 9.10 server and I need to run fsck on its partitions. Do i have to physically go to the server with a recovery CD, or can I remotely change to single user mode, run fsck, then switch back to normal operation? [01:02] tauren you can reboot into safe mode with ssh [01:02] its on the server guide [01:02] g2g [01:03] bogeyd6, I'd like to force fsck to run at boot, but my drive is read-only now, and I can't change /etc/default/rcS or touch /forcefsck [01:07] bogeyd6, sorry, misread your post. I'm not finding info in the server guide about doing that. Without write access on my drive, how would I remotely reboot into safe mode with ssh? [02:14] Hello all, I'm having libvirt problems. Can anybody help me? === ajaya_ is now known as ajaya === unreal_ is now known as unreal [02:39] cybrocop: best to just ask your question. The local expert is soren though who should be soon asleep right now (he's in CEST) [02:50] jiboumans: Here is my issue http://open.eucalyptus.com/forum/libvirt-operation-failed-failed-retrieve-chardev-info-qemu-info-chardev#comment-11359 [02:51] I'm also discussing this on #eucalyptus, but they are puzzled as well. This is I guess more of a libvirt issue than eucalyptus anyway [02:56] New bug: #585208 in openldap (main) "slapd becomes non-responsive after several weeks runtime" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/585208 [03:13] I ran "sudo ifconfig eth2 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:10" on a computer to spoof it's mac address, but it returned "siocsifhwaddr: too many open files in system." I had eth2 down before doing this. I ran ifconfig and the mac did change, but I can not connect to any networks. [03:14] Would anyone happen to know what the issue is? [03:36] New bug: #585212 in apache2 (main) "Apache2 userdir does not like encrypted home directories" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/585212 [03:42] question: how do I change the upgrade policy to make sure to stya with LTS releases? [03:42] /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades Prompt? [03:43] solarion: If you are on an LTS release you won't be automatically offered the chance to upgrade except to the next LTS. [03:43] aah, ok [03:43] * solarion is a fan of things Just Working. :) [03:43] in 2 years hopefully I'll be buying the 12-way Atom nettop. :) [03:43] with 128GB RAM [03:43] thanks [03:43] solarion: If you want to check, that file should have "Prompt=lts" [03:44] yeah, that's what it has [03:44] (if you're on an LTS) [03:44] yeah [03:59] Hi everyone, need some help regarding RAID on Ubuntu server 10.04. I'm working with Ubuntu's software RAID 1 right now, and it works fine, however I'm running into problems when needing to partition a fresh drive to add to the array for re-building -- having just removed one of the original drives. I've used the command sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sda to partition the new drive and it works fine, but I'm doubting that's going to wo [04:00] I'm trying to use fdisk to partition the new drive, but can't seem to create the extended partition as per the other drive -- the original drives were partitioned automatically by the installer. [04:03] The following shows the partition table: http://pastebin.com/ajyDieuk -- I can create the partition sda1 just fine, but then when trying to create sda2 as an extended partition, cylinder 120675 is out of range I. I am forced to enter 120676 but this means the second partition is slightly too small and hence rejected by MDADM. [04:05] I've tried using sectors as the view in fdisk hoping that would be more specific, I was able to create the extended partition, but then had the same issue when trying to create the logical partition. Is there some way I can force fdisk to do what I want? Or is there a better utility for me to partition the drive like this? [04:06] Or even, is there a hardware RAID controller that someone can suggest which is compatible with Ubuntu server? [04:41] Geekman, almost any storage works card like a 400 or 420 [04:42] What Vendor are we talking about? I'm fairly new to Hardware RAID. [04:43] I was looking at MegaRAID which seems to be used by Dell servers, but it looks like the drivers only natively support SUSE/Redhat. [04:54] I wouldn't trust anything with third-party drivers. [04:54] (OTOH, lots of people seem to LIKE using ATI and Nvidia GPUs, so I'm pretty conservative.) [04:58] I want to obviously try and ensure that at 2am, when we are going to have to do a re-build, that things just work. Same goes for installing a new machine, because who knows if we'll have a time crush when doing so. So I definitely don't want to go with anything that isn't isn't natively supported, if I can help it. [04:59] ATI and NVidia have worked well for me in the past, but I also remember how much I