| rdegges | Hey guys, I've defined a crontab that does `/usr/bin/aptitude -y safe-upgrade`, however, it always fails when run via cron. I can run it on the CLI just fine. When I log it's stdout/stdin to a text file, I see that it hangs on "Writing extended state information..." and never finishes. Is there a fix for this? | 01:48 |
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| rdegges | Am I missing something? | 01:48 |
| alamar | why don't you use the capabilities of the /etc/cron/apt cronjob or just cron-apt? | 01:49 |
| rdegges | never heard of thhose before | 01:49 |
| alamar | they do essentially the same | 01:51 |
| alamar | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutoWeeklyUpdateHowTo | 01:52 |
| rdegges | Hrm, thanks. I'm looking at that now. | 01:52 |
| freakabcd | hi all | 05:32 |
| freakabcd | is there a way to find out if my server has ECC memory onboard? | 05:32 |
| freakabcd | i'm not physically present at the location of the server and hence i cannot shut it down and look within | 05:33 |
| KM0201 | hmm | 06:02 |
| KM0201 | freakabcd: sudo dmidecode --type 17 try that | 06:03 |
| philipballew | is it a good idea to set up and enable the root account in my server? | 08:03 |
| ke1ha | Hey guys, quick quesintion. I bult a 10.04 server, and after, I added a couple spare drives I had form another box, problem is, I forgot if they are ext3 or ext4, what's a quikx way to determine what they are as I dont want to reformat them before moving the data. | 08:04 |
| ke1ha | NVM, I got it, wow, it must be getting late :-) | 08:10 |
| RoyK | philipballew: depends if you're likely to need it | 10:45 |
| philipballew | RoyK, what uses would i have to need it | 10:45 |
| RoyK | philipballew: or if you want to add a little layer of security - anyone with physical access to an ubuntu machine may reboot it into single user mode and without a root password, there'll be no password prompt for that | 10:46 |
| RoyK | however, anyone with physical access may boot the server from a cdrom or usb stick, and there's little to do about that | 10:46 |
| philipballew | block that from bios maybe | 10:48 |
| RoyK | still, anyone with physical access can open the machine and pull out the drive, or reset CMOS and then bypass whatever you added in the BIOS setup | 10:57 |
| RoyK | or even take the machine | 10:57 |
| philipballew | thats true, well im off to bed! thanks for the info to think about | 10:58 |
| RoyK | so, adding a root password to stop people from booting into single will stop newbies/idiots, but it'll never stop the Bad guys so long they're allowed physical access | 10:58 |
| philipballew | if they want it bad enough theyll take it | 10:58 |
| * nancy-- things how to build a social networking site like facebook in easy way | 12:03 | |
| RoyK | dunno if there's an easy way to do that - perhaps some open framework can help, but I don't know any | 12:06 |
| nancy-- | USING WORDPRESS | 12:06 |
| nancy-- | buts it gives errors | 12:06 |
| RoyK | wordpress ins't really made for social networking | 12:07 |
| RoyK | should be usable for it, though, given enough tweaks :P | 12:07 |
| nancy-- | what are build for that purpose than? | 12:08 |
| RoyK | no idea | 12:09 |
| RoyK | I guess a CMS can do it | 12:09 |
| RoyK | while wordpress is may be called a CMS, it's rather limited | 12:10 |
| RoyK | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems gives a list of what's out there | 12:10 |
| nancy-- | hm | 12:13 |
| RoyK | http://techcrunch.com/2007/07/24/9-ways-to-build-your-own-social-network/ | 12:14 |
| RoyK | old article, though | 12:15 |
| * nancy-- things how to build a social networking site like facebook in easy way | 12:25 | |
| RoyK | I guess google for it | 12:27 |
| SSX_1 | can i ask a quick question - installed 11.04 on an old armada m300, install went ok, but it boots into black and white garbage?? | 12:50 |
| nancy-- | in ftp how to cut a folder and past it inside another folder (i dont want to download and upload it again) ? | 12:53 |
| nancy-- | in ftp how to cut a folder and past it inside another folder (i dont want to download and upload it again) ? | 12:59 |
| uvirtbot | New bug: #826022 in euca2ools (main) "euca-modify-image-attribute usage raises error" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/826022 | 13:34 |
| uvirtbot | New bug: #826174 in bacula (main) "package bacula-director-sqlite3 5.0.1-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/826174 | 13:34 |
| SSX_1 | how to connect a usb wifi ? | 13:35 |
| jeeves_moss | anyone have a good reccomendation for a good "howto" for dovecot/postfix/spamass/clamav/tls/quota? | 15:16 |
| RoyK | jeeves_moss: there's one in the guide | 15:44 |
| RoyK | !guide | 15:44 |
| ubottu | The Ubuntu server guide may be found at http://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/ | 15:44 |
| jeeves_moss | RoyK, thanks! | 15:44 |
| === mendel__ is now known as mendel_ | ||
| maxagaz_ | hi | 16:30 |
| maxagaz_ | on a virtual machine, is it better to install ubuntu 64 or 32 ? | 16:30 |
| RoyK | maxagaz_: doesn't matter much, but if you don't need >1GB memory, there's no need for 64bit | 16:49 |
| RoyK | 64bit pointers means 2x space for those, so a wee bit more memory usage | 16:49 |
| RoyK | maxagaz_: >1GB for the guest, that is | 16:50 |
| droobuntu | I have a dual nic mobo with ubuntu 11.04 server, I'm attempting to setup internet connection sharing > | 18:18 |
| droobuntu | eth1 is the internet connection, eth0 is what the client machine will use to connect to the ubuntu server > | 18:19 |
| droobuntu | rtfm'd and implemented several "how to guides" but I'm having trouble | 18:19 |
| droobuntu | may I get some assistance? will post info that is required to help figure it out | 18:20 |
| qman__ | the general linux term for it is masquerading | 18:21 |
| droobuntu | understood, I attempted some guides using dhcp3 w dnsmasq but couldn't get it working so I'm now trying static ip's on the server and the client machine | 18:22 |
| qman__ | the firewall portion is really simple | 18:23 |
| qman__ | did you set net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1? | 18:23 |
| droobuntu | i did per a guide | 18:24 |
| qman__ | cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to verify | 18:24 |
| qman__ | then you only need two iptables rules | 18:25 |
| droobuntu | that responded with "1" via terminal (ssh) | 18:26 |
| qman__ | sudo iptables -t nat -A -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE | 18:26 |
| qman__ | whoops | 18:26 |
| qman__ | sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE | 18:26 |
| qman__ | sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -j ACCEPT | 18:27 |
| qman__ | er, in your case | 18:27 |
| qman__ | sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -j ACCEPT | 18:27 |
| qman__ | all the instructions are based on eth0 being the internet | 18:27 |
| droobuntu | yes it's backwards, the gigabit nic doesnt like crossover cable at all so I'm having to use eth1 as the internet nic | 18:28 |
| droobuntu | =\ | 18:28 |
| qman__ | but yeah | 18:28 |
| qman__ | those two rules are all it takes | 18:28 |
| qman__ | other than that it's networking configuration | 18:28 |
| droobuntu | that's probably the problem, I've issued these commands before but I went through the process again just now as you directed | 18:29 |
| droobuntu | usually something simple | 18:29 |
| qman__ | you can erase anything else that might have gotten in there with sudo iptables -F; sudo iptables -t nat -F | 18:29 |
| qman__ | also, those rules won't be persistent after a reboot, there's plenty of ways of saving them | 18:30 |
| qman__ | up to you which you want | 18:30 |
| droobuntu | recommend? | 18:30 |
| qman__ | mine is a bit more complicated due to port forwarding, so I wrote a script and added it to if-up.d | 18:31 |
| droobuntu | well my eth1 = static 192.168.0.200 with portfowarding set on the Modem/Router that it is behind | 18:32 |
| droobuntu | setting that up was cake | 18:32 |
| qman__ | then what's this for? | 18:32 |
| qman__ | the router should be doing everything you need to just plug the second one in | 18:32 |
| droobuntu | ports for apache/ssh/team fortress 2 dedi | 18:32 |
| droobuntu | the router/modem is across the house and wireless in this back area is unacceptable | 18:33 |
| qman__ | bridge the interfaces | 18:33 |
| qman__ | way simpler and you'll keep everything on one network | 18:33 |
| droobuntu | hmm | 18:33 |
| droobuntu | quick query about the client machine.. the nic gateway should be set to the Modem/Router? or the Ubuntu eth1 ip address? | 18:34 |
| droobuntu | eth0 btw is set up on a 10.x.x.x ip set | 18:35 |
| qman__ | ubuntu eth0 address | 18:35 |
| qman__ | the gateway is the next router hop, it has to be in a locally reachable subnet | 18:35 |
| qman__ | so if PC 2 is 10.0.0.100 and the routing ubuntu is 10.0.0.1, the gateway on PC 2 is 10.0.0.1 | 18:36 |
| droobuntu | just dbl checked, thats what i have | 18:36 |
| qman__ | then routing ubuntu also has 192.168.0.200, and its gateway is the modem/router, 192.168.0.1 | 18:36 |
| qman__ | or whatever it is | 18:36 |
| droobuntu | with the dns set for the isp of course | 18:36 |
| droobuntu | i had this working with 11.04 desktop | 18:37 |
| droobuntu | but i opted for server this time and its been a real headache | 18:37 |
| qman__ | with a bridge though, all that goes away | 18:37 |
| qman__ | you can go back to DHCP | 18:37 |
| droobuntu | I'll rtfm on bridging net interfaces on *nix | 18:38 |
| qman__ | but really, you don't even need a masquerade if there's only one computer | 18:38 |
| droobuntu | no? | 18:38 |
| droobuntu | recommend? | 18:38 |
| qman__ | you could just simply route | 18:38 |
| qman__ | masquerading is to share one IP address, which you don't need to do | 18:38 |
| qman__ | flush the firewall, set to accept all | 18:39 |
| qman__ | long as ip_forward is set to 1 it should just work | 18:39 |
| qman__ | other computers on the network would need a route set though | 18:40 |
| qman__ | to know where 10.x.x.x is | 18:40 |
| qman__ | which is why bridging is better | 18:40 |
| droobuntu | thats what I thought as well but something somewhere is holding me back. | 18:40 |
| qman__ | just install bridge-utils, set one up in interfaces | 18:40 |
| droobuntu | I have a lan connection on the client to the server, but no internet access | 18:41 |
| qman__ | in that case, it's probably because the modem doesn't know where 10.x.x.x is | 18:41 |
| qman__ | if you can set a route there, that'd be the quickest fix | 18:42 |
| qman__ | otherwise you could static NAT, or go with the bridge | 18:42 |
| droobuntu | now my eth0 and eth1 arent auto starting up | 18:49 |
| droobuntu | lol | 18:49 |
| droobuntu | I love a good challenge and learning experience | 18:50 |
| droobuntu | thank you for your patience and time qman | 18:50 |
| droobuntu | kudos | 18:50 |
| qman__ | no problem, just passing the time | 18:51 |
| droobuntu | well if you are REALLY bored you can ssh into this monster and help me figure this crap out | 18:51 |
| qman__ | pretty sure you just want to have both interfaces come up without addresses, then DHCP (or static) the bridge | 18:51 |
| === RyanP is now known as debbie-abc123 | ||
| tenchi21 | for use in a server environment would you recommend an ATX or ATX12v PSU ? | 21:12 |
| bernhard2 | Installed nginx and php5 php5-fpm the website is working with html not not php the info.php does not show php info. did install apt-get install php5 php5-fpm php-pear php5-common php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-cli php5-gd php5-curl php5-imap php5-memcache php-apc restart both nginx and php5-fpm The nginx config files can be found here.. http://pastebin.com/tH4RaYB0 | 22:38 |
| StevenR | bernhard2: is fastcgi server running? Does netstat -ntlp show it? | 22:40 |
| bernhard2 | yes its running see your pm | 22:42 |
| StevenR | bernhard2: please use a pastebin for that in future.... does fastcgi show the php scripts being passed to it? Do the nginx logs show the php scripts passign to fastcgi? | 22:43 |
| StevenR | bernhard2: stop using the pm. thanks. (you get the benefit of anyone else who might be listening here, rather than just me who has little experience with nginx and fastcgi) | 22:45 |
| StevenR | bernhard2: what do the log files show (please use a pastebin) | 22:46 |
| bernhard2 | the nginx logfiles say nothing about fastcgi | 22:46 |
| StevenR | ok, well what do they show when you attempt to access a php page? | 22:47 |
| StevenR | and what do the fastcgi log file show? | 22:47 |
| bernhard2 | NOTICE: reloading: execvp("/usr/sbin/php5-fpm", {"/usr/sbin/php5-fpm", "--fpm-config", "/etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf"}) | 22:49 |
| bernhard2 | NOTICE: using inherited socket fd=6, "127.0.0.1:9000" | 22:49 |
| bernhard2 | NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 3453 | 22:50 |
| bernhard2 | NOTICE: ready to handle connections | 22:50 |
| StevenR | if that's all, then you need to increase the logging for both pieces of software | 22:50 |
| Jeeves_ | fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /scripts$fastcgi_script_name; | 22:51 |
| Jeeves_ | Where are your scripts located? | 22:51 |
| Jeeves_ | /var/www i asume? | 22:51 |
| Jeeves_ | I think it should be | 22:51 |
| Jeeves_ | fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www$fastcgi_script_name; | 22:52 |
| Jeeves_ | I do it (with perl) like this | 22:52 |
| Jeeves_ | location ~ ^/otrs/(.*\.pl)(/.*)?$ { | 22:52 |
| Jeeves_ | fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/tuxis_otrs/otrs/bin/fcgi-bin/$1; | 22:52 |
| Jeeves_ | That also catches the full URI instead of just the filename | 22:53 |
| Jeeves_ | So in your case that would be: | 22:53 |
| Jeeves_ | Hmm | 22:54 |
| Jeeves_ | fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www$fastcgi_script_name; should do, I guess | 22:54 |
| bernhard2 | when i try to use info.php then i get page can not be found. the i see this in my log "GET /info.php HTTP/1.1" 404 31 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2)" | 22:54 |
| Jeeves_ | bernhard2: Did you change what I said you should change? | 22:54 |
| bernhard2 | yes my php is in /var/www | 22:55 |
| bernhard2 | <Jeeves_> not yet one moment | 22:55 |
| bernhard2 | <Jeeves_> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www$fastcgi_script_name; | 22:55 |
| bernhard2 | <Jeeves_> this should be instead of .. ? | 22:56 |
| Manu32 | hi | 22:56 |
| Jeeves_ | bernhard2: Line 100 in your paste | 22:56 |
| Jeeves_ | Hi Manu32 | 22:56 |
| Manu32 | I'm having trouble with visudo / running a script as a certain user. I set up the rule in sudoers but every time I try to run the .sh containing an svn update inclusive user it just tries to execute is as root? | 22:57 |
| Jeeves_ | Manu32: That depends on the sudo-command you're using | 22:58 |
| Manu32 | this is what's in my sudoer: | 22:59 |
| Manu32 | TESTUSER2 ALL=(TESTUSER1) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/svn | 22:59 |
| Manu32 | this is the content of the .sh I run as TESTUSER2: | 23:00 |
| Manu32 | sudo svn --username TESTUSER1 --password '12345' update /www/dev/ 2>&1 | 23:00 |
| Jeeves_ | that will run as root, yes | 23:00 |
| Jeeves_ | sudo -u testuser (try to avoid capitals) | 23:01 |
| Manu32 | syntax error? let me try | 23:01 |
| bernhard2 | <Jeeves_> changed the line and restarted nginx and php5-fpm the line: fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www$scripts$fastcgi_script_name; and it works.. great.. :) | 23:02 |
| Jeeves_ | bernhard2: Good | 23:02 |
| Manu32 | <Jeeves> it didn't change anything unless I need to change the --password attribut too? (haven't used capitals in the real file) | 23:04 |
| Manu32 | sudo svn -u TESTUSER1 --password '12345' update /www/dev/ 2>&1 | 23:04 |
| bernhard2 | <Jeeves_> when i open a url it does not work when i do not put a / at the and of the path.. for instance http://domain/phpmyadmin does not start index.php but http://domain/phpmyadmin/ does start the index.php can this be fixed to work also without the / at the end ? | 23:08 |
| Jeeves_ | Nope | 23:10 |
| Jeeves_ | http://domain/phpmyadmin calls for a file | 23:10 |
| Jeeves_ | http://domain/phpmyadmin/ calls for a directory | 23:10 |
| Jeeves_ | Manu32: You need to tell sudo as which user the command svn must run | 23:11 |
| Jeeves_ | if you don't define a user with -u, sudo will try to run it as root | 23:11 |
| Jeeves_ | sudo -u <usertorunas> <command to run> | 23:11 |
| Manu32 | yes I just figrued the order of my command was mixed up...got it now. Cheers | 23:12 |
| Jeeves_ | np | 23:12 |
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