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Joe______Hi all, i really hate to ask for help, but i've been configuring my VPS to run as a nameserver, so i can run a small host for friends, i'm totally stuck, and i could use some help.00:08
shaunogot a box where klogd doesn't start.  it hangs at "Starting kernel log daemon...", showing klogd as a defunct process.  any clues where to start looking?01:47
gravity1187hell anyone have any experience install kolab on ubuntu server 10.0401:49
t73netHey all. I'm looking for someone to help me troubleshoot some domain name issues using Webmin/Bind Dns Module. PM me for info please03:06
t73netAnyone here? Or just all ghosting ?03:12
shaunohere, but haven't used webmin in 5+ years, so no use to you :)03:12
t73netheh thanks for the reply at least03:14
jmarsden!webmin03:24
ubottuwebmin is no longer supported in Debian and Ubuntu. It is not compatible with the way that Ubuntu packages handle configuration files, and is likely to cause unexpected issues with your system.03:24
notquitehappyCan anyone assist me with setting up a server using vmware? I've been following a guide, but for some reason I haven't achieved the guide's results.03:35
notquitehappyWhy are there so many people, yet no one is willing to assist me?03:38
vice_virtueIs there a way to get vmbuilder to output to a specific .qcow2 file?05:10
pickett hi, when i copy over the network I only get 600k/s with wireless n, if I change the connection to wireless g i get 2.4mb/s, anyone know why this would be?05:35
pickettalso when i copy from a windows comp over the network with wireless n i get 4.5-5.5mb/s05:36
pickettand it doesn't matter if i'm using samba or sshfs to share files05:36
zkirillWhy is it good security practice to disable ssh login to root account?06:31
shaunozkirill: watch your logs.  you'll see random attacks trying to guess passwords all day long.  It's really not worth letting them stumble on root's password.06:33
jmarsdenzkirill: That sounds like a security class homework question!  root is a fixed known username on every unix-like machine in the world, so dictionary attacks can use it and just try passwords.  If you disable it for ssh, then dictionary attackers have to guess both username and password to succeed.06:33
zkirillYeah, but I don't see the point if the root account is a gigantic alphanumeric + symbols password.06:34
zkirillAlthough I do see the point in doing the standard hardening procedure thing.06:35
zkirillshauno, jmarsden: thanks for the help06:37
shaunoif you're going to allow root, I (personally) think it's better to disallow passwords all-together, and stick to keys.  difficult passwords lower the chance, but don't eliminate the chances06:37
zkirillshauno: well I don't think I am, I was just curious why it was 'de facto'. I'm guessing too many stupid sys admins set the root password to an English word and had it brute forced.06:38
zkirillIt just seems a little far fetched that someone can brute force a generated password.06:38
toddcanyone able to guide me in 10.04.1 raid 1 insta06:40
toddcintstall with grub workaround?06:40
shaunozkirill: I think I stick to my initial observation; watch your logs.  the sheer number of attacks will make you paranoid :)06:40
zkirillshauno: haha i will and thanks for the tip man :)06:41
versificatormorning, anyone here use ubuntu server with whole disk encryption?08:02
leniosversificator, any question?08:11
ePierrehi everybody08:22
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kklimondahey, I'm working on a libevent2 transition - so far, I'm at the point when I'm trying to asses if it's even something that still can be done for natty. As 3 of 4 packages in main that depend on libevent are server ones I'd like to know if you know of reasons not to do that update. All packages from main did build, but I haven't yet tested them - if anyone knows of bugs, it would save me some13:41
kklimondatime. :)13:41
kklimondathe update bug is bug 701471, there is also a list of packages that depend on libevent, and a link to the ppa where I try to rebuild all packages with it.13:41
uvirtbotLaunchpad bug 701471 in libevent "Sync libevent 2.0.10 from Debian experimental" [Wishlist,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/70147113:41
