Hi there,

I'm also trying to get php up and running, however I'm on openslug.

Did anyone build the mod_php for apache? I think this would be best for me.
I tried to modify the bb-file for php to build the module and then
crosscompile on my debian box. However, the configure script said
"compiler cannot create executables". Anyone an idea?
Or even better: has somebody a binary ready?

I also tried with thttpd and the binary from the php-package via cgi, i
wrote a little shell-script as a wrapper, which calls the binary. This
works for simple scripts, but not for POST-request...

Thanks for any help,

Jochen

After I have installed Oww, started OwwNoGui in interactive mode and
executed the change to USB driver command I get the error messages. And on
response from any 1-wire network.

Does anyone have an idea on what is wrong?

Oystein H.
qcyber.org

Error messages:
1-wire Error: Open COM Failed
1-wire Error: Failed to acquire a necessary system resource

Commands:
# ipkg install oww
# owwnogui -i
devices driver usb


UnSlung info:
Firmware Version:  V2.3R29-uNSLUng-5.5-beta
1GB Flash drive in USB port 1, "disk 1"
DS9490R in USB port 2 "disk 2 / flash"

UnSlung packages:

oww - 0.81.7-1 - Oww reads from a DalSemi/AAG weather station.
libusb - 0.1.10a-6 - Library for interfacing to the USB subsystem.

asterisk - cvs20050508-1 - Open Source VoIP PBX System
asterisk-sounds - 1.0.6-1 - Supplementary asterisk-sounds.
cpio - 2.5-r2 -
devio - r1-r0 -
findutils - 4.1.20-r1 -
ipkg - 0.99.148-r0 -
kernel-image-2.4.22-xfs - 2.3r29-r2 -
kernel-module-ftdi-sio - 2.4.22.l2.3r29-r5 - ftdi-sio kernel module; USB
FTDI Serial Converters Driver
kernel-module-kaweth - 2.4.22.l2.3r29-r5 - kaweth kernel module; KL5USB101
USB Ethernet driver
kernel-module-pegasus - 2.4.22.l2.3r29-r5 - pegasus kernel module;
Pegasus/Pegasus II USB Ethernet driver
kernel-module-pl2303 - 2.4.22.l2.3r29-r5 - pl2303 kernel module; Prolific
PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver
kernel-module-usbnet - 2.4.22.l2.3r29-r5 - usbnet kernel module; USB
Host-to-Host Link Drivers (numerous vendors)
kernel-module-usbserial - 2.4.22.l2.3r29-r5 - usbserial kernel module; USB
Serial Driver core
libc6-unslung - 2.2.5-r5 -
libgcc - 3.4.4-r0 -
libghttp - 1.0.9-1 - libghttp is a light-weight http fetching library.
libipkg - 0.99.148-r0 -
libusb - 0.1.10a-6 - Library for interfacing to the USB subsystem.
ncurses - 5.4-4 - NCurses libraries
nslu2-linksys-libs - 2.3r29-r2 -
openssh - 3.8p1-4 - a FREE version of the SSH protocol suite of network
connectivity tools.
openssl - 0.9.7d-4 - Openssl provides the ssl implementation in libraries
libcrypto and libssl, and is needed by many other applications and librari
portmap-unslung - 5-9-r1 -
slingbox - 1.00-r6 -
unslung-feeds - 3.0-1 - A list of sanctioned Unslung package feeds.
unslung-rootfs - 2.3r29-r9 -
update-modules - 1.0-r3 -
wget - 1.9.1-r1 -
zlib - 1.2.2-2 - zlib is a library implementing the 'deflate' compression
system.

Hi,
ØH>    After I have installed Oww, started OwwNoGui in interactive mode and
ØH>  executed the change to USB driver command I get the error messages. And on
ØH>  response from any 1-wire network.
ØH>
ØH>  Does anyone have an idea on what is wrong?
ØH>
ØH>  Oystein H.
ØH>  qcyber.org
ØH>
ØH>  Error messages:
ØH>  1-wire Error: Open COM Failed
ØH>  1-wire Error: Failed to acquire a necessary system resource
ØH>
ØH>  Commands:
ØH>  # ipkg install oww
ØH>  # owwnogui -i
ØH>  devices driver usb
what about to try to write USB using capitals?

devices driver USB

Good luck!  I'm tryingn nanoweb and apache now.

pmankuzh wrote:

>--- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, Mike Winter <jm@t...> wrote:
>--- message continues below ---
>
>Mike,
>
>Thanks for your info and help.
>
>- I have PHP package installed, I will try your binary when I get
>home.
>- I am using tRIO 1.5 for the RIO.  Though I got Ampache working on
>the SLUG working, I did not try to to connect RIO to it yet. I will
>be trying it later.  May be my lack of technical skills, I could not
>get Ampache working on any port other than 80; main page will work,
>but follow up links will not include the port in the URL and would
>break. (So I moved the SLUG admin interface pages to another port)
>- As regards Telnet breaking, you are absolutely right.  I did not
>have OpenSSH and the SLUG is on 192.168.0.10.  I will fix it based
>on your suggestions.
>- I will try NANOWEB since the PHP includes CLI support.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
> > pmankuzh wrote:
> >
> > >Mike,
> > >
> > >Would you mind sending me the binary you have compiled for using
> > >Cherokee.
> > >
> > Sure,  the file is availible at:
> >
> > http://www.thewinters.org/php-fcgi.tar.gz
> >
> >
> > You'll probably need the whole PHP package installed as well.
> > Just a note, cherokee idiotically hardcodes the path to PHP.  The
> > executable must be in:
> > /usr/lib/cgi-bin
> >
> >
> >
> > Good luck!
> > --Mike
> >
> > >I wanted to set up NSLU2 mainly for serving to my
> > >ShowCenter and also as a music server for a RIO Audio Server,
>using
> > >Ampache.  I had limited success to get all these working together
> > >and also poor performance.  Part of the issue is that I am not
>very
> > >technical.  Apache appears to be resource heavy for my needs.
> > >
> > >
> > Heh,  I have a Rio Receiver conected to Ampache as well.  I tried
>to get
> > Ampache running on the NSLU2, but I couldn't get it to work.  I
>have
> > been running this setup on an old 200Mhz laptop, and I always had
>some
> > trouble getting the perl scripts to run fast enough to have a
>responsive
> > user interface.  Which Rio firmware do you use?
> >
> >
> > >I tried php-thttpd and AppWeb also, could not get them to work
>with
> > >PHP (specifically some issues with my set up for SwissCenter app
>and
> > >Ampache).
> > >
> > >I also would like the PHP web server (NANO WEB) but will require
>it
> > >to be re-compiled for NSLU2 to have the CLI support.  HTTPI is
> > >another web server (PERL based) for which some RIO Server apps are
> > >available. I ran into some problem when I installed xinetd, I am
>no
> > >longer able to access using Telnet.  Looks like I need to reflash
> > >the firmware and start all over again.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > You should probably install OPENSSH if you can get back in.  As I
> > remember, xinet.d by default limits  connections to 192.168.1.0/24
>(see
> > /opt/etc/xinet.conf), which would disable telnet if your network
>setup
> > is other that 192.168.1.*.  If it is, you might be able to change
>the
> > IP  address of another machine on your network to 192.16.1.XXX,
>and you
> > might be able to telnet back in.
> >
> >
> > >Does the php ipkg for NSLU2 include CLI support?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I believe that the php ipkg includes CLI support only.  I don't
>know why
> > they didn't include CGI/FCGI since it compiles automatically in
>the build.
> >
> >
> >
> > Good luck!
> > --Mike
> >
> > Note: please send any further e-mails to winter@h...  This
> > is a junkmail account.
> >
> >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >--- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, "Michael" <jm@t...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,  I have tried this.  My prefork section has
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > <IfModule prefork.c>
> > > > StartServers         1
> > > > MinSpareServers      1
> > > > MaxSpareServers      1
> > > > MaxClients           6
> > > > MaxRequestsPerChild  0
> > > > </IfModule>
> > > >
> > > > To be honest tho,  I thought this section wasn't used on the
>slug,
> > >and
> > > >  instead it used the "worker MPM".  Changing these values will
> > >reduce
> > > > the number of processes, but there seems to be hard coded
> > >minimums.
> > > > Here is my "Worker MPM" section:
> > > >
> > > > <IfModule worker.c>
> > > > StartServers         1
> > > > MaxClients           3
> > > > MinSpareThreads      1
> > > > MaxSpareThreads      1
> > > > ThreadsPerChild      1
> > > > MaxRequestsPerChild  2
> > > > </IfModule>
> > > >
> > > > I ended up giving up on Apache and using Cherokee with a self
> > >compiled
> > > > PHP-CGI (actually fast-cgi enabled; if anyone is interested I
>can
> > >send
> > > > the binary).  This seems to have all of the bells and whistles
>as
> > > > apache, but runs in much less memory. PHP is substantially
>slower,
> > > > however it is good enough for what I am doing (see the SLUG
>enabled
> > > > http://www.thewinters.org)  FWIW that page loads in .15
>seconds on
> > > > apache, and 1.1 seconds on cherokee / cgi-php.  It used to
>take 1.7
> > > > seconds until I did the "scrath off the resistor" speed
>improvement
> > > > (great hack!).
> > > >
> > > > I am using Simple PHP weblog as a frond end, and Kplaylist as a
> > > > lightweight music server.  Everything seems to run fine with
> > >cherokee!
> > > > Three virtual hosts, proftp, SSH, telnet, web/php, streaming
>music!
> > > > This is great.
> > > > I have proftpd going as well for a business virtual host.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the help!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, "Frenchy" <nbm_clan@y...>
> > >wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, "Michael" <jm@t...>
>wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I'm trying to stream my MP3 libraries using one of the many
> > >catalog
> > > > > > applications availible. I have had a lot of trouble getting
> > >php-apache
> > > > > > to run without hogging a ton of memory. I always seem to
>end
> > >up with
> > > > > > something like 14 processes running despite what is
>specify in
> > >the
> > > > > > "worker" section of httpd.conf.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you show your httpd.conf?  There's some other sections in
> > >there
> > > > > that affect that... mine has something that looks like this:
> > > > >
> > > > > <IfModule prefork.c>
> > > > > StartServers       8 <------------- 8 processes
> > > > > MinSpareServers    5
> > > > > MaxSpareServers   20
> > > > > MaxClients       150
> > > > > MaxRequestsPerChild  1000
> > > > > </IfModule>
> > > > >
> > > > > $ ps -u apache
> > > > >   PID TTY          TIME CMD
> > > > >  6570 ?        00:00:00 httpd <----- surprise!
> > > > >  6571 ?        00:00:00 httpd <
> > > > >  6572 ?        00:00:00 httpd <
> > > > >  6573 ?        00:00:00 httpd <
> > > > >  6574 ?        00:00:00 httpd <
> > > > >  6575 ?        00:00:00 httpd <
> > > > >  6576 ?        00:00:00 httpd <
> > > > >  6577 ?        00:00:00 httpd <
> > > > >
> > > > > Check that guy out, there's some other stuff in there too
>though.
>
>
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> > Yes, I've done it today.
> >
> > Just one note: add -O2 in libavcodec/Makefile compiler options.
> >
>
> Would it be possible to provide a detailed step by step guide, or
> possibly better still upload your compiled binaries to the files
> area.
>
> I haven't attempted this with MPlayer yet as I'm sure my limited
> linux knowledge would be a barrier to success. Any information /
> help you can provide would be appreciated.
>
> Kind regards - Rufus.
>