had to tweak things back in 6.06, so I wouldn't use them in a production server environment. [05:03] So if anyone knows of a RAID card they've used with Ubuntu that "just works", I'd appreciate it. [05:04] Geekman, are you talking enterprise Cards or Desktop cards such as you mentioned? [05:05] Well, depends on the cost. But it's for our servers which are about to be put in some rack space in a data centre - so I'd assume enterprise. [05:05] Geekman, i.e. Adaptec/LSI vs ATI/nVidia [05:06] I had no idea that the MegaRAID stuff was for desktops. [05:06] Geekman, I would assume fairly good results with many recent Adaptec/LSI Logic cards [05:07] Thanks man, I'll look into that. [05:07] np [05:08] Geekman, I would suggest googling the model number of the card you look at prior to purchase just to double check [05:08] Personally, I use md raid. [05:08] twb, you mean Ubuntu's software MDADM RAID? [05:09] It means I don't need to buy backup controllers, or worry about drivers. The servers aren't doing anything for which I/O is critical -- just mail, file sharing, serving website, etc. [05:09] Geekman: the kernel's md layer, yes. [05:09] I've set that up at the moment, but as I stated above, I'm having issues with partitioning a clean drive to match the partition table correctly. [05:10] Geekman: RAID1 or RAID5? [05:10] Other than that, it does work fine. But I/we just don't want to have to mess with it at 2 in the morning if it doesn't work just right. [05:10] RAID1 [05:10] Are both disks from the same batch? [05:11] The disks are identical - if I use sfdisk to clone the partition table onto the fresh drive it works, but trying to use fdisk to do it manually, I run into problems. [05:11] Why are you using fdisk? It's unmaintained. Use something based on libparted -- parted, gparted, gnu fdisk [05:12] Which, if I could trust that all drives in future were identical, using sfdisk would be fine - but I obviously can't gauruntee in future that a spare drive is going to be identical. [05:12] fdisk is just what I've always used. [05:12] Or: how, exactly, is fdisk failing [05:12] http://pastebin.com/ajyDieuk [05:12] That's the partition table on one of the original disks. [05:13] What of it? [05:13] As you can see, sdb2 starts on 120675, with sdb1 ending also on 120675 [05:13] fdisk won't let me do that. [05:13] It says 120675 is out of range. [05:14] Are you using the right units? [05:14] Does /proc/partitions reports that both disks are the same size? [05:14] I got around that by setting fdisk to use sectors instead, but ran into a similar issue when trying to setup the logical partition sdb5 [05:14] In the past I've found e.g. 250GB drives varying in size by a few MB. [05:16] Just a sec, SSHing in to check /proc/partitions. [05:16] I do recall sfdisk reporting that both drives had the same cylinder count, though. [05:19] So you said fdisk is out of date, is there any of the utilities you listed that you can suggest to replace it? [05:19] I always assumed gparted was GNOME parted and hence required a GUI - don't have one of those. [05:26] C/H/S is totally meaningless in a modern system [05:27] gparted is a GUI for libparted; parted is a CLI for it. [05:27] The parted UI isn't very nice, so maybe you would prefer to boot a live CD or move the disks into another host to run gparted -- I don't really care. [05:28] I probably would like that, but the server's don't have CD drives, so that would be a hassle. I'll try doing it with parted and see how it goes. [05:28] Thanks for all your help. [05:35] I just think switching to hardware RAID because you can't partition a disk is a bit of a leap [05:38] I think you're right, but nobody wants me to sink any more time into trying to get it to work ok - so we figured hardware RAID would work better without a fuss. [05:38] But I'll take another look when I get a spare moment. [05:41] BTW, for RAID1 you don't *need* each node to be exactly the same size [05:41] md will just use the smallest [05:49] I know, but the way fdisk was working for me, the swap partition - sda5 always ended up being 1 cylinder too small or something. [05:49] Oh and for the record, both the drives are reported as being the same size in /proc/partitions. [05:54] There's usually no point RAIDing swap [05:54] Especially RAID0 -- linux swap is automatically striped [05:58] So, if one of the disks die at runtime, it's not going to corrupt the swap partition? How can that be if it's not mirrored? [05:59] .../part of the RAID array. [06:00] I suppose so [06:01] To be honest, since 2.6 came out, I have lost faith in swap *at all* [06:01] Heh. [06:01] In terms of what? Application crashes when they fall back to swap? [06:02] The only thing I want to avoid is having the OS crash because something's using swap and one of the drives has died, which has destroyed the