[00:00] <CyborgCygnus> On 14.04.3 how do I change the software sources mirror to an Australian one? Surely there's a way to view the available mirrors from the terminal & then set it?
[00:02] <teward> CyborgCygnus: /etc/apt/sources.list
[00:02] <teward> edit the URLs in there to point to an Australian mirror
[00:08] <CyborgCygnus> teward, okay kind of helps, not sure how to add the one I want however :S
[00:09] <teward> do you know which one you want?
[00:09] <teward> (the problem is there's several official mirrors but then many unofficial ones)
[00:09] <teward> and I suck with country codes so I couldn't begin to fathom the mirror you should use for Australia
[00:10] <teward> (in theory, http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ may work)
[00:11] <teward> CyborgCygnus: unfortunately, as far as I know, there's no way to just 'select' mirrors unfortunately, via the terminal...
[00:12] <CyborgCygnus> teward, yeah would be nice to see a list but I guess tough for me. http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/trusty/, hand tryping that in multiple times is a pain
[00:12] <teward> CyborgCygnus: sed is your friend ;)
[00:12] <teward> (IMO)
[00:12] <CyborgCygnus> teward, what's sed lol?
[00:13] <teward> !sed
[00:13] <teward> bah
[00:13] <teward> you evil ubottu
[00:13] <teward> lets you find/replace items easier :P
[00:14] <CyborgCygnus> teward, oookaay, I'll look on that link & see what it tells me, thanks
[00:14] <teward> CyborgCygnus: ignore it, the problem is that sed is hard to explain from my perspective
[00:14] <teward> given i'm also realllly tired :/
[00:15] <CyborgCygnus> teward, go to bed mate
[00:16] <teward> about to
[00:16] <teward> after i finish uploading some packages to a personal debian repository server :P
[00:16] <CyborgCygnus> teward, you're so cheeky
[05:24] <jvwjgames> Hi again
[05:25] <jvwjgames> My internet on my Server went down again >:(
[05:25] <tonyyarusso> You should be more careful if you're hosting the entire Internet on your server.
[06:52] <arooni> is leaving password auth over on a stupid idea ?  or an ok idea?  i know obviously removing password logins over ssh is better than not doing it.
[06:53] <arooni> over ssh i mean
[06:54] <andol> arooni: The short answer is (obviously) that it depends. As everything related to security it's a tradeoff, depends on whatever meassures you have in place, etc.
[06:54] <arooni> my ssh port isnt standard and i have fail2ban and a ufw firewall... but my password isnt very strong
[06:54] <arooni> i cant see why id want to allow password ssh logins
[06:55] <arooni> and obviously no root login
[06:55] <andol> arooni: If you can't see why you would want it, then you don't need it, and then you should obviosly remove the ability to ssh-login by way of password.
[06:55] <arooni> i usually connect from the same machines
[06:56] <arooni> or if i need to connect from a different one; i can always drop a ssh key in auth'd keys
[06:56] <arooni> if it becomes annoying; i can always loosen up security;  better to be safe than sorry
[06:56] <andol> The tradeoffs becomes more complicated in a larger multiuser environment, if you haven't gotten around to a good method of keeping ssh keys in sync, etc.
[06:56] <arooni> i'm just a solo developer right now
[06:57] <arooni> so its not an issue;  if one of my apps/products takes off it'll be a nice problem to have
[06:57] <andol> Yeah, then it's an easy choice, just disable password auth.
[06:57] <arooni> ok i will thanks
[06:57] <arooni> also; ive enabled unattended security updates... does it make sense to have ubuntu do regular software updates unattended as well?
[07:00] <andol> arooni: Again, it's a tradeoff. It saves you a bit of work, while potentially increasing the risk of automatic upgrades a bit.
[07:00] <andol> You could really go either way on that one.
[07:02] <arooni> i just always forget to do it
[07:03] <andol> arooni: One decided factor could be whatever you have any extra repository/ppas added. The regular Ubuntu repositories are fairly stable, where also the non-security upgrades being fairly conservative. If you on the other hand have a bunch of 3rd party repositoies added they might be intorducing larger chages, and hence increasing the risk.
[14:27] <m1dnight> Hello guys. I have just installed ubuntu server 14 and Im having locale issues. I have googled a lot and found a lot of solutions but as usual im unsure if all these solutions are "good" (i.e., not hacks)
[14:27] <m1dnight> Let me show you the error and what I have done so far. sec.
[14:28] <m1dnight> http://pastebin.com/QmGywE0D
[14:28] <m1dnight> This is the error.
[14:28] <m1dnight> http://pastebin.com/Z8LWHU3i That is the output of `locale`
[14:30] <m1dnight> and wat I have done so far is `sudo locale-gen "en_US.UTF-8"` followed by `dpkg-reconfigure locales`
[14:30] <m1dnight> what am I missing here?
[14:35] <virtuaposta> m1dnight, sudo update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
[14:35] <virtuaposta> see if that helps
[14:35] <m1dnight> hmm still the same error.
[14:35] <m1dnight> I know I fixed it before :<
[14:36] <m1dnight> (on a different installation, that is)
[14:36] <m1dnight> is it okay to modify the /etc/default/locale?
