| qman__ | I'm setting up postfix as an internet mail server, and it's asking me if I want to use procmail for local delivery. What's the difference? | 01:53 |
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| qman__ | I've set up postfix for internal mail plenty of times, but I've never run into this question | 01:54 |
| qman__ | guessing it's new in lucid | 01:54 |
| qman__ | also, it's not covered in the server guide | 01:56 |
| qman__ | they just give a list of answers without the questions | 01:56 |
| qman__ | and they don't match up with the current state of the debconf questions | 01:57 |
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| enzoplex | I'm using irssi. Is there a way to remove all of the join/parts ? | 02:07 |
| qman__ | sorry about that, DNS quit working properly | 02:09 |
| pmatulis | enzoplex: yes, but ask in #irssi | 02:51 |
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| lamont | qman__: you have your debconf priority set lower than you have in the past - the questions haven't changed in a very long time. | 03:38 |
| lamont | that is, just hit return and take the default, and you'll see what you would have seen if the debconf priority was higher. | 03:39 |
| qman__ | lamont, that makes sense, but following the guide precisely gives a different set of questions than the answers given follow | 03:40 |
| qman__ | this is a fresh install, nothing else getting in the way | 03:41 |
| lamont | qman__: that's because normally (and for whoever wrote the guide), the debconf priority was higher, so they didn't see that question and it just got given the default answer without prompting | 03:41 |
| lamont | interesting | 03:41 |
| lamont | the procmail question only comes up if procmail is installed, but I had thought it was low | 03:42 |
| lamont | yeah. procmail is a low priority question, so unless you've done something to make debconf start asking everything (like an error during the install...), you wouldn't get asked that question | 03:43 |
| qman__ | I simply did `sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix` as shown | 03:43 |
| qman__ | for reference the procmail question comes after the listen addresses and before the mailbox size limit | 03:44 |
| lamont | sounds about right from my recollection of writing those questions several years ago | 03:45 |
| lamont | so... it's possible that the default for dpkg-reconfigure was changed to be low instead of high, dunno | 03:46 |
| lamont | but the postfix debconf questions haven't changed in an eon | 03:46 |
| qman__ | not a big deal, just thought it might help if the questions were listed as well to avoid that problem | 03:46 |
| lamont | might not hurt, esp if the default priority changed | 03:46 |
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| MTecknology | !info varnish | 04:23 |
| ubottu | varnish (source: varnish): a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator. In component universe, is optional. Version 2.1.0-2 (lucid), package size 296 kB, installed size 964 kB | 04:23 |
| hggdh | yeah, seems interesting. See the Communications of the ACM, July 2010 | 04:30 |
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| cs1 | guys | 04:52 |
| cs1 | i need help here | 04:52 |
| cs1 | is there any default LDAP password?? | 04:52 |
| enav | Hola gente estoy buscando una alternativa al artisteer para editar plantillas de joomla... alguna buena sugerencia??????? | 05:00 |
| cs1 | guys | 05:08 |
| cs1 | how do i trace my LDAP password?? | 05:08 |
| cs1 | is there anyway i can see the LDAP password?? | 05:08 |
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| netwidget | hi, new to Ubuntu, installed ubuntu server 10.04 without domain name for local domain. how do I do this after install? | 07:44 |
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| joschi | hi, I have a problem with the a dynamic file template in rsyslog. it seems rsyslogd wants to write to the log files in /var/log/%HOSTNAME% before the directory was created. | 10:46 |
| joschi | at least in normal mode. in debug mode, it creates the directory just fine. | 10:46 |
| joschi | I've posted details about my configuration, the error message and part of the debug output under http://pastie.org/1048389 | 10:46 |
| joschi | it could be related to Bug #484336 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/484336). changing the owner of /var/log to the user 'syslog' works, but I'd rather avoid that | 10:46 |
| uvirtbot | Launchpad bug 484336 in rsyslog "/etc/rsyslog.conf permissions incorrect/missing for creation of dynamic files" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/484336 | 10:46 |
