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denyhosts is blocking existing users from logging in from unknown (new) IP addresses
I have denyhosts set up and working on Ubuntu 12.04. It apparently works well, except it is too strict.
I can log in from any IP address that I have added to hosts.allow in advance. My sshd_config ...
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We need to make Syslog work better [closed]
How do you make Linux stream all the syslog files on one terminal screen?
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NTP not syncing in a VM
I'm managing some VirtualBox developer environments. The time drifts out of sync when the box is suspended, so I want to use NTP to keep it in sync.
NTP doesn't seem to be doing its job, though - the ...
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Fastest way to convert a large amount of FLACs to MP3s
I'm looking for something that can take advantage of my GPU or at the very least, multiple cores of my CPU to convert a few terabytes of FLAC to mp3 (VBR v0) very quickly while preserving all of the ...
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tun0 enabling after installing openvpn
I just installed openvpn but can't see tun0 when I do ifconfig.
when I ssh to a remote server, I get the error:
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
How can I enable it?
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Ubuntu 12.04 hotspot wifi network not visible to Android 4.1.2
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my notebook, and I've got a Motorola Razr which I updated to Android 4.1.2. Before updating, I connected my smartphone to my hotspot wifi very quickly, but after the ...
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nginx should not handle unicorn's request
I have a server on which I have configured Nginx and Unicorn, where Unicorn servers static pages. In my case I'm writing a rewrite rule in Nginx that, if a request comes to mydomain.com it should ...
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Directory appears as file?
So we copied some photos in a directory across to a NTFS partition last night, and they were viewable from ubuntu.
Today the directory is not accessible from Windows, and when we booted back into ...
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“PS/2 Generic Mouse” gets lost. How to reload without reboot?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04LTS on a ThinkPad E420s. My Trackpoint is recognized as "PS/2 Generic Mouse".
My problem is that it doesn't load/disappears after booting or after suspension. I can't move ...
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Cron job doesn't seem to be executing in ubuntu
I have a script located /myscript/script.sh and I have a cronjob that I submitted like this:
sudo crontab -e
The contents of the crontab are as follows:
*/1 * * * * ./myscript/script.sh
The ...
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Is it possible to configure applications to use different network interfaces differently? If yes, how?
I am running scrapy on ubuntu server 13. And while it is crawling the network becomes very slow and it becomes difficult to even ssh into the system.
I think I can solve the problem by having one ...
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Why is my shell script hanging on `apt-get -y upgrade`?
Ubuntu :
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y update
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y upgrade
sudo reboot
Script is always interrupted after upgrade and then it will stay on ...
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executable lies about own existence [duplicate]
Okay, I'm completely baffled on this one. I'm installing a piece of software called InterPro Scan for my superiors, and it is complaining about an executable not existing. Please see below.
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Font letter spacing issue with PhantomJS/wkhtmltopdf on Ubuntu
I'm using PhantomJS/wkhtmltopdf on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to convert HTML to PDF and get very strange letter spacing errors. For instance, the internal distance between es and xa seems very random and ...
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Make web project writable by apache and other user
I am running ubuntu 12.04 LTS . To be able to view my web project in the browser I did the following:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/project
Now I wanted to open the project in netbeans but it ...
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Procmail: Denying special privileges for “/etc/procmailrcs/default.rc”
I'm trying to setup postfix, dovecot and procmail to work together with virtual users. In the end I want to have virtual users and the possibility to add rules to sort incoming rules. For the last ...
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adding additional tracks using sox and the command line
I'm trying to add additional tracks using sox using the command line
Example: I have several different stereo tracks a drum track, vocal track, effects track, etc.
Can I add additional stereo tracks ...
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Find used drivers for printer
My printer CANON PIXMA MP170 (usb) doesn't work on Debian 7 amd64 but does work on my Ubuntu 12.04 i386. I've tried a lot of tutorial about this but no success. So for now I'd like to to know more ...
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GPU not listed in lspci after SysRQ reboot
I have my Ubuntu Server machine with XFX 7970 GPU in it, and sometimes, when ATI driver fails, I have to reboot it manually.
When I'm trying to reboot the machine using SysRQ, the system reboots ...
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How can I view foreign languages in Chromium?
I just installed the minimal version of Ubuntu. (To be specific, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" 32-bit.) This version does not have all the tools that are usually avaialble in normal ...
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Getting wmctrl to work with multiple Emacs windows
I'm trying to write a script that switches focus to Emacs. This is what I have:
#!/bin/bash
wmctrl -a 'emacs@pat-ubuntu-desktop'
It works fine when there is only one Emacs window (or "frame," in ...
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SSH tunneling: connect_to localhost port 22: failed
I want to connect from my computer to a remote computer using a middle server(u port forwarding). I run this command on remote computer:
ssh -R 9300:localhost:22 user@middleserver
and this one on ...
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D-Link DWM-156 HSPA USB Modem doesn't work with SIM Card inserted
I have a D-Link DWM-156 HSPA Modem, that I bought just a few days ago. The modem has drivers in its internal storage. There are Debian Software Packages for both i386 and amd64, so obviously I ...
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krusader - single queue instead of multiple queues
I need to copy a whole bunch of files from various directories onto an external drive.
I thought Krusader might be the best tool for this job.
As I select and copy different files, a new queue ...
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connection of tata photon plus with ubuntu biolinux [closed]
I tried number of posts on Internet about connecting Tata Photon plus with Ubuntu (Ubuntu - BioLinux 12) but I'm not able to get it working.
