[00:01] <TJ-> linuxgeek_: qemu and kvm projects merged; kvm package is just virtual now
[00:02] <linuxgeek_> ah cool TJ-
[00:03] <TJ-> linuxgeek_: kvm only maintained a separate userspace whilst qemu didn't support the Kernel Virtual Machine
[00:03] <hallyn> sarnold: and what version of qemu are you running?
[00:03] <hallyn> rharper: ^ dunno if you're keeping track
[00:04] <hallyn> so on trusty, qrt gives no failures.  build utopic's libvirt on trusty, 1 failure.  built utopic's virtinst, 2 failures.
[00:04] <hallyn> got a few more to track down
[00:06] <sarnold> linuxgeek_: yikes, note 13.10 reached the end of its life in july
[00:07] <Patrickdk> heh? stay on a security updated branch? what? :)
[00:07] <sarnold> hallyn: 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2
[00:08] <hallyn> oh, was hoping you were using one of the bisect kernels
[00:08] <hallyn> uh, qemus
[00:08] <sarnold> hallyn: no, I hadn't done any testing yet :(
[00:09] <hallyn> just being greedy
[00:27] <pixels> When trying to run "sudo apt-get install git-core" I get this error "E: Package 'git-core' has no installation candidate", help, please?
[00:28] <pixels> I'm on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
[00:28] <sarnold> pixels: juju-core is only available in a PPA for 12.04 LTS
[00:28] <pixels> juju-core?
[00:28] <sarnold> sigh
[00:29] <sarnold> pixels: don't mind me, it's obvious I shouldn't be ehind a keyboard any longer
[00:29] <pixels> also add-apt-repository gives me a command not found
[00:30] <sarnold> pixels: try apt-get update && apt-get install git-core  -- perhaps your lists just need refreshing
[00:31] <pixels> getting a ton of Hash Sum mismatch
[00:32] <pixels> and it still doesn't work
[00:32] <sarnold> pixels: which mirror did you get? perhaps it is broken ..
[00:33] <pixels> us.archive.ubuntu.com
[00:34] <sarnold> pixels: try sudo netstat -tnp | grep TIME_WAIT -- perhaps you can find which IP address was used
[00:35] <sarnold> if none look right or if they've moved out, try the apt-get update again
[00:35] <sarnold> pixels: .. and check dmesg to make sure you're not getting hard drive errors. that can happen.
[00:35] <TJ-> pixels: Is your system behind a captive portal?
[00:36] <pixels> sarnold: doesn't show anything
[00:36] <pixels> and i'm using a VM
[00:37] <sarnold> pixels: okay, re-run the apt-get update  and while it's running, check netstat -tnp | grep http
[00:38] <pixels> how would i go about that?
[00:38] <pixels> i'm using a linux host so ctrl-alt-f2 won't work
[00:39] <Patrickdk> heh? what does control-alt-f2 do?
[00:39] <pixels> switches to a different tty
[00:39] <Patrickdk> no
[00:39] <Patrickdk> alt-f2/alt-f3/...
[00:39] <sarnold> pixels: screen or tmux are handy
[00:40] <pixels> Patrickdk: what
[00:40] <pixels> can you be a little more clear
[00:40] <Patrickdk> control is never used to switch tty's
[00:41] <Patrickdk> or really, vty's
[00:41] <pixels> it's what i use
[00:41] <sarnold> the control is only necessary if you're running X, which is usually unlikely on servers :)
[00:42] <pixels> ah i see
[00:44] <pixels> 91.189.91.13 91.189.88.153
[00:46] <sarnold> thanks
[00:46] <pixels> also i figured out where i can get a zip file for the git repo but i'm still willing to troubleshoot
[00:48] <sarnold> pixels: okay, probably the 'best' thing to do is add some new repositorys to your APT configuration, hopefully another mirror will work alright
[00:50]  * Patrickdk wonders
[00:50]  * Patrickdk just found fiberstore
[00:50] <sarnold> pixels: try adding a new file to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/temporary.list   http://paste.ubuntu.com/8254869/
[00:50] <Patrickdk> had the spf+ I needed, and they are a pain to track down
[00:50] <Patrickdk> ordered some cables too, see how they work
[00:52] <sarnold> Patrickdk: heh, cable weight, "kg/km"
[00:53] <Patrickdk> :)
[03:58] <jsonperl> I've had a server thrashing and saw this when "last reboot"
[03:58] <jsonperl> reboot	system boot	3.0.57-rescue-x8	Thu Sept	4 08:43 - 08:43   (00:00)
[03:58] <jsonperl> is that recovery mode?
