[00:04] <pmatulis> chrowe: perhaps check logs for anything suspicious (or turn off "psyco" like a bug commenter suggested)
[00:53] <talntid> on hour 7 of fsck checking my hard drive... anyone think that's too long?
[00:53] <talntid> it's a 600gb raid6 array
[00:57] <maswan> talntid: not nevcessarily, depends on the filesystem and what you have stored
[00:58] <talntid> hmm, ok :(
[00:59] <talntid> gfs. lots of documents, mp3s of call recordings...
[01:22] <donvito> how to save a bin bash script
[01:22] <donvito> its ok ipv6update.sh ?
[01:22] <donvito> #!/bin/dash
[01:22] <donvito> or #!/bin/bash
[02:16] <Psi-Jack> Anyone here know if FC-connected storage to two physical servers could share the same software raid?
[02:24] <Patrickdk> hmm, you can't share drives that way, unless your using special firmware on the drives, like how gfs was origionally designed to work :)
[02:27] <Psi-Jack> hehe.
[02:27] <Psi-Jack> I'm trying to help this guy who's trying to provide redundancy of a single shelf of FC-attached storage to 2 physical servers, those 2 physical servers are what he wants to provide network filesystems from, and NFS we all know sucks at that for fault tolerance. ;)
[02:27] <Patrickdk> basically, you still need a lock manager, so two drives don't cache/write to the same place at the same time
[02:28] <Patrickdk> origional gfs put the lock managers on the drives themselfs in the firmware
[02:28] <Psi-Jack> I'm pretty much at the point of thinking, no matter what, 50% of the shelf is going to be dedicated to each physical server. Correct?
[02:28] <Patrickdk> depends on how you set it up, but I believe so
[02:28] <Psi-Jack> Yeah.
[02:28] <Patrickdk> then if one server dies, the other one can steal those drives
[02:52] <erfolg> hi. i've got a shorewall routing question if somebody can possibly help.
[03:02] <c0nv1ct> erfolg, ask it and see
[03:04] <erfolg> ok. well i've got my firewall/router server. then i've got another server behind it i'm running 2 game servers on. i need to forward 27015 and 27016 to it. in my config i've got DNAT to it tcp and udp but it they never show up on steam or anything.
[03:06] <erfolg> some of that might confuse you. i can paste my rules into pastebin or something if you need.
[03:15] <fabiobik> hi there
[03:15] <fabiobik> ive installed vsftp
[03:16] <fabiobik> and i want to acess to ftp with local username
[03:16] <fabiobik> i can acess
[03:16] <fabiobik> but i cant do nothing
[03:16] <fabiobik> 500 premission denied
[03:21] <Delerium_> Probably don't have the good permission
[03:21] <erfolg> be sure the directory you're in is set to the correct permissions.
[03:22] <erfolg> sudo chown -R user:group /srv/directory
[03:22] <Delerium_> if you log with your own ID, you will have access to your home directory, that's about it
[03:26] <fabiobik> Delerium
[03:26] <fabiobik> i want to delete a folder inside var/www/
[03:27] <fabiobik> erfolg
[03:27] <fabiobik> what i need to do?
[03:27] <erfolg> cd /var/www
[03:27] <Delerium_> If you want to work on a remote host to delete / create / manage ... I would suggest SSH instead of ftp
[03:27] <erfolg> sudo rm -r folder
[03:28] <Delerium_> erfolf: sudo is supported with ftp!?
[03:28] <fabiobik> lol
[03:29] <erfolg> oh ftp?
[03:29] <erfolg> lol
[03:29] <Delerium_> yeah. that's what fabiobik said earlier on
[03:29] <erfolg> be sure you have permissions set in it and then you should just be able to login and hit delete.
[03:29] <erfolg> srry i'm tired. lol.
[03:30] <Delerium_> no problem, I was wondering if I missed something too.. Little wine tonight so.... ;)
[03:30] <erfolg> lol. yeah.
[03:31] <fabiobik> erfolg and how to be shure i have all premissions
[03:31] <fabiobik> lol
[03:31] <Delerium_> ls -al  ;)
[03:31] <erfolg> do you have access to the server it's hosted on?
