Linux

Getting Rsyncd, Vista and Backuppc to work

Paul Farrow — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:57:48 GMT

Recently upgraded to vista and for the life of me couldnt get the vista to work with rsyncd running from cygwin. Would always stop with a code 12 error and not alot else. I just run rsyncd or rsync with the daemon option as I dont belive the cwrsync works as a service yet on vista.

Now in the backuppc config options for rsyncd and rsync there is a hard link option I just removed that and it seems to work not sure why vista cant deal with that option but if you remove it, everything works as it did before on windows 2000 / XP.

Visual Studio 2005, Pushok and CVS on Vista / Linux

Paul Farrow — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:08:03 GMT

Ok I previously blogged how to get visual studio 2003 talking to cvs using putty and pushok. This is an update to that, which can be found previous to this entry.

Pre-cursor to this is that you have putty working with your linux / unix machine and that you can open a session using ssh without using a password.

I downloaded the version 1.3 of the cvsscc from pushok, I believe thats the one for unix as they have split their programs from unix and windows cvs since I last bought software from them.

I then opened visual studio 2005 and clicked open from source control which presents you with a cvsroot options dialog in the cvsroot just type :ext:paulfarrow@cvs_server:/500gb1/cvsdata now ext depicts the protocol and the pushok program knows to use putty which you should already have set up and running in the tray with your certificates etc (not covered in this blog entry) and then the userid @ the putty saved session, you can see mine is called cvs_server and then the path for the root here mine is /500gb1/cvsdata.

then once you have put that in click check and it should authenticate against the linux server. You should then be able to clicke elipse next ot cvs module and it will give you a list of directories / modules in your cvs server.

Glad I got that going took me a little while, my next quest is to upgrade to svn and try the pushok plugin for that, will keep you all informed on how it goes.

ah forgot to mention one thing you need an environment variable to point to plink.exe which comes with putty that is CVS_RSH just set that to where plink resides in my case thats CVS_RSH=c:\ssh\plink.exe then pushok knows to use that for the ext protocol.

Accessing Vista with smbclient

Paul Farrow — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:24:40 GMT

Just bought a new machine and decided to put VISTA on it. Now biggest problem was accessing the shares via smbclient or Samba. Hunted high and low on the net couldnt find anything not specific for VISTA and smbclient.

I then looked for windows xp and smbclient and found a post about changing a registry entry. Up to this point I had tried everything everyone else was saying like enable file sharing, private sharing etc and couldnt get any of that too work at all.

Probably works via another vista machine but not from linux or my apple.

I upgraded samba to the latest version before doing this. I then added a registry entry in \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

called LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy which a hexadecimal value of 1 and bobs your uncle you should be able to access shares and admin shares such as C$ on the vista machine from smbclient or mounting it in the fstab.

Hope that helped you, it helped me no end as I was getting very frustrated about it. And samba is key to my machines here.

mysql error "#1030 - Got error 28 from table handler"

Paul Farrow — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:36:00 GMT

Was getting the error #1030 - Got error 28 from table handler on one of my customers boxes realised that the partition was out of disk space.

excluding a dependency via UP2Date

Paul Farrow — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:22:00 GMT

always wondered how to exclude from up2date finally got off my backside and looked into it...

for all you out there that dont know its up2date --update --exclude=<package name with dependency problem>

Undefined reference to errno with make of checkpassword

Paul Farrow — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:23:00 GMT

On some flavours of linux errno is a macro rather than an int so you need to alter the error.h file for it to compile

You need to do the following....

mv error.h error.h.orig

sed -e 's/extern int errno;/#include <errno.h>/g' error.h.orig > error.h

Taking Delivery Of A MAC Powerbook G4 15 inch

Paul Farrow — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:34:00 GMT

Took delivery of my new machine yesterday. Rather swiss, this is my first Mac, they tell me once you taste Mac you never go back !!

First thing I needed to do was to get it on my encrypted wireless network ugh oh !! Couldnt for the life of me get it on, I use a manual 128 bit key and have my passphrase in key 4, did a bit of reading and realised that the Mac only reads passphrases from KEY 1 so had to move my phrase into that on my existing wireless access points and yes it all works...

Other problem I had was that I couldnt get the Mac to see my shares on the windows 2003 domain controller. It could connect via ip address and share name but the file finder couldnt browse the list of shares. Tried for ages to get it going and at last seem to have cracked it. Basically having read a lot of articles on the subject on the web I realised that in my local policy I had the network client talk securely (if server agrees) disabled as some articles say so made that enabled and just disabled the always talk securely and enabled send smb passwords unencrypted and this appears to have fixed it although I not entirely too confident about that. But its all working now :) the linux, windows and mac boxes can all talk together and share files no probs. Can even pass files to my mac laptop which is just great.

VIA Kernel Panic with Sangoma S518 ADSL Cards

Paul Farrow — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:03:00 GMT

When using the drivers for the Sangoma S518 ADSL card on the VIA EPIA architecture you must install them using the following

./Setup install --arch=i386

otherwise on connecting to the isp you will get a kernel panic and the whole machine will freeze

Unable to connect to newer mysql database - Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client

Paul Farrow — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:16:00 GMT

Kept getting the message 'Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client' after upgrading the mysql server to a newer version than the client odbc driver and after much trawling found that you have to update the mysql user table to hold the password in the old format like so..

UPDATE mysql.user
SET password=OLD_PASSWORD('somepassword')
WHERE user='someuser'
AND host='somehost';

dont forget to update each host and then reload your privaleges, should then work.

GD Lib with Bugzilla

Paul Farrow — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:25:00 GMT

Trying to get libpng and libjpeg support ?? You will need to install the developer versions of the libraries, on Fedora the easiest way is to use up2date ie. up2date libjpeg-devel and up2date libpng-devel this will install it then the configure for the makefile of libgd will pick the libraries up and install support for them.

Also dont use the ./configure.pl do make and then make install dont use the make install straight away this then works for me on Fedora Core 3.