adante posted:

As I nowadays find myself less and less inclined to spend 20+ hours fixing fundamental things like this over and over again, I was wondering if anybody knew of a quick fix for this problem?

Hughmoris posted:

Vague question time....What got all of you linux gurus started on linux? I've thought about trying to get a good grasp on linux to add a skillset to my extremely bare resume. I just can't think of any beginner projects to tackle or things that I could use linux for at my house to help me learn the system. I work tier 1 support for an ISP so I drat sure don't need/use it at work.

rugbert posted:

So I guess installing and running linux off a thumbdrive isnt that stable? I just installed ubuntu server 9.10 on my 8 gig thumbdrive and it randomly crashes and spews forth random lines of code.

My setup was going to be odd, Im using a hp slimline case with two 1TB harddrives in it for data and then I was either going to install and run unbuntu off the thumbdrive or a harddrive using HP's expansion port which is just a USB 2.0b connector.

should I just install ubuntu on one of the harddrives?

Bob Morales posted:

I haven't tried server from a thumb drive but it should run fine. What crashes/errors are you getting?

rugbert posted:

stuff like this:

ShoulderDaemon posted:

That's not nearly enough information to diagnose. You need to scroll up to find a line with something about "OOPS" or "PANIC" or "BUG" and post everything from that line down. What you have posted is just a very small section from the middle of a stacktrace, with no indication of what kind of problem happened or where the problem is.

That said, the most likely cause of kernel faults is hardware issues, with RAM being the most common hardware to fail.

Edit: Also, is it really 3 minutes in, or just 98 seconds in? Because if it's really 3 minutes in, then there's something extremely wrong with your system clock.

nbv4 posted:

when i ls -la my /var/log/apache2 directory, the access.log file looks like this:

code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm      3663 2009-12-29 09:33 access.log

yet when I try to view the file, I get a permission denied error:

code:

7 12:32:41 chris@linode ~ $ less /var/log/apache2/access.log
/var/log/apache2/access.log: Permission denied

what gives?

covener posted:

read and execute on directories above the file, see namei -m on linux.

Jerk McJerkface posted:

Just a quick question about Symlinking

I have a server that is doing call recording to /var/log/asterisk/spool/monitor/
The client installed a 1TB USB drive for me to record on. For a variety of reasons I can't change the programs config, so I'd like to sym link the old recording folder to the new one.

That's not hard to do, I realize, but the old path has a few gigs of recordings already in it. When I symlink it to the other path, how will it treat the files in the old path? Will the suddenly vanish?

Jerk McJerkface posted:

Just a quick question about Symlinking

I have a server that is doing call recording to /var/log/asterisk/spool/monitor/
The client installed a 1TB USB drive for me to record on. For a variety of reasons I can't change the programs config, so I'd like to sym link the old recording folder to the new one.

That's not hard to do, I realize, but the old path has a few gigs of recordings already in it. When I symlink it to the other path, how will it treat the files in the old path? Will the suddenly vanish?

Zom Aur posted:

You could just mount the new drive at /var/log/asterisk/spool/monitor. That would let you keep whatever is in there on the old drive, though you'd have to unmount the new drive to see the old files.

Nerf Herder posted:

I'm looking for a distro to throw on a computer that would just let the user to access firefox.

I'm setting up a computer in a coffee shop. I would like to make it so that people can put in a email address and sign on for an allowed time then not let them log in for another allowed time.

any advice would be great.

emf posted:

There are a few linux kiosk guides online, so if nobody else comes up with something better, that may be a good place to start looking. I think the problem is your email address sign-in. Are you going to have some kind of authentication to make sure the address is valid? If so, how is the person going to check their email to validate the email address if they can't log into their email from your kiosk until they're validated?

Misogynist posted:

If you have SSH open to the Internet, it's not a bad idea to change the port, either. It won't stop anyone deliberately trying to find their way into your box, but it will clear up about 99.9% of the random bruteforce attempts from your logs.

Hughmoris posted:

Vague question time....What got all of you linux gurus started on linux? I've thought about trying to get a good grasp on linux to add a skillset to my extremely bare resume. I just can't think of any beginner projects to tackle or things that I could use linux for at my house to help me learn the system. I work tier 1 support for an ISP so I drat sure don't need/use it at work.

rt4 posted:

I'm upgrading my graphics from an integrated device to a fancy new discrete card. They're both ATI. Do I need to do anything to my system prior to the upgrade?

Last time I did this I went from Nvidia to ATI and I was not able to fix my X config, so I'm trying to be careful this time.

HFX posted:

He could also setup for port knocking. It is a great way to leave it running at a standard ssh port and still have it return nothing or a closed to random queries.

Misogynist posted:

I never understood why port knocking would ever be considered a legitimate approach to anything ever, especially over SSH when you could just use key-based authentication if you're that worried about users choosing insecure passwords. Could someone enlighten me about why you would choose port knocking over a real security approach?

lemonslol posted:

Hey can someone post some linux vs windows graphs? Just like every non joke one you have? I need these for my presentation on tuesday and want to make sure I havnt missed any vital ones.

Accipiter posted:

Translation: This is a meaningless question without context.

Accipiter posted:

Butthole Prince posted:

We have a machine running CentOS 5.4. Periodically, I am unable to connect via SSH and receive a message indicating that the connection was refused. The message pops up immediately upon attempting to connect.

I am then able to log into the Webmin interface, so I know the machine is at least functional. If I stop the SSH Server in Webmin and then start it again, I am able to log in via SSH.

The problem here is that this has been happening more frequently of late.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what we can look at when attempting to diagnose this issue?

Bob Morales posted:

Start looking at the log files?

/var/log/secure

Check dmesg to see if sshd is crashing.

Can you run with the verbose option on and perhaps get more information?

Butthole Prince posted:

I don't see anything in 'dmesg' regarding sshd.

In the 'secure' log, I do see a great number of failed login attempts. So I am assuming that constant connections and especially failed logins, like a dictionary attack, would probably cause problems.

Misogynist posted:

I never understood why port knocking would ever be considered a legitimate approach to anything ever, especially over SSH when you could just use key-based authentication if you're that worried about users choosing insecure passwords. Could someone enlighten me about why you would choose port knocking over a real security approach?

Mister Biff posted:

Anyone have a quick recommendation for a reliable PCI gigabit NIC? My network is choking under the weight of torrents + streaming, and I'm finally going to upgrade my router to a gigabit switch with wireless-N, but will need my media server to have a gigabit NIC to keep up.