[05:32] <hallyn> zul: hey, so i pushed one more (trivial apparmor) fix onto the libvirt package and pushed it to ppa:serge-hallyn/virt for a test-run
[05:48] <darklessness> sssss
[07:26] <lordievader> Good morning.
[07:26] <salih-emin> good morning to all
[07:27] <lordievader> Hey salih-emin, how are you?
[07:27] <salih-emin> I should I be ? ITs FRIIIIIDDDAAAAAYYY !!! :P LOLOLO
[07:28] <salih-emin> How*
[09:18] <geoff1000> chaps, I'm having an issue with Rancid, has anyone successfully suffered with it?
[10:06] <DarkStar1> CAn someone help me with vsftpd please. I thought I'd change the  umask so that all uploaded files have group rwx perms (since I can't seem to find any text that says how to change the owner of the file from the ftp user) but it hasn't changed
[10:06] <DarkStar1> all uploaded files still have the 600 perms
[10:07] <DarkStar1> s/rw/rwx
[10:33] <Abhijit> i have 8 disks. sda to sdh. i want 200MB, , 20GB and <remaining_space> these 3 partitions on *each* disk. then i want to create md0 for all eight 200mb partions. mount /boot on md0. then creaet md1 for all eight 20GB partitions. mount / on it. is this the correct recipe for this raid1 setup http://paste.fedoraproject.org/131210/99128401/
[10:45] <psih0man> hello! I have a deployable ubuntu-server 14.04 image for servers and it contains a fstab entry that doesn't exist on all systems (and I used "nofail" as mount option), so upstart prompts me to type S to mark all filesystems as mounted. how do I tell upstart to skip the fstab entry if the device does not exist?
[10:49] <cynicallemon> psih0man: why not just get rid of the rogue entry on the affected server?
[10:50] <psih0man> because I don't ant to
[10:50] <psih0man> because I don't want to
[10:50] <psih0man> I want it skipped
[10:51] <lordievader> psih0man: Give it the option noauto?
[10:51] <psih0man> cynicallemon: it's not just one server and I don't wat to customise the image for each and every case
[10:52] <psih0man> lordievader: on systems that have the device, I want it mounted automatically
[10:52] <cfhowlett> psih0man, sounds legit ...
[10:53] <psih0man> the entry is "LABEL=ext-array1 /ext-array auto nofail 0 2
[10:53] <psih0man> "
[10:53] <psih0man> the entry is "LABEL=ext-array1 /ext-array1 auto nofail 0 2"
[10:53] <cynicallemon> psih0man: why not deploy the image then ssh into the server and delete entry - unless you have a thousand servers that is
[10:54] <psih0man> cynicallemon: and if I have thousends of servers what do I do?
[10:54] <cynicallemon> psih0man: do you?
[10:54] <psih0man> cynicallemon: I do
[10:55] <psih0man> that's why I administer servers not a desktop :)
[10:55] <cynicallemon> then you should be looking at something like puppet maybe
[10:56] <psih0man> cynicallemon: and what should I tell puppet? that I have some servers that need some custom setting? why doesn't upstart honor nofail?
[10:57] <psih0man> it's my decision that it should not fail on error
[10:57] <psih0man> I already use puppet
[10:57] <cynicallemon> psih0man: you should be asking the devs, not me
[10:57] <psih0man> but puppet-ing something looks like a hack around a bug
[11:00] <cynicallemon> well upstart will be making way for systemd before long so you may have to find an alternative way anyway
[11:01] <rbasak> psih0man: I think that upstart can't really tell the difference between the device not existing, and the device not having been hotplugged yet.
[11:01] <rbasak> psih0man: an alternative might be to make it noauto, and to set up a separate upstart job to mount it on "hotplug".
[11:01] <rbasak> This assumes that you don't need it to boot.
[12:58] <theToastIsDone> howdy everyone.. got some rkhunter questions... i just got a coupleof messages that are just oneliners that said the following: "Please inspect this machine, because it may be infected."
[12:59] <theToastIsDone> also, I have tripwire installed on my server.. I've gotten a number of different files added as of late.. I do remember update and upgrading, so that may have something to do with it.. I guess, where do i start when it comes to fixing up all of this?
