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Looking at my hosting site I noticed there is quite a lot of traffic looking for how to reset the open source project webalizer so here is what I do to reset it. Basically under Fedora the webalizer package is installed in /var/lib/webalizer, and in there (if you have run it already) will be two files webalizer.current and webalizer.hist you… Continue reading How to Reset Webalizer
Okay fresh install of PHP and got this error … Error registering XML parser services. Then realised that the howto is slightly out of date as you need to install the 1.4 java runtime not the 1.3 as the how to says. Also I then couldnt figure out how to get eclipse to pick up the php plugin as the… Continue reading PHP, Eclipse, PTTY and CVS
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
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