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[ UPDATE to a previous post ] If you are compiling PHP 5.1.2 and you get errors like: ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Another alternative that you can pursue it to compile with CFLAGS=-mimpure-text on the make command. Hope this helps someone… it caused me…

I am running the SW-Soft Plesk control panel for my hosting platform and I had a couple of issues with the version 7.5.2 -> 7.5.4 upgrade. Check out this thread on SW-Soft forum site for details on the fix… it has first a couple of issues for me already – especially around the flagging of…

If you are compiling PHP 5.1.0b[123] and you get errors like: ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections collect2: ld returned 1 exit status What you need to do is recompile the offending library/application and make certain that -fPIC is set in the compiler flags (usually CFLAGS). From the GCC documentation: If supported…

From a cached copy of the PHP.net website, posted by: mark at catalyst dot net dot nzed ReCompiling PHP4 to have oracle 8 support (oci8) on Debian Linux, using the Oracle 10g client libraries. Log in as root. PACKAGES REQUIRED: apt-get install php4-dev apt-get source -b php4 (Hit Ctrl-C once it has unpacked all the…

After happily using the previous configuration found elsewhere on this web log, I have had a little bit of a personal revolution and have decided not to use firmware that doesn’t fit with my understanding of the GPL and open-source. My new best friend is OpenWRT (http://www.openwrt.org). First, make sure you take a backup of…

If you are looking for the latest packages for OpenWRT, as at this time, the best place I have found is: http://openwrt.org/downloads/experimental-20050525/bin/packages/ Also, for some really good ideas and tips etc on OpenWRT, check out http://martybugs.net/wireless/openwrt/

> list Setup:/Network/Service/0/DNS > show Setup:/Network/Service/0/DNS { ServerAddresses : { 0 : 192.168.XXX.XXX } DomainName : XXX.taglab.com } > show State:/Network/Global/DNS { ServerAddresses : { 0 : 192.168.XXX.XXX } DomainName : XXX.taglab.com } We can change the setting by doing: > get Setup:/Network/Service/0/DNS > d.show { ServerAddresses : { 0 : 192.168.XXX.XXX } DomainName :…

Check out this site that I found regarding mirroring disks on the fly… Debian-Administration.org. This saved me some considerable grief when one drive in a customers server crashed… was able to replace the disk and re-establish the mirror without having to rebuild. BTW – I know this is how it should be – I have…