[00:02] <Gallomimia> i should like to mention this is a software raid
[00:45] <arrith> Gallomimia: i hear you can RAID1 a /boot partition, and when the RAID isn't on it still should function as a boot partition. so you get super redundancy for /boot
[00:46] <arrith> usually okay to get away with it since it's only like 1G
[00:59] <pmatulis> speaking of raid, anyone try using mdadm with fakeraid on trusty?
[04:41] <dyu> I just mounted postgres home(/var/lib/postgresql) with ecryptfs. After rebooting the machine, it is mounted for me automatically, but if I try to do any writes it tells me that it's a read-only filesystem. It's very weird coz mount shows it mounted as read/write. Here's some logs/output: http://pastebin.com/PsqkAv9Y
[06:56] <Gallomimia> still having difficulty installing onto a raid5. do i need to put /boot on a separate partition which is not involved in the raid??
[07:04] <InFierno> Should work fine if you dont
[07:04] <InFierno> what ubuntu server version>
[07:11] <Gallomimia> 14.04
[07:11] <Gallomimia> i intend to install the desktop package since i'm installing on a desktop
[07:11] <Gallomimia> the server installer is superior
[07:14] <Gallomimia> InFierno: it didn't work fine the first time i tried it
[07:14] <Gallomimia> alright so /boot is slice off. i have a raid1 across three slices, and raid5 with the remainder of the three drives. 2gig slice
[07:14] <Gallomimia> how shall i secure it
[07:31] <InFierno> Any particular reason you arent just using raid 10 and be done with it?
[07:32] <InFierno> I stopped using parity a while back - found there was too big a write performance hit
[07:40] <Gallomimia> i only have 3 drives. raid10 won't work out for me
[07:40] <Gallomimia> InFierno: what is the bottle neck in the parity situation?
[07:41] <Gallomimia> i feel my system won't have cpu as a bottleneck but it is likely to have a nb chip bandwidth problem. i want to overclock it and the ram
[07:41] <Gallomimia> unable to install grub in /dev/sda1 why is this every time
[07:42] <InFierno> You take a write performance hit when calculating parity - on my home server write performance went from ~150MB/sec at max to around 70MB/sec with raid 5/6
[07:42] <InFierno> That said my home server is quite "low end"
[07:42] <Gallomimia> mine has a 4ghz octocore
[07:43] <Gallomimia> it should keep the pace
[07:43] <Gallomimia> #grub-installer sda1 sdb1 sdc1
[07:43] <Gallomimia> ls: sda1/proc: not a directory
[07:43] <Gallomimia> why it fail ><
[07:44] <Gallomimia> i need to fix the Use As: in the partitioner. what i set this to?
[07:45] <Gallomimia> should i have them raided? software raid. the grub installer didn't like that
[07:58] <InFierno> I use an SSD as a bootdrive and HDDs in raid for everything else
[07:59] <InFierno> + a hardware raid card
[07:59] <Gallomimia> i was planning to use the ssd's as a dm-cache device
[08:00] <Gallomimia> i suppose i could move the /boot slice to an ssd
[08:00] <Gallomimia> but for some reason always always always mounting /boot in installer fails miserably
[08:01] <Gallomimia> currently the error message says: attempt to mount a filesystem with the type ext2 in scsi2 0 0 0 partition #1 sda at /boot failed
[08:01] <Gallomimia> but why
[08:02] <InFierno> bad sata cable?
[08:03] <Gallomimia> the raid built fine, and it installed the full system on it
[08:05] <Gallomimia> could i really see a bad sata cable this far into the installation?
[08:06] <InFierno> They are reasonably easy to swap so id try it
[08:06] <cfhowlett> Gallomimia THIS ^^^ or even a loose cable could do it.
[08:07] <Gallomimia> well. i guess i shall consider how many sata cables i have to try a different one
[08:07] <Gallomimia> should i see this problem on all 3 disks?
[08:08] <Gallomimia> frack. it won't even react to my asking it to put /boot on a different of the 3
[08:20] <Gallomimia> so annoying.... alright take a breather and try again in a sec
[09:25] <posthuman> i installed samba4 as ad dc .  DNS works fine on my network  but dns-forwarding does not work at all. Can u help here ?
[13:25] <badconduct> Hey
[13:25] <badconduct> I have a debian question
[13:26] <badconduct> I am using Putty to manage a server in my home network, I launched an application and you can see it running in terminal
[13:27] <badconduct> if I close putty, how do I get back to that running window? Is it possible?
[13:27] <lordievader> badconduct: With screen or tmux yes, else not really.
[13:28] <badconduct> Ah, I need an actual terminal application
[13:28] <badconduct> If I close putty, the service will still run though, correct
[13:28] <lordievader> Depends on how it is started.
[13:29] <badconduct> bundle exec rails server -e production -b
[13:29] <badconduct> It's a Snorby server
[13:29] <badconduct> http://wolfer.blog.com/2013/06/28/how-to-installing-snort-and-snorby-on-debian/
[13:32] <lordievader> Is the webpage reachable after you've closed putty? (I think the  -b flag puts it in the background, guess it'll remain running)
[13:39] <badconduct> Yes, if I close Putty it stays open
[13:40] <badconduct> I guess I'm just wondering if it's possible to view the running application terminal again after closing putty, without resetting the program
[13:40] <badconduct> (sorry, total linux newb sauce)
[15:29] <Gallomimia> what the grub?? i dont know what i'm doing here. trying to configure grub to boot a system that has 3 drives in software raid5 as their boot volumes. there is also a dmcrypt and lvm2 involved
[15:57] <CyL> Hi people, any nice tutorial on virtualization using libvirt+kvm (and possibly containers) in 14.04?
[17:33] <resno> im having a weird permission issue with something in an nfs mount.
[17:33] <resno> 3 folders all with equal permissions, and chown to the same user, 2 work 1 doesnt.
[17:51] <resno> so aufs mount permissions dont actually go anywhere when done on the mount itself :)
[17:56] <ddsss_> is there a package to install self-signed ssl certs?
[17:56] <bekks> ddsss_: No - generate your self signed certs and use them.
[17:57] <ddsss_> bekks, ahh - I think they come preinstalled: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
[18:31] <ddsss> joes anyone know why htpasswd authentication doesnt work for radicale caldav|cardav server? Here's the config file: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7394332
[18:31] <ddsss> s/joes/does/
[18:37] <ddsss> hmm. nvm. changing to sha1 from crypt did the trick. not sure why.
[20:16] <posthuman> Hello, is there a free alternative for Microsoft WSUS  based on linux /ubuntu ?
[20:19] <bekks> posthuman: No.
[20:19] <bekks> posthuman: Or do you mean "how can I setup a local ubuntu mirror"?
[20:20] <posthuman> nope thought about nitrobit but  free
[20:20] <DzAirmaX> hi all
[20:20] <DzAirmaX> what happend to motd.tail in 14.04 ? doesn't show up anymore ?
[20:21] <bekks> posthuman: Dont assume anyone knows windows software in here.
[20:24] <posthuman> Nitrobit runs on Linux as well and aims to be a alternative to WSUS. Or did u mean WSUS per se ?
[20:25] <bekks> posthuman: So you are looking for a software that actually replaces WSUS.
[20:25] <bekks> posthuman: I'd just setup WSUS on a Windows server - but thats pretty offtopic in here.
[20:28] <posthuman> yep... installed samba4 as ad dc  and  now im looking for some WSUS replacement. just found that ... guess i will give it a try http://download.wsusoffline.net/
[20:28] <posthuman> thank u bekks
[20:28] <posthuman> :)