I've posted a micro howto on my blog.

http://www.itopen.it/2005/11/04/compile-mplayer-on-unslung/

I hope you find it useful, I'm sorry I don't have
time/skills to build an ipkg package, I also don't
know if I am allowed to post precompiled binaries.

Hope it helps.

>>
>> Yes, I've done it today.
>>
>> Just one note: add -O2 in libavcodec/Makefile
compiler options.
>>

>Would it be possible to provide a detailed step by
step guide, or
>possibly better still upload your compiled binaries
to >the files
>area.


I've posted a micro howto on my blog.

http://www.itopen.it/2005/11/04/compile-mplayer-on-unslung/

I hope you find it useful, I'm sorry I don't have
time/skills to build an ipkg package, I also don't
know if I am allowed to post precompiled binaries.

Ciao




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Hi,

I wanted to use my NSLU2 box with a 200Gb OneTouch drive backup large
files.  However it does not accept huge files (13 and 16 Gb)claiming
immediately that that there is 'Not enough space on the disk'.
Smaller files (megabytes) copy w/o any problems.  The drive is
completely empty and reports 200Gb free space.  Any clue why it won't
accept huge files?

I had somehow accepted that I couldn't get this to work, so I decided
to plud the OneTouch into a windoze box to reformat it.  However the
OneTouch utility does not display any partition information and there
seems to be no way to partition / format this drive (with an exiisting
NSLU2 ext3 file system on it).

How can I have the drive recognized by windows again..?

