Questions related to Ubuntu Server, and server-related packages.
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How to mount a CD ROM from a USB CD ROM drive on Ubuntu 10.04.3 server
I am trying to mount the installation CD rom drive using a USB CD ROM drive on Ubuntu 10.4.3 server to extract additional packages (since I do not have internet active on the server). I plugged the CD ...
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Driver install question
VERY new to all this.
Built a box to run Ubuntu server 12.04
During installation it would not automatically make a internet connection.
I figure the new board needed to have drivers installed
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13.04 logging into an freeipa server
I have been debugging for a few days trying to figure out why my 13.04 upgraded machine will not log in to my freeipa server. the only thing i find odd is since i updated i began getting these in my ...
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Ubuntu server as an internet server
How can I configure an Ubuntu server installation to provide internet access to private network, such that machines on the private network can access the internet through the Ubuntu server? The ...
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Free DNS service
Edit: The answer selected was for something entirely different that what what I originally asked.
I tried to ask here but I suppose I wasn't clear enough.
I have a VPS running Ubuntu 12.04.
I have ...
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Configuaração de Proxy pelo terminal? [closed]
Preciso de ajuda para configurar o proxy no terminal do Ubuntu Server, alguém pode me ajudar?
I need help to configure the proxy terminal in Ubuntu Server, can anyone help me?
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dns nameservers purchased domain name VPS [duplicate]
I have a purchased a domain name from a registrar. I am running a VPS. Ubuntu 12.04. Setting up LAMP was no problem. But I can only access the VPS via the IP at the moment since I have no active DNS ...
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Ubuntu server 13.04 virtual kernel inside virtualbox has just 16 colors
I installed ubuntu 13.04 server with virtual-kernel option inside of virtualbox to try it out. It does seem to be working faster then the regular image. But there is one problem. The terminal has just ...
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Wireless card won't connect on system boot
My wireless card won't connect to the network on system boot on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit (server).
Below is my system info:
/etc/netwrok/interfaces
# WiFi
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid ...
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how to make home pc into ubuntu server [duplicate]
I would like to make one of my home PC into a Ubuntu Server and want to access the server from my laptop. I'm having Ubuntu 13.04 in my laptop and I'm ready to install Ubuntu Server in my home PC.
My ...
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Installing Gnome Classic on Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 64bit
I've installed Ubuntu Server Edition and setup open ssh,samba and lamp on my home desktop just to work on LAN. I also want setup a GUI on it for daily use.
I've already performed the following
sudo ...
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How can I fix the iptables error message “unable to initialize table 'filter'”?
When I try to use iptables command on one of my Rackspace cloud server, I'm getting the following error.
In an attempt to apply iptables rules with iptables-apply -t 120 /etc/iptables.rules and ...
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How to fix a failing grub-pc package installation in Hyper-V virtual machine?
I am trying to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 64 bit on a Windows Hyper-V virtual machine. I am having issues with the following error:
the grub-pc package failed to install into /target/
I have tried ...
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Creating a system of files [closed]
So I need to create like a system of files in which I have a server file that controls the other ones and just don't know how to start. I'm a newbie, please help.
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where are devices named if not in 70-persistent-net-rules?
I have a ubuntu 12.04 server VM which has /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules created as a directory instead of a file. I understand this helps maintain device naming when cloning in a cloud ...
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Connect monitor to headless server
I've inherited a server running on Ubuntu which has a keyboard connected, but no monitor.
Now there's been a network problem and I'm currently unable to connect via ssh (not even ping works). Still, ...
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howto install Joomla 2.5 on root on ubuntu server 12.04
Can you please do show me how to install joomla on /var/www/ (root) folder
I don't want /var/www/joomla and I think I am stuck with how to create permission and too afraid to make writable to public.
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Accessing Plex and Transmission remotely
I have setup plex and transmission to be accessed through the webui. My question is how can I let friends access these features from an entirely separate location?
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Running Hadoop on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server?
What will be the minimum system requirements if I wish to run it on the server version of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Currently I have 4GB of RAM, Core 2 Duo Processor T5550, 1.83 Ghz. The server installation ...
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How to inspect localhost from my smartphone?
Ideally I'd like to expose a port, like 8080 or something, to the web, so that I can run a website on my desktop and inspect it on my smart phone or show it to a client and so on. How do I expose one ...
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can't bring up wireless card on ubuntu server 12.04
I'm trying to use an Atheros AR9287 chipset card in a fairly ancient (Pentium II-gen) machine running Ubuntu server 12.04.2. It wasn't able to connect to a network when I provided the SSID during the ...
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Disabling graphic card in Ubuntu Server 13.04 [duplicate]
i installed Ubuntu server on my old notebook Levono R61 and it is kind of noisy so i was thinking and i figured out that if i managed to somehow underclock graphic card or even better turned it off ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04, Wifi problems
When I installed Ubuntu Server 12.04, I selected the ethernet adapter because I will use that most often; however, I would like to use wifi sometimes as well.
This is how far I've gotten with this ...
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Trouble with mounting usb hdd on ubuntu server
The hard disk had previously been the primary hdd for this computer. The only OS ever installed was ubuntu server, without encryption or LVM. My intention is to only keep the files that were on ...
