Re: Controlling what packages are installed under ubuntu server

2008-11-27 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Nick Barcet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a script that I have been working on to solve this [1]. It is > not yet completely tested, but I guess you could help me find if there > is something wrong with it. > > usage: maintenance-check [-f] [release [release

Re: Can't redirect cron output

2008-10-26 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This worked fine on all my systems but stopped at Gutsy. Hardy and Intrepid > both have the problem also: cron output can't be redirected. > > Here's what used to work: > > # Fetch mail for michael > */10 02-23 * * *

Re: Ubuntu JeOS image for testing?

2008-10-25 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:17 PM, MJang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am hoping to fill the remaining gap in ISO QA INSTALL testing for >> the latest release - install JeOS under VMware ESX, but I can't find >> the late

Re: Filing bugs against installer, which package?

2008-10-06 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Nicolas Valcárcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen that bug before and a patch fixing it, i don't remember > exactly were. Nic- You were correct in marking it a duplicate of Bug #277153, which has been fixed. Interestingly, the bug/fix was actually in the m

Re: Filing bugs against installer, which package?

2008-10-06 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to file a bug against the server installer but I have no idea which > package to put it against. The bug occurs right after the partitioner runs. > > Can anyone tell me which package represents the text-mode server

Re: Anyone able to run Intrepid server?

2008-10-04 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/278176 Thanks. > > against initramfs-tools and mdadm. > > I can't find any way to flag a bug as affecting more than one package. How is > this done? I put it

Re: Anyone able to run Intrepid server?

2008-10-03 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded the beta iso and tried again. Deleted all the partitions and > rebuilt them from scratch (this time eliminating the separate /home > partition for brevity's sake). Same result. Boots straight to BusyBox, upon > w

Re: Anyone able to run Intrepid server?

2008-10-02 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried twice now to install Intrepid server on 2 different systems. Once a > couple of weeks ago, most recently on the 9/30 daily build. > > In both cases the install seems to proceed fine but it won't boot. > > This most

Re: Creating a encrypted directory during the server installation

2008-09-23 Thread Dustin Kirkland
I feel compelled to mention one other thing... Often, LVM encryption is *not* an option for servers where unattended booting is absolutely required, as LVM encryption requires a passphrase on startup. With an encrypted ~/Private, no passphrase is required on boot, but rather it's mounted/unmounte

Re: Creating a encrypted directory during the server installation

2008-09-22 Thread Dustin Kirkland
actually provides exposure to this feature that is otherwise buried in the new /usr/bin/ecryptfs-setup-private command line utility. -- :-Dustin Dustin Kirkland Ubuntu Server Developer Canonical, LTD [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/83A61194 -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubun

Re: 8.04-1 won't boot from degraded raid

2008-08-29 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dustin Kirkland wrote: >> Among this thread, and the several others bugs on this topic (various >> aspects of booting degraded RAID), it seems that there are a number of >> different (perhaps eve

Re: 8.04-1 won't boot from degraded raid

2008-08-27 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Kees Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:44:36PM -0400, David Miller wrote: >> Now having said that I'm glad that this problem is finally getting some >> attention. But for it to be a viable option here it has to be in a LTS >> release so w

Re: 8.04-1 won't boot from degraded raid

2008-08-26 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would my rant be any better received if I pointed out that this stuff has > worked just fine in versions of Red Hat and Windows dating back almost a > decade. Absolutely in no way possible your rant would be better receive

Re: 8.04-1 won't boot from degraded raid

2008-08-25 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Michael- I have been working on this very extensively recently. Is there any chance you can check if the cd images for Intrepid do what you want them to do? I'm on vacation at the moment but had the opportunity to check my email and saw your note. If you check at least test the daily Intrepid i

InfoWeek article

2008-08-18 Thread Dustin Kirkland
I was curious if anyone else saw this published last week: * http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209903275 -- :-Dustin -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: ht

