[00:22] <sync0pate> is administering your own mail server as much hassle as it seems?
[00:22] <sync0pate> I only really need it for my own personal e-mail
[00:22] <sync0pate> and it's proving to be a pain trying to get anything working.
[00:23] <LinStatSDR> Sometimes, setting up very small services such as that is more of a hassle than just using gmail
[00:24] <sync0pate> I don't like gmail.
[00:24] <sync0pate> I want to use my own domain.
[00:24] <sync0pate> but it is seeming like such a hassle.
[00:25] <sync0pate> I don't understand why setting up a web server (or a million other types of server) is so easy
[00:25] <LinStatSDR> Do you have a static ip or you using dydns
[00:25] <sync0pate> static
[00:25] <LinStatSDR> That's good then.
[00:25] <sync0pate> and yet mail.. which is so ubiquitous
[00:25] <sync0pate> seems impossible
[00:25] <LinStatSDR> I can assure you it is possible. :D
[00:25] <sync0pate> I've just been trying it out on a temporary digitalocean vps at the moment
[00:28] <qman__> running a mail server is kind of a big deal compared to most basic services
[00:28] <qman__> but it's not impossible
[00:28] <LinStatSDR> Have you consulted the "youtube".
[00:29] <qman__> I followed the vmail tutorial linked in the server guide to set mine up, and I put up scrollout F1 in front of it for spam filtering
[00:29] <LinStatSDR> err, "the youtube" rather lol
[00:29] <qman__> make sure you set up your SPF records, and make sure you use a good spam filtering system
[00:30] <qman__> and you won't have too much trouble
[00:31] <qman__> unfortunately I haven't had much luck upgrading my mail server
[00:31] <qman__> it's still running lucid and a release upgrade breaks my mail config
[00:31] <qman__> so I'll probably have to set up a new one
[00:33] <LinStatSDR> :(
[00:34] <qman__> but that's why I have KVM and snapshots
[00:35] <sync0pate> consulted youtube?
[00:35] <sync0pate> for server things?
[00:36] <sync0pate> no, I've not.
[00:36] <sync0pate> I hate video tutorials of this kind of thing.
[00:36] <qman__> I would not consult youtube either
[00:36] <qman__> I would follow the server guide
[00:36] <sync0pate> the server guide?
[00:36] <qman__> yes
[00:37] <qman__> it's in the topic
[00:37] <sync0pate> Yeah.. I'll maybe start again with that tomorrow
[00:37] <sync0pate> give it one last shot
[00:38] <LinStatSDR> Give it more than that, otherwise you would have just wasted the time you've spent thus far.
[00:38] <sync0pate> so better to waste more?
[00:38] <sync0pate> got it.
[00:38] <sync0pate> lol
[00:38] <LinStatSDR> Better than giving up dude.
[00:39] <sync0pate> there are plenty of times when it's better to just give up.
[00:39] <sync0pate> I can't spend too long on it tomorrow
[00:40] <sync0pate> I have actual work to do too
[00:40] <LinStatSDR> Just poke at it every now and then when you have time :D
[00:41] <qman__> the configuration to make it function is not too difficult
[00:41] <qman__> the anti-spam is the hard part
[00:41] <sync0pate> spamassassin?
[00:41] <qman__> which is why I chose to stand up scrollout F1 in front of it
[00:42] <LinStatSDR> I vote exchange server in this case
[00:42]  * LinStatSDR giggles
[08:32] <lordievader> Good morning.
[12:37] <saladim> im getting always Permission denied for my sbuild. i dont seem to be able to get sbuild set up propper
[13:09] <MarkDenz> I got an abuse notification from my hoster (and some org) that a small server of mine answers SSDP requests and I should look that nobody abuses this. I don't have any in depth knowledge about SSDP. Any idea what I could do? Here some info: http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/09/quick-analysis-of-a-ddos-attack-using-ssdp.html
[13:23] <patdk-wk_> MarkDenz, why are you running upnp on a server?
[13:23] <MarkDenz> patdk-wk_: testing services with other VMs
[13:24] <MarkDenz> patdk-wk_: should make it only available internally I guess
[13:24] <patdk-wk_> what does upnp have to do with that?
[13:24] <MarkDenz> testing upnp discovery within the network
[16:20] <ac_slater_> hey guys. I have a lab of machines currently running 12.04 LTS server. Upon boot, /tmp fails to mount and I get a scary option to boot a single-user root shell without a password. This is awful. Any clue what provides this? BUSYBOX=Y in initramfs.conf ?
