Amazon Web Services (aws)
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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 do I configure matplotlib to work on EC2?
We are trying to set up a virtual development / research cloud environment for our students. Students need to be able to log-in, launch python IDE, and plot some graphs for their homework.
We are ...
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How to add Landscape monitoring to machine 0 in juju
The Juju Landscape charm supports adding relations to services, but there is no visible service in machine 0 to add a relation to. How to add it to Landscape then?
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What is skew value in Mongo DB Database replication?
I have just started the three MongoDB replica servers.
I do not understand what is this screw value what it should be on which server?
Which values should I monitor
I have taken 2 screenshots ...
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Install LAMP and Zend Framework on Server Version (EC2)
Does anyone have a good step-by-step guide to setting up a server version of Ubuntu as a LAMP server? Preferably with Zend Framework installed?
I have been working on a local workstation with the ...
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mysql show databases not showing databases that are in /opt/bitnami/mysql/data directory
and thank you for taking the time to look at my question.
I have an ebs-backed ec2 ubuntu server which is running but unreachable.
** There are very stupidly no recent backups **
I made a snapshot ...
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How can I use an existing S3 bucket in Backup?
I have an existing Amazon S3 bucket in the Oregon region. How can I use it as the backup location in Backup?
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I've enabled the Amazon S3 backup location, but I don't see a way to specify ...
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Can I use Amazon Glacier as the backup location?
Amazon Glacier storage is attractively inexpensive. Is there a way to make Backup use it as the backup location?
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iostat shows disk at 100% usage - how to fix?
Scenario: Mongo 2.2 running on Ubuntu 10.10 on Amazon EC2. The Mongo DB files are on an Amazon EBS volume mounted as follows:
/dev/sdg /data/db ext4 noatime,noexec,nodiratime ...
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How to run sudo command with no password?
How does the ubuntu user on the AWS images for Ubuntu Server 12.04 have passwordless sudo for all commands when there is no configuration for it in /etc/sudoers?
I'm using Ubuntu server 12.04 on ...
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Can juju be used in other region than the US?
Is there a way to bootstrap and/or deploy a server in Amazon EC2 not in the US region ?
In juju's constraints, it seems that we can only choose region a, b, c or d which are in the US.
Thanks for help
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Continuous deployment on ubuntu server
I'm using an ubuntu server 12.04 on AWS. I'm trying to figure out how to do continuous deployment on a C++ application. The source code it's on a hg server. I could make a script to make a pull and ...
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I would like to set up a ubuntu OS on Amazon web server, how do I do this
I am trying to set up a virtual OS (ubuntu, windows) on amazon web services to run apps 24/7 and to have anytime I log in on the internet. Is this a possibility to do and if so how?
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How to check if Openfire is running?
I know that Openfire 3.7.1 is installed because when i run;
apt-cache policy openfire
That confirms it. But when I try;
/etc/init.d/openfire start
The line resets like a successful command. If I ...
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How do I set up an SSH SOCKS proxy with Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager?
Generally I use this command to create a local Socks proxy via SSH Tunneling
ssh -ND 7777 -i google.pem ubuntu@107.20.x.x
Then i configure my applications to use Socks proxy on localhost (i.e. ...
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Cant access ephemeral storage on Amazon ubuntu instance
I want to utilise my ephemeral storage as mentioned in this question but I seem to be falling at the first hurdle. I can't even see /mnt:
~$ df -ah
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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Ubuntu AMI with swap for micro instance
The default Ubuntu AMI does not have swap enabled, but it is not suitable for production use as the machine just crash when it is Out Of Memory.
Are there existing images with swap enabled so I can ...
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How do I run and Ubuntu desktop in EC2?
we have implemented a cloud using the ubuntu server and amazon ,we installed the uec image given by amazon of ubuntu 9.04 ,we were successfull in accessing through the terminal by using it as ubuntu@ ...
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Reuse device name for EBS volume in Amazon EC2 instance [closed]
I'm running an Amazon EC2 instance (Ubuntu Server version: 11.10 (64 bit)) and am having problems with re-attaching EBS volumes to previously used device names.
For example, I launch the instance and ...
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How do I get a list of Amazon regions via the command line?
I'd like to see how I can get a list of regions from AWS on the command line so I can quickly look things up, how can I do this?
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What are the differences between the Alestic and UEC AMI images?
I am going to be bringing up a lot of AWS EC2 instances, and cannot find out what the differences are between the images provided by Ubuntu UEC at:
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/
and the ...
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AWS Ubuntu Instance - User rights
I am running an instance of Ubuntu on Amazon Web Services, all working pretty dandy. I've got one little snag that i'm trying to find the answer to atm.
Amazon forces you to have another user other ...
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“Server refused our key” when logging into Ubuntu on EC2 as a different user
We created an AWS micro instance running Ubuntu 10.04, and we can putty in as the "ubuntu" user using the key pair just fine. Now I've created two new users, but when I try to putty into the instance ...
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Add user to an AWS instance
I'd like to add a user to my AWS instance and ssh in as that user with the existing keypair.
Right now I can log into my AWS instance as root:
ssh -i ~/path/mysshkeypair.pem ...
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Why do tasks on Amazon Xen instance block for over 120 seconds causing server to hang?
I have an Ubuntu Server 11.04 natty in development with a jetty based webserver running on it.
Today I had an outage where I couldn't access ssh or the webserver for an unknown period of time, but ...
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How to open TCP port 7777 in control panel?
I am initiating file transfer using tcp on openfire server. But I am not able to open the port number 7777, from which I need to send files. I changed the security setting in the admin console panel ...
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How to attach new EBS volume to Ubuntu machine on AWS?
Disclaimer: I'm probably missing something obvious, sorry in advance.
I need more EBS disk space for my Ubuntu 11.04 server running on Amazon EC2, and decided to create new volume in addition to the ...
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ElasticFox on Firefox 4
How are you supposed to install the ElasticFox add-on on Firefox (4.0.1) on latest Ubuntu (11.04)? (ElasticFox is an extension for Amazon EC2 management.)
Going to Tools -> Add-ons and searching for ...
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Ubuntu Jeos like minimal image for server with JRE
I need to create minimalistic server appliance for running on amazon ec2 (ami). I tried debootstrap. its coming upto 200+ MB , its same with vmbuilder also. Are there any ways of getting it down to ...
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Cloud server stuck on dpkg --configure -a
I have an amazon micro instance which runs one or two things for me. The config is minimal, it mainly acts as a host for a java application and couchdb.
I tried to install curl today and got this ...
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How do I configure my AWS instance to serve a remote desktop so I can use Windows terminal services to access it?
My evil plan is to serve rdp from an AWS ubuntu instance so I can have a permanent xubuntu desktop as I roam from windows computer to windows computer (or any computer really). It is as easy as ...