[03:31] <erfolg> or just ftp access?
[03:31] <fabiobik> all acess
[03:31] <fabiobik> its mine server lol
[03:31] <erfolg> ok
[03:31] <erfolg> login
[03:32] <fabiobik> ssh?
[03:32] <erfolg> yeah. or locally.
[03:32] <erfolg> then type this
[03:32] <erfolg> cd /var
[03:32] <erfolg> sudo chown -R username:username www
[03:32] <erfolg> replace username with your username
[03:33] <erfolg> then ftp to it and you should be able to have full access to it
[03:33] <erfolg> be sure to use your username for the ftp
[03:33] <fabiobik> yes
[03:33] <Delerium_> also, if /var/www is your apache DocRoot, be sure that the user running the apache process have access ;)
[03:34] <fabiobik> 250 Directory successfully changed.
[03:34] <fabiobik> Comando:	RMD projeto
[03:34] <fabiobik> Resposta:	550 Remove directory operation failed.
[03:34] <fabiobik> :S
[03:35] <erfolg> wait. try chown -R username:www-data www instead
[03:35] <c0nv1ct> erfolg, not sure i get your shorewall problem... have you checked to see if traffic arriving on those ports reach the server? and why dnat?
[03:35] <erfolg> i think that should work.
[03:36] <fabiobik> chown: missing operand after `fabiomig:www-data'
[03:36] <erfolg> c0nvlct, everything i read said to use dnat for it. i tried dnat and just accept and neither one let it work.
[03:36] <erfolg> sudo chown -R fabiomig:www-data /var/www
[03:37] <c0nv1ct> erfolg, ah, might be something specific for steam then... you'd think -j FORWARD would work just fine
[03:37] <erfolg> yeah. well it works on my firewall box with just accept. but then when i try to put it on the other server and port forward it doesn't.
[03:38] <fabiobik> Comando:	RMD projeto
[03:38] <fabiobik> Resposta:	550 Remove directory operation failed.
[03:38] <fabiobik> Estado:	A obter a lista de pastas ...
[03:38] <fabiobik> -_-
[03:38] <erfolg> hmm. 1 more try.
[03:39] <erfolg> sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
[03:39] <erfolg> then try to ftp in as root
[03:39] <erfolg> idk if it'll let you do that. if not i've got a way that'll def let you do it after that.
[03:41] <fabiobik> noting
[03:41] <fabiobik> how to remove a pakage
[03:41] <erfolg> c0nvict, yeah i think i'm probably gonna stop using shorewall and just use iptables. so many things that screw it up.
[03:41] <erfolg> it wouldn't let you delete it then fabio?
[03:42] <c0nv1ct> erfolg, check to make sure the ports are working first using netcat
[03:42] <fabiobik> sudo apt-get install vsftp
[03:43] <fabiobik> now i want to remove
[03:43] <erfolg> sudo apt-get purge vsftp
[03:48] <erfolg> hmm you're right c0nvict. i can't connect from 1 to the other. i can connect from a windows computer on the lan but not from my firewall server to the app server. weird.
[03:49] <erfolg> i can connect to my mumble server from it but not the steam servers. maybe something in the steam settings.
[03:51] <erfolg> but from external i can't connect to mumble server. :(
[05:09] <talntid> Hi all. I know #xen is the recommended chat room for Xen, but the are idle... does anyone here have experience installing Xen on 10.04?
[05:09] <talntid> Mainly, I am looking for how to do it. I have tried a handfull of times, all unsuccessfully.
[06:19] <SpamapS> talntid: typically there is better support for kvm than xen in ubuntu
[08:53] <Syria> Hi, is there a way to list users on my ubuntu lucid server?
[08:54] <gobbe> cat /etc/passwd
[08:54] <andol> Syria: getent passwd
[08:55] <Syria> Thank you guys, how can i change the password for a specific user?
[08:55] <andol> sudo passwd specific_user
[08:57] <Syria> andol thnx again.
[08:58] <Syria> I have installed vsftpd and created a new user but the ftp server does not seem to be working.
[09:00] <Syria> I am trying to update wordpress which installed on my ubuntu lucid vps server should this be the hostname for example? 109.233.112.154 ?
