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Rinzwind

19:00

bbl :P John good luck ;-)

John

how do i restart it

sadmicrowave

@John apache?

John

yes

sadmicrowave

service apache2 restart ?

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart ?

Seth

@Rinzwind not normal

John

19:01

doesnt output anything

Seth

Try sudo apache2 restart.

sadmicrowave

@Seth +1

John

it outputs a list of command option for apache saying my syntax for the command was wrong

xiaodongjie

How to create ppa?

sadmicrowave

sudo service apache2 restart

Seth

19:04

@John what's the list?

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Q: How do I create a PPA?

How do I create my own custom PPA to share with the Ubuntu community? I am trying to create my own custom package set and I would really like to share it with the community.

ppa

John

figured it out i had to put a -k before restart

xiaodongjie

@Seth thanks.

sadmicrowave

boo

John

it outputs : apache2: bad user name ${APACHE_RUN_USER}

don.joey

19:17

@Rinzwind I agree with what you said (not the part of you not wanting to be a mod, you'd be a good mod, but that aside). It inspired me to write the following answer. @Seth let me know what you think. meta.askubuntu.com/a/9011/115155

@Seth feel free to delete my comments on Terdon's answer...

Seth

I don't see a need to delete the comments.. Unless you want them deleted. I'll read the answer later.

@don.joey Can I ask why you're pinging Rinzwind though? Is there an earlier conversation relating to this that I missed?

Seth

19:48

ok, read the answer. Looks good.

Nathan Osman

20:13

Just bought a USB OTG cable.

Seth

Wow, for once Bing beats Google.

Nathan Osman

amazon.com/eForCity-Adapter-compatible-Samsung-Galaxy/dp/…

Seth

I pasted an error message into Google and it turned up nothing. Bing gave me some useful results.

Nathan Osman

It's similar to that but not Galaxy-only.

Seth

Looks useful.

Nathan Osman

20:15

It will be, hopefully. For the price I paid ($1.06 with shipping) it's worth a try.

Rinzwind

@don.joey modding is too much hassle :+ and I like the answer

@Seth yes :) I made a comment earlier 2 hours ago

Seth

@Rinzwind ah

Rinzwind

about all find and dandy discussing that tag but the editwars I consider more an issue ;-)

Seth

Yes, I agree with your comment. Upticked :)

Rinzwind

lol

(that is a copy of what I posted here in chat ;-) )

Seth

20:27

lol

Rinzwind

and that again is a longer version of a previous comment I made: if someone edits an edit of mine I'll stop editing and they can have it the way they want it :+)

saves me a lot of stress :+

Seth

haha

Rinzwind

DAMN IT

I started reading this answer and came to the conclusion: MUST be Luis ->

1

Q: GUI toggle for a set of commands

I want to create a GUI widget like on/off toggle for running a set of commands. For example, to turn wifi hotspot on of off using "ap-hotspot start/stop". Anybody help me...

command-line scripts gui

:P

but no it is Jacob :P

Seth

rotfl

Rinzwind

long answers are bad! :+

wow Bayern got creamed by Real

Braiam

20:45

apparently I'm an expert in the teamviewer topic... I've never used it :(

btw, guys if you see something with apt* please, tag it with apt :)

Ask Ubuntu Meta

1

Q: A special review?

Must be something special - 7 close votes are not enough? http://askubuntu.com/review/low-quality-posts/255605

discussion review

Rinzwind

CentOS: askubuntu.com/questions/457934/…

Mateo

21:13

Woo 14.04 dvd 's have shipped

Richard

Whoah, new FF tab design...

Braiam

@Richard old news... I use debian's :P

Richard

@Braiam Nice :P seems chormeish to me

Braiam

@Richard ^

Richard

21:45

Still good ole FF though (: (unless you have patched it in which case good ole iceweasel)

@Braiam your clock is a bit off

Braiam

@Richard it's maintained with ntpd so I really doubt it

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: Ubuntu 12.04 to Windows Server 08 R2, Error 13

Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, kernal 3.2.0-57-generic Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 x64 Trying to setup a network share from Ubuntu 12.04 to a Windows Server 2008 R2 however no matter what changes are made the share fails to mount due to error(13): permission denied. Firewall port 445 has been opened betwee...

ubuntu permissions mount

Richard

@Braiam Never mind, was reading the wrong clock

terdon

22:01

@AvinashRaj If the length of the current line is greater than the current value of the max variable, set max to the length of the current line and set maxline to the contents of the current line.

