Xlib / imake
Hi all, I'm working my way through the O'Reilly Xlib book for something to do at work and I've hit a problem. If I try and build the first basicwin.c file using $gcc -g -owin basicwin.c -lXlib I get ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory and if I try and build O'Reilly's example file usin imake I get a different problem, Imakefile.c:13: Imake.tmpl: No such file or directory imake: Exit code 33. Stop. Now Imake.tmpl exists in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config and I have installed all the X development libraries I can find, so my question is, what haven't I set up that I need to? I assume I need to configure a library path somewhere for the gcc line to work but which one? Also, why doesn't the Imake work? Surely that should have been configured by the install script or do I need to do something to that too? All suggestions gratefully received.
ppp problem
Hi all, I've recently upgraded to slink from hamm and now I'm having a problem with ppp. The networking works much better than hamm which is good and I've configured my ISP's using pppconfig and before so I assumed everything was. I can use Netscape just fine, and lynx mostly works. My problems are with ping and ftp. I can't ping the nameservers or any other destination out on the 'net and I can't ftp either. So my question is what's changed between hamm and slik to affect ftp and ping and how do I get them working? I'd appreciate a cc because I'm at work at the moment. thanks
ppp problem 2
Hi all, I've recently upgraded to slink from hamm and now I'm having a problem with ppp. The networking works much better than hamm which is good and I've configured my ISP's using pppconfig and before so I assumed everything was. I can use Netscape just fine, and lynx mostly works. My problems are with ping and ftp. I can't ping the nameservers or any other destination out on the 'net and I can't ftp either. So my question is what's changed between hamm and slik to affect ftp and ping and how do I get them working? I'd appreciate a cc because I'm at work at the moment. thanks ps. OK it's not slink. I can remember doing an apt-get to upgrade the distribution and a general update which worked fine and I'd ping idsoftware.com to test the link was up. Fetchmail used to work as well. I half suspect it's Gnome that's done it. Gnome was the last thing I upgraded over a ppp link. Now it appears that addresses are not being resolved correctly. Aaarrrh. HELP.
where is /proc/asound?
Hallo all, I've just installed slink on my laptop and I'm trying to use the ALSA. Do you need to do any special configureation for ALSA? I've just got a vanilla system and a custom kernel ( still 2.0.36 though) and ALSA just doesn't work. I don't appear to have a /proc/asound directory and I can't find out how to get one. The reason I want this is because I bought Civ:CTP and it doesn't play the music. So I figured that my sound wasn't correctly figured on hamm, one upgrade later and I'm still confused. Any suggestions on how best to get ALSA running would be appreciated. Could you cc. me as well 'cos I'm at work at the mo. :-) thanks
webby postgres
Hi all,
I've finally set up a postgres db with a table and a few entries in (I
think), now I'm trying to
connect this to a web page. I've put the pgsql module in the php.ini file
and created a page with the following code;
html
head
titlePHP Test/title
/head
body
?php
$conn=pg_connect(, , , , docreg);
if( !$conn ) {
echo An error occured.\n;
exit;
}
$sql=SELECT * FROM docreg;;
$result_set=pg_Exec( $conn, $sql );
$rows=pg_NumRows( $result_set );
if( ( !$result_set ) || ( $rows 1 ) ) {
echo H1ERROR - no rows returned/H1p;
exit;
}
for( $j=0; $j$rows; $j++ ) {
echo pg_result( $result_set, $j, column_name );
}
?
/body
/html
So, as far as I can tell this _should_ work. Trouble is I get the following
message;
Warning: Unable to connect to PostgresSQL server: FATAL 1: SetUserId: user
www-data is not in pg_shadow in /usr/local/www/hello.php3 on line 7
An error occured.
I can't add www-data to the pg_shadow file using createuser because of the
'-' character, so the question is
How do I get this to work?
I don't want to have a specific user connect to the db at this point in
time although I will in the future so I could
use any ideas that you have to offer.
I'd appreciate a cc as well because I'm at work at the moment and I'm not
going to be able to pick up this list until I go home.
Thanks
postgres
Hallo all, I've just installed the postgres stuff ok, but I thought I'd check out a thought before I upset something. I understand that user 'postgres' is the dba for postgres. It is user postgres who adds and deletes users and databases. Is it safe to change the password for user postgres? At the moment I can only access the user by su'ing from root, is this the accepted way of doing it? Suggestions please. I'd appreciate a cc as well 'cos I'm not at home at the moment. Thanks
sloooooow apache
Any Apache geniuses have an idea about this; I want to create a strictly limited access web server, available only to selected IP addresses. From the Apache documentation I understood that you could allow specific IP addresses using the 'allow from' line. So I changed the access.conf file from order allow,deny allow from all to deny from all allow from 141.245.104.215 allow from 141.245.104.225 ... 28 more IP addresses. For a total of 30 allow from lines. Now the problem is that in the former case Apache flies but everyone who knows the URL can view the server and in the latter case, if you're not on the list you don't get in but Apache is a dog to run. It can take upwards of two minutes to load the index page! Now even with my naive understanding of Apache this seems a tad slow. Recommendations please, what am I doing wrong to make it run SO slow? What is the best way to limit access to 30 non-consecutive IP addresses? Any suggestions at all? Thanks.
IP Masquerading
Is there any Debian specific documentation on IP Masquerading? I've read the mini how-to, but debian seems to have this extra /etc/ipmasq.conf file so I'm looking foe the correct way to configure debian IP Masquerading before I start asking any stupid questions. If there isn't any should we consider writing some?
CD images
I'm having a problem with the CD images at http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/debian-cd/2.1r_0/i386. I have free internet access at work so I thought I'd download the images and write them to CD myself. Because of the way the network is set up I can only use IE or Netscape to get the images. Using Netscape both the binary images are enlarged by about 2Mb from the listed size so censequently the md5sums don't match. IE can't handle the download. The binary 2 image completed at 404Mb. What I want to know is, what's causing this 2Mb enlargement. Is it going to be a problem? What's the best way to write these images under windows? We had a go yesterday and we just got an .iso file on a cd rather than an imaged cd. I read the CD image FAQ and it's not a lot of help. 2) How do I get this windows software to write the Image files to a CD ? change the file extension from .raw to .iso, and your windows sorftware should be able to see it, and write it. What software do people use? thanks
dselect access methods
Hallo all, Whenever I try to run dselect I'm getting a message that says No access methods available. It's a brand new installation on a 486DX2-50. The only problem was that I had bad inodes on the /usr partition. So I need to know has this affected dselect and how do I fix it? Where are the access methods kept? If they're in /usr/lib/dpkg the everything there is fine. Would you be so kind as to cc me directly as I'm not on the subscription list at this address. thanks