[13:01] <ivoks> then, inspect it :)
[13:01] <theToastIsDone> do you know where the rkhunter logs are by chance?
[13:05] <cfhowlett> theToastIsDone, you seem to be reading this as "something is brokeded!"  If rkhunter had detected a threat, that alert would have been quite explicit.
[13:05] <theToastIsDone> ah ok, sounds about right, cause there doesn't seem to be any problems
[13:05] <theToastIsDone> i appreciate it
[13:15] <ppetraki> psih0man, you might be able to use autofs. http://linuxconfig.org/automatically-mount-usb-external-drive-with-autofs. when the device is detected it's the same sort of hotplug event as inserting a usb drive
[13:18] <psih0man> ppetraki: that might be a good idea -- thanks
[13:19] <ppetraki> psih0man, udev will devine the fslabel from the udev helpers, just run it in debug mode or whatever to profile the device and adjust the example accordingly
[13:20] <ppetraki> s/devine/divine : drinks turboshot
[13:21] <psih0man> ppetraki: I was thinking of creating an upstart service (which is not a good idea since Ubuntu will be moving to systemd) to mount things at the end of the boot process. over fstab, a script has the advantage of being able to treat errors and conditional execution of mounts (a Turing complete fstab, if you like)
[13:22] <psih0man> ppetraki: but autofs seems to be a ready to use solution
[13:25] <ppetraki> psih0man, yeah autofs is one of those "oh that's there" features that people forget about until you need something slick. Like I'm using it to automount an sshfs on a development node, so it forwards my build sandbox to the node in question automagicaly
[13:25] <ppetraki> psih0man, and it looks like systemd is integrating it, surprise
[13:30] <psih0man> ppetraki: yeah... systemd is integrating everything :) I was reading a lot of flame wars on this topic lately - but I don't have yet a position about the issue. I tend to agree with Lennart. thus, a minimal Linux instalation will consist of only 2 projects: the kernel and systemd. it'll look more like FreeBSD's minimal system where all system essential components are closely bouded together and additional programs are not part of the base system
[13:31] <Vladimir_> Does SSH always have an encrypted session no matter what?
[13:32] <cfhowlett> !ssh
[13:33] <spiderni1> hi all. We're trying to install ubuntu 12.04 via netboot by using the latest HWE netinstall. We receive a kernel modules mismatch error
[13:33] <spiderni1> "No kernel modules were found. This is probably due to a mismatch between the kernel version used by this version of the installer and the kernel version available in the archive"
[13:33] <spiderni1> we have the modules in our repo... do we need to add some special line to the preseed?
[13:35] <ppetraki> Vladimir_, I would assume so
[13:51] <Vladimir_> ppetraki: thanks man
[14:02] <rberg_> and you are 100% sure the kernel and initramfs that tftp is providing is the same version as the modules on the nfsroot?
[14:02] <rberg_> you know NM I didnt see netboot there
[14:08] <weeb1e> Nothing more annoying than a box which ignores CPU power governers
[14:08] <weeb1e> and now I have two such boxes :|
[14:08] <weeb1e> Dell hardware is absolutely terrible
[14:08] <weeb1e> I will never buy anything Dell, as long as I live
[14:09] <psih0man> weeb1e: you can select in its firmware setup "Active power management" or "OS power management" instead if "Maximum performance" which is the default
[14:09] <psih0man> defaults are never good
[14:09] <weeb1e> psih0man: All of those have been tried, nothing can stop the CPU scaling down
[14:10] <weeb1e> No matter what, the CPU scales down to 1.6ghz and screws up my real-time services
[14:10] <psih0man> ah: you mean you want your CPU to always be at full speed
[14:10] <weeb1e> Indeed
[14:10] <psih0man> I was thinking it's the opposite
[14:11] <weeb1e> OS power management + any governor, including userspace with a set frequency for each core, is completely ignored
[14:11] <weeb1e> and the cores continue to scale down to 1.6ghz on both these boxes
[14:11] <weeb1e> Yet all my other boxes work perfectly with a simple performance governor set
[14:11] <psih0man> what happens if you select "maximum performance" in firmware Setup
[14:12] <weeb1e> It continues to scale down
[14:12] <weeb1e> and the bios firmware is the latest
[14:12] <psih0man> weird...
[14:13] <dasjoe> weeb1e: how's the CPU's temp?
