Greetings All, Well, this being my first post, my name is Mark Lappin, a native of Baton = Rouge, LA, going to school at UOP out here on the Lef Cloast. Well I'm = in charge of the server acm.cs.uop.edu which is a Sparc Ultra 10 Workstatio= n machine which was previously running Suse. We got rooted twice in the = last two weeks by somebody who graduated and used to be in charge of the = machine (I took his place). So yesterday we wiped SuSe 7.3 off of the = machine and put Debian on.
Debian is up and running but I'm having a couple of problems I'm hoping = ya'll can provide some advice on. Problem 1 maybe...might be a client problem) after everthing was up and running with the OS itself, I used apt-get to = install sshd which downloaded and installed (and updated) a bunch of = libraries on the box. SSH worked fine no problems, the perosn who was = working with me ssh'd in from one of the sunray workstations, and I ssh'd = in from my laptop, no sweat, warnings that host keys had changed but no = problem there it obvivously was not the same. So a while later we rebooted = the machine and ssh stopped working with any degree of reliability, some = clients can connect, some can't, some can at some times and others can't. = >From sunray2serv.uop.edu we could not ssh, but we could from my laptop and = another sparc machine in the lab where the server is. Later last night, I = could not ssh from my laptop but could from my desktop. I goto bed I get = up and I can't ssh back to the box from either PC this morning, I can ssh = out to darkshadows.org where I have a shell account, and ssh from that = machine to acm.cs.uop.edu --- as far as errors, I don't get any, my ssh = client (using SecureCRT, putting and Secure SSH) I can't connect. My = friend whose trying to connect from off campus via OS X, gets to a = password prompt then gets kicked out (we can both go and login as our = selves and as root at the console in the lab however). Now if ssh does = not work, I can use apt-get and uninstall ssh, then use apt-get again = reinstall it and no problem, everything is all cool from most clients = until the server gets rebooted. Is this a client or a server problem? Problem 2) Mysql setup --- here I just need some help (i'm no linux expert by far and = *ducks* I'd put Win 2k on the box if I could, I muddle my way around. I = downloaded the mysql binary distribution for sparc, got it put in the = right place, got my password set and all; but I can't get it to fire = automatically when the server boots, but I just don't understand what I = need to do. At one point it says to move or copy the mysql.server script = to the place wither other startup scritps are located. I can't find any = .server scripts on the machine --- this has to be a smple thing, i'm just = msising something about how to automatically start mysql when the server = boots. Problem 3 & 4) Ok, I used apt-get to setup apache, didn't have any problems there. I = then use apt-get to try and get php4 going --- that did not work, so I = went and edited httpd.conf and uncommented out the line to load the php = modules; restarted apache and it did not restart, I checked my error log = and it couldn't load the php4 module. So I downloaded the php4 source and = started the configure process on it; got an error that bison and lex = weren't installed, used apt-get to install those. Rerun configure and it = went a whole heck of a lot farther, and stopped way at the end that apxs = wasn't installed or could not be found, I did a locate on apxs and found = nothing --- tried updatedb then redid locate and still did not find it. = apache -l shows me the modules required for DSO support; but nothing else. = So I'm guessing the reason that I can't install php is because of = apache, so I'm taking a shot here that to install php4 I need to get = apache configured for dynamic support of modules. Can I do this with = apt-get or should I unisntall apache and then download the source andn = compile it myself? Advice/solutions appreciated. Reply here (I get a ton of e-mail to my = personal account so I'll use the one for the acm club here, why not, its = not used for anything else), or you can reach me online via AIM (TNGPicard = & TNGData), ICQ: 8551680, and IRC (DALnet -- nick: TNGPicard) Thanks in Advance, Mark Lappin
