From msuchy at redhat.com Mon Dec 3 13:30:42 2007 From: msuchy at redhat.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Miroslav_Such=FD?=) Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:30:42 +0100 Subject: [rhn-users] Yum, rhn and an apache proxy : problems In-Reply-To: <200711291204.32286.liste@alixen.fr> References: <200711291111.48807.liste@alixen.fr> <200711291204.32286.liste@alixen.fr> Message-ID: <47540502.3080909@redhat.com> Benoit Guguin wrote: > Well, I've found > > It's a bug in the crypto lib of python. It doesn't add the HOST in the > headers of the HTTP/1.1 ... > > In the file /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/httpslib.py , add at the > line 165 : > msg = msg + "Host: %s:%d\r\n" % (self._real_host, self._real_port) > This is just workaround. But not real solution. So you use http proxy, or rhn proxy? If http proxy, you should set up in /etc/sysconfig/rhn.live/up2date variables: enableProxy httpProxy -- Miroslav Suchy RHN Satellite Engineering, Red Hat From e4r5t6y at telefonica.net Mon Dec 3 19:29:47 2007 From: e4r5t6y at telefonica.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22A=2EMU=D1UMER=22?=) Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:29:47 +0100 Subject: [rhn-users] Totem codecs and complements Message-ID: <4754592B.50306@telefonica.net> I am working RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 and when starting Totem to watch films on dvd I receive a error message " You need codecs .........." Could anybody tell me where to get the necesary codecs and rest of complements to run Totem ? From charles.theobald at ncmail.net Wed Dec 12 18:11:44 2007 From: charles.theobald at ncmail.net (Charles Theobald) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:11:44 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Can I remove jfsutils from RHEL 5 Message-ID: <47602460.10400@ncmail.net> I'm getting conflict errors when trying to update our RHEL 5 server. The culprit seems to be jfsutils. Do I need this? Is it safe to remove? Thanks From paula at scripps.edu Wed Dec 12 18:52:55 2007 From: paula at scripps.edu (Paula J. Lindsay) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:52:55 -0800 Subject: [rhn-users] firefox and yum Message-ID: <47602E07.6090300@scripps.edu> Hi everyone, I hope you can help me with this silly problem. I'm working on a RHE 3 machine and I am trying to install yum so I can yum down firefox. Well, when I try to install yum (via rpm) there are too many dependencies/conflicts and the install fails. I finally gave up and downloaded a firefox package and I can't install that either. I get this message: (firefox-bin:1120): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: I am getting so frustrated because these were such simple tasks and I am just spinning my wheels. Why is it so hard to install these two programs. Why doesn't the rpm that I download already have the libs and python that is needed. I can't even google the problem because I always end up where I downloaded the program in the first place. Any help would be dearly appreciated. And, thanks in advance. Paula -- Paula J. Lindsay IT Analyst III Research Computing 10550 North Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, CA 92037 858.784.9378 (office) 858.784.9301 (fax) paula at scripps.edu From duffy at redhat.com Wed Dec 12 19:23:48 2007 From: duffy at redhat.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy?=) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:23:48 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] firefox and yum In-Reply-To: <47602E07.6090300@scripps.edu> References: <47602E07.6090300@scripps.edu> Message-ID: <47603544.5060902@redhat.com> Hi Paula, Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > Hi everyone, I hope you can help me with this silly problem. I'm > working on a RHE 3 machine and I am trying to install yum > so I can yum down firefox. Well, when I try to install yum (via rpm) > there are too many dependencies/conflicts and the install > fails. Where are you getting the yum RPM for RHEL 3 from? Are you sure the RPM you are using was built for RHEL 3? RHEL 3's default and Red Hat supported package update system is a program called 'up2date'. Do you have a specific reason that you would like to use yum instead of up2date on RHEL 3? > I finally gave up and downloaded a firefox package and I can't > install that either. I get this message: > > (firefox-bin:1120): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Where are you receiving this message? This doesn't seem to be a message that RPM, yum, or up2date would output. See, it says "firefox-bin" so it looks like an error message given by running firefox, which means firefox would have to have been successfully installed. How are you starting up firefox when you try to run it? My first guess would be that maybe you've ssh'ed into a machine that has firefox installed and you are typing 'firefox' at the prompt, but because you are ssh'ed in it can't display the firefox window on your remote machine. (If you are connecting from a remote Linux machine you can try ssh -Y and then running firefox remotely and it should pop up.) > I am getting so frustrated because these were such simple tasks and I am > just spinning my wheels. Why is it so hard to install > these two programs. It appears you successfully installed firefox. Yum, I am not sure what the whole story is with that - why are trying to install it on a RHEL 3 machine? Is the RPM you are using built for RHEL 3? > Why doesn't the rpm that I download