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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
Had to add some new terminal server licenses today for a client of mine and had a whale of a time. Installed the licenses which seemed to work no problem, then when I tried to connect to the remote machine kept getting the error that it couldnt connect due to “No Terminal Server License Servers”. Then tried to ring Microsoft… Continue reading Terminal Services and Licensing: No Terminal Server License Servers
Had some bother with the extensions of php5, php_mysql.dll and libmysql.dll under my latest installation on windows 2003 server. When using the mysql_connect function to connect to a mysql database kept getting the error message “mysql_drop_db could not be located in the dynamic link library libmysql.dll” Now I had moved the libmysql.dll into the c:\windows\system32 directory, uncommented the extension in… Continue reading PHP5, MySQL, IIS and WINDOWS 2003 Server
Looking for details on asp.net 2.0 and its official release date I stumbled upon the article on MSDN about “CRUD why you cant afford it”, this article talks about everything that I have disliked about CRUD for a long time. I have never really talked up about it though as most people rave or say “you must have CRUD”, when having written systems… Continue reading CRUD why you cant afford it
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
At the weekend I had a go at installing TWiki running on IIS6 under windows server 2003. Eventually with my old Perl book in one hand and a mixture of these articles below I got it going… http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/CookbookWindowsIISSetuphttp://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiOnWindows2003 I didnt use cygwin in the end I used the following… ActiveState Perl 5.8 Windows Binaries of RCS (can be found on… Continue reading Got TWiki working on IIS6.0 under Windows Server 2003
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?