Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a cloud-based computing platform.
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juju: deploying lamp charm on ec2 causes instances to terminate
I was running a ubuntu 13.04 instance on ec2. I have juju .7 installed and bootstrapped. when I tried to deploy lamp, it caused the instance to terminate.
ubuntu@ip-10-62-73-113:~$ juju status
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Tool to fire up EC2 instance and SSH in?
It's a fairly common thing that I want to fire up a clean EC2 instance of a particular version of Ubuntu (usually lucid or precise) and then SSH in to that instance once it's up.
I've got some Python ...
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Problem with squid on EC2
I created an instance from the canonical AMI that have ubuntu server 12.04 64bit and install squid.
The only changed to the /etc/squid3/squid.conf file was:
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
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what can be causing /etc/cron.daily/apt to hang?
Lately I've been getting a mail from the server every day,
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Cron <root@host> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
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Unable to connect FileZilla to ubuntu ec2
I have a micro ubuntu instance on ec2. I have done a passwd to set it to simple password. I have installed vsftpd on the ec2 instance. And imported the ec2 pem file via FileZilla-Settings-SFTP, and ...
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Permission denied creating file on Ubuntu Server (Amazon EC2 instance)
sudo has been working fine for installing applications and running scripts, but when I try and create a file I am getting a "Permission Denied". I have tried:
sudo cat > file.conf
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sudo echo ...
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Mail Server: system requirements
I want to create a mail server for personal use. It will be used mainly by me and possibly some family members.
The system load will be in the order of 5-10 IMAP mailboxes, all for "human" use: no ...
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How can I tell if port 465 is open for outbound traffic?
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 server set up on AWS EC2. I'm trying to configure Railo to use Simple Email Service (SES) via an SMTP call (see "Sending Email with the new SMTP Support for Amazon SES" for ...
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Any Ideas on a Better Browser Enabled Cloud Desktop using Ubuntu 12.04, Gnome and Amazon Web Services?
I am currently using NoMachine's NX Web Companion free product using java as well as FreeNX to access a Gnome GUI Ubuntu 12.04 instance running on Amazon Web Services Free Tier ec2.
What I have ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 failed mysql installation
I have deployed Ubuntu 12.04 on the Amazon Cloud and I am trying to install Nagios and Nconf, while following this guide. When I install the prerequisites, I get this error on installing mysql:
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Connections to ubuntu server running on EC2
I have a ubuntu EC2 with its default settings. I'm using it for a web application that receives request from iPhone apps. I was trying to do a stress test to see how many connections could be handled ...
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When uninstalling all GRUB packages for EC2 AMI build script, how do I bypass prompting?
When I try to uninstall all GRUB packages from the cloud-image version of Ubuntu I use in AWS EC2, I get an interactive prompt. I need put this all in a script under automation, so prompts need to be ...
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SSH to a server and clone from git repo on ec2 instance
I'm trying to ssh to a folder in server and clone directly from a Git repo setup on an amazon ec2 instance. When i execute the commands
below, it shows the code is being cloned on the server but when ...
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getting the latest hadoop image from ec2
When I run:
ec2-describe-images -x all | grep hadoop-images
AWS returns a cool list of hadoop images that I can use.
I am running Hadoop 1.0.4 (the latest stable release).
How do I know which ...
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where are the ec2 / aws variables in hadoop?
I am reading a book that has a tutorial on how to setup hadoop on linux, and it says:
You must configure the single initialization script at
src/contrib/ec2/bin/hadoopec2-env.sh. Inside that ...
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How can I monitor cloud-init for errors, and trigger a script when it fails?
I'm using cloud-init to provision servers in AWS, and would like my servers to send an email when they're done (whether they fail or succeed). For successful cloud-init runs, the solution is trivial. ...
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connecting to mysql running on amazon ec2
hi I am trying to connect mysql server running on amazon linux instance but did not succeeded yet .
Scenario : i installed mysql server in amazon's ec2 instance . then I made following changes in ...
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Grub fails to update, apt ignores hold on package
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
It's also an EC2 Instance
$ apt-mark showhold
grub-pc
Today I've ran apt-get upgrade and ...
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How to troubleshoot a non-booting EC2 Ubuntu instance?
After upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10, my EC2 Ubuntu instance won't boot. here is the system log:
Fri Oct 26 17:05:57 UTC 2012: shutting down for reboot [up 18892807s].
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Why do I have to run aptitude update twice to install Ruby?
Summary. I have a fresh EC2 Precise 64-bit instance (ami-82fa58eb). After launching the instance, I want to install ruby1.9.1 (among others).
This doesn't work:
aptitude update &&
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How to reinstall mysql without damaging data?
http://stuffthatspins.com/2011/01/08/ubuntu-10-x-completely-remove-and-clean-mysql-installation/ shows how to reinstall everything.
I want to do something like this without reinstalling data.
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How to place my audit file in Amazon S3?
I have installed and configured the auditd package in Amazon Ec2 instance. I wish I need to place all the auditd log files in Amazon S3.
I'm very new to Ubuntu can anyone explain me how to do it?
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Amazon EC2 Server Refused our key
I am getting the error message when logging into an Ubuntu instance on EC2.
I have read the other posts and have done the following
Copied the existing authorized_keys file from the ubuntu user to ...
