[00:39] <miccheck> hi. i'm trying to ssh into a remote vps server from a mac. i've setup the keys and was unable to ssh in as a given user without always entering my password. i finally got it to work without a password using the following format: ssh -i pathToPrivateKey -p portNumber user@vpsIP. Is this the right and necessary way to do this?
[00:46] <sarnold> miccheck: you ought to be able to use an ssh agent on os x somehow, you could add keys to it via ssh-add -t 3600  (for a key that expires in an hour)
[00:46] <sarnold> miccheck: you can configure things in the ~/.ssh/config file using per-host matches if you wish to e.g. use different keys for different hosts
[00:47] <sarnold> or use different login names for different hosts
[00:47] <miccheck> oh, ok. i'm new to linux, so didn't know that. thanks!
[00:54] <miccheck> another one. if i run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, do i run the risk of taking down my system and causing issues?
[00:56] <sarnold> miccheck: that really should be fine. in ~17 years of using debian and ubuntu I've only once had an upgrade break something "badly"
[00:56] <sarnold> miccheck: we test updates before publishing them, and while mistakes happen, by and large they should be safe.
[00:57] <miccheck> great, thanks! this channel is so useful!
[00:58] <sarnold> :)
[00:58] <miccheck> do you recommend dist-upgrade instead?
[00:58] <sarnold> I use dist-upgrade but that's only because that's what my fingers learned when I used debian unstable daily
[00:58] <sarnold> it shouldn't be necessary to use dist-upgrade for 99% of your upgrade needs but it also shouldn't hurt anything
[01:14] <miccheck> sarnold: thanks again!
[01:15] <sarnold> miccheck: you're welcome ;) have fun
[06:09] <lordievader> Good morning.
[06:27] <fingertips> does ubuntu have a script to reset the FQDN?
[07:25] <fingertips> where is the script?
[08:06] <blackyboy> Hi, My ubuntu production vm got one problem, It's not getting inside my VM username and password are right, Issue was when everr i login its getting kick out from login.
[09:00] <kevindf> If you have the following network address: 192.168.1.0/24 and you need 9 subnets from tesame size (classfull) you would need 192.168.1.0/28 if i'm correct?
[11:41] <liveuser> What DNS server options are there?
[12:00] <andol> liveuser: As in an authoritative dns server or as in a dns resolver?
[12:03] <liveuser> Something that I can use to rename/name sites.
[12:07] <liveuser> /etc/host doesn't work well with these vhost servers.
[12:38] <liveuser> Why does lspci persist in reporting the wrong model for the wireless chip? This happened after loading a non working kernel module driver. Before loading it no model number was reported.Now, after unloading it the wrong model persists to be reported.Is this a sign that wrong firmware was sent to the chip?
[13:00] <liveuser> ApplesInArrays: Why does lspci persist in reporting the wrong model for the wireless chip? This happened after loading a non working kernel module driver. Before loading it no model number was reported.Now, after unloading it the wrong model persists to be reported.Is this a sign that wrong firmware was sent to the chip?
[13:00] <liveuser> eeprom
[13:00] <liveuser> wolf
[13:00] <liveuser> where is daisy
[13:01] <liveuser> daisy
[13:03] <liveuser> whats this cherufe and wolf vostek
[13:03] <liveuser> the wolf on what movie
[13:03] <liveuser> these things watch themselves
[13:04] <liveuser> What is it atreyu
[13:08] <liveuser> andol: do you read?
[13:10] <fingertips> andol: respond
[13:11] <fingertips> andol: you in I know
[13:16] <fingertips> mdeslaur: What is stack smashing?
[13:47] <fingertips> Wrong eeprom
[16:29] <caribou> rbasak: you're the last one that merged libnss-ldap (a while ago)
[16:29] <caribou> rbasak: I've worked on the merge since there is a critical bug tied to it : LP: #1387594
[16:30] <caribou> rbasak: would you by any chance have time to review my merge work & sponsor ?
