Questions tagged [vps]
A VPS or Virtual Private Server is a virtual machine hosted by a VPS provider and accessible only via the internet. It may also be called VDS or cloud server. The most common VPS types are OpenVZ, KVM, Xen and VMWare.
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Remotely access postgresql database
I need to access a postgresql database from a remote machine on a VPS at DigitalOcean running 12.10 and postgresql 9.1.
How do I do this? I noticed port 5432 is closed, how do I open this?
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Trying to start nginx on VPS, I get "nginx: unrecognized service"
Following the How to install rails and nginx with passenger on Ubuntu tutorial from DigitalOcean.com, the seventh step manually starts nginx:
sudo service nginx start
but fails with the following ...
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What server control panels are available for Ubuntu Server?
As a dedicated Ubuntu server or as a VPS, I am looking for a web control panel, something like cPanel which is something like a web administrator for a server.
I have not used any on Linux since I do ...
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How can I run Dwarf Fortress in text mode (ncurses) on my Linux VPS?
I installed Dwarf Fortress on my Linux VPS to use with dfterm. It's running Ubuntu 10.04 Server x86-32. I'm fairly certain I have all the dependencies:
I've installed:
ncurses
ncursesw
libsdl
libsdl-...
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How do I delete ALL SSH known hosts?
How do I delete ALL SSH known hosts?
I've managed many VPSs before and I want to delete these keys.
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What is the named daemon and why is it running?
I want to know why the named daemon is running, do I need it running for my VPS to work properly ?
Can I stop or remove it ?
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Why did my upgrade to 12.04 fail with "glibc not found" or "libc6" or "requires kernel 2.6.24" error?
I upgraded my server installation form 11.04 to 11.10, then to 12.04 over ssh. All seems almost ok - but there is a small issue with glibc, which is messing up my apt.
I tried sudo apt-get install -f ...
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Best Way To Learn How To Set Up OpenVPN On Amazon EC2/a VPS?
What is the best way to learn how to set up a VPN using OpenVPN on an Amazon EC2 server/a VPS? What level of proficiency is required in Linux System Administration for this?
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Easy method of switching from Openvpn-Acess Server to Community Edition?
I recently installed the OpenVpn-Access Server on a vps and it's great. However, now that I got it running I want to switch over to the Community-Edition because I do not want to deal with purchasing ...
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Can't connect with VPS running Ubuntu server 16 with x2go
earlier today (or yesterday -_-) I've rented a VPS (from aruba cloud) for a personal project. I've managed to establish SSH connection in putty so I can run shell commands alright. What I want to do ...
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PHP-FPM eating memory & Creating many Pools
I set up my nginx with php-fpm. Each vhost has its own unix-socket and separate POOL.
But the problem is that php-fpm is creating 7 thread for each config pool that I created in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/
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Can't store passphrase in same session with eval $(ssh-agent) && ssh-add
In Ubuntu 16.04 I executed:
eval $(ssh-agent) && ssh-add
I got:
Agent pid 3361
I then SSH tunneled into my VPS successfully, after inserting my passphrase.
The problem:
Well, it's not ...
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Is the "linux-firmware" package actually required on a XEN VPS?
This package is half a gigabyte so I'd like to determine if it's truly needed.
I'm having trouble understanding why it would actually be required on a VPS, and no other packages depend on it, however, ...
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Invisible processes using all of system memory
I have a VPS (Ubuntu 14.04) with 512MB of RAM. This used to be quite enough, but for a while, this has been causing problems -- something is eating up all of that memory, and my debugging has left me ...
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How do I troubleshoot network issues with my VPS?
Problem: I occasionally have network issues with my Ubuntu VPS. I cannot SSH to the box, I cannot ping the box by IP address. I can access the box via host Serial terminal. When I access the box via ...
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Can't set locales Ubuntu 16.04
Can't set locales, that's pretty it. My VPS gives me a mutilated Ubuntu 16.04 distro:
$ export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
$ locale -a
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netplan gateway6 seems to have no effect
I'm trying to configure static IPv6 with netplan on a cloud server (public cloud from OVH) running Ubuntu 18.04
I have created a /etc/netplan/66-ipv6.yaml yaml file in addition to the existing /etc/...