[16:24] <lordievader> ac_slater_: It's single user mode, you can also boot it by appending the 'single' kernel parameter.
[16:28] <ac_slater_> lordievader: right, I disable this via grub2
[16:29] <ac_slater_> but yes, it can still be done
[16:29] <ac_slater_> I'd just rather not have a prompt for it
[16:29] <lordievader> ac_slater_: A prompt for what?
[16:30] <ac_slater_> lordievader: when /tmp can be mounted... I get 'Press R for root shell' ... or something like that
[16:30] <ac_slater_> maybe, 'Press R for manual recovery'
[16:30] <lordievader> ac_slater_: Is it defined in /etc/fstab?
[16:31] <ac_slater_> yes
[16:31] <ac_slater_> I've fixed the actual issue (which is well documented) ... but I'd just like to disable any prompting for root anything
[16:33] <ac_slater_> whether that is fixing upstart, disabling busybox on boot ,etc
[16:35] <lordievader> ac_slater_: It is not busybox, but I don't know how to disable it. (Apart from setting a root pw, but that ain't Ubuntu policy)
[16:35] <ac_slater_> lordievader: I guess ill mess with /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf and other files to see.
[16:37] <sudormrf> sorry about that
[16:39] <kevindf> Hello, I've set up a OpenVPN server on my Ubuntu 14.04 home server, I can succesfully connect to the server but if my firewall is enabled I cannot get internet access, If I disable my firewall everything works completely fine. I tried adding serveral iptables but none of them worked. Obviously it has something to do with the iptables. Anyone know what i'm doing wrong?
[16:39] <kevindf> I do have iptables-persistent installed
[16:40] <lordievader> kevindf: What what it is dropping.
[16:41] <kevindf> So basically if I connect to the VPN with firewall disabled, my ip changes and everything works fine, but with firewall enabled I don't get a network connection on the machine connected to the vpn
[16:41] <kevindf> basically*
[16:42] <lordievader> kevindf: Checkout what the firewall is dropping...
[16:43] <ac_slater_> I know this might not be appropriate, but I think I'm going to file a bug report for this. The user shouldnt be prompted for single-user mode shell in all cases. This should be configurable... and not by changing the mess that is /etc/init/*
[16:44] <sudormrf> there we go
[16:44] <kevindf> lordievader How can I check that? As i'm fairly new and experimenting with servers
[16:46] <lordievader> ac_slater_: I think it is by design, in this case it ain't a critical mount but suppose /lib would fail I'd like the option to fix the mess.
[16:47] <lordievader> kevindf: Let iptables log the dropped packets and see if it drops openvpn traffic.
[16:51] <ac_slater_> lordievader: it should log and tell you to chroot in and fix
[16:52] <ac_slater_> lordievader: but this isnt a perfect world. Kernel option `splash quiet` hides the prompts
[16:52] <lordievader> ac_slater_: Matter of opinion.
[16:52] <ac_slater_> and when would /lib ever fail? People put that on a seperate FS ?
[16:53] <lordievader> You can...
[16:53] <ac_slater_> I've never seen it
[16:53] <ac_slater_> but yea you're right
[18:03] <sync0pate> OK, so, I have postfix set up and a mailbox working, using Sentora (zpanel) on 14.04
[18:03] <sync0pate> and I want to get a catch-all e-mail working, but nothing seems to work
[18:03] <sync0pate> I'm getting "Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table"
[18:04] <sync0pate> and I've googled that and followed about 5 different sets of instructions to fix it, with no joy.
[18:05] <sync0pate> anyone have any idea what I can try?
[18:18] <avid_fan> sync0pate: I'm not familiar with zpanel, but a quick Google search returned the following: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-setup-postfix-catch-all-email-accounts/
[18:18] <avid_fan> sync0pate: Seems pretty straightforward.
[18:19] <sync0pate> it does, doesn't it avid_fan ..
[18:29] <sync0pate> avid_fan, sorted it
[18:29] <teward> sarnold: if you're around, mind a PM?
[18:30] <sync0pate> following those instructions, but I had to use the entire e-mail instead of just the username
[18:30] <sync0pate> just in case anyone else has the same thing
[18:30] <sarnold> teward: sure
[18:30] <avid_fan> sync0pate: But that seems to work?
[18:31] <sync0pate> seems to
[18:31] <avid_fan> sync0pate: Cool.
[18:31] <sync0pate> with just the username it creates a mail loop (?!)
[18:31] <avid_fan> sync0pate: Good to know.