[09:08] <Syria> I have created a new user but when i ssh using it all i get is the $  sign!
[09:08] <nigelb> that's because you don't have the bash shell I think.
[09:08] <nigelb> The user is probably havng /bin//sh
[09:08] <nigelb> err /bin/sh
[09:08] <Syria> nigelb How can I fix this please?
[09:10] <nigelb> "sudo chsh -s /bin/bash username" perhaps?
[09:10] <nigelb> I'm not sure.
[09:12] <Syria> nigelb it works!! thank you.
[09:13] <nigelb> \o/
[09:13] <Syria> am I a super user now?
[09:13] <Syria> opps what does this mean! There is 1 zombie process.
[09:14] <Syria> nigelb Do you have an idea about what 1 zombie process. is?
[09:15] <nigelb> I think zombie process would already be dead.
[09:15] <nigelb> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/killing-zombie-process.html
[09:18] <Syria> nigelb I get this zombie thing only when i ssh using the new user name that i have created! and I am not getting an output using the # top command.
[09:18] <nigelb> checkout ps ax and see if you have any process with Z in stat column
[09:19] <Syria> nigelb all I get is a new line.
[09:19] <nigelb> :(
[09:19] <nigelb> In that case, I don't know.
[09:19] <Syria> its okay thnx. :)
[11:15] <Syria> Hello, is this the right way to make a copy of a folder via ssh? ibrahim@server:/$ cp /var/www/site /var/www/site-backup
[11:15] <Frenk_> Hey, I have an error using psad: http://paste.ubuntu.com/548783/ Although I set IPTABLES_PREREQ_CHECK to 1; Can I add the chain manually? And how do I ensure that they exist after restart? iptables-save didnt work for me the last time.
[11:16] <Jeeves_> Syria: add -r
[11:16] <Syria> Jeeves_ where should I add it please?
[11:16] <Jeeves_> Syria: Oh wait
[11:16] <Jeeves_> you want scp -r /var/www/site $user@$remote_host:/var/www/site-backup
[11:17] <Jeeves_> That copies /var/www/site to the remote hosts directory /var/www/site-backup
[11:17] <Jeeves_> If you want it to stay on the same server
[11:17] <Jeeves_> cp -r /var/www/site /var/www/site-backup
[11:17] <Syria> Jeeves_ It is not a remote host, i want to copy the folder on the same server.
[11:17] <Syria> Yes thank you.
[11:17] <Syria> I understand it now.
[11:27] <Syria> I want to add my username to the sudoers file is this the right way? sudo nano /etc/group
[11:27] <Jeeves_> Syria: No
[11:28] <Jeeves_> If you want sudo, just add yourselve to the group admin
[11:28] <Jeeves_> adduser $username admin
[11:28] <Syria> Jeeves_ I Thanks again. :)
[11:44] <gobbe> usermod is correct tool to add users to groups
[12:28] <talntid> any way to see if fsck is still doing anything? it's been going for about 12 hours...... loads are at exactly 1.0.....
[12:28] <talntid> and shows it's running in top, too...
[12:38] <gobbe> are u running it manually?
[12:43] <Jeeves_> gobbe: adduser is just a wrapper around usermod
[13:07] <podman99> hey all ... i know this will be something simple... using ubuntu-vm-builder on maverick 10.10 built and installed from ISO a VE, i used virsh to define /etc/libvir....... start bt01 and it waits and tells me : http://pastebin.com/xCDCX5a4 ?? any ideas have followed docs perfectly @ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/CreateGuests
[13:15] <gobbe> Jeeves_: oh yeah, my bad.Too used to use usermod ;)
[13:21] <pmatulis> podman99: looks like you used root to build the vm
[13:23] <talntid> /sbin/mount.gfs2: error mounting /dev/drbd0 on /home: No such file or directory
[13:23] <talntid> which one does it think doesn't exist?
[14:24] <phetips> I have set up a working LAMP stack. Now I want to be able to send mail via PHP. What is the best way to go about this? Any recommendations on send only MTAs or particular setups?
[14:25] <Jeeves_> 'apt-get install postfix' ?
