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ok, i just shut down and restarted httpd, and noticed the following error: /etc/init.d/httpd: line 56: /var/run/httpd.pid: No such file or directory The server will start back up, and when i do a "/etc/init.d/httpd status" i get: httpd (pid 3590) is running... 3589 (pid 3588) is running... 3587 (pid 3586) is running... 3579 (pid ) is running... Sorry to take this thread a bit away from its purpose... if you think I should start a new thread, I will. Edit: ok, i looked through my files again, and when i added a <directory> entry specifically for my htdocs directory, now it works. it looks like the default setup i had been using was only a deny from all to deny access to the root. so at least i can see my docs... now i need to figure out virtual servers, which is more an issue of me reading more of the docs to figure it out. but if anyone knows what's going on with the .pid file... let me know :>

i don't think it's a port issue because it is reaching the server (ie, i can change the error message in the httpd.conf file from "access forbidden--go away" to "i like cheese" and when i try to access the server, it'll say "i like cheese") if the ports were blocked, wouldn't it just not connect at all?

I had apache up and running, but somewhere along the line I've messed it up, and i think it may have to do with this line: ServerName computername.domain.name How do I know what my "fully qualified domain name" is? I'm using no-ip, so i'm not sure whether i should put the noip domain name in there, or my ip address, or... something else? (i have a hostname, but am not sure about my "domain.name") i'm on DSL behind a router, I assume I don't need to put the domain that my external IP is on, or do I? I currently get a 403 error from inside the NAT, outside the NAT, or even on the server itself. (so if this doesn't sound like the error is here... does anyone have a clue where else i might've messed things up?)

It's a D-Link 8DFE540TX. Mandrake sees it as a Macronix MX987x5 (i guess that's the chipset?). I saw people posting about similar problems (the liveCD sets up the network just fine, but then it won't work when you reboot). some people got it to work by disabling APIC and APCI but it didn't seem to work for me.

MottS' post should get you going, but if you still have problems, post what software you're trying to use to burn the iso and maybe someone can help. This Tutorial on burning ISOs should help you figure out what you need to do in the particular software you're using. The ISO file is a "disc image" that allows you to copy a whole CD in one file, and burning it in a particular way allows you to make a CD not with just one file on it, but with all the needed files. (ie, sort of like the .bat, .exe, etc that you were thinking of). Good luck!

i added another 128mb stick of pc100 SDRAM and it seems to have helped a lot. i had pretty much settled on using gnome even with the 256, but with 384mb the computer doesn't seem to use the swap at all, at least under normal load. the evolution issues (sporadic long delays while doing normal tasks) seem to have gone away, but that could either be the memory or just me hammering out my own issues as i learn my way around linux. i've reinstalled no fewer than 15 times in the last several months... but each time i learn something else and it always runs better than it was before reinstalling. i'd like to attribute that to my own prowess, but maybe it's just because M$ no longer has a presence on my hard drive. :P

well, i got the framebuffer working, but never did get the NIC working. so i didn't have a very functional system. ah well, i may give gentoo another chance once i'm a bit more linux literate, or when i get another lan card.

of course, it occurs to me now that i was just being stupid to have typed it all out rather than cut and paste. :lol: ah well.

the main problem i've found since switching to linux is that I consistently misread letters that people post on websites (and i do it here all the time, even when people use "code"). This sounds really basic, but is there any way to always be able to differentiate a 1 from a I or an l, or a 0 from a O?? Will this eventually just become second nature? My current practice seems to be that I just look at the output while compiling, and if it keeps saying "unrecognized option '-02', that's my key to look closely at the code and say $!$&*(#@, it was the letter OH, not a zero!! at least O and 0 are usually somewhat different... but a lot of times i simply cannot tell a 1 from an l so... does anyone have any magic answers? or just "get used to it" ? (oh, and by the way... anyone trying to follow directions to install apache2 at this site... be sure to use "O2" not "02" :lol: )

ok, i am going to start over the install with the vanilla kernel because of a problem with my tulip-based nic and apic or acpi. commands in the kernel line of grub.conf didn't seem to help, and other people on the gentoo boards seemed to be having the same problem except when they used the vanilla sources. i got the bootsplash (above) to work but didn't seem to have the framebuffer running (is that possible?). can someone point me to instructions on what to do with an ebuild? i just read it in nano and tried to do what it was saying, but it looked like a script i was supposed to run somehow. i just patched the kernel and moved the initrd, but apparently there was something else i was supposed to do. anyway... i'll eventually figure this out as long as i don't wear out my computer recompiling every 15 minutes. 8)

thanks for the heads-up. that's my first time patching a kernel (or compiling one, for that matter) but i think i've got it working. and if i find out when i reboot that i've messed it up somewhere along the line, i'll just try again until it actually works :lol:

thanks 8) i was hesitant to kill the download, but it worked just fine. and this way it'll be done downloading before the end of the week (actually, it'll be done in about 10 minutes!)

ok, so if it's still cranking away at a ridiculously slow speed... is there a safe way to interrupt the download and start over (changing the server as discussed above?) I did a # emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources hours ago and it's now downloading at 800B/second. this could take forever. i thought if i unplugged the ethernet cable, maybe the installer would try another server, but that didn't seem to work. if i kill the process, will that screw up my whole install and i'll have to fdisk and start over?

ahh. i searched those boards, but i guess i was focusing on keywords like "install" when i shouldn't have. i posted my Q here because i knew people were pretty newbie-friendly, i'm never sure on other boards. :P i'll play with this later. thanks!

