I have a site that is currently on an unreliable server. Yes, we're fixing that; suffice to say the situation isn't permanent. I would like to know how to set up a fail check on the site. There are plenty of services out there, but I've got a server that I can add scripts to in the crontab. What elements would you recommend I have in the script?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to backup data files from a Debian Lenny server (in my office) to a second Debian Lenny box at my home. I was going to try rsnapshot configured for daily & weekly backups.My question has to do with access to the backup files. I can get into my hmoe server via ssh (specifically putty & winscp). If I need a specific file, is it easy to log into my home machine and simply find the file(s) I need in the directory tree? Is there some other (simple) method you would recommend instead?
View 1 Replies View RelatedNot sure if this is in the right place, but last night I fell victim to a Java exploit in my W7 partition and then had to clean up a very messy virus. It was the "system tool" virus for those of you who are curious. Upon infection I immediately disabled my internet connection and then moved to my Ubuntu partition and from there cleaned up the infection. However, I did not notice it for a little while so it might have had some time to do some damage so I am a little concerned that something might have been hurt.
Since then I have scanned with Microsoft Security Essentials, ClamAV, AVG bootable USB, and MBAM and found one Trojan, which was successfully cleaned up (that Trojan was in my Java temporary files). Does anybody have any suggestions about other measures I can take to ensure that my computer is safe for use?
I have to ubuntu machine (9.10 and 10.4) with a openvpn tunnel between them.This is the situation:
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NetworkA 192.168.0.0/24
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UbuntuA br0:192.168.0.3 (openvpn bridge between eth0 and tap0)[code].....
UbuntuA has one only interface etho and there are two openvpn instance: one bridge istance with br0 and another instance with tun0.
UbuntuA is not the gateway for networkA. UbuntuB is the gateway for NetworkB.I need to comunicate between pc on networkB e those on networkA.This is the "ping situation" (no pc tested has an active firewall):
ubuntuA vs ubuntuB: OK
ubuntuB vs ubuntuA: OK
pc on NetworkA vs ubuntuA and ubuntuB: OK[code].....
I've been on a quest to enable full routing through my openvpn tunnel between my office and the colo. Masquerading will work, however it will throw off anything key based and makes a lot of things just more difficult and vague in general. Is there an easy way to do this via iptables? I tried using quagga hoping it would magically solve my problems, however it does not seem to do my routing for me . I just did a basic static route within zebra...
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have three locations with a central office connected to two remote locations. At the central office I run on a cisco asa 5505 two site to site vpns. The remote end of the first site is a checkpoint firewall , and the remote end of the second site is racoon on debian. Both sites are up and working. However, where at the first site traffic goes both ways, at the second site it only works from the central office to the remote office.
For example, I can ssh from a host in the central office to a host in the first remote site (through checkpoint firewall,) then ssh back from that host at the remote office to any host in the central office. In contrast, after I ssh from a host in the central office to a host in the second remote office (through racoon), I cannot see the central office hosts (ping the ip address of a central office host, ssh, etc. all fail.) The vpn settings at the central office (the cisco asa 5505) are identical. So it seems to me that some routing magic is missing on the host running racoon at the second remote office. Where would such setting reside? racoon config files? iptables?
Maybe a site-to-site Ouija board connection.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIn the office there is a local network with samba+openldap PDC. The local domain name is company.net. The company desided to create a corporate Website on a remote hosting and desided that the site's domain should be company.net which is same as local network's domain name. So now it is not possible to reach that corporate website from within the company's local network because, as I guess, bind9 which is installed on above menioned PDC looks for company.net on a local webserver. Is there a possibility to let people from this local network browse the remote site?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHe's on dial-up so getting updates and installing packages such as restricted extras would be painful. I'm thinking Mint but have little personal experience with distros beyond Ubuntu.
View 3 Replies View Relatedhaving no luck with 9.10 i am wondering what linux is recommended that actually works? ie no internet problems with videos etc. ie recognising cd and dvd and playing them back. ie a cd/dvd drawer that opens and waits until it's told to close instead of chomping discs. ie no colour issues. ie better than 800+600 resolution without having to stick a new graphics card in place of the stock card? etc etc, ie something that works and means i don't have to buy a new apple os. this is the machine i have running, apple power macintosh g4 450 dp (gigabit) [url]
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a FTP server replacement that is web based. Something like you see services have out there. I looked at a product called SynaMan from Synametrics Technologies and it really looked like it would do what I wanted but I could never get it to work with Ubuntu.Does anyone have any suggestions. This is for corporate use.Average users just don't get FTP
View 2 Replies View RelatedApart from ZoneMinder, does anybody know of any DVR software that I can use with my CCTV camera, and a purpose built linux computer. Looking for motion detection.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen 10.04 is released I'll encrypt my /home partition using luks. I've read that xts is good for hard drive encryption and aes is good for cipher encryption. I'm looking for something that is fairly secure without sacrificing a lot of speed.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI messed up my Karmic install on my laptop trying to get wireless networking connection to behave better I'm not really sure what I did, but the problem I have is that, though it connects to my wireless network, it does not get a route to it. Any attempt to reach the router with a ping yields a destination unreachable. Trying to fix it in true hack fashion, I tried messing around with the static routes. I added an explicit route for my router (route add 192.168.0.1 wlan0) with no avail. I ensured there was a default route to the router which is a gateway outside of my LAN (route add default wlan0 gw 192.168.0.1). I have another route to my LAN network with a gateway of "*". I've done all this but the results are the same.