[14:13] <LucidGuy> Alright, what do you guys think has gone wrong here, http://paste.ubuntu.com/8259769/
[14:13] <weeb1e> dasjoe: Fine, this is not CPU throttling
[14:13] <weeb1e> I can run cpuburn 8 times, and max out all 8 physical cores, with extra turbo boost speed without any thermal throttling
[14:15] <weeb1e> So the only conclusion is, Dell hard coded their bios firmware to ignore all options and software configuration, and simply scale down no matter what
[14:15] <weeb1e> and I was lucky enough to get two identical boxes which have this issue
[14:17] <dasjoe> weeb1e: try adding "processor.ignore_ppc=1" to your kernel command line, it should make the kernel ignore your BIOS's requests
[14:17] <psih0man> weeb1e: "placebo configuration options": http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/technology-deception-elevator-crosswalk-programming-robots-lie-89669/
[14:17] <dasjoe> You can try it by "echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/ignore_ppc"
[14:18] <weeb1e> I'll try that now
[14:21] <weeb1e> dasjoe: Does not help
[14:23] <weeb1e> I've ever written a custom script to force the kernel to not allow the CPU to enter C states higher than C1
[14:23] <weeb1e> But the scaling still causes a noticable performance hit
[14:27] <weeb1e> Without the ability to stop scaling, these boxes are essentially very expensive 1.6Ghz netbooks
[14:32] <rberg_> weeb1e: have you tried setting the min speed to the max speed? or does it ignore that as well
[14:32] <weeb1e> rberg_: Of course, it ignores every possible option of configuration
[14:33] <pixels> have you tried complaining to dell
[14:35] <weeb1e> The hardware is out of warranty
[14:36] <dasjoe> weeb1e: Could be weird DSDT stuff, I'd try various settings for acpi_os_name or acpi_osi
[14:37] <weeb1e> I have no idea about DSDT, but I will do some research when I get a chance
[14:39] <dasjoe> weeb1e: the arch wiki has some information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DSDT
[14:41] <weeb1e> Compiling a custom kernel for a box I don't have physical access to, would be quite a pain
[14:42] <weeb1e> Due to the infrastructure hosting these two boxes, I cannot get remote hardware access
[14:42] <weeb1e> and of course, this may not end up helping at all anyway
[14:48] <miceiken> This might be an unpopular question, but are there any decent, free, webpanels out there for Ubuntu server administration? That supports popular/large services etc.
[15:29] <LucidGuy> Alright, what do you guys think has gone wrong here, http://paste.ubuntu.com/8259769/
[15:34] <ppetraki> LucidGuy, looks like you're (xfs) getting pushed out by page cleanup
[15:34] <ppetraki> LucidGuy, you didn't do a bunch of fs stuff and then type 'sync' did you?
[15:36] <LucidGuy> ppetraki, I did not.
[15:40] <ppetraki> LucidGuy, looks like memory pressure in one form or another, I'd have to look at what kswapd is doing to give a more informed answer. short answer is competition for free pages == lockup
[15:40] <ppetraki> LucidGuy, buggable, if you can reproduce it
[15:42] <LucidGuy> ppetraki, I can't, this filesystem has been plagued by xfs/nfs instability for years.  Its an NFS server exporting my users home dirs.  I gave up awhile back and picked up a new server with a newer version of the OS, transferred the data, setup nfs etc .. and now this server is unstable. grrrrrrrr
[15:44] <ppetraki> LucidGuy, so you still have the old server around to reproduce the issue with?
[15:45] <LucidGuy> ppetraki, the old is in production doing something else.  I was never able to reproduce the issue
[15:45] <LucidGuy> performed numerous xfs_repairs ..
[15:45] <LucidGuy> so annoying
[15:46] <LucidGuy> shit .. have to run.
[17:07] <weeb1e> Anyone know how I can purge mysql from a system if it still says 'Unable to set password for the MySQL "root" user' when attempting to install it?
[17:09] <weeb1e> I have tried a few times now, and the following is not sufficient to fix this issue: apt-get -f install;  apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient18:amd64 mysql-client-5.5 mysql-client-core-5.5 mysql-common mysql-server-core-5.5; apt-get autoremove; apt-get autoclean; rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
[17:10] <LucidGuy> ppetraki, any other ideas?