already have > the libs and python that is needed. Necessarily, programs like firefox and yum rely on versions of libraries that are external to them. If every program contained the code for every other program and library it required, you would have many duplicate copies of the same set of libraries and programs installed on your machine, not only wasting your harddrive space but also leaving your machine vulnerable to security bugs as some programs' copies of a particular library may be very out-of-date. It is also important that the RPMs installed on your system are built for the version of RHEL that you are using. If you try to install a yum package that was built for RHEL 5 on a RHEL 3 machine, for example, it will likely never install because it will require versions of libraries and other packages that are not and likely will never be available in RHEL 3. One of the main differences between RHEL 3 and RHEL 5, for example, is the very package set and the manifest of package versions available in each. RPMs are not really meant to be installed by hand. We have package management programs such as yum and up2date in RHEL and apt in Debian in order to manage this 'dependency hell' for you. You should not have to resolve these dependencies by hand. The following video/article does talk a bit about this: http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/09/20/the-next-horizon-how-red-hat-used-yum-to-overcome-rpm-dependency-hell/ If you would have installed firefox by running 'up2date -i firefox' you would not have had to deal with any of this, if your goal was to just install firefox. > I can't even > google the problem because I always end up where I downloaded the > program in the first place. Any help would be > dearly appreciated. And, thanks in advance. In the future you may have some luck with http://kbase.redhat.com/. Or of course you can feel free to ask here! Does this make any more sense now? ~m From herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com Wed Dec 12 19:26:18 2007 From: herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com (Herta Van den Eynde) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:26:18 +0100 Subject: [rhn-users] firefox and yum In-Reply-To: <47602E07.6090300@scripps.edu> References: <47602E07.6090300@scripps.edu> Message-ID: On 12/12/2007, Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > Hi everyone, I hope you can help me with this silly problem. I'm > working on a RHE 3 machine and I am trying to install yum > so I can yum down firefox. Well, when I try to install yum (via rpm) > there are too many dependencies/conflicts and the install > fails. I finally gave up and downloaded a firefox package and I can't > install that either. I get this message: > > (firefox-bin:1120): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > I am getting so frustrated because these were such simple tasks and I am > just spinning my wheels. Why is it so hard to install > these two programs. Why doesn't the rpm that I download already have > the libs and python that is needed. I can't even > google the problem because I always end up where I downloaded the > program in the first place. Any help would be > dearly appreciated. And, thanks in advance. > Paula > > -- > Paula J. Lindsay > IT Analyst III > Research Computing > 10550 North Torrey Pines Road > La Jolla, CA 92037 > 858.784.9378 (office) > 858.784.9301 (fax) > paula at scripps.edu You'd probably get better results in google if you search for "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display". Normally you install firefox as root, and then start it up as root once. Just opening one page is enough. You should them be able to run it from other users as well. The rpm does not include all its dependencies because they often are shared by other products. Just imagine how much diskspace and memory would be wasted when every product would come with its proper set of libraries or auxiliary products. Normally if you run 'yum install productx', yum automatically installs all dependencies for productx. Using some non-standard repos, or force-installing rpm packages can seriously mess up your system. I suppose you could try to correct it, but it may be faster to just re-install. Kind regards, Herta From paula at scripps.edu Wed Dec 12 19:48:22 2007 From: paula at scripps.edu (Paula J. Lindsay) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:48:22 -0800 Subject: [rhn-users] firefox and yum In-Reply-To: <47603544.5060902@redhat.com> References: <47602E07.6090300@scripps.edu> <47603544.5060902@redhat.com> Message-ID: <47603B06.106@scripps.edu> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From duffy at redhat.com Wed Dec 12 19:51:43 2007 From: duffy at redhat.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy?=) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:51:43 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Cool RHN Search Tool for Firefox Message-ID: <47603BCF.2000107@redhat.com> Hi folks, Michael Stahnke made a firefox search plugin that will let you search RHN (and/or a Satellite with a small tweak to the url) from the Firefox search bar, check it out: http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/firefox/ There are other Red Hat and Fedora related search plugins there as well! Thanks Michael! :) ~m From paula at scripps.edu Wed Dec 12 20:07:00 2007 From: paula at scripps.edu (Paula J. Lindsay) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:07:00 -0800 Subject: [rhn-users] Cool RHN Search Tool for Firefox In-Reply-To: <47603BCF.2000107@redhat.com> References: <47603BCF.2000107@redhat.com> Message-ID: <47603F64.5080905@scripps.edu> Many Many thanks. I will try this. Paula M?ir?n Duffy wrote: > Hi folks, > > Michael Stahnke made a firefox search plugin that will let you search > RHN (and/or a Satellite with a small tweak to the url) from the Firefox > search bar, check it out: > > http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/firefox/ > > There are other Red Hat and Fedora related search plugins there as well! > > Thanks Michael! :) > > ~m > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > -- Paula J. Lindsay IT Analyst III Research Computing 10550 North Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, CA 92037 858.784.9378 (office) 858.784.9301 (fax) paula at scripps.edu From larry.sorensen at juno.com Wed Dec 12 20:13:02 2007 From: larry.sorensen at juno.com (Larry D Sorensen) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:13:02 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Routing Message-ID: <20071212.131303.3484.0.larry.sorensen@juno.com> I know that this is not the appropriate place for this, but maybe someone can direct me to the right place. I have a network with 2 routers. One router is connected to the Internet as well as all of the computers plugged into a switch. (subnet x.x.0.1) The second router is strictly wireless. (subnet x.x.1.1) The question is: what are the steps that I go through to configure both routers so that my 2 subnets can communicate with each other? From duffy at redhat.com Wed Dec 12 20:26:11 2007 From: duffy at redhat.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy?=) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:26:11 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Routing In-Reply-To: <20071212.131303.3484.0.larry.sorensen@juno.com> References: <20071212.131303.3484.0.larry.sorensen@juno.com> Message-ID: <476043E3.1080607@redhat.com> Larry D Sorensen wrote: > I know that this is not the appropriate place for this, but maybe someone > can direct me to the right place. Please see http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users for a list of other lists that may help. Or try google. Thanks, ~m From herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com Wed Dec 12 20:48:28 2007 From: herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com (Herta Van den Eynde) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:48:28 +0100 Subject: [rhn-users] firefox and yum In-Reply-To: <47603B06.106@scripps.edu> References: <47602E07.6090300@scripps.edu> <47603544.5060902@redhat.com> <47603B06.106@scripps.edu> Message-ID: On 12/12/2007, Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > > Thank you Mairin and Herta for you response. Here is the result from my > up2date -i firefox, this was the first > thing I tried: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > [paula at rocky paula]$ up2date -i firefox > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-3... > Fetching rpm headers... > Name Version Rel > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > The following packages you requested were not found: > firefox > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > This is why I wanted to use yum. I don't understand > why "packages requested were not found." I got > firefox from RHN, but it isn't an rpm. It's a complete > directory. In the directory I run ./firefox and get that > gtk error. When I go to the console and run ./firefox, > it takes me to google.... I don't know why this is so hard. > One of my colleagues said "welcome to the linux world." > But I've been working with linux for over a year and > have never encountered this. > Many thanks for all of your help. > Paula > > > > M?ir?n Duffy wrote: > Hi Paula, > > Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > > > Hi everyone, I hope you can help me with this silly problem. I'm > working on a RHE 3 machine and I am trying to install yum > so I can yum down firefox. Well, when I try to install yum (via rpm) > there are too many dependencies/conflicts and the install > fails. > > Where are you getting the yum RPM for RHEL 3 from? Are you sure the RPM > you are using was built for RHEL 3? > > RHEL 3's default and Red Hat supported package update system is a > program called 'up2date'. Do you have a specific reason that you would > like to use yum instead of up2date on RHEL 3? > > > > I finally gave up and downloaded a firefox package and I can't > install that either. I get this message: > > (firefox-bin:1120): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > Where are you receiving this message? This doesn't seem to be a message > that RPM, yum, or up2date would output. See, it says "firefox-bin" so it > looks like an error message given by running firefox, which means > firefox would have to have been successfully installed. > > How are you starting up firefox when you try to run it? My first guess > would be that maybe you've ssh'ed into a machine that has firefox > installed and you are typing 'firefox' at the prompt, but because you > are ssh'ed in it can't display the firefox window on your remote > machine. (If you are connecting from a remote Linux machine you can try > ssh -Y and then running firefox remotely and it > should pop up.) > > > > I am getting so frustrated because these were such simple tasks and I am > just spinning my wheels. Why is it so hard to install > these two programs. > > It appears you successfully installed firefox. Yum, I am not sure what > the whole story