| uvirtbot | Launchpad bug 484336 in rsyslog "/etc/rsyslog.conf permissions incorrect/missing for creation of dynamic files" [Undecided,Confirmed] | 10:46 |
| tarvid | why does the kernel add to cache when that causes increase in swap used? | 11:40 |
| tarvid | is there a way to control how aggressively memory is cached? | 11:42 |
| tarvid | is there a way to reduce total swap? | 11:42 |
| joschi | tarvid: you can control that behaviour with sysctl parameter vm.swappiness | 11:45 |
| joschi | tarvid: also see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#What%20is%20swappiness%20and%20how%20do%20I%20change%20it? | 11:45 |
| tarvid | thanks - current value is 60 | 11:47 |
| tarvid | is there such a thing as cachinerr? | 11:47 |
| tarvid | is there such a thing as cachiness? | 11:47 |
| qman__ | tarvid, what are you trying to do, exactly? | 12:02 |
| tarvid | avoid terrible situations where swap grows out of control and cached is large | 12:03 |
| qman__ | the system will never use swap to cache | 12:04 |
| qman__ | it only uses free memory to cache the disk | 12:04 |
| tarvid | there seems to be some "tipping point" where a sudden demand brings the server to its knees | 12:04 |
| tarvid | i'd rather not cache than swap | 12:04 |
| qman__ | caching should not mean swapping, ever | 12:05 |
| qman__ | it would be fairly pointless to cache the disk in swap, which is just another disk (or often the same disk) | 12:05 |
| eventyret | Got some issues with permissions denied when running echo server1.example.com > /etc/hostname | 12:05 |
| eventyret | /etc/init.d/hostname restart | 12:05 |
| eventyret | :/ | 12:06 |
| tarvid | root@helen:/usr/sbin# free -m | 12:06 |
| tarvid | total used free shared buffers cached | 12:06 |
| tarvid | Mem: 3711 2865 845 0 302 1589 | 12:06 |
| tarvid | -/+ buffers/cache: 973 2737 | 12:06 |
| tarvid | Swap: 10691 148 10542 | 12:06 |
| joschi | eventyret: forgot `sudo`? | 12:06 |
| eventyret | joschi: naah i used sudo as well though i made a thing here it was hostname.sh start | 12:06 |
| eventyret | following this guide http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1197883 | 12:06 |
| qman__ | tarvid, lower your swappiness | 12:07 |
| qman__ | it will then do less caching to free more memory | 12:07 |
| tarvid | like 10? | 12:07 |
| joschi | eventyret: you used sudo in the wrong place? ;) | 12:07 |
| qman__ | yeah, try 10 | 12:08 |
| joschi | eventyret: `sudo echo foo > bar` for example won't work the you'd expect | 12:08 |
| qman__ | if it's still swapping unnecessarily, lower further | 12:08 |
| eventyret | well | 12:08 |
| qman__ | of course, you already have more than enough free to hold what's in swap | 12:08 |
| eventyret | joschi: this gives me an error as well echo ns1.YOURDOMAINNAMEHERE.com > /etc/hostname | 12:08 |
| qman__ | which simply means it decided that memory won't be needed any time soon | 12:08 |
| joschi | eventyret: yes, of course. /etc/hostname is only writable by root. | 12:09 |
| eventyret | Gives me -bash: /etc/hostname: Permission denied | 12:09 |
| eventyret | *doh* | 12:09 |
| qman__ | eventyret, using redirection doesn't quite work with sudo | 12:09 |
| eventyret | hehe ^ | 12:10 |
| qman__ | the first part will be root, but the redirection won't be | 12:10 |
| eventyret | might be that | 12:10 |
| eventyret | its a VPS so :) | 12:10 |
| eventyret | but even their guide sucked | 12:10 |
| eventyret | so only root can change hostnames and such | 12:10 |
| qman__ | I just use sudo -i, then do whatever I needed | 12:10 |
| eventyret | what is sudo -i ? :) | 12:10 |
| qman__ | there is probably a way to quote it into a single command but I don't know | 12:10 |
| joschi | eventyret: `man sudo` | 12:10 |
| qman__ | sudo -i invokes a root shell | 12:10 |
| eventyret | ahhh ok :) | 12:12 |
| eventyret | *shurgs* how to exit manual >< | 12:12 |
| eventyret | I know im fresh but i though it was Ctrl X like in nano >< | 12:12 |
| eventyret | q :D | 12:12 |
| eventyret | worked :P | 12:12 |
| tarvid | thanks joschi qman__ it takes a week or so to test but I am monitoring with cacti | 12:13 |
| qman__ | tarvid, it's far more likely that a memory leak is causing your issue, but that will make it wait longer to swap things | 12:13 |
| qman__ | also ten gigs of swap is an awful lot | 12:14 |
| tarvid | I didn't choose that, it was the default and a lot less would be preferable | 12:14 |
| tarvid | is there a safe way to reduce the size of the swap partition? | 12:14 |