swap. [06:02] AFAICT when my hosts start swapping, they're too fucked to respond to fork a "telinit 6" [06:02] I figure if the swap partition is part of the array, it'll prevent that. [06:02] Well yeah that's true. [06:02] So I might as well not have swap at all [06:03] But just because you're swapping doesn't necessarily mean that you're swapping constantly, in my experience. [06:25] swap is *completely* worthless with RAM prices of today [06:25] there's no server app that does well when memory page fetches take longer than 1ms [06:26] even 1ms is pushing it quite a bit [06:27] Geekman: I prefer to think ahead.. build a system to run at 30% capacity 95% of the time.. and the other 5%, never over 50% capacity. If you breach either of those thresholds, the system cannot stand up when the business becomes a success. [06:27] swap really means "I need more RAM than I can afford" [06:28] And as you say, RAM is pretty damn cheap now [06:31] http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=FF101E53A5CA7304 [06:31] 16G for $1400 US ... [06:31] and thats 2x8G sticks [06:33] How have you guys found Ubuntu to handle 32-bit apps in 64-bit? The decision was made to stick with 32-bit for now as it's only going to be a web server, we don't think any of our core servers should really need more than 4GB. [06:33] I don't run any 32-bit apps. [06:33] But personally I'm a little uncomfortable with being limited to 4GB. [06:34] You've never run into a situation where you've had to search the net because some app doesn't natively support 64-bit well? [06:34] There are only three cases where biarch is useful: proprietary software, compilers that only support -m32, and development jails. [06:34] I don't mind having to do that myself - it is Linux - but I guess business is business and we can't be having to do that if we need something running urgently. [06:34] Geekman: you're not limited to 4G [06:35] scsh and scheme48 fall into the second category, and on some hosts I use the third. [06:35] SpamapS: yeah, but PAE is such a kludge [06:35] kludge or not.. [06:35] its better than replacing entire working systems [06:35] Geekman: IMO your "rule of thumb" should be to use 64-bit [06:35] nobody should *design* to use PAE [06:36] but its certainly a decent plan B [06:36] twb: depends on how you want to scale [06:36] PAE, I assume that's what I was reading about regarding the ability to use more than 4GB under 32-bit using some kind of emulation, albiet more slowly? [06:36] SpamapS: granted [06:37] twb: 32-bit has some advantages when you need crazy high concurrency [06:37] 64-bit also means you can simply assume things like SSE2 [06:37] That's less of a problem on Ubuntu, where i386 really means i686 nowadays :-/ [06:37] Geekman: its a small memory access trade off that allows the OS as a whole to use more than 4G, but processes still only have a limited 32-bit address space. [06:38] I see. [06:38] twb: yeah I think as of Maverick i586 is dead in ubuntu [06:38] SpamapS: I saw the GCC changelog go through [06:39] I'm sure someone somewhere is cursing their Geode SOC design. ;) [06:39] Geekman, PAE can break some apps too, although its usually poorly written apps misusing memory marshaling and threading [06:39] Well in our case I think that if we're hitting a wall where we need more than 4GB, it's probably time to start looking at a higher spec server overall. I don't have the specs with me, but they're not high end. [06:39] Fortunately my Atom not-quite-SOC is x86-64. [06:39] foxbuntu: PAE *exposes* buggy apps... it doesn't break them. :) [06:40] SpamapS, thats also a wa of looking at it [06:40] way* [06:40] foxbuntu: if apps were well written they wouldn't need >4 GB! [06:40] * twb kicks the entire java community [06:40] twb, lmao [06:40] twb, im not sure thats quite the case with things like Oracle [06:40] Yeah, I know [06:40] twb: SOLR is the first java server app that I trust completely... somehow, they got it right, a nd it doesn't even eat *ALL* of your RAM. ;) [06:41] I'm just sick of those kids with the mindset that making everyone buy more RAM is cheaper than their time to solve a problem properly. [06:41] twb, agreed [06:41] twb: PHP devs have the same mindset. ;) [06:42] twb, many apps do not/should not require that much RAM [06:42] Especially when the first-year java lecturers explicitly TEACH that mindset >:-/ [06:42] foxbuntu: Emacs is only "Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping" [06:43] yeah they'll say things like 'RAM is 500 times faster than disk, so you should never use disk unless you absolutely must' [06:43] SpamapS: ugh. Block caching is the kernel's job, not the apps [06:43] its ok for an app to swap a little out.. I don't use the calendar in evolution, so it probably drops any bits I'm not using in swap. Its just not ok to PLAN