More information on Server issues

Dave Stevens geek at uniserve.com
Thu Jan 26 19:22:40 UTC 2017


On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 12:46:11 -0600
"Dr. Mikeal Hughes" <macmikeal at me.com> wrote:

at the bottom of every email through this list is a URL like this:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users  

and if you look there you'll find an archive of everyone's emails
including yours and others' on your topic. There'll be a copy of the
thread you can't find.

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> > On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:03 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 09:08:07AM -0600, Dr. Mikeal Hughes wrote:  
> >> I am trying to find out some specific configuration for OpenSSH. I
> >> recently had my Ubuntu Server crash. Turns out my backup the boot
> >> sector was the wrong type UEFI instead of BIOS so I couldn't
> >> restore and get it to work. So I had to reinstall the Server plus
> >> decided to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04. Anyway I have 4 issues I
> >> need to resolve. 1. When I try to SSH into the server I get
> >> unable, to connect with server, please try again later.  
> > 
> > I already made a suggestion in your previous thread about how you
> > could get more information on this.  
> 
> Let me see if I can find that thread.
> 
> >   
> >> 2. For some reason setting at the Server I can only do things if I
> >> am the root user. Sudo doesn't work.  My account is an
> >> administrator.  
> > 
> > What exactly does sudo say?  
> 
> I am not in front of the Server right now. But basically says I am
> not a Sudoer.
> 
> >   
> >> 3. Even from root I can't get to the root directory by cd / to be
> >> able to edit my php.ini file to increase maximum upload limit for
> >> wordpress.  I am thinking I need to run chmod on the root directory
> >> and set my permissions to say 755 to get to the php.ini file(?).  
> > 
> > That sounds quite confused; php.ini should not be in your actual
> > root directory.  Normally the "root" visible from an FTP or a web
> > server is not actually the root of the server's file system, but a
> > "virtual root" somewhere underneath that.  If you're poking at it
> > directly then you need to determine where that is.  
> 
> I was thinking when I looked at my backup drive I found the php.ini
> file in the root. I don’t know the command line command to find it. I
> remember someone told me the command three years ago but don’t
> remember.
> >   
> >> I am not sure how to put my user macmike in a group where I can use
> >> sudo.  
> > 
> > I already gave you instructions for that in your previous thread.
> >   
> I have to find that previous post. 
> > -- 
> > Colin Watson
> > [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
> > 
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