| qman__ | swapoff, resize the partition, swapon | 12:15 |
| qman__ | but that will just leave that space unused | 12:15 |
| tarvid | pretty standard lamp+postfix+mailman installation | 12:15 |
| tarvid | got lots of space | 12:16 |
| qman__ | on systems with plenty of RAM, I generally just don't do swap at all | 12:18 |
| tarvid | still on 9.10, php issues with drupal and python issues with google apps | 12:19 |
| tarvid | I'll take a look at 10.4.1 | 12:20 |
| qman__ | I'm keeping my desktop on 9.10 for a while, a lot of people had trouble with it, but my upgrade went smooth and I've got it just the way I like it | 12:20 |
| tarvid | me too, some issues like transcode | 12:21 |
| tarvid | i ran across a NID system that could work on IPtables but I forget what it was | 12:22 |
| tarvid | My server gets hammered periodically | 12:22 |
| qman__ | try the iptables recent module | 12:23 |
| qman__ | great way to limit the request rate per IP | 12:23 |
| tarvid | any tricks to install? prerequisites? | 12:25 |
| qman__ | I think it's included in the default install for ubuntu | 12:26 |
| qman__ | a good explanation of how to use it: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/187 | 12:27 |
| qman__ | the example situation is solved better other ways, but the information there is good anyway | 12:28 |
| tarvid | not just ssh, i watched msnbot banging user/register repeatedly the other night in spite of robots.txt and rejections by the server | 12:31 |
| qman__ | right | 12:31 |
| qman__ | just change the port specified and the counts and such | 12:31 |
| qman__ | it works for any type of connection | 12:31 |
| tarvid | that means I have to think | 12:31 |
| qman__ | of course | 12:32 |
| qman__ | but you only have to think once | 12:32 |
| qman__ | script it, and be done | 12:32 |
| tarvid | I have the Gerald Ford problem and much is floating around in my mind | 12:32 |
| tarvid | wherever I left it | 12:33 |
| qman__ | and yeah, msnbot purposely ignores robots.txt and is especially brutal | 12:40 |
| tarvid | looking through the auth log and I have a number of failed attempts on vsftpd | 12:41 |
| uvirtbot | New bug: #606630 in vsftpd (main) "package vsftpd 2.2.2-3ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade:" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/606630 | 13:01 |
| eventyret | does this channel cover questions about DNS stuff :) | 13:28 |
| eventyret | exit | 13:32 |
| gnoob | Hi guys. I have a ubuntu-server with 4 identical disks. 1Tb each. Running RAID5. Each disk has a partition of 6Gb free space before raid-partitions start. sda1 (6Gb) has Ubuntu on it. I would like to make something substituting RAD1 using dd to clone sda1 to sdb1. | 14:01 |
| gnoob | Is this possible? | 14:01 |
| gnoob | want the server to keep running from sdb1 if sda fails.. But sending me a e-mail :) | 14:02 |
| gnoob | anyone with good advices? (my first time doing this :)) | 14:02 |
| gnoob | I would have to set boot priority in bios to sda first and if no sda -> sdb I guess.. BUt afraid dd, and identical partitions (and boot sectors) can mess things up a bit | 14:04 |
| gnoob | Raid1 is probably a better option? but had some problems with grub.. Any suggestions? | 14:05 |
| joschi | gnoob: I'd say go with a RAID-1 | 14:09 |
| ivo_ | hi guys I am having a small problem I have soft RAID5 and it meant one of the drives is failed, which is not, because all drives' SMART is ok | 14:16 |
| ivo_ | I am now rebuilding it | 14:16 |
| ivo_ | but I should be able to use it | 14:16 |
| gnoob | Ok raid1 over sda1 and sdb1 then, but it will slow down performance a little or not? And grub will need to be installed on sdb also right? :) Thanks for advice joschi | 14:16 |
| ivo_ | but It is not avaibe to mount in the disk utility | 14:16 |
| ivo_ | I tried to mount it manually | 14:16 |
| ivo_ | but because the array is encrypted I get this: | 14:17 |
| ivo_ | do mount -o ro /dev/md0 /mnt/tempstore/ | 14:17 |
| ivo_ | mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS' | 14:17 |
| ivo_ | can you help me how to proceed | 14:17 |
| gnoob | I tried raid1 at first, but had some grub problems.. (but used old disks and IDE over one channel = slooooow :p) | 14:17 |
| joschi | gnoob: yes, it'll marginally cost performance and yes, you'll have to install grub in each mbr | 14:17 |
| ivo_ | a link to a manpage will be aso ok | 14:18 |
| gnoob | Ok thanks a lot joschi!! Ill start getting hands dirty then :) I will probably return to ask for how the e-mail thing works later :p want to be noticed when a disk have trouble | 14:19 |
