Ubuntu User's questions

Was doing a package update and it ended a process and hung so I rebooted the server and now it will not allow me to perform any more updates.

I tried the following to no avail:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get install -f  (I get a message: E: DPKG was interrupted, you must manually run sudo dpkg --configure -a to correct the problem)
sudo dpkg --configure -a  (I get the following - which is where it got stuck the first time)
'Setting up citadel-server (8.03- 1)'
'sendcommand: started (pid=1692) running in 504'
'Attaching to server...'
'domain Citadel server ready'
'Authentication as an internal program.'
'DOWN'
'231 Shutting down server. Goodbye.'
sendcommand: processing ended.'

Then it all freezes and does nothing. It looks like a orphaned processes and it locks the dpkg and the citadel-server and so my mail no longer works. forcing me to reboot the server to get it back to work.

How do I fix the index so I can do future updates? Snaptic package also will not work.

Thank you

How do I create a cron job to copy all files that are new within the 1 day span (each day at midnight)? So essentially all files created from the day of to the new folder with all permissions, date attributes, owner/group, in tact.

All files from /var/www/folder1/ to /var/www/folder2/

using crontab -e

Essentially, I am looking for the parameters that can be used to copy files daily from one folder to the other keeping all attributes intact.

Linux: UBUNTU 10.04 lts

I just did a update to my system, one of which was Samba for UBUNTU 10.04 and now it will not allow me to get privilages when I use Nautilus.

Any ideas on how I can get this back?

I would like to run phpmyadmin using my SSL certificate.

I read that if I placed the following within the file: /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php, it would force it to use SSL. And now it does...

$cfg['ForceSSL'] =true;

However, my issue is when I did this, now I get an error stating "cannot connect to server."

I do a port scan and my port 443 is closed for one, but I am connecting via https:// for my secure web based email admin panel. This tells me this may not be the issue. Second, is that I have a SSL certificate I purchased but I am not sure how to apply this cert. mydomain.com.crt is sitting on my desktop, how should I be utilizing this?

I remember creating a self signed cert for my web-email access. Do I have to do this for phpmyadmin as well? At least this way, since I am the only one who will ever access the DB, it will never expire.

Also the phpmyadmin used to come up as: http://mydomain/phpmyadmin/ however, I do not have any pages on my website that requires https:// .

Here is my issue: I removed clamav, spamassasin, and amavis and now I am getting this in my Citadel email box every day from some cron job that is searching for Clamav.

How do I amend the Cron job to stop checking for Clamav? Where is the cron job taks located? I looked at /etc/cron and /etc/cron.d as well as various other files such as anacron, crond, etc. I cannot seem to find out where I can amend the job to take this job out of the loop.

Here is the Error I get each day:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: clamav-daemon:6 unknown user 'clamav'
error: found error in /var/log/clamav/clamav.log , skipping
error: clamav-freshclam:7 unknown user 'clamav'
error: found error in /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log , skipping
error: clamav-milter:6 unknown user 'clamav'
error: found error in /var/log/clamav/clamav-milter.log , skipping
error: stat of /var/log/clamav/clamav.log failed: No such file or directory
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1enter code here

I currently have a dedicated server UBUNUT 10.04lts with my own email server, dns server, and web server all running from the same box. I would like to love the DNS services off this box if at all possible and not have my own name servers hosted in my web server.

I was given 5 IP's from the hosting company. The network admin set my server up to be my own DNS server, email server, and web server.

My Domain is at godaddy.com but the DNS is managed on my server. reverse DNS is set up through my dedicated hosting company as they have their own rDNS server.

I would like to move the DNS back to Godaddy and use their name servers.

My question is around what are the parameters I need to change in my bind zone files?

Currently, my records look like this:

$TTL      604800
@   IN   SOA   CDS0135NS.mydomain.com.  admin.mydomain.com.  {
               20110202
               6044800
               86400
               2419200
               604800  }

;
    IN   NS   ns1.mydomain.com
    IN   NS   ns2.mydomain.com
@   IN   A    111.111.11.111 (my server IP)
@   IN   AAAA ::1
www IN   A    111.111.11.111 (my server IP)
www.mydomain.com.  IN  A   111.111.11.111
ns  IN  A  111.111.11.111
ns1 IN  A  111.111.11.111
ns2 IN  A  111.111.11.111
ns1.mydomain.com   IN  A   111.111.11.111
ns2.mydomain.com   IN  A   111.111.11.111

mail  IN  A  111.111.11.111
mydomain.com.  IN  A  MX   10   mail.mydomain.com.

imap  IN  CNAME  mail
pop   IN  CNAME  mail 
pop3  IN  CNAME  mail
relay IN  CNAME  mail    
smtp  IN  CNAME  mail

Now when I park my DNS with godaddy, they will give me ns1.godaddy.domain.com, ns2.godaddy.domain.com. They told me I would have to go into their control panel and put in my MX record (Which I would assume is my own mail.mydomain.com) and I would point their A record to my IP address of 111.111.11.111 within their control panel. But what do I do with "@ IN SOA CDS0135NS.mydomain.com. admin.mydomain.com." do I leave it alone?

And for my rDNS, do I continue to have it run through my dedicated hosting providers rDNS or should I run that through godaddy? Does my rDNS have anything to do with me changing the DNS hosted provider?

I am new to this and I have been reading as much as I could in the short time, and I have learned through my sys admin person. But he is no longer available so I am kind of on my own to do this.

Thank you.