Adding PHP modules
by Aleksandar Milivojevic
Is there a "smarter" way of adding PHP modules than recompiling entire PHP SRPM
package?
What I'm currently doing is taking PHP SRPM package, editing php.spec file,
recompiling whole thing, and taking just the additional modules. Would speed
up things considerably if it was possible to compile only the single module.
I noticed that modules that do come standard with Fedora are dependant on the
exact PHP version. Is this simply packagers decision to force all modules to
be upgraded when php package is upgraded (and I don't need to have this
requirement in my php-modulename packages)? Or the modules are really
dependant on PHP version and must be recompiled whenever basa PHP package is
upgraded (and I should also have exact version requirement in my php-modulename
packages)? I'd like to compile the module once (if possible), instead of
recompiling it every time updated PHP package is out. Provided there were no
security fixes for the module in question, which I need to track manaully
anyhow since neither the modules nor libraries they need are part of Fedora
(such as for example Sybase and Mcrypt modules).
Thanks to anybody who can enlighten me on this issues ;-)
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18 years, 11 months
Linux Backup Administration
by Mike McCarty
I realize that this is off-topic. Hopefully you will forgive
me for imposing on you like this.
I'm new to *nix administration. I've used *nix installations
for years in various incarnations (Xenix, Solaris, HPUX et al.)
but not on the admin side. Backup is still something of a
mystery to me. It seems that there are two schools of thought
cpio
tar
It also seems that each side thinks the other side is nuts.
It also seems that using links (soft or otherwise) is not
well handled by either technique.
It also seems that everyone agrees that using tape is the
Way To Go(tm).
Can anyone tell me whether my impressions on this matter
be correct? Is there a good tutorial which can give me
relative pros and cons of cpio style vs. tar style backup?
How about which directories actually need backing up?
How about how does one actually recover when the worst
happens?
How about disc upgrades? I suppose that /etc/fstab needs to be
new, but /etc/hosts needs to be restored. How does one go
about doing these "partial" restores to get the machine
back running again?
I also don't want to use a tape drive, being (as some are)
on a restricted budget, both for time to learn new stuff
and monetarily, being among the Great Telecom Layoff. There
are very nice Windows programs which create initial/disaster
recovery CDs which can completely rebuild a system to the way
it was when initially created, and then do backups to CD after
that. *nix seems not to have any such concept.
Anyway, thanks for you time.
Mike
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18 years, 11 months
Re: Fedora Core 4 hangs before switching to the greeter, during bootup
by Ferindo Middleton Jr
(In reply to Topic #18 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162002#c3>)
> Re: Fedora Core 4 hangs before switching to the greeter during, boot up (Andy Pieters)
I do boot directly into Run level 5.
'ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc5.d | grep S99local' on the shell yields:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 19 10:08 S99local -> ../rc.local
I just rebooted my system to try switching to another virtual terminal with <ctrl>+<alt>+<f2>... but oops, I spoke to soon because it didn't hang again after rebooting and switching to the GDM greeter. It seems as though a yum update or something automatically fixed the problem. Since it seems as though this problem regresses, I'm sure I'll get to try the troubleshooting recomendations of A. Pieters again.
All new problem now, during the last automatic yum update apparently the kernel-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 was installed and now the system hangs way earlier than just before getting to the greeter....
How do you turn off automatic yum updates? This is apparently turned on by default in FC4 for the first time and I actually find it a bad thing that packages are updating with out my knowing about it and approving it first - this makes it hard to determine which updates are fixing intermittent problems on the system. I like to turn automatic yum updates off and have to run yum update manually to approve updates before they happen.
Ferindo
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18 years, 11 months
re: Fedora Core 4 fails installation hangs shortly after staring the process
by Benjamin Opatowski
I have easily installed all the previous Fedoras (1-3) on the same machine with no problems. The Fedora 4 installation hangs - the screen just goes blank - shortly after the first installation CD takes off. The media was checked, registering passed on all four CDs. I don't have clue what's wrong.
Ben
18 years, 11 months
FC4, Ndiswrapper 1.2 and Broadcom 93406 rev 02
by Robert L Cochran
My experience with Ndiswrapper 1.2 on FC4 (i386 arch, 1369 kernel) on my
HP Compaq nx9010 laptop mirrors that of radioact1ve in his posts "Wifi
Question". The laptop has a Broadcom 93406 rev 02 chipset built in. I
was able to get Ndiswrapper and wireless working just fine under Fedora
Core 3 and I might backgrade because of it since I positively must have
wireless working.