[17:11] <ppetraki> LucidGuy, play with your dirty pages ratio http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-kernel-tuning-virtual-memory-subsystem/
[17:12] <ppetraki> LucidGuy, basically keep everything in ram as much as possible
[17:12] <ppetraki> LucidGuy, and I hope you have a RAID with a WB cache because individual drives are going to be stupid wrt caching
[17:13] <weeb1e> I finally found a solution, after so many "solutions" which did not help at all. If anyone ever has that issue, you need to use: echo "exit 0" >> /etc/init.d/mysql; dpkg --configure -a; dpkg --configure -a
[17:19] <weeb1e> Or not, it's still broken
[17:19] <weeb1e> Wow, if I had physical access I would have formatted the box by now
[17:19] <lordievader> weeb1e: What is exactly the problem?
[17:20] <weeb1e> It's a brand new box, which I just started installing base dependencies on, the mysql install failed half way through due to a typo in the repeated password, combined with stdin being piped to /dev/null
[17:21] <weeb1e> Now everytime I try to install mysql, it says 'Unable to set password for the MySQL "root" user'
[17:21] <weeb1e> No matter what I do, I cannot purge the system of whatever is storing the bad state
[17:22] <lordievader> weeb1e: sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server
[17:23] <weeb1e> lordievader: dpkg-reconfigure: mysql-server is broken or not fully installed
[17:24] <teward> weeb1e, sudo apt-get purge mysql-server; sudo apt-get install mysql-server
[17:24] <teward> assuming it's never been cofnigured with data *maybe* purging the cnfigs with the remove would work
[17:24] <weeb1e> teward: Please read up slightly, to where I showed everything I tried to purge
[17:25] <teward> weeb1e, there's nothing for me to read up on, client doesn't have scrollbac
[17:25] <weeb1e>  apt-get -f install;  apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient18:amd64 mysql-client-5.5 mysql-client-core-5.5 mysql-common mysql-server-core-5.5; apt-get autoremove; apt-get autoclean; rm -rf /var/lib/mysql
[17:25] <weeb1e> That is not sufficient to fix this
[17:25] <hallyn> zul: ok so hold back on that libvirt, bc it most definately breaks qrt.
[17:26] <zul> okie dokie
[17:26] <hallyn> could be just a mismatch of bindings to libvirt, still not sure
[17:26] <hallyn> man am i gonna have to bisect?  with libvirt?
[17:27] <lordievader> weeb1e: Still, run what teward said.
[17:27] <teward> weeb1e, or if you really want to mess around with it, use dpkg instead of apt to purge those packages (suggestion based on http://askubuntu.com/questions/253023/unable-to-set-password-for-the-mysql-root-user)
[17:28] <weeb1e> Sorry, I think I forgot "apt-get purge" from that list of commands I tried, I tried that too, and now tried it again, and it definitely does not help
[17:28] <weeb1e> teward: I really don't have a choice but to "mess around with it"
[17:28] <weeb1e> mysql is one of a ton of dependencies I need to install
[17:29] <weeb1e> teward: I have tried 10 different "solutions" to that error
[17:29] <weeb1e> None of which work
[17:29] <weeb1e> I've searched the hard drive for anything with mysql in its name too
[17:29] <weeb1e> I am completely out of ideas here
[17:30] <weeb1e> Like I said, at this point, it would be faster to format and reinstall ubuntu, but I don't have physical access
[17:30] <weeb1e> I can't believe, that of all things, installing mysql is causing an issue
[17:31] <lordievader> weeb1e: Could you pastebin the full output of "sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-core-5.5"?
[17:31] <weeb1e> lordievader: I already pasted it to you
[17:31] <weeb1e> That was it
[17:31] <weeb1e> The full output, there is nothing else
[17:33] <lordievader> weeb1e: Hmm, "sudo apt-get purge mysql-server mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server-core-5.5"
[17:35] <weeb1e> lordievader: I just tried running "apt-get purge" on that full list of mysql-related packages I mentioned above and still no change
[17:36] <lordievader> weeb1e: Compare the list I gave with yours. Mysql-server-5.5 was missing from yours ;)
[17:37] <hallyn> hm, maybe i'ts just this umask buglet
[17:38] <weeb1e> lordievader: Just tried again with that versioned package (which I assume mysql-server resolves to anyway), no change
[17:39] <lordievader> weeb1e: Are they all purged?
[17:40] <weeb1e> `dpkg --get-selections | grep mysql` outputs nothing, so I assume so
[17:42] <lordievader> weeb1e: Ok, navigate to /var/cache/apt/archives, locate mysql-server-core-5.5 and install that using dpkg. And please pastebin the full output.
