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I agree about the possible overhead and the reason why I suggested it was for possible extending of the swap if you don't know much you needed (mostly for laptop usage). I will update that part to...

If that's what you think, it wouldn't hurt to watch the log files on your Apache server. I would just do the following command to watch the error log file while you are trying to connect to port 80:...

When looking over the conf files again, I was curious if you use any .htaccess files in either /var/ or /var/www/? I noticed that the port 80 conf file had AllowOverride set to 'all' which means that...

When looking over the conf files, nothing looks out of place but if I was trying to troubleshoot this myself, I would make sure to do the following:


Check IPTables (if applicable)
Network...

Have you tried to make your Windows machine share out a folder on your Windows machine then mounting it to the Linux server?

I don't know were your server is to your client but if I was doing this...

Just want to share this bit of information about fetchmail and Google Mail:

http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#I9

Just want to make sure before moving on with helping you that...

Since Wordpress used the php web language, did you install the php extention for ffmpeg?


sudo apt-cache search php5-ffmpeg


If you just download the package called 'ffmpeg', its not used for...

I don't think the name 'libgd-perl' isn't being used anymore and I believe its been replaced with the name 'libgd-gd2-perl'. The package you are talking about hasn't been in use since Ubuntu Breezy...

When you say 'internal server', do you mean another server outside of the box that is collecting the iptables logs?

If so, you just need to add something like this to your rsyslog.conf file:

...

I haven't used it for SAMBA shares before but have you heard of a service called 'autofs'. I used it with NFS based mounting from a linux server to a linux client but it looks like after reading the...

To go off @koenn on the 'port selection' part, I wouldn't use a port that is already reserved for another service (even if you aren't going to use it).

I would consult the good old /etc/services...

The command 'update-rc.d' command isn't that complicated. You just need to know your services a bit more before using it.

For example:

I would like to disable my apache2 service so to complete...

My first question is:

Did you enable logging for iptables?

To do that, you just need to add this line near the end of the iptables list (just above your last iptables statement that might be...

Its an older doc but it should be able to help you with that question about upgrading from Karmic to Lucid:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades#Upgrade_from_9.10_to_10.04_LTS

The problem you are getting is probably because Ubuntu 9.10 isn't supported any more as shown here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)#Releases

It would be wise to move it to...

I'm kind of confused about this question but I will give it a shot.

If you want to know more about apache 2, then I would look at the apache 2 documentation from their website for more...

i would look at that but what about the hierarchy is for ~/Downloads

If you did the following command


ll -d ~/Downloads && ll ~/Downloads

What do you get?

Just from what you said in...

+1 on this suggestion

If you do the following command, does anything come up:


ll /etc/rc*.d/ | grep -i "mysql"

If something comes up like SXXmysql -> ../init.d/mysql, then my command should work but I misspelled...

Just to add on to @drmrgd comments, you can always access the account 'root' but you just need to use 'sudo' to do so. I wouldn't recommend it unless you are stuck and you know what you are doing...

If you want to have one IP address with two NICs, you will probably have to 'bond' the NICs together:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBonding

Quote from the site about what 'bonding'...

When you said 'install amazon's mp3 downloader', did you mean this link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html

If you are, it seems that Amazon hasn't updated those packages in some time...

If the motherboard has on-board SATA ports for you to plug in the hard drives, I don't see why not. It really depends on the motherboard and if it depends on a RAID controller or it also has it on...

I don't know the answer personally but I would assume you can't since the PERC Ultra320 (the RAID controller for the server) will be controlling how the operating system will see the drives.

When...

All the specs that I see on your post look good.

One problem I see when purchasing PowerEdge servers is the RAID controller. Does this SC1420 talk about a RAID controller?

I did a quick search...