Finally, does it exist 3rd party firmware for the NSLU2 box allowing
reliable copying / transfer of huge files..?

Thanks for hints on these issues...

best regards

Tor

Hello,

I am using Dovecot as an IMAP/POP3 mail server. I hope I am not the only one.
I have installed "version 1.0.alpha1-6" via ipkg install.
Most things are working good but when I am using IMAP I get errors in the
logfile:

file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 684 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed:

Can someone tell what this means and whether ther is a solution ?

Hello,

I've installed and configured unslung 5.5b last night and was able to
add a few packages to enable kernel nfs, and everything worked very
well...

A big thanx on all of you guys here!!!

But, now being a little braver I wanted to install a few more packages...
My attempts failed with

# ipkg download bash
Downloading
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/cross/bash_2.05b-5_armeb.ipk
Collected errors:
ipkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 1: `wget
--passive-ftp    -q -P /tmp/ipkg-5TrNWf
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/cross/bash_2.05b-5_armeb.ipk'
Failed to download bash



So I tried
# ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (66.249.93.104): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.249.93.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=27.2 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.93.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=111.3 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.93.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=20.5 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.93.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=21.6 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.93.104: icmp_seq=4 ttl=244 time=26.1 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.93.104: icmp_seq=5 ttl=244 time=20.6 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.93.104: icmp_seq=6 ttl=244 time=20.1 ms

--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 12% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 20.1/35.3/111.3 ms


And it seems as if the network, dns and stuff are working properly.


Can someone tell me if ipkg download is working? And if so, what am I
doing wrong?


TIA

johnbocky

Has anyone else noticed that the ipkg feed seems to be unavailable?
If you browse to the list of packages, you don't get any downoad
links to the actual packages, you just get plain text.

I'm also unable to "ipkg install foo", probably for the same reason.

Or am I missing something?

thanks
S

It appears the US ipkg server is returning 404s. You'll just have to
hold out for a little bit, I expect it'll be fixed fairly soon (or if
the server serving changes, IIRC they are rotated).

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It appears the US ipkg server is returning 404s. You'll just have to
hold out for a little bit, I expect it'll be fixed fairly soon (or if
the server serving changes, IIRC they are rotated).

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--- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, Petr <petr@t...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> ØH>    After I have installed Oww, started OwwNoGui in interactive mode and
> ØH>  executed the change to USB driver command I get the error messages. And
on
> ØH>  response from any 1-wire network.
> ØH>
> ØH>  Does anyone have an idea on what is wrong?
> ØH>
> ØH>  Oystein H.
> ØH>  qcyber.org
> ØH>
> ØH>  Error messages:
> ØH>  1-wire Error: Open COM Failed
> ØH>  1-wire Error: Failed to acquire a necessary system resource
> ØH>
> ØH>  Commands:
> ØH>  # ipkg install oww
> ØH>  # owwnogui -i
> ØH>  devices driver usb
> what about to try to write USB using capitals?
>
> devices driver USB
>
I have the exact same failure situation using Openslug 2.7 and natively
compiled libghttp-1.0.9 and oww-0.81.7. I have posted a question to
the oww project,
The question I have posted to the OWW project



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I am confronting the same issue as described below.  I can't seem to
run .php scripts which includ exec, system or passthru without hanging
up Apache.  I get a zombie process spawned.  Is this a known bug, or
did someone reply to the below query and I just can't find it.  Thanks!

--- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Karlsen" <johnny@k...>
wrote:
>
> I have to try to get some attention again on this one since I am at
the end of the road. Am I really the only one having this problem?
Please, if you could try and see what you experience, I would really
apreciate it.
>
>
> I have a problem with PHP together with Apache. Trying to run .php
> scripts which include exec, system or passthru will without exception
> cause Apache to hang. Running the same script from the shell gives the
> right output. Safe mode is not on in PHP. Are there any other security
> settings in Apache to allow exec, system,.... I am using Unslung 5,
> php 5.0.4-1, apache 2.0.54-2.
>
> Try for example
>
> <?php exec('/opt/bin/whoami',$res);
> var_dump($res); ?>
>
> Is this reproduceable or can someone indicate where to start looking.
> Otherwise all php scripts run nicely!
>
> Thanks
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

I am confronting the same issue as described below.  I can't seem to
run .php scripts which includ exec, system or passthru without hanging
up Apache.  I get a zombie process spawned.  Is this a known bug, or
did someone reply to the below query and I just can't find it.  Thanks!

--- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Karlsen" <johnny@k...>
wrote:
>
> I have to try to get some attention again on this one since I am at
the end of the road. Am I really the only one having this problem?
Please, if you could try and see what you experience, I would really
apreciate it.
>
>
> I have a problem with PHP together with Apache. Trying to run .php
> scripts which include exec, system or passthru will without exception
> cause Apache to hang. Running the same script from the shell gives the
> right output. Safe mode is not on in PHP. Are there any other security
> settings in Apache to allow exec, system,.... I am using Unslung 5,
> php 5.0.4-1, apache 2.0.54-2.
>
> Try for example
>
> <?php exec('/opt/bin/whoami',$res);
> var_dump($res); ?>
>
> Is this reproduceable or can someone indicate where to start looking.
> Otherwise all php scripts run nicely!
>
> Thanks
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

--- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Coutts" <mr_coutts@y...> wrote:
>
>
> --- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, Petr petr@t... wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > ØH> After I have installed Oww, started OwwNoGui in interactive mode and
> > ØH> executed the change to USB driver command I get the error messages. And
on
> > ØH> response from any 1-wire network.
> > ØH>
> > ØH> Does anyone have an idea on what is wrong?
> > ØH>
> > ØH> Oystein H.
> > ØH> qcyber.org
> > ØH>
> > ØH> Error messages:
> > ØH> 1-wire Error: Open COM Failed
> > ØH> 1-wire Error: Failed to acquire a necessary system resource
> > ØH>
> > ØH> Commands:
> > ØH> # ipkg install oww
> > ØH> # owwnogui -i
> > ØH> devices driver usb
> > what about to try to write USB using capitals?
> >
> > devices driver USB
> >
> I have the exact same failure situation using Openslug 2.7 and natively
> compiled libghttp-1.0.9 and oww-0.81.7. I have posted a question to
> the oww project,
> The question I have posted to the OWW project
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
My last posting seems to have lost the http link. Which is -
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1379951&forum_id=296766


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It is in the bug list, 195 and some others I think. Don't know if anyone
is working on it though!

/Johnny

nslu2newb wrote:

>I am confronting the same issue as described below.  I can't seem to
>run .php scripts which includ exec, system or passthru without hanging
>up Apache.  I get a zombie process spawned.  Is this a known bug, or
>did someone reply to the below query and I just can't find it.  Thanks!
>
>--- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Karlsen" <johnny@k...>
>wrote:
>
>
>>I have to try to get some attention again on this one since I am at
>>
>>
>the end of the road. Am I really the only one having this problem?
>Please, if you could try and see what you experience, I would really
>apreciate it.
>
>
>>I have a problem with PHP together with Apache. Trying to run .php
>>scripts which include exec, system or passthru will without exception
>>cause Apache to hang. Running the same script from the shell gives the
>>right output. Safe mode is not on in PHP. Are there any other security
>>settings in Apache to allow exec, system,.... I am using Unslung 5,
>>php 5.0.4-1, apache 2.0.54-2.
>>
>>Try for example
>>
>><?php exec('/opt/bin/whoami',$res);
>>var_dump($res); ?>
>>
>>Is this reproduceable or can someone indicate where to start looking.
>>Otherwise all php scripts run nicely!
>>
>>Thanks
>>
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Tor:

you didn't say what version of Windows you are running, but if it is
win2k or XP, you should be able to get into the Disk Management
utilitiy and reformat it as NTFS.  As you correctly observed, the
NSLU2 formats the drive with the ext3 file system, which Windows can't
read or write to (though there is a 3rd party that will read such
drives).

I believe that the file-size limitation you experienced might be
related to the linux kernel used in the Unslung project.   Have you
tried the OpenSlug firmware to see it if also experiences the same
limitation?

cheers
S

I'm wondering whether I might be asking more of the poor little NSLU2
than it's capable of.

I've got apache running on port 80, a Python-powered blog on port
9080, another Python-powered web app on port 8080, a mySQL database
and a couple of other processes.

My server seems to just clam up after a while, and my ssh connections
are all cut. The hard drive access light begins to blink continuously,
and I am unable even reboot the unit with the power button. If I pull
the power plug, then the drive is not recognized when I start up
again, so I have to plug the drive into another Linux box and run
e2fsck on it.

