--- Acm Acm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 Workstation 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? > It sounds like ssh is not loading completely on restart. Kill it and restart after reboot, or script it.
> > 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. You should unistall the MySQL and use apt-get to load MySQL. > > 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? > Avoid doing non-apt-get installs on Debian (like you would avoid the plague!) - they are not in the application database. Apt-get avoids the unmet dependancies via use of the database. Builds via binaries that you do on your own tend to make the system unstable. Use the force Luke - Apt-get. > > 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) > I also suggest the Libranet email list, it is primarily for discussions concerning Libranet's distro of Debian, but if you explain your situation, and mention I suggested you contact that list for help, you will find help forthcomming. Go to www.libranet.com to register for the list. It has fast response times, a lot of good users and fairly high traffic. You made a good choice with Debian, but I for a high volume server FreeBSD might have been a better one. It is hair-splitting, but I think Mat might agree. (See Mat - I am not a fanatic, just dedicated to Debian.) > > Thanks in Advance, > Mark Lappin > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle http://www.dougriddle.com ## Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington ## __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
