Questions tagged [ubuntu-14.04]

Ubuntu 14.04, named "Trusty Tahr" is a Long Term Support release of Ubuntu Linux (released in April 2014). Note that http://askubuntu.com is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.

Ubuntu 14.04, named "Trusty Tahr" is a Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu Linux. LTS releases receive updates for 5 years and have available paid support from Canonical. The version number comes from the year and month of release (April of 2014).

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How to correctly configure MongoDB to use Letsencrypt SSL on Ubuntu

How do I correctly configure MongoDB to use Letsencrypt SSL on Ubuntu? I have created an SSL certificate using Letsencrypt and combined it via: cat /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem >…
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Ansible with SSH keys

Moving from Puppet to Ansible. Like the fact that it is agent less and SSH driven. I just setup two test VMs. One as the Ansible server (yes overkill), and the other as an example client (random Linux server). All our servers use public private key…
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GitLab Active Directory authentication: no results and no authentication

I'm trying to set up LDAP authentication with GitLab (version 7.12.2 installed on Ubuntu 14.04 amd64 on a VM, Omnibus set up). I've edited my gitlab.rb file to look like the following: gitlab_rails['ldap_enabled'] = true gitlab_rails['ldap_servers']…
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Should I enable automatic security updates on a Ubuntu server?

I can't seem to find an agreed answer on this anywhere, so I figured I'd ask it myself. I have five Ubuntu servers running either 12.04 or 14.04, should I enable automatic security updates on these using unattended-upgrades? Or should I just run…
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How does apache use or allow browsing of /usr/share? (linux / Ubuntu)

The default apache.conf (ubuntu server), contains the following block: # Sets the default security model of the Apache2 HTTPD server. It does # not allow access to the root filesystem outside of /usr/share and /var/www. # The former is used by web…
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GlusterFS failing to mount at boot with Ubuntu 14.04

Previously I asked about mounting GlusterFS at boot in an Ubuntu 12.04 server and the answer was that this was buggy in 12.04 and worked in 14.04. Curious I gave it a try on a virtual machine running on my laptop and in 14.04 it worked. Since this…
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Why is a /128 IPv6 address assigned via DHCPv6 in Ubuntu?

I am testing the implementation of IPv6 in Ubuntu. My Ubuntu linux client correctly gets RA from server and configures an address in the advertised prefix. Next it gets another address via DHCP which has a /128 mask. 2: eth0:…
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SSL certificate working in chrome but not openssl s_client or curl

Google chromes update to version 58 started invalidating my self signed certificates a few days ago. It was complaining about missing subjectAltNames. I did some research and tried a couple of suggestions (which wouldn't work) but then found this…
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Why does Ubuntu 14.04.2 have the bind9-host packages upon installation?

Why does Ubuntu 14.04.2 have the bind9-host packages upon installation? Is this a bundled upon installing the Ubuntu OS? Is there a way to avoid having this packages upon installation?
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DST Morocco, a way to trick NTP server

From several years Morocco have been using GMT without DST, in the past years, our government reactivated the use of DST. In the first years, the DST was a mess, different periods, starts, ends, so Microsoft tried to release some patches, they were…
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Can't enable mpm_prefork with Apache 2.4 on Ubuntu 14.04

I'm installing PHP 5.4 with Apache 2.4 on Ubuntu 14.04. Php 5.4 is not available on apt-get so I have to install it from source. I have installed apache2-prefork-dev apache2-mpm-prefork And i configured PHP with ./configure…
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PHP-FPM service status `stop/waiting` but workers are running?

Starting php5-fpm appears to work, but checking the status immediately shows that it is not running: [root@server ~]# service php5-fpm start php5-fpm start/running, process 4516 [root@server ~]# service php5-fpm status php5-fpm stop/waiting Even…
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Connection closed by [preauth]

I'm on a Ubuntu server. I'm trying to enable an ssh tunnel in order to add a git remote in a project of mine. On my local win7 machine I generated the key pair with PuTTYgen. I pasted the public key in authorized_keys file I set the private PuTTY…
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Getting Too many Open files error for Postgres

In Ubuntu 14.04 server on a JAVA application we are getting Too many Open files error for Postgres (Using Postgresql 9.5). We set the following in /etc/security/limits.conf * soft nofile 16384 * hard nofile 16384 root soft nofile 16384 root hard …
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Ubuntu upgrade from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 failed - mysql-server-5.7 dependecies fail

I am trying to upgrade existing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and it seems I am stuck somewhere in the middle. When I turn on my workstation, I get Ubuntu 16.04 LTS welcome & login screen, which is ok, newest kernel is up and running however,…
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