[14:26] <phetips> Jeeves_: i've been told that is overkill for what i'm trying to do
[14:26] <phetips> and apparantly send only MTA's are the way to go
[14:26] <phetips> i've had trouble setting up postfix in the past, perhaps i just need to look into it a bit more
[14:29] <patdk-wk> send only mta's can get you into lots of issues though
[14:29] <patdk-wk> if you care about your email
[14:30] <patdk-wk> they don't cache/spool, so if the mta they are sending to is down, or something, your emails are lost
[14:30] <patdk-wk> so I go with postfix instead :)
[14:31] <phetips> allright, i'll give that another go, any tips on how to set it up in my php.ini?
[14:31] <qman__> I agree, it may be "overkill" but postfix won't let you down
[14:31] <qman__> I've run into all sorts of trouble with supposedly simple lightweight MTAs
[14:31] <patdk-wk> you don't "set it up in php.ini"
[14:32] <phetips> ; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
[14:32] <qman__> when you install postfix it becomes the local "sendmail" daemon
[14:32] <phetips> ; http://php.net/sendmail-path
[14:32] <phetips> ;sendmail_path =
[14:32] <qman__> you don't need to configure any of that
[14:32] <qman__> just use mail()
[14:32] <qman__> it knows what to do
[14:33] <phetips> so, "sudo apt-get install postfix; sudo apache2ctl restart;" should allow me to use mail() ?
[14:33] <qman__> you only need to configure that if you have a botched up install where your system doesn't know where its mail daemon is, or you're using an external mail system directly from PHP
[14:33] <patdk-wk> apache restart shouldn't be needed
[14:33] <qman__> just install and configure postfix, it will "just work"
[14:34] <qman__> be aware though, that your mails will probably get caught by spam filters unless you do it properly
[14:34] <phetips> allright then, i'm guessing i should pick "Internet site" for the postfix conf?
[14:34] <gobbe> yep
[14:34] <qman__> yes
[14:34] <phetips> system mail name of any particular importance?
[14:34] <qman__> very
[14:35] <phetips> by default it is set to my hostname
[14:35] <qman__> that's the local mail domain
[14:35] <qman__> e.g. if your website is mysite.com
[14:35] <qman__> that would be mysite.com
[14:35] <Jeeves_> phetips: ssmtp works, i think
[14:35] <phetips> it's a development setup, it runs on my localhost
[14:36] <qman__> that name is where mail sent by the system comes from, and where reply mail should be sent to
[14:37] <phetips> so if it's just a local server, what should i set it to?
[14:37] <qman__> probably the default if it's not going on the internet at all
[14:37] <phetips> well, i would like to have it send e-mail to my gmail or exchange server
[14:38] <qman__> if you have a working exchange mail system, you should use the satellite configuration instead
[14:38] <qman__> and have it forward mail to exchange
[14:39] <phetips> i'm guessing i should not set the system mail name to the exchange domain then?
[14:39] <phetips> or should i
[14:39] <phetips> sorry for being so newbish :)
[14:39] <phetips> and thanks for being so helpful
[14:39] <qman__> no, in that case set it to the local host name
[14:40] <qman__> the way spam filters work, any mail that isn't sent from an apparently legitimate server gets junked
[14:40] <qman__> so if you want your mail to work on the internet, you can't just set up a simple, unconfigured smtp
[14:41] <phetips> SMTP relay host should be the exchange server then?
[14:41] <qman__> it has to go through a properly configured system
[14:41] <qman__> yes
[14:41] <qman__> and the exchange server needs to accept relays from your host
[14:47] <podman99> pmatulis, correct ... i didnt use --dest to move it out of /root as qemu wont load from /root ... resolved not sorry
[14:48] <pmatulis> podman99: 'resolved not sorry' ?
[14:49] <phetips> qman__: do you happen to know if i can run that configuration tool again?
[14:49] <phetips> it aborted
[14:50] <pmatulis> phetips: 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix' ?
[14:51] <phetips> pmatulis: awesome, thanks
[14:54] <phetips> qman__: just setting it up as Internet server and setting mail name to "localhost"
[14:54] <phetips> was actually sufficient to ahve it send mail to my exchange server
[14:54] <phetips> without it getting marked as spam or anything :)
[14:54] <phetips> anyways, thanks for the help!