[18:32] <Pici> 70
[20:53] <Plizzo> Hi there! I recently had a RAID5 crash where two of my disks broke down on the same night, leaving me with a bit of corrupted data. I’ve ran badblocks on all of the disks, which returned nil, but I also have some smart tests, and I am wondering if you could help me interpret them to find the bad disks.
[20:53] <nezZario> Ok folks.. I'm really not all that skilled with ubuntu servers in specific.. I actually thought this was a debian server for a few minutes .. But anywho, something has a serious issue here with dependencies, ... I really have nothing to go on here
[20:53] <bekks> Plizzo: USe smartctl to run the long selftests.
[20:54] <nezZario> http://pastie.org/private/egdrtvg7i8ansa2ek9za <-- Apt will not get past this -- upgrade, update, anything merrily tells me this must be fixed first
[20:54] <Plizzo> bekks: I have, and I have the log files ready.
[20:54] <Plizzo> bekks: Two of them are showing errors, but I just want a second opinion
[20:54] <bekks> If they show errors, they are broken.
[20:54] <bekks> :)
[20:55] <Plizzo> bekks: Alright, but would you mind looking at them, just for the fun of it? :P
[20:55] <bekks> Just pastebin them then.
[20:55] <Plizzo> bekks: /dev/sda: http://paste.ubuntu.com/8808108/
[20:55] <nezZario> I see some mention about forcing installation of older packages but I really don't want to blindly start purging and (trying?) to install packages
[20:55] <Plizzo> bekks: /dev/sdc: http://paste.ubuntu.com/8808123/
[20:55] <bekks> nezZario: Why do you want to do that?
[20:56] <Plizzo> bekks: /dev/sdd: http://paste.ubuntu.com/8808126/
[20:56] <Plizzo> bekks: /dev/sde: http://paste.ubuntu.com/8808128/
[20:56] <nezZario> bekks: that's the closest thing I can find to a "solution" via googling.. some are saying purge X packages, some say install some older packages via dpkg -i
[20:56] <bekks> Plizzo: sdc is dead, sdd is dead, sde is dead, too.
[20:57] <bekks> nezZario: Why are you trying that?
[20:57] <Plizzo> bekks: How would you see that, to me, it only seems that sda and sdd are broken
[20:58] <nezZario> I'm not, I just said that.  Although it does make a small amount of sense, from what I'm interpreting here, it's trying to install a new kernel image and a dependency is newer than what that package is expecting
[20:58] <bekks> Plizzo: Take a look at the "Seek_Error_Rate".
[20:58] <nezZario> As I said previously, I'm really lost otherwise, other than the fact that I can't use apt
[20:59] <Plizzo> bekks: Are those values bad, I’m not really good at judging this.
[20:59] <bekks> nezZario: WHY are yiu thinkting about that? Whats the _actual_ issue behind your questions?
[20:59] <bekks> Plizzo: They indicate a dead drive.
[20:59] <nezZario> bekks: see http://pastie.org/private/egdrtvg7i8ansa2ek9za
[20:59] <sarnold> nezZario: I suggest another apt-get update; it feels like your mirror might have been out of sync when you started
[21:00] <Plizzo> bekks: Alright. This is really hard, because I managed to start my corrupted raid, and the disks are still functioning.
[21:00] <bekks> Plizzo: And "Hardware_ECC_Recovered" with values of 1837712040 indicate thats its even more dead.
[21:01] <nezZario> apt-get update, apt-get -f install yields same error about linux-server dpeending on an older version of linux-image-server
[21:01] <Plizzo> bekks: And all those disks indicate so?
[21:02] <bekks> Plizzo: Even though the drives  are working now, they will gonna die soon. sdc is a bit more alive, the others are dead.
[21:05] <Plizzo> bekks: Alright, thanks for your feedback!
[21:05] <sarnold> nezZario: I -think- the linux-server package in that release is just a pointless metapackage; perhaps it can just be deleted?
[21:05] <bekks> Plizzo: You're welcome :)
[21:05] <sarnold> nezZario: .. dunno if it'll sort your actual issue, but check apt-cache show linux-server and see if it looks useless :)
[21:07] <nezZario> sarnold: that may of worked
[21:09] <sarnold> nezZario: cool; make sure you still have e.g. linux-image-generic  installed, so you will get kernel security updates when they are published
[21:16] <nezZario> yep, that looks like it cleaned it up
[21:16] <nezZario> thanks sarnold :)
[21:17] <sarnold> nezZario: nice