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Can't share zfs filesystem over nfs
Ubuntu Server 13.04. Client OpenElec 3.02
trying to share thru built-in into zfs sharenfs
server (192.168.1.56)
administrator@ubuntu:~$ sudo zfs get all | grep share
[sudo] password for ...
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Can not connect via FTP over explicit TLS/SSL
I have been rather desperate trying to connect via FTP over explicit TLS/SSL.
I am following this manual: http://repeatexplorer.umbr.cas.cz/static/html/help/manual.html#using-ftp
Here is what I ...
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How to DRP through ssh tunnel
So I have the following set up.
Note : Direct DRP wont work due to port forwarding and network reasons.
ClinetSystem | RemoteServer | VMinRemoteServer
what I am trying to do is create an SSH tunnel ...
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Driver hp raid controller b120i
I have a problem with a installation of ubuntu 12.04 server on HP SL4540 with raid controller b120i.
Ubuntu during installation does not recognize the raid controller, and displays the disk ...
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bash permissions
My friend was trying to tighten up security on his ubuntu server and changed the permissions on bash. He logged out, and now the computer won't let him log back in.
The server is an off-site server ...
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Release upgrade notification after upgrade completed
I've upgraded my ubuntu server to the 13.04 release. Unfortunately during the upgrade process I lost the connection to the server and the server hasn't completed correctly the upgrade to this release.
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Ubuntu Server continues to want to upgrade after already fully upgrading
I upgraded my servers from 12.10 to 13.04 via SSH session.
All upgrades for each box were successful except for one, which failed to boot after rebooting (faulty harddrive it turns out).
After ...
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Is it safe to upgrade my production server from 11.04 to 12.04 LTS?
Two years ago I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my server when I was first setting it up.
I just noticed that 11.04 is no longer supported (hasn't been since October), so I want to upgrade my server to an ...
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Sendmail relaying email through A record not MX
I have a Ubuntu server, running sendmail (until this morning it was running postfix, but I moved to sendmail to eliminate the possibility of my postfix configuration tweaks being the cause of this ...
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How to disable LVDS-1?
im not using X, no gui, only terminal in ubuntu server. How would I go about disabling this LCD at boot so that the connected VGA monitor is the only one?
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How can I have nagios alerts emailed to my gmail?
I'd like to set up some sort of mail server to send emails from from my gmail account to another email. How can I do this?
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`shutdown -r now` command completely shutting down instead of restarting
Hi we've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS onto a new server. It's on a SuperMicro X9SCA-f Motherboard .
Now we're aiming to locate this in a remote server room - however when we execute a shutdown -r ...
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monitor resolution only using 2/5 of screen
I have a monitor attached to vga port on this machine, the monitor menu buttons say the current resolution is 1600x900 (the highest for this particular monitor). I am running Ubuntu Server 12.04.02
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How do I add locale to ubuntu server?
I currently have those locales:
locale -a
C
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_IN.utf8
en_NG
en_NG.utf8
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
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Run .sh every time a file changes
I'm working with a system that uses a Ubuntu server as base but we do program at Windows. The VMs are using the Mount command to have access to the files at Windows.
Everytime someone saves a file, ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 server stops responding after some time
My Ubuntu virtual server always stops responding after being online for several hours.
It isn't pingable, SSH, FTP, NGINX, etc stop responding. However, when I login with with my VNC client, after it ...
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unmet dependencies linux-server depend on linux-image-server
on my Ubuntu server 12.04.2, LVM partition, I have this problem when I run apt-get -f install :
apt-get-f install
Reading package lists ... done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information ... ...
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Upgrade MySQL server issue
I failed to upgrade MySQL server. Here's what I tried:
I first issue this command to update the package list:
sudo apt-get update
Then, upgrade by:
sudo apt-get upgrade
It shows the following ...
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How can I open ports on ubuntu server?
Hello I am running my server and since the ip is not static (my ISP won't give me one because I need to be a commercial customer) I have to use a service like DynDNS but the site is only accessible in ...
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Should I use ubuntu 10.04 server since the desktop version is not supported anymore
I have a netbook, and Ubuntu 10.04 expires tomorrow. Should I install the server version of ubuntu 10.04 and install X on top of that? Would what work for support? I love 10.04 only because it runs ...
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Can't Start ISC DHCP IPv6 Server
Trying to enable the ISC DHCP server for just IPv6 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
I have downloaded and installed the DHCP server via the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install isc-dhcp-server
Then I ...
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Getting an “Authentication token manipulation” error when trying to change my user password
I am logging in to my Ubuntu Server using my username. Once I am logged in I am typing passwd command. Entering a new password but a second after getting following error messages:
passwd: ...
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How to set port 44400 as default in Apache?
My website work only if I run:
domain.com:44400
How to set port 44400 as default in Apache?
I need have access by domain.com not domain.com:44400
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How to install zpanel?
I have bought a new server and installed Ubuntu 12.04. Now, how to install zpanel on it?
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How to make my server email me when there are security updates?
There's obviously a way to check to see when an update is a security update. I often get greeted by a motd that says "there are N security updates."
What I'd like to do is have my server email me a ...
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Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name?
When I restart my apache server using the command
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
I get the following error:
Restarting web server apache2: Could not reliably determine the
server's fully ...