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lmarinoHi all, its my first time in irc16:55
gagarinelmarino welcome16:55
lmarinothanks16:55
lmarinoI am starting at Amazon EC2.16:56
lmarinoI've installed an email, lamp and dns server.16:56
lmarinoKnow i am trying to install wordpress. Anybody knows how to do that. if i enter in localhost/wordpress it works fine.16:57
lmarinobut when i enter in the ip of the computer dont work16:57
nt93hi, can you tell me why ubuntu server doesn't get a new ip, even the interfaces are auto16:57
Boring10is your router setup to assign the same IP to the same computer?17:00
nt93sorry i forgot to mention - i plug it into another network and it still has the old ip17:00
Boring10Your router can be set to dhcp and still assign the same IP address.17:00
lmarinoThe apache2 its working fine. i have received the msg its works17:03
geekbrilmarino: are you trying to access it with your EC2 publicly accesible DNS name?17:14
nt93does nobody have an idea?17:15
geekbrint93: why not just renew the ip?17:15
Boring10@nt93 you never changed the network config file from dchp to static correct?17:16
nt93geekbri: i want to use it without a screen, just with ssh17:16
nt93Boring10: yes17:17
Boring10nt93: try sudo dhclient- r then sudo dhclient17:20
nt93yeah it gets a new ip but if i change the network again it still has the old ip17:22
nt93i would do that over ssh but i dont think thats possible if that thing doesn't have the right ip17:23
Boring10sounds to me like the router is setup to give the computer the same IP address.  You have any way to access the router?17:24
ChrisBuchholzHello, i have a user on my 10.04.1 server which when you ssh in to in verbose mode, outputs: "Read from remote host 12...30: Connection reset by peer \ Connection to 12...30 closed. \ \ \ debug1: Exit status -1". What can be the cause of that? I was messing with some permissions and ownership on the accounts home dir when afterwards it got messed up, though the permissions and ownership should be right - like i use on the other users a17:25
nt93i have 2 different networks -> 2 different routers ;)17:25
Boring10nt93: oh sorry misunderstood, I can't think of a reason why that would happen unless the network config file was changed.17:26
nt93it's a fresh installation of ubuntu server17:27
* patdk-lap needs to learn how to read17:29
patdk-lap'it's a french install....'17:29
nt93lol17:29
ChrisBuchholzokay, i got it fixed now. It was just set the ownership back to what it was before17:29
nt93any other ideas why this doesn't happen automatically?17:35
nt93ok i just reboot it and it gets the right ip - it's a server it doesn't neet to change the ip 'on the fly'17:46
Boring10I trying to look it up but I can't figure out why something like that would be happening 2 different networks.17:46
nt93thanks for your help guys ;)17:46
nt93yeah i don't get it too but it doesn't matter17:48
nt93my idea of plug it into another network while that thing is running is also really pointless ;)17:50
uvirtbotNew bug: #394494 in beautifulsoup "Package falsly contains test scripts / misses docs" [Wishlist,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/39449417:51
uvirtbotNew bug: #478932 in beautifulsoup "python-beautifulsoup should have some docs" [Wishlist,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/47893218:02
yellabs-r2hello there18:28
yellabs-r2i am going to install ubuntu server , what is the best option, to use phpmyadmin or webmin ?18:28
patdk-lapneither?18:29
yellabs-r2hmm really ?18:30
patdk-lapwell, we can talk all day about stuff, but till we know the *goal*18:30
yellabs-r2ah i see..18:31
yellabs-r2i would like at first to try to install ubuntu server and then wordpress18:31
uvirtbotNew bug: #718318 in ethtool (main) "package ethtool 6-0 failed to install/upgrade: " [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/71831818:31
patdk-lapI would stay away from webmin18:32
patdk-lapcould use phpmyadmin if you really want to, but make sure you secure it good18:33
yellabs-r2what would be the recommended web interface for ubuntu server ?18:33
yellabs-r2if needed18:33
patdk-lapnone18:34
