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After being unable to locate a Postfix RPM for Fedora Core 5 which had MySQL support compiled in, I ended up making one.
You can download it here: postfix-2.2.8-1.2.i386.rpm
It will require:
And possibly others.
I was compiling stopmotion 0.5.0 on my Fedora Core 5 machine and ran into a make problem:
src/technical/util.cpp: In static member function 'static const char* Util::checkCommand(const char*)': src/technical/util.cpp:32: error: 'assert' was not declared in this scope make: *** [util.o] Error 1
This problem was easily solved with this patch:
--- src/technical/util.cpp 2006-04-18 14:16:14.000000000 -0400 +++ ../util.cpp 2006-04-18 23:21:26.000000000 -0400 @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ #include <istream> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> +#include <cassert> using namespace std;
I needed the latest version of pam_mysql for a project I’m working on, and ended up making a couple of RPMs that don’t appear to exist elsewhere.
The CentOS 4 version has MD5 disabled… there is a problem with cyrus-sasl-devel package which provides the md5 headers.
Sample configuration:
/etc/pam.d/system-auth
auth sufficient pam_mysql.so config_file=/etc/pam_mysql.conf/etc/pam_mysql.conf
users.host=localhost; users.database=mydb; users.db_user=localhost; users.db_passwd=localhost; users.table=usertable; users.user_column=username; users.password_column=password; users.password_crypt=plain; users.disconnect_every_operation=true; verbose=0; log.enabled=1; log.table=logins; log.message_column=message; log.pid_column=pid; log.user_column=username; log.host_column=machineip; log.time_column=logintime;
I recently started playing with aterr, which is a really cool, but lightweight, forum system. I found a couple of bugs, but I’m happy to report the developer jumped right on them and released a new version.
Here is the official description of aterr:
aterr is a threaded forum system, allowing registered visitors to express their opinions, discuss topics, and debate with other visitors. A threaded forum system differs from regular, flat forum systems in that once posted, a thread can fork, allowing visitors to reply directly to other posts. aterr also provides a customisable permissions system, the ability to nest forums, and moderation tools.
To install thttpd:
wget http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/thttpd-2.25b.tar.gz groupadd www tar -zxf thttpd-2.25b.tar.gz cd thttpd-2.25b ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/thttpd --mandir=/usr/local/man make make install
Then you can start it with:
/usr/local/thttpd/sbin/thttpd -p 80 -d /usr/local/thttpd/www
The -p option is the port you want the server to run on, and the -d option is for the root directory you want it to serve pages from.
Edit /usr/local/thttpd/www/index.html and insert the following:
<html> <head> <title>Welcome to thttpd 2.25b</title> </head> <body> <h1>Welcome to thttpd 2.25b</h1> </body> </html>
WARNING!
If you do not specify the directory with -d, thttpd will default to the directory you ran the command from! This is a major security issue.
In attempting to compile gd-2.0.33 on one of my servers, I ran into a make problem. I ran configure just fine with the following options:
./configure –prefix=/usr/local/gd –enable-shared –with-x –with-png=/usr/local/libpng –with-jpeg=/usr/local/libjpeg –with-freetype=/usr/local/freetype
However, when I ran make I got this error:
gd_png.c:15:67: png.h: No such file
This means that even though configure reported finding libpng, make wasn’t linking to it. The solution was simple.
After running configure, edit line 231 of the generated Makefile, which should look like this:
CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/local/freetype/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/freetype/include -I/usr/local/freetype/include -I/usr/local/libjpeg/include
You simply need to append it with the location of libpng’s include directory:
CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/local/freetype/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/freetype/include -I/usr/local/freetype/include -I/usr/local/libjpeg/include -I/usr/local/libpng/include
Then run make and make install and you should be set.
