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Actually, it's not solved.

Take a look at rsnapshot

http://rsnapshot.org/

To have a script run as root put it in the system crontab;

sudo vi /etc/crontab

If you want the script to run as another user you can set that there too.

eg, to run as user backup, do...

Surely the simplest option is to put entries for whatever.ntp.org into the hosts file on the system in question?

I can't help with your direct question, but I would recommend that you get yourself a UPS if you are having that many power outages.

As for "crashing", your server shouldn't be doing that. If it...

"An upgrade from 'jaunty' to 'lucid"

You clearly have lucid instead of Karmic in your sources.list file.

Fix this with;


sudo sed -i s/lucid/karmic/g /etc/apt/sources.list

Use 10.04 LTS if this is a production server (unless you want to be restarting the server and doing dist-upgrades on a regular basis of course)

This could be the motd bug where the system has already done the fsck check but the message is still stuck in you motd.tail file.

Try deleting /etc/motd.tail and then restart

You say you are trying to configure RAID, but don't state the reason.

Do you want JBOD or are you trying to configure fault tolerance? If so, what type? You should ask yourself "if I am having...

"I don't really understand about gmail, but I don't want any ads to go out with my emails,"

Gmail doesn't stick ads on your mails like Hotmail does, you only see the ads when you are using the...

I have to admin FreeBSD at work. I hate it, hates it I does.

As for CentOS, I have to admin that too. I don't hate it to the same degree as FreeBSD but I still don't like the yum/rpm package...

My wishes;

1) That people would google a problem before asking the same question that has been answered a 1000 times before

2) People would mark their threads as solved

I know, I know, it's...

No, you can't do that using the repositories (packages are all precompiled)

You need to download the source and manually compile. There should be instructions for doing that in the source package.

I always use sudo init 6 but maybe that's just me. Does that work?

Honestly, unless you are extremely paranoid about privacy, using gmail smtp is your easiest option. You can use it with your own domain if you want to.

I have my own domain, I have a sendmail...

The problem is that the version of dnmasq-base that is being installed is newer than the dnsmasq package itself. This is most likely because the repositories are in the middle of being changed and...

try this;

apt-get purge dnsmasq-base

and

apt-get install -f

this will fix any broken packages/dependencies in your system

I'd be extremely surprised if you could block the root user from a database, it sort of defeats the whole point of having a root user.

What I am really interested in is why you want to do this in...

You could try purging dnsmasq

apt-get purge dnsmasq

Then manually make sure all references are removed from /etc

"The OP said he'd got the port opened, but was just having problems using his Public IP from inside his LAN"

Is the server on the public IP or is he using port forwarding to a private address?
...

Sigh, this is a bug introduced during a recent update that has caused a torrent of forum questions since it occurred.

sudo rm /etc/motd.tail

Will fix it

Setting PasswordAuthentication to yes will work. You just need to restart your sshd service to make it take effect. Passwords are NOT transmitted as cleartext.

It all depends on how paranoid you...

It's really best to try and stick with the LTS releases when building servers. That advice is too late for you I guess but if others are reading . . .

Thumb up for the 10.04 advice.

However, regarding the Ubuntu LDAP documentation they are horribly broken, especially if you want to include samba in the mix

The guides here (without samba)...

Just for clarity, as the OP seems to have expunged his question, he basically asked;

"If I buy a server and an internet connection will I make enough money to cover my costs from advertising on a...