Blog By Farrow…
All post about linux related software
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
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
Apologies to all my customers, the sites are now back on. We have replaced the firewall as the original one appeared to have an intermittant problem on the network controller.
Ran the up2date on one of my Fedora 2 hosting machines and saw that samba has a new release 3.0.6. Upgraded without any problem and also the throughput from the windows machines to this little box seemed to be faster or it could just be me imagining it. I did have an odd problem where from time to time the… Continue reading Samba 3.0.6