Andrew

What do you think this mean?

(but it show a boot loading screen that should belong to ubuntu desktop, after that , it goes to the ubuntu server login comment line normally)

Andrew

22:14

I am at 1,111 rep

terdon

@Andrew Heh, cool :)

Braiam

downvotes @Andrew

terdon

@Braiam booo! :P

Braiam

behold! the new orange thingy!

Andrew

@Braiam Good job, last time I look you where at 19,9xx

Braiam

22:27

@terdon this needs downvotes askubuntu.com/a/457941/169736

Andrew

@Braiam ha?

@Braiam I want to know what kind of answer is that? Do you Know?

terdon

@Braiam Done. Now why did you go and remove all the tags from the question again?

Braiam

@terdon "How can I point all of the applications that expect libboost packages to instead look for the libraries built and installed from source?"

terdon

@Braiam Yes. How is the boost tag not applicable? I would also argue for the install-from-source but I grant you that one is borderline.

Braiam

@terdon should we have a tag for each single library out there?

in SO, I may understand... here, not so

btw, he doesn't want to "install" anything from sources, just point whatever he's compiling to use the boost libraries from some specific sources

terdon

22:33

@Braiam No, only for those that are used often enough for a tag to exist. Boost is one of them and for all I know there will be tricks specific o the usage of that library (unlikely but not impossible)

@Braiam Yeah, the install-from-source is borderline. I think it does apply though because his issue is that he wants to compile and get everything set up correctly.

So it is a question about installing from source as opposed to using apt which will set it up for you.

Braiam

@terdon don't you know we want to get rid of all the install tags except for software-installation and system-installation? If we follow your analogy, the software-installation applies ;)

terdon

@Braiam No I didn't know that. Where's the meta post? I think having a different tag fro installing using debs or source might be useful.

Richard

@Braiam dpkg does accept wildcards

Andrew

@Braiam Humm, How many question and answers do I need to downvote to make you again a 19 reper?

Braiam

@terdon yeah, but sometimes just installing something means that you have to install from sources ;) . The meta is here meta.askubuntu.com/q/8233/169736 and the relevant part is "Please blacklist installation (and its numerous synonyms) "

@Richard say again?

Andrew

22:38

@Braiam Do I still get 2 rep if I edit something in the meta lands?

Braiam

@Andrew why are you adding the "troubleshooting" tag....

Richard

@Braiam you said dpkg doesn't allow the * character but it does indeed accept the * character js

terdon

@Braiam Oh yeah, installation is useless, no argument there. install-from-source I'm not sure about. I'd nuke it in a second on U&L but here I think it's useful.

Andrew

@Braiam on what question?

Braiam

@terdon ok, let me see what is my vision of both tags: software-installation: anything about installing stuff on your system, from sources or compiled binaries, doesn't matter

@Andrew askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/256676

@Richard test the command yourself....

➜  ~  echo "libboost-* hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
[sudo] password for braiam:
dpkg: error: illegal package name at line 1: illegal package name in specifier 'libboost-*': character `*' not allowed (only letters, digits and characters `-+._')

Andrew

22:42

@Braiam Oh, He/She said it token them all day and havn't find a soluation. I wanted to add software-truobleshoting but it wasn't a tag, and I don't want to created tags if it isn't nesserly.

terdon

@Andrew troubleshooting is a classic meta tag, the kind of thing we want to avoid. It gives no useful info and anyway, about 95% of all questions here are about troubleshooting of one type or another.

Richard

@Braiam works for filenames then, but not package names. huh

Andrew

@terdon okay

Braiam

@Richard ;)

terdon

@Richard In any case, the answer would fail because dpkg was not run as root, only the echo was.