[15:06] <Wolfsherz> hey, can someone help me with my virtual hosts? i seem to be doing it wrong somehow...
[15:06] <pmatulis> !ask | Wolfsherz
[15:07] <Wolfsherz> well ok, i get the following error when starting apache: [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
[15:08] <pmatulis> Wolfsherz: but does your setup work?
[15:10] <Wolfsherz> not as it should. beside the default i defined a second virtual host under /etc/apache2/sites/available and enabled it with a2ensite. the default-site i open with the servers ip. the second one is a domain inquirere.de wich works only when i open www.inquirere.de not without www. it then defaults to the default-page
[15:11] <Wolfsherz> i guess there must be an error with the default or second virtual-host definition
[15:13] <Wolfsherz> would it help to post the config-files default and inquirere.de?
[15:15] <pmatulis> Wolfsherz: did you follow any documentation?
[15:16] <Wolfsherz> yes, i followed a book called ubuntu-server by michael kofler
[15:24] <Wolfsherz> do I need NameVirtualHost *  at the default-configuration?
[15:25] <Wolfsherz> it has not been in there, but the book had it in, so i included it.
[15:25] <_ruben> the warning means that you have a "NameVirtualHost *:80" config directive but no matching "<VirtualHost *:80>" entry or entries
[15:27] <Wolfsherz> but i can not see any *:80 directive
[15:28] <_ruben> according the warning, it is *somewhere* :)
[15:29] <_ruben> might wanna grep for *:80 recursively through /etc/apache2/ :)
[15:30] <Wolfsherz> what the... its in ports.conf
[15:31] <Wolfsherz> so i'm going to remove the NameVirtualHost * in the default site configuration
[15:32] <Wolfsherz> message gone, thanks!
[15:33] <Wolfsherz> the other problem persists though: when opening inquirere.de it does show the default-site not the configured vhost
[15:34] <Wolfsherz> i defined ServerName inquirere.de and ServerAlias www.inquirere.de
[15:36] <_ruben> i've been running into similar issues recently, hadn't had time time to dive in though :/
[15:37] <_ruben> though in my case, one vhost config seems to trample another, as browsing to the servername of the other, it ends up at the first anyways
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> this is my vhost:
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> <VirtualHost *:80 >
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> 	DocumentRoot	/home/inquirere/www/
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> 	ServerName	www.inquirere.de
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> 	ServerAlias	inquirere.de
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> 	ErrorLog	/home/inquirere/www-log/error.log
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> 	CustomLog	/home/inquirere/www-log/access.log combined
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> 	ServerAdmin	webmaster@inquirere.de
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> 	ErrorDocument	404 /not-found.html
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> 	
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> 	<Directory "/home/inquirere/www/" >
[15:38] <Wolfsherz> 		AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
[15:39] <Wolfsherz> 	</Directory>
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[15:39] <pmatulis> !paste | Wolfsherz
[15:39] <Wolfsherz> sorry...
[15:40] <Wolfsherz> ok, this is my vhost: http://paste.ubuntu.com/548860/
[15:41] <Wolfsherz> i can't make out any errors in there, i wonder why www.domain.de does work, but domain.de goes to the default-site...
[15:43] <pmatulis> Wolfsherz: maybe try #httpd, no apache experts here right now i guess
[15:45] <Wolfsherz> will do, thank you
[15:45] <gobbe> Wolfsherz: have you tried to create it with servername inquirere.de and with alias www
[15:47] <skorv> i have internet on the server and not on the clients... what is to blame dhcpd our bind9?
[15:47] <skorv> *or
[15:47] <skorv> i'm without ideas
[15:47] <gobbe> well dhcp if your client doesn't get ip
[15:47] <skorv> the clients get ip
[15:47] <gobbe> ...and what does mean that client doesn't have internet?
[15:47] <skorv> no problems with that
[15:48] <gobbe> can they ping gateway?
[15:48] <skorv> yea
[15:48] <gobbe> do they have nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf
[15:49] <skorv> yes... besides the local.... the opendns onew
[15:49] <skorv> *ones
[15:50] <gobbe> so what is the problem?
