[00:00] <pleia2> 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] <benonsoftware> Ok
[00:01] <pleia2> so determine where wordpress needs to write to, then "chgrp -R www-data directory/" and "chmod g+w directory"
[00:01] <pleia2> well "chmod -R g+w directory/"
[00:01] <benonsoftware> Thank you pleia2
[00:02] <pleia2> 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] <pleia2> 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] <benonsoftware> Ok :P
[00:41] <benonsoftware> Wordpress is asking me for my FTP details, is there a step-by-step guide on setting up a FTP server
[01:11] <jalcine> What's the format of videos that are typically television episodes?
[01:11] <jalcine> mkv? avi? mp4?
[01:11] <jalcine> Dare I say ogv? :P
[01:24] <philipballew> avi
[01:46] <Culiforge> 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] <jalcine> philipballew: Well, I want to keep the meta-data in a nice, fancy fashion. Something like Windows Media Center, you know?
[01:50] <jalcine> I've noticed there isn't such a setup for Ubuntu, perhaps to due to its friendliness with encrypted, DRM-protected discs.
[07:43] <JCZING> 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] <benonsoftware> JCZING: I'm not sure how to do it but maybe a cronjob?
[09:55] <coalwater> benonsoftware: @restart for crontab, but he's gone lol
[09:56] <benonsoftware> :P
[15:52] <s-fox> Hello.
[15:53] <hobgoblin> o/
[16:47] <coalwater> hobgoblin: \o lol
[16:47] <coalwater> woops wrong channel lol
[22:24] <voidmain_> Is there a way to find out from the terminal whether a partition is mounted or now?
[22:25] <Unit193> Type   mount
[22:25] <geirha> I usually run  df -h  for that
[22:26] <voidmain_> Unit193: mount tells a bunch of things but I don't know what it says
[22:26] <Unit193> That basically works too
[22:27] <voidmain_> geirha: I never realized df -h did that... ! mmmm ok
[22:34] <voidmain_> ok thank you Unit193 and geirha
[22:34] <Unit193> Sure, have a nice evening!
[22:34] <voidmain_> you too...
[22:35] <voidmain_> 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] <Unit193> In this channel?
[22:37] <voidmain_> no != Unit193
[22:37] <voidmain_> it was on #ubuntu
[22:38] <Unit193> Ah, I suppose best place to ask would be #ubuntu-ops
[22:39] <voidmain_> ah ok, that's a good idea... thanks Unit193
[22:40] <Unit193> You are welcome
[23:04] <ubuntu1> 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] <geirha> Ouch, don't use kill -9
[23:07] <ubuntu1> oh no?
[23:07] <ubuntu1> somebody told me to do that!
[23:07] <ubuntu1> gosh! I keep doing bad stuff!!!!
[23:08] <geirha> Use  kill 1234 2345   to kill the processes with pids 1234 and 2345. The -9 option should "never" be used.
[23:08] <ubuntu1> shit shit shit!!!!
[23:09] <ubuntu1> I keep destroying my data!~~~
[23:09] <ubuntu1> I like linux but gosh...
[23:10] <geirha> You probably didn't destroy any data
[23:10] <ubuntu1> I hope so...
[23:10] <ubuntu1> I was running photorec's testdisk and there was no button to exit out!!!!
[23:10] <ubuntu1> I hope I didn't make a bigger mistake than I already had
[23:11] <ubuntu1> 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] <geirha> 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] <ubuntu1> I'm a danger but also unlucky
[23:12] <ubuntu1> ah shit!!!!
[23:12] <ubuntu1> Well! that's my freakin typical luck for you
[23:12] <ubuntu1> I would have been better off to press ctrl z
[23:12] <ubuntu1> to get out
[23:12] <Unit193> ubuntu1: Try to keep it family friendly though :)
[23:13] <geirha> 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] <Unit193> htop is a handy ncurses interface too, F3 to search
[23:13] <ubuntu1> no but it's deconcerting!
[23:14] <ubuntu1> htop Unit193
[23:14] <geirha> 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] <ubuntu1> Well thanks for telling me but it's a little bit too late
[23:15] <ubuntu1> I hope nothing happened... at least! I had checked and the drive hadn't been mounted
[23:15] <ubuntu1> if that makes  a difference
[23:19] <geirha> I think I scared him off :(