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Linode is a virtual server hosting business that specializes in Linux boxes.

Linode is a virtual server hosting business that specializes in Linux boxes.

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Ubuntu: how to create a user with ----disabled-password and still have them sudo (which fails as there is no password)

I am trying to write a linode stackscript, which is a bash file which is run as root when you build a new image. It can prompt for parameters such as USER, KEY and possibly, but not ideally, PASSWORD. In the script I create a user "bob", then…
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Disk IO Rate: What causes it and what does it mean to me?

I just got a mail from Linode saying that my account "has exceeded the notification threshold (1000) for disk io rate by averaging 1017.36 for the last 2 hours. " My question is just out of curious: From the literal meaning, disk io rate must mean…
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How can I achieve OpenVPN client routing without NAT on Linode

I've set up an OpenVPN network, and it is working properly in the sense that I can access the inner/LAN machines from the remote client. However, my problem is that all traffic from the remote machines appears to the LAN machines as though it is…
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iptables port forwarding (prerouting port 80) and firewall not working together

I have read many articles and answers on this topic and I have been in discussion with Linode support, but no one seems to be able to answer my exact problem. Seems easy - I'd like to use a iptables firewall to restrict access to all ports except…
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How to find out whether Linode NodeBalancer takes nodes out of rotation

Sometimes my NodeBalancer takes a node out of rotation and I would like to find out about it so I can reboot it. How do I do this? This is the background: I have two websites of the same type, which both run CPU intensive applications. One of the…
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Using ZFS or XFS on a Xen guest running Linux

Background: I'm investigating the viability of using a filesystem other than ext3/4, with the ability to run snapshots for backup and rollback purposes. The servers under consideration are mailbox server nodes running on Linode's Xen based VPS…
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How to restore Linode to Vagrant VM?

I'm trying to set up a Linux development environment so I can safely make changes to my website without breaking the live site. Linode hosts my live site. A simple solution would be to host my development server on Linode as well, but I want to…
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running freebsd on linode

How do I setup a linode to run FreeBSD? There is an example for NetBSD and references to successful attempts at getting FreeBSD to run but no actual document I can find.
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Multiple segmentation faults on Linux host

I have an old Slackware 9.0 mail server on a VM at Linode.com. It has around 130GB of mail hosted on it, in Maildir format on partitioned, separate Ext3 filesystems (largest one is 92GB). I'm in the process of planning a server upgrade (completely…
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DNS Settings and Switching Name Servers: Will this work?

this is kind of a follow up of this question, although this is more of a specific question regarding a solution I came up with, inspired by one of the responses. I currently have an old website on Server A that is a shared server with very limited…
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Do these Apache settings "increase performance" and/or "prevent excessive resource consumption"?

Linode's guide to hosting a website suggests these Apache settings: StartServers 1 MinSpareServers 3 MaxSpareServers 6 MaxClients 24 MaxRequestsPerChild 3000 The explanation given is: You've successfully…
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Linode Reboot - /dev/xvda has gone 220 days without being checked, check forced

When rebooting a Linode server, and logging into the lish I am seeing: /dev/xvda has gone 220 days without being checked, check forced. When trying to reboot the server. I had run a routine command for the web server and received a seg fault, then…
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Connect Linode servers to a disk on another server

I have three servers with Linode: A DB server and two web servers running Wordpress. The DB server also has a disk image called 'Shared Media', which I'd like to be accessible from the web servers (they're in the same data center). How do I go about…
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My VPS crashed and I have no idea why

I have a VPS with Linode right now. I was alerted by my monitoring service that a site I was hosting had gone down. I used Lish, Linode's method of getting direct out-of-band access to the console over an SSH connection but without using SSH, to see…
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Is Amazon EC2 for me?

I'm working on an image hosting website tailored to a particular niche. The website is made with Django. I'm currently planning to run it on Linode. So far so good. The problem is: I will need to perform very CPU-intensive tasks on high resolution…
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