Richard

22:46

@terdon yes, have banged my head against that wall many times.

I mean pipe. Not wall.

Andrew

Where should I begain on this story question

0

Q: Having a problem with xorg.conf for a problematic monitor

I have two Westinghouse 26" L2610NW monitors that I run off of a GeForce GT X660. The graphics card has two DVI (one Digital, one analog), and an HDMI out. I run my primary display (Screen 0) off of the analog DVI port converted to VGA to plug into the monitor. The second monitor has to go in eit...

nvidia xorg multiple-monitors resolution display

terdon

@Richard Yeah, but it both looks like a wall and can feel like one :)

Richard

@terdon ah yes (x

Andrew

160

Q: How do I reset a lost administrative password?

I'm working on a Ubuntu system using a Panasonic CF-50 Laptop. My Client has completely forgotten his Administrative Password. He doesn't even remember entering one; however it is there. I've tried the suggestions on the WebSite and I have been unsuccessful in deleting the password so that I c...

password

Shouldn't this title be "How do I reset a lost root password?"?

Braiam

@Andrew root is disabled by default in ubuntu

terdon

22:50

@Andrew I fixed the formatting and removed the thanks.

Andrew

@Braiam But when you install only Linux Dirso When need to inserted a root password for the system. For many that is base on Ubuntu, the root password is the same as you normal user.

Nathan Osman

@Jorge: do you happen to have an Aviate beta invitation?

Andrew

@NathanOsman good job

terdon

@Braiam AAAAA! Super User:

Braiam

@Andrew wut? do you know that here we only deal with "Ubuntu" right?

terdon

22:54

Braiam

@terdon hehehehehehe

>:)

terdon

@Andrew No no no! It is never the same as your user.

Andrew

@Braiam Dahh, No, I only have been using this site for just over 2 years

terdon

It's just that your user has the right to use sudo and that asks for your user's password. The root account is something else again.

Nathan Osman

@Andrew: good job for what?

Andrew

22:56

@NathanOsman becoming a mod

Nathan Osman

I'm a mod on E-books.

Andrew

@NathanOsman I know

@NathanOsman How when you only have 822 rep over there?

ebooks.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=all

Seth

23:13

How much rep do you think he needs to have? It's just a beta after all.

@terdon What a mess.. I wish they wouldn't show the close vote queue.

jrg

Anyone here have a seagate HDD?

Seth

hm. I think I do.

Been a while since I've opened this up.

Braiam

@Seth they doesn't, in SO, that is :P

Seth

@Braiam Yeah I know.

jrg

@Seth can you open up disk utility and tell me what your read raw read error rate is?

i keep reading on the internet that seagates have really, really high values on that all the time

just want to verify

Seth

23:16

terdon

@Seth I can imagine! I don't have it here but it's a scary number on SU.

Seth

Like I said though, I'm not 100% sure it's seagate.

terdon

@Seth Woah! This is what smartctl gives me:

 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   117   099

Seth

Oops, look like I cut out the headers.. Need those @jrg?

 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   108   099   006

@terdon Looks like I'm a little better than you ;P

terdon

@Seth Yeah, I was just being silly. I thought the 8 digit number was your error rate :)

Seth

23:20

ooh. haha.

jrg

@Seth thanks

terdon

So I kind of freaked out, he has how many errors?

jrg

i don't get it

Nathan Osman

@jrg: Do you have an Aviate beta invite by any chance?

jrg

with that value, the entire drive should be slag

PyRulez

23:22

You know how some wifi networks have extra log in pages.

jrg

@NathanOsman i think so

PyRulez

Anyone know how to log in to them automatically on ubuntu.

Seth

@jrg I dunno.. Bad drive? (As in, some kind of manufacturing issue?)

Braiam

@PyRulez depending the kind of logs you want to save, what logs are you talking about?

PyRulez

Not logs, login pages.

:D

Braiam

23:23

oh... huh?

terdon

@PyRulez I think you need something like Selenium to automate it.

PyRulez

like, where they say "do not hack into the NSA from our networks, or other dumb stuff"

terdon

@PyRulez docs.seleniumhq.org

Nathan Osman

@jrg: if you do, could I please have one?

:)

PyRulez

@terdon How ironic, its blocked. Better use a historical version from the internet archive.

wait, never mind

terdon

23:26

@PyRulez Blocked? Works fine here.

PyRulez

@terdon I meant the docs were blocked on the very network I was talking about, but apparently now it isn't.

jrg

@Seth but here is the thing

i've been trying to do alllll sorts of tests

and they all come back fine

Seth

Well I've (personally) never considered SMART smart..

Nathan Osman

Me neither.

Seth

It's a conspiracy theory! The manufacturers want you to get a new drive! :P

jrg

23:29

lol. well, it worked for me.

Seth

Or perhaps SMART isn't used to ext(3)(4).

terdon

@jrg If it makes you feel better, I have an order of magnitude more errors than you do. It's a ~4 year old laptop though so it's had some time to accumulate I/O errors.

jrg

@terdon these were brand-new though

like, bought 60 days before

the system refused to boot

terdon

@jrg Well, that does look like a hell of a lot of errors to have after 60 days of use.

Nathan Osman

I have one with falling sectors everywhere that still reports "okay".

jrg

23:30

last time I had a drive fail, I had IO errors in my syslog

this time, nothing.

terdon

@NathanOsman Really? I've been quite happy with smart. It's warned be about failure a couple of times and both were right.

jrg

no warning

Nathan Osman

S.M.A.R.T. is S.T.U.P.I.D.

terdon

S.M.A.R.T. is the new S.T.U.P.I.D.

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jrg

4

A: Making sense of S.M.A.R.T

It does appear that different manufacturers use SMART values for sometimes radically different things, as you can see here: My hard disk(s) in ReadyNAS is reporting high SMART Raw Read Error Rate, Seek Error Rate, and Hardware ECC Recovered. What should I do? Seagate uses these SMART fie...

dangit

so it sounds like i just had to spend $200 that I didn't actually need to.

oh well. Guess my friends are getting 1TB hard drives for their birthdays. :P

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Nathan Osman

23:33

Lol.

Seth

hah.

jrg

frak.

Nathan Osman

@jrg: if you do have an invite, please send it to nathan.osman AT the Google mail domain.

That would be very much appreciated.

jrg

@NathanOsman ok, i need to login to aviate again

Nathan Osman

Thanks!

Very much appreciated!

jrg

23:40

np

Richard

@Seth thought SMART just displayed the hard disks' own readings, which themselves may be inaccurate

jrg

@Richard You are correct. SMART reports what the drive itself thinks is going on

Richard

@jrg "I am malfunctioning and therefore cannot report my own status accurately."

Braiam

@terdon GO TO SLEEP!

jrg

but that's the thing

as we just saw above with seagate, they don't have a standard

seagate seems to refer to something like "number of minutes i've been spinning"

Richard

23:44

"Unless I'm lying."

jrg

or "number of times i've been accessed."

BUT THEY DON"T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. grr.

terdon

@Braiam Fair enough, night all!

Braiam

Elvis left the building....

Mateo

@jrg mine is in July ;)

jrg

@Mateo heh.

Braiam

23:56

@jrg mine is in may :P

jrg

wrong window. :P

Braiam

Y U SO BIG AMAZON ONEBOX?

jrg

but since i did anyway, does this look like a bad printer? i'm used to dealing with enterprise printers instead of consumer printers... amazon.com/Epson-XP-310-Wireless-Printer-Scanner/dp/B00FTG73SC/…

i don't print that much, mostly need to be able to scan and print stuff

Mateo

Hm where is the question where I showed where to disable smart, make it like the old days where it failed without warning

Seth

Epson is good.

The type depends on what you want to do.

Braiam

23:59

@jrg I normally use HP (well, in my country that is the only brand you see around) but when using Epson I didn't have any problem

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