[16:31] <rbasak> caribou: I can try, but realistically I'm in a sprint in Austin at the moment, am on vacation next week and I have too much to do this week and too little time :(
[16:31] <rbasak> caribou: is it in the sponsrship queue?
[16:32] <rbasak> caribou: I have a topic at the sprint this week about keeping up with this sort of thing. It is a concern to me that I can't do this. I should be able to. Sorry.
[16:39] <caribou> rbasak: yes it is. no worry infinity has already offered to help
[16:40] <caribou> rbasak: but he's on vacation. As long at they don't rebuild the archive we're safe
[16:40] <caribou> rbasak: so no worry; I only thought about the sprint after asking :-)
[17:02] <rbasak> caribou: I've put it on my TODO if I do get to it. The libnss-ldap delta is pretty extensive though and I've never merged it before.
[17:02] <rbasak> In fact I was a bit surprised I have upload rights to it :)
[17:24] <poseidon> Anybody here have hhvm on ubuntu 14.10?
[18:38] <ubuntu-studio> my server's motherboard died. My HDD is good (some corruption, but not anything important) Is anyone available to help walk me through saving my MySQL databases and migrating them to a new install?
[20:28] <johncarp> I've got 2 servers running, 3 PC's and about 5 wireless devices. I also got 2 routers, In order for all the devices to be able to communicate like it would be a single network i should subnet it?
[21:14] <teward> johncarp: you can do that, but that gets tricky if it's standard consumer-grade routers - they don't like multi-subnets.  you'd still need a L2 device to handle the communication across subnets.
[21:14] <teward> (I have a similar setup, but with 8 different LAN segments here at home, and I have a pfSense device acting as the L2 device)
[22:07] <johncarp> teward Oh i see, I will be doing some research :) thanks for letting me know
[22:08] <johncarp> teward i'm using dd-wrt on my second router
[22:55] <kpettit> Can you run PHP and Ruby on Rails on the same server on port 80/443?
[22:56] <kpettit> I want to have one virtualhost that is PHP/WOrdpress then another virtualhost that is Rails
[23:07] <sarnold> kpettit: yes, often times someone will run apache, nginx, or haproxy on port 80/443 for "their website" and it'll reverse proxy to the servers running php or ruby on rails or python or whatever on the system or other computers
[23:12] <kpettit> ok cool.  I'm good with LAMP stuff, but the rails stuff is new too me.  Trying to make sure I can host the customers PHP and Rails stuff like I wanted
[23:53] <ApplesInArrays> I set up this 'crontab -e': "*/1 * * * * /var/www/html/contentCron.php". If I run it in browser ,I can see the change in the database, but after waiting a few minutes, I don't think it's running. How can I diagnose this?
[23:54] <sarnold> ApplesInArrays: does /var/www/html/contentCron.php have the execute bit set? is php set as the interpreter in the #! line?
[23:55] <sarnold> ApplesInArrays: are there any error messages in root's mail?
[23:55] <ApplesInArrays> rw-r--r-- 0644 ok?
[23:55] <sarnold> try 755
[23:56] <ApplesInArrays> Nobody had execute rights according to 644, right?
[23:56] <sarnold> correct
[23:57] <ApplesInArrays> When i visit the site through a browser, why does it run?
[23:57] <ApplesInArrays> apache serves it, but nobody had execute rights. Does apache read/interpret it?
[23:57] <sarnold> because the web server has been configured to send php files through a php interpreter
[23:57] <ApplesInArrays> but crontab -e would be literally executing the php script?
[23:57] <sarnold> probably via mod_php or fastcgi or similar
[23:57] <sarnold> yeah
[23:58] <sarnold> you could also do something like /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/contentCron.php   in the crontab
[23:59] <ApplesInArrays> what you just wrote is the same as me typing 'php /var/www/html/contentCron.php' in terminal, righT?
[23:59] <ApplesInArrays> maybe crontab just doesn't have... 'namespace' like I do in terminal?