[14:36] <m1dnight> Those solutions seem like hacks because Im unsure if its "the way to do it"
[14:36] <virtuaposta> backup and modify
[14:39] <m1dnight> oh it seems to be fixed
[14:39] <m1dnight> I did a reboot (which would be a login, I guesS)
[14:39] <m1dnight> now the question is, what did I do :p
[14:40] <virtuaposta> if locale is edited then for sure that fixed it.. otherwise good to think about :)
[15:36] <xubuntu20w> hello, server lost network connectivity after update. Intranet and internet. Looked at network configuration and everything is set up as it should be. Has anyone encountered this problem or have a clue how to solve this? Thank You.
[15:42] <dork> maybe, ask your question i'm sure someone can help
[15:42] <dork> woops, wrong channel
[15:43] <dork> xubuntu20w: can you ping any other endpoints?
[15:43] <dork> network interfaces showing they're bound to the right ip/subnet?
[15:50] <xubuntu20w> dork: guy who set up server made one entry, from provider modem, and one exit point, to switch. Both are correctly configured yet not even intranet is working. Dhcp is correctly assigning everything
[15:51] <xubuntu20w> i can ping every assigned ip addresses
[15:54] <xubuntu20w> dork: also, switch is not an issue because telephony works just fine, one that is connected through swithc
[15:55] <dork> is the ubuntu server the router too?
[15:55] <dork> router/dhcp server?
[15:56] <dork> ping the router make sure you can talk to whatever is routing for the local/public intefaces
[15:56] <xubuntu20w> really dont know, it may be. It has autoassign turned on in network config
[15:57] <xubuntu20w> will try jsec
[15:57] <dork> type route -n
[15:57] <dork> find the route that say 0.0.0.0
[15:57] <dork> ping the gateway for that
[15:57] <dork> it's called the default route
[15:57] <dork> make sure you can talk to the router
[16:01] <xubuntu20w> dork: pinged incoming ip address with no loss
[16:02] <dork> can you ping other local hosts like printers/workstations
[16:02] <dork> stuff on the intranet
[16:02] <dork> can you ping 8.8.8.8
[16:03] <dork> ?
[16:06] <xubuntu20w> dork: tried route -n and 169.254.x.x address too is there which is unreachable. 8.8.8.8 is also unreachable
[16:07] <dork> sounds like you can not talk to the router
[16:07] <dork> maybe old network information?
[16:07] <dork> it happened after the reboot?
[16:07] <xubuntu20w> yes immediately after updates. It was working fine up to that point
[16:08] <dork> vpn missing?
[16:08] <xubuntu20w> As far as I know, no vpns were set up.
[16:09] <dork> if you can not ping the default gateway you can't route packets
[16:09] <dork> unless it's a direct route
[16:09] <xubuntu20w> Wait. I did have to use vpn to connect to server remotely
[16:09] <dork> vpn or sshd?
[16:10] <xubuntu20w> openvpn to be precise
[16:10] <dork> intranet might require vpn client
[16:10] <dork> to be started
[16:10] <xubuntu20w> locally it worked without vpn, just when i had to connect from home
[16:49] <m1dnight_> Guys, I have some samba server log cruft upon login (sometimes). Aain, I know I fixed it before by disabling some auth method in a purple terminal window but im unsure what it was again.
[16:50] <m1dnight_> http://pastebin.com/MdnU2GUb
[16:50] <m1dnight_> This is the output i see when I log in
[16:50] <m1dnight_> something about libpam or such? I had to uncheck one thing that would make it go away.
[16:54] <m1dnight_> Hmm, to be more exact, its when I change to root user.
[18:35] <m1dnight_> hmmm anyone about the samba thing? I got d/cd
[20:23] <xubuntu98w> Hi, last update messed up my network configuration. DHCP assignation doesnt work as it should and entire network intra and inter not working as consequence. Has someone had this problem or know how to handle this, untangle serves as dhcp server
[20:53] <lordievader> xubuntu98w: Set a static ip then fix your dhcp issues.
[20:56] <xubuntu98w> lordievader: where do set static ip?
[20:57] <lordievader> xubuntu98w: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/network-configuration.html#ip-addressing
[20:57] <TJ-> What the heck is untangle? I don't see it in the package list
[21:00] <xubuntu98w> TJ: firewall
[21:01] <lordievader> Firewalls do DHCP nowadays?
[21:02] <lordievader> xubuntu98w: This thing http://www.untangle.com/untangle-ng-firewall/appliances/ ?
[21:02] <xubuntu98w> lordievader: will this work, found it as answer on forum interface should be changed to this: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static     post-up ethtool -s $IFACE speed 100 duplex full autoneg off     address x.x.x.x #Internal IP     netmask 255.255.255.0     gateway x.x.x.y #Gateway IP     dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 #Google DNS
[21:02] <TJ-> xubuntu98w: First thing to do is consult the syslog to discover *why* DHCP client isn't obtaining a lease
[21:03] <lordievader> ^ is likely a better idea, yeah.
[21:11] <xubuntu98w> tj- & lordievader: lots of unmanaged devices in the syslog
[21:12] <xubuntu98w> hey are forced into connected state
[21:12] <xubuntu98w> they
[21:18] <TJ-> Well that made absolutely zero sense!