I like to open the following ports on ubuntu:

25|80|110|143|443|465|587|993|995

The command netstat -tulpn | grep -E -w '25|80|110|143|443|465|587|993|995' Prints the following:

   tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN                                                                                                                                                                   
   8489/nginx: master
   tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:443             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN                                                                                                                                                                   
   8489/nginx: master
   tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN                                                                                                                                                                   
   8489/nginx: master
   tcp6       0      0 :::465                  :::*                    LISTEN                                                                                                                                                                   
   2170/docker-proxy
   tcp6       0      0 :::25                   :::*                    LISTEN                                                                                                                                                                   
   2194/docker-proxy
   tcp6       0      0 :::443                  :::*                    LISTEN                                                                                                                                                                   
   8489/nginx: master
   tcp6       0      0 :::993                  :::*                    LISTEN                                                                                                                                                                   
   2798/docker-proxy
   tcp6       0      0 :::995                  :::*                    LISTEN                                                                                                                                                                   
   2675/docker-proxy
   tcp6       0      0 :::587                  :::*                    LISTEN                                                                                                                                                                   
   2145/docker-proxy
   tcp6       0      0 :::110                  :::*                    LISTEN                                                                                                                                                                   
   3333/docker-proxy
   tcp6       0      0 :::143                  :::*                    LISTEN                                                                                                                                                                   
   2823/docker-proxy

How to open theese ports correctly?

I like lightdm and especially its webkit-greeter a lot. Is there a way to install kde without installing kdm and using lightdm instead?

I have tried everything from installing kdm and then remove it to dpkg-reconfigure kdm and lightdm to lightdm is the default. but I always got kdm when I boot up or a broken system, when I remove it completely.

Does anyone know how to get kde together with lightdm?

By the way. I am doing this on a minimal installation.

As you can see this is the syslog from my installation of ubuntu 14.04 and the authentication of the initramfs-tools package faild. I have 2 questions here

1. How could that be?
2. Where can I report this bug?

My Problem

I'd like to know how to boot in to first hard drive when using a custom txt.cfg for isolinux while using the official minimal Iso from Ubuntu.

I'm asking because VirtualBox has a bug and does not reject the iso when installation is finished

default installen
label installde
menu label ^Install in German
menu default
kernel linux
append vga=788 initrd=initrd.gz -- quiet  -- priority=critical locale=de_DE     url=http://webserver.com/folder/preseed.cfg 
label installen
menu label ^install in English
kernel linux
append vga=788 initrd=initrd.gz -- quiet  -- priority=critical locale=en_US url=http://http://webserver.com/folder/preseed.cfg 

How is the correct code for this one?

label bootfromhd
menu label ^boot from first hard drive
kernel linux
appendinitrd  (hd0,1)/initrd.img

I have a creepy problem here. I have to identify the desktop environment installed by an user without to know with one it's used by a user to change the user session value in some lightdm-files.

The user can select between

• Unity
• Gnome3
• Mate
• Xfce
• Pantheon
• Kde
• Lxde
• Cinnamon
• Enlightenment

I have to change the user-session value in more than one file here is an example

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=lightdm-webkit-greeter
user-session=value-to-cahgne

To determine the package I have the following code

usersession() {
if  dpkg-query -l package to check for > /dev/null; then
setunty
elif  dpkg-query -l package to check for > /dev/null; then
setgnome
elif dpkg-query -l package to check for > /dev/null; then
setmate
elif  dpkg-query -l package to check for > /dev/null; then
setxfce
elif ! dpkg-query -l package to check for > /dev/null; then
setpantheon
elif dpkg-query -l package to check for > /dev/null; then
setkde
elif  dpkg-query -l package to check for > /dev/null; then
setlxde    
elif dpkg-query -l package to check for > /dev/null; then
setcinnamon
elif dpkg-query -l package to check for > /dev/null; then
setenlightenment
fi
}

The string "package" to check for in the above code is what needs to be replaced.

What strings should I use to check dpkg -l for the current desktop environment?

First, I know this must be the a question asked so often, that you could not count it's duplicates. But all I found here has not solved my problem.

How to activate the root user after a fresh install and give him all privileges sp that I could delete the 1001 user after that.

This is to recreate a server environment created with ubuntu 14.04 where only a root user is active.

I am not able to change the file size that phpmyadmin accepts for importing databases on my test server.

I have changed all values I have some idea about in my.cnf:

max_packet_size
Key_buffer

or the upload file size and max_post_size value in every php.ini file I have found on the system.

The accepted file size on the import screen still remains 8,192kib.

I'd like to know in common how to use the results of debconf-show with debconf set selections to precvonfigure deb packages with the command line or within a shell script

For example

If I use

sudo debconf-get-selections | grep java7 > result;cat result

I get the following

oracle-java7-installer  shared/present-oracle-license-v1-1  note    
oracle-java7-installer  oracle-java7-installer/local    string  
oracle-java7-installer  shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 boolean true
oracle-java7-installer  shared/error-oracle-license-v1-1    error   
oracle-java7-installer  oracle-java7-installer/not_exist    error

How would the right debconf set selections line look like to configure the two dialoges that appear trough the installation?

In general how is the right syntax of debconf set selections I assume there are not only booleans like true or false and yes or no

I guess there is much more an other example will be how to select the default desktop manager if lightdm and gdm installed by a bash script.

Is there a general proofed approach to determine and the right values for a debconf package and write a proper bash script that installs something like the webupt8 java package and preselect the values that the user normally would be asked for?