Is anyone else doing anything similar with their NSLU2, and if so, did
you have to add more memory or swap to get it to not fall over
continuously?

thanks,
S

I've run into the bug repeatedly, notably in the case of calls to the
mail() function, but as far as I know there hasn't been any work on the
bug since this summer.

I wish I had the skills to try and fix the bug, but I don't.

sorry,

Tim

Johnny Karlsen wrote:
> It is in the bug list, 195 and some others I think. Don't know if anyone
> is working on it though!
>
> /Johnny
>
> nslu2newb wrote:
>
>
>>I am confronting the same issue as described below.  I can't seem to
>>run .php scripts which includ exec, system or passthru without hanging
>>up Apache.  I get a zombie process spawned.  Is this a known bug, or
>>did someone reply to the below query and I just can't find it.  Thanks!
>>
>>--- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Karlsen" <johnny@k...>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I have to try to get some attention again on this one since I am at
>>>
>>>
>>
>>the end of the road. Am I really the only one having this problem?
>>Please, if you could try and see what you experience, I would really
>>apreciate it.
>>
>>
>>
>>>I have a problem with PHP together with Apache. Trying to run .php
>>>scripts which include exec, system or passthru will without exception
>>>cause Apache to hang. Running the same script from the shell gives the
>>>right output. Safe mode is not on in PHP. Are there any other security
>>>settings in Apache to allow exec, system,.... I am using Unslung 5,
>>>php 5.0.4-1, apache 2.0.54-2.
>>>
>>>Try for example
>>>
>>><?php exec('/opt/bin/whoami',$res);
>>>var_dump($res); ?>
>>>
>>>Is this reproduceable or can someone indicate where to start looking.
>>>Otherwise all php scripts run nicely!
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
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OK.  Thanks for your replies.  I too am at a loss at how to fix the
PHP system call problem.

Similiarly I  was trying to use exec, system, passthru, mail etc so I
could automatically have an e-mail sent when an event occurs within in
my PHP script.  (My application forces me to use PHP so trying CGI,
etc is out of the question.)  Has anyone figured out any work
around to this problem in order to be able to send mail from within an
apache-PHP script?

I was thinking, for example, of creating some sort of mail daemon that
I had runnning in the background on my NSLU looking for certain files
created by my PHP script...then if it saw them it would read their
header and use this to smptclient mail the content it to its
destination.  I have never done something like this before, so was
wondering if I might be missing a more elegant work-around?  I have no
problem creating files in PHP...just figuring out a way to have them
automatically e-mailed since all of the commands I can think of in PHP
cause Apache to hang. Thoughts or comments would be much appreciated.

- NewB

--- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, Tim Bishop <geodog@c...> wrote:
>
> I've run into the bug repeatedly, notably in the case of calls to the
> mail() function, but as far as I know there hasn't been any work on the
> bug since this summer.
>
> I wish I had the skills to try and fix the bug, but I don't.
>
> sorry,
>
> Tim
>
> Johnny Karlsen wrote:
> > It is in the bug list, 195 and some others I think. Don't know if
anyone
> > is working on it though!
> >
> > /Johnny
> >
> > nslu2newb wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I am confronting the same issue as described below.  I can't seem to
> >>run .php scripts which includ exec, system or passthru without hanging
> >>up Apache.  I get a zombie process spawned.  Is this a known bug, or
> >>did someone reply to the below query and I just can't find it.
Thanks!
> >>
> >>--- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Karlsen" <johnny@k...>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I have to try to get some attention again on this one since I am at
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>the end of the road. Am I really the only one having this problem?
> >>Please, if you could try and see what you experience, I would really
> >>apreciate it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I have a problem with PHP together with Apache. Trying to run .php
> >>>scripts which include exec, system or passthru will without
exception
> >>>cause Apache to hang. Running the same script from the shell
gives the
> >>>right output. Safe mode is not on in PHP. Are there any other
security
> >>>settings in Apache to allow exec, system,.... I am using Unslung 5,
> >>>php 5.0.4-1, apache 2.0.54-2.
> >>>
> >>>Try for example
> >>>
> >>><?php exec('/opt/bin/whoami',$res);
> >>>var_dump($res); ?>
> >>>
> >>>Is this reproduceable or can someone indicate where to start
looking.
> >>>Otherwise all php scripts run nicely!
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
> >>>
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OK, I read that the latest (2.3r63) allowed NTFS access so I formatted
a HD w/ NTFS and tried it.