Re: Ideas for landscape-sysinfo tool

2008-08-15 Thread Dustin Kirkland
e would be two different viable options for running the Landscape sysinfo scripts. -- :-Dustin Dustin Kirkland Ubuntu Server Developer Canonical, LTD [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/83A61194 -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Re: Degraded RAID UI (Re: Server Team 20080812 meeting minutes)

2008-08-14 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Kees Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As mentioned, a timeout to the handler's question could be added using > the "-t" option to "read" (which is supported in busybox, thankfully): >ANS="unanswered" >read -p "Boot with degraded RAID anyway? [y/N]: " -r ANS

Re: Degraded RAID UI (Re: Server Team 20080812 meeting minutes)

2008-08-13 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Ante Karamatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:59:53 +0100 > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It appears from that if this feature is not enabled, the system will >> fail hard to an initramfs shell. Instead, how about giving the us

Re: Degraded RAID UI (Re: Server Team 20080812 meeting minutes)

2008-08-13 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears from that if this feature is not enabled, the system will fail > hard to an initramfs shell. Instead, how about giving the user the option > to continue? Good idea, Matt. See: * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ub

Re: Server Team 20080722 meeting minutes

2008-07-23 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Mathias Gug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add 'status' action to server init scripts > > kirkland generated a list of init scripts[1] that could have a status action > added to them. The wiki page also outlines how to add a status action and file > a bug in

Re: SSLv2 - do we really need it?

2008-07-22 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How will users who need SSLv2 support re-enable it? We could provide a second, non-default package, perhaps in universe, -with-sslv2, or some such. Packages that absolutely need this support (perhaps even for just long

Re: Server Team 20080708 meeting minutes

2008-07-09 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Mathias Gug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ACTION: kirkland to update the lsb section on the roadmap. Done. Added a link to: * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InitScriptStatusActions This page has a full description of the work being done, plus step-by-step instructions a

Re: Server Flavors [Was: Re: Platform vs Product [Was: Re: Moving w3m out of standard]]

2008-06-23 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3. Provide a way to scalably provide a lot of different configurations for > many specific use cases that doesn't require much additional configuration > and sysadmin time. I've proposed a spec for one approach to move

Re: Platform vs Product [Was: Re: Moving w3m out of standard]

2008-06-23 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Soren Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alternate and the mini ISO will get you the same kernel. It would be nice if these two had "server" as a possible installation target (or "server-minimal" as the case may be), which installed the server kernel instead. As

Re: Moving w3m out of standard

2008-06-16 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:08 PM, James Dinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would read the documentation on another system then, assuming the > system referred to is a production server and not a test server. Even > it there is a viable need for an interactive web browser, I think the > use case

Re: Moving w3m out of standard

2008-06-16 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * w3m# we need some text-based html presenter > > I'd like to formally cast doubt on this statement from the standard seed. > This was originally added a long time ago in order to provide a text-based > browse

Re: Server Team 20080604 meeting minutes

2008-06-05 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Dan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is also a moinmoin template to use when creating the corresponding > wiki page, I'll be doing that next exciting step tonight. True. For completeness, that url is: * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpecSpec :-Dustin -- ubu

Re: Server Team 20080604 meeting minutes

2008-06-05 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There appear to be things missing off of the list from what was discussed > at UDS. How does the community add to this? Unless I missed a button > somwhere, my LP foo is no longer sufficient to create a new spec. Scott-

Re: Bug 2 review pls [was Re: Bug 0 review pls]

2008-06-04 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Dustin Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it's worth, I like Bug #2 much better than Bug #0 ;-) Sorry, let me expand that... I like the idea of setting up a "Bug #2" that is similar to "Bug #1", except focusing on the

Re: Bug 2 review pls [was Re: Bug 0 review pls]

2008-06-04 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Dan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 05:26:05PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: >> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Dan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> this initiative "Bug #0", thinki

Re: ubuntu-virt-* packages available in my PPA for testing

2008-06-03 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Dustin Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=ubuntu-virt This package has been updated based on feedback from Soren. Hopefully, it's ready to go. Thanks, :-Dustin -- ubuntu-server mailing list

