Questions tagged [server]
Ubuntu Server is a flavor of Ubuntu that comes with with no desktop environment by default, with command-line SSH login as the default way of remote access. This tag should be used for questions related to Ubuntu Server (as opposed to Ubuntu Desktop variants), as well as any questions related to installing services and programs on Ubuntu Server.
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SSH installation errors
Please let me know what to be done here. I am trying to install Hadoop in Ubuntu.The ssh connectivity is throwing error
$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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Open server browser in local browser
When I ssh into my server and do my things there. How can I for example open a browser on the remote machine, and display it on my local machine,
I run Ubuntu desktop on my local machine.
On server ...
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How to play MP3 files using Rhythmbox? [duplicate]
Yesterday I just installed the Ubuntu 12.04 for the first time, the problem is that I can't play and of the MP3 files that I have.
I get this error:
Required plugin could not be found Python (...
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Using IPv6 for SSH connections issues
I'm having issues understanding how to use the IPv6 protocol to connect to other computers over SSH. I tried just using the address provided from ifconfig but it doesn't seem to work, I keep getting ...
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Disable auto update at end of autoinstall/cloud-init
I have a working cloud-init that is deployed using packer. Once the VM is booted and the autoinstall is completed, Ubuntu does the auto update thing. This seems to take forever to complete and is an ...
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'/'var/www/' vs '/home/$USER/public_html'
I recently started using Ubuntu as a LAMP server. I've come across plenty of tutorials that say to place the files at '/var/www/' and I've also seen others that put them in '/home/$USER/public_html/'.
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What is the difference between minimal, desktop & server Editions?
I just want to know, what is the difference between ubuntu Minimal, Desktop & Server Editions? How they differ? is it by performance? If yes which one is recommended for a normal user and which ...
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How can I make onboard PC speaker beep on Ubuntu Server 22.04.3 LTS?
I have two old machines that I use as file servers. The first one has a GIGABYTE GA-G41M-Combo (rev. 2.0) with an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E7400 (3M Cache, 2.80 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) and the second one ...
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Instance with Canonical Livepatch Service requires restart
I'm by no means a sysadmin, so maybe this is a simple oversight. Isn't the whole point of the Livepatch Service to prevent mission-critical servers from having to restart after a kernel update?
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Ubuntu Server Install only uses half of availabe space for root partition
When installing using the 20.04 Ubuntu server installation media, with LVM (and encryption enabled), using the default full-disk setup. The installation only allocates half of the available space for ...
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Why is Samba not adding a new user with "samba-tool"?
I'm trying to configure a Samba share on my Dell Poweredge 860 running server 14.04 LTS. Samba came uninstalled (when I chose it), so I just need to configure it. I'm trying to connect it to my ...
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Am I affected? Heartbleed bug [duplicate]
I've just learned about the Heartbleed Bug (OpenSSL leaking private keys), and based on the website, heartbleed.com, it says that OpenSSL 1.0.1 through version f is affected. However it leaves off ...
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How do I allow /dev/net/Tun in a LXD managed LXC container?
I am trying to get Openvpn run inside a LXD/LXC container, and redirect traffic coming to the container to the VPN.
The purpose is to replace a fully fledged VM that does exactly that (and toy with ...
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Telnet Server not starting
I am installing Ubuntu Server 13.10 and cant get telnet working on the server. I have installed both xinet.d & telnetd thru apt-get and restarted xinetd but nothing is started when I do a netstat -...
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Partition tool with console UI (as in server installation)?
Back in 2006, Ray (3DLover) posted the same question in:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=309680
but none of the answers were really useful. Now with a little help from AskUbuntu community, I ...
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GUI for ubuntu server: xfce or xubuntu-desktop
I would like to install a desktop environment on my Ubuntu server 12.04. I like xubuntu-desktop as it is a light-weight one. But I'm confused between xubuntu-desktop and xfce. Can anyone tell me what ...
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Yum install fails on Ubuntu EC2 instance
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.3 on an AWS EC2 instance. This is my first time with an EC2 so it's all new to me. I'm also not the most experienced Linux guy either, so I apologize if this is a stupid ...
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Server gets killed due to increasing number of ssh-agent processes
I have a deployment user that's running a cronjob tuning in every minute.
On the remote server (the deployment target) I didn't have my public keys available but instead got a Could not open a ...
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nut (UPS) and SSL certificates
Today I installed nut on my Ubuntu server (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS).
$ uname -a
Linux boson 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The UPS is connected ...
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Step by Step Install of MAAS and JUJU
I am working on understanding the pieces that I am missing in being able to deploy Juju across the other MAAS nodes. I don't know If I have a step out of place, or missing a few.
The MaaS server ...
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Power Management - Sleep / Wake up Server when accessed
I have a headless HP Proliant Microserver with ubuntu installed. This machine has samba shares on it serving media and I usually rdp or ssh into it. Now my issue is I want the machine to go into sleep ...
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How do I configure two NICs in ubuntu-server preseed? [closed]
I have a script that installs Ubuntu server to a new VirtualBox instance via PXE and preseeding. It works great, I can run a complete install and come out with a fresh machine with one network card.
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How do I set an extra IP for an existing interface?
I have an interface eth0, and I wish to give it an extra virtual IP. I achieve this by the following:
ifconfig eth0:0 ip.address.goes.here netmask subnet.address.goes.here
This works fine, however, ...