So, I'm interested in recommendations to fix this. Is there some networking setup/install procedure I can rerun? Does a recovery boot work? Or is it best to go back and reinstall Karmic? Are there other places that you might suggest I look to in order to fix this?
What's new as far as audio players ? I still like vlc for videos.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm about to do an install from scratch of Ubuntu 10.4 and was hoping to get some advice on file systems. My plan is to use a solid state drive for the OS and a couple terabyte drives for data (64-bit machine, linux only). Should I use ext4 for everything (over, say, ext3)? I found a couple of threads here and elsewhere with mixed reviews but thought I'd ask again now that both the ext4 file system and the Ubuntu 10.4 release are a little more mature. Is the performance upgrade significant? Does anyone still see data issues with large files?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a reputable, frequently updated ad-site list for my hosts file. I want to try it out for adblocking.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an old 160 GB HD I want to use as a bootable drive for the purpose of fixing computers and recovering lost files. I'm no computer wiz but I have fixed a few peoples PC's at chruch so I have become the defacto computer fixer uper. Many of you can probably associate with this. As soon as you help one person in a group with a computer suddenly EVRYONE needs help. But I enjoy it so anyway.. back to the topic.
Tools I normally use. Clonzilla: I like to Image a drive before I mess with it that way I can always go back to the original state encase I do something risky and make things worse. Hasn't happened yet but the day I don't do an image will be the day I kill somebody's file system and have to do a recovery.....
XP CD: Use it only for fixmbr and fixboot. I haven't ran into much file recovery yet but I've used a few linux file carvers before so something with this ability is a must. *Bit for Bit forensic style imaging- don't want to loose 'blank' sectors encase I need to do some file carving.
*Used space imaging - so I could if I had to image someones drive and put it on a smaller one if need be. This would probably have to be done with something with decent error handling like ddrecover or dd_recover. I cant remember which I used but it was great getting an OS off of a bad drive. But I put it on a larger one, so is there a way to image a drive and put it on a smaller one given the USED space from the original doesn't exceed the size of the new drive?
*Windows fixmbr- does linux have a tool to fix windows MBR?
*Windows fixboot - this is less likely to have a linux version but maybe you guys know of something?
*File recovery tools - File carving obviously, but I'd also like something that can find recently deleted files from the master file list without going threw the carving process.
*file system tools - gparted along with some tools to repair corrupted file systems, mostly windows but who knows when I'll need to fix ext3-4 systems for my machines.
*Virus scanners capable of scanning for viruses on a mounted windows drive.
*regedit tools - just encase I want to really dork someones machine up , j/k I'm laking in this area but again I can learn and I always have an image to go back to.
*any other tools I may need you guys can think of that may be of use for these type of things.
I've looked at SystemResueCD, Trinity Rescue Kit, and at this moment the best looking one is ubuntu rescue remix. I am willing to install additional tools if need be. It also needs to be able to run on a larg array of computer hardware, as well as very, very old computers... (I know I want my cake and eat it too .. but so far with my limited linux experience thats exactly what I get... eventually.) Again this will be put on a 160 GB drive to accommodate HD images so it still needs to be 'relatively' small and will be made into an external USB bootble drive. Short version I want a one stop shop bootable drive to do most common computer repair jobs.
I am looking for recommendations for a broadband card for use in North Central Illinois.I want to go the prepaid route as I will not need the card on a regular basis. I found T-Mobile, Verizon, Virgin Mobile, and Cricket. Cricket is not an option as they do not serve the area I will be in. So can anyone recommend a carrier and a broadband card that is Linux friendly and works well?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm thinking of making a surveilance camera for my home, but I'm unsure what camera to buy. HD quality image would be great. Recommendations?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've been using an old Logitech Quickcam Express with the qc-usb drivers for years. It functions fairly well on older kernels with the patches that became available. Works on a Slackware 11 box with a 2.6.15.1 kernel, but I can't get the driver to compile on newer kernels, and I don't want to spend days trying to find patches that may or may not work.
