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It looks as though it's trying to bind to 8443 but failing, because another process is bound to that port.

is the correct answer! i think

/etc/init.d/thttpd stop
Stopping thttpd: [ OK ]
[root@localhost html]# /sbin/service httpd start
Starting httpd: [ OK ]

― -- (688), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

im not sure how this thttpd got started up, but there it (was)

― -- (688), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

comrade computer nerds! can you get female -> male DVI adapters?

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

oh, thttp is 'tiny httpd' another httpd server, probably installed by default. you'll need to disable it or it'll start up again next time you reboot (again, how you do this is distro specific. i think fedora 5 has a gui tool to let you define services but i usually just add / remove things to /etc/rc?.d. add apache whilst you're there.)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

so i finally got my laptop looked at (for free, hurrah) and the conclusion is that liquid has got in it and the motherboard's fucked. argh. what to do? bruv suggests getting a £100 one off ebay then taking the functioning bits - processor? memory? um as you can tell i have no idea what i'm talking about - out of the busted one and putting them in the new one. is this a)feasible b)a good idea?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

im back on the windows partition for a bit, so cant look, but...

/etc/rc?.d.

i have rc1.d through rc6.d ...which should i be adding to? i didnt look at the gui bit for that, would prefer to use command line, as is better to try learn more that way

― -- (688), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

The default runlevel is defined in /etc/inittab

Look for a line in that file that looks something like:

id:3:initdefault:

- which means that the default level is 3, so look in /etc/rc3.d/

The contents of those folders will all just be links back to files in /etc/init.d/

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

ok, so ls /etc/rc5.d/

gives me a whole bunch of stuff, including...

S85thttpd

so, do i just rm this? and, if i add apache in, how, exactly would i do that?

― -- (688), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

yes. it might also be in rc3.d though (init level 3 is multi-user, init level 5 is multi-user with xwindows running, generally, it could be in both).

ls -lR /etc/rc?.d is your friend. you will see what fp is talking about, the files will all be links to the main copy in /etc/init.d.

just rm the thttp links in the rc?.d directories that you don't want.

to add apache just create a new link to apache to replace the one you've just deleted:
ln -s /etc/init.d/(apachefilename) /etc/rc5.d/S85(apachefilename)

(the S85 means 'Start' and an ordering (because sometimes things have to be running before other things will run). there may be K versions of the files as well, these are shutdown (K for Kill) scripts)

this is why redhat provides a tool 8)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

This is why I prefer Gentoo!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

(i've disabled all the network related services at home to speed up boot time and because it's a standalone box 99% of the time. i have one script that'll start everything if i need it. oddly, network has to be up to debug php cgi programs.)

(gentoo uses a different system, doesn't it? not sure i bothered even adding the networky stuff on my gentoo box let alone configured it)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

It does. The start/stop scripts are still kept in /etc/init.d, but they're not ordinary shell scripts, and the numeric runlevels are mapped to named ones - "single", "nonetwork" and "default". They still use a symlink tree, under /etc/runlevels/[level], but there is a command-line script to handle the linking. Dependancies and ordering are handled automatically, whether the links are added manually or not.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

thanks, duders, i did that, and it...works! apache starts at boot.

probably back in 5 mins with my next problem;)

― -- (688), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

how is linux on the laptop going? am trying to find a cheap one with decent nvidia graphics chipset but not having much luck. lenovo have one for about £1000, vaios go for about the same (not sure i'm keen on Sony tbh). about half that would be nice.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'd avoid Vaios if I were you. I've never seen one with Linux, but the ones I've seen with Windows on have had enough problems.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

it seems to be fine, havent got a lot to compare it to. its on a dell latitude (the ones with the flammable batteries)

― -- (688), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

(ran knoppix on brother's vaio over christmas. no 3d and no sound. and no wireless but i think all of that can be fixed with a bit of messing around. cd drive seemed v flimsy though)

(asus seem to do cheaper (£6xx) nvidia laptops. can't help but think what £600 of improvements to current box would do though. 1TB+ of disk for a start!)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

so, when i restart today, starting the httpd service fails, because:

/sbin/service httpd configtest
httpd: Syntax error on line 170 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_access.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_access.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

this appears to be solved by doing the following

mv /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.bak /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

but, why has this happened?

― -- (688), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Something - probably one of the Fedora config scripts - has overwritten your httpd.conf with a dodgy one, I assume. If you want to make sure this can't happen, then as root run:

chattr +i /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

If you ever want to edit the file, though, you'll have to turn that protection off first (with chattr -i)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

my ebay & gmail were hacked yesterday.
managed to stop the ebay in time but still can't get into the gmail account.
the hacker didnt realise though that my gmail was forwarding copies of everything it received to another gmail account which i CAN access.
anyway the upshot is that i now have an ip address & a name, anybody got any revenge strategies?