I also cannot get Ndiswrapper working by using my Buffalo Air
(WLI-CB-G54A) pc card. The driver loads, one of the card's lights goes
on, but there is no wireless activity of any sort.
One note: the nx9010 machines run extremely hot, especially the memory
compartment. I'm maxed out with 1 Gb RAM and that memory compartment
gets HOT. It is hot enough to be really unpleasant. I think the very
intense heat has the effect of cooking any CD that is in the optical
drive. This seems to trigger a lot of CD read errors. HP's engineers, in
their infinite wisdom, built a hot system and then put the optical drive
right near one of the hottest zones.
I wonder if the heat is also cooking the wireless chips built into the
machine? But I'm straying off the point.
Bob Cochran
18 years, 11 months
Where is qt3 (for x86_64)?
by Timothy Murphy
I was trying to compile a kernel with "make xconfig"
on an Athlon64 machine with FC-4 (upgraded from FC-3),
but it bombed out looking for libqt.
As far as I could tell, by comparison with an i386 system,
this should be in a qt3 rpm.
When I googled for "qt3 rpm" it seemed to be available at various sites;
so I wondered why it does not seem to be on any of the Fedora sites,
even the development (rawhide) ones?
I was able to compile the kernel with "make menuconfig"
so it is only a theoretical question.
Incidentally, what is the relation between libqt and libqt-mt ?
What does "mt" stand for?
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18 years, 11 months
Mirroir list for FC4 updates
by Geoffrey Leach
The mirroirlist pointed to by the released .repo file for
updates-released contains URLs for worldwide sites. So, I guess its
not supprising when I see yum attempting to access non-US sites (no
insult intended to other countries), however this strikes me as
inefficient, at the very least. The mirroir list does list a number of
US sites first, which I guess in not good for someone updating from
.ru, for example.
Am I missing something here, or is optimization (as in the fedora-core
mirroirlist) wanting?
18 years, 11 months
Re: Ndis Wrapper Installation
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
> ridan abid <vertelxml(a)yahoo.com> wrote: --- Mark Bidewell
> <mark.bidewell(a)alumni.clemson.edu> wrote:
>
>>> ridan abid wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
>>>> >Mark,
>>>> >
>>>> >Thanks alot, I did everthing that you said. Worked
>>>> >out, except when I get to the modprobe part.
>>>
>>>
>>> Exactly
>>
>>
>>>> >what is it that I need to do. Do I just type in
>>>> >*modprobe ndiswrapper* exactly like that. Or does
>>>
>>>
>>> it
>>
>>
>>>> >vary what you modprobe.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>> protection around
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>>>
>>>
>>> what error did you receive? if any
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>I did not get any error. when i type in "modprobe
>ndiswrapper" i don't recieve a response from the
>terminal. so then i type in iwconfig and it says:
>lo no wireless extensions.
>
>sit0 no wireless extensions.
>
>Nader
>
>
Three things:
1) Next time try "modprobe -v ndiswrapper". This will tell you where
modprobe is finding ndiswrapper.
2) Immediately after #1, try "dmesg | less" and go to the bottom (shift
g). You will, hopefully, see some output from ndiswrapper attempting to
load.
3) "lsmod | less". Search for ndiswrapper ("/ ndis" is usually sufficient).
18 years, 11 months
Fedora Core 4 hangs before switching to the greeter during bootup
by Ferindo Middleton Jr
After my FC4 box finishes starting all the services and just before GDM
presents the graphical greeter, the system hangs. This initially was a
terrible tragedy because I didn't know how to stop it which means I
couldn't get access to the system (being that it would just hang with a
black screen)...
Then I realized that if I simply move the mouse around a little bit just
when it's loading up the last service (which is usually always 'Wine'),
this somehow deters whatever causes the hang and it would then load up
the greater as normal.
Anybody else have this annoying problem? This problem has actually
happened before in previous FC releases but has seems to constantly
reintroduce itself with very couple of releases - seems to be some flaw
that is overlooked in regression test because it goes and then comes
back again constantly.
If I forget to move my mouse around a little bit during that last
service loading during boot up, I just have to manually reboot the
machine and remember to do it the next time.... but come on, this is a
ridiculous.
Ferindo
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18 years, 11 months
FC3: cyrus: IOERROR: fstating sieve script /var/lib/imap/sieve/r/root/defaultbc: No such file or directory
by Andy Pieters
Hi all
That's the error I see on one of our FC3 servers.
Question remains how come it is missing since cyrus-imapd was installed from
rpm
Anybody has a cure?
With kind regards
Andy
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