is with that - why are trying to install it on a RHEL 3 > machine? Is the RPM you are using built for RHEL 3? > > > > Why doesn't the rpm that I download already have > the libs and python that is needed. > > Necessarily, programs like firefox and yum rely on versions of libraries > that are external to them. If every program contained the code for every > other program and library it required, you would have many duplicate > copies of the same set of libraries and programs installed on your > machine, not only wasting your harddrive space but also leaving your > machine vulnerable to security bugs as some programs' copies of a > particular library may be very out-of-date. > > It is also important that the RPMs installed on your system are built > for the version of RHEL that you are using. If you try to install a yum > package that was built for RHEL 5 on a RHEL 3 machine, for example, it > will likely never install because it will require versions of libraries > and other packages that are not and likely will never be available in > RHEL 3. One of the main differences between RHEL 3 and RHEL 5, for > example, is the very package set and the manifest of package versions > available in each. > > RPMs are not really meant to be installed by hand. We have package > management programs such as yum and up2date in RHEL and apt in Debian in > order to manage this 'dependency hell' for you. You should not have to > resolve these dependencies by hand. The following video/article does > talk a bit about this: > http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/09/20/the-next-horizon-how-red-hat-used-yum-to-overcome-rpm-dependency-hell/ > > If you would have installed firefox by running 'up2date -i firefox' you > would not have had to deal with any of this, if your goal was to just > install firefox. > > > > I can't even > google the problem because I always end up where I downloaded the > program in the first place. Any help would be > dearly appreciated. And, thanks in advance. > > In the future you may have some luck with http://kbase.redhat.com/. Or > of course you can feel free to ask here! > > Does this make any more sense now? > > ~m > > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > > -- > Paula J. Lindsay > IT Analyst III > Research Computing > 10550 North Torrey Pines Road > La Jolla, CA 92037 > 858.784.9378 (office) > 858.784.9301 (fax) > paula at scripps.edu > > I always install firefox from http://www.mozilla.com/ to make sure I've got the latest and greatest (i.e. with security bugs corrected as soon as Mozilla.org releases them). Kind regards, Herta From smooge at gmail.com Thu Dec 13 04:04:39 2007 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:04:39 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] Can I remove jfsutils from RHEL 5 In-Reply-To: <47602460.10400@ncmail.net> References: <47602460.10400@ncmail.net> Message-ID: <80d7e4090712122004y6ef40b93g9dc05ba3b7e07888@mail.gmail.com> On Dec 12, 2007 11:11 AM, Charles Theobald wrote: > I'm getting conflict errors when trying to update our RHEL 5 server. > The culprit seems to be jfsutils. Do I need this? Is it safe to remove? > Thanks > Hmmm I would try to figure out where that package came from. jfsutils does not look like it comes with RHEL-5 standard and has not been shipped with RHEL since 3. jfsutils is meant for dealing with JFS filesystems. If you don't have such OS's you can safely remove it.. but I really would try to figure out where it came from first in case someone else is dickering with your computer or added it because they needed it. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" From smooge at gmail.com Thu Dec 13 04:08:13 2007 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:08:13 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: [rhn-satellite-users] Cool RHN Search Tool for Firefox In-Reply-To: <47603BCF.2000107@redhat.com> References: <47603BCF.2000107@redhat.com> Message-ID: <80d7e4090712122008k39739e8dy8871e4289f04b6a@mail.gmail.com> On Dec 12, 2007 12:51 PM, M?ir?n Duffy wrote: > Hi folks, > > Michael Stahnke made a firefox search plugin that will let you search > RHN (and/or a Satellite with a small tweak to the url) from the Firefox > search bar, check it out: > > http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/firefox/ > > There are other Red Hat and Fedora related search plugins there as well! > > Thanks Michael! :) > Currently this seems to just link to the RHN gif image for some reason. I am guessing he is fixing a bug. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" From smooge at gmail.com Thu Dec 13 04:18:41 2007 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:18:41 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] firefox and yum In-Reply-To: <47603B06.106@scripps.edu> References: <47602E07.6090300@scripps.edu> <47603544.5060902@redhat.com> <47603B06.106@scripps.edu> Message-ID: <80d7e4090712122018k2fbdaa53rd9ccaf6cb14f1ef1@mail.gmail.com> On Dec 12, 2007 12:48 PM, Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > > Thank you Mairin and Herta for you response. Here is the result from my > up2date -i firefox, this was the first > thing I tried: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > [paula at rocky paula]$ up2date -i firefox > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-3... > Fetching rpm headers... > Name Version Rel > ---------------------------------------------------------- > The following packages you requested were not found: > firefox > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > This is why I wanted to use yum. I don't understand > why "packages requested were not found." I got > firefox from RHN, but it isn't an rpm. It's a complete You shouldn't have gotten it from RHN. There is no firefox RPM on RHN that I know of for RHEL-3. It sounds like someone installed a firefox tarball on the system(or some application that is calling itself firefox in case its a trojan) . For RHEL-3 I would download a fresh tar ball from Mozilla,org and follow its directions for installation. . > directory. In the directory I run ./firefox and get that > gtk error. When I go to the console and run ./firefox, > it takes me to google.... I don't know why this is so hard. > One of my colleagues said "welcome to the linux world." > But I've been working with linux for over a year and > have never encountered this. > Many thanks for all of your help. > Paula > > > > > M?ir?n Duffy wrote: > Hi Paula, > > Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > > > Hi everyone, I hope you can help me with this silly problem. I'm > working on a RHE 3 machine and I am trying to install yum > so I can yum down firefox. Well, when I try to install yum (via rpm) > there are too many dependencies/conflicts and the install > fails. > > Where are you getting the yum RPM for RHEL 3 from? Are you sure the RPM > you are using was built for RHEL 3? > > RHEL 3's default and Red Hat supported package update system is a > program called 'up2date'. Do you have a specific reason that you would > like to use yum instead of up2date on RHEL 3? > > > > I finally gave up and downloaded a firefox package and I can't > install that either. I get this message: > > (firefox-bin:1120): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > Where are you receiving this message? This doesn't seem to be a message > that RPM, yum, or up2date would output. See, it says "firefox-bin" so it > looks like an error message given by running firefox, which means > firefox would have to have been successfully installed. > > How are you starting up firefox when you try to run it? My first guess > would be that maybe you've ssh'ed into a machine that has firefox > installed and you are typing 'firefox' at the prompt, but because you > are ssh'ed in it can't display the firefox window on your remote > machine. (If you are connecting from a remote Linux machine you can try > ssh -Y and then running firefox remotely and it > should pop up.) > > > > I am getting so frustrated because these were such simple tasks and I am > just spinning my wheels. Why is it so hard to install > these two programs. > > It appears you successfully installed firefox. Yum, I am not sure what > the whole story is with that - why are trying to install it on a RHEL 3 > machine? Is the RPM you are using built for RHEL 3? > > > > Why doesn't the rpm that I download already have > the libs and python that is needed. > > Necessarily, programs like firefox and yum rely on versions of libraries > that are external to them. If every program contained the code for every > other program and library it required, you would have many duplicate > copies of the same set of libraries and programs installed on your > machine, not only wasting your harddrive space but also leaving your > machine vulnerable to security bugs as some programs' copies of a > particular library may be very out-of-date. > > It is also important that the RPMs installed on your system are built > for the version of RHEL that you are using. If you try to install a yum > package that was built for RHEL 5 on a RHEL 3 machine, for example, it > will likely never install because it will require versions of libraries > and other packages that are not and likely will never be available in > RHEL 3. One of the main differences between RHEL 3 and RHEL 5, for > example, is the very package set and the manifest of package versions > available in each. > > RPMs are not really meant to be installed by hand. We have package > management programs such as yum and up2date in RHEL and apt in Debian in > order to manage this 'dependency hell' for you. You should not have to > resolve these dependencies by hand. The following video/article does > talk a bit about this: > http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/09/20/the-next-horizon-how-red-hat-used-yum-to-overcome-rpm-dependency-hell/ > > If you would have installed firefox by running 'up2date -i firefox' you > would not have had to deal with any of this, if your goal was to just > install firefox. > > > > I can't even > google the problem because I always end up where I downloaded the > program in the first place. Any help would be > dearly appreciated. And, thanks in advance. > > In the future you may have some luck with http://kbase.redhat.com/. Or > of course you can feel free to ask here! > > Does this make any more sense now? > > ~m > > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > > > -- > Paula J. Lindsay > IT Analyst III > Research Computing > 10550 North Torrey Pines Road > La Jolla, CA 92037 > 858.784.9378 (office) > 858.784.9301 (fax) > paula at scripps.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" From charles.theobald at ncmail.net Thu Dec 13 13:45:43 2007 From: charles.theobald at ncmail.net (Charles Theobald) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:45:43 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Can I remove jfsutils from RHEL 5 In-Reply-To: <80d7e4090712122004y6ef40b93g9dc05ba3b7e07888@mail.gmail.com> References: <47602460.10400@ncmail.net> <80d7e4090712122004y6ef40b93g9dc05ba3b7e07888@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <47613787.4000700@ncmail.net> Thanks. This server was originally a RHEL 3 server; I did an upgrade (no reformatting) to RHEL 5. Jfsutils is giving me errors when I try to apply updates to the system. Is it safe to remove? Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Dec 12, 2007 11:11 AM, Charles Theobald wrote: > >> I'm getting conflict errors when trying to update our RHEL 5 server. >> The culprit seems to be jfsutils. Do I need this? Is it safe to remove? >> Thanks >> >> > > Hmmm I would try to figure out where that package came from. jfsutils > does not look like it comes with RHEL-5 standard and has not been > shipped with RHEL since 3. jfsutils is meant for dealing with JFS > filesystems. If you don't have such OS's you can safely remove it.. > but I really would try to figure out where it came from first in case > someone else is dickering with your computer or added it because they > needed it. > > > > -- Charles Theobald NC Division of Water Resources charles.theobald at ncmail.net 919-715-5425 From duffy at redhat.com Thu Dec 13 14:56:11 2007 From: duffy at redhat.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy?=) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:56:11 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: [rhn-satellite-users] Cool RHN Search Tool for Firefox In-Reply-To: <80d7e4090712122008k39739e8dy8871e4289f04b6a@mail.gmail.com> References: <47603BCF.2000107@redhat.com> <80d7e4090712122008k39739e8dy8871e4289f04b6a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4761480B.5010801@redhat.com> Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Dec 12, 2007 12:51 PM, M?ir?n Duffy wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Michael Stahnke made a firefox search plugin that will let you search >> RHN (and/or a Satellite with a small tweak to the url) from the Firefox >> search bar, check it out: >> >> http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/firefox/ >> >> There are other Red Hat and Fedora related search plugins there as well! >> >> Thanks Michael! :) >> > > Currently this seems to just link to the RHN gif image for some > reason. I am guessing he is fixing a bug. Really? It works fine for me - it loads up the system search page. I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.1? ~m From duffy at redhat.com Thu Dec 13 15:24:06 2007 From: duffy at redhat.com (=?UTF-8?B?TcOhaXLDrW4gRHVmZnk=?=) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:24:06 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] firefox and yum In-Reply-To: <47603B06.106@scripps.edu> References: <47602E07.6090300@scripps.edu> <47603544.5060902@redhat.com> <47603B06.106@scripps.edu> Message-ID: <47614E96.50600@redhat.com> Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > Thank you Mairin and Herta for you response. Here is the result from my > up2date -i firefox, this was the first > thing I tried: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > [paula at rocky paula]$ up2date -i firefox > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-3... > Fetching rpm headers... > Name Version Rel > ---------------------------------------------------------- > The following packages you requested were not found: > firefox > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > This is why I wanted to use yum. I don't understand > why "packages requested were not found." I just checked and realized that Firefox is not part of RHEL 3. It was first added to Enterprise Linux in RHEL 4. So you have a couple of options: 1) Red Hat Supported Way Don't install firefox, but instead install mozilla. This is a fully-supported browser in RHEL 3 and is pretty similar to firefox. You can do this by running: up2date -i mozilla 2) Unsupported Way You don't need to install yum to be able to use yum repos to install firefox. If you look at /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources, that is where you can add them. For example, RPMforge has a firefox rpm available for RHEL 3. There are some instructions on how to add RPMforge's yum repository for RHEL 3 here: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B5 Basically you add the following line to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources: yum dag http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el3/en/$ARCH/dag Please understand though, that if you run into problems with packages from this repository, you'll be running bits on your RHEL system that were not Red Hat provided thus they are not supported by Red Hat. Also understand that if your system is already configured to receive packages from other repositories that are not compatible with each other, it can mess up your system pretty badly and will likely result in your having to freshly reinstall the system in order to repair it. > I got > firefox from RHN, but it isn't an rpm. It's a complete > directory. Can you provide a link to where you obtained this from? Firefox isn't actually a part of RHEL 3 so I am confused as to how you would have gotten it from RHN? I'm also confused how you would get a version of Firefox from RHN that is not an RPM? We only ship software in RHN via RPM and on ISO images... > In the directory I run ./firefox and get that > gtk error. In what directory? It appears that firefox has been installed by hand, outside of the RPM database. Is this in a terminal you are running this? > When I go to the console and run ./firefox, > it takes me to google.... So firefox is popping up and