Questions tagged [ubuntu-16.04]

Ubuntu 16.04 - named "Xenial Xerus" - is a Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu Linux. Officially released on April 21, 2016, it was supported for 5 years. Extended Security Maintenance subscriptions are offered by Canonical until April 2024. Only use this tag if your question is version-specific.

Ubuntu 16.04 - named "Xenial Xerus" - is a Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu Linux. Officially released on April 21, 2016, it will be supported for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, and Ubuntu Kylin. Only use this tag if your question is version-specific. Note that the Ask Ubuntu site is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.

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Fail2ban bans IP, but not until it already has hundreds of requests

I have a jail that picks up on a specific user agent. It eventually bans it, but it still gets by with several hundred requests. Here is the relevant info (unless anything else is needed): Ban action in /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf banaction =…
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Gtk Warning: cannot open display: :0 (for local user!)

I know there is a bunch of similar questions around but they are all about a X-Forewarding and SSH sessions. I got this problem with a local user which is privileged for a specific script... The Problem Under ubuntu 16.04 I want a specific user…
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Why is ADDITIONAL SECTION missing from my dig response?

I have a couple bind servers recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 (from 14.04). Cron runs dig . ns once a day to grab an updated list of Root servers used in the bind configuration. The script run by cron checks for ADDTIONAL SECTION in the output to…
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How to make results of "localedef" survive "dpkg-reconfigure locales"?

Im using UB 16.04 LTS Server and yesterday a new version of the locales-package has been released and installed: Start-Date: 2019-02-21 09:44:05 Commandline: /usr/bin/apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold…
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Upgrading wget on Ubuntu 16.04 server

I'm trying to upgrade my copy of wget on the server. Currently its running: 1.17.1-1ubuntu1.4 The problem is that I need 1.19 so I can get a new feature: http://tomszilagyi.github.io/2017/02/Wget-retry-on-http-error My patch has been part of the…
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OpenVPN server accepting connections but not allowing traffic

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on a rooted Android box with Linux Deploy to make it a OpenVPN server. I have diligently followed the guide at https://nanashi07.blogspot.com/2017/...id-device.html and the one at…
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SSL Enabled Geonode Service

Recently I have installed geonode on apache tomcat8 in an Ubuntu 16.04 droplet on digitalocean . Everything worked without any issue. The service was up and running. Then I tried to enable SSL for that installation by following the steps outlined…
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Route OpenVPN client traffic to a proxy? (iptables magic needed??)

I have an OpenVPN server running on a VPS with OpenVPN client running on my router on my home network. I'm trying to route my clients traffic over a proxy after it reaches the OpenVPN server so my vps ip is not exposed.. Can this be done with the…
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How to configure Node.js ExpressJs for HTTPS?

I am attempting to get an nginx,NodeJs,Express route working correctly on a server instance (Digital Ocean). So far, this is the situation: What currently works: http://api.xxxxxx.com - switches to https and returns "Welcome to nginx!"…
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Samba and router DNS setup with custom DNS

I would like to use samba on ubuntu 16.04 as an AD DC. I use custom DNS servers (OpenDNS). How should I set the DNS settings up? (e.g. my router's address is 192.168.1.1, the server is 192.168.1.2). Should I put the server as DNS server on the…
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VMware ESXi VM auto-suspended until login?

I noticed something weird on an Ubuntu Server 16.04 virtual machine running on VMWare ESXi 6.0. The machine hosts a website running on Apache 2 that is exposed to Internet. Also it runs SSHd to allow us to connect for support. I'm receiving calls…
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journald forwarding to syslog seems to be lagged

I'm seeing an issue on a Ubuntu 16.04 box where the copying/forwarding of journal messages to /var/log/syslog seems to be delayed: theuser@host:/etc/systemd$ sudo journalctl -n 1 && sudo tail -n 1 /var/log/syslog -- Logs begin at Wed 2018-12-12…
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Upgraded 14.04 to 16.04 and boot is dropping to initramfs prompt

Anyone know how to fix this? I upgraded a system with LVM partitions for /, /var, /usr, /home and it seems like initrd can't figure out the LVM scheme. I found a bugreport on launchpad regarding this issue however applying the activate VGs when…
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Something looks wrong in this Linux RAID

This Ubuntu Server 16.04 machine has these disks: sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal):…
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mysql_secure_installation on Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't set the root pass

I'm upgrading a few mysql (MariaDB) hosts from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 and noticed mysql_secure_installation doesn't seem to set a root password on the DB, even though it prompted me for it. I changed the root pass from the mysql prompt but later…
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