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UML project for Cambridge++
by M A Young 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

I am trying to put together a Red Hat Linux Project project to develop User Mode Linux aiming for inclusion in Cambridge++. I don't know how this is supposed to work (I am not sure anyone does yet), but I have put together an initial project page at http://toast.debian.net/~may/umlproject/index.html Michael Young

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How to package execute-on-stack programs?
by Enrico Scholz 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hello, what is the way to package programs which are containing code which will be executed on stack? Since this "feature" conflicts with exec-shield, the package-build may fail in the %check stage, or on the user-side. A program suffering from this is qemu[1]; I tried the chstk tool[2], but it fails with | ./qemu: Unknown file type which is probably caused by a "strange" (but required) linking. I read the RELEASE-NOTES also which state that | NOTE: Binary marking (the ability to identify those binaries that | should run with Exec-shield enabled/disabled) is not yet implemented. Does there exist a clean way to mark execute-on-stack programs in the meantime? Enrico Footnotes: [1] http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=623 [2] http://people.redhat.com/mingo/exec-shield/chstk.c

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Text console port of GTK+
by Féliciano Matias 29 Aug '03

29 Aug '03

Text console port of GTK+ : http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/ Interesting for anaconda, redhat-config-*. Perhaps for (Cambridge++)++ -- Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias(a)free.fr>

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LVM + RAID not correct handled in rc.sysinit?
by Jos Vos 29 Aug '03

29 Aug '03

Hi, I have a problem on RHL 9 (didn't check with Severn yet): In rc.sysinit LVM activation is done on 2 places with a comment for the second time "it could be on top of RAID". This is correct, but the RAID volumes are *only* started if they appear in /etc/fstab (without noauto), so RAID volumes used in LVM will never be started, and 2nd take of LVM initialization will never have any effect! I see at least that it is not working in a case I have here, and looking at the rc.sysinit script I think this will never work. Is this indeed the case? I'll look at Severn later today and bugzilla it. Thanks, -- -- Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204

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/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
by Jack Aboutboul 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Hello All, Anyone know where we can get some documentation on the whole mess that is /etc/sysconfig/network*. A few of us in #rhl-devel have been looking for info on static-routes and other functions of the scripts. The man pages dont get very in depth here. Another issue that also comes up is that neat sometimes randomly uses either sysconfig/networking and sometimes sysconfig/network-scripts. For the well being off the openness of the rhlp there needs to be more documentation on this topic. --Jack

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Re: Question about installing Oracle 9i Rel2 on RH AS 3.0
by M A Young 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Andy Kar wrote: > > I got your name from the RHAT beta list. I saw that you've successfully > installed Ora 9i on RH 3.0. I've tried to install it but keep getting > errors. Do you have a procedure or doc about installing Orac9i on RH 3.0 ? Not quite, but I have installed the 9ias mid tier on RedHat 9, and have played with installing ocsv2 mid tier on severn, so some of the same tricks may work. I know about the following problems, 1. OUI2.3 worked on severn did with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 set though it may complain at the os version, use the -ignoreSysPrereqs flag if it does. With other OUI versions you may need to replace the java software - copy oraparam.ini to a writable location and edit the JRE_LOCATION to point to a recent java version, eg. Sun's 1.4.2. Then run runInstaller --paramFile oraparam.ini.copy If you have this problem, you may also need to replace oracle installed 1.3.1 or 1.4 java (eg. at the end of disk 1) 2. Oracle links against various internal glibc and gcc symbols. You can build a ctype library at the first linking error in $ORACLE_HOME/lib by getting http://intel.forums.liveworld.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/121-5821-194… and running gcc -c ctype.c ctype.o ar cr libctype.a ctype.o Then append to sysliblist (possibly with version corrections) -lctype -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/ -lgcc then run bin/genclntsh (with $ORACLE_HOME set) and press retry on the error. 3. Some parts use errno incorrectly, but you can use the same library trick by creating a file errno.c with the single line int errno=0; build a library as above and edit the appropriate makefile to use it. 4. forms, reports etc., expect version 2 the libXm library, but the version 3 one in /usr/X11R6/lib/ should work, create a symbolic link called libXm.so.2 to it in $ORACLE_HOME/lib , and edit the appropriate makefile to use it, then press retry on the error. I hope this is useful. Michael Young

