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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… Continue reading GD Lib with Bugzilla
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… Continue reading Apache2 and PHP5 and missing apxs file on Fedora Core 3
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… Continue reading Checkpassword-0.90 Compilation Error on Fedora Core 3
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… Continue reading IPTABLES doesn't work on initial boot
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… Continue reading FTP on Linux Freezes on command – ls
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: up2date –get-source kernel Install kernel-.src.rpm (given the default RPM configuration, the files this package contains will be written to /usr/src/redhat/) [NOTE: if this fails you should find the kernel src… Continue reading Getting the Source Code for the Kernel of Linux Fedora 3 Distribution
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… Continue reading Building the Linux-ATM software on Fedora Core 3 on a VIA C3 Processor
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… Continue reading Fedora Core 2 installation patch for Epia Mini-ITX
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” then password pass “password” and on my system… Continue reading POP3: unable to scan $HOME/Maildir?
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