Re: New meeting time proposal - Tuesday 15:00 UTC

2008-06-03 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Dan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ssh -o 'ProxyCommand=connect-proxy -H corporatefirewall:80 %h 443' \ > myinternethost.example.org > > where myinternethost is running an sshd on port 443. Nice! While we're sharing best practices, I run an IRC proxy on

Re: Bug 0 review pls

2008-06-02 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Dan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was trying to catch people's attention mostly, wanting to focus on > what the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would define as an SEP Field - > Someone Else's Problem and therefore invisible to everyone. From the > feedback

Re: Bug 0 review pls

2008-06-02 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Anders Häggström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I install a new server (with fresh hardware) in the middle of an > LTS-period I want to be able to use the last released LTS-release and > upgrade drivers to support my new hardware that was not supported when > the LT

Re: Bug 0 review pls

2008-06-02 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Dan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have put some text for Bug 0 up at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Bug0#preview . I didn't get into the > solutions we worked on at UDS, thinking this is what bug report followup > comments are for and the body was alr

Re: ubuntu-virt-* packages available in my PPA for testing

2008-05-30 Thread Dustin Kirkland
I have uploaded these to REVU, in case anyone cares to comment there. http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=ubuntu-virt Thanks, :-Dustin -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.co

Re: monitor 640x480

2008-05-25 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Florian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the hint. I found the alternate install before, but i'm not > sure, if it is alternate to the server- or to the desktop-edition. > The Download-page says: > http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download > "Check here if you

Re: monitor 640x480

2008-05-25 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Florian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm installing ubuntu-server 8.0.4 on a ibm-server. The monitor for the > installation is quite old and has a resolution of 640x480 (only!). Florian- When I've encountered such situations, I will typically use the text installe

Re: about sms gateway

2008-05-14 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Matt Darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it odd that this was addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and came > through to the ubuntu list ? Looks like we were BCC'd, as the message was also posted to the fedora-list: * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/200

ubuntu-virt-* packages available in my PPA for testing

2008-05-08 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Hi Server Team- As discussed in today's meeting, I have prepare meta-packages intended to ease virtualization setup under Ubuntu in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~kirkland/+archive One source package (ubuntu-virt) provides a pair of meta-packages (ubuntu-virt-server, ubuntu-virt-mgmt). Both are

Re: Ubuntu Server graphical interface?

2008-05-02 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Sander van Vugt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, I know, you shouldn't run a graphical interface on a server. But > some of my customers just want to be able to start up a graphical > environment anyway. And since it's my task to server my customers in the > most

Re: Paravirtualizing Hardy Heron server

2008-05-02 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:12 AM, carlopmart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somebody can appoints me how can I paravirtualize an ubuntu hardy heron > server > under RHEL/CentOS host?? I can't find any reference about it on > wiki.ubuntu.com ... The linux-image-xen package is the wrapper for Xen do

Re: sparc port status

2008-03-27 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Lou Ruppert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't been able to find much information about the discontinuation > of sparc support in Ubuntu. Does that mean that there will be no > further releases past Gutsy as far as ISO images and packages go, or > does it si

Re: The ServerTestingTeam or how to use your shiny new server hardware

2008-03-07 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If someone were to install HHA6 on a quasi-production box, is there an > easy upgrade as it progresses from alpha->beta->release? Is it as simple > as 'apt-get upgrade'? More or less, yes. I did this successfully with a

Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Nick Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone share their XFS experiences on Ubuntu Dapper? Is it as > stable as ext3 in your experience? Any tips/tricks/gotchas? Any other > file systems I should look at (JFS, ReiserFS, etc.)? I have a (comparatively sm

Re: Server Survey

2008-02-22 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Having taken the survey, a few comments... Overall Comments - All lists of answers should be alphabetized. This applies to almost every page. - Several questions are missing punctuation. Most questions do end in a "?". But many requests, "Please..." should end in a "." or a ":" I like the roll-

Re: How to test a Firewall

2008-02-20 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 2:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we have set up a firewall and would like to test the setup. > Its not as simple as nust running a portscanner against it because you > need to have services listen behind the required services. > > I am looking for

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