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Re: RH Taroon Beta Open Ports
by Steve Bonneville 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Dan Walsh wrote: > I also think minimal ports should be the default. Maybe adding some > inteligence to the scripts or redhat-config-services to allow know that > if you start NFS you also need to start portmapper. Maybe > by adding a requires flag to the NFS init script. > > Why do we have a bias towards the machine being a server machine? Don't forget that the client side also needs to have portmap running in order to mount an NFS share. So the mount command would have to start up or make sure portmap and nfslock are running, too. -- Steve Bonneville

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RH Taroon Beta Open Ports
by rhldevel＠assursys.co.uk 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Hi - I've just done a "complete" install of Taroon on a scratch box, with iptables firewalling disabled. The following services are listening on external network interfaces: Port State Service 22/tcp open ssh 68/udp open dhcpclient 111/tcp open sunrpc 111/udp open sunrpc 123/udp open ntp 1010/udp open unknown 6000/tcp open X11 ssh (we don't want to lock users out after an upgrade), ntp and dhcpclient (both manually configured during install) are reasonably justified, IMHO, but what is the justification for having rpc.statd, portmap and X11 listening by *default* (especially on a machine that hasn't been configured to use NIS)? Given the problems that Windows has with network services listening by default, shouldn't we be learning from their mistakes? Yes, the user needs to disable firewalling at install time to expose these services, but I can't help thinking that plenty of naïve users will do so... Best Regards, Alex.

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new redhat-artwork updates in cvs!
by Garrett LeSage 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Hello, I have committed a few changes to redhat-artwork today. The changes are, as follows: * New GTK+ color scheme: "Bluecurve-BerriesAndCream". It is based on the theme that was originally introduced in an earlier beta cycle (for the 9 time frame, iirc), and has a blueberry blue selection color (blue with a tint of purple) and a creamy warm widget color. * Fixed Metacity theme titlebar height (mostly a problem for Japanese text -- and possibly other languages). * Updated Metacity theme style (more contrast for titlebar text, less of a titlebar shine, the focused titlebar selection color is richer, and insensitive titlebars now are colored slightly darker). * File manager icons (mime types) do not display text unless the icon is a plain text icon with the little text viewing area. Let me know what you think of the changes. I think I am now going to go celebrate my birthday today with some cake and/or ice cream. (: Garrett PS: Rawhide RPMs of redhat-artwork should hopefully appear soon. I'll ask Alex to build a fresh version tomorrow.

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recent redhat-artwork/Bluecurve updates (w/ screenshots)
by Garrett LeSage 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Hey all, I have recently posted a few new screenshots which demonstrate some of the latest updates in the "redhat-artwork" package. You can see screenshots at the following URLs: http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview.png http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview-slat… http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview-purp… http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview-oran… http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview-gree… http://people.redhat.com/glesage/screenshots/bluecurve_nextgen-preview-gnom… You can get the most recent version in Rawhide or out of CVS. As of this writing, the current Rawhide URL for redhat-artwork is: http://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/redhat-… Brief overview of a few changes since the Red Hat Linux 9 time frame: Icons ===== * Reworked the entire icon set, now generated by XML configs and icon sheets * Multiple icon sizes are now available (not fully complete yet) * All icons are now pixel optimized per size * New mimetype file icons * Updated stock icons * Initial support for KDE stock icons (actions) now available (size issues need to be sorted out, so it's not working quite yet) * Gnome panel icons are 36x36 instead of 24x24 (for the time being, at least...) Window Decorations ================ * Window frame decorations have a new style * Metacity theme implemented * KDE's KWin theme needs to be updated still Widgets ======= * A few tweaks for the GTK+ theme configuration. * Additional color schemes are now available for Bluecurve Access these additional themes by selecting "desktop menu > preferences > theme" from the panel, hitting the "Details..." button, and in the "Controls" tab, select "Bluecurve-Slate" or some other Bluecurve color scheme. Of course, there is still work to be done. Please file bugs, help out, and/or provide feedback on the package. Thanks, Garrett

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