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isc_stdio_open '/var/log/bind9/query.log' failed: permission denied
/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.named
/var/log/bind9/** rw,
/var/log/bind9/ rw,
/etc/bind/named.conf.options
options {
directory "/var/cache/bind";
auth-nxdomain no;
listen-on-v6 { ...
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How do I set a static DNS nameserver address on Ubuntu Server?
I am trying statically to set DNS server addresses in my Ubuntu server running as virtual machine. I followed all recommendations on official Ubuntu support pages but I simply cannot get rid of my ISP'...
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Can I see more details of an aptitude dist-upgrade? [duplicate]
When I type
aptitude dist-upgrade
I get for example:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
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Port 80 connection refused
i can not connect to port 80 on my webserver.
my iptables are in the default state:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ...
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adjust resolution on Ubuntu Server 10.04?
Installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 on an old laptop and I noticed that the system is trying to show the CLI below my screen. This means that if I run a script or a program with a bunch of output, once it ...
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Convert /etc/network/interfaces to netplan
I'm following this tutorial for making an Ubuntu active directory domain controller with Samba.
The problem I have run into, is that he is using Ubuntu Server 13.10, and I am using the latest, 18....
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how to configure 2 network interfaces with different gateways
Here is what is in my
/etc/network/interfaces file:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 172.168.10.252
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 172.168....
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How to set a personalized port as default in Apache?
My website work only if I run:
domain.com:44400
How to set port 44400 as the default in Apache?
I need have access by domain.com not domain.com:44400
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Share ubuntu-server 16.04 folder to windows host
I have installed the ubuntu-server 16.04 and VBoxLinuxadditions and Samba
I am trying to share a folder from this server to my windows host machine.
Now I can see this virtual server on my network ...
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Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS cannot change resolution in Hyper-V
I am testing Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS using a Hyper-V VM running from Windows 10 1709, but so far I have been unable to change the console resolution. I have already installed the virtual services, ...
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Am I supposed to remove cloud-init once the server has been created
As far as I understand it, cloud-init handles early initialization of a cloud/VM instance.
Ive been using it to help build KVM VMs and it works really well.
One aspect of cloud-init I don't ...
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headless ubuntu server with desktop gui with working gpu
I've ordered a dedicated (headless) server with an nvidia GeForce GT 710B GPU at ikoula (offsite data center). Now I am trying to get a full blown desktop gui to run on it so I can actually run what I ...
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How do I configure a preseed to skip the language support question?
I'm attempting to create a preseed configuration file for automating the install of
Ubuntu Server 10.04-4 LTS x64 via a bootable USB thumb drive and I've hit a major snag in the process. The debian-...
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UPS Compatibility with Ubuntu Server
I'm looking into getting battery backup unit to protect my Ubuntu server. How can I find out if it is compatible with Ubuntu (11.04)?
Ideally I'd like to be able to tell the server when there is a ...
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Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 Ethernet controller unclaimed after update to 16.04 server
I am running a Ubuntu server machine (Dell Poweredge R410) with a Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 Ethernet controller (2 ethernet ports, wired). I recently decided to upgrade the machine from 14.04 to ...
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MySql server not recognizing correct password
I have installed MySql server on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I have prior experience to it too.
But whenever I login, using mysql -u root -p and after entering password it says:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access ...
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How do I change local display resolution via SSH?
I have a machine running Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS and I'm having problems with the local monitor. The Dell flat panel I'm using only displays this message while the computer running: "Cannot Display ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 DNS resolution fails after a while
When I ping google.com on my Ubuntu 18.04, it gives me
ping: google.com: Temporary failure in name resolution
I would then proceed to run
sudo service systemd-resolved start
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How to reserve IP Address in DHCP Server
I install DHCP Server with https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/dhcp.html
but I need to make reserve IP addresses for specific machine (192.168.1.XXX) and further to assign a name to each machine ...
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The path to docker's volumes in Ubuntu
I'm both new to Ubuntu and Docker. I cut to the chase, when I create a volume using the sudo docker volume create TEST command, where should I expect to find the TEST volume and its data in my hard ...
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Execute prelogin scripts for SSH
I would like to know how I can execute a local server script, for instance send a mail using mailx, when a ssh session is opened, pre-login stage.
When a ssh connection comes into the server, I ...
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How do I reset Byobu's settings?
Right problem is I want use Byobu I really like it BUT I messed up and changed settings in F9 and choose the screen keybindings NOW I cant get back to the F9 settings to change it back and cant use ...
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How to make ubuntu service run as specific user
How to make ubuntu service run as specific user?
I created an init.d script and make it start at boot, but sooner I found the service is running as root after reboot.
I google and google, people ...
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How can I redirect SSH users to another SSH login?
I have a person who will need access to my SSH server, but I want them to have limited access to programs. All they should be using is ssh, to login to another server. My server is an access point to ...
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apache2 not starting after purge and re-install
First of all - I have looked and tried several approaches including
https://askubuntu.com/questions/94805/apache-server-not-starting/
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit
I had purged using an answer at ...
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testphp.php 404 Not Found
I installed LAMP Server. I can access http://localhost. I can also run successfully phpmyadmin. But when I go to http://localhost/testphp.php, I get a 404 not found. The file is in /var/www/testphp....
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Ubuntu Server 20.04 - Netplan configuration for dynamic IPv4 and static IPv6
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Does anyone have a working netplan configuration that sets a dynamic IPv4 and a static IPv6 under Ubuntu Server 20.04?
What works
My provider (OVH) gave me a server with this configuration in /...
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