JD Isaacks's questions

I am on a ubuntu 12.04 vm

I read https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/network-configuration.html

which says I can set the gateway with a command like:

sudo route add default gw 10.0.2.211 eth0

which works, but clears after a reboot.

I also tried to set the gateway by editing my /etc/network/interface file:

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp gateway 10.0.2.211 pre-up sleep 2

I just added the gateway line.

That doesn't seem to work at all though.

I tried rebooting and running:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Nano is the editor I use in command prompts.

When I open a large file I would like to search for some text (think Ctrl + F).

Is there a way to do this?

When I revert in Mercurial, it leaves several .orig files. I would like to be able to run a command to remove all of them.

I have found some sources that say to run:

rm **/*.orig

But that gives me the message:

rm: cannot remove `**/*.orig': No such file or directory

I have also tried these commands:

rm -rv *.orig
rm -R *\.orig

I am running Ubuntu Wubi in Windows 7 on my netbook.

I want to share files between the two OS's.

I know how to make a partition in Windows and give it a name like D: but how do I then access it from Ubuntu?

I have a user who's home directory is a Mercurial repository.

Mercurial notified me that there were 2 new unversioned files in my repository. .bash_history and .cache/motd.legal-displayed.

I assume bash_history is the history of bash commands for my user. I have no idea what the other is.

I don't want these files to be versioned by Mercurial, are they safe to just delete, or will they come back, or mess something up? Can they be moved to somewhere else? Or do I have to add them to my .hgignore file?

I want to append this text:

<Directory "/var/www/*">
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

to the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

I have access via SSH but I don't know how to use VIM. I would like to do this via a command.

I have a LAMP stack running. My the web root is /var/www.

So if I go to http://linux-server/some/page.php It renders the page located at /var/www/some/page.php

If I use https I get page not found.

I would like to enable SSL for all pages, so I can view any of these pages using either http or https.

How can I do that?

I have a php installed on my ubuntu machine. The web root is /var/www

I set the permissions for this folder like so:

sudo chown -R ftpuser:www-data /var/www

ftpuser is the user I set up so I can ftp to /var/www from another machine on the network. www-data is the user php uses. I double checked using whoami from php.

Whenever I ftp upload a new file to the machine the group has no permissions to the file. So when I try to access it in my browser via machine-name/new-file.php I am told permission denied and I have to go and chmod the new file.

I am wondering if there is a way I can default the www-data user/group to have access permissions to new files so I don't have to keep chmod every new file?

My Ubuntu machine is on the network accessible at \\linux-server I have Apache2 installed and if I go to http://linux-server it takes me to /var/www as the root directory.

Is it possible on the same machine to set it up so that http://jisaacks points to /var/www-jisaacks

I have a php script with this:

<?php
#echo exec('whoami');

$output = shell_exec('bash /usr/local/svn/bash_repo/make-live');
echo "$output";
?>

The make-live script contains this:

#!/bin/bash

cd /var/www-cake

sudo svn checkout file:///usr/local/svn/bash_repo/repo/

echo "Head revision has been pushed to live server"

So the PHP user who is www-data needs to have nopasswd for that script. I am told I need to add:

www-data ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/svn/bash_repo/make-live

To sudoers to allow this. First I run sudo visudo but I have no experience with vi so I try to open it in gedit with export EDITOR=gedit && sudo -E visudo which then just opens a sudoers.tmp file which is empty. I add the line and save it. But it doesn't do save.

So I just try sudo visudo and I add the line right beneath this part:

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
www-data ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/svn/bash_repo/make-live

I closed out sudoers and reopened to verify that it has saved. I even restart apache.

I run the php file and it still doesn't work.

What am I missing?

I have a bash script I am using to automate a SVN checkout. The contents of the file were:

#!/bin/bash
cd /var/www-cake
sudo svn checkout file:///usr/local/svn/bash_repo/repo/

Then when I double click the file it would ask me what to do, I would click the button "Run In Terminal" and then a terminal would pop up and ask me for the SUDO password. I would enter it, the script would execute and the terminal would close.

I wanted to give some sort of indication that the script ran successfully so I edited my file to look like:

#!/bin/bash
cd /var/www-cake
sudo svn checkout file:///usr/local/svn/bash_repo/repo/
echo "Head revision has been pushed to live server"

I expected the terminal to now stay open and tell me the message afterwards. To my surprise it now opens and immediately closes. The script does execute and I no longer have to put in the SUDO password.

Is this right? I do not understand why this is happening, seems like a security issue.

In my apache2.conf I have an alias setup like this:

Alias /cake/ /var/www-cake/repo
<Directory /var/www-cake/repo>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    AllowOverride All
    Options +Indexes
</Directory>

inside the /var/www-cake/repo directory I just have 1 file that is index.php

when I go to http://linux-server/cake/ I get a directory listing that shoes the index.php file. When I click on the file it takes me to http://linux-server/cake/index.php in which I get a 404 page not found error.

What do I need to do to make the files accessible?

I have a folder I want to share with a couple windows users on the network.

I am using ubuntu 10.4

When I right click a folder I go to "Sharing Options"

There are 3 check boxes. If I check the first 2 which are "share this folder" and "Allow others to create and delete files in this folder" I can now see this folder on the network from my pc.

I cannot access it though, it asks for a username and password (I never set one up so I don't even know what credentials it wants.)

I don't want to have to log in, I just want to be able to go right in.

So If I check the third box, which is "guest access" I can now access the folder from my pc. But so can everyone else on the network. I just want myself and a couple other pc users on the network to be able to access it.

I do not see anyplace where I can specify what users on the network have permission to access it? How do I do that?

update

When I entered my user name and password for the linux machine, it gave me this error message:

\LINUX-SERVER\saga_repo is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again.

I noticed that when type in my username it defaults to @MY-DOMAIN so I also tried myuser@linux-server but still got the same message.

Also the domain administrator (who knows nothing about linux) told me that the linux machine is not a part of the domain (even though I can see it when I go to My Network Places from my windows machine). I don't know if that means anything.

I also tried created a new user on ubuntu to try to log in with and got the same message. I tried to log in with my user and the new user from a workers machine and I couldn't get in from there either but I just got an "access denied" dialog everytime on his machine.

Is there possibly another step I am missing?