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.
Ok next problem that I bumped into today while trying to install PHP5 on Apache2. In the php instructions it tells you to use the –with-apxs2 and point that to the apxs file. Now the standard install of Fedora 3 doesnt install this file for you, so you need to install the httpd-devel package. This can be done easily using up2date with this command.
up2date httpd-devel
and this will install the apxs file which for should now sit in /usr/sbin
then to configure the php5 issue the command
./configure –with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs –with-mysql
hope that helps
Ok now next problem that I ran into in trying to get qmail running on the distrubution is that checkpassword-0.90 doesnt want to compile and looking on the web there is 1 arabic website explaining how to get around this which I cant understand but with again more pain I have finally cracked it.
In the source directory of checkpassword you will need to change the error.h file to include errno.h just after the line extern int errno like so…
extern int errno;
#include
then recompile and everything should work.
Now for a long long time I have been perplexed by why my firewall never works on my linux boxes on initial boot.
When you run iptables –list is shows all the rules but never works until you run it again under the root account. Now I finally got around to finding out why and its because the ipv4 forwarding is being reset somewhere down the boot chain. Yep I found it, what you need to do is edit /etc/sysctl.conf and change the net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 as this is set to 0 by default and switches off all forwarding used in any firewall script.
Now I did have the forwarding set in the script but the sysctl appears to run after all the startup processes.
Hope this helps as it certainly has been puzzling me for sometime.
Something that I was suffering from when I tried to use ftp on linux, everytime I tried to do ‘ls’ to list the files FTP would freeze and not seem to do anything.
After quite a lot of pain, I noticed that a few of the important modules had not been loaded for the firewall – IPTABLES. You must have the following modules loaded or built into your kernel for FTP to work through the firewall …
if you want to load them as modules then use modprobe.
Fedora no longer installs the source for its installations so if you need to rebuild the kernel you will need to get the source the easiest way is as follows:
then read the readme.txt file which comes with Fedora for building but normally do the following
this now updates grub (if your using it) automatically
Recently I built the linux-atm software, which is an atm utility which allows me to use my pci ADSL card on linux.
The latest release is version 2.4.1 which I pulled down off of sourceforge, and I then tried to compile it. This is what I fell fowl of..
1. The source has four compilation errors which are at lines with default: in the case statements these need ; after them, you can either edit the four bits of source code yourself or get a patched version of the code from here.
2. Then I kept getting the error ‘storage size of req is not know’ and ‘invalid application of sizeof to incomplete type atmif_soic’ which I realised that I had the paths to my kernel source incorrect. Now I put in a symbolic link to the source so /usr/src/linux pointed to /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9/include [ which is where the source really was ]. So to correct this error I typed this before running the configure of linux-atm.
CFLAGS=-I/usr/src/linux ./configure
and that got me over that problem.
3. Then I got the error ‘config.h:6:2 error including kernel header in userspace use the glibc headers instead’ in atmdev.h to get around this I changed the line config.h to autoconf.h
Then it all worked and everything was installed into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin.
Hope that has helped someone. The linux-atm package has been around for sometime but I didnt think the documentation or notes about how to change the path to pick up your distributions source code was that clear.
As you may be aware the original Fedora Core 2 installation will just keep rebooting on an Epia Mini-ITX machine. There are many newsgroups articles about this subject but I believe that they are all a little confusing so here is what I had to do to install Fedora Core 2 on to my Epia Mini-ITX CL600 machine.
First download the patch from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/c3boot-2.iso and burn it on to a cd, then boot off of the new burnt cd.
The next set of instructions assume the text version of the installation
Ok I run qmail here and funny thing was outlook wasnt logging into it. Thought I had been hacked or something. To see what the problem was I telnetted into my qmail box using
telnet mail.farrowcomputing.com 110
port 110 is the port designated to pop3, then put in your username
user “username”
pass “password”
Try to increase the softlimit for pop3d which is found in your pop3d run script such as /var/qmail/service/pop3d/run (for e.g.):
blah blah… softlimit -m 2000000 to higher value.
If you were getting permission denied while mounting a w2k3 share onto a linux box then here is a suggestion to get around that
• On the Win2K3 server select Domain Controller Security Policy from the Administrative Tools menu
• Navigate to Local Policies|Security Options
• Disable “Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications (always)”
• Since FC2 you will also need to disable “Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications (if client agrees)”
• You can wait for the policy to propagate or run gpupdate from a command line
🙂