Scruffy and his mates
The other day I caught my cat Scruffy watching TV with his mates and they were so engrossed with the television that I was able to snap a photo of them. theres mousey, hampster and fishy all sitting with Scruffy.
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Mr May Comes and Visits
My old chum finally made it down to the Farrow residence to visit, first time in nearly 6 years of being here in our current property. He immediately got on with Scruffy and both posed for a photo, although as you can see, Chris was a little distracted, he was busy hacking one of the neighbour’s wireless networks with his Psion… Continue reading Mr May Comes and Visits
Caught this Critter in my Garden
Thought it was time for another photo to brighten up the blog, so saw this critter in my garden and snapped him.
How to Reset Webalizer
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
PHP, Eclipse, PTTY and CVS
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 Then realised that the howto is slightly out of date as you need to install the 1.4 java runtime not the 1.3 as the how to says.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
Scruffy had his flu Jab Yesterday
My little Scruffy went and had his yearly flu jab yesterday. Hes feeling a little sad today though, I guess its taking its toll on him as it is like having cat flu but not in a large dose. Hopefully he will feel better tomorrow.
Apache2 and PHP5 and missing apxs file 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… Continue reading Apache2 and PHP5 and missing apxs file on Fedora Core 3
Checkpassword-0.90 Compilation Error 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
IPTABLES doesn't work on initial boot
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
FTP on Linux Freezes on command – ls
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