bringing you to google? Doesn't that mean it is working? I don't understand how you can be taken to google without an installed and operational browser? > I don't know why this is so hard. > One of my colleagues said "welcome to the linux world." > But I've been working with linux for over a year and > have never encountered this. It could be you haven't had much experience installing software on Linux yet? You could have a year or so of experience using Linux without having to deal too much with this. Package management can be complicated / overwhelming at first but there are a lot of basic tools that make it easy if you know about them. If you'd like to read up and learn more about some of these things you're running into, Red Hat provides the book 'Maximum RPM' by Edward Bailey for free on our website: http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/max-rpm-html/ I think the first chapter of that book would be pretty helpful for you to understand what's going on. Another place that has some good information is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 System Administrator's Guide: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/pt-pkg-management.html Hope this helps, ~m From smooge at gmail.com Thu Dec 13 18:38:38 2007 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:38:38 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] Can I remove jfsutils from RHEL 5 In-Reply-To: <47613787.4000700@ncmail.net> References: <47602460.10400@ncmail.net> <80d7e4090712122004y6ef40b93g9dc05ba3b7e07888@mail.gmail.com> <47613787.4000700@ncmail.net> Message-ID: <80d7e4090712131038i426e7baahf31c1f2da7ab4cca@mail.gmail.com> On Dec 13, 2007 6:45 AM, Charles Theobald wrote: > Thanks. This server was originally a RHEL 3 server; I did an upgrade > (no reformatting) to RHEL 5. Jfsutils is giving me errors when I try to > apply updates to the system. Is it safe to remove? > Ack.. it should be good ok to remove. You should look for any other orphans on the system yum list extras to get an idea of what else might be lurking on the system that could cause problems. > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Dec 12, 2007 11:11 AM, Charles Theobald wrote: > > > >> I'm getting conflict errors when trying to update our RHEL 5 server. > >> The culprit seems to be jfsutils. Do I need this? Is it safe to remove? > >> Thanks > >> > >> > > > > Hmmm I would try to figure out where that package came from. jfsutils > > does not look like it comes with RHEL-5 standard and has not been > > shipped with RHEL since 3. jfsutils is meant for dealing with JFS > > filesystems. If you don't have such OS's you can safely remove it.. > > but I really would try to figure out where it came from first in case > > someone else is dickering with your computer or added it because they > > needed it. > > > > > > > > > > -- > Charles Theobald > NC Division of Water Resources > charles.theobald at ncmail.net > 919-715-5425 > > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" From smooge at gmail.com Thu Dec 13 18:41:05 2007 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:41:05 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: [rhn-satellite-users] Cool RHN Search Tool for Firefox In-Reply-To: <4761480B.5010801@redhat.com> References: <47603BCF.2000107@redhat.com> <80d7e4090712122008k39739e8dy8871e4289f04b6a@mail.gmail.com> <4761480B.5010801@redhat.com> Message-ID: <80d7e4090712131041g1a428fd4j4bdd952a162f3d49@mail.gmail.com> On Dec 13, 2007 7:56 AM, M?ir?n Duffy wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Dec 12, 2007 12:51 PM, M?ir?n Duffy wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> Michael Stahnke made a firefox search plugin that will let you search > >> RHN (and/or a Satellite with a small tweak to the url) from the Firefox > >> search bar, check it out: > >> > >> http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/firefox/ > >> > >> There are other Red Hat and Fedora related search plugins there as well! > >> > >> Thanks Michael! :) > >> > > > > Currently this seems to just link to the RHN gif image for some > > reason. I am guessing he is fixing a bug. > > Really? It works fine for me - it loads up the system search page. I'm > running Firefox 2.0.0.1? Must have hit it at a weird time.. every link now shows a javascript link including the rhn one. Firefox 2.0.0.1? Thats not a Red Hat supplied version is it young lady? And why isnt it patched. Kids these days.. no respect for security. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" From duffy at redhat.com Thu Dec 13 18:53:34 2007 From: duffy at redhat.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy?=) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:53:34 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: [rhn-satellite-users] Cool RHN Search Tool for Firefox In-Reply-To: <80d7e4090712131041g1a428fd4j4bdd952a162f3d49@mail.gmail.com> References: <47603BCF.2000107@redhat.com> <80d7e4090712122008k39739e8dy8871e4289f04b6a@mail.gmail.com> <4761480B.5010801@redhat.com> <80d7e4090712131041g1a428fd4j4bdd952a162f3d49@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <47617FAE.1040107@redhat.com> Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > Firefox 2.0.0.1? Thats not a Red Hat supplied version is it young > lady? It's my Fedora 8 box :) All the cool kids have an F8 box, don't you? And why isnt it patched. Kids these days.. no respect for > security. I was wrong it is 2.0.0.10. Looks like 2.0.0.11 hasn't hit F8 yet... :) ~m From loandbehold1 at hotmail.com Thu