Comment by Ben Everard on Ubuntu 10.04 server, problems installing the desktop
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View ArticleComment by Ben Everard on Ubuntu 10.04 server, problems installing the desktop
I am trying to put a GUI onto my server, and I've just reinstalled 10.04 server and downloading ubuntu-desktop again, so will try your (pier) suggestion when it's complete :)
View ArticleComment by Ben Everard on Rackmount server case, equipment to mount on...
Ah right I understand, so it should everything to hang it up at both ends :D cheers!
View ArticleComment by Ben Everard on Download existing EC2 key pair
I suspected this might be the case, thanks for confirming :-)
View ArticleComment by Ben Everard on Download existing EC2 key pair
Cheers, I will have to set up username / password authentication :-)
View ArticleComment by Ben Everard on cp command, ignore unchanged files
Just found this too, was looking at the man page for the wrong version of cp. D'oh!
View ArticleComment by Ben Everard on Web server users and groups
Well that appears to have done it. After doing your little tests (touch before/after) and deploying this has solved my problem. Many thanks Tom :-)
View ArticleComment by Ben Everard on High Apache busy workers and high load average
Hi there, I used grep to find anything hitting the max_execution, but nothing came back. I did find, however, lots of strange entries in the access log. See "Update 1" in my question. Thanks.
View ArticleComment by Ben Everard on High Apache busy workers and high load average
The server just peaked again... I quickly showed sudo iotop and apache was writing a lot to the server, I'm not sure where I can find logs to say what what being written and at what time... can you...
View ArticleAnswer by Ben Everard for Removing .html extension via .htaccess
Google is your friend :-)Take a look at this article.Code:RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -fRewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.htmlCredit:...
View ArticleAnswer by Ben Everard for Run a batch file silently, executed at remote...
The remote desktop application is in fact using said batch file as an alternate shell, and I don't think parameters can be passed using this method.Therefore I will have to live with my console window.
View ArticleRun a batch file silently, executed at remote desktop login
In our office we are using Linux thin client machines, they work very well except the lack of IE, which is a pain because the corporations we deal with are too stupid to update their web apps (no flame...
View ArticleAnswer by Ben Everard for Ubuntu rm not deleting files
The problem was a sym-link that none of use were intelligent enough to spot.Not to worry :-)
View ArticleUbuntu rm not deleting files
My colleague and I have been struggling with deleting a directory and its contents. We are working on a new version of our websites source code on Ubuntu 8.04 (dir: /var/www/websites), what we want to...
View ArticleAnswer by Ben Everard for search engine (bing) lost my www
First make sure your DNS has an * record for www pointing at your server IP, this will make sure your site still displays without a www.If you wanted to add the www bit on for consistency of the URL...
View ArticleAnswer by Ben Everard for Ubuntu 10.04 server, problems installing the desktop
I've found the solution after hours of research, thanks to everyone who has helped.Thanks go to kras1001 on this Ubuntu Forums thread who suggested to manually set the onboard memory to 128mb, instead...
View ArticleRackmount server case, equipment to mount on multiple rails
Right then we've got a massive rack cabinet in our server room, it currently houses a few large servers and a giant UPS, the servers are very large so are supported by the rails at the front and rear...
View ArticleDNS, should I be using A instead of CNAME?
I'm doing a big reshuffle of our websites and hosting, moving about 10 domains to a new server. In doing so I had to make some changes to the DNS, pointing all of the domains at the new server. Instead...
View Articlecp command, ignore unchanged files
Is there a way to do a cp but ignoring any files that may already exist at the destination that aren't any older then those files at source.Basically I want to copy the contents of one disk to another,...
View ArticleWeb server users and groups
I've set up a web server of which will host sites for multiple clients, each client will have their own user and the files for their website(s) will exist within /var/www.We deploy code via a service...
View ArticleAnswer by Ben Everard for Python error when s3cmd is executed within bash script
Got it, I was setting the $PATH variable, should have known this was too generic, part of the s3cmd script (or dependancies) must be using that.Lesson learnt.
View ArticlePython error when s3cmd is executed within bash script
I'm creating a bash script of which will run on a cron, it's purpose is to backup a directory to Amazon S3 using the s3cmd command.I get the following error when I run the script:/usr/bin/env: python:...
View ArticleGet all files using FTP via Unix Terminal
Using the FTP command in the Unix terminal I want to download all files / folders from my FTP server.When I use this command:ftp> mget *I get lots of these errors:ftp: Unable to determine real path...
View ArticleDownload existing EC2 key pair
I am playing around with Amazon EC2 and have (finally) managed to SSH into the box from my home machine. Now I want to connect from my work machine but neglected to copy the key pair on a USB key.Is...
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