Dave Long's questions

I have setup my dev server with the pptp client and use pon {vpn name} to start the client. I also added the following file in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/{vpn name} to setup some routes for me:

#/bin/sh

if ["${PPP_IPPARAM}" = "{vpn name}"]; then
    /sbin/route add -net 10.2.17.0/24 dev ${PPP_IFACE}
fi

After running sudo pon {vpn name} dump debug nodetach I don't see any errors in the output, but the routes not added to my routing table. I've also tried changing the file just to this:

#/bin/sh
/sbin/route add -net 10.2.17.0/24 dev ppp0

And still nothing. I have ensured that the file is owned by root and has executable permissions (755).

I recently setup my laptop with Xubuntu 13.04 and after installing and setting up all my dotfiles, which have previously worked fine with Ubuntu 13.04 with XFCE installed, my colorscheme in Vim is using the wrong colors.

I dropped the terminalrc file from the Solarized repository in ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc and setup my dotfiles (which can be found at http://github.com/davejlong/dotfiles).

Here is a screen shot of my Temrinal when I open a file in Vim:

Here is the contents of ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc:

[Configuration]
ColorCursor=#0f0f49499999
ColorForeground=#838394949696
ColorBackground=#00002b2b3636
ColorPalette1=#070736364242
ColorPalette2=#dcdc32322f2f
ColorPalette3=#858599990000
ColorPalette4=#b5b589890000
ColorPalette5=#26268b8bd2d2
ColorPalette6=#d3d336368282
ColorPalette7=#2a2aa1a19898
ColorPalette8=#eeeee8e8d5d5
ColorPalette9=#00002b2b3636
ColorPalette10=#cbcb4b4b1616
ColorPalette11=#58586e6e7575
ColorPalette12=#65657b7b8383
ColorPalette13=#838394949696
ColorPalette14=#6c6c7171c4c4
ColorPalette15=#9393a1a1a1a1
ColorPalette16=#fdfdf6f6e3e3
Term=xterm-256color
FontName=Inconsolata Medium 12
MiscAlwaysShowTabs=FALSE
MiscBell=FALSE
MiscBordersDefault=TRUE
MiscCursorBlinks=FALSE
MiscCursorShape=TERMINAL_CURSOR_SHAPE_BLOCK
MiscDefaultGeometry=80x24
MiscInheritGeometry=FALSE
MiscMenubarDefault=TRUE
MiscMouseAutohide=FALSE
MiscToolbarDefault=FALSE
MiscConfirmClose=TRUE
MiscCycleTabs=TRUE
MiscTabCloseButtons=TRUE
MiscTabCloseMiddleClick=TRUE
MiscTabPosition=GTK_POS_TOP
MiscHighlightUrls=TRUE
MiscScrollAlternateScreen=TRUE

Possible Duplicate:
What is the easiest way to resolve apt-get BADSIG GPG errors?

I recently updated my Chromebook that was running Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 and since updating, whenever I run apt-get update I get the following errors:

W: GPG error: http://security.ubuntu.com oneiric-security Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <[email protected]>
W: GPG error: http://extras.ubuntu.com oneiric Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 16126D3A3E5C1192 Ubuntu Extras Archive Automatic Signing Key <[email protected]>
W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <[email protected]>

The repositories look like they're the primary repositories for 11.10, so I am assuming that this is a pretty bad error. The rest of the update happens without any problems, it is just these three repos that error. Is there something that I can do about the bad signatures?

I have a workstation that was given to me that is a friggen powerhouse, so I figured I would set it up as my development and demo server. This is my first experience installing Ubuntu onto a RAID array and so far it has not been a fun one. I have been following the Advanced Installation guide for installing Ubuntu 10.04 server, and it says that there will be an option on the Partition Disks screen to manually create the partitions, but the only options I have are:

• Configure iSCSI volumes
• Undo changes to partitions
• Finish partitioning and write changes to disk

Just before I got to that screen I got a message that said:

One or more drives containing Serial ATA RAID configurations have been found. Do you wish to activate these RAID devices?