for that. [06:43] twb, unfortunately I work in the windows world (as many do :( ), and I have seen some really bad .Net apps (yeah yeah, bear with me here) that will crush a system under load to the point where x64 can even save the system [06:44] twb: tell that to InnoDB. :) [06:44] Or like the Zimbra support company that tells us "you should deploy zimbra on its own host. Zimbra assumes that the host its on is dedicated to JUST running zimbra" [06:44] twb, more java! [06:44] twb, feed the monster [06:44] Well, Zimbra is mainly postfix and openldap. The java is just their shitty "value added" glue [06:45] Flipping calendaring [06:45] twb, yeah, tis true, but the java magic is the main sludge in the system [06:45] Granted. [06:45] wtf?! [06:45] speaking of witch [06:46] which rather [06:46] maybe both [06:46] lol [06:46] trying to convert a VM from Xen to VMWare and it keeps imploding [06:46] foxbuntu: qemu-img convert ? ;-) [06:46] twb, its windows [06:46] :( [06:46] You poor bastard [06:47] twb, lol [06:47] something like that [06:48] doesnt help that the VM host that Xen is on is a turd machine [06:48] Tell me about it [06:48] the client expected miracles on an array of 5400 SATA disk [06:49] We have two hosts that can run KVM, but I can't use either. One is running a Windows VM to talk to the tax office (sigh), and the other was stolen to run a flipping pppoe session (FFS!) [06:49] "modprobe kvm" on the vmware/openvz host causes the entire system to hard hang [06:49] pppoe, ugh [06:50] awesome [06:50] foxbuntu: exactly. The pppoe could be done by a 200MHz MIPS system -- it doesn't need a 3GHz quad-core [06:50] twb, lol [06:50] But that's what was sitting on the test bench when $coworker needed a host [06:50] And we can't take it out because it's mission critical [06:50] twb, I am swaping this server over to a box with SAS 10k Spin and Dual 6-Core Opterons [06:51] Nice [06:51] yeah, gonna run much better [06:51] Hopefully not running 2k8, tho [06:51] not to mention the hypervisior wont suck either now [06:51] Or whatever the hell is the current Windows Server [06:51] Oh, right, you said vmware, so it's probably esxi [06:52] well the guests at Win 2k8, but the host is VMWare ESXi [06:52] yea [06:52] I never tried that, only "vmware server". Gods, that's an awful piece of shit [06:52] they only have the one box, so no reason to buy ESX [06:52] VMWare server == full blow job [06:52] (and not the good kind) [06:53] ESX/ESXi are really nice [06:53] 2.x wants you to run tomcat and a client-side java app just to talk RFB [06:53] lol [06:54] if you are gonna run a bunch of *nix guests stick to KVM (or similar) but if there are any windows hosts get ESXi [06:54] er guests that is [06:55] I like qemu a lot more because I can run it entirely in userspace (including userspace networking), and it's easy to get serial or the 80x25 VGA console inside your xterm -- nice and fast, rasterizing the ascii [06:55] *no rasterizing [06:55] (kvm just being fast qemu) [06:55] yeah [06:56] All my $coworkers love vbox because it has a GUI and generally targets desktop-in-desktop virtualization :-/ [06:56] yea === jturek_ is now known as jturek [06:56] At least qemu 0.12 can read/write to vbox images natively [06:56] Im thinking more along the lines of bare metal hypervisor [06:56] like ESXi [06:57] though kvm really isnt either [06:57] I am just not a huge fan of the userspace VM hosts [06:57] for production systems [06:57] Yeah, I agree [06:58] I have lots of ephemeral VMs for scratch work, so userspace is simple and convenient for me [06:58] indeed [06:58] For permanent systems my preference would be for jails, or failing that a lightweight hypervisor (like xen) [06:58] yea [06:59] is the ubuntu xen kernel still around these days? [06:59] I havent looked in a long time [06:59] No idea; I'm still on 8.04 [06:59] ah [06:59] I run dev on my laptop [07:00] always dive into the ver. around A2 [07:00] mostly because its a PITA to deal with VMs for my little bit of devel [07:00] I run sid on my laptop because I'm not a GUI weenie :-P [07:00] lmao [07:01] while I *could* run sid, I like things that *just work* I spend too much time fixing c*&$ already [07:02] AFAICT non-LTS releases are as flaky as debian/testing [07:02] I learned on gentoo a long time ago, and that was enough of the whole build it when you need it thing for me [07:02] i need to load balance 2 backend servers (web) what could be the best on ubuntu [07:03] e.g. "oh hey, we moved openldap config into the database against upstream's advice. HAND!" [07:03] I was running testing with a handful of sid pins, but it was too reliable and boring. :-) [07:04] jmazaredo, define what you see as load balanced [07:04] twb, lol, ok you got me on that one, things do like to change [07:04] ...in Ubuntu [07:04] ...allot [07:05] not