I decided to give gentoo a spin on a spare hard drive. Everyone talks about how long it takes to compile everything, but the problem I'm having is that it is taking forever to download ! (i'm now getting less than 1K/s from oregonstate.edu.) there are mirrors listed on the gentoo.org page, but is there a way to use these during install? or should I just wait it out? :) (i haven't been able to find this on gentoo's page, although their documentation is generally very thorough) thanks.

i'm embarassed to ask this... but if you installed the new card, did you remember to plug the monitor into the new video card instead of the onboard video? that's the most common mistake i've seen people make when upgrading onboard video... and i've done it too. (luckily it's easy to fix)

i know it's on 9.1, but probably on 9.0 also... try installing LinNeighborhood. (it'll need to install samba and a few other packages, but mandrake should take care of all that). I was about ready to bash my head in trying to mount my other PCs from the console, but Linneighborhood say them right away.

I've played around with IceWM for a few days now, and I've got it set up so I like it. A lot. When I first installed mandrake I looked at some of the other window managers, but i think i was scared away by some of the really minimal ones (ie, twm), but now that I know my way around the system a bit better IceWM has everything I need and it's FAST. I'm not sure why I need the "start" button, but having a taskbar is somehow comforting :P I tried fluxbox but ended up getting frustrated trying to install a configuration program (it needed python2 but mandrake apparently renames it python2.2, probably an easy solution but i just gave up). I'm using IceWM Control Panel and it seems to work well. Icepref (included on MDK CDs) isn't nearly as useful.

i love learning weird stuff by just pressing buttons. i did ctrl+alt+F1 assuming it would bring up a console window, but instead... well, you know the rest, i was at a login prompt but could hear my mp3 still playing in the background. it took me a while of playing around pressing random buttons to get back to kde. after creating those virtual consoles is there anything i need to do to close them? or are they always there? i got back to my main x session with ctrl alt f7 (i think), was that the right way to do it?

ahh. the video card could very likely be the culprit. it's an old TNT2 with 32mb. i don't game much anymore so i never upgraded--but maybe it's time to get a more recent video card. i logged in using gnome and it is using the swapfile much less than in kde. i'll keep playing with this.

thanks for the tips. i had used (and liked) gnome when i first installed 9.0 a month or so ago, but actually was under the impression that it was more of a memory hog than kde. i may eventually switch to just a window manager, but i don't think i'm quite ready to abandon kde/gnome quite yet. plus, one of the main reasons my girlfriend didn't kill me when i transitioned all our computers to linux was that it still acted a lot like ms windows... so we'll see. i'll also try to research which processes aren't needed. since i'm using 90mb of swap consistently, that should tell me that another 128mb of sdram would help. i'm hesitant to upgrade the whole computer right now less because of the $$ and more because i like how quiet it is (no fan on the CPU, so the only sound is from the power supply, which is quiet).

this motherboard will only take a max of 384mb (3x128), which isn't all that great. i'm not going to upgrade the whole system right now, but may need to eventually.

I'm not sure what is going on, but I recently started running apache for a small website on my box and everything has gotten VERY SLOW. (and it isn't that people are accessing the apache server, because there rarely is anyone on the site, it's just for family, etc). I'm not even sure where to post this because I'm not sure if it's a setup problem, hardware problem or software problem. this is a PIII 550Mhz with 256mb PC100 RAM running mandrake 9.1 with KDE. would adding more memory help speed things up a bit? (KDE system guard says memory: 215812KB used, 40248 free... swap: 85484kb used, 730956KB free). since the swap seems pretty inactive, i don't think it's a memory issue? the CPU load doesn't seem particularly high... so i'm not sure why things are going slowly. could part of the problem be that i have such a huge swapfile? (that's what mandrake automatically picked at setup) an example of a problem I frequently have is that evolution will stall for 30+ seconds at a time (just not refresh the window as you type, etc). i had seen posts with similar complaints, but the solution was always upgrade to a newer version, which didn't seem to help me. (tried both the newer mdk version and the texstar version). I have similar slowdowns in phoenix as well. does anyone have any ideas of what I should check? Thanks in advance.

I don't think the install asks what discs you have, but it may just say "put in disc 2 if you have it". once installed, go to the Mandrake Control Panel -> Software Management -> Software Sources Manager. You can select or unselect the sources you want to use. I've never "added" a CD, but I'd guess if you put the CD in the drive, then pick "removable device" it'll just see disc 2. alternately, if you're on a broadband connection and can't get the discs to work, you can add other sources to download packages form the internet. That could take a while if you want a lot of packages, but it'll help you with dependencies in the meantime if you only want a few packages.

did you complete the install? If so, you should now be able to install everything from those other discs from software management in the MCC. make sure it realizes you have all of the discs in (i think it's called) rpmdrake. Edit: no it's not rpmdrake. it's "software sources manager." see my elaboration below.