On Friday 01 August 2008, Tim wrote: >Tim: >>> NB: I've done this with a spinning headache, so you ought to be able to >>> manage this as well, without my headache. > >Gene Heskett: >> ouch, like my aching back, thats not good at all, mine is from 70+ years >> of abuse & 25 extra pounds, does your's have a reason? > >Dunno if my headache's from the cold I've got, or the medication for it. >I do know why my back aches - getting stuck, many years ago, hauling >something heavy out of the back of a car... > >>> I mention an alternative stats program >> >> I see that is installed, but finding a viewer for it seems to be purely by >> accident, it opened ELinks, whatever that is, when I clicked on its july >> report from within midnight commander. > >How did you access it? Elinks is a text-only web browser, rather like >Lynx, but also supports some rudimentary tables or frames layout. > >> Grumble... Question for the webalizer folks then? Why is there not a >> link to the viewer in the k-menu's? > >Well, actually, one doesn't usually access such things through the >system menus, but through your web browser. What would be needed is >preloading the bookmarks on any browser that's on your system, with ><http://localhost/usage>. But then we don't do anything similar for all >the cgi-scripts that might be included with a web browser. > >It's another of those read the manual / read the configuration file / >look at its scripts, things. It used to be that such things as >statistic analysers were programs that you'd install by hand, because >you wanted it, and would already have known about it. > >> Having it installed, but effectively unavailable doesn't make a lot of >> sense to me. If there had been such a menu entry, its likely I would have >> used it rather than doing a freshmeat search for the newest, highly rated >> such tool & then went hunting in yumex for a suitable rpm. > >Over the years I'd used webalizer, finding it's simple one page summary >rather useful. But more recently, preferred AWStats features. I'd left >it alone, before, as being rather convoluted. But when I changed >webhosts, they gave me with a poorly configured webalizer, and a fairly >well configured AWStats. And since I can't really reconfigure them, >thanks to how the host runs, I just went with the flow. > >One thing that annoys me about them both, is the referrer stats. The >links for who referred to you is sanitised, somewhat. So you do have to >manually check your logs to find exactly what pages have referred to >you. You just know, when your stats have suddenly increased for one >month, that you've become the address on one of those random "exit this >porn site" buttons. ;-) > >> ls -l /etc/awstats/: >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62137 2008-07-30 17:28 >> awstats.coyote.coyote.den.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62130 2008-07-21 >> 17:17 awstats.localhost.localdomain.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62130 >> 2008-07-21 17:17 awstats.model.conf >> >> And I haven't touched what the rpm installed. > >To cut down on workload, and avoid meaningless data/traffic, I'd remove >all but one, and customise it to suit your needs. Else, once an hour, >all three configuration files will be used to read your stats. > >> Since I'm running an oddball port # to the outside world, I was rather >> surprised to see the googlebot was there every day this last month. > >I can think of a few things: Faked user-agent string, hoping that the >googlebot might be allowed in where ordinary clients might shooed away. >And if you've ever mentioned the address for your server somewhere in >public, it'll have been indexed. Big brother is watching you, and I >don't mean that crappy TV show... ;-) Grrr. Must be time I changed the domain name, but I'd still have to email it to my friends, who like you, are many and sundry. Damned if I do & damned if I don't. I should do a google search for one of the pictures there and see if google has the link. I just tried google for 3 of my pix, but google doesn't have a link. Just as well, I occasionally have stuff there that burglars would love. >>>>> Are you still using your computer as root... >> >> Some of this started when I tried to build OpenMovieEditor, and F8 >> apparently doesn't have enough GLX stuff to build it, 8 OpenGL >> functions seem to have been stripped from the library by RedHat. >> Reason? Damned if I know. here is whats missing: gcc -D_REENTRANT -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/local/include -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/opt/gmerlin/lib -o .libs/bgavdump bgavdump.o ../lib/.libs/libgmerlin_avdec.so -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libgavl.so /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecDecode' /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecInit2' /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecClose' /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecOpen' /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecSetConfiguration' /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecInit' /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecGetCurrentConfiguration' /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecGetErrorMessage' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [bgavdump] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/gmerlin-all-in-one-20080715/gmerlin_avdecoder/gmerlin-avdecoder-0.1.8/tests' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Compilation in gmerlin_avdecoder failed I interpret that as saying that even though the functions are in the header files ok, the library itself does not have them. Grrrr. >I'd still stick with using your computer as yourself, just use another >terminal as root for configuration issues. Especially if you're opening >your computer up to the world as a webserver. You do want as much >protection as you can manage, in that situation. I'm not directly connected to the net here, dd-wrt, x86 version running on an old 450 mhz k6-iii is between me and the black hats. It gets about 500 root login attempts a day, but the password is both long and unique. [...] >Around here, we have neighbours who like playing with power tools all >week and weekend long, lawn mowers, chainsaws, angle grinders, and other >things that I haven't figured out. Compare that to me - the other week >I pruned several trees, and removed a whole one, using nothing other >than a hand saw, branch clippers, and brute force. The only noise I >subjected my neighbours to was the occasional swear word. Yeah I hear that. I have about a 5 minute monologue I've developed over the years for such things as hitting my thumb with a hammer or similar. You can hear it well past the property line too. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I have more humility in my little finger than you have in your whole ____ BODY! -- from "Cerebus" #82 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