It say registered on network and then it disconnects.
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Unable to mount ext2 hard drive
I have been trying to mount an ext2 hard drive in ubuntu server, but when i run sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/mynewdrive -t ext2 I get
wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing ...
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can not start oracle after complete the installation
I'm using Lenovo G580 under intel i5 third generation with 4GB RAM. I'm trying to install Oracle 11g standard edition
After completing all pre installation and post installation procedures, when I ...
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Creating a User-less Distro
One of the popular programs I use is GParted, and it has its own custom distro, that boots straight to the desktop, and starts the program. I couldn't find any information on creating such a distro. I ...
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How to Install Oracle 11gR2 on Ubuntu Server 13.04
I want to install Oracle 11gR2 for Linux on Ubuntu Server 13.04.
I have downloaded Oracle 11gR2 for Linux, and when I execute use runinstaller it require GUI supported files.
While Google I got ...
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Noninteractive script running over ssh is interrupted as apt-get finishes
when i run non interactive script on Ubuntu Server 13.04 it's interrupted
when lxc-docker package finishes installation.
Script :
ssh -o StrictHostKeychecking=no -t -t -i $CERT $USER@$SERVER ...
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Ubuntu cannot start from terminal
Ubuntu 12.04
By a mistake, I stopped lightdm. Then switched to tty1, and rebooted.
Now, After startup, It just came a black screen with a cursor, can type nothing.
I tried Ctrl+F1 to F12 (and ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 resolver setup
When investigating how the DNS setup of my os (Ubuntu 12.04) works, I came to some questions I could not really find on the web.
So what I observed was, that ubuntu uses Dnsmasq as a DNS resolver.
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How to put backtrack on a partition with Windows XP
This is a similar question to my previous one.
I now am trying to get Backtrack5 onto a separate partition of my main hard drive with windows but the site says that I need a clean hard drive. Is ...
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Downloading the Google search results page using Linux commands
When I try using wget command, the page which gets downloaded contains only the lefthand side part. I want the right-hand side part of the search-results page, which is called Knowledge Graph. Can ...
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Is VMWare causing my Linux host to lose network connectivity?
I recently upgraded to Xubuntu 13.04 from 12.10, which required uninstalling and reinstalling VMWare Player for Linux. Soon after (not exactly sure the timing) I lost network connectivity on my host ...
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Running a daemon as a non-privileged user
I am trying to set up a Thin Ruby application server on my Ubuntu VPS. I have created a specific account, installed rbenv under it along with all gems.
I am looking for a convenient way to obtain the ...
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How to install CLang using precompiled binaries?
How do I install CLang on Ubuntu, using precompiled binaries of CLang that I downloaded?
Here's how I downloaded CLang: "LLVM Download Page" -> "Download LLVM 3.2" -> "Clang Binaries for ...
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Change the Ubuntu layout back? [migrated]
I just upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 LTS. Is it possible to change the layout and get it as it was on version 10?
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Distro agnostic init script dependencies
I'm trying to write an init script which will be able to handle basic dependencies (for example, It has to be started (just) before MySQL service starts). Is there a distro agnostic way to write such ...
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rsync mkstemp failed Invalid argument (22) with davfs mount of Box.com cloud
I mounted Box.com cloud storage using davfs according to these instructions. I mounted my Box.com account under /home/me/Cloud/Box
I can access the mounted filesystem via Dolphin as well as via the ...
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Please enter PIN (Ubuntu, Desktop, 3G Modem) turn off
Upon having booted to my Ubuntu on my notebook which has an internal dial-up device for 3G network, which I don't use anymore, Ubuntu asks for my PIN for the sim card.
How can I disable this pin ...
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Extremely long time for an ext4 fsck
The problem that I am having is the extremely long time that fsck is taking. I have thoroughly made searches on Google, but I could not find anything that would resolve the problem.
The command that ...
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Command “I'm” on linux ubuntu [closed]
I'm new at linux, ubuntu,
and I did type I'm running and then like if it was a program or
something else, I was allowed to write more...
nothing else... I just want to know more about this command ...
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openssl-1.0.1e compiling on Debian
I am compiling OpenSSL-1.0.1e on Debian Lenny (armv4 architecture). I have been following the instruction on http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/openssl.html to compile the source ...
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Why Ubuntu 12.04LTS stopped at “could not write bytes : broken pipe”
When I update the system, and reboot the machine, it stopped at:
"could not write bytes:broken pipe".
I could not login into the system through the lightdm, but when I change to the gdm, it ...
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No wireless on my Dell Inspiron 1545 Ubuntu
I had installed Ubuntu 12.10 a few months back but never really used wireless device. I did use wireless before that when I had windows installed on my Dell, but then I switched to Ubuntu and the ...
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How can I tune Ubuntu for running from a flash drive?
I feel like this is a bit of a duplicate of this other question about making caching more aggressive, but I tried a lot of the suggestions there and I just can't figure out why I'm having trouble.
My ...
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Hide all open windows on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Is it possible to have a button on the side bar to hide every open window on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
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Resizing the side bar on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [migrated]
How can we resize the side bar on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
I would like to make it as small as possible.
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How to get rid of the “scanning for btrfs file systems” at start-up?
After upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10, I get a message "scanning for btrfs file systems" at starting-up. I don't have any BTRFS filesystem. It delays the booting for about 15 seconds.
How ...
