From cperry at redhat.com Thu Mar 1 02:33:49 2007 From: cperry at redhat.com (Clifford Perry) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:33:49 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice In-Reply-To: <45E605DF.1080200@usask.ca> References: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45E605DF.1080200@usask.ca> Message-ID: <45E63B8D.3070607@redhat.com> Hi there, The upgrade process for RHN Proxy is outlined within the following knowledge base article: How do I upgrade my Red Hat Network (RHN) Proxy to the latest version? http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_48_8542.shtm For anyone interested for RHN Satellite, see: How is Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite upgraded to the most current version? http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_49_8610.shtm Regards, Clifford. Alfred Hovdestad wrote: > Thanks Richard. > > Where do we find information on upgrading our RHN Proxy server? We are > currently running RHN Proxy 4.0. > -- Clifford Perry Team Lead, RHN Sustaining Engineering Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/ +1 919 754 4403 RHCE# 803004507210710 From nick.bruton at bristol.ac.uk Thu Mar 1 09:12:19 2007 From: nick.bruton at bristol.ac.uk (Nick Bruton) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:12:19 +0000 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice In-Reply-To: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <7AE393067C4FE7F3A543D479@CSE-TITAN.cse.bris.ac.uk> Hi, Can you give some idea of the timescale involved? Thanks Nick --On 28 February 2007 15:28 -0500 Richard Friedman wrote: > RHN Satellite Customers, > > We wanted to make available some notes about the upcoming Red Hat > Enterprise Linux 5.0 (official date not announced yet) and RHN Satellite > 4.2 releases (available now). With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, we are > moving to yum as the standard client by which to communicate with the > Red Hat Network Satellite. The yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 will > be packaged with a plug-in to achieve this capability. We have also made > changes in the rhn_register command to support changes in the Red Hat > Enterprise Linux 5.0 registration process. > > As a result of these changes, only Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2, Proxy > 4.2 and beyond will be compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0. > Any customer using the new OS in their environment in combination with > Red Hat Network Satellite will need to upgrade to version 4.2 or newer. > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Bruton PADI Divemaster #624215 University of Bristol TDM LC4 640 SuperMoto Computing Service Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1UD Tel: 0117 9288193 Team email: isys-srct at bris.ac.uk From fultonj at lafayette.edu Thu Mar 1 12:17:57 2007 From: fultonj at lafayette.edu (John Fulton) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:17:57 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] up2date broke up2date RHEL4 In-Reply-To: <45DE6B90.8000806@usask.ca> References: <45DDB7CF.2090106@lafayette.edu> <45DE6B90.8000806@usask.ca> Message-ID: <45E6C475.8000800@lafayette.edu> Alfred, Thanks for your advice. I was able to fix the system. First I tried: rpm --rebuilddb rm -rf /var/spool/up2date/* up2date-nox -pvvv --hardware up2date-nox -lvvv up2date-nox -uvvv But had the same issue. RedHat support suggested that I remove the packages that up2date was complaining about with: rpm -e --justdb --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers php-pear-4.3.9-3.22.3 rpm -e --justdb --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers php-ldap-4.3.9-3.22.3 rpm -e --justdb --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 I was able to then have a normal 'up2date -u' and it seems to be fixed. John Alfred Hovdestad wrote: > On some older systems (RH8 and RH9), I occasionally had to delete the > temporary files in /var/lib/rpm/ and rebuild the rpmdb database: > > > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > rpm --rebuilddb > rpm -vv --rebuilddb /* if you want lots of output */ > > It's been a while since I have had to do this, but it might help (and it > shouldn't hurt). > > Alfred Hovdestad > > > > > > John Fulton wrote: >> up2date seems to be broken on one of my Nahant Update 4 servers. It was >> applying 8 updates yesterday and when it got to the kernel-smp-devel >> package the connection timed out. Now when I "up2date -u" I get package >> conflict errors and there seems to be data missing from the error >> message (pasted below). >> >> RHN claims that I need to apply security updates for php and xorg-x11 >> (RHSA-2007:0076 & 0003) but up2date complains that I already have them >> when I try to "up2date -i" them by name. An "up2date --undo" produced >> an AttributeError and I'll paste portions of /var/log/up2date below >> showing the packages that were updated including the error. I also >> tried "up2date -p" and "rpm --rebuilddb" which didn't seem to make any >> difference. >> >> Thanks, >> John >> > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users -- John Fulton, Linux Administrator, Lafayette College ITS 610-330-5650, Pardee Hall Room 11, Easton PA 18042-1775 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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TIA, Gregg Phillips NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD Richard Friedman wrote: > RHN Satellite Customers, > > We wanted to make available some notes about the upcoming Red Hat > Enterprise Linux 5.0 (official date not announced yet) and RHN Satellite > 4.2 releases (available now). With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, we are > moving to yum as the standard client by which to communicate with the > Red Hat Network Satellite. The yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 will > be packaged with a plug-in to achieve this capability. We have also made > changes in the rhn_register command to support changes in the Red Hat > Enterprise Linux 5.0 registration process. > > As a result of these changes, only Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2, Proxy > 4.2 and beyond will be compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0. > Any customer using the new OS in their environment in combination with > Red Hat Network Satellite will need to upgrade to version 4.2 or newer. > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > From cperry at redhat.com Thu Mar 1 16:56:48 2007 From: cperry at redhat.com (Clifford Perry) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:56:48 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice In-Reply-To: <45E6FAF5.9080104@noaa.gov> References: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45E6FAF5.9080104@noaa.gov> Message-ID: <45E705D0.4020303@redhat.com> Hi there, I had previously replied to a similar question. The upgrade process for RHN Proxy is outlined within the following knowledge base article: How do I upgrade my Red Hat Network (RHN) Proxy to the latest version? http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_48_8542.shtm More comments below. Cliff. Gregg Phillips wrote: > Given the announcement below, we would like to upgrade our RHN Proxy > server from 4.0 to 4.2. What is the process to do this? Does it require > a complete reinstall or is it as simple as modifying the channel > subscription and running up2date on the proxy server? Reinstall, see link. > We are also > running the proxy server over SSL. Will this upgrade require us to > generate new certs? Should not, no. > Our proxy server is running on RHEL AS 4. > > TIA, > > Gregg Phillips > NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD > -- Clifford Perry Team Lead, RHN Sustaining Engineering Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/ +1 919 754 4403 RHCE# 803004507210710 From Gregory.M.Phillips at noaa.gov Thu Mar 1 18:10:03 2007 From: Gregory.M.Phillips at noaa.gov (Gregg Phillips) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:10:03 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice In-Reply-To: <45E705D0.4020303@redhat.com> References: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45E6FAF5.9080104@noaa.gov> <45E705D0.4020303@redhat.com> Message-ID: <45E716FB.90809@noaa.gov> Yes, I did look at this document as I processed through the thread. However, it appears to be concerned with upgrading from 3.X to 4.X. My question has to do with upgrading from 4.0 to 4.2 a minor revision update. The kbase doc listed below talks about upgrading OSes and SSL to 4.X standards and since I am already there is there a need to redo these steps or can I just change to the most recent channel, 4.2, and run up2date? Thanks, Gregg. Clifford Perry wrote: > Hi there, > I had previously replied to a similar question. The upgrade process > for RHN Proxy is outlined within the following knowledge base article: > > How do I upgrade my Red Hat Network (RHN) Proxy to the latest version? > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_48_8542.shtm > > More comments below. > > Cliff. > > Gregg Phillips wrote: >> Given the announcement below, we would like to upgrade our RHN Proxy >> server from 4.0 to 4.2. What is the process to do this? Does it require >> a complete reinstall or is it as simple as modifying the channel >> subscription and running up2date on the proxy server? > Reinstall, see link. >> We are also >> running the proxy server over SSL. Will this upgrade require us to >> generate new certs? > Should not, no. >> Our proxy server is running on RHEL AS 4. >> >> TIA, >> >> Gregg Phillips >> NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD >> > From cperry at redhat.com Thu Mar 1 18:21:55 2007 From: cperry at redhat.com (Clifford Perry) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:21:55 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice In-Reply-To: <45E716FB.90809@noaa.gov> References: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45E6FAF5.9080104@noaa.gov> <45E705D0.4020303@redhat.com> <45E716FB.90809@noaa.gov> Message-ID: <45E719C3.3030706@redhat.com> Gregg Phillips wrote: > Yes, I did look at this document as I processed through the thread. > However, it appears to be concerned with upgrading from 3.X to 4.X. My > question has to do with upgrading from 4.0 to 4.2 a minor revision > update. The kbase doc listed below talks about upgrading OSes and SSL to > 4.X standards and since I am already there is there a need to redo these > steps or can I just change to the most recent channel, 4.2, and run up2date? > Reviewing the article I do see how it is not clear in this respect (and have already asked a member of my team to review and update the article on this). A 4.0 -> 4.2 RHN Proxy change is still considered a major upgrade, and cannot just flip channels and run up2date -u on it. The process is as outlined within the kbase article - backup, reinstall, install 4.2, restore. Regards, Cliff > Thanks, > > Gregg. > > Clifford Perry wrote: > -- Clifford Perry Team Lead, RHN Sustaining Engineering Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/ +1 919 754 4403 RHCE# 803004507210710 From liushiyong at gmail.com Thu Mar 1 18:57:03 2007 From: liushiyong at gmail.com (Liu Shiyong) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:57:03 -0600 Subject: [rhn-users] Help on reboot problem Message-ID: When I reboot my computer, the system can not reboot normally... stopping systat .................................OK no more processes left in this runlevel [shiyong at protein2980 ~]$uname -a Linux protein2980.mrb.ku.edu 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 16 17:13:42 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [shiyong at protein2980 ~]$cat /etc/inittab # # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up # the system in a certain run-level. # # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes # # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:5:initdefault: # System initialization. si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes # of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your # UPS connected and working correctly. pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down" # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it. pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled" # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 # Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon -- Shiyong Liu Research Assistant center for bioinformatics in the university of kansas Lab: (785)864-1962 Email: syliu at ku.edu (shiyongliu at ku.edu or liushiyong at ku.edu) Homepage: http://www.people.ku.edu/~syliu Lab: http://vakser.bioinformatics.ku.edu/people Phone: (785) 864-1962 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Lindsay, IT Analyst III / Research Computing, TPC21 o Scripps phone: 858.784.9378 \ fax: 858.784.9301 o Research email: paula at scripps.edu / o Institute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From duffy at redhat.com Thu Mar 1 19:10:30 2007 From: duffy at redhat.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy?=) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:10:30 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] tzdata for rh 7? In-Reply-To: <45E72206.3000005@scripps.edu> References: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45E6FAF5.9080104@noaa.gov> <45E705D0.4020303@redhat.com> <45E72206.3000005@scripps.edu> Message-ID: <45E72526.2050609@redhat.com> Hi Paula, Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > Hi everyone, > we have several machines running rh 7. Can we use the "yum install tzdata" > to sync with the new dst? This list is for discussions about using Red Hat Network to manage and apply updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including discussion about particular Red Hat Enterprise Linux updates. This list is not intended for discussion about topics specific to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or Red Hat Linux) that do not involve Red Hat Network. For discussion of Red Hat Linux, you may want to try: * redhat-list at redhat.com [1] * valhalla-list at redhat.com (RH Linux 7.3 discussion) [2] * enigma-list at redhat.com (RH Linux 7.3 discussion) [3] However, please be aware that Red Hat Linux 7 has not been a supported product of Red Hat, Inc. for quite some time now - support for this product ended on April 30th, 2004 [4]. I think that if you were to find a new dst, it would not be provided by Red Hat or Red Hat Network. I strongly recommend that you consider migrating from Red Hat Linux 7 to a newer operating system so that you can have peace of mind about the security of your systems. More information on how to do this is here: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/ Good luck. ~m [1] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list [2] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/valhalla-list [3] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/enigma-list [4] https://rhn.redhat.com/help/rhlmigrationfaq/ From duffy at redhat.com Thu Mar 1 19:11:39 2007 From: duffy at redhat.com (=?UTF-8?B?TcOhaXLDrW4gRHVmZnk=?=) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:11:39 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Help on reboot problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45E7256B.7030306@redhat.com> Hi Liu, Liu Shiyong wrote: > When I reboot my computer, the system can not reboot normally... > > stopping systat .................................OK > no more processes left in this runlevel This list is for discussions about using Red Hat Network to manage and apply updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including discussion about particular Red Hat Enterprise Linux updates. This list is not intended for discussion about topics specific to Red Hat Enterprise Linux that do not involve Red Hat Network. For discussion of such topics, you may want to try: [1] RHEL 4 Discussion - https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/nahant-list [2] RHEL 3 Discussion - https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list [3] Red Hat System Administrators' list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-sysadmin-list ~m From inode0 at gmail.com Thu Mar 1 22:51:33 2007 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:51:33 -0600 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice In-Reply-To: <7AE393067C4FE7F3A543D479@CSE-TITAN.cse.bris.ac.uk> References: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <7AE393067C4FE7F3A543D479@CSE-TITAN.cse.bris.ac.uk> Message-ID: On 3/1/07, Nick Bruton wrote: > Hi, > > Can you give some idea of the timescale involved? And if you can't give us any idea of the timescale involved can you give us some idea of what will happen if RHEL5 is released before these upgrades are completed? Thanks, John From cperry at redhat.com Fri Mar 2 03:30:38 2007 From: cperry at redhat.com (Clifford Perry) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:30:38 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice In-Reply-To: References: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <7AE393067C4FE7F3A543D479@CSE-TITAN.cse.bris.ac.uk> Message-ID: <45E79A5E.2050401@redhat.com> As I am sure you are aware, if you monitor the rhelv5-beta-list, and thread (https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-beta-list/2007-February/msg00106.html) that a date is not freely available to give out. The last public press release from Red Hat giving a rough date that I know off is: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/rhel5beta2.html "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in early 2007". I felt that Rich's email was fairly clear, but to restate in another way for you :o) ... If you plan to use/deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with any current RHN Satellite or RHN Proxy systems you have deployed, then those systems will need to be upgraded to at least RHN 4.2 Satellite or RHN 4.2 Proxy prior to being able to use them with the yum based client in Enterprise Linux 5 and code changes for rhn_register. So, for example, if you have a 4.1 RHN Proxy which was pointing to RHN (rhn.redhat.com, xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com) you could register a Enterprise Linux 5 system through it, but when you tried to use yum to try and download packages, it would fail. While for a 4.1 Satellite, both would fail. Regards, Cliff. inode0 wrote: > On 3/1/07, Nick Bruton wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Can you give some idea of the timescale involved? > > And if you can't give us any idea of the timescale involved can you > give us some idea of what will happen if RHEL5 is released before > these upgrades are completed? > > Thanks, > John > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users -- Clifford Perry Team Lead, RHN Sustaining Engineering Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/ +1 919 754 4403 RHCE# 803004507210710 From inode0 at gmail.com Fri Mar 2 04:21:59 2007 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:21:59 -0600 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice In-Reply-To: <45E79A5E.2050401@redhat.com> References: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <7AE393067C4FE7F3A543D479@CSE-TITAN.cse.bris.ac.uk> <45E79A5E.2050401@redhat.com> Message-ID: On 3/1/07, Clifford Perry wrote: > As I am sure you are aware, if you monitor the rhelv5-beta-list, and > thread > (https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-beta-list/2007-February/msg00106.html) > that a date is not freely available to give out. I am very well aware and did not ask you to give me a date. I find it disappointing that Red Hat is treating its customers this way. Do you think we have nothing else to do and can drop everything whenever Red Hat decides to say "upgrade your infrastructure now or stuff is going to break." And not even get the courtesy of a "you have X days to complete these upgrades before stuff breaks" timeframe to work in. I'm assuming we have 10-14 days from the announcement based on a previous comment. But Red Hat doesn't stick by the dates they do leak either, as the evidence you provide below demonstrates, so who knows? Unbelievable. > The last public press release from Red Hat giving a rough date that I > know off is: > http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/rhel5beta2.html > "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in early 2007". > > I felt that Rich's email was fairly clear, but to restate in another way > for you :o) ... > > If you plan to use/deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with any current > RHN Satellite or RHN Proxy systems you have deployed, then those systems > will need to be upgraded to at least RHN 4.2 Satellite or RHN 4.2 Proxy > prior to being able to use them with the yum based client in Enterprise > Linux 5 and code changes for rhn_register. > > So, for example, if you have a 4.1 RHN Proxy which was pointing to RHN > (rhn.redhat.com, xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com) you could register a Enterprise > Linux 5 system through it, but when you tried to use yum to try and > download packages, it would fail. While for a 4.1 Satellite, both would > fail. If some nut in a hat decides tomorrow to release RHEL5 I would like to know that all our current processes will continue working. At least the processes that aren't already broken by unresolved bugs. That was implied by Rich's email I think but I'd feel better hearing it in a more direct fashion. I think it is implied by your restatement too. At this point I don't really care. I'll just go with the flow like the other cool kids. John From robert at pottsdata.com Fri Mar 2 05:12:15 2007 From: robert at pottsdata.com (Robert Potts) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:12:15 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice In-Reply-To: References: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <7AE393067C4FE7F3A543D479@CSE-TITAN.cse.bris.ac.uk> <45E79A5E.2050401@redhat.com> Message-ID: <45E7B22F.4060400@pottsdata.com> I don't want to over traffic this list, but I do have a few thought I'd like to share: Redhat is a fantastic alternative to Microsoft, and seems to do a great job competing with them on the levels of functionality, security and reliability. What you get for a _much_ lower price is, in most regards, superior. But it's tough to compete with a gigantic monopoly *and* try to remain profitable. I'm a BSD fanatic, admittedly, but BSD is *very* difficult to deal with if you aren't a fairly competent sys admin. It's free, but you *have* to know what you're doing. What Redhat seems to try to do (and usually does fairly well) is walk a fine line between the Microsoft money grab for marginal quality mentality and the philosophy of totally free, totally secure and incredibly reliable but very time consuming to learn and maintain BSD. I'd say, considering the alternatives, Redhat is doing a good job for those who can't/won't afford Microsoft and can't/won't put the time into understanding/administering BSD. So, have patience. Though Redhat's updating system is not always perfect, it's still a fantastic alternative that gives the world a reasonably priced way to run a good system without too much headache. And don't forget that you are supporting something which, if it weren't there, would be sorely missed! I'd say in the long run it's better to pay and support this company (and help them try and improve) while understanding they must remain minimally profitable to keep on existing, and to do so there are bound to be some relatively minor shortcomings here and there. In a nutshell, be patient and when you get frustrated don't forget to consider the alternatives. Pull your hair out dealing with Microsoft's extraordinarily expensive unreliability and lack of security, or pull your hair out trying to learn to be an expert sys admin with a flavor of BSD! (I'll stick with BSD, personally, but I'd recommend RHEL to a *lot* of people, and in fact will be doing just that here in the very near future with a company I am consulting for). warm regards, Robert inode0 wrote: > On 3/1/07, Clifford Perry wrote: >> As I am sure you are aware, if you monitor the rhelv5-beta-list, and >> thread >> (https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-beta-list/2007-February/msg00106.html) >> >> that a date is not freely available to give out. > > I am very well aware and did not ask you to give me a date. > > I find it disappointing that Red Hat is treating its customers this > way. Do you think we have nothing else to do and can drop everything > whenever Red Hat decides to say "upgrade your infrastructure now or > stuff is going to break." And not even get the courtesy of a "you have > X days to complete these upgrades before stuff breaks" timeframe to > work in. I'm assuming we have 10-14 days from the announcement based > on a previous comment. But Red Hat doesn't stick by the dates they do > leak either, as the evidence you provide below demonstrates, so who > knows? > > Unbelievable. > >> The last public press release from Red Hat giving a rough date that I >> know off is: >> http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/rhel5beta2.html >> "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in early 2007". >> >> I felt that Rich's email was fairly clear, but to restate in another way >> for you :o) ... >> >> If you plan to use/deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with any current >> RHN Satellite or RHN Proxy systems you have deployed, then those systems >> will need to be upgraded to at least RHN 4.2 Satellite or RHN 4.2 Proxy >> prior to being able to use them with the yum based client in Enterprise >> Linux 5 and code changes for rhn_register. >> >> So, for example, if you have a 4.1 RHN Proxy which was pointing to RHN >> (rhn.redhat.com, xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com) you could register a Enterprise >> Linux 5 system through it, but when you tried to use yum to try and >> download packages, it would fail. While for a 4.1 Satellite, both would >> fail. > > If some nut in a hat decides tomorrow to release RHEL5 I would like to > know that all our current processes will continue working. At least > the processes that aren't already broken by unresolved bugs. That was > implied by Rich's email I think but I'd feel better hearing it in a > more direct fashion. I think it is implied by your restatement too. > > At this point I don't really care. I'll just go with the flow like the > other cool kids. > > John > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > . > From NFlorez at sdcwa.org Mon Mar 5 16:32:58 2007 From: NFlorez at sdcwa.org (Florez, Nestor) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:32:58 -0800 Subject: [rhn-users] DST question on RHEL4 and RHEL3 In-Reply-To: <45E6C475.8000800@lafayette.edu> Message-ID: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F7D84@Octopus.sdcwa.org> People, I have 2 RHEL3 systems that I upgraded to correct the march 11 DST situation via up2date and that is good. I also have a RHEL3 and RHEL4 systems that have no contract with Red Hat, I was wondering how do I go about updating these systems. Am I allowed to use up2date althought there is not service contract for them? How do I fix the DST problem in these systems? What RPM doI need to install? Thanks, N?stor :-) From myin at aecom.yu.edu Mon Mar 5 16:37:56 2007 From: myin at aecom.yu.edu (myin at aecom.yu.edu) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:37:56 -0500 (EST) Subject: [rhn-users] DST question on RHEL4 and RHEL3 In-Reply-To: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F7D84@Octopus.sdcwa.org> References: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F7D84@Octopus.sdcwa.org> Message-ID: <2785.129.98.4.34.1173112676.squirrel@netmail.aecom.yu.edu> Try this: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2006-0745.html Good luck. Thanks. > People, > > > I have 2 RHEL3 systems that I upgraded to correct the > march 11 DST situation via up2date and that is good. > > I also have a RHEL3 and RHEL4 systems that have > no contract with Red Hat, I was wondering how do I go > about updating these systems. > > Am I allowed to use up2date althought there is not > service contract for them? > How do I fix the DST problem in these systems? > What RPM doI need to install? > > > Thanks, > > N?stor :-) > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > From NFlorez at sdcwa.org Mon Mar 5 17:05:13 2007 From: NFlorez at sdcwa.org (Florez, Nestor) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:05:13 -0800 Subject: [rhn-users] DST question on RHEL4 and RHEL3 In-Reply-To: <2785.129.98.4.34.1173112676.squirrel@netmail.aecom.yu.edu> Message-ID: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F7D87@Octopus.sdcwa.org> It says to use red Hat Update Agent 'up2date', am I allow to use 'up2date' on systems that are not under service contract? Thanks, N?stor :-) -----Original Message----- From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of myin at aecom.yu.edu Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 8:38 AM To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com) Subject: Re: [rhn-users] DST question on RHEL4 and RHEL3 Try this: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2006-0745.html Good luck. Thanks. > People, > > > I have 2 RHEL3 systems that I upgraded to correct the > march 11 DST situation via up2date and that is good. > > I also have a RHEL3 and RHEL4 systems that have > no contract with Red Hat, I was wondering how do I go > about updating these systems. > > Am I allowed to use up2date althought there is not > service contract for them? > How do I fix the DST problem in these systems? > What RPM doI need to install? > > > Thanks, > > N?stor :-) > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list rhn-users at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users From michael.mansour at hp.com Mon Mar 5 22:58:35 2007 From: michael.mansour at hp.com (Mansour, Michael) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 06:58:35 +0800 Subject: [rhn-users] DST question on RHEL4 and RHEL3 In-Reply-To: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F7D87@Octopus.sdcwa.org> References: <2785.129.98.4.34.1173112676.squirrel@netmail.aecom.yu.edu> <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F7D87@Octopus.sdcwa.org> Message-ID: <58727644D357E1429F7095BD0A2970940476A852@sgpexc05.asiapacific.cpqcorp.net> Hi Nestor, If you try you'll find it won't work. Each RHN subscription is registered to one host, so before you can use up2date you must first register the host on your RHN account. Regards, Michael. -----Original Message----- From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Florez, Nestor Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2007 4:05 AM To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com) Subject: RE: [rhn-users] DST question on RHEL4 and RHEL3 It says to use red Hat Update Agent 'up2date', am I allow to use 'up2date' on systems that are not under service contract? Thanks, N?stor :-) -----Original Message----- From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of myin at aecom.yu.edu Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 8:38 AM To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com) Subject: Re: [rhn-users] DST question on RHEL4 and RHEL3 Try this: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2006-0745.html Good luck. Thanks. > People, > > > I have 2 RHEL3 systems that I upgraded to correct the march 11 DST > situation via up2date and that is good. > > I also have a RHEL3 and RHEL4 systems that have no contract with Red > Hat, I was wondering how do I go about updating these systems. > > Am I allowed to use up2date althought there is not service contract > for them? > How do I fix the DST problem in these systems? > What RPM doI need to install? > > > Thanks, > > N?stor :-) > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list rhn-users at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list rhn-users at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users From pete at chemistry.montana.edu Tue Mar 6 05:36:53 2007 From: pete at chemistry.montana.edu (Pete Masse) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:36:53 -0700 (MST) Subject: [rhn-users] cannot execute binary file In-Reply-To: <45DE6B90.8000806@usask.ca> References: <45DDB7CF.2090106@lafayette.edu> <45DE6B90.8000806@usask.ca> Message-ID: <32900.69.145.92.238.1173159413.squirrel@codeine.chemistry.montana.edu> Hello, I've run into some trouble lately when installing software on RHES ES 4 EM64 . Newly installed executables will not execute. Even when including the entire path, I still get the error message "Cannot execute binary file". Permissions are 755, file is owned by root and belongs to the root group. I tried starting it from a non privileged user and still the same. SELinux has been disabled in an effort to try and debug this. The executables I am talking about are supposed to be compiled for 64 bit Linux. This has happened to two different executable files so far, and it seems to me that I remember there being some security attribute that will not allow executable files to run just anywhere or something like that. Would anybody have any information on this? Thanks in Advance Pete From cs at zip.com.au Tue Mar 6 05:52:28 2007 From: cs at zip.com.au (Cameron Simpson) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:52:28 +1100 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: cannot execute binary file In-Reply-To: <32900.69.145.92.238.1173159413.squirrel@codeine.chemistry.montana.edu> Message-ID: <20070306055228.GA3440@cskk.homeip.net> On 05Mar2007 22:36, Pete Masse wrote: | I've run into some trouble lately when installing software on RHES ES 4 | EM64 . Newly installed executables will not execute. Even when including | the entire path, I still get the error message "Cannot execute binary | file". Permissions are 755, file is owned by root and belongs to the root | group. I tried starting it from a non privileged user and still the same. | SELinux has been disabled in an effort to try and debug this. The | executables I am talking about are supposed to be compiled for 64 bit | Linux. | | This has happened to two different executable files so far, and it seems | to me that I remember there being some security attribute that will not | allow executable files to run just anywhere or something like that. What does the "file" command say about these files, and what does it say about a working binary file? What does "ldd" report about these files, too? Maybe you're missing a library. -- Cameron Simpson DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ What's the best platform that Windows NT runs on? A Kodak carosel slide projector. - Dvorak From herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com Tue Mar 6 07:47:54 2007 From: herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com (Herta Van den Eynde) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 08:47:54 +0100 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: cannot execute binary file In-Reply-To: <20070306055228.GA3440@cskk.homeip.net> References: <32900.69.145.92.238.1173159413.squirrel@codeine.chemistry.montana.edu> <20070306055228.GA3440@cskk.homeip.net> Message-ID: On 06/03/07, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 05Mar2007 22:36, Pete Masse wrote: > | I've run into some trouble lately when installing software on RHES ES 4 > | EM64 . Newly installed executables will not execute. Even when including > | the entire path, I still get the error message "Cannot execute binary > | file". Permissions are 755, file is owned by root and belongs to the root > | group. I tried starting it from a non privileged user and still the same. > | SELinux has been disabled in an effort to try and debug this. The > | executables I am talking about are supposed to be compiled for 64 bit > | Linux. > | > | This has happened to two different executable files so far, and it seems > | to me that I remember there being some security attribute that will not > | allow executable files to run just anywhere or something like that. > > What does the "file" command say about these files, > and what does it say about a working binary file? > > What does "ldd" report about these files, too? Maybe you're missing a > library. > -- > Cameron Simpson DoD#743 > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Also check the permissions on the directory, and verify that the filesystem isn't mounted 'noexec'. Kind regards, Herta From cedric.porte at fr.ibm.com Tue Mar 6 10:54:59 2007 From: cedric.porte at fr.ibm.com (Cedric Porte) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:54:59 +0100 Subject: [rhn-users] Help on reboot problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hello Liu, have you try a ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and check if you have link down in this repertory? Cordialement, C?dric Porte Web Hosting Technical Customer Manager PHONE: +33 4 92 11 41 77 ( TL : 36-4177) Email: cedric.porte at fr.ibm.com "Liu Shiyong" Sent by: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com 01/03/2007 19:57 Please respond to "Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)" To rhn-users at redhat.com cc Subject [rhn-users] Help on reboot problem When I reboot my computer, the system can not reboot normally... stopping systat .................................OK no more processes left in this runlevel [shiyong at protein2980 ~]$uname -a Linux protein2980.mrb.ku.edu 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 16 17:13:42 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [shiyong at protein2980 ~]$cat /etc/inittab # # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up # the system in a certain run-level. # # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes # # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:5:initdefault: # System initialization. si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes # of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your # UPS connected and working correctly. pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down" # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it. pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled" # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 # Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon -- Shiyong Liu Research Assistant center for bioinformatics in the university of kansas Lab: (785)864-1962 Email: syliu at ku.edu (shiyongliu at ku.edu or liushiyong at ku.edu) Homepage: http://www.people.ku.edu/~syliu Lab: http://vakser.bioinformatics.ku.edu/people Phone: (785) 864-1962 _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list rhn-users at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From slee at cs.cornell.edu Tue Mar 6 15:06:20 2007 From: slee at cs.cornell.edu (Steven Lee) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:06:20 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice In-Reply-To: <45E79A5E.2050401@redhat.com> References: <1172694491.9470.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <7AE393067C4FE7F3A543D479@CSE-TITAN.cse.bris.ac.uk> <45E79A5E.2050401@redhat.com> Message-ID: All, FYI, I upgraded my 4.1 RHN Proxy to 4.2 successfully yesterday afternoon. I've confirmed RHEL 2.1, 3, 4, and RHEL 5 Beta 2 systems can all download packages through it. I made the dive to upgrade to 4.2 because I figured in our higher ed environment, *someone* will install RHEL 5 on the day it is released. I'd rather not be caught unprepared :-) Steven On Mar 1, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Clifford Perry wrote: > As I am sure you are aware, if you monitor the rhelv5-beta-list, > and thread (https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-beta-list/2007- > February/msg00106.html) that a date is not freely available to give > out. > > The last public press release from Red Hat giving a rough date that > I know off is: > http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/rhel5beta2.html > "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in early 2007". > > I felt that Rich's email was fairly clear, but to restate in > another way for you :o) ... > > If you plan to use/deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with any > current RHN Satellite or RHN Proxy systems you have deployed, then > those systems will need to be upgraded to at least RHN 4.2 > Satellite or RHN 4.2 Proxy prior to being able to use them with the > yum based client in Enterprise Linux 5 and code changes for > rhn_register. > > So, for example, if you have a 4.1 RHN Proxy which was pointing to > RHN (rhn.redhat.com, xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com) you could register a > Enterprise Linux 5 system through it, but when you tried to use yum > to try and download packages, it would fail. While for a 4.1 > Satellite, both would fail. > > Regards, > Cliff. > > > inode0 wrote: >> On 3/1/07, Nick Bruton wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Can you give some idea of the timescale involved? >> And if you can't give us any idea of the timescale involved can you >> give us some idea of what will happen if RHEL5 is released before >> these upgrades are completed? >> Thanks, >> John >> _______________________________________________ >> rhn-users mailing list >> rhn-users at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > -- > Clifford Perry > Team Lead, RHN Sustaining Engineering > Red Hat, Inc. > http://www.redhat.com/ > +1 919 754 4403 > RHCE# 803004507210710 > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users From liushiyong at gmail.com Tue Mar 6 15:58:35 2007 From: liushiyong at gmail.com (Liu Shiyong) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:58:35 -0600 Subject: [rhn-users] Help on reboot problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: What is "down" ? I did not find it . ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ |grep down 2007/3/6, Cedric Porte : > > > Hello Liu, > > have you try a ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and check if you have link > down in this repertory? > > > Cordialement, > > C?dric Porte > Web Hosting Technical Customer Manager > PHONE: +33 4 92 11 41 77 ( TL : 36-4177) > Email: cedric.porte at fr.ibm.com > > > *"Liu Shiyong" * > Sent by: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com > > 01/03/2007 19:57 Please respond to > "Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)" > > > To > rhn-users at redhat.com cc > > Subject > [rhn-users] Help on reboot problem > > > > > > > When I reboot my computer, the system can not reboot normally... > > stopping systat .................................OK > no more processes left in this runlevel > > [shiyong at protein2980 ~]$uname -a > Linux *protein2980.mrb.ku.edu* > 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 16 17:13:42 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > [shiyong at protein2980 ~]$cat /etc/inittab > # > # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up > # the system in a certain run-level. > # > # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <*miquels at drinkel.nl.mugnet.org* > > > # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes > # > > # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: > # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) > # 1 - Single user mode > # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have > networking) > # 3 - Full multiuser mode > # 4 - unused > # 5 - X11 > # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) > # > id:5:initdefault: > > # System initialization. > si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit > > l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 > l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 > l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2 > l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 > l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4 > l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 > l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 > > # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE > ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now > > # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes > # of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. > # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your > # UPS connected and working correctly. > pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting > Down" > > # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it. > pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown > Cancelled" > > > # Run gettys in standard runlevels > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 > 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 > 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 > 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 > 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 > 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 > > # Run xdm in runlevel 5 > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon > > > > > > -- > Shiyong Liu > Research Assistant > center for bioinformatics in the university of kansas > Lab: (785)864-1962 > Email: *syliu at ku.edu* (*shiyongliu at ku.edu*or > *liushiyong at ku.edu* ) > Homepage: *http://www.people.ku.edu/~syliu* > Lab: *http://vakser.bioinformatics.ku.edu/people* > > Phone: (785) 864-1962 > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > -- Shiyong Liu Research Assistant center for bioinformatics in the university of kansas Lab: (785)864-1962 Email: syliu at ku.edu (shiyongliu at ku.edu or liushiyong at ku.edu) Homepage: http://www.people.ku.edu/~syliu Lab: http://vakser.bioinformatics.ku.edu/people Phone: (785) 864-1962 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmw850csi3_kl at hotmail.com Wed Mar 7 03:16:54 2007 From: bmw850csi3_kl at hotmail.com (George Mast) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:16:54 +0000 Subject: [rhn-users] Red Hat Desktop Update 4 and ieee1394, raw1394 Message-ID: Hello, Are ieee1394, raw1394, ohci1394 supported by Red Hat Desktop Update 4? I get nothing from lsmod, or modprobe. I heard that there is a bug, but in the past. Is there a resolution? Thanks, George _________________________________________________________________ Get Messenger FREE on your Mobile https://livemessenger.mobile.uk.msn.com/ From Michael.Muratet at operon.com Wed Mar 7 16:00:00 2007 From: Michael.Muratet at operon.com (Michael Muratet US-Huntsville) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:00:00 -0600 Subject: [rhn-users] Checking status of updates Message-ID: Greetings I have an Enterprise AS v4 installation that's about a year old that I am trying to update for the first time. I've queued up ~600 updates that now show status 'in progress' but I don't see anything that looks like progress to me. Is there any way to check what's actually going on? Thanks Mike From mike at mommabears.com Sat Mar 10 14:47:37 2007 From: mike at mommabears.com (MJang) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:47:37 -0800 Subject: [rhn-users] Using an exisitng registration Message-ID: <1173538057.5857.9.camel@localhost> Folks, Just wondering if there's any way to use an existing registration when doing a fresh install - so I don't have to delete and reconfigure stuff for an existing machine on the RHN. Thnaks, Mike From cperry at redhat.com Sat Mar 10 14:52:34 2007 From: cperry at redhat.com (Clifford Perry) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:52:34 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Using an exisitng registration In-Reply-To: <1173538057.5857.9.camel@localhost> References: <1173538057.5857.9.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <45F2C632.90702@redhat.com> Yes. *If* you have provisioning entitlement, you can create a reactivation key and use that key with the rhnreg_ks command to re-register a system and for it to pick up its old system profile. Link to a section in the RHN Reference guide below: https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/help/reference/rhn415/en/s1-sm-systems.jsp#S5-SM-SYSTEM-DETAILS-REACT 6.4.2.8.1.4. System Details ? Details ? Reactivation Regards, Cliff. MJang wrote: > Folks, > > Just wondering if there's any way to use an existing registration when > doing a fresh install - > > so I don't have to delete and reconfigure stuff for an existing machine > on the RHN. > > Thnaks, > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users -- Clifford Perry Team Lead, RHN Sustaining Engineering Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/ +1 919 754 4403 RHCE# 803004507210710 From mike at mommabears.com Sat Mar 10 15:41:18 2007 From: mike at mommabears.com (MJang) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:41:18 -0800 Subject: [rhn-users] Using an exisitng registration In-Reply-To: <45F2C632.90702@redhat.com> References: <1173538057.5857.9.camel@localhost> <45F2C632.90702@redhat.com> Message-ID: <1173541278.5857.23.camel@localhost> Dear Cliff, I appreciate your insight, but it didn't work. I checked again, and do have provisioning entitlements (currently filled). Any further advice that you might have would be appreciated. It seems like I had to enter the password at the console in clear text, which would have been bad if a shoulder surfer were around. I ran (substituting for actual username, etc): # rhnreg_ks --username xxxxxx --password yyyyyyy --activationkey zzzzzzz Error Message: Registration failed: RHN Software Management service entitlements exhausted Error Class Code: 91 Error Class Info: Registration token unable to entitle system: maximum membership exceeded Explanation: An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com. If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and details on how to reproduce this problem. Thanks, Mike On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 09:52 -0500, Clifford Perry wrote: > Yes. *If* you have provisioning entitlement, you can create a > reactivation key and use that key with the rhnreg_ks command to > re-register a system and for it to pick up its old system profile. Link > to a section in the RHN Reference guide below: > > https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/help/reference/rhn415/en/s1-sm-systems.jsp#S5-SM-SYSTEM-DETAILS-REACT > 6.4.2.8.1.4. System Details ? Details ? Reactivation > > > Regards, > Cliff. > > MJang wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Just wondering if there's any way to use an existing registration when > > doing a fresh install - > > > > so I don't have to delete and reconfigure stuff for an existing machine > > on the RHN. > > > > Thnaks, > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rhn-users mailing list > > rhn-users at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > From duffy at redhat.com Sat Mar 10 18:04:34 2007 From: duffy at redhat.com (=?UTF-8?B?TcOhaXLDrcKtbiBEdWZmeQ==?=) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:04:34 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Using an exisitng registration In-Reply-To: <1173541278.5857.23.camel@localhost> References: <1173538057.5857.9.camel@localhost> <45F2C632.90702@redhat.com> <1173541278.5857.23.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <45F2F332.5060201@redhat.com> Hi Mike, MJang wrote: > Dear Cliff, > > I appreciate your insight, but it didn't work. I checked again, and do > have provisioning entitlements (currently filled). Any further advice > that you might have would be appreciated. > Are those provisioning entitlements currently applied to the system you are trying to reactivate? At the time of registration? How did you generate the reactivation key? > It seems like I had to enter the password at the console in clear text, > which would have been bad if a shoulder surfer were around. > If you leave out the --password command line argument, it will prompt you to enter a password in non-plain text after you hit enter. > I ran (substituting for actual username, etc): > # rhnreg_ks --username xxxxxx --password yyyyyyy --activationkey zzzzzzz > > Error Message: > Registration failed: RHN Software Management service entitlements > exhausted > Error Class Code: 91 > Error Class Info: Registration token unable to entitle system: maximum > membership exceeded Some questions: - Are you trying to register against a Satellite or rhn.redhat.com? If Satellite, what version? - What system entitlements (which of: Update / Management / Provisioning / Monitoring) are applied to the system you are trying to reactivate? If you have provisioning applied with an update base system entitlement, this system is trying to pick up a management entitlement upon re-registration (see in the error message?) - Do you have a universal default activation key set? If so, the default activation key may trying to force the system into picking up a base management entitlement if the system currently has update. Unset the default activation key and try again. - What version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the system you're trying to reactivate running? If it's 2.1, you'll need to use '--serialnumber=' as the command line argument rather than '--activationkey='. ~m From cperry at redhat.com Sat Mar 10 19:44:19 2007 From: cperry at redhat.com (Clifford Perry) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:44:19 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Using an exisitng registration In-Reply-To: <1173541278.5857.23.camel@localhost> References: <1173538057.5857.9.camel@localhost> <45F2C632.90702@redhat.com> <1173541278.5857.23.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <45F30A93.9090705@redhat.com> May I suggest you re-try, but this time without the username/password options. just --activationkey= and --force (if needed) Cliff. MJang wrote: > Dear Cliff, > > I appreciate your insight, but it didn't work. I checked again, and do > have provisioning entitlements (currently filled). Any further advice > that you might have would be appreciated. > > It seems like I had to enter the password at the console in clear text, > which would have been bad if a shoulder surfer were around. > > I ran (substituting for actual username, etc): > # rhnreg_ks --username xxxxxx --password yyyyyyy --activationkey zzzzzzz > > Error Message: > Registration failed: RHN Software Management service entitlements > exhausted > Error Class Code: 91 > Error Class Info: Registration token unable to entitle system: maximum > membership exceeded > Explanation: > An error has occurred while processing your request. If this > problem > persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com. > If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include > details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and > details on how to reproduce this problem. > > Thanks, > Mike > > On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 09:52 -0500, Clifford Perry wrote: >> Yes. *If* you have provisioning entitlement, you can create a >> reactivation key and use that key with the rhnreg_ks command to >> re-register a system and for it to pick up its old system profile. Link >> to a section in the RHN Reference guide below: >> >> https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/help/reference/rhn415/en/s1-sm-systems.jsp#S5-SM-SYSTEM-DETAILS-REACT >> 6.4.2.8.1.4. System Details ? Details ? Reactivation >> >> >> Regards, >> Cliff. >> >> MJang wrote: >>> Folks, >>> >>> Just wondering if there's any way to use an existing registration when >>> doing a fresh install - >>> >>> so I don't have to delete and reconfigure stuff for an existing machine >>> on the RHN. >>> >>> Thnaks, >>> Mike >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> rhn-users mailing list >>> rhn-users at redhat.com >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users -- Clifford Perry Team Lead, RHN Sustaining Engineering Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/ +1 919 754 4403 RHCE# 803004507210710 From NFlorez at sdcwa.org Mon Mar 12 15:17:54 2007 From: NFlorez at sdcwa.org (Florez, Nestor) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:17:54 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] DST & CRON JOB - localtime In-Reply-To: <45E6C475.8000800@lafayette.edu> Message-ID: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F7DAA@Octopus.sdcwa.org> OK fellow RHN, I update my time and when I type 'date' on my systems it is correct, but I noticed that my cron jobs are running an hour late. My 00-logwatch cron has a perl command for 'localtime(time)' and that display as 1 hour later This is what I get now: ################### LogWatch 4.3.2 (02/18/03) #################### Processing Initiated: Sun Mar 11 05:02:04 2007 This is what I used to get: ################### LogWatch 4.3.2 (02/18/03) #################### Processing Initiated: Sat Mar 10 04:02:03 2007 Any ideas how to fix this problem. Thanks, N?stor :-) From inode0 at gmail.com Mon Mar 12 15:45:36 2007 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:45:36 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] DST & CRON JOB - localtime In-Reply-To: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F7DAA@Octopus.sdcwa.org> References: <45E6C475.8000800@lafayette.edu> <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F7DAA@Octopus.sdcwa.org> Message-ID: On 3/12/07, Florez, Nestor wrote: > OK fellow RHN, > > I update my time and when I type 'date' on my systems it > is correct, but I noticed that my cron jobs are running > an hour late. My 00-logwatch cron has a perl command > for 'localtime(time)' and that display as 1 hour later > This is what I get now: > ################### LogWatch 4.3.2 (02/18/03) #################### > Processing Initiated: Sun Mar 11 05:02:04 2007 > This is what I used to get: > ################### LogWatch 4.3.2 (02/18/03) #################### > Processing Initiated: Sat Mar 10 04:02:03 2007 > > Any ideas how to fix this problem. You need to restart most services after the change to the time zone data for it to take hold. John From NFlorez at sdcwa.org Mon Mar 12 15:54:28 2007 From: NFlorez at sdcwa.org (Florez, Nestor) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:54:28 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] DST & CRON JOB - localtime In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1CF7137E18C1234082F572E8A816DFAE0B3F7DAB@Octopus.sdcwa.org> This affecting the date in my PHP applications also. I just re-started apache and it made not difference I will try re-starting the cron daemon. The interesting thing is that the cron job is a perl file. Thanks, N?stor :-) -----Original Message----- From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of inode0 Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 8:46 AM To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com) Subject: Re: [rhn-users] DST & CRON JOB - localtime On 3/12/07, Florez, Nestor wrote: > OK fellow RHN, > > I update my time and when I type 'date' on my systems it > is correct, but I noticed that my cron jobs are running > an hour late. My 00-logwatch cron has a perl command > for 'localtime(time)' and that display as 1 hour later > This is what I get now: > ################### LogWatch 4.3.2 (02/18/03) #################### > Processing Initiated: Sun Mar 11 05:02:04 2007 > This is what I used to get: > ################### LogWatch 4.3.2 (02/18/03) #################### > Processing Initiated: Sat Mar 10 04:02:03 2007 > > Any ideas how to fix this problem. You need to restart most services after the change to the time zone data for it to take hold. John _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list rhn-users at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users From cedric.porte at fr.ibm.com Mon Mar 12 17:44:39 2007 From: cedric.porte at fr.ibm.com (Cedric Porte) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:44:39 +0100 Subject: [rhn-users] Help on reboot problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Check your repertory /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/, link down means a bad association between two target : ln -s /var/logg log but /var/logg doesn't exist. Contact me directly on my e-mail adress if you have more questions Cordialement, C?dric Porte Web Hosting Technical Customer Manager PHONE: +33 4 92 11 41 77 ( TL : 36-4177) Email: cedric.porte at fr.ibm.com "Liu Shiyong" Sent by: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com 06/03/2007 16:58 Please respond to "Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)" To "Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)" cc Subject Re: [rhn-users] Help on reboot problem What is "down" ? I did not find it . ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ |grep down 2007/3/6, Cedric Porte : Hello Liu, have you try a ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and check if you have link down in this repertory? Cordialement, C?dric Porte Web Hosting Technical Customer Manager PHONE: +33 4 92 11 41 77 ( TL : 36-4177) Email: cedric.porte at fr.ibm.com "Liu Shiyong" Sent by: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com 01/03/2007 19:57 Please respond to "Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)" < rhn-users at redhat.com> To rhn-users at redhat.com cc Subject [rhn-users] Help on reboot problem When I reboot my computer, the system can not reboot normally... stopping systat .................................OK no more processes left in this runlevel [shiyong at protein2980 ~]$uname -a Linux protein2980.mrb.ku.edu 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 16 17:13:42 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [shiyong at protein2980 ~]$cat /etc/inittab # # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up # the system in a certain run-level. # # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes # # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:5:initdefault: # System initialization. si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes # of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your # UPS connected and working correctly. pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down" # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it. pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled" # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 # Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon -- Shiyong Liu Research Assistant center for bioinformatics in the university of kansas Lab: (785)864-1962 Email: syliu at ku.edu (shiyongliu at ku.edu or liushiyong at ku.edu) Homepage: http://www.people.ku.edu/~syliu Lab: http://vakser.bioinformatics.ku.edu/people Phone: (785) 864-1962 _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list rhn-users at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list rhn-users at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users -- Shiyong Liu Research Assistant center for bioinformatics in the university of kansas Lab: (785)864-1962 Email: syliu at ku.edu (shiyongliu at ku.edu or liushiyong at ku.edu) Homepage: http://www.people.ku.edu/~syliu Lab: http://vakser.bioinformatics.ku.edu/people Phone: (785) 864-1962 _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list rhn-users at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ben at muppethouse.com Mon Mar 12 19:19:49 2007 From: ben at muppethouse.com (Ben Russo) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:19:49 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Checking status of updates In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45F5A7D5.8030906@muppethouse.com> > I have an Enterprise AS v4 installation that's about a year old that I > am trying to update for the first time. I've queued up ~600 updates that > now show status 'in progress' but I don't see anything that looks like > progress to me. Is there any way to check what's actually going on? Look in /var/spool/up2date Do an ls -lart and see what the time stamps are on the last files in the list, then do a new ls -lart and see if the size of the files is changing. If the answer is yes then it is still downloading. If the answer is no, then the download has probably failed and the up2date process could be hung. Try to cancel the download and instead of using the GUI, open a terminal and as root try "up2date -u" From ben at muppethouse.com Mon Mar 12 19:19:49 2007 From: ben at muppethouse.com (Ben Russo) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:19:49 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Checking status of updates In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45F5A7D5.8030906@muppethouse.com> > I have an Enterprise AS v4 installation that's about a year old that I > am trying to update for the first time. I've queued up ~600 updates that > now show status 'in progress' but I don't see anything that looks like > progress to me. Is there any way to check what's actually going on? Look in /var/spool/up2date Do an ls -lart and see what the time stamps are on the last files in the list, then do a new ls -lart and see if the size of the files is changing. If the answer is yes then it is still downloading. If the answer is no, then the download has probably failed and the up2date process could be hung. Try to cancel the download and instead of using the GUI, open a terminal and as root try "up2date -u" From ben at muppethouse.com Mon Mar 12 19:22:35 2007 From: ben at muppethouse.com (Ben Russo) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:22:35 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: RHN Download Speeds In-Reply-To: <200703011422.27040.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> References: <200703011422.27040.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> Message-ID: <45F5A87B.5070005@muppethouse.com> > Is there any rate-limiting on the RHN servers? > I get abysmal transfer rates (~25KB/sec) but only for RHN. I have noticed that *sometimes* I get better performance than that. I have gotten up to 300KB/sec. But usaully around 32KB/s is the norm. I think it is just load on the RHN site. -Ben. From ben at muppethouse.com Mon Mar 12 19:22:35 2007 From: ben at muppethouse.com (Ben Russo) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:22:35 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: RHN Download Speeds In-Reply-To: <200703011422.27040.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> References: <200703011422.27040.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> Message-ID: <45F5A87B.5070005@muppethouse.com> > Is there any rate-limiting on the RHN servers? > I get abysmal transfer rates (~25KB/sec) but only for RHN. I have noticed that *sometimes* I get better performance than that. I have gotten up to 300KB/sec. But usaully around 32KB/s is the norm. I think it is just load on the RHN site. -Ben. From inode0 at gmail.com Mon Mar 12 20:45:03 2007 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:45:03 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: RHN Download Speeds In-Reply-To: <45F5A87B.5070005@muppethouse.com> References: <200703011422.27040.