| ivo_ | I am not new to linux but have used other unix and unix like systems for a very long time | 14:19 |
| BeeBuu | anyone help me? | 14:50 |
| BeeBuu | i follow the article on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/CDInstall ,when i do the part 5 of STEP 7, it failed~~~ | 14:51 |
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| uvirtbot | New bug: #566537 in mod-wsgi (universe) "[MIR] mod-wsgi: libapache2-mod-wsgi" [Undecided,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/566537 | 16:52 |
| tdr112 | can you get a 32 bit verstion ? | 16:56 |
| alison | hello, one of my servers with a gigabit nic keeps connecting and 10 or 100 Mbps, and very occasionally at 1000. Would anyone know why this is?? | 17:27 |
| alison | oh and its connected to a 1000Mbps port on the switch | 17:28 |
| soren | alison: Line noise, maybe. | 17:35 |
| soren | alison: bad cable or something. | 17:35 |
| mestre | hola | 17:42 |
| mestre | me pueden ayudar a configurar el ldap con samba | 17:42 |
| mestre | para autenticacion de usuarios? | 17:43 |
| mestre | somebody? | 17:49 |
| mestre | english or spanish? | 17:51 |
| Trixboxer | Hi, one small question regarding UEC, in "MANAGED" mode why to use dhcp server.. I got succeed in "SYSTEM" mode for creating instance but IP assignment is not working correctly.. any pointers ? | 17:57 |
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| MrPicard | Hi Guys, where could i find the most easiest ftp server to setup? | 19:04 |
| MrPicard | The other question i have is, Where is the config file for proftpd? | 19:05 |
| remix_tj | /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf afaik | 19:05 |
| MrPicard | Ta remix shall give it a go. | 19:06 |
| MrPicard | Ok, i type cd /etc/proftpd but it comes up as having no directory | 19:08 |
| MrPicard | any alternative ftp systems? | 19:09 |
| MrPicard | when i now connect upto ftpd im given this error. | 19:16 |
| MrPicard | Connection attempt failed with "ECONNREFUSED - Connection refused by server". | 19:16 |
| uvirtbot | New bug: #606715 in logwatch (main) "Logfile defintions wrong after changes to logfile rotation in Ubuntu Lucid" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/606715 | 19:21 |
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| uvirtbot | New bug: #594372 in tgt (universe) "MIR: tgt" [Medium,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/594372 | 20:02 |
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| Italian_Plumber | at startup, is there a way to cancel a disk check in progress? | 22:47 |
| hackeron | hey, does anyone know a way to get 16 audio input channels into one PC? - I dont need a mixer or anything, basic phono/composite or 3.5mm microphone jack will do | 22:49 |
| palt | Italian_Plumber: Try pressing c | 22:51 |
| cloakable | hackeron: sixteen soundcards? | 22:52 |
| cloakable | or there's likely some specialised kit with that many input channels | 22:53 |
| hackeron | cloakable: tried 2 creative ones and even that caused stability problems | 22:53 |
| ksoviero | What are the differences between the generic kernel and the server kernel? The FAQ points me here: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/features/kernel, but it is a 404... | 22:54 |
| ksoviero | hello? | 22:58 |
| jpds | Hi. | 23:01 |
| jpds | The server kernel has less modules built-in I believe. | 23:01 |
| ksoviero | Well, for example, I know it has a PAE extension, that allows up to 64GB or RAM in the 32bit version... | 23:02 |
| ksoviero | does it have any enhancements for something like asynchronous I/O? | 23:02 |
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| cwillu_at_work | any slab guru's around? | 23:42 |
| cwillu_at_work | trying to troubleshoot an oom that shouldn't be happening | 23:42 |
| cwillu_at_work | small allocation is failing even though there's 50+MB of ram free (on an embedded server with 256mb ram) | 23:42 |
| cwillu_at_work | slabtop is reporting an insane number of size-2048 slabs, all in use, and the number increase at a rate of about 1 per second | 23:43 |
| cwillu_at_work | disconnecting the network cable stops the increase :) | 23:43 |
| cwillu_at_work | but I'm trying to figure out how to reclaim the space, if such a thing is possible | 23:43 |
| cwillu_at_work | or figure out exactly where the memory is being allocated | 23:43 |
| cwillu_at_work | (rmmoding the network driver doesn't reclaim anything) | 23:44 |
| soren | cwillu_at_work: Try in #ubuntu-kernel. They're more likely to be able to help. | 23:45 |
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