Re: [Sheflug] Linux Servers 101

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Wright <Ian [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

    Ian> I didn't manage to find a .rpm for ssh, so it doesn't look as
    Ian> though anyone has done one yet.

Bloody-minded US crypto regs, I guess.

    Ian> Oh, the other thing that was stopping me getting ssh working
    Ian> was that I was trying to install version 2.* which seems to
    Ian> have difficulties with some versions of linux and certainly
    Ian> with Mandrake. When I dropped back to version 1.2.27 it went
    Ian> much better.

There's little advantage to 2.* for personal use that I can see, and 
if you use it for anything except a very restricted set of uses you
are liable for royalty payments, even in an educational setting.

    Ian> There's one other thing I seem to be lacking at the moment
    Ian> and I can't find it anywhere and that is the 'xmkmf' command.
    Ian> It is needed for compiling one of the programs I want to
    Ian> install but doesn't seem to be either on my machine or the
    Ian> Mandrake CD.

`xmkmf' is a shell script that invokes the Imake utility, the X11
predecessor to autoconf.  If you have /usr/X11R6/bin/imake, you can just
use the old xmkmf.  Both probably live in the basic X development RPM,
whatever that's called.  (Under Debian it's xlib-dev.)

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