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> <45F5A87B.5070005@muppethouse.com> Message-ID: On 3/12/07, Ben Russo wrote: > > Is there any rate-limiting on the RHN servers? > > I get abysmal transfer rates (~25KB/sec) but only for RHN. > > I have noticed that *sometimes* I get better performance than that. > I have gotten up to 300KB/sec. > But usaully around 32KB/s is the norm. > I think it is just load on the RHN site. I just downloaded an ISO from RHN to two different locations and both came in at 1.25M/s. John From akrherz at iastate.edu Tue Mar 13 19:17:09 2007 From: akrherz at iastate.edu (Daryl Herzmann) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:09 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [rhn-users] Confusion over website showing machine as out-of-date Message-ID: Hi, Based on some recent discussions with Red Hat, I wanted to start a thread on the email list about this topic. Many of us have probably noticed differences between rhn-applet, up2date -l, and the website update status for a machine you admin. Lets step thru the process: 1. Red Hat publishes Errata 2a. A script runs on RHN hosted that updates machine info on the website to show them as out of date. 2b. The local machines runs rhn_check every 4 hours looking for new updates. This fires some process at RHN to update the website. Or local admin runs up2date -p .... up2date -l won't sync the website. 3. Website shows machine as out of date The question is which happens first, 2a or 2b. A recent fixed bz ticket would indicate that 2a was running slow at one time, but should have been fixed now with rhn5.0.0. If the machine is not checking in, 2b won't happen and you have to wait for 2a or perhaps some other unknown process to update the website, which may take a while (am testing how long now). In the meantime, 3) doesn't happen and confusion abounds. In my simple mind, this should be the process: 1. RedHat pushes errata 2. Script runs within 4 hours to update entire rhn database. Machines are shown as out-of-date and "Auto-Apply" errata machines are scheduled for package install. 3. Website is updated Now discuss :) daryl From Charlotte.Calvert at brazosport.edu Tue Mar 13 20:05:49 2007 From: Charlotte.Calvert at brazosport.edu (Calvert, Charlotte) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:05:49 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] up2date sequence Message-ID: <695D0CCA750B4043B2BA721015C4E4596D4FD1@HARMONY.brazosport.cc.tx.us> We are running Linux on our WebCT server and rebooting the server is limited. What I would like to know is; what is the sequence of events after pushing the up2date button at the server. According to our list we have 344 updates. Will the next step after pushing the button be to install all of the updates one after another and then ask me to reboot, or will it be one at a time followed by constant reboots, or will it reboot whenever it feels like it? Does it even install the updates or does it just download them for me to run? I just searched through the last 7 months of archives for this group and did not find and answer. 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URL: From role.rh-readers at axoria.net Tue Mar 13 20:24:50 2007 From: role.rh-readers at axoria.net (RHN List Readers) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:24:50 +0000 Subject: [rhn-users] up2date sequence In-Reply-To: <695D0CCA750B4043B2BA721015C4E4596D4FD1@HARMONY.brazosport.cc.tx.us> References: <695D0CCA750B4043B2BA721015C4E4596D4FD1@HARMONY.brazosport.cc.tx.us> Message-ID: <1173817429.17506.40277.camel@develop55> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:05, Calvert, Charlotte wrote: > According to our list we have 344 updates. Will the next step after > pushing the button be to install all of the updates one after another > and then ask me to reboot, or will it be one at a time followed by > constant reboots, or will it reboot whenever it feels like it? Does > it even install the updates or does it just download them for me to > run? There are some configuration settings that control this -- I usually hand-edit the config file in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date where I choose to NOT have reboots done for me automatically, leave the default kernel skips in place and sometimes elect to download without installing. If you download without installing, you can pass lots of files to the rpm command and it'll do them in the right order for dependencies, but won't reboot your entire server. (I assume up2date can do so if configured that way.) There are comments in the config file and I find the man pages okay for some hints -- but like you found a lack of a clear explanation of how the RHN process works in overview. Whatever you do, you probably don't need (and up2date won't force) reboots in most cases. Unlike MS-Windows and the like, you can restart almost everything in a modular way here without needing server reboots. Just upgrading an RPM will generally do this for you, and anything else required. In fact, I think it's only the installation of a new kernel itself that means a total reboot. I've had good experiences doing a "server something restart" for the other things I run like Apache, MySQL, BIND, Sendmail and so on. Do please ask for more specifics on any area(s) that I've left too open-ended here. -- Best regards, James. ________________________________________________________________________ Axoria Ltd UK: Internet Security, Interactive Websites, Bespoke Software http://axoria.net/ E&OE From role.rh-readers at axoria.net Tue Mar 13 20:25:31 2007 From: role.rh-readers at axoria.net (RHN List Readers) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:25:31 +0000 Subject: [rhn-users] up2date sequence In-Reply-To: <695D0CCA750B4043B2BA721015C4E4596D4FD1@HARMONY.brazosport.cc.tx.us> References: <695D0CCA750B4043B2BA721015C4E4596D4FD1@HARMONY.brazosport.cc.tx.us> Message-ID: <1173817488.17735.40285.camel@develop55> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:05, Calvert, Charlotte wrote: > According to our list we have 344 updates. Will the next step after > pushing the button be to install all of the updates one after another > and then ask me to reboot, or will it be one at a time followed by > constant reboots, or will it reboot whenever it feels like it? Does > it even install the updates or does it just download them for me to > run? There are some configuration settings that control this -- I usually hand-edit the config file in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date where I choose to NOT have reboots done for me automatically, leave the default kernel skips in place and sometimes elect to download without installing. If you download without installing, you can pass lots of files to the rpm command and it'll do them in the right order for dependencies, but won't reboot your entire server. (I assume up2date can do so if configured that way.) There are comments in the config file and I find the man pages okay for some hints -- but like you found a lack of a clear explanation of how the RHN process works in overview. Whatever you do, you probably don't need (and up2date won't force) reboots in most cases. Unlike MS-Windows and the like, you can restart almost everything in a modular way here without needing server reboots. Just upgrading an RPM will generally do this for you, and anything else required. In fact, I think it's only the installation of a new kernel itself that means a total reboot. I've had good experiences doing a "server something restart" for the other things I run like Apache, MySQL, BIND, Sendmail and so on. Do please ask for more specifics on any area(s) that I've left too open-ended here. -- Best regards, James. ________________________________________________________________________ Axoria Ltd UK: Internet Security, Interactive Websites, Bespoke Software http://axoria.net/ E&OE From abhijeetat at yahoo.com Wed Mar 14 17:28:02 2007 From: abhijeetat at yahoo.com (Abhi) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [rhn-users] installing more tan 2 linux OS(abhi) Message-ID: <20070314172802.10921.qmail@web55207.mail.re4.yahoo.com> hi there, I am using RHEL 4 and now i want to install SUSE10 and F6 on same machine, if anyone knows exact method to do this task plz post a reply. Thank You Yours Truly, Abhi --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ben at muppethouse.com Wed Mar 14 18:45:40 2007 From: ben at muppethouse.com (Ben Russo) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:45:40 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: installing more tan 2 linux OS(abhi) In-Reply-To: <20070314172802.10921.qmail@web55207.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <20070314172802.10921.qmail@web55207.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Abhi wrote: > I am using RHEL 4 and now i want to install SUSE10 and F6 on same > machine, > if anyone knows exact method to do this task plz post a reply. FIRST, BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA FIRST, BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA FIRST, BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA Make sure you have unallocated disk space on which to create partitions for the new OS installs. You will need a minimum (for a minimal text only install) of about 1.5GB per OS. But you probably want about 6GB (or more) per OS for a standard GUI desktop install to play around with. If you want to install LOTS of stuff, you may need 10GB or more per OS just for the install. And if you are going to put pictures and music and games and stuff on there, then you will want several more GB. You may need to resize the existing RHEL4 partitions on the disk (or add more disk) to ensure you have empty space for the new OS installs You can only resize your partitions if you have unused disk space. To see your disks and the partitions use "fdisk -l" To see the amount of each partition that is being used by RHEL4 use the command "df -h" while running RHEL4 You can resize partitions with a bootable KNOPPIX live CD: http://www.knoppix.net/get.php (YOU DID DO A BACKUP RIGHT?) install the new OS's by booting from the CD/DVD install media and make sure that you create new partitions in the empty space you now have. (*do not* overwrite/reformat existing partitions used by your RHEL4 install). I am fairly sure that SUSE10 and FC6 will setup the GRUB boot loader with autodetection of the other bootable root's and when you are done you will be able to boot the system, hit esc' when the flash screen comes up, and select which OS you want from a menu. From pjvendra at ncn.ca Wed Mar 14 20:02:39 2007 From: pjvendra at ncn.ca (pjvendra at ncn.ca) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:02:39 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] paul jvendra is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 03/14/2007 and will not return until 03/19/2007. I will respond to your message when I return. Note: This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately. Note: Ce courrier ?lectronique est confidentiel et prot?g?. L'exp?diteur ne renonce pas aux droits et obligations qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce message ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le (les) destinataire(s) d?sign?(s) est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courrier ?lectronique par erreur, veuillez m'en aviser imm?diatement, par retour de courrier ?lectronique ou par un autre moyen. From mike at mommabears.com Thu Mar 15 03:01:51 2007 From: mike at mommabears.com (MJang) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:01:51 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] Using an exisitng registration In-Reply-To: <45F30A93.9090705@redhat.com> References: <1173538057.5857.9.camel@localhost> <45F2C632.90702@redhat.com> <1173541278.5857.23.camel@localhost> <45F30A93.9090705@redhat.com> Message-ID: <1173927711.5864.76.camel@localhost> Cliff, Mairin, It works now that I have RHEL 5 final installed, thank you. Strangely enough, when I left out the --password, I wasn't prompted for it. Thanks, Mike On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 14:44 -0500, Clifford Perry wrote: > May I suggest you re-try, but this time without the username/password > options. just --activationkey= and --force (if needed) > > Cliff. > > MJang wrote: > > Dear Cliff, > > > > I appreciate your insight, but it didn't work. I checked again, and do > > have provisioning entitlements (currently filled). Any further advice > > that you might have would be appreciated. > > > > It seems like I had to enter the password at the console in clear text, > > which would have been bad if a shoulder surfer were around. > > > > I ran (substituting for actual username, etc): > > # rhnreg_ks --username xxxxxx --password yyyyyyy --activationkey zzzzzzz > > > > Error Message: > > Registration failed: RHN Software Management service entitlements > > exhausted > > Error Class Code: 91 > > Error Class Info: Registration token unable to entitle system: maximum > > membership exceeded > > Explanation: > > An error has occurred while processing your request. If this > > problem > > persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com. > > If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include > > details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and > > details on how to reproduce this problem. > > > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > > On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 09:52 -0500, Clifford Perry wrote: > >> Yes. *If* you have provisioning entitlement, you can create a > >> reactivation key and use that key with the rhnreg_ks command to > >> re-register a system and for it to pick up its old system profile. Link > >> to a section in the RHN Reference guide below: > >> > >> https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/help/reference/rhn415/en/s1-sm-systems.jsp#S5-SM-SYSTEM-DETAILS-REACT > >> 6.4.2.8.1.4. System Details ? Details ? Reactivation > >> > >> > >> Regards, > >> Cliff. > >> > >> MJang wrote: > >>> Folks, > >>> > >>> Just wondering if there's any way to use an existing registration when > >>> doing a fresh install - > >>> > >>> so I don't have to delete and reconfigure stuff for an existing machine > >>> on the RHN. > >>> > >>> Thnaks, > >>> Mike > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> rhn-users mailing list > >>> rhn-users at redhat.com > >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rhn-users mailing list > > rhn-users at redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users > From paula at scripps.edu Thu Mar 15 23:07:04 2007 From: paula at scripps.edu (Paula J. Lindsay) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:07:04 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] timestamp needs seconds In-Reply-To: <000001c90c18$95a07880$8064a8c0@sammy> References: <000001c90c18$95a07880$8064a8c0@sammy> Message-ID: <45F9D198.7000001@scripps.edu> Hi, I have a RHE ws 3. This linux box is connected to an nmr machine which is doing experiments with cryonics. When the scientist wants to know exactly what time, by seconds, his file was created, he only sees: --rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 2006 .fonts.cache-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63332 Mar 20 2006 testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43543 Sep 18 2005 last.050918 How can I get the timestamp on the file to read hour:minutes:seconds -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 12:23:46 2006 phase2 the minutes and seconds are the most important. I did a man on ls, but it didn't have what I needed, at least what I tried. Many thanks in advance for your help. Paula -- --*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* o The Paula J. Lindsay, IT Analyst III / Research Computing, TPC21 o Scripps phone: 858.784.9378 \ fax: 858.784.9301 o Research email: paula at scripps.edu / o Institute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From cgr at u.washington.edu Thu Mar 15 23:14:38 2007 From: cgr at u.washington.edu (Carl G. Riches) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:14:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [rhn-users] timestamp needs seconds In-Reply-To: <45F9D198.7000001@scripps.edu> References: <000001c90c18$95a07880$8064a8c0@sammy> <45F9D198.7000001@scripps.edu> Message-ID: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > Hi, > I have a RHE ws 3. This linux box is connected to an nmr machine which is > doing experiments with cryonics. When the scientist wants > to know exactly what time, by seconds, his file was created, he only sees: > > --rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 2006 .fonts.cache-1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63332 Mar 20 2006 testfile > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43543 Sep 18 2005 last.050918 > > How can I get the timestamp on the file to read hour:minutes:seconds > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 12:23:46 2006 phase2 > the minutes and seconds are the most important. I did a man on ls, > but it didn't have what I needed, at least what I tried. > Many thanks in advance for your help. > Paula > Do you have the "--full-time" option to your version of ls? For example: $ ls --full-time testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 cgr staff 0 2007-03-15 16:14:11.268683000 -0700 testfile That looks like time in HH:MM:SS.fraction? Carl Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Biostatistics Box 357232 voice: 206-616-2725 University of Washington fax: 206-543-3286 Seattle, WA 98195-7232 internet: cgr at u.washington.edu From m.watts at eris.qinetiq.com Fri Mar 16 10:15:06 2007 From: m.watts at eris.qinetiq.com (Mark Watts) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:15:06 +0000 Subject: [rhn-users] Upgrading from 4.0.5 to 4.2.0 Message-ID: <200703161015.06514.