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Questions tagged [10.04]

Codenamed "Lucid Lynx", this is the third Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu. Released April 2010, and no longer supported since May 2013 on Desktops and April 2015 on Servers. Questions about unsupported versions are likely to be closed as off-topic.

Questions regarding this Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu. Code named: Lucid Lynx.

Other Ubuntu Flavors available under 10.04 LTS:

  • Kubuntu
  • Edubuntu
  • Ubuntu Studio
  • Mythbuntu
  • Xubuntu

Ubuntu Editions available under 10.04:

Questions about any edition of this version are considered off-topic since it reached its end of life.

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How do you get a list of all starting services?

I know about the update-rc.d SERVICE OPTIONS command to add and remove services from startup, but how do I use it to get a list of all the services that are currently configured to start at startup? Is there some other way to get this list?
Lance Roberts
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Why does scp get stalled? How do I resolve it?

When I attempted to copy a file (of size, ) over the network using scp I get a error stalled Why does this happen? How do I resolve it?
Lelouch Lamperouge
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Install mod_proxy to get ProxyPass to work

I've been trying to follow these instructions, so that I could get the Citadel mail server to work alongside Apache, but I get an error when I try to restart Apache: Invalid command 'ProxyPass', ... I was told in the Apache docs that this is from…
Lance Roberts
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How to show current permissions of a folder

I want to find out who has what permissions on a certain folder. How would I go about viewing this? The folder in question is /srv/www
user17934
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How do you add "open in terminal" to the right-click mouse menu for folders/directories?

I would like to add it to the default menu (mouse right-click) Like I want to right click on a folder and open it in the terminal. I don't want to have to find the directory in the terminal.
Alex
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What is the default 'backup' user for?

I am setting up multiple-machine backup plan and I was hoping to use a user called 'backup' on each machine as the backup destination. My problem is, there is already a user called 'backup' on my machine. What is it for, and can I hijack it for my…
Stephen RC
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Specify the time of daily log rotate

I noticed that daily log rotations which are listed under /etc/logrotate.d/ are executed in the morning around 6:40 am. This is clear from the beginning and ending of the log files. Can I customize this time and set it to midnight for example? It is…
Khaled
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Which hard disk drive is which?

I want to know which hard disk drive corresponds to which device path. It's trivial to match the hard disk stats (brand, size) with the dev path, but I want more. I want to know which drive is which inside my case. What's a good way to go about…
djeikyb
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How to enable ufw firewall to allow icmp response?

I have a series of Ubuntu 10.04 servers and each one has ufw firewall enabled. I have allowed port 22 (for SSH) and 80 (if it's a webserver). My question is that I am trying to enable icmp echo response (ping reply). ICMP functions differently…
Jeremy Hajek
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How to restart only missing/invisible mouse pointer/cursor?

For some reason, the mouse pointer on my Ubuntu 10.04 PC disappears after the computer is woken up from suspend. That PC is missing a keyboard, so I can fix this by logging via ssh, and issuing: sudo service gdm restart ... however, this basically…
sdaau
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Blank screen, blinking cursor on boot

Occasionally my Ubuntu 10.04 PC won't boot properly. It gets past Grub and then stops at a blank screen and blinking cursor. From what I've read, this blinking cursor screen is presented by Ubuntu itself and not Grub, so I assume the boot process…
conorgriffin
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Force install with apt-get

I tried installing beanstalkd with sudo apt-get install beanstalkd (also with -f option) and I get the following error: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f…
aWebDeveloper
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How to change tab width in terminal in Ubuntu 10.04

When I press tab in terminal it goes very far. So I would like to change tab width, make it smaller. Anyone could help me, please?
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How to correctly add a custom daemon to init.d?

I've got a 3-rd party proprietary application server daemon which can be started and stopped by couple of command lines. I need this daemon to start when the system starts up and correctly stopped on system shutting down. How do I correctly…
Ivan
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rkhunter warning about /etc/.java /etc/.udev /etc/.initramfs

I am running Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS . I am running rkhunter to check for rootkits. rkhunter is complaining about the following hidden files and directories. I think these files are not a real problem on my system, but how can I check to see if these…
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