It doesn't matter whether I answer yes or no to that, I still get the same Partition Disks screen. When I try to select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk I just get the No root file system error.

Has anyone else experienced this, and how do I get past it? Can I not run Ubuntu on this machine?

I setup an instance of Ubuntu on Amazon EC2 using an AMI that I had found. When I login to the server through SSH it says

A newer build of the Ubuntu lucid server image is available.
It is names 'release' and has a build serial '20110201.1'.

What I found online was that I should run do-release-upgrade -d to upgrade the distribution. When I ran it though it seems to try to upgrade to Maverick Meerkat. I want to upgrade to the LTS release.

Is there a way that I can upgrade my server without rebuilding it?

I have an Ubuntu server on Amazon EC2, that I use for development, and today I stupidly cleared everything out of my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. Luckily I have an SSH open, so I am still connected, and can fix the file, but when I try to put my key file back, it doesn't work. I still get permission denied from the server on my local machine.

authorized_keys has the permissions 600. I have tried appending my SSH key with ssh-rsa and leaving the ssh-rsa off. I also tried making the SSH key all one line, but that didn't work either.

Is there something else that I have to do like reload the file some how?

I have a Ubuntu Server running in VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on my MacBook Pro for Java development and all my projects sit on my Mac in ~/Workspace/ColdFusion. I had ColdFusion/ shared with my VM through the VMWare tools, and it was working perfectly up until friday when the folder sharing just stopped. No updates on either mac or linux besides an iTunes update. I tried uninstalling the VMWare tools and reinstalling them but I get an error at the end of the install. It appears that when I reinstall the tools there are files left over from the old installation. Is there a way to force the unsinstall script to completely uninstall and remove all files for the VMWare-Tools?

I know the shared folder used to mount at /mnt/hgfs/ColdFusion.

I am still fairly new to linux hosting and am currently working on some policies for our production ubuntu servers. The servers are public facing webservers with ssh access from the public network and database servers with ssh access from the internal private network. We are a small hosting company so in the past with windows servers we used one user account and one password that each of us used internally. Anyone outside of the company who needed to access the server for FTP or anything else had their own user account. Is that okay to do in the linux world, or would most people recommend using individual accounts for each person who needs to access the server?

I have just finished moving my development server into a Ubuntu 10.04 Server VM in VMWare Fusion 3. I have all of my mysql and tomcat stuff running and am now trying to connect to my actual site files which are stored on my mac under /{User Root}/Workspace/ColdFusion/.

I know that normally you should be able to setup a shared folder in VMWare and find it under /mnt/hgfs/{Share Name}, but I can't find it. I am not sure if I have to manually mount it or what.

I am trying to setup an Ubuntu hosting server, currently just for development, and the server has two NICs, each sitting on a different network. eth0 is on 192.168.200.* and eth1 is on 192.168.101.* and each one has a static IP. eth0 is the public facing NIC card and eth1 is strictly for internal access to the server. I initially only setup eth0 and added the eth1 card when I needed it. eth0 was working find until I added eth1, now, can't get any connectivity on eth0 unless I pull eth1 out of the box. The configuration on each system is as follows:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
      address 192.168.200.94
      netmask 255.255.255.0
      network 192.168.200.0
      broadcast 192.168.200.255
      gateway 192.168.200.253

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
      address 192.168.101.64
      netmask 255.255.255.0
      network 192.168.101.0
      broadcast 192.168.101.255
      gateway 192.168.101.254

Again eth0 worked fine until I added eth1. I have seen this happen with Windows servers if you have a Default Gateway setup for both NICs, but I am not sure if this works the same on Ubuntu. My resolv.conf file looks like so:

nameserver 192.168.101.59
nameserver 192.168.101.58
domain domain.local
search domain.local

Per request here is the Routing table

192.168.101.0       *                   255.255.255.0     U     0      0      0      eth1
192.168.200.0       *                   255.255.255.0     U     0      0      0      eth0
default             192.168.101.254     0.0.0.0           UG    100    0      0      eth1
default             192.168.200.253     0.0.0.0           UG    100    0      0      eth0