yellabs-r2okey , cool18:34
patdk-lapwebinterfaces will always get you into issues18:34
yellabs-r2as you can tell i am new to all of this18:34
patdk-lapand you will not have any clue what to do when that happens, other than reinstall18:34
patdk-lapwhere if you start by editing configs yourself, you will know how to fix issues18:35
yellabs-r2did do some reading,..18:35
yellabs-r2i have tried two installs sofar18:37
yellabs-r2third try right now18:39
qman__AFAIK the preferred method of installing wordpress is `sudo apt-get install wordpress`18:42
yellabs-r2i just did that18:42
yellabs-r2now the trouble is, i cant acces wordpress admin..18:42
yellabs-r2i see apache is running ( see the up page )18:43
yellabs-r2so.. stuck there18:43
qman__it should have asked you for any passwords during install18:43
qman__mysql root password, etc18:43
qman__I don't use wordpress myself, so I don't know the quirks of that particular application18:43
yellabs-r2yes yes, thats setup18:43
yellabs-r2true18:44
qman__where is the admin page normally located?18:45
yellabs-r2wp-admin18:46
uvirtbotNew bug: #718326 in clamav (main) "false positive" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/71832618:46
qman__apparently php5-gd is also recommended18:48
qman__but that would only affect graphs and such being generated18:48
yellabs-r2trying to find an how to...18:51
qman__yeah, I don't see any18:51
qman__I guess it's supposed to just work18:51
qman__I found one for 6.06 but that's way old18:51
yellabs-r2something is wrong in this ubunt server and wordpress18:51
yellabs-r2reading this how to, see if it enlightens me..18:52
yellabs-r2http://www.packtpub.com/article/ubuntu-server-and-wordpress-15-minutes-flat18:52
qman__that will work, but that's a manual way of installing it18:54
qman__you will have to update wordpress yourself18:54
yellabs-r2hmm..18:56
yellabs-r2strange19:00
yellabs-r2i am in the phpmyadmin right now, so that works okey, i installed it to see whats wrong, or what could be wrong19:01
qman__just FYI, phpmyadmin isn't really secure, and expects you to handle security some other way19:01
qman__so I suggest you disable or restrict it once in production19:02
yellabs-r2i will kick it out ( uninstall ) when i dont need it any more, just to see whats up..19:02
yellabs-r2This MySQL server has been running for 0 days, 0 hours, 25 minutes and 54 seconds. It started up on Feb 13, 2011 at 07:37 PM.19:03
yellabs-r2seems to be okey19:04
yellabs-r2so thats not the issue19:04
RoyKmysql sucks19:04
yellabs-r2hehe19:05
yellabs-r2i think my problem has to do with this http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/2816/wordpress-package-configuration-in-ubuntu-server19:05
RoyKlucid?19:07
yellabs-r2maverick19:08
yellabs-r2hmm, well..19:11
yellabs-r2i am stuck there19:11
yellabs-r2never mind i will try to sort it out later..19:11
yellabs-r2or if all else fails, go for turnkey again , like the other servers we run, to bad though , i would have liked it to work out of the box..19:12
yellabs-r2thanks for you time, might be back later with some better news ! :)19:12
yellabs-r2take care and , again thanks for the help sofar  :)19:13
yellabs-r2bye19:13
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intel352anyone here familiar with using Jailkit for chroot jails? I'd like to allow my users to change their own passwords while in their jail, but I'm not sure that would be possible...19:38
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lirakishmmm21:21
lirakisno matter what i do .. i cant get dhcp3-server to start on boot21:21
lirakisit starts fine when i run /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server start21:21
lirakisand i checked /etc/rc2.d/ and it is listed in there at S40....21:21
lirakisbut when i reboot the box ... it doesnt start up21:22
lirakisany hints or help on this is appreciated21:22
lirakisthis is my first non chkconfig like environment21:22
nkvHi all.  I am testing a new cluster of VMWare servers that are SAN attached.  I've already run tiobench, bonnie++ and iozone.  Does anyone have any recommendations on a good burn-in benchmark suite to run?21:36
uvirtbotNew bug: #718404 in bacula (main) "Newer Version Available" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/71840421:37
