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Rinzwind
Rinzwind
7:00 PM
bbl :P John good luck ;-)
 
John
John
how do i restart it
 
sadmicrowave
sadmicrowave
@John apache?
 
John
John
yes
 
sadmicrowave
sadmicrowave
service apache2 restart ?
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart ?
 
Seth
Seth
@Rinzwind not normal
 
John
John
7:01 PM
doesnt output anything
 
Seth
Seth
Try sudo apache2 restart.
 
sadmicrowave
sadmicrowave
@Seth +1
 
John
John
it outputs a list of command option for apache saying my syntax for the command was wrong
 
xiaodongjie
xiaodongjie
How to create ppa?
 
sadmicrowave
sadmicrowave
sudo service apache2 restart
 
Seth
Seth
7:04 PM
@John what's the list?
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Q: How do I create a PPA?

Jebeld17How 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
John
figured it out i had to put a -k before restart
 
xiaodongjie
xiaodongjie
@Seth thanks.
 
sadmicrowave
sadmicrowave
boo
 
John
John
it outputs : apache2: bad user name ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
 
don.joey
don.joey
7:17 PM
@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
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
Seth
7:48 PM
ok, read the answer. Looks good.
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
8:13 PM
Just bought a USB OTG cable.
 
Seth
Seth
Wow, for once Bing beats Google.
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
 
Seth
Seth
I pasted an error message into Google and it turned up nothing. Bing gave me some useful results.
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
It's similar to that but not Galaxy-only.
 
Seth
Seth
Looks useful.
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
8:15 PM
It will be, hopefully. For the price I paid ($1.06 with shipping) it's worth a try.
 
Rinzwind
Rinzwind
@don.joey modding is too much hassle :+ and I like the answer
@Seth yes :) I made a comment earlier 2 hours ago
 
Seth
Seth
@Rinzwind ah
 
Rinzwind
Rinzwind
about all find and dandy discussing that tag but the editwars I consider more an issue ;-)
 
Seth
Seth
Yes, I agree with your comment. Upticked :)
 
Rinzwind
Rinzwind
lol
(that is a copy of what I posted here in chat ;-) )
 
Seth
Seth
8:27 PM
lol
 
Rinzwind
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
Seth
haha
 
Rinzwind
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

rajanI 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
Seth
rotfl
 
Rinzwind
Rinzwind
long answers are bad! :+
wow Bayern got creamed by Real
 
Braiam
Braiam
8:45 PM
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
Ask Ubuntu Meta
1
Q: A special review?

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

discussion review
 
Rinzwind
Rinzwind
 
Mateo
Mateo
9:13 PM
Woo 14.04 dvd 's have shipped
 
Richard
Richard
Whoah, new FF tab design...
 
Braiam
Braiam
@Richard old news... I use debian's :P
 
Richard
Richard
@Braiam Nice :P seems chormeish to me
 
Braiam
Braiam
@Richard ^
 
Richard
Richard
9:45 PM
Still good ole FF though (: (unless you have patched it in which case good ole iceweasel)
@Braiam your clock is a bit off
 
Braiam
Braiam
@Richard it's maintained with ntpd so I really doubt it
 
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
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Q: Ubuntu 12.04 to Windows Server 08 R2, Error 13

KijlUbuntu 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
Richard
@Braiam Never mind, was reading the wrong clock
 
terdon
terdon
10:01 PM
@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
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
Andrew
10:14 PM
I am at 1,111 rep
 
terdon
terdon
@Andrew Heh, cool :)
 
Braiam
Braiam
downvotes @Andrew
 
terdon
terdon
@Braiam booo! :P
 
Braiam
Braiam
behold! the new orange thingy!
 
Andrew
Andrew
@Braiam Good job, last time I look you where at 19,9xx
 
Braiam
Braiam
10:27 PM
@terdon this needs downvotes askubuntu.com/a/457941/169736
 
Andrew
Andrew
@Braiam ha?
@Braiam I want to know what kind of answer is that? Do you Know?
 
terdon
terdon
@Braiam Done. Now why did you go and remove all the tags from the question again?
 
Braiam
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
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
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
terdon
10:33 PM
@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
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
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
Richard
@Braiam dpkg does accept wildcards
 
Andrew
Andrew
@Braiam Humm, How many question and answers do I need to downvote to make you again a 19 reper?
 
Braiam
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
Andrew
10:38 PM
@Braiam Do I still get 2 rep if I edit something in the meta lands?
 
Braiam
Braiam
@Andrew why are you adding the "troubleshooting" tag....
 
Richard
Richard
@Braiam you said dpkg doesn't allow the * character but it does indeed accept the * character js
 
terdon
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
Andrew
@Braiam on what question?
 
Braiam
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
@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
Andrew
10:42 PM
@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
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
Richard
@Braiam works for filenames then, but not package names. huh
 
Andrew
Andrew
@terdon okay
 
Braiam
Braiam
@Richard ;)
 
terdon
terdon
@Richard In any case, the answer would fail because dpkg was not run as root, only the echo was.
 
Richard
Richard
10:46 PM
@terdon yes, have banged my head against that wall many times.
I mean pipe. Not wall.
 
Andrew
Andrew
Where should I begain on this story question
0
Q: Having a problem with xorg.conf for a problematic monitor

barnyjrI 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
terdon
@Richard Yeah, but it both looks like a wall and can feel like one :)
 
Richard
Richard
@terdon ah yes (x
 
Andrew
Andrew
160
Q: How do I reset a lost administrative password?

user9904I'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
Braiam
@Andrew root is disabled by default in ubuntu
 
terdon
terdon
10:50 PM
@Andrew I fixed the formatting and removed the thanks.
 
