Re: [cobalt-users] Installing software on the RAQ2

["Daniel Pfeifer" <dpfeifer@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot for this tips!

But another question. Do I have to erase the old PHP and MySQL first? I tried erasing all files with the name "mysql*", but I wonder if that is enough?

Daniel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brent Sims" <brent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Installing software on the RAQ2


> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Daniel Pfeifer so wrote:
> 
> } Have you got a tip about where I should start? Installing MySQL as
> } described in there manual and then installing PHP4.0 as described
> } in the their manual? But what about Apache? Doesn't that  kill the
> } change of the Apache server the GUI?
> } 
> } > > do you guys think, that it is possible to just download the 
> } > > MySQL-Sources, PHP4 Sources and Apache Sources and install
> } > > them on the server without 1.) killing the warranty and
> } > > 2.) without totally destroying the GUI and so.
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> If I understand the warranty correctly (I can't say that I
> do but it's only money...) it is possible to install MySQL and PHP
> without killing the warranty. At least I think I just did exactly
> that.
> 
> My understanding of the warranty is that you can't edit the
> system files. I don't, however, see anything in the warranty which
> would prevent me from installing something on the machine as long as
> I can do so without touching any of the Cobalt stuff.
> 
> So I did just that. The challenge intrigued me...
> 
> First I had to install the Flex library as MySQL
> requires it and it wasn't anywhere to be found on our RaQ2s. I just
> followed the link on my favorite tucows mirror and scarfed up
> the source. Flex puts two executables in /usr/local/bin, there
> wasn't anything else in there and putting them there does not
> require any editing of system files so I figure I'm safe for the
> moment :-)
> 
> I then when ahead and built MySQL from source and installed
> it in /usr/local/mysql. I put it here with the thought that it would
> be out of the way should Cobalt need to root around on the machine. 
> Building MySQL was kind of scary though in that MySQL builds in a
> flash on our other servers but it took a really long time on the
> RAQ2s - so long that I started to get worried but things seemed to
> work out with the exception that I got a nasty note  from the system
> monitor. After installing it I created a couple of symbolic links
> and put mysql, mysqladmin, etc in the path in this manner. 
> 
> After that I built PHP4.0 as a cgi and stuffed it into
> /usr/bin right next to Perl.
> 
> I had already installed PortSentry, Logcheck, SSH and
> Tripwire and a few other security gizmos in pretty much the same
> manner. To get everything to light off at boot I simply did some
> tweaking on the SSH startup script that I found on Question Number
> 534 in the Knowledge Base at Cobalt.com.
> 
> While I could very well be wrong, I believe I managed to get
> all this stuff installed and running without voiding the warranty
> and in such a manner that simply deleting the symbolic links that I
> created in the process and removing the one script that I stuffed in
> the rc.d directory to make everything start up at boot would make 
> it pretty easy to get everything out of Cobalt's way in the event
> they need to root around on the server. 
> 
> Now if someone can tell me how I can enable remote logging
> without editing the syslog.conf file and/or read the tripwire
> database off a remote read-only something or other (never knew how
> handy floppy drives were till I started messing with machines that
> don't have a place to put one...) I'd be a very happy man...
> 
> I haven't had time to really play with it yet (I just
> finished a few minutes ag0) but everything seems to be working just
> fine: http://aba.webokay.net/cgi-bin/php.cgi
> 
> Peace be with you,
> 
> Brent
> 
> Brent Sims
> WebOkay Internet Services
> http://www.WebOkay.net
> Brent@xxxxxxxxxxx
> (719) 595-1427 (Voice/Fax)                   
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