that I have anything against it [07:05] More to the point, they change without much discussion or testing, AFAICT [07:05] twb, no, not true [07:05] Which is actually convenient for me, because it means that Ubuntu users are on the front line, testing stupid ideas before they hit Debian/testing [07:05] balancing http request [07:05] twb, people assume that but lots of those (most) decisions get made in UDS [07:07] jmazaredo, go on, do you mean one request comes in and the next goes to another server [07:07] jmazaredo, or do you mean the load gets calculated and weighted to pick the correct server [07:07] request ----> goest ro balancer ---> spreads to two servers [07:08] like balanceNG and nginx [07:08] free balanceNG only has 1, Niginx need to configure every balance i do [07:09] can iptables do the trick? [07:09] jmazaredo, dont think for what you want it will [07:10] jmazaredo, you might be able to do it with squid [07:15] netfilter/iproute can perform some kinds of load balancing, yes. [07:16] An application-level (e.g. nginx, pound, haproxy) load balancer is more conventional. [07:21] <|corpse|> my PC must hate me, iv been trying to set up a file srver for 5 days now and i can not, for the life of me, get an istallation to work [07:42] is there any option to encrypt entire / during ubuntu-server install? [07:44] Block-level encryption is possible [07:45] I don't know the details, especially I don't know if the release you're using supports it directly in the d-i UI [07:45] twb, i need do something to not allow peoples of chroot my / partition from a live distro [07:45] Do you *really* want to encrypt the OS filesystem of a server? [07:46] twb, there is another way to block chroot instead encrypt? [07:46] Why do you want that? [07:47] What attack are you trying to prevent? [07:47] twb, i need protect the information into my system [07:47] What information? The user data, or the OS? [07:47] i am doing a proxy solution [07:48] i thinks /etc /var [07:48] think* [07:48] Why? [07:49] twb, to not allow peoples to copy conf content... [07:49] /var for openldap [07:50] What configuration could you possibly have that needs to be protected against physical attack? [07:50] and etc for confs [07:51] twb, i am just figure out anyway to protect my conf content [07:58] twb, think about, you have a proxy solution for a vpn with 15 networks, so if you configured the master and the first network slave, why would anyone will need of you for finish the job?? [07:59] If your core routers aren't behind a locked door, you're probably screwed [08:02] twb, encrypt etc and var is not a good idea? [08:06] twb, hello [08:07] Sorry, I don't have time to help you now [08:08] change the phrase for: sorry, i don't know about that. [08:11] twb, you are good for questions, but answers.... [09:05] any idea how I can find out which swap device this is about? http://pastebin.com/Hvmg4SUY [09:06] New bug: #585264 in freeradius (main) "package freeradius-mysql 2.1.8+dfsg-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/585264 [09:08] RoyK: you have more swap devices? [09:08] I mean more than one? [09:33] cemc: ubuntu 9.04 standard, somehow - /dev/ramzswap0 and a partition [09:34] swapping to compressed memory before using the disk [09:36] huh? :) [09:36] swapping to where? [09:36] RoyK: /proc/swaps? [09:37] compcache is ramzswap, so it's clearly not talking about /dev/sda2 or whatever [09:38] The 251 and 0 looks like major and minor block device numbers, so you could also ls -l /dev and look for 251,0 [09:40] from /proc/devices 251 ramzswap0 [09:40] wierd [09:42] Whoops, I can't modprobe ramzswap until I reboot. [09:42] Stupid ricer kernel... [10:31] killown, encrypting your root directory won't help against online attacks of any kind, as the files have to be readable by the system in order for it to work [10:31] it would only offer protection against attacks from physical access [10:32] but, if you don't have physical security, you're basically screwed anyway [10:32] I suggest you get a locked room [10:32] it's a great option for laptops, but not so much for servers [10:34] does anybody know how can i reset the bios password on a hp proliant ML 530 G2 [10:35] probably a better question for google, that sort of thing tends to get very hardware specific [10:35] if it's not a simple jumper setting, anyway [10:37] perhaps searching for a manual for that server would help [10:39] qman: thanls for the info. looking at google since hours. thinked maybe some person is here with experience background about this topic [10:39] yeah, sorry, never used one of those [10:39] I've got a DL380 but I've never had to reset the BIOS [10:41] qman: me stuipid have set extra a password for the bios and forgot it now. need to enable the netwrok card for installing ubuntu-server [10:44] RoyK: is there