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> I know you need a new entitlement certificate to upgrade from 4.0.x to 4.1.x but do you need another new certificate to go to 4.2.x or 5.x ? Mark. -- Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ Trusted Information Management Trusted Solutions and Services Group GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Updating package profile Updating hardware profile... An error has occurred: Internal Server Error See /var/log/up2date for more information # tail -20 /var/log/up2date [Fri Mar 16 12:28:53 2007] up2date Updating package profile [Fri Mar 16 12:29:02 2007] up2date Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync", line 54, in ? cli.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py", line 65, in run sys.exit(self.main() or 0) File "/usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync", line 45, in main rhnHardware.updateHardware() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnHardware.py", line 12, in updateHardware hardwareList) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__ return self.__send(self.__name, args) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 38, in _request1 ret = self._request(methodname, params) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 323, in _request raise pe xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: Rescheduling in RHN an running rhn_check I get: # rhn_check -vv D: check_action {'action': "\n\nhardware.refresh_list\n\n\n\n", 'version': 2, 'id': 50101425} updating login info logging into up2date server successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server D: logininfo: {'X-RHN-Server-Id': ... stuff deleted .... } D: handle_action {'action': "\n\nhardware.refresh_list\n\n\n\n", 'version': 2, 'id': 50101425} D: handle_action actionid = 50101425, version = 2 D: do_call hardware.refresh_list () ERROR: sending hardware database for System Profile D: Sending back response (12, 'Error refreshing system hardware', {}) D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',) D: local action status: (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update (or package list recently updated)', {}) This only applies in the client PC and not in the server. I've also checked it manualy on the server and it's ok. Also, the package list is updated (I've run rhn-profile-sync after installing a package and shows up in RHN), only the hardware list seems to have the problem. Is it possible that some hardware or software missconfiguration that is causing this or is it a problem with RHN? Is there something else I can check from my side? From nick.bruton at bristol.ac.uk Fri Mar 16 11:46:40 2007 From: nick.bruton at bristol.ac.uk (Nick Bruton) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:46:40 +0000 Subject: [rhn-users] satellite server upgrade Message-ID: <9F7CCFAC8DF95CD10F47A4FA@[192.168.123.110]> Hi, Has anyone upgraded from AS2.1 satellite server 3.6.6 to AS4 satellite server 4.2? Were there any problems? Thanks Nick ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Bruton PADI Divemaster #624215 University of Bristol KTM LC4 640 SuperMoto Computing Service Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1UD Tel: 0117 9288193 Team email: isys-srct at bris.ac.uk From paula at scripps.edu Fri Mar 16 12:53:03 2007 From: paula at scripps.edu (Paula J. Lindsay) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:53:03 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] timestamp needs seconds In-Reply-To: References: <000001c90c18$95a07880$8064a8c0@sammy> <45F9D198.7000001@scripps.edu> Message-ID: <45FA932F.2050802@scripps.edu> Thank you so much Carl. I think this is just what the doctor ordered! Many thanks, Paula Carl G. Riches wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have a RHE ws 3. This linux box is connected to an nmr machine >> which is doing experiments with cryonics. When the scientist wants >> to know exactly what time, by seconds, his file was created, he only >> sees: >> >> --rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 2006 .fonts.cache-1 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63332 Mar 20 2006 testfile >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43543 Sep 18 2005 last.050918 >> >> How can I get the timestamp on the file to read hour:minutes:seconds >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 12:23:46 2006 phase2 >> the minutes and seconds are the most important. I did a man on ls, >> but it didn't have what I needed, at least what I tried. >> Many thanks in advance for your help. >> Paula >> > > Do you have the "--full-time" option to your version of ls? > For example: > > $ ls --full-time testfile > -rw-r--r-- 1 cgr staff 0 2007-03-15 16:14:11.268683000 -0700 testfile > > That looks like time in HH:MM:SS.fraction? > > Carl > > Carl G. Riches > Software Engineer > Department of Biostatistics > Box 357232 voice: 206-616-2725 > University of Washington fax: 206-543-3286 > Seattle, WA 98195-7232 internet: cgr at u.washington.edu > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users -- --*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* o The Paula J. Lindsay, IT Analyst III / Research Computing, TPC21 o Scripps phone: 858.784.9378 \ fax: 858.784.9301 o Research email: paula at scripps.edu / o Institute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From jsherril at redhat.com Fri Mar 16 14:04:50 2007 From: jsherril at redhat.com (Justin Sherrill) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:04:50 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] Upgrading from 4.0.5 to 4.2.0 In-Reply-To: <200703161015.06514.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> References: <200703161015.06514.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> Message-ID: <45FAA402.8020607@redhat.com> Hi Mark, Yep, you will need a new cert to go to 4.2 or 5.0. Anytime x or y changes in a x.y.z satellite version, you need a new cert. Justin Sherrill Global Support Services Red Hat Inc. Mark Watts wrote: > I know you need a new entitlement certificate to upgrade from 4.0.x to 4.1.x > but do you need another new certificate to go to 4.2.x or 5.x ? > > Mark. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users From bretm at redhat.com Fri Mar 16 18:06:17 2007 From: bretm at redhat.com (Bret McMillan) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:06:17 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] Hardware List Refresh failure In-Reply-To: <45FA7E6B.6040202@ceid.upatras.gr> References: <45FA7E6B.6040202@ceid.upatras.gr> Message-ID: <45FADC99.4050004@redhat.com> Nikolaos Mitsis wrote: > Greetings, > > I've installed RH5 yesterday on two machines, one server and one client > version. The server version is installed on a NEC server and the client > on a no-name amd64 pc. > > All seems ok but on the client I'm getting the following when I do a > hardware list refresh via RHN: > > Client execution returned "Error refreshing system hardware" (code 12) > > Running rhn-profile-sync manualy I get: > > # rhn-profile-sync -vv > updating login info > logging into up2date server > successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server > D: logininfo: {'X-RHN-Server-Id': ... things deleted ... '3600.0'} > Updating package profile... > Updating package profile > Updating hardware profile... > An error has occurred: > Internal Server Error > See /var/log/up2date for more information > > # tail -20 /var/log/up2date > [Fri Mar 16 12:28:53 2007] up2date Updating package profile > [Fri Mar 16 12:29:02 2007] up2date > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync", line 54, in ? > cli.run() > File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py", line 65, in run > sys.exit(self.main() or 0) > File "/usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync", line 45, in main > rhnHardware.updateHardware() > File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnHardware.py", line 12, in > updateHardware > hardwareList) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__ > return self.__send(self.__name, args) > File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 38, in _request1 > ret = self._request(methodname, params) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 323, in > _request > raise pe > xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: /XMLRPC: 500 Internal Server Error> > > > Rescheduling in RHN an running rhn_check I get: > > # rhn_check -vv > D: check_action {'action': " version='1.0'?>\n\nhardware.refresh_list\n\n\n\n", > 'version': 2, 'id': 50101425} > updating login info > logging into up2date server > successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server > D: logininfo: {'X-RHN-Server-Id': ... stuff deleted .... } > D: handle_action {'action': " version='1.0'?>\n\nhardware.refresh_list\n\n\n\n", > 'version': 2, 'id': 50101425} > D: handle_action actionid = 50101425, version = 2 > D: do_call hardware.refresh_list () > ERROR: sending hardware database for System Profile > D: Sending back response (12, 'Error refreshing system hardware', {}) > D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',) > D: local action status: (0, 'rpm database not modified since last > update (or package list recently updated)', {}) > > > This only applies in the client PC and not in the server. I've also > checked it manualy on the server and it's ok. > > Also, the package list is updated (I've run rhn-profile-sync after > installing a package and shows up in RHN), only the hardware list seems > to have the problem. > > Is it possible that some hardware or software missconfiguration that is > causing this or is it a problem with RHN? Is there something else I can > check from my side? If you happen to have a particular Athlon processor, it's most likely an issue on our side. We're working to address this issue. --Bret From bmullen at uga.edu Fri Mar 16 20:29:12 2007 From: bmullen at uga.edu (Brendan Mullen) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:29:12 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] Upgrading AS 3 satellite from 3.6.6 to 4.2.0 Message-ID: <45FAFE18.9030108@uga.edu> Hello, I've run into some trouble upgrading our satellite. The server is AS3. The satellite is 3.6.6 I've completed the prereqs in the README at /etc/sysconfig/rhn/satellite-upgrade/README Upgrading an AS 3 satellite at version 3.6.6 to version 4.2 is the scenario 1b at: /etc/sysconfig/rhn/satellite-upgrade/rhn-satellite-4-upgrade-scenario-1b.txt in step 2 of that doc, after starting the database (embedded in our case) I run an install perl script. ./install.pl --skip-db-install --skip-db-population --skip-ssl-cert-gen This script stops with the following error: rpm failed with exit code of '27'. at ./install.pl line 110. The database log and satellite_install_log look OK, but /var/log/rhn/rhn-installation.log says that the script is trying to install an older version of a perl module that already has a newer version installed: RHN Satellite installation log. Command: ./install.pl --skip-db-install --skip-db-population --skip-ssl-cert-gen package perl-DateTime-TimeZone-0.59-2.rhel3 (which is newer than perl-DateTime-TimeZone-0.32-3.rhel3) is already installed Has anybody run into this before? I looked at removing the newer module, but it had some dependencies and I wasn't comfortable with this approach. Best, Brendan Brendan Mullen EITS Core Services Support University of Georgia From cperry at redhat.com Fri Mar 16 21:35:32 2007 From: cperry at redhat.com (Clifford Perry) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:35:32 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] Upgrading AS 3 satellite from 3.6.6 to 4.2.0 In-Reply-To: <45FAFE18.9030108@uga.edu> References: <45FAFE18.9030108@uga.edu> Message-ID: <45FB0DA4.3050203@redhat.com> Humm... since the system is not in active use at the time of doing the upgrade. rpm -Uvh --oldpackage the perl-DateTime-TimeZone-0.32-3.rhel3 from within RPMS dir on the ISO, or rpm -e perl-DateTime-TimeZone.. then try again with the upgrade. The upgrade/install process will install perl-DateTime-TimeZone-0.59-2.rhel3 and post install an 'up2date -u' will re-upgrade to the newer version. This is the first reported case of this that I have heard off, but will forward this suggested work around internally to Red Hat Support. Unless of course you report back saying it failed. FYI - there is a Satellite specific mailing list - rhn-satellite-users, which you may wish to join. Cliff. Brendan Mullen wrote: > Hello, > > I've run into some trouble upgrading our satellite. > > The server is AS3. > The satellite is 3.6.6 > > I've completed the prereqs in the README at > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/satellite-upgrade/README > > Upgrading an AS 3 satellite at version 3.6.6 to > version 4.2 is the scenario 1b at: > > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/satellite-upgrade/rhn-satellite-4-upgrade-scenario-1b.txt > > > in step 2 of that doc, after starting the database (embedded in our > case) I run an install perl script. > > ./install.pl --skip-db-install --skip-db-population --skip-ssl-cert-gen > > This script stops with the following error: > > rpm failed with exit code of '27'. at ./install.pl line 110. > > The database log and satellite_install_log look OK, but > /var/log/rhn/rhn-installation.log says that the script is trying to > install an older version of a perl module that already has a newer > version installed: > > RHN Satellite installation log. > Command: ./install.pl --skip-db-install --skip-db-population > --skip-ssl-cert-gen > > package perl-DateTime-TimeZone-0.59-2.rhel3 (which is newer than > perl-DateTime-TimeZone-0.32-3.rhel3) is already installed > > > Has anybody run into this before? I looked at removing the newer > module, but it had some dependencies and I wasn't comfortable with this > approach. > > > Best, > Brendan > > > Brendan Mullen > EITS Core Services Support > University of Georgia > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users -- Clifford Perry Team Lead, RHN Sustaining Engineering Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/ +1 919 754 4403 RHCE# 803004507210710 From inode0 at gmail.com Sat Mar 17 04:14:05 2007 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:14:05 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Strange application of an errata today Message-ID: I'm not sure whether this is a hosted or proxy issue and I'm not sure if it is operator error or something else that caused it. We have a hosted environment running a current release proxy server with custom channels. A product enhancement errata was released for some of those custom channels a couple of days ago and today it was scheduled for every system subscribed to the pertinent channels (or so it seems at a glance). Question 1: Should this errata be scheduled for machines which don't have any relevant package installed? It was but this seems silly. They picked it up and failed to install it harmlessly. Question 2: Should it be scheduled for systems with auto errata update set to no? It was. I can't tell how the scheduling is done, it is listed as (none). Question 3: Should systems with this errata scheduled but which have auto errata updates set to no pick up the package and install it when doing the next rhn_check? They did. This caused major grief as it broke openAFS in this case and it seems to me that this should not have happened. Can anyone shed any light on any of this for me? It has been an immensely long week and I'm exhausted so maybe I'm not thinking too clearly at the moment. Thanks, John From Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz Sun Mar 18 22:40:35 2007 From: Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz (Steven Jones) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:40:35 +1200 Subject: [rhn-users] rh5 with xen and vmware "GSX" side by side? Message-ID: Anybody tried this yet? Is such a configuration supported? regards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 463 6272 Mobile: +64 27 563 6272 From smooge at gmail.com Sun Mar 18 22:43:29 2007 From: smooge at gmail.com (Stephen John Smoogen) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:43:29 -0600 Subject: [rhn-users] rh5 with xen and vmware "GSX" side by side? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <80d7e4090703181543t38a3b0fexc4b23b3055a83ae3@mail.gmail.com> On 3/18/07, Steven Jones wrote: > Anybody tried this yet? Is such a configuration supported? > > regards > Supported by whom? I do not think it is supported by either Red Hat or Vmware.. and it would probably be very hard to maintain as they use orthoganal models for virtualization (i think) > Steven Jones > Senior Linux/Unix/San System Administrator > APG -Technology Integration Team > Victoria University of Wellington > Phone: +64 4 463 6272 Mobile: +64 27 563 6272 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 mike at mommabears.com Sun Mar 18 23:08:06 2007 From: mike at mommabears.com (MJang) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:08:06 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] rh5 with xen and vmware "GSX" side by side? In-Reply-To: <80d7e4090703181543t38a3b0fexc4b23b3055a83ae3@mail.gmail.com> References: <80d7e4090703181543t38a3b0fexc4b23b3055a83ae3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1174259286.5716.6.camel@localhost> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 16:43 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 3/18/07, Steven Jones wrote: > > Anybody tried this yet? Is such a configuration supported? > > > > regards > > > > Supported by whom? I do not think it is supported by either Red Hat or > Vmware.. and it would probably be very hard to maintain as they use > orthoganal models for virtualization (i think) I had just tried a similar bit on FC6 (VMWare Server and Xen), and ran into all sorts of problems. There's some chatter online about how that's a no-no, didn't study the whys. But I think Stephen's on the right track, esp w/r/t paravirtualization, and the special kernel code required for Xen. As RHEL 5 is based in large part on FC6, I suspect the result would be similar. Thanks, Mike From cperry at redhat.com Mon Mar 19 13:32:37 2007 From: cperry at redhat.com (Clifford Perry) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:32:37 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] Strange application of an errata today In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45FE90F5.2040606@redhat.com> inode0 wrote: > I'm not sure whether this is a hosted or proxy issue and I'm not sure > if it is operator error or something else that caused it. We have a > hosted environment running a current release proxy server with custom > channels. A product enhancement errata was released for some of those > custom channels a couple of days ago and today it was scheduled for > every system subscribed to the pertinent channels (or so it seems at a > glance). I assume you are talking about Red Hat Errata, and not Custom Errata. > > Question 1: Should this errata be scheduled for machines which don't > have any relevant package installed? It was but this seems silly. They > picked it up and failed to install it harmlessly. No - not by default. > > Question 2: Should it be scheduled for systems with auto errata update > set to no? It was. I can't tell how the scheduling is done, it is > listed as (none). > No. (none) is normally used by RHN when auto-update is kicking in, rather than a user logging in to schedule a task, which will then list the user. > Question 3: Should systems with this errata scheduled but which have > auto errata updates set to no pick up the package and install it when > doing the next rhn_check? They did. This caused major grief as it > broke openAFS in this case and it seems to me that this should not > have happened. Yes. Regards, Cliff. > > Can anyone shed any light on any of this for me? It has been an > immensely long week and I'm exhausted so maybe I'm not thinking too > clearly at the moment. > > Thanks, > John > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users -- Clifford Perry Team Lead, RHN Sustaining Engineering Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/ +1 919 754 4403 RHCE# 803004507210710 From inode0 at gmail.com Mon Mar 19 13:51:25 2007 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:51:25 -0500 Subject: [rhn-satellite-users] Re: [rhn-users] Strange application of an errata today In-Reply-To: <45FE90F5.2040606@redhat.com> References: <45FE90F5.2040606@redhat.com> Message-ID: On 3/19/07, Clifford Perry wrote: > inode0 wrote: > > I'm not sure whether this is a hosted or proxy issue and I'm not sure > > if it is operator error or something else that caused it. We have a > > hosted environment running a current release proxy server with custom > > channels. A product enhancement errata was released for some of those > > custom channels a couple of days ago and today it was scheduled for > > every system subscribed to the pertinent channels (or so it seems at a > > glance). > I assume you are talking about Red Hat Errata, and not Custom Errata. No, the errata that went wild is a product enhancement errata for some custom channels, I guess that makes it a custom errata. > > Question 1: Should this errata be scheduled for machines which don't > > have any relevant package installed? It was but this seems silly. They > > picked it up and failed to install it harmlessly. > No - not by default. > > > Question 2: Should it be scheduled for systems with auto errata update > > set to no? It was. I can't tell how the scheduling is done, it is > > listed as (none). > > > No. (none) is normally used by RHN when auto-update is kicking in, > rather than a user logging in to schedule a task, which will then list > the user. So is there something different here given that this was a custom errata? Or do we have a scheduling bug on the RHN side? > > Question 3: Should systems with this errata scheduled but which have > > auto errata updates set to no pick up the package and install it when > > doing the next rhn_check? They did. This caused major grief as it > > broke openAFS in this case and it seems to me that this should not > > have happened. > Yes. Right, I wasn't thinking clearly here. Once scheduled, the errata would be picked up regardless of the auto errata update flag. So the scary part here is that the errata was scheduled for *many* systems with auto errata update set to no and that is supposed to protect them from having this happen. Many systems also had this scheduled when they were subscribed to relevant channels but did not have any of the packages relevant to the errata installed. We'll hold off on releasing any further errata as a precaution for the time being. Thanks, John From dlederer at hilltowncharter.org Tue Mar 20 13:35:36 2007 From: dlederer at hilltowncharter.org (dlederer at hilltowncharter.org) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:35:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [rhn-users] Migrate hard drive to new computer Message-ID: <49501.192.168.1.33.1174397736.squirrel@www.hilltowncharter.org> Hi, I need to move my Enterprise 4 web-email server to a new box, because of a hardware failure. Was there any hardware specific installations that occured when I ran (a typical) 4.x installation, or can I just move the hard drive over to the new computer (different manufacturer) thanks! Dan Lederer From Jonathan.Klay at noaa.gov Tue Mar 20 17:00:58 2007 From: Jonathan.Klay at noaa.gov (Jonathan Klay) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:00:58 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: rhn-users Digest, Vol 37, Issue 18 In-Reply-To: <20070320160005.63738733FB@hormel.redhat.com> References: <20070320160005.63738733FB@hormel.redhat.com> Message-ID: <4600134A.4050409@noaa.gov> Yes, and maybe. cpu - 32 bit vs. 64 bit? Cannot run a 64 bit OS on 32 bit hardware. If one unit is AMD and one Intel based, you may have trouble - haven't tried this in years though.. hard drive controller - ATA or SCSI? If SCSI, is it controlled by the same kernel driver? And there may be other less common critical hardware differences. Many drivers will resolve on first boot when kudzu runs. You may need to reconfigure network settings. Might as well try it! Make sure the bios is set to correct boot drive... JK BTW, this list is for RedHat Network - OS updates and patches, etc. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:35:36 -0400 (EDT) > From: dlederer at hilltowncharter.org > Subject: [rhn-users] Migrate hard drive to new computer > To: rhn-users at redhat.com > Message-ID: > <49501.192.168.1.33.1174397736.squirrel at www.hilltowncharter.org> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hi, > I need to move my Enterprise 4 web-email server to a new box, because of a > hardware failure. Was there any hardware specific installations that > occured when I ran (a typical) 4.x installation, or can I just move the > hard drive over to the new computer (different manufacturer) > thanks! > Dan Lederer > > From xiebopublic at gmail.com Wed Mar 21 07:21:25 2007 From: xiebopublic at gmail.com (Bo Xie) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:21:25 +0800 Subject: [rhn-users] What's the relationship between yum and rhnplugin? Message-ID: <939795fb0703210021t702e75dcyd64eb6a0f93239d6@mail.gmail.com> I know RHEL 5 uses yum+rhnplugin to access RHEL 5 RHN (satellite) server. My question are: (1) Can I use yum+rhnplugin to access RHEL 3/4 RHN? Is there any difference between "RHEL 3/4 RHN (satellite) server" and "RHEL 5 RHN (satellite) server"? (2) I assume 'RHEL 5 RHN (satellite) server' is still a 'RHN (satellite) server', not a normal 'yum repository' created by 'yum-arch' or 'createrepo'. I mean Red Hat only changes the update *client* from up2date to yum, but does not change the repository from 'RHN (satellite) server' to 'yum repository'.Am I right? Best Regards, Xie, Bo From cperry at redhat.com Wed Mar 21 11:51:01 2007 From: cperry at redhat.com (Clifford Perry) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:51:01 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] What's the relationship between yum and rhnplugin? In-Reply-To: <939795fb0703210021t702e75dcyd64eb6a0f93239d6@mail.gmail.com> References: <939795fb0703210021t702e75dcyd64eb6a0f93239d6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <46011C25.6020902@redhat.com> Bo Xie wrote: > I know RHEL 5 uses yum+rhnplugin to access RHEL 5 RHN (satellite) server. > > My question are: > (1) Can I use yum+rhnplugin to access RHEL 3/4 RHN? Kinda - yes.. I did this once the other day when I set the versionOverride value within /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date to '4AS' as was able to list packages from the RHEL 4 AS channels using my RHEL 5 box. This though is not shipped, supported nor tested within normal QA cycles for the RHEL 3/4 products. > Is there any > difference between "RHEL 3/4 RHN (satellite) server" and "RHEL 5 RHN > (satellite) server"? Yes and no. The RHN yum plugin is to allow yum to authenticate to RHN first. But changes were made on RHN to provide basic support for yum byte range support for packages and also the creation of the meta data files yum requests. This is one of the reasons why the previous Satellites, prior to RHN 4.2 Satellite do not work with RHEL 5. There is also a lot of new API calls made by the RHEL 5 rhn_register program which would cause older Satellites to error due to not knowing how to handle the new API call being requested off it by the rhn_register client. > (2) I assume 'RHEL 5 RHN (satellite) server' is still a 'RHN > (satellite) server', not a normal > 'yum repository' created by 'yum-arch' or 'createrepo'. I mean Red Hat > only changes the update *client* from up2date to yum, but does not > change the repository from 'RHN (satellite) server' to 'yum > repository'.Am I > right? I have kinda answered this already. The Satellite, is still a Satellite, and not a yum repo, but it does mimic some aspects of a yum repo by the generation of yum repo specific cache files within /var/cache/rhn/. Regards, Clifford. > > Best Regards, > Xie, Bo > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users -- Clifford Perry Team Lead, Satellite Sustaining Engineering Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/ +1 919 754 4403 RHCE# 803004507210710 From kbrede at gmail.com Wed Mar 21 13:08:27 2007 From: kbrede at gmail.com (Kenton Brede) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:08:27 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] RHEL5 and sudo/LDAP problem Message-ID: I've got my RHEL4 boxes authenticating via LDAP and have been using sudo just fine. I installed RHEL5 yesterday and find sudo only works for local accounts, not LDAP accounts. When I try using sudo it will hang for 5 to 10 minutes (haven't actually timed it) and then prompt for a password. I enter password but it won't take it. Anyone know what is going on with this? Thanks, Kent From johannbg at hi.is Wed Mar 21 13:46:07 2007 From: johannbg at hi.is (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=F3hann_B=2E_Gu=F0mundsson=22?=) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:46:07 +0000 Subject: [rhn-users] RHEL5 and sudo/LDAP problem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4601371F.9040109@hi.is> Kenton Brede wrote: > I've got my RHEL4 boxes authenticating via LDAP and have been using > sudo just fine. I installed RHEL5 yesterday and find sudo only works > for local accounts, not LDAP accounts. When I try using sudo it will > hang for 5 to 10 minutes (haven't actually timed it) and then prompt > for a password. I enter password but it won't take it. Anyone know > what is going on with this? > Thanks, > Kent > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users Could be a certification problem ( if using tls ) check if the correct certs are at the right place... /etc/openldap/cacerts/ -- J?hann B. Gu?mundsson. RHCE,CCSA Unix Kerfistj?ri. Kerfistj?rn. Reiknistofnun H?sk?la ?slands. T?knigar?i, Dunhaga 5. Rafp?stur: johannbg at hi.is 107 Reykjav?k. S?mi: 525-4267 ?sland. Br?fas?mi: 552-8801 Johann B. Gudmundsson. RHCE,CCSA Unix System Engineer. IT Management. Reiknistofnun University of Iceland. Taeknigardi, Dunhaga 5. Email: johannbg at hi.is IS-107 Reykjavik. Phone: +354-525-4267 Iceland. Fax: +354-552-8801 From akrherz at iastate.edu Tue Mar 27 18:06:10 2007 From: akrherz at iastate.edu (Daryl Herzmann) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:06:10 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [rhn-users] Auto-update broken? Message-ID: Hi, Is anybody at red hat aware that Auto-update is currently broken with RHN? It appears that none of my systems with Auto-Apply-Errata checked have picked up any of the errata since 22 March. File, tzdata, openoffice... Anybody else outside of Iowa State seeing this as well? thanks, daryl From akrherz at iastate.edu Wed Mar 28 15:58:08 2007 From: akrherz at iastate.edu (Daryl Herzmann) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:58:08 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Auto-update broken? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Anybody out there? RHN currently shows 93 of my 98 systems out of date with most of them checking in. up2date -l shows errata needed. Nothing in /var/log/up2date Nobody else is seeing this problem? daryl On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Daryl Herzmann wrote: > Hi, > > Is anybody at red hat aware that Auto-update is currently broken with RHN? > > It appears that none of my systems with Auto-Apply-Errata checked have picked > up any of the errata since 22 March. File, tzdata, openoffice... > > Anybody else outside of Iowa State seeing this as well? > > thanks, > daryl From kbrede at gmail.com Wed Mar 28 16:13:50 2007 From: kbrede at gmail.com (Kenton Brede) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:13:50 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Auto-update broken? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 3/28/07, Daryl Herzmann wrote: > > Anybody out there? RHN currently shows 93 of my 98 systems out of date > with most of them checking in. > > up2date -l shows errata needed. Nothing in /var/log/up2date > > Nobody else is seeing this problem? I'm not seeing that here Daryl. I don't have many boxes set to auto update from within RHN, but the ones I do are current. Kent From akrherz at iastate.edu Wed Mar 28 19:18:08 2007 From: akrherz at iastate.edu (Daryl Herzmann) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:18:08 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Auto-update broken? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Kenton Brede wrote: > On 3/28/07, Daryl Herzmann wrote: >> >> Anybody out there? RHN currently shows 93 of my 98 systems out of date >> with most of them checking in. >> >> up2date -l shows errata needed. Nothing in /var/log/up2date >> >> Nobody else is seeing this problem? > > I'm not seeing that here Daryl. I don't have many boxes set to auto > update from within RHN, but the ones I do are current. > Kent Thanks for the response Kent. Are you on rhn hosted? (no satellite involved) Do you have any boxes with Auto-Apply-Errata set and actually had the errata applied since 23 March? If so, do any of those machines run up2date -u from crontab or where manually updated? Maybe something is just borked with my account if nobody else is seeing this :( daryl From kbrede at gmail.com Wed Mar 28 19:58:03 2007 From: kbrede at gmail.com (Kenton Brede) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:58:03 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Auto-update broken? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 3/28/07, Daryl Herzmann wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Kenton Brede wrote: > > > On 3/28/07, Daryl Herzmann wrote: > >> > >> Anybody out there? RHN currently shows 93 of my 98 systems out of date > >> with most of them checking in. > >> > >> up2date -l shows errata needed. Nothing in /var/log/up2date > >> > >> Nobody else is seeing this problem? > > > > I'm not seeing that here Daryl. I don't have many boxes set to auto > > update from within RHN, but the ones I do are current. > > Kent > > Thanks for the response Kent. > > Are you on rhn hosted? (no satellite involved) All are RHN hosted. > Do you have any boxes with Auto-Apply-Errata set and actually had the > errata applied since 23 March? Yes. > If so, do any of those machines run up2date -u from crontab or where > manually updated? I've got a couple boxes that run a cron job to update the machines and both are updated. Others we schedule updates from the RHN console. Those are current as well. > Maybe something is just borked with my account if nobody else is seeing > this :( Maybe a firewall issue? Anything recently change with your network? Kent From akrherz at iastate.edu Wed Mar 28 20:03:53 2007 From: akrherz at iastate.edu (Daryl Herzmann) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:03:53 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Auto-update broken? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Kenton Brede wrote: >> Are you on rhn hosted? (no satellite involved) > > All are RHN hosted. Cool. >> If so, do any of those machines run up2date -u from crontab or where >> manually updated? > > I've got a couple boxes that run a cron job to update the machines and > both are updated. Sure, that works for me. > Others we schedule updates from the RHN console. Those are current as well. That works as well. Do you have any machines that you have auto-apply-errata checked and do not manually force the install? > Maybe a firewall issue? Anything recently change with your network? I doubt it. Thanks tho! daryl From kbrede at gmail.com Wed Mar 28 20:15:00 2007 From: kbrede at gmail.com (Kenton Brede) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:15:00 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Auto-update broken? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 3/28/07, Daryl Herzmann wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Kenton Brede wrote: > > >> Are you on rhn hosted? (no satellite involved) > > > > All are RHN hosted. > > Cool. > > >> If so, do any of those machines run up2date -u from crontab or where > >> manually updated? > > > > I've got a couple boxes that run a cron job to update the machines and > > both are updated. > > Sure, that works for me. > > > Others we schedule updates from the RHN console. Those are current as well. > > That works as well. > > Do you have any machines that you have auto-apply-errata checked and do > not manually force the install? Yes, a few and they are current. Kent From paula at scripps.edu Wed Mar 28 21:21:55 2007 From: paula at scripps.edu (Paula J. Lindsay) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:21:55 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] help with networking? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <460ADC73.8030607@scripps.edu> Hi everyone, I am trying to get a machine running RHE 4 on the network. When I try to ypbind it, it says YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not found. I have looked and looked at files and it seems like I have the domain correct in hosts resolv.conf ifcfg-eth0 networking-scripts and many other files. Does someone know how to fix this? I've never seen this error before. I will google it, but I wanted to ask you rh people first. Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions/advice..... Paula -- --*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* o The Paula J. Lindsay, IT Analyst III / Research Computing, TPC21 o Scripps phone: 858.784.9378 \ fax: 858.784.9301 o Research email: paula at scripps.edu / o Institute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Frank_LaMon at csx.com Wed Mar 28 21:27:38 2007 From: Frank_LaMon at csx.com (Lamon, Frank III) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:27:38 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] help with networking? In-Reply-To: <460ADC73.8030607@scripps.edu> References: <460ADC73.8030607@scripps.edu> Message-ID: <7F25CC1020F11E48AD05C13FECC550DFA658@TJAX2742EXCH.csxt.ad.csx.com> You should have a NISDOMAIN=xxxx line in /etc/sysconfig/network that sets it at boot time. You can run "domainname xxxx" to set it w/o rebooting Have you configured /etc/yp.conf ? Try running authconfig - it will set this stuff for you. Frank LaMon CSX -----Original Message----- From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paula J. Lindsay Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:22 PM To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com) Subject: [rhn-users] help with networking? Hi everyone, I am trying to get a machine running RHE 4 on the network. When I try to ypbind it, it says YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not found. I have looked and looked at files and it seems like I have the domain correct in hosts resolv.conf ifcfg-eth0 networking-scripts and many other files. Does someone know how to fix this? I've never seen this error before. I will google it, but I wanted to ask you rh people first. Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions/advice..... Paula -- --*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* o The Paula J. Lindsay, IT Analyst III / Research Computing, TPC21 o Scripps phone: 858.784.9378 \ fax: 858.784.9301 o Research email: paula at scripps.edu / o Institute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list rhn-users at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users ----------------------------------------- This email transmission and any accompanying attachments may contain CSX privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the intended addressee. Any dissemination, distribution, copying or action taken in reliance on the contents of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please immediately delete it and notify sender at the above CSX email address. Sender and CSX accept no liability for any damage caused directly or indirectly by receipt of this email. From paula at scripps.edu Wed Mar 28 21:51:47 2007 From: paula at scripps.edu (Paula J. Lindsay) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:51:47 -0700 Subject: [rhn-users] help with networking? In-Reply-To: <7F25CC1020F11E48AD05C13FECC550DFA658@TJAX2742EXCH.csxt.ad.csx.com> References: <460ADC73.8030607@scripps.edu> <7F25CC1020F11E48AD05C13FECC550DFA658@TJAX2742EXCH.csxt.ad.csx.com> Message-ID: <460AE373.4070002@scripps.edu> Thank you Frank. I did config yp.conf. I will do the domainname xxx. I'm starting to think it might be the nic, maybe. Many thanks, Paula Lamon, Frank III wrote: >You should have a NISDOMAIN=xxxx line in /etc/sysconfig/network that >sets it at boot time. > >You can run "domainname xxxx" to set it w/o rebooting > >Have you configured /etc/yp.conf ? Try running authconfig - it will set >this stuff for you. > >Frank LaMon >CSX > > >-----Original Message----- >From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] >On Behalf Of Paula J. Lindsay >Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:22 PM >To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com) >Subject: [rhn-users] help with networking? > >Hi everyone, >I am trying to get a machine running RHE 4 on the network. When I try >to ypbind it, it says >YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not found. >I have looked and looked at files and it seems like I have the domain >correct in >hosts >resolv.conf >ifcfg-eth0 >networking-scripts >and many other files. Does someone know how to fix this? I've never >seen >this error before. I will google it, but I wanted to ask you rh people >first. >Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions/advice..... >Paula > > > -- --*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* o The Paula J. Lindsay, IT Analyst III / Research Computing, TPC21 o Scripps phone: 858.784.9378 \ fax: 858.784.9301 o Research email: paula at scripps.edu / o Institute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From akrherz at iastate.edu Thu Mar 29 18:24:17 2007 From: akrherz at iastate.edu (Daryl Herzmann) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:24:17 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [rhn-users] [RHN Outage Announcement] SCHEDULED OUTAGE NOTIFICATION, 4-3-2007 (fwd) Message-ID: Did April Fools come early? This is hillarious. btw, is the east coast still in eastern standard time? :) daryl ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:58:11 -0400 From: rhn-outage-list at redhat.com To: rhn-outage-list at redhat.com Subject: [RHN Outage Announcement] SCHEDULED OUTAGE NOTIFICATION, 4-3-2007 Date: Tuesday, 3 April 2007, 9pm EST (21:00:00 UTC-4 hours) UTC - Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 01:00:00 More world times listed at bottom of message. Duration of the outage: Approximately 3 hours People/Groups Impacted: All Red Hat Network (RHN) Customers. Sites Affected: *.rhn.redhat.com (satellite, xmlrpc, etc.) rhn.redhat.com Description: This is an outage required for an update release of RHN and other maintenance. For the RHN Outage Policy, please see https://rhn.redhat.com/help/outage_policy.pxt More World Times: (view with fixed width font) Addis Ababa Wed 04:00 Halifax * Tue 22:00 New Delhi Wed 06:30 Adelaide Wed 10:30 Hanoi Wed 08:00 New Orleans * Tue 20:00 Aden Wed 04:00 Harare Wed 03:00 New York * Tue 21:00 Algiers Wed 02:00 Havana * Tue 21:00 Odesa * Wed 04:00 Amman * Wed 04:00 Helsinki * Wed 04:00 Oslo * Wed 03:00 Amsterdam * Wed 03:00 Hong Kong Wed 09:00 Ottawa * Tue 21:00 Anadyr * Wed 14:00 Honolulu Tue 15:00 Paris * Wed 03:00 Anchorage * Tue 17:00 Houston * Tue 20:00 Perth Wed 09:00 Ankara * Wed 04:00 Indianapolis * Tue 21:00 Philadelphia * Tue 21:00 Antananarivo Wed 04:00 Islamabad Wed 06:00 Phoenix Tue 18:00 Asuncion Tue 21:00 Istanbul * Wed 04:00 Prague * Wed 03:00 Athens * Wed 04:00 Jakarta Wed 08:00 Reykjavik Wed 01:00 Atlanta * Tue 21:00 Jerusalem * Wed 04:00 Rio de Janeiro Tue 22:00 Auckland Wed 13:00 Johannesburg Wed 03:00 Riyadh Wed 04:00 Baghdad * Wed 05:00 Kabul Wed 05:30 Rome * Wed 03:00 Bangkok Wed 08:00 Kamchatka * Wed 14:00 San Francisco * Tue 18:00 Barcelona * Wed 03:00 Karachi Wed 06:00 San Juan Tue 21:00 Beijing Wed 09:00 Kathmandu Wed 06:45 San Salvador Tue 19:00 Beirut * Wed 04:00 Khartoum Wed 04:00 Santiago Tue 21:00 Belgrade * Wed 03:00 Kingston Tue 20:00 Santo Domingo Tue 21:00 Berlin * Wed 03:00 Kiritimati Wed 15:00 Sao Paulo Tue 22:00 Bogota Tue 20:00 Kolkata Wed 06:30 Seattle * Tue 18:00 Boston * Tue 21:00 Kuala Lumpur Wed 09:00 Seoul Wed 10:00 Brasilia Tue 22:00 Kuwait City Wed 04:00 Shanghai Wed 09:00 Brisbane Wed 11:00 Kyiv * Wed 04:00 Singapore Wed 09:00 Brussels * Wed 03:00 La Paz Tue 21:00 Sofia * Wed 04:00 Bucharest * Wed 04:00 Lagos Wed 02:00 St. John's * Tue 22:30 Budapest * Wed 03:00 Lahore Wed 06:00 St. Paul * Tue 20:00 Buenos Aires Tue 22:00 Lima Tue 20:00 Stockholm * Wed 03:00 Cairo Wed 03:00 Lisbon * Wed 02:00 Suva Wed 13:00 Canberra Wed 11:00 London * Wed 02:00 Sydney ed 11:00 Cape Town Wed 03:00 Los Angeles * Tue 18:00 Taipei Wed 09:00 Caracas Tue 21:00 Madrid * Wed 03:00 Tallinn * Wed 04:00 Casablanca Wed 01:00 Managua Tue 19:00 Tashkent Wed 06:00 Chatham Island Wed 13:45 Manila Wed 09:00 Tegucigalpa Tue 19:00 Chicago * Tue 20:00 Melbourne Wed 11:00 Tehran Wed 04:30 Copenhagen * Wed 03:00 Mexico City * Tue 20:00 Tokyo Wed 10:00 Darwin Wed 10:30 Miami * Tue 21:00 Toronto * Tue 21:00 Denver * Tue 19:00 Minneapolis * Tue 20:00 Vancouver * Tue 18:00 Detroit * Tue 21:00 Minsk * Wed 04:00 Vienna * Wed 03:00 Dhaka Wed 07:00 Montevideo Tue 22:00 Vladivostok * Wed 12:00 Dubai Wed 05:00 Montgomery * Tue 20:00 Warsaw * Wed 03:00 Dublin * Wed 02:00 Montreal * Tue 21:00 Washington DC * Tue 21:00 Edmonton * Tue 19:00 Moscow * Wed 05:00 Winnipeg * Tue 20:00 Frankfurt * Wed 03:00 Mumbai Wed 06:30 Yangon Wed 07:30 Geneva * Wed 03:00 Nairobi Wed 04:00 Zagreb * Wed 03:00 Guatemala Tue 19:00 Nassau * Tue 21:00 Z?rich * Wed 03:00 * means the time shown is adjusted for daylight saving time(DST) or summer time (70 places listed). Tue means Tuesday, 3 April 2007 (50 places listed). Wed means Wednesday, 4 April 2007 (91 places listed). From duffy at redhat.com Thu Mar 29 19:09:59 2007 From: duffy at redhat.com (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy?=) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:09:59 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] [RHN Outage Announcement] SCHEDULED OUTAGE NOTIFICATION, 4-3-2007 (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <460C0F07.5070100@redhat.com> Hi Daryl, Daryl Herzmann wrote: > is the east coast still in eastern standard time? I apologize, it should read 9 PM EDT. The UTC time is still correct. ~m From inode0 at gmail.com Fri Mar 30 03:24:00 2007 From: inode0 at gmail.com (inode0) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:24:00 -0500 Subject: [rhn-users] FasTrack channel for RHEL5 Client? Message-ID: Curious about not seeing one yet and wondering if it exists and I just don't get it or if it has been dropped on the Client side of things? John From nick.bruton at bristol.ac.uk Fri Mar 30 11:22:54 2007 From: nick.bruton at bristol.ac.uk (Nick Bruton) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:22:54 +0100 Subject: [rhn-users] httplib.BadStatusLine Message-ID: Hi, Been trying to run up2date --get-source kernel but it fails ..................... An error has occurred: httplib.BadStatusLine See /var/log/up2date for more information Does anyone know a fix please? Thanks Nick ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Bruton PADI Divemaster #624215 University of Bristol KTM LC4 640 SuperMoto Computing Service Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1UD Tel: 0117 9288193 Team email: isys-srct at bris.ac.uk From nicolas.greneche at ifn.fr Fri Mar 30 13:14:23 2007 From: nicolas.greneche at ifn.fr (GRENECHE Nicolas) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:14:23 +0200 Subject: [rhn-users] php-mcrypt rpm Message-ID: <5E3D22A4869BB94AA1138AB97660D8B67CC165@POPULUS.ifn.fr> Hi all, I'd like to enable mcrypt support for our LAMP server on RHEL5. The rpm php-mycrypt doesn't seem to be present in RHN RedHat channels for RHEL5. I googled a little before posting here and the only way to cope seems to be a compilation of php with mcrypt support. Not very good for updates via RHN + yum. Is somebody using an alternate method using only yum to maintain a smooth update ? Nicolas From xiebopublic at gmail.com Sat Mar 31 10:54:37 2007 From: xiebopublic at gmail.com (Bo Xie) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:54:37 +0800 Subject: [rhn-users] A question about RHN XMLRPC: Does RHN use HTTPS, not HTTP, to transmit big .rpm packages? Message-ID: <939795fb0703310354u3a85b754k21214af21e6b8a62@mail.gmail.com> I use yum+rhnplugin on RHEL5 i386 to download bridge-utils, and I observer that the download URL is https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLPRC/GET-REQ/rhel-i386-server-5/getpackage/bridge-utils-1.1-2.i386.rpm. My questions is: Does RHN use HTTPS, not HTTP, to transmit big .rpm packages? I mean HTTPS is suitable for sensitive data transmission, eg., credit card no. or password, not for big .rpm files. I think the HTTPS URL (eg., https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLPRC/GET-REQ/rhel-i386-server-5/getpackage/bridge-utils-1.1-2.i386.rpm) should be redirected to a HTTP URL, eg., http://download.rhn.redhat.com/xxx/bridge-utils-1.1-2.i386.rpm to be more efficient for big file transmission. Please correct me if I am wrong! (I am a RHN and XMLRPC newbie.) Best Regards, Xie, Bo