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General Support / initializing /var/log

« on: April 01, 2013, 07:56:19 AM »

I see that /var/log is mounted as a tmpfs filesystem which causes its contents to be lost when the platform shuts down.  I would like to move it to the non-volatile part of / to preserve logs.  Any tips to point me in the right direction?  In particular, where in the init process is /var/log set up on the tmpfs?

I consider myself fairly savvy with Linux; however, I haven't kept up with the evolution of Ubuntu and init (e.g. I went looking for /etc/inittab but it looks like it's been replaced  by /etc/init/). 

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General Support / bug reports? patch contributions?

« on: March 20, 2013, 01:44:27 AM »

I gather from scouring the site that there isn't really a issue tracking system in use for accepting bug reports.  What is the preferred mechanism for sending bug reports?  (These forums, I take it?) More importantly, if I come up hack that fixes a problem, what's the best way to contribute the fix back to the ubermix development effort? 

thanks!

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General Support / parental controls problem: no iptables_nat module

« on: March 20, 2013, 01:05:53 AM »

I just installed ubermix 1.07 and I'm trying to get the parental controls add-on working via the deb file available from the download files page, parental_controls_1.01.deb.  Installing this attempts to bring up the ubermix_firewall service; however, it fails with the error message:

iptables v1.4.12: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)

This apparently originates from a line /etc/init.d/ubermix_firewall:

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iptables -t nat -F
And error message can occur if the iptable_nat kernel module cannot be loaded.  Looking under /lib/modules/3.7.9-36-generic, it does not appear that the iptable_nat module is provided.  (There are other iptable_* modules there, though, e.g. iptable_mangle.) 

So my first question would be, has anyone successfully installed the parental_controls_1.01.deb package successfully with ubermix 1.07?  If so, were any special fixes required (e.g. updated kernel)?  Otherwise, any suggestions?

Assuming I haven't done anything peculiar, it would appear that either the parental_controls needs updating to work with the latest kernel or a different kernel build is needed.