When trying to copy over a large directory w/ a lot of files / subdirs,
it would always give me an IO error on the very first file.  If I tried
to copy a small file, it was OK.

Reformatted to EXT3, and it seems to work OK.  Is this the case w/
other people here?  Is the NTFS support just too buggy to deal with?

Hello,

I have a: V2.3R29-uNSLUng-5.5-beta with a 512 flash drive has main disk.

I would like to know what I have to do to fully back up the flash.
I would like to duplicate the existing flash drive so I could use the
duplicate on another nslu2, without having to have to install
everything again.

By the way anyone know:
     - can I still use the web interface after UNSLINGING ?
     - http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/Unslung55BetaProblems
       Why does this happens ? It seems it happened after I
       changed the ip address of the bix using the web interface.
       Not sure though it could be because of something else.

Thanks a lot,

Pedro

I got a slug and a hard drive and am trying to set them up as a backup server.
So far I've done this:
* Put the drive in a USB enclosure and connected it to my laptop.
* Untarred the Debian tarball to the disk.
* Connected to Redboot, downloaded the kernel with HTTP, and tried to boot it.

This resulted in a nonbooting slug, though I could get into Redboot again. The
file is 973364 bytes. Do I have to split it before loading it?

I attempted to build unslung, intending only to use the split program, but it
didn't work. It hung somewhere, after spewing numerous "bitbake" messages
that are meaningless to me. How do I get the slug to work?

phma

11/06 11:53:21 Backup: Job 'back-up' ended.
11/06 11:53:18 Backup: Job 'back-up' failed, cannot connect to file
server '//DOWNSTAIRS-01/Steve Store K'.
11/06 11:53:12 Backup: Job 'back-up' started.
11/06 11:46:51 Backup: Job 'back-up' ended.
11/06 11:46:47 Backup: Job 'back-up' failed, cannot connect to file
server '//DOWNSTAIRS-01/Steve Store K'.
11/06 11:46:44 Backup: Job 'back-up' started.
11/06 11:27:42 Backup: Job 'back-up' ended.
11/06 11:27:38 Backup: Job 'back-up' failed, cannot connect to file
server '//DOWNSTAIRS-01/Steve Store K'.
11/06 11:27:34 Backup: Job 'back-up' started.
11/06 08:20:03 Backup: Job 'back-up' ended.
11/06 08:20:00 Backup: Job 'back-up' failed, cannot connect to file
server '//DOWNSTAIRS-01/Documents and Settings'.
11/06 08:19:59 Backup: Job 'back-up' started.
11/05 08:20:04 Backup: Job 'back-up' ended.
11/05 08:20:00 Backup: Job 'back-up' failed, cannot connect to file
server '//DOWNSTAIRS-01/Documents and Settings'.
11/05 08:19:59 Backup: Job 'back-up' started.
11/04 08:20:06 Backup: Job 'back-up' ended.
11/04 08:20:00 Backup: Job 'back-up' failed, cannot connect to file
server '//DOWNSTAIRS-01/Documents and Settings'.
11/04 08:19:59 Backup: Job 'back-up' started.
11/03 08:20:04 Backup: Job 'back-up' ended.
11/03 08:20:00 Backup: Job 'back-up' failed, cannot connect to file
server '//DOWNSTAIRS-01/Documents and Settings'.

Any Idea why this is happening ?
I have spoken to tech support at Linksys and I am told I have set up
correctly

Hi All,

Has anyone had any luck getting Mono up and running on the NSLU2 in
big endian mode? And if so is there anyone willing to share the
binaries to help me get started?

I'm trying to get Mono working on a Vulcan board from Arcom which uses
an IXP425 but lacks the tools to comile Mono onboad. I've tried using
their cross compilation environment to build from sources but it
always fails. I hope when my NSLU2 finally arrives I'll be able to use
that to build the binaries.

I'm new to the embedded world so any help would be appreciated!

Regards,

Matt Pearson
matthewp AT vulcantech.co.uk

I don't know why it is locking up, but I'd suspect you are overloading
it.  Try one of the other web severs. Apache seems to balloon up to
over 20 megs of memory after time on my server, despite the fact that
I have it at about the minimal configuration.  Cherokee takes between
.7 and 2 megs and has almost all of the functionality of apache.  fast
php support isn't there, but php works through cgi.

I have web, ftp, mysql, php, and ssh. Memorywise, this takes 35Mb,
which is well within the limits of the SLUG.  The last thing I need to
get in there is mail.