uvirtbotNew bug: #718410 in exim4 (main) "package exim4-config 4.71-3ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/71841021:56
uvirtbotNew bug: #718411 in exim4 (main) "package exim4-config 4.71-3ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/71841121:56
nimrod10lirakis, look in /etc/default for additional settings for dhcp22:30
lirakisnimrod10, already have my listen device set there22:31
lirakisi figured out the problem22:31
lirakisnetwork manager starts after all other servis22:31
lirakisand dhcp3-server requires an ip on the interface22:31
lirakisso ... it breaks22:31
lirakisi added the service up to my /etc/networking/interfaces script22:32
nimrod10ah . you're running X , cool , at least you've figured the problem22:32
lirakisso that it starts after the bridge gets setup22:32
lirakisit works now22:32
lirakisnimrod10, no .. not running X22:32
lirakisits console only22:33
lirakisthe network manager ... whatever it is ... brings up the interfaces later on in the init process ... its not a function of the rc.d numbering either22:33
lirakisim not sure how the underlyin networking stuff works with ubuntu22:33
nimrod10cool . I thought you're on abou the gnome network-manager22:34
hggdhJamesPage: I rebooted the hudson server (just in case) -- Hudson seems to have been hit by a OOM error22:42
smokesmokogreetings23:12
smokesmokogreetings to all in the name of the creator23:12
smokesmokojust need a little help with ddns, I have setup bind9 on webmin and its working great, I can't seem to get clear instructions on ddns, i yelp help!23:14
smokesmokoI'm new to DDNS, can someone help me?23:29
uvirtbotNew bug: #718454 in squid (main) "package squid 2.7.STABLE7-1ubuntu12.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/71845423:42
airtonixlirakis: my server uses network manager, bind and dhcp3-server and doesn't experience any problems23:42
awantiHi, I used ubuntu landscape, its very cool but when i saw the price ($150/node) its very hot. I thought its very of cost.23:43
awantiSo any body can tell me. How do i implement this without spending so much of money.23:44
airtonixspending alot of time23:44
twbYou can't.  The landscape server side is proprietary software.23:44
Hellz_BellzHello, I've just installed 8.04 on an old p3 and im trying to get an rtl8187 usb device and a pcm100 pcmcia working and so far its been a nogo even after modprobe -l -t /lib/modules23:45
twbHmm, isn't hardy EOLd in about six months?23:46
PiciNo.23:46
awantisome where i read! if we are installed landscape server on our own place, then no need to pay yearly subscription chargers. Is this right?23:47
Hellz_Bellzwhat is landscape?23:47
PiciHardy is supported for 3 years on the desktop and 5 years on servers.23:47
Hellz_Bellz!landscape23:47
ubottuLandscape makes the management and monitoring of Ubuntu systems simple and effective by combining world-class support with easy to use online management tools. https://landscape.canonical.com/23:47
twbI'm thinking of dapper I think23:48
Hellz_Bellzyou can effectivley replace landscape with a competent admin23:48
Picitwb: likely :)23:48
twbHellz_Bellz: that and a change management infrastructure, like puppet, cfengine, etc.23:48
Hellz_Bellz!cfengine23:50
smokesmokoAnyone knows how to setup DDNS?23:54
smokesmokoDDNS server on webmin?23:54
qman__!webmin | smokesmoko23:55
ubottusmokesmoko: webmin is no longer supported in Debian and Ubuntu. It is not compatible with the way that Ubuntu packages handle configuration files, and is likely to cause unexpected issues with your system.23:55
nertilgrrr23:55
nertilebox is like webmin23:55
nertilbut ebox is pain to configure it23:55
nertilcauses problems with apache23:56
smokesmokoubottu: I'm using debian lenny, so its still working with no problem23:56
ubottuError: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :)23:56
qman__it may work for you, but the point is, webmin is not supported here23:57
smokesmokoqman__: any pointers where I can get more info?23:58
nertilif u use ubuntu nope23:59
nertilif u use gentoo or debian23:59
nertiltry their pages and channels23:59

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