[15:51] <skorv> thatz my problem.... everything looks ok
[15:52] <gobbe> skorv: so what is not working?
[15:52] <_ruben> does ping 8.8.8.8 work from a client? does host www.google.com work from a client?
[15:52] <gobbe> and how does your client and server relate each other?
[15:53] <gobbe> is client connected thru server
[15:53] <gobbe> or what?
[15:57] <pmatulis> hmm, after booting a degraded raid1 array from busybox every subsequent reboot (still degraded) proceeds without intervention.  normal?
[15:58] <pmatulis> md1 (swap) however remains non-active
[16:03] <skorv> client gets ip... nothing else
[16:03] <teddymills> I updated my kernel using  wget a new kernel and installed it using dpkg -i.  If I wget the original kernel. can I revert back to the original kernel?
[16:04] <gobbe> skorv: and how client is connectred to internet?
[16:04] <gobbe> earlier you answered that it can ping gateway?
[16:04] <gobbe> and now it cannot?
[16:04] <skorv> server serves as gateway
[16:04] <gobbe> do you have ip forwarding there?
[16:04] <pmatulis> teddymills: that's not the way to update your kernel
[16:04] <skorv> nop
[16:04] <skorv> server has dns and dhcp
[16:05] <gobbe> skorv: well you need that
[16:05] <skorv> :P
[16:05] <gobbe> of course it cannot connect without able to forward traffic
[16:05] <skorv> i'll figure it out
[16:05] <pmatulis> teddymills: anyway, just remove the newer kernel and you should be good
[16:05] <skorv> forwarders
[16:05] <skorv> hummm
[16:05] <skorv> bind9
[16:05] <teddymills> what is the proper way to update a ubuntu server kernel?
[16:06] <gobbe> teddymills: apt-get
[16:06] <pmatulis> teddymills: perform a system-wide package update
[16:07] <pmatulis> teddymills: 'sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude full-upgrade' (or use apt-get)
[16:09] <teddymills> if i build a ubuntu box, i do apt-get update;apt-get upgrade  on it..what does 'apt-get full-upgrade'  do? (i never saw that before ) I did see 'apt-get upgrade-dist'
[16:10] <pmatulis> teddymills: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' = 'aptitude full-upgrade'
[16:10] <teddymills> sorry 'apt-get dist-upgrade'
[16:17] <pmatulis> Wolfsherz: any luck in #httpd?
[16:26] <skorv> so far figured out that ping from server works and gets replied... ping from client gets resolved but no reply
[16:26] <skorv> target was google.com
[16:33] <pmatulis> skorv: summarise your problem?
[16:44] <gobbe> skorv: did you setup ipforwarding?
[16:46] <gobbe> skorv: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Router
[18:32] <donvito> hello guys
[18:32] <gobbe> hello
[18:33] <donvito> ./ipv6.sh
[18:33] <donvito> RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted
[18:33] <donvito> RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted
[18:33] <donvito> RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted
[18:33] <donvito> there are 3 ip6 addresses
[18:33] <donvito> why does i need to be sudo or root to add them?
[18:33] <giovani> donvito: I don't know what "ipv6.sh" does
[18:34] <donvito> second
[18:34] <giovani> could you paste the script into a pastebin?
[18:34] <donvito> ip addr add 2001:470:d:448::100/64 dev wlan0
[18:34] <donvito> this what ipv6.sh does
[18:34] <giovani> oh, you definitely need to be root to change IP addresses of interfaces
[18:34] <donvito> but i setup this script so i can run it from rc.local
[18:34] <giovani> alright
[18:34] <donvito> it will run everytime alone
[18:35] <donvito> i did chown root:root ipv6.sh
[18:35] <giovani> you don't need to do it in rc.local, this is what /etc/network/interfaces is for
[18:35] <donvito> what to do than please
[18:36] <giovani> /etc/network/interfaces
[18:36] <giovani> man interfaces
[18:36] <donvito> nah
[18:36] <donvito> looks like script works with chown root:root
[18:36] <giovani> it's the standard debian/ubuntu way to set up network interfaces
[18:37] <giovani> donvito: it's the improper method for doing this
[18:40] <donvito> well the scripts works.