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Why does my Ubuntu 13.04 VPS say it has a 2.6.x-series kernel?
I have ordered a VPS with Ubuntu 13.04 on it. The VPS reports that the kernel is a 2.6.x-series kernel.
From what I have read, Ubuntu 13.04 has at least the 3.8.x series of kernels. Is there a ...
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Postfix won't transfer WordPress contact form emails to my Gmail account
In Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with LEMP in DigitalOcean I have a WordPress web site that has a contact form I created with Contact Form 7 (CF7).
My problem
I have a problem transferring emails from my ...
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'Unable to set password for the MySQL "root" user' on a Openvz VPS
I'm trying to install mysql server on my Openvz based VPS running Ubuntu 13.04 64bit and i keep getting this error at the install. I tried multiple times and i also re installed the os with no change ...
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sshd response "Exceeded MaxStartups" while connecting
We have a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) server that is open to world with ssh port 22. (I know that this is a bad idea, but fail2ban is running also on this server just for this reason.) Recently, the ...
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Monitor all incoming pings/requests
I have installed Ubuntu Lucid on a VPS. I installed a webserver, and also a mail server (POSTFIX).
What I noticed is that some websites are continuously pinging my domain*. I have also received a ...
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Help, I May Have a Rootkit
It's been a while since I have been here. I have been very preoccupied with trying to sort out endless problems with my devices getting hacked. I have a bridge set up on my home network. It is a TP-...
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Best control panel for Ubuntu 12.04 server [closed]
I am looking for up-to-date control panel that is compatible with 12.04 and easy to install. Most of the open source control panels I've seen have been out of development for years now. zPanel looks ...
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Setting up ACL on a VPS?
I am relatively new at using Linux and have just installed a fresh(ish) copy of Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Minimal install running on a HyperVM VPS.
How would I enable ACL? I have a question on Superuser ...
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How to configure GRUB loader during apt-get upgrade on Ubuntu 12.04
I have a box with Ubuntu 12.04, and just did a apt-get upgrade. I'm presented with a dialogue to update my GRUB bootloader, but with the following message:
The GRUB boot loader was previously ...
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Removing a plethora of default installed packages
i just bourght a VPS, imaged with ubuntu 12.04, and i notice right out of the box it's using 10% ram. I then proceeded to run this:
dpkg-query -Wf '${Package;-40}${Priority}\n' | sort -b -k2,2 -k1,1
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Is there any midnight commander alternative that allows me to see the folder size?
I want any alternative for Ubuntu 11.04 that runs on the command window that allows me to see which folder use up a lot of space.
P.S. It's for my VPS.
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how to disable password and root ssh?
I've restarted ssh with sudo systemctl restart ssh on xenial 16.04 LTS running a VPS on AWS EC2, yet still get prompted for a password when connecting with ssh. How can I disable root ssh and disable ...
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Record audio from Skype on VPS?
I have impossible task to do! Going crazy!
On fresh Ubuntu server 10.04. install, via SSH I've installed desktop and VNC server.
Then Skype.
Problem is that Ubuntu is VPS! And it don't have physical ...
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How Can I install A Rhythmbox Plugin On My Ubuntu VPS?
I am trying to install a Rhythmbox Plugin (File Organizer https://launchpad.net/rb-fileorganizer) on my VPS Ubuntu installation. On the desktop, I would be required to open the folder then double ...
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I don't have the ssh-copy-id command (windows client) [closed]
I'm following this guide to set up an RSA key pair with my VPS.
I'm using my Windows PC to follow through with the first part of the guide, and ssh-copy-id does not exist in the command prompt (...
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How do I point a domain to an Ubuntu VPS?
I've recently purchased a VPS hosting (rackspace) and want to configure a domain for this account. I've configured nginx and other stuff to run Ruby on Rails on it. And everything works perfectly when ...
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How to have Chrome Browser always start after every system restart w/ xfce?