any howto on setting that thing up? [10:56] cemc: setup what? [11:01] qman: i was able to reset the bios password with the smartstart cd. needed to erase everything. [11:02] ah, figured it'd take more than pulling the battery [11:02] Usually there's a jumper on the motherboard [11:02] Which is why physical security is critical [11:03] Jumper the bios password away, then change the boot device, then you have root access to the hard disks (unless there's block-level encryption). [11:07] RoyK: nvr mind, found it [11:31] I keep getting 404 error every time I try to connect to localhost through lightpd on port 8080. lighttpd restarts without a problem so I cannot understand why I can't connect through its port can anyone suggest something [11:39] Pirate_Hunter: 404... not found. Check to see if your docroot exists. [11:50] qman_: very cool ! ubuntu server LTS Edition runs now on my professional server proliant ML530G2 :-) [11:51] qman_: is there any possibility to controll the speed of the main fans. they run allways full and poduce a lot of noice. system temperature is 8 Celcius [11:51] so the fans dont need to run 100% when the temperature is such low [12:04] maybe im doing something wrong but if I wanted to access lighttpd through my browser wouldn't it be something like httP://localhost:8080? [12:04] xperia, aptitude show cpufreqd [12:05] or maybe with acpi [12:05] Pirate_Hunter: 404 means "File Not Found" lighttpd is not finding what you pointed it at. [12:06] aptitude show lm-sensors too [12:06] to change fan speed [12:11] Bugger the cpufreqd package. [12:12] Current kernels default to the kernel-space ondemand governor, which is a reasonable default. [12:13] xperia: fan control depends on what kind of fan setup you have. Sometimes it's uncontrolled, sometimes it's controlled by firmware, sometimes it's controlled by the kernel. [12:14] xperia: if the fan connects to the motherboard with only two pins, you're probably screwed. [12:14] xperia: otherwise you could find /sys/ -iname '*fan*' [12:30] how do I find all files and folders that have been created or changed during the last 30 minutes? [12:38] find -mtime -1 is "last 24 hours" [12:38] Dunno if it takes other units [12:38] Ah, -mmin 30 [12:39] jo-erlend: man find [12:39] -mmin did the trick. Thanks. :) [12:39] Yeah, manpage is your friend [12:40] of course I read it before I asked. I didn't understand it, that's all. :) [13:01] I'm writing a script to automate creation of a virtual machine I've created. I need to reconfigure all the services before the first boot. What I'm doing now, is to simply install the services one by one and noticing which files change as I configure them, and how they change. [13:01] any better ideas? [13:02] twb: lenios: thanks for the tips. will report back what i have for a fan === unreal_ is now known as unreal [13:36] morning [13:39] When I put username=blah,password=blah in my fstab file for mounting a samba share in my log it says it is connecting as user nobody. How can this be? [14:27] kirkland: hey. In the upstart job for libvirt-bin, when it shut's down, are the currently running VM's shutdown or is there a way to make them come down gracefully? [14:27] rather than manually going to each VM and shutting down? [14:44] I'm looking for a web tool to handle virtual machines (KVM or Xen), but one important thing would be that it has webbrowser plugins like VmServer (since I'm moving from it), does some one knows a tool that has something like that? [14:44] I'm trying openQRM but it's not populating my postgres db.. :/ [14:52] Thank you sommer for creating the ubuntu server guide. very helpful [14:53] fairview_: welcome :-) glad it helps [14:54] I have lots of learning to do so it will [15:03] PHP is disabled by default for Apache 2 user directories. Despite following the instructions to re-enable it again, PHP files still don't work in user directories. I followed these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDirectoryPHP [15:03] Am I missing anything out? [15:06] It tries to make me download the file instead of running it. [15:06] But PHP works fine in the root web folder. [15:07] did you restart apache? [15:08] yes [15:08] about eighty times. [15:08] but it doesn't make a difference [15:09] and it offers downloading .php file [15:09] ? [15:09] yes [15:09] rather than processing it [15:09] but it processes it on /var/www [15:09] which ubuntu? [15:10] version [15:10] 10.04 [15:11] paste /etc/apache2/mods-enables/php5.conf to pastebin [15:12] enabled [15:12] http://pastebin.com/KWs66qyd [15:13] I tried setting it it to On with it uncommented [15:13] but that didn't help either. [15:13] do you have .htaccess file in public_html/? [15:14] nope [15:14] ok, create a file names [15:14] named [15:14] rnd246.php in public_html [15:14] put in it: [15:15] [15:15]