Good luck


--- In nslu2-general@yahoogroups.com, Stewart Midwinter
<stewart.midwinter@g...> wrote:
>
> I'm wondering whether I might be asking more of the poor little NSLU2
> than it's capable of.
>
> I've got apache running on port 80, a Python-powered blog on port
> 9080, another Python-powered web app on port 8080, a mySQL database
> and a couple of other processes.
>
> My server seems to just clam up after a while, and my ssh connections
> are all cut. The hard drive access light begins to blink continuously,
> and I am unable even reboot the unit with the power button. If I pull
> the power plug, then the drive is not recognized when I start up
> again, so I have to plug the drive into another Linux box and run
> e2fsck on it.
>
> Is anyone else doing anything similar with their NSLU2, and if so, did
> you have to add more memory or swap to get it to not fall over
> continuously?
>
> thanks,
> S
>

Pedro:

yes, you can still use the web interface after unslinging.   make sure
you know the IP of the box, and also what port you told it to listen
to (default is 80, but you can change it in the Status page).

cheers,
S

What about running an SMTP daemon (or using an external one)?  That is
already written and is all about sending email.  If you can open a
network socket to it and speak SMTP, you can send email.  SMTP isn't
very hard.  It basically consists of...

HELO mydomain.net
MAIL FROM: <me@...>
RCPT TO: <them@...>
DATA
From: My Name <me@...>
To: Their Name <them@...>
Subject: Mail from my PHP script

The blank line above seperates the message from the header.
This is the message.
The message is terminated by a line with just a period in it.
.
QUIT

I'm going off of memory for the above, but it is basically like that.
If you don't care about server responses, you can just print that stuff
blindly to the server and wait for the connection to close.  If there is
a PHP module that does the same thing, that would probably be even
easier.

If you have sendmail, postfix, exim, etc., then you already have an SMTP
daemon.  I think that if the sender and receiver are local to the
domain that the SMTP server serves, you can leave of the
@domain.net parts of the addresses, and they will default to the domain
of the SMTP server.


On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 01:21:52PM -0000, nslu2newb wrote:
> OK.  Thanks for your replies.  I too am at a loss at how to fix the
> PHP system call problem.
>
> Similiarly I  was trying to use exec, system, passthru, mail etc so I
> could automatically have an e-mail sent when an event occurs within in
> my PHP script.  (My application forces me to use PHP so trying CGI,
> etc is out of the question.)  Has anyone figured out any work
> around to this problem in order to be able to send mail from within an
> apache-PHP script?
>
> I was thinking, for example, of creating some sort of mail daemon that
> I had runnning in the background on my NSLU looking for certain files
> created by my PHP script...then if it saw them it would read their
> header and use this to smptclient mail the content it to its
> destination.  I have never done something like this before, so was
> wondering if I might be missing a more elegant work-around?  I have no
> problem creating files in PHP...just figuring out a way to have them
> automatically e-mailed since all of the commands I can think of in PHP
> cause Apache to hang. Thoughts or comments would be much appreciated.
>
> - NewB

After browsing the net for experiences from people using usb hubs
with their NSLU I almost thought it would be impossible. A lot of
people were claiming only USB1.1 hubs would work together with the
NSLU. I wanted to proof them wrong and bought a Linksys USB2.0 hub,
because if it could work, it should work with a Linksys :-). And
today I finally made it work.

My hardware:
- NSLU, Unslung 5.5 / V2.3R29
- Corsair FlashVoyager 512MB (NSLU USB port 1)
- Linksys USB2HUB4-EU (NSLU USB port 2)
- HP Deskjet 940C (HUB USB port 1)
- Maxtor OneTouch 200GB (HUB USB port 2)

The trick to make it work for me was to hook up the printer on the
USB hub before the external harddisk. My first attempt failed when
the Maxtor was on port 1 of the hub and the HP was on port 2. The led
of port 2 never blinked. After switching the harddisk and printer
both leds blinked after the NSLU was fired up again.

I can print comfortably from Windows XP with the use of CUPS. There's
only one little 'issue'. If you switch your printer off and on again,
it won't be 'recognized' again (no plug&play). One has to restart the
NSLU to be able to print again.

Hope this info will enable more people to use USB2.0 hubs together
with their slugs. I'll start hooking up one or two webcams to the hub
as well... probably the harddisk has to be moved to port 4 of the hub
to let the NSLU recognize the webcams :-)

Greetings,