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

find out who supplies their access and shop em

― stet (stet), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Mac audio: why is there a massive PC market in sound cards but not a mac equivalent? does the mac sound hardware universally rule?

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

why would my wireless belkin internet connection just suddenly start cutting out for no apparent reason?

If I restart the computer it comes back on but after about half an hour it just locks out the connection. I've had it for months and not had any problems.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

okay i'll try again

i have a belkin usb adapter to connect to a wireless modem for my broadband.

lately after reinstalling XP and a new hard drive it's connection diminishes rapidly, very randomly, it can stay connected well for hours but sometimes it only lasts minutes. But the strange thing is it doen't seem to be anything to do with my signal, as that still shows strong.

I thought rebooting was fixing it, but it's not now.

is there some sort of driver i'm missing, i've intalled the belkin stuff from the cd as like i did last time. is there another driver for something else i might need updating?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

Is your network top of the preferred list? It may well be that after reinstalling XP it picked up another wireless network near you and has stuck this at the top of the list this may drop in and out of sight and you might be hopping to this nework and not getting any network services.

Check in the wireless network tab of the network connection properties.

(also check that your SSID is truly unique)

Also check that you are using the latest drivers for your adapter an that reinstalling hasn't flipped you back to some godawful microsoft compatibility driver.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

cheers, i'll check all this out at lunchtime!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, the order thing was fine, the drivers seem fine and up to date. No problems with security.

I restarted and its now working okay, perfect in fact. but when will it fall over again?

i noticed another wireless network on my list, Netgear, which had the same channel 11 as me. would this conflict? How do I change the channel?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

could be the problem, you need to change it in the router and on the wireless driver advanced properties tab

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Can anyone recommend a good simple program/website to help me make an animated gif (or similar)? I want to make a slideshow of 30 pictures, each around 30kb in size, that runs on a loop. I made a short one with four images using Imageready but despite clicking the ‘loop forever’ box, it runs once then stops.

Is Imageready the best program to use and can anyone advise how to make it loop indefinitely?

Would some sort of slideshow program be better? I can’t find one that doesn’t have ugly logos splashed all over it and pointless buttons – I just want it to be the images and nothing else. I’m willing to pay to get a logo-free version, can anyone help?

― Affectian (Affectian), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

so i aksed on the LOST thread (twice!) with no avail. How do i fool a website into thinking i'm from the US (i'm not). i want to be able to watch episodes online that are "only available to US citizens".

There must be a trick, no?

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

b i t t o r r e n t

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

tor

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

well, i am torrenting. but streaming live from abc's site would be nicer.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I need some advice. My internet connection keeps dropping. All I have to do is unplug my ethernet cable from the back of the computer and replug it to get it back going. I've replaced the cable entirely, so I don't think it's a fritz in that. Do you think it's the network card or the router? How hard is it to replace a network card? (mirror-drive-door G4)

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

None of the above

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, what's your diagnosis?

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

nanoscale gremlins

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

dead hookers

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

that is your answer to everything

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

could it be out of phase? im not an expert, so im really guessing. possibly the wrong speed selected?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Is it just the internet connection that drops, or all network traffic?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Just the internet connection. It happened a few days ago and I could still see my wife's computer on the network.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

From yesterday,the bbc newspage - http://news.bbc.co.uk - is looking really bad in firefox (but ok in internet explorer).

Any ideas?

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Looks okay for me in Firefox. What is/was the problem? (Screenshot?)

― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

Don't know if this will work, but:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/bbcnewspage.jpg

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 15 January 2007 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

It's displaying the wrong (looks like the serif default) font. Be sure that, in advanced font preferences (under Content), the "allow page to choose its own fonts" option is checked.

― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 15 January 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

Or, it could just be that the browser for some reason failed to download a CSS file. Try clearing your cache and reloading.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, both. Back to usual display now.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, this is an ongoing issue:
Spontaneously, my computer will freeze and I get THIS screen:
http://web.joespub.com/caltool/nicemedia/images/uhoh.JPG
This happens about once every two or three days; if I just restart, it loads easily and seemingly without any issues.
I've gone into bios and disabled caching, but then it won't load the OS.
Additional weird thing: occasionally, and often before blue screening, the computer will spontaneously mute.
Other than that, no problems.
Suggestions? What the hell is going on here?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329284/en-us

Might be a cooling issue, some guy talks about it here -

http://directron.infopop.net/2/OpenTopic?a=emf&s=476097824&f=286097824&m=8051037411&p=1

― svend (svend), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

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