[17:43] <weeb1e> lordievader: No errors from `dpkg -i mysql-server-core-5.5_5.5.38-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.deb`
[17:43] <weeb1e> lordievader: http://pastebin.com/AtccZNXL
[17:44] <lordievader> weeb1e: Ok, next step do the same for mysql-server-5.5
[17:46] <weeb1e> lordievader: mysql-server-5.5 pre-depends on mysql-common
[17:46] <lordievader> weeb1e: Install that one first then.
[17:48] <weeb1e> lordievader: Same password error, console output: http://pastebin.com/3uLd4E9f
[17:49] <lordievader> weeb1e: Where do you see a password error? I see that mysql-client-5.5 is not installed: sudo apt-get install -f
[17:50] <weeb1e> lordievader: On the ncurses mysql installer UI
[17:50] <lordievader> weeb1e: You do get the option of setting a password?
[17:51] <weeb1e> Yes, after the second repeated entry of the password, it goes back to console for a split second and then returns to the mysql installer screen with the error message
[17:51] <weeb1e> Unable to set password for the MySQL "root" user
[17:54] <lordievader> weeb1e: So you enter the password twice?
[17:54] <weeb1e> Yes
[17:55] <lordievader> weeb1e: Does the mysql error log state anything?
[17:59] <Elia> hi
[17:59] <weeb1e> lordievader: http://pastebin.com/GmwmQPRg
[18:00] <IanMalcolm> hey guys, is the spamassassin corpus (https://spamassassin.apache.org/publiccorpus/) the best corpus to train my dspam?
[18:01] <IanMalcolm> I'm also looking for ham / spam corpus in Portuguese. Is there such a thing?
[18:01] <lordievader> weeb1e: As I figured you have the same error "Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_5e7d_0.MYI'"
[18:02] <lordievader> weeb1e: See the answer of green7: http://askubuntu.com/questions/253023/unable-to-set-password-for-the-mysql-root-user
[18:03] <weeb1e> lordievader: I tried that hours ago, but let me give it another go, in case I missed something
[18:04] <weeb1e> Oh wait, green7, I missed that answer completely
[18:06] <weeb1e> lordievader: That does indeed seem to have solved it, even if I looked at the mysql log sooner, I would never have imagined that /tmp's permissions were messed up
[18:06] <weeb1e> I'd love to know what they did to this clean install, before handing the box over to me :(
[18:47] <streulma> this is the second time I setup a 14.04 server at hosting provider from self build image.
[18:47] <streulma> 20gb / 79GB /srv 1gb swap /usr mounted on /srv/usr and var also
[18:49] <streulma> there is a script while backing up that removes all tars zips and gzs
[18:56] <Pici> streulma: is there a question in there?
[18:56] <streulma> no just to let you know
[18:56] <streulma> or
[18:56] <streulma> yes
[18:56] <streulma> how can avoid this that tars and zips are removed ?
[18:56] <streulma> all data is on srv
[18:56] <streulma> so backed up to home :)
[18:56] <ikonia> ??
[18:57] <streulma> what ikonia ?
[18:57] <ikonia> I don't understand what your question is
[19:02] <Pici> Stop doing whatever you are doing that is removing the tars and zips.
[21:49] <miceiken> How do I remove password of a user, and make sure they can't be used remotely?
[22:10] <TJ-> miceiken: "man passwd" see "--delete"
[23:24] <bananapie> I have a variable A that contains the value 'COUNT', I want to set the variable $COUNT to 5. I tried $$A=5, but it doesn't work.
[23:24] <bananapie> Can I do this ?
[23:25] <sarnold> bananapie: it depends upon the language you're using
[23:25] <bananapie> bash*
[23:25] <sarnold> bananapie: and that sounds like a terrifying thing to do :)
[23:26] <sarnold> bananapie: try ${${A}}=5
[23:26] <bananapie> I am writing a link monitoring script, and I want to use bash functions. I can't pass variables by reference
[23:26] <bananapie> it's telling me that it's bad substition
[23:27] <sarnold> bananapie: try: B=${A} ; ${B}=5 ?
[23:29] <bananapie> yea, I tried that. Trouble is, it tries to execute the value of ${B}.
[23:30] <bananapie> If there is no obvious way to do it, I am probably doing this wrong, so I'll try something else.
[23:30] <bananapie> tahnks
[23:33] <bananapie> ok, I have to use eval :(