The Foley House Blog: December 2016

Thursday, 29 December 2016

Had some issues getting the guest additions working, but the following fixed it for me.

1. Make sure everything is up to date:

2. Make sure the correct Xorg is installed:

3. Install the guest utils and DKMS from the repo:

sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-guest-dkms dkms

4. Reboot and cleanup:

I followed this basic guide:
http://www.ubuntu-howtodoit.com/?p=138

Step 5.2 I had to adjust the line:
./configure --with-mysql --with-mysql-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

To the following line as I am running an x86 install on this old server:
:~$ ./configure --with-mysql --with-mysql-libraries=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

Step 7, I pulled the Upstart scripts from the following:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/snort-org-site/production/document_files/files/000/000/090/original/Snort_2.9.8.x_on_Ubuntu_12-14-15.pdf

This was due to Ubuntu 14.04 running Upstart rather than Systemd.

Section 8.12 - As I was running Nginx rather than Apache2, I followed this:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-rails-app-with-passenger-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04

This page to configure Passenger:
https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/install/nginx/install/oss/trusty/

The contents of /etc/nginx/passenger.conf that worked for me was:
passenger_root /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/passenger-5.1.1;
passenger_ruby /usr/local/bin/ruby;

I still have an issue with the web page comlaning that the snorby worker isn't running, yet it is running from an upstart script.

I'll look at that another day!