[00:36] <drab> anybody has a working installation of influxdb + snmp reporting from switches on an ubuntu server? does it work?
[00:37] <drab> I've seen some howtos here and there but nothing entirely coherent and I'm wondering if there are any specific gotchas I should be aware of
[05:27] <dpb1> drab: for the influxdb piece, yes: https://jujucharms.com/influxdb/4 it works well -- for feeding snmp data into it, I haven't used it for that, but that would be just an application of it, my google search would be as good as yours.
[08:41] <Tobias92> The recent update of Postfix to version 3.1.0-3 (last Wednesday) removed /usr/lib/postfix/dict_tcp.so. This is not documented in the changelog, and my mailserver needs this module to interact with postsrsd. Are TCP maps now built in? I don't want to risk outage by restarting the daemon... (I was redirected here from #ubuntu)
[08:44] <rbasak> Tobias92: which package version exactly? 3.1.0-3 was published in the Trusty release pocket on 2016-04-13, so there's no recent update there.
[08:45] <Tobias92> rbasak, 3.1.0-3ubuntu0.1 according to apt-cache policy
[08:45] <rbasak> There have been other updates, which is why you need to tell us the exact version
[08:45] <rbasak> OK
[08:48] <rbasak> Tobias92: it looks like dict_tcp.so shipped in the postfix in Trusty, but has never shipped in the postfix in Xenial AFAICT.
[08:49] <Tobias92> Ah, I see, so the one I had must have been left over.
[08:49] <rbasak> So it seems to me that nothing has changed around this in the update. If you had it before, perhaps it wasn't from that package.
[08:49] <Tobias92> The reason I noticed the change is that the reference disappeared from /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
[08:50] <Tobias92> This is strange, though, because Xenial includes postsrsd, which relies on this particular functionality of postfix.
[08:51] <rbasak> I don't know anything about this particular lookup type, sorry. If you conclude that there's a bug, please file one and let me know and I'll look into it.
[08:51] <Tobias92> I'll investigate some more first; thanks!
[11:54] <Tobias92> rbasak, turned out this looup was integrated into libpostfix-utils, so there was no cause for concern :)
[13:10] <DVA5912> Is there a new way of using network interfaces with ubuntu now? Im used to the old 14 style. Where i could just add it into the /etc/network/interfaces config file and it would bring up. However doing that now seems to break already existing interfaces.
[13:11] <tomreyn> for several releases, there has been network-manager in addition to the classic configuration via /etc/network/interfaces. netwokr-manager won't handle NICs if there is /etc/network/interfaces
[13:12] <tomreyn> also, NIC naming have changed in current releases
[13:12] <DVA5912> tomreyn: Saw that! :), Ok so network-manager is with this - now i know where to look. Thanks!
[13:13] <tomreyn> welcome :)
[13:20] <DVA5912> Server 17.04... That doesnt use the network-manager service does it? Everything im reading is all saying to set the connection configuration in the /etc/network/interfaces file. I did that before and it killed the prior established connection
[13:21] <DVA5912> Is it using network-manager GUI versions? That i cant access because im using console?
[13:22] <DVA5912> btw - im refferencing: https://www.linuxhint.com/change-from-dhcp-to-static-ip-address-ubuntu/
[13:24] <tomreyn> DVA5912: there are nmcli and some text graphics based UI for network manager
[13:25] <tomreyn> nmtui
[13:25] <tomreyn> DVA5912: i do not know for sure whether 17.04 server uses network manager by default, but i would assume it does.
[13:25] <tomreyn> i only use LTS releases on servers do i'm not into this one.
[13:26] <tomreyn> s/ do / so /
[13:28] <teward> greetings Server peoples.
[13:28] <DVA5912> Luckly - this isnt production :) Taking my time to learn this before i push it out. Looks like it doesnt use Network-Manager, its not even installed. So i dont know whats allowing it to set a network connection.
[13:29] <teward> rbasak: dpb1: powersj: and others who care: 18.04 is destined to be LTS right?  If that's the case, would any of you mind if I jumped to NGINX Mainline with intentions to bump it back to Stable come April?
[13:29] <teward> like we did for the 16.04 cycle
[13:30] <DVA5912> I think the best thing for me right now tomreyn is to define a whole interfaces file. That way i can feel like i have a little control left :)
[13:35] <tomreyn> DVA5912: so "nmcli" (command, package) is not installed? or is it?
[13:35] <tomreyn> if installed, run "nmcli c" and "nmcli n"
[13:41] <tomreyn> but the static configuration via /etc/network/interfaces is, of course, an option
[13:41] <tomreyn> i'll bbl
[14:21] <drab> thanks dpb1
[14:21] <drab> dpb1: any chance you looked at ELK too for time series? I'm probably going to need ELK fro logs and would love to avoid having to run both
[14:22] <drab> but everything I read says ELK doesn't really fit the timeseries nature of many metrics
[14:22] <drab> despite the new timelion interface
[14:22] <drab> so influx is still the right thing to go with
[19:26] <arunpyasi> Hello everyone, I am having an issue ! I have a disk mounted and running and i have vsftpd running as ftp. Here, I have the link of the HDD under the folder where the ftp home is, when I try to login ftp, I get stuck at Retrieving directory listing.... How do I fix it ?
[19:50] <arunpyasi> Hello !
[19:50] <arunpyasi> anyone around ?
[21:02] <drab> arunpyasi: have you checked the logs? /var/log/syslog
[21:03] <drab> also vsftpd has its own auth iirc, haven't used ftp in like decades... any reason you can't use ssh and sftp?
[21:03] <drab> other than for nostalgia sake and reviving the 80s, there seems to be no reason today to run ftp
[21:04] <drab> but I like retro so you know...
[21:34] <arunpyasi> drab, I found that when I turn off nginx, I get to make sftp and ftp working... Yeah, ssh is working fine but not sftp.
[21:34] <arunpyasi> drab, so, can it be cause its using Disk I/O intensely that the ftp/sftp didn't get chance to work ?
[21:53] <drab> arunpyasi: seems unlikely, should only be taking long[er], but it may be hitting a timeout, altho then you should see an error, not just hanging
[21:53] <drab> I don't understand the comment about sftp
[22:03] <arunpyasi> drab, yes but it also hangs for sftp
[22:06] <drab> look at top, you should see a process maybe in D state, waiting for I/O
[22:06] <drab> or just look at top at the wa%