[18:40] <donvito> ;)
[18:56] <giovani> donvito: that's not the point
[19:51]  * pennyless is away: Gone away for now
[22:20] <mikeobeda> I need some help with improving file transfer speed to my server.  For some reason I am only getting 100 megabit connection when I have a gigabit card, a gigabit switch, and a gigabit windows machine involved in the transfer.  the transfer seems to be going through my 100 megabit router for some reason
[22:22] <guntbert> mikeobeda: did you enable jumbo frames on all devices?
[22:26] <mikeobeda> does anyone know how to see the path that a file takes to get from my xp machine to my ubuntu server?
[22:29] <lenios> interesting, mikeobeda is asking questions and isn't waiting for answer
[22:30] <guntbert> mikeobeda: did you enable jumbo frames on all devices?
[22:31] <Karti_> Hi all, stuck here. I have created a group and added myself to it on a file server. It now seems that I cannot sudo as I am not in the sudors file. I believe that I should delete etc/group- and etc/gshadow- but I can't as I have lost my su ability. Any ideas would be helpful
[22:32] <Karti_> By teh way I am using putty on a headless server
[22:35] <AlexMax> What happened to the staff group?
[22:35] <examancer> wait... you WERE a sudoer, but after adding yourself to another group your no longer a member of sudoers?
[22:35] <guntbert> Karti: sounds a little strange, how did you create a group without using sudo?
[22:35] <AlexMax> It's a feature in debian and it at least used to be in ubuntu
[22:35] <AlexMax> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=693320
[22:35] <AlexMax> But I just got a new 10.10 server and /usr/local doesn't have any staff permissions, only root:root
[22:36] <Karti> guntbert, I created teh group with sudo and added myself and another test account. From here I can't do anything (this was after a reboot on my server and client
[22:36] <Karti> the username jim is teh original one I used when I created the server
[22:37] <Karti_> sorry....logged in twice
[22:37] <examancer> Karti_: i'm not sure how adding 'jim' to a group would result in 'jim' being removed from sudoers
[22:37] <examancer> you sure you didn't do anything else?
[22:37] <Karti_> examancer, don't believe so :)
[22:37] <examancer> do you have the root account enabled?
[22:38] <examancer> any other account in sudoers you can log into?
[22:38] <Karti_> I am getting "cannot lock /etc/group" please trty later
[22:38] <examancer> when?
[22:39] <Karti_> examancer, fraid I am the only admin on teh box. It is a vm that I can reclone but I would rather try to find teh fault first
[22:39] <Karti_> when I try to delete the original group that I created
[22:39] <Karti_> examancer, don't believe the root is active (I've not given a password)
[22:40] <examancer> so you can't do: sudo cat /etc/sudoers ?
[22:40] <Karti_> examancer, and its a standard install
[22:40] <examancer> the account your logged into... when you run `groups` you don't see "admin" as one of your groups?
[22:41] <Karti_> examancer, just says I'm not in sudoers and will be reported
[22:41] <examancer> lol
[22:41]  * examancer points finger condescendingly ... *you've been reported*
[22:42] <examancer> what are your current groups for 'jim'?
[22:43] <examancer> just run 'groups' or 'groups jim'
[22:43] <Karti_> examancer, when I groups jim  - I am only in jim and netshare
[22:44] <examancer> that's the problem
[22:44] <examancer> sudo priviledge is given to those in the 'admin' group on a standard install
[22:44] <examancer> you must have done something to remove jim from that group
[22:44] <examancer> thank goodness for VMs
[22:45] <Karti_> lol so I actually moved myself to only one group :)
[22:45] <examancer> yet
[22:45] <guntbert> Karti_: pastebin /etc/groups (for learning..)
[22:45] <examancer> *yep
[22:46] <examancer> i'm sure there is some way to escalate priviledges and get root access... but the fantastic linux/ubuntu community has made that really hard (for me)
[22:46] <examancer> its not like resetting the admin pass in windows
[22:46] <examancer> heh
[22:47] <Karti_> guntbert, any way to copy text from putty?
