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Ubuntu 12.04, named "Precise Pangolin" was a Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu Linux that has reached End of Life in April 2017. Extended maintenance stopped in April 2019.

Ubuntu 12.04, named "Precise Pangolin" is a former Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu Linux. LTS releases receive updates for 5 years and have available paid support from Canonical. The version number comes from the year and month of release (April of 2012).

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How do I find out what mail program is installed/sending emails?

I'm trying to find out what emailing program (if any) is sending emails on my server. My employer has a few servers, most of which use sendmail, but on 2 of our servers I'm not finding an email program, but somehow email has been sent with it? I…
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.bashrc: shopt: not found

Just provisioned a new Rackspace instance with Ubuntu 12.04 and pulled down rbenv from their github and installed it. I'm getting the following errors when executing . ./~bashrc $ . ~/.bashrc sh: 18: /home/deployer/.bashrc: shopt: not found sh: 26:…
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Postfix aliases db: No such file or directory

I am trying to use a postfix on a local Ubuntu 12.04 with ZoneMinder. I installed from Ubuntu Desktop the Postfix package and its dependency. Now if I try to send email with following command it works good: echo "This is the body of the email" |…
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How do you name a docker container?

On Ubuntu 12.04.4 I installed Docker 1.1.2. I have tried various attempts at setting the image id using: sudo docker run -i -t --name=container1 ubuntu date However, my attempts seem to fail. Every time I do a docker ps -a the image id has been…
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Which Nginx and which config file is used

I am trying to install Phusion Passenger module for Nginx. There was Nginx installed in /usr/sbin/nginx. The installer gem downloaded Nginx sources and compiled them with Passenger support into /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx. I copied this file into…
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Diagnosing packet loss / high latency in Ubuntu

We have a Linux box (Ubuntu 12.04) running Nginx (1.5.2), which acts as a reverse proxy/load balancer to some Tornado and Apache hosts. The upstream servers are physically and logically close (same DC, sometimes same-rack) and show sub-millisecond…
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How to share the clipboard between Windows Server 2008R2 and a guest running Ubuntu 12.04?

I use Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and a guest running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. How can I share the clipboard between Windows Server 2008R2 and a guest running Ubuntu 12.04? UPDATE What protocols do I need to connect these machines? I'd like to…
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runit - unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

I'm trying to figure out why runit will not boot or give me the status for the managed applications. Running on Ubuntu 12.04. I created /service, /etc/sv/myapp (with a run script, a config file, a log folder and a run script inside of it). I create…
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Is there any reason to use fail2ban with SSH password logins disabled?

I am setting up an Ubuntu server hosted by Linode. I am stepping through their security guide and they recommend installing fail2ban after disabling password based SSH logins. I don't see the point in installing fail2ban if dictionary attacks are…
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Postgresql 9.2 "invalid locale name" on Ubuntu 12.04

Today I installed Postgresql 9.2 on Ubuntu precise via apt.postgresql.org – all was relatively painless until I got stuck in a "invalid locale name: it_IT.utf8" error: root@ubuntu:/tmp# sudo -u postgres psql -Xc "CREATE DATABASE test TEMPLATE…
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OpenLdap TLS authentication setup

I am trying to setup openldap on ubuntu 12.04 by following this guide https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/openldap-server.html When I tried to enable TLS on the server by creating a self signed crtificate as decribed in the guide above, I got…
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How to mount /tmp in /mnt on EC2?

I was wondering what is the best way to mount the /tmp endpoint in the ephemeral storage /mnt on an EC2 instance and give the ubuntu user default write permissions. Some suggest editing /etc/rc.local this way: mkdir -p /mnt/tmp && mount --bind -o…
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100 % inodes in root directory, how to free inodes?

df -i Filesystem-----Inodes-----Iused-----IFree-----IUse-----Mounted on dev/sda2-------732960-----727804-----5156-----100%---- / Only these 2 are having higest inodes, rest all are too low. what can be done to free up inodes? Proc 10937 inodes Sys…
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High load due to I/O wait in Ubuntu 12.04 on EC2 instance

I am using Ubuntu server 12.04 , having trouble finding cause of load, I have seen change in response time of server from past week after reading Linux Troubleshooting, Part I: High Load It seems like there is no issue with CPU and RAM, and this…
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"sudo service nginx start" fails but "sudo nginx" works - can't figure out why

I have a server that is close to new and having a problem with getting nginx to start as expected. I have configured another server basically the same way and it works there. I figure there must be some environmental difference between the two, but…
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