Dec 13 20:25:39 2007 From: loandbehold1 at hotmail.com (Stary Night) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:25:39 -0600 Subject: [rhn-users] RHEL5 and RHN updates Message-ID: I'm trying to install Plesk 8.2 on a fresh, fully updated RHEL5 box. The Plesk installer needs to know the location of the RHN repository. I can't seem to get it working. The config file (.autoinstallerrc) calls for the following: ADDITIONAL_SOURCE=",,,," This issue has been brought up on the Plesk forums but no solution yet (http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.php?t=46204&highlight=RHEL5) ADDITIONAL_SOURCE="repomd,500,https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC,,"ADDITIONAL_SOURCE="yum,500,https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC,,"ADDITIONAL_SOURCE="up2date,500,https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC,,"ADDITIONAL_SOURCE="rhn,500,https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC,," Any thoughts? _________________________________________________________________ Read what Santa`s been up to! For all the latest, visit asksantaclaus.spaces.live.com! http://asksantaclaus.spaces.live.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From smooge at gmail.com Thu Dec 13 22:59:58 2007 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:59:58 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: [rhn-satellite-users] Cool RHN Search Tool for Firefox In-Reply-To: <47617FAE.1040107@redhat.com> References: <47603BCF.2000107@redhat.com> <80d7e4090712122008k39739e8dy8871e4289f04b6a@mail.gmail.com> <4761480B.5010801@redhat.com> <80d7e4090712131041g1a428fd4j4bdd952a162f3d49@mail.gmail.com> <47617FAE.1040107@redhat.com> Message-ID: <80d7e4090712131459u78264b4ft7d5cc1bb5d22c8d3@mail.gmail.com> On Dec 13, 2007 11:53 AM, M?ir?n Duffy wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > Firefox 2.0.0.1? Thats not a Red Hat supplied version is it young > > lady? > > It's my Fedora 8 box :) All the cool kids have an F8 box, don't you? > When I can provision my systems from RHN with Fedora-8.. sure. > And why isnt it patched. Kids these days.. no respect for > > security. > > I was wrong it is 2.0.0.10. Looks like 2.0.0.11 hasn't hit F8 yet... :) > Ah ok.. 1 version off is better than 10. I was going to send you a whole bunch of links for your browser otherwise :). > ~m > > > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" From idm24 at medschl.cam.ac.uk Sat Dec 15 20:10:06 2007 From: idm24 at medschl.cam.ac.uk (Iain Morrison) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:10:06 -0000 Subject: [rhn-users] A couple of questions Message-ID: <6E9326598B435940A0090E6B20E051BFBCAB4F@me-mail1.medlan.cam.ac.uk> Dear All, apologies if these are FAQs but I cant find the answers... a) Is there a searchable rhn-users archive? b) can Software Channel Subscriptions be controlled from the CLI or do I need to do it via the RHN website. What I would like to do is have channel subscription as part of the kickstart process thanks iain ---------------------------------------- Iain Morrison IT Manager MRC Epidemiology Unit Institute of Metabolic Science Box 285 Addenbrooke's Hospital Hills Road Cambridge CB2 0QQ Tel 01223 769200 From jsantana at csulb.edu Sun Dec 16 18:01:29 2007 From: jsantana at csulb.edu (Jesse Santana) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:01:29 -0800 Subject: [rhn-users] Jesse Santana/AdminFinance/CSULB is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 12/15/2007 and will not return until 01/02/2008. I will respond to your message when I return. If you require immediate assistance, please contact the Campus Help Desk at helpdesk at csulb.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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What I would like to do is have channel subscription as part of the kickstart process thanks iain ---------------------------------------- Iain Morrison IT Manager MRC Epidemiology Unit Institute of Metabolic Science Box 285 Addenbrooke's Hospital Hills Road Cambridge CB2 0QQ Tel 01223 769200 From c.silva at vtr.net Thu Dec 20 18:31:11 2007 From: c.silva at vtr.net (Cristian Silva) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:31:11 -0300 Subject: [rhn-users] Replicate level of updates Message-ID: <6fcfaa970712201031k8f008cag2adce4603d4f1051@mail.gmail.com> Hi, Is there a way to keep the level of updates of a server to a certain version and then replicate that level to another server ? I have a proxy server installed in my network, but im not sure if i can control that using just rhn cheers, C. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I have little sysadmin experience, so I have some newbie questions about RHN updates: - the servers are set up with Auto Errata Update = Yes, but there is a huge list of Errata and Packages to update the servers with, months-worth of them. the rhnsd daemon is running every four hours, but as reported by logwatch it only does a few updates now and then (a few a week). no idea how it picks them. it does pick up updates I explicitly schedule on RHN, so that part works fine. doesnt Auto Errata Update mean all updates should be done without user intervention? - what is the relationship between rhnsd and up2date? up2date --list does show the whole long list of pending updates. it seems rhnsd is not running off the same list, or just picks a tiny fraction of it. thank you for your attention WIM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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