Questions tagged [ubuntu-10.04]

Ubuntu Linux is a Debian derivative that aims to bring Linux mainstream. Questions on this site should generally refer to Ubuntu Server. Note that http://askubuntu.com is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.

Ubuntu Linux is a Debian derivative that aims to bring Linux mainstream. Ubuntu is named after the South African philosophy of "humanity towards others," and the community observes a Code of Conduct in an effort to keep the project civil and appealing to novices.

Ubuntu versions are released every six months, following a YEAR.MONTH pattern. For example, the release codenamed Maverick was officially published October 10th 2010 as Ubuntu 10.10.

Ubuntu 10.04.x is the LTS edition (Lucid Lynx). It has been designated as a Long Term Support (LTS) release, indicating that it has updates for three years for desktop use and five years for server.

There is a Stack Exchange site dedicated to Ubuntu which is a good place to ask any Ubuntu-related questions.

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Multiple "ServerName" per VHost?

In Apache2 is it possible to set multiple ServerNames in one VHost? I want to setup a "wiki" vhost for an internal wiki. My network has a ".lan" suffix. How do I get Apache to answer both "wiki" and "wiki.lan" on the same vhost?
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How do I tell what is running on which ports in Ubuntu?

How could I tell what is listening on which ports on Ubuntu? In other words, how do I get a list of ports that are in use?
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"500 Illegal PORT command" using command-line ftp

Has anyone figured out how to ftp a file down to a EC2 AMI using ubuntu on the command line? I am able to connect to ftp.drupal.org (I'm trying to dowmload a Drupal module) and then I can't even execute a simple "ls" let alone a "get". I just get…
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Can upstart handle symbolic links to config files?

I have all of my upstart config files under version control. My ideal way to use upstart is to create soft links from my version control repository (mercurial - not that it matters) into /etc/init but upstart fails to see the jobs. Everything is…
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Update Ubuntu 10.04

I keep getting this message when I logged into my server in AWS EC2 via ssh I think this is called MOTD 43 packages can be updated. 22 updates are security updates. but I have already done sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get…
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What should mysqld.sock contain, why don't I have it?

Does anyone know why my /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock socket file would not be on my computer when I install (or reinstall) MySQL 5.1? Right now, when I try to start up a server with mysqld, I get errors like Can't connect to local MySQL server…
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upstart scripts: run a task after networking goes up

I'm working on moving my current server setup to newer hardware, and migrating from ubuntu karmic koala to lucid lynx. Currently i'm using gw6c (compiled from the gogo6 website, as opposed to the version from the repositories) to get ipv6 access for…
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How to get HTTP preseed to work correctly on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid)?

Installation media: ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso I tried a lot of different boot parameters, but either the installer ignored the preseed configuration, or it boot itself directly as LiveCD. An example of the boot parameters I've tried: auto…
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Run nginx as a non-root user

I followed this process to installing nginx on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Server http://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/installation/ubuntu-10.04-lucid I got lost after the point of creating an init script to start nginx, and then calling…
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how to use du to see files greater than a threshold size

I am having a few situations to which I do not see any thing in du man pages. I want to see files in a sub directory which are larger than a particular size only. I use du -sh > du_output.txt I see the output as described for options -s and…
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Configuring Jetty to accept connections from all hosts on Ubuntu Lucid

I want Jetty to serve connections from any host on port 8080. My /etc/default/jetty file has: - NO_START=0 JETTY_HOST= JETTY_PORT=8080 The server is an EC2 small instance based on a Lucid Lynx 32 bit server AMI. APT is configured with multiverse…
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How do I enable swap file on my server?

I've followed this but when I run:- #swapon /swapfile1 I get::- swapon: /swapfile1: swapon failed: Operation not permitted The system is extremely slow with 1GB of RAM trying to run GUI + applications + FreeNX server. Any help is highly…
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Mysqld.sock doesn't exist

I have a MySQL server running on Amazon EC2 in a VPC instance. I had to change the instance type of it to handle load and when I brought it back up, the socket didn't exist anymore. The file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock doesn't exist and nor does…
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Accessing a windows shared folder from Linux?

I am trying to copy a (.html) file from a Windows XP Professional shared folder onto a server running Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS. As it's a shared folder the usual 'wget' doesn't seem to work. I suspect I'm using the wrong address style completely. I…
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How to repair/restore ubuntu 10.04 after 'sudo chmod / 777'

See Also: Why is “chmod -R 777 /” destructive? I changed file permissions recursively on the root directory / by executing sudo chmod -R / 777, and after that my system won't boot (I'm getting a lot of "permission denied" errors). Please help.
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