Sorry if this is a dumb question but I'm a newbie with these things.
I want to run a chrome extension inside a VPS (DigitalOcean), I have managed to open Chrome and install the extension and is ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 - Couldn't find any package by glob and regex [VPS] [duplicate]
I keep getting this error:
I only started using Ubuntu 2 days ago and I am not exactly sure what it means. Can someone please help me?
I am trying to turn it into a VPN.
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Why gedit is not opening a file from terminal?
I've a Ubuntu 12.04 VPS with no graphical environment installed. In that VPS, I'm trying to open a file from terminal using gedit with this command
gedit config/database.yml
But unfortunately it is ...
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How to grant access to a folder which resides in a folder owned by another group
Situation:
Group A requires access to /path/to/dir/foo to upload files through ssh or ftp, but the directory in question: /path/to/dir/foo is owned by group B (if you'd like: /path is recursively ...
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Upgrade remote server from 9.04 to Ubuntu LTS [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Skipping intermediate Ubuntu OS upgrade to latest one,How do I upgrade from 9.04 to 10.04.2?
My situation: I'm stuck with a VPS which I have no physical access to. The VPS ...
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How do I upgrade from linux kernel 2.6.33.5-rscloud
I have a VPS, which used to be on Slicehost and now Rackspace and it's running kernel 2.6.33.5-rscloud with Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. It seems I can't update my packages without getting onto a more recent ...
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Port 27005 closed - how can I force it to open? [closed]
I have a VPS (virtual server) hosted by OVH.
I run GMod on the VPS; port 27015 is the server port, and that is open.
However, 27005 is not.
IP tables is blank as I just flushed it and it is ...
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Why is UFW blocking outgoing connections? [closed]
UFW is blocking some outgoing connections on my server, such as Akismet, the spam killing plugin for my Wordpress site. According to Akismet's firewall info I need to allow contact with four IPs. My ...
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Unable to SSH into server after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 [closed]
I just upgraded the server from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 and now I am unable to SSH into the server.
Any ideas? I'm using Putty on Windows 10.
Edit:
Whenever I finish the update and restart the machine. ...
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The 'proper' way to get ONLY my eth0 netmask via CLI in Ubuntu 18.04 on VPS?
According to this answer and many other tutorials throughout the web, ifconfig will list lots of fascinating and useful information. And, that seems the standard way to find out stuff like my netmask.
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Google Cloud Compute keeps changing my /etc/hosts file after restart
I have been playing around with 3 google cloud compute instances using webmin/virtualmin (web hosting and email), Vestacp (hosting only), and ISPconfig (hosting only) control panels.
The ISPConfig ...
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Permission denied error when installing searx on Ubuntu Server 21.04
I'm trying to install searx on my Ubuntu VPS but when I run ./utils/searx.sh according to the official documentation
I get this error:
ls: cannot access '/home/test/searx': Permission denied
ERROR: ./...
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How to close a VPS and leave programs running (using "screen" command)?
Imagine that I have a program running in a VPS.
I want to close that VPS (maybe turn off the computer) but keep that program running.
I understand I can use "screen" to do so. But I'm unsure how ...
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Running xdotool on VPS
I connect to my VPS using tigerVNC Viewer and run a command like:
xdotool getmouselocation
but I always get the error:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
On my desktop it is working but not on my ...
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Running LXD inside Viruozzo
Running LXD inside Virtuozzo is not totally working (It may be similar as running LXD inside another LXD).
The Virtuozzo host is a VPS host service (not under my control).
The VPS client is running ...
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What does this permission rule mean
what does this permission rule means, and is it safe to use it for my VPS server?
sudo chown -R "$USER":www-data /var/www
find /var/www -type f -exec chmod 0660 {} \;
sudo find /var/www -type d -exec ...
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How to extend storage space on VPS (LVM) 9GB to 40GB
My VM came with a 9GB setup but a 60GB drive. I'm trying to extend it to it's full size. I have to do this on several servers. I tried to follow a guide else where but when creating a new partition I ...
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