Do someone know how to check if a PPA is already added to my system before i add it with the add-apt-repository command in a shell script.

That would be very helpful.

Thank you.

The Question

How can ubuntu be configured so that you don't got the "waiting for network configuration..." message at boot if you got more than one adapter?

Facts

• I've got an untouched Ubuntu here in Virtual Box and In VM-Ware Workstation.

• My /etc/network/interfaces file is untouched and I've activated a Nat adapter to use the host systems real network card.

• Additionally I've activated a host only adapter to be able to use a separate IP for connections between the VM and the host system.

Deduction

I figured out that the interfaces file needs only one gateway entry and this is given trough

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp.

So this is the entry for the first network adapter that provides gateway information and so the second configuration has no need for a line called

gateway 192.168.1.1.

For me that means the second entry has to look like this:

address 192.168.217.131

depending on what the router tells you as network address for the interface configured trough dcp and the second line here is the netmask. In common cases this is

netmask 255.255.255.

So the entire `/etc/network/interfaces'-file looks like this:

#This file describe the network interfaces available on your system
#and how to activate them. For more information see interfaces(5).

#The loopack network interface 

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

#The primary network interface 

# ethernet 0
auto eth0 
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static

address 192.168.217.131
netmask 255.255.255

#No need for gateway here because this is already provided by the dhcp entry.

In this example I've taken the IP address provided by Ubuntu's ^server (Basic Ubuntu Server) package what was 192.168.217.130 and increased it by one.

Now I restart Ubuntu and got the message Waiting for network Configuration... where Ubuntu try to wait for network connection about 2 minutes.

I've had the same on Virtual Box.

Hello command line gurus, I've created an ftp user like this:

ftpasswd --passwd --name webftp --uid 33 --home /var/www --shell /bin/false

What I like to do is to create the same user with a preseted password using the --stdin option. If I use:

echo < passwd > | ftpasswd --stdin --passwd --name webftp --uid 33 --home /var/www --shell /bin/false

I got a message which told me that there the password is not set.

Does anyone see the mistake?

Thank you!

I've got a little script here that should be pretty self explanatory but I can't figure out why the while loop doesn't handle the functions right. It should show the getinfo function again if the user presses N for no and if the user press yes it should execute the writeinterfacefile function.

What is wrong whith my loop?

#!/bin/bash
echo "Let's set up a static ip address for your site"
echo""

getinfo()
{
read -p "Enter the IP of your router:           (looks like 192.168.1.1) " routerip
read -p "Enter the netmask for your network:    (looks like 255.255.255  " netmask
read -p "Enter the ip address for your server:  (looks like 192.168.1.22 " staticip
}

writeinterfacefile()
{ 
cat << EOF >> /home/ubuntu/test 
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

#Your static network configuration  
iface eth0 inet static
address echo $staticip
netmask echo $netmask
gateway echo $routerip 
EOF 

}

clear
getinfo
echo""
echo"So your settings are"
echo "Address of your Router is    " echo -n $routerip
echo "The Mask fpr the Network is  " echo -n $netmask
echo "Your decided Server IP is    " echo -n $istaticp
echo""
echo "Are these informations correct? (Y/n)"

while true; do
 read -p "Are these informations correct? [y/N]" yn? 
 case $yn in
   [Yy]* ) writeinterfacefile ;;
   [Nn]* ) getinfo ;;
       * ) echo "Pleas enter Y or n";;
 esac
done

I'm extremely new to bash and need to create a script that calls another script depending on what command line switch is taken.

Let's call it stuff.sh

than stuff.sh --help should behave like help does in a normal program and give a list to the user what he can do

• -a you can do stuff like that.
• -b you can do stuff like that.
• -c this is extremely fancy stuff.

When I execute the script with stuff.sh - a it should do something, let's say call another script with sudo in front of it.

How could I do that?

any Ideas that everybody how is new to bash can understand easily?

Thank you!

I'd like to install e 17 on ubuntu server and have added the ppa and installed lightdm allready. But when I try to choose e17 at the login there is no option to choose it. When i log in the screen gets black and a second later ldm is on screen again.

Mey any one help me, please.

Thanks a lo.

I'd like to prepare an iso for unattended installation. So I generated a preeseed file to run through the installer automatically. Is it possible to download a bash script with wget and run it with bash directly in the first user's homedir (where the first user is the user account created by the installer)? What would the commands in the preseed file look like?

Some of you may know this from openSUSE. There the console is able to have a background. Is Ubuntu also able to have a background image outside the X-Windows system?

Hi there is anyone familiar with the non-gui version of ubuntus network Manager?

I'd like to set up a static IP with it in virtualbox without touching the file /etc/network/interfaces.

• IP: 192.168.56.101
• Gateway: 102.168.1.1
• Netmask: 255.255.255.0

Additionally I'd like to set up a second network interface with a dynamic IP to get connected to the internet with the Vbox.

How can I remove all packages from Ubuntu and make sure ubuntu-minimal will not be lost?

I Have created the following shell script.

 #!/bin/bash
...


    #Cleanup 
    sudo update-rc.d mysql defaults
    sudo update-rc.d apache2 defaults

    ln -s /etc/drupal/7  /home/$USER/drupal 

exit

Now I'd like to create the symbolic link for the user with uid 1000 but not for the root user.

What code whould help?

Thank you for any ideas

Josh

Is there a way to set up and pre-configure a lamp environment within a bash script without user prompting by dpkg and present data like mysql or root user password and such kinds of things?