[22:47] <examancer> if it were a real machine you might be able to boot into another OS and overwrite a passwd file or something to give root a password
[22:47] <examancer> Karti_: yes, just highlight
[22:47] <examancer> anything you highlight is copied
[22:47] <examancer> instantly
[22:47] <examancer> kind of annoying sometimes, actually
[22:48] <Karti_> not working on teh old highlighting side I'm afraid
[22:49] <examancer> with PuTTY? if you highlight and then while its still highlighted try to paste you don't see what you highlighted?
[22:49] <examancer> i use it all day at work. maybe i played with the config
[22:49] <The_Tick> highlight then right click
[22:50] <examancer> oh. that config sounds better. whatever i did i should undo it :-P
[22:51] <examancer> oh. the copy action DOES happen just from highlighting. pasting is the right-click
[22:52] <Karti_> guntbert, http://paste.ubuntu.com/548944/
[22:53] <Karti_> examancer, I just ssh'd from a terminal and copied
[22:53] <guntbert> Karti_: so you deleted the admin group and removed jim from almost all groups -- not good :_)
[22:54]  * pennyless is back.
[22:55] <Karti_> guntbert, I didnt delete the groups only add myself to netshare (was practicing with nfs
[22:56] <Karti_> sudo usermod -G netshare jim
[22:57] <examancer> why'd you use that command
[22:57] <guntbert> Karti_: you must have -- the quickest way back would be to reinstall - and in the future create a snapshot before experimenting :-)
[22:58] <Karti_> lol its all from the net - I blame my reading and searching skills :)
[22:58] <Karti_> I initially wanted a group that had two users inside that I could then give permissions to on nfs share
[22:58] <examancer> adduser jim netshare
[22:59] <Karti_> examancer, I will definitely use that next time!!
[23:00] <examancer> -G: If the user is currently a member of a group which is not listed, the user will be removed from the group. This behaviour can be changed via the -a option, which appends the user to the current supplementary group list.
[23:00] <examancer> usermod -aG is what you wanted
[23:00] <examancer> -G is what caused your problems
[23:00] <Karti_> By the way the I have found the assistance from the ubuntu-server channel brilliant - always helpful
[23:01] <Karti_> I think your adduser will be the easiest in future :)
[23:01] <examancer> yes, you'd have to be a lot more than one character off to screw things up with adduser
[23:02] <Karti_> as you said ....not an issue with VMs
[23:04] <guntbert> Karti_: if you want to experiment with that borked machine further: connect the image of a live CD, boot it, and with chroot change the files in /etc (especially groups...)
[23:04] <guntbert> would work even without chroot
[23:05] <examancer> i sure do love VMs... makes driver issues mostly a thing of the past and gives me a valid excuse to have 8GB of RAM in my desktop
[23:09] <Karti_> guntbert, I will give that a go
[23:09] <Karti_> examancer, your not wrong.....same excuse i gave to teh wife :)
[23:40] <Karti_> examancer, just to say I tried guntbert's idea and I managed to use the recovery mode (not the live disk) to give root a password. Once this was done I added jim to admin and all is well.
[23:40] <Karti_> examancer, thanks for the assistance before
[23:42] <examancer> no problem :-)
[23:52] <jdimatteo> good afternoon all
[23:53] <jdimatteo> please help me find where it is documented what kernel(s) Ubuntu 10.04LTS Server Edition uses.  I'm evaluating whether or not I should install it at my business
[23:54] <RoyK> jdimatteo: uname -r
[23:54] <jdimatteo> RoyK, thanks, but that really isn't what I asked for.  I haven't installed it yet, so that really doesn't help much
[23:55] <jdimatteo> RoyK: do you happen to know *if* this is documented on ubuntu.com at all?
[23:55] <RoyK> this is 10.04
[23:55] <RoyK> Linux lamia 2.6.32-27-server #49-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:05:21 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[23:56] <jdimatteo> RoyK: thanks very much!  this answers my question sufficiently
[23:56] <RoyK> this is 10.10
[23:56] <RoyK> Linux irctos 2.6.35-24-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 03:58:11 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux