[00:00] you'll have to determine your own security strategy, but typically wordpress would only need to write to a few specific directories, so you just want to change the ownership of those directories (not all of /var/www/) [00:01] Ok [00:01] so determine where wordpress needs to write to, then "chgrp -R www-data directory/" and "chmod g+w directory" [00:01] well "chmod -R g+w directory/" [00:01] Thank you pleia2 [00:02] a lot of people do give www-data access to their whole /var/www, but that's terrible :( if you forget to upgrade wordpress and it gets hacked with the bad guy able to use the www-data user they can now delete everything :( [00:03] you want to make sure they can delete as little as possible, so give www-data only permission where it absolutely needs it, and make sure to keep good backups [00:04] Ok :P [00:41] Wordpress is asking me for my FTP details, is there a step-by-step guide on setting up a FTP server [01:11] What's the format of videos that are typically television episodes? [01:11] mkv? avi? mp4? [01:11] Dare I say ogv? :P [01:24] avi === Culaway is now known as Culiforge [01:46] hey all, I'm running 10.04 and have not customized the gui at all (that I'm aware of :). I have this issue wherein I mouse over the ubuntu icon in the upper left corner on the taskbar and a selector/chooser of the four desktop/workspace areas is presented. It's quite annoying and I'd like to turn it off. [01:49] philipballew: Well, I want to keep the meta-data in a nice, fancy fashion. Something like Windows Media Center, you know? [01:50] I've noticed there isn't such a setup for Ubuntu, perhaps to due to its friendliness with encrypted, DRM-protected discs. === OutOfControl is now known as benonsoftware === benonsoftware is now known as OutOfControl === OutOfControl is now known as BenzBot === BenzBot is now known as OutOfControl === OutOfControl is now known as benonsoftware [07:43] Hello. I am building a TeamSpeak 3 Server on 10.04. I am trying to figure out how to have my server automatically execute the a file on startup. If I need to restart my server, I don't want to go into the console to enter the startup command every time I do. The exact file is in this location: /home/ts3user/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64/ts3server_minimal_runscript.sh [08:19] JCZING: I'm not sure how to do it but maybe a cronjob? [09:55] benonsoftware: @restart for crontab, but he's gone lol [09:56] :P === bladernr_afk is now known as bladernr_ === bladernr_ is now known as bladernr_afk === bladernr_afk is now known as bladernr_ === bladernr_ is now known as bladernr_afk === bladernr_afk is now known as bladernr_ [15:52] Hello. [15:53] o/ [16:47] hobgoblin: \o lol [16:47] woops wrong channel lol === bladernr_ is now known as bladernr_afk === bladernr_afk is now known as bladernr_ === bladernr_ is now known as bladernr_afk === OutOfControl is now known as benonsoftware === yofel_ is now known as yofel === OutOfControl is now known as benonsoftware === bladernr_afk is now known as bladernr_ [22:24] Is there a way to find out from the terminal whether a partition is mounted or now? [22:25] Type mount [22:25] I usually run df -h for that [22:26] Unit193: mount tells a bunch of things but I don't know what it says [22:26] That basically works too [22:27] geirha: I never realized df -h did that... ! mmmm ok [22:34] ok thank you Unit193 and geirha [22:34] Sure, have a nice evening! [22:34] you too... [22:35] by the way, yesterday, somebody wanted to connect to my computer. Is there a way to report that to an op here on irc or at ubuntu to protect future people possible attacks? [22:36] In this channel? [22:37] no != Unit193 [22:37] it was on #ubuntu [22:38] Ah, I suppose best place to ask would be #ubuntu-ops [22:39] ah ok, that's a good idea... thanks Unit193 [22:40] You are welcome [23:04] hi, I am trying to kill a PID.. I did ps -ax | grep testdisk 3 process came up and I killed each and everyone of them using kill -9 yet the program is still running! Am I forgetting anything at all? [23:06] Ouch, don't use kill -9 [23:07] oh no? [23:07] somebody told me to do that! [23:07] gosh! I keep doing bad stuff!!!! [23:08] Use kill 1234 2345 to kill the processes with pids 1234 and 2345. The -9 option should "never" be used. [23:08] shit shit shit!!!! [23:09] I keep destroying my data!~~~ [23:09] I like linux but gosh... [23:10] You probably didn't destroy any data [23:10] I hope so... [23:10] I was running photorec's testdisk and there was no button to exit out!!!! [23:10] I hope I didn't make a bigger mistake than I already had [23:11] In the last 3 months I destroyed data over 6 to 7 times.. I'm depressed maybe that's why but gosh.. my memory span is very little [23:11] It's just that kill 1234 tells the process to please terminate, giving the process time to clean up before it exits. kill -9 1234 just plain kills it, possibly leaving temporary files around, configfiles it was writing to may be corrupted etc [23:11] I'm a danger but also unlucky [23:12] ah shit!!!! [23:12] Well! that's my freakin typical luck for you [23:12] I would have been better off to press ctrl z [23:12] to get out [23:12] ubuntu1: Try to keep it family friendly though :) [23:13] I can't say I've seen ps -ax before. I can't be bothered checking the manual about what that actually outputs. The usual options for ps is either ps aux or ps -ef [23:13] htop is a handy ncurses interface too, F3 to search [23:13] no but it's deconcerting! [23:14] htop Unit193 [23:14] But, If you run ps -ef | grep testdisk look at the output and pick out pids of processes you want to kill, and run kill command with those pids, they should disappear [23:15] Well thanks for telling me but it's a little bit too late [23:15] I hope nothing happened... at least! I had checked and the drive hadn't been mounted [23:15] if that makes a difference [23:19] I think I scared him off :(