On 10/24 11:44 , N.Pussini wrote: > I've installed a Ubuntu Server 6.06 and followed all the instructions in > order to install all the prerequisites (mod_perl, apache ecc ecc).
I'm guessing you installed from the tarball rather than the package. Install the package, and it should install everything with all the correct permissions, get the other packages you need, and may even give you some examples to work from (the Debian package gives you an example localhost.pl file that's very helpful the first time). Always install software from packages rather than tarballs. - it makes it trivial to find out if you need to update anything - it means you don't need a compiler on your system (a tool than an attacker can use against you) - it makes it easy to roll back to an older version if need be - it makes it easy to remove software you don't need anymore (which reduces the tools an attacker can use against you, and reduces upgrade workload) - it makes it easy to find out what version of the software is installed - with some package managers (RPM) it's easy to find out when the software was installed, so you can correlate that to something breaking - you can find out who built the software, so you can go complain to them when their package breaks - you save lots of time by not compiling everything on every host - you have a consistent install because it's the same code everywhere and not compiled on each machine separately -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