Andrew
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
Nathan Osman
@Jorge: do you happen to have an Aviate beta invitation?
 
Andrew
Andrew
@NathanOsman good job
 
terdon
terdon
@Braiam AAAAA! Super User:
 
Braiam
Braiam
@Andrew wut? do you know that here we only deal with "Ubuntu" right?
 
terdon
terdon
10:54 PM
 
Braiam
Braiam
@terdon hehehehehehe
>:)
 
terdon
terdon
@Andrew No no no! It is never the same as your user.
 
Andrew
Andrew
@Braiam Dahh, No, I only have been using this site for just over 2 years
 
terdon
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
Nathan Osman
@Andrew: good job for what?
 
Andrew
Andrew
10:56 PM
@NathanOsman becoming a mod
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
I'm a mod on E-books.
 
Andrew
Andrew
@NathanOsman I know
@NathanOsman How when you only have 822 rep over there?
 
Seth
Seth
11:13 PM
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
jrg
Anyone here have a seagate HDD?
 
Seth
Seth
hm. I think I do.
Been a while since I've opened this up.
 
Braiam
Braiam
@Seth they doesn't, in SO, that is :P
 
Seth
Seth
@Braiam Yeah I know.
 
jrg
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
Seth
11:16 PM
 
terdon
terdon
@Seth I can imagine! I don't have it here but it's a scary number on SU.
 
Seth
Seth
Like I said though, I'm not 100% sure it's seagate.
 
terdon
terdon
@Seth Woah! This is what smartctl gives me: 
 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   117   099
 
Seth
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
terdon
@Seth Yeah, I was just being silly. I thought the 8 digit number was your error rate :)
 
Seth
Seth
11:20 PM
ooh. haha.
 
jrg
jrg
@Seth thanks
 
terdon
terdon
So I kind of freaked out, he has how many errors?
 
jrg
jrg
i don't get it
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
@jrg: Do you have an Aviate beta invite by any chance?
 
jrg
jrg
with that value, the entire drive should be slag
 
PyRulez
PyRulez
11:22 PM
You know how some wifi networks have extra log in pages.
 
jrg
jrg
@NathanOsman i think so
 
PyRulez
PyRulez
Anyone know how to log in to them automatically on ubuntu.
 
Seth
Seth
@jrg I dunno.. Bad drive? (As in, some kind of manufacturing issue?)
 
Braiam
Braiam
@PyRulez depending the kind of logs you want to save, what logs are you talking about?
 
PyRulez
PyRulez
Not logs, login pages.
:D
 
Braiam
Braiam
11:23 PM
oh... huh?
 
terdon
terdon
@PyRulez I think you need something like Selenium to automate it.
 
PyRulez
PyRulez
like, where they say "do not hack into the NSA from our networks, or other dumb stuff"
 
terdon
terdon
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
@jrg: if you do, could I please have one?
:)
 
PyRulez
PyRulez
@terdon How ironic, its blocked. Better use a historical version from the internet archive.
wait, never mind
 
terdon
terdon
11:26 PM
@PyRulez Blocked? Works fine here.
 
PyRulez
PyRulez
@terdon I meant the docs were blocked on the very network I was talking about, but apparently now it isn't.
 
jrg
jrg
@Seth but here is the thing
i've been trying to do alllll sorts of tests
and they all come back fine
 
Seth
Seth
Well I've (personally) never considered SMART smart..
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Me neither.
 
Seth
Seth
It's a conspiracy theory! The manufacturers want you to get a new drive! :P
 
jrg
jrg
11:29 PM
lol. well, it worked for me.
 
Seth
Seth
Or perhaps SMART isn't used to ext(3)(4).
 
terdon
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
jrg
@terdon these were brand-new though
like, bought 60 days before
the system refused to boot
 
terdon
terdon
@jrg Well, that does look like a hell of a lot of errors to have after 60 days of use.
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
I have one with falling sectors everywhere that still reports "okay".
 
jrg
jrg
11:30 PM
last time I had a drive fail, I had IO errors in my syslog
this time, nothing.
 
terdon
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
jrg
no warning
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
S.M.A.R.T. is S.T.U.P.I.D.
 
terdon
terdon
S.M.A.R.T. is the new S.T.U.P.I.D.
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jrg
jrg
4
A: Making sense of S.M.A.R.T

Jeff AtwoodIt 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
6
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
11:33 PM
Lol.
 
Seth
Seth
hah.
 
jrg
jrg
frak.
 
Nathan Osman
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
jrg
@NathanOsman ok, i need to login to aviate again
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Thanks!
Very much appreciated!
 
jrg
jrg
11:40 PM
np
 
Richard
Richard
@Seth thought SMART just displayed the hard disks' own readings, which themselves may be inaccurate
 
jrg
jrg
@Richard You are correct. SMART reports what the drive itself thinks is going on
 
Richard
Richard
@jrg "I am malfunctioning and therefore cannot report my own status accurately."
 
Braiam
Braiam
@terdon GO TO SLEEP!
 
jrg
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
Richard
11:44 PM
"Unless I'm lying."
 
jrg
jrg
or "number of times i've been accessed."
BUT THEY DON"T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. grr.
 
terdon
terdon
@Braiam Fair enough, night all!
 
Braiam
Braiam
Elvis left the building....
 
Mateo
Mateo
@jrg mine is in July ;)
 
jrg
jrg
@Mateo heh.
 
Braiam
Braiam
11:56 PM
@jrg mine is in may :P
 
jrg
jrg
wrong window. :P
 
Braiam
Braiam
Y U SO BIG AMAZON ONEBOX?
 
jrg
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
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
Seth
Epson is good.
The type depends on what you want to do.
 
Braiam
Braiam
11:59 PM
@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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