I'd like to get a cam that I can use without too much difficulty on a Slackware64 13.1 box with a >2.6.36 kernel.
I have agreed to set up a server to run an existing website from a hosted solution. This is no problem I have setup Centos 5.5 64 bit, all running OK. The existing site is single directory HTML with a very small amount of Java script.The user has no technical knowledge and would like to be able to go in and modify their site, sadly vim is not an option
Has anyone got any suggestion of single or multi site CMS solutions that are easy to set up and use. I would also need to import the existing site. I do not have weeks to spend learning a new product at the moment though I would love to do so.
I am a Ubuntu/Ubuntu-based linux fan but sadly I have a computer based on the intel 3945ABG chipset that Canonical as broken (the drivers for this chipset work fine in Debian. It is evidently due to patchs Canonical has added to the drivers). In a nutshell, I need a Debian-based Gnome distro with good driver/codec support built in that doesn't worry as much about "free-ness" nor legal pitfalls in certain countries about codecs.This is seen at bug report:
http://intel 3945ABG Sad, too, is that Canonical seems to not be interested in fixing this bug. In fact, with each new distro update, the bug seems to get worse. With this track recored, I don't have high hopes for Lucid. I really need to update the laptop it is on. I am looking for a good Gnome-based debian distro, but prefer one where I won't have to do a whole bunch of downloading "non-free" things like drivers and such (not even sure how to do this since medibuntu is for Ubuntu base distros and I'm not sure if it will work with a "non-patched" Debian repo.
Seems like most debian branches are in fact also Ubuntu branches. I had high hopes for Mepis, but it is KDE-based, and I don't want to go that way. After making the switch to Gnome almost a decade ago, I'm not wanting go mess with KDE anymore.
I have to avoid the Ubuntu distros as they have the same problem (for example, Linux Mint is what I have on this laptop as the wireless sort of worked if just browsing the web but download large files breaks it. It is essentially non-function in Jaunty and Karmic.) I will keep using Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the 4 netbooks we own. And Mint on the desktop and My personal laptop. I would just like advise on a good Debian to use for this other certain laptop.
I want to set up a home computer as server. I've installed Ubuntu Server Edition 10.04, and can access it through SSH. However, I would like to have a browser based interface for managing things, such as installing a phpBB forum and stuff like that. Also, I want my friends to be able to share files on my home server as well. I know I can do it by using FTP, but I would rather not have them to install a FTP program.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am looking for some good FTP server software. Any recommendations?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a friend in another country I want to talk to using Skype. Can anyone recommend me a webcam and headset that will work for me (using Maverick 64-bit) out of the box? Preferably one I can buy quite cheaply, within the UK.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI presently have an Ubuntu server 64-bit running VMware Server 2.0 in a test lab. The server was created using the default partitioning method during the installation. So I have what I think is just one huge 300GB partition along with what I hear is a uselessly large swap partition.
I keep reading that theres an advantage to creating dedicated partitions, especially for the the VM datastore.
If the advantages are true then I would like to re-partition the drive.
What partitions should I define and how big should the be?
I have found it difficult to research a wireless print server which will be supported on Linux. I use Debian 6 and Ubuntu 10.04 (also Windows 7 64 bit, Vista, and MACOS Snow Leopard). Everyone in my household using uses a different OS, so it is all the more difficult to ensure interoperability across so many OSs. Where can I find a definitive, authoritative and complete list of supported print servers? Also, I want to keep things simple as possible. This is an important criterion for my choice of wireless print server.
GUI mediated setup/install is much preferred over complex configuration files and command line. I know of CUPs, but I don't know if CUPs will regulate the wireless print server and what's involved. The print server is to enable sharing of Brother HL-4050CDN printer. I'm seriously considering F5L049au (see Belkin : Home Base). But the customer support people tell me it does not support Linux. But this is true of the majority of the print server market. Must support N network standard, the printer above, be wireless, and be Linux compatible.
I'm still kinda new to linux. I've been learning my way around the command line and been experimenting with linux on a couple computers of mine. Occasionally after trying a few things, grub or linux won't load right. I've done some research on possible tools to help but I was wondering if any of the more experienced users had some recommendations for boot disk or tools to help repair grub and/or linux desktop/server editions.
p.s. I would also be interested in any fun and interesting tools, programs, and/or repository's that other users have found beneficial.
I am in need of recommendations what software to use to keep track of development files in my office. I wish to have a central server which holds the source code of our software. There will be two dev staff working concurrently on the same files. Also i need it to be accessible by Eclipse or any equivalent IDE software.
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