Problem with maximum size of group and getent when using LDAP backend

2009-11-26 Thread Howard Wilkinson
I am seeing a problem with retrieving group information from an LDAP backend where the number of members of the groups can be large. The data I have contains duplicate gidNumbers which may be causing other problems. But I think this is a buffer size problem in the interface between the glibc

Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

2009-09-30 Thread Howard Wilkinson
created and a bind mount for each export from the pre-V3 name space being made into that tree. Or have I missed something entirely? I hope this helped... It did! steved. -- Howard Wilkinson how...@cohtech.com Coherent Technology Limited -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list

Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

2009-09-30 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Steve, On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 08:36 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: On 09/30/2009 07:22 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote: Steve, just for clarity what you are actually saying is that. On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 22:45 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: On 09/29/2009 09:42 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon

Re: Packaging Webmin for Fedora 11+

2009-09-29 Thread Howard Wilkinson
rpmbuild to include such files in an rpm package explicitly? On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 15:04 +0200, Iain Arnell wrote: On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Howard Wilkinson wrote: I have run into a problem when trying to package webmin for Fedora 11+. Webmin is a noarch package but it contains some

Packaging Webmin for Fedora 11+

2009-09-26 Thread Howard Wilkinson
and not a binary file! -- Howard Wilkinson how...@cohtech.com Coherent Technology Limited -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Extension to JWHOIS for rate limiting requests to specific servers

2009-09-19 Thread Howard Wilkinson
anybody know of anyone who has done this elsewhere and if the code is available already. I do not like reinventing the wheel as the patent has already been taken. Howard. -- Howard Wilkinson how...@cohtech.com Coherent Technology Limited -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list

What is the official way to get a flash player plugin installed for Firefox?

2009-09-11 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Can anybody point me at a repository that has an RPM for the flash player plugin for Firefox (FC11)? And any gotchas I should be aware of? TIA Howard. -- Howard Wilkinson how...@cohtech.com Coherent Technology Limited -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: cpqarrayd for fedora 11 and 12

2009-08-28 Thread Howard Wilkinson
On 27/08/09 16:08, Peter Jones wrote: On 08/27/2009 06:02 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote: I have had to patch the code for cpqarrayd to get it working under Fedora 11. It was failing with a stack smashing exception. I have fixed this by replacing stack structures with dynamic allocation. Where

cpqarrayd for fedora 11 and 12

2009-08-27 Thread Howard Wilkinson
I have had to patch the code for cpqarrayd to get it working under Fedora 11. It was failing with a stack smashing exception. I have fixed this by replacing stack structures with dynamic allocation. Where should I send the patch ... the last development on this was in 2007 so it is probably

Re: Mysql 5.1.36 cluster - does anybody have this working?

2009-08-21 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: I can recommend you mysql master-slave replication or postgresql with bucardo (2 master's, and more n slaves) On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Howard Wilkinsonhow...@cohtech.com wrote: I have upgraded from FC9 through FC10 to FC11 but the cluster code

Zoneminder under FC11

2009-08-21 Thread Howard Wilkinson
I have recently upgraded to FC11 and the system that runs my CCTV is now refusing to restart properly. Zoneminder is starting up but I am getting the following failures logged into the syslog. Aug 21 10:36:19 mpeg1 zmc_dvideo0[5319]: ERR [Capture failure for frame 0: Device or resource

Re: ClamAV

2009-08-21 Thread Howard Wilkinson
John Aldrich wrote: Is there any to do on-access scanning with ClamAV *without* having Dazuko? Someone posted a problem here earlier and it got me thinking. We *know* we have a problem doing on-access scanning with ClamAV, and surely someone has thought about trying to find a way around not

Mysql 5.1.36 cluster - does anybody have this working?

2009-08-20 Thread Howard Wilkinson
I have upgraded from FC9 through FC10 to FC11 but the cluster code available with FC11 is refusing to start up properly. Does anybody have this working? If so was there any magic incantations used to get the database gods to cooperate? Regards, Howard. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Bob Goodwin wrote: I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable amount if time. Gkrellm showed cup1 running at max. and top indicated the cup at

Re: Problem with mount.nfs4 on latest Fedora 10 updates

2009-08-14 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Chuck Lever wrote: On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Howard Wilkinson wrote: I have just upgraded a couple of servers from FC9 to FC10 and I am seeing a major problem with mount.nfs4. This occurs when autofs calls the mount program. It then runs at 100% CPU and never terminates. I have VMs

Problem with mount.nfs4 on latest Fedora 10 updates

2009-08-13 Thread Howard Wilkinson
I have just upgraded a couple of servers from FC9 to FC10 and I am seeing a major problem with mount.nfs4. This occurs when autofs calls the mount program. It then runs at 100% CPU and never terminates. I have VMs that are running similar configuration successfully, so this is something

Re: can't boot fresh install

2009-08-09 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Alan Evans wrote: On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Alan Evansame.fed...@gmail.com wrote: Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was repatriated from a broken iMac. I didn't have install disks handy, so I downloaded the netinstall image and installed the whole thing over

Re: can't boot fresh install

2009-08-09 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Alan, see in-line ... Alan Evans wrote: On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote: Alan Evans wrote: Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was repatriated from a broken iMac. I didn't have install disks handy, so I downloaded

Re: Problem with uw-imap-static (Fedora 9) on x86_64 can anybody help?

2009-07-08 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Rex, thanks for this! Rex Dieter wrote: Rex Dieter wrote: Howard Wilkinson wrote: I am building a version of Asterisk for use on Fedora 9 derived systems. The environment is patched up to the latest updates. The Asterisk Voicemail does not work unless linked against the static

Re: Dell Perc 4/DC and PowerVault 220S - firmware upgrade under Fedora

2009-07-08 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Mikkel, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Howard Wilkinson wrote: I have 4 Powervault 220s devices which need the firmware on the embedded controller cards upgraded. I have download the dell Linux utilities and tried to do the upgrade. However, this is failing - seemingly because I have mirrored

Re: Dell Perc 4/DC and PowerVault 220S - firmware upgrade under Fedora

2009-07-08 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Howard Wilkinson wrote: I have 4 Powervault 220s devices which need the firmware on the embedded controller cards upgraded. I have download the dell Linux utilities and tried to do the upgrade. However, this is failing - seemingly because I have mirrored drives

Re: Problem with uw-imap-static (Fedora 9) on x86_64 can anybody help?

2009-07-08 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Rex, Rex Dieter wrote: Howard Wilkinson wrote: Rex, In the meantime, try this build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1460664 I have rebuilt using the packages from koij and get the self same error message. Any thoughts? Ah, osdep.c wasn't

Re: Problem with uw-imap-static (Fedora 9) on x86_64 can anybody help?

2009-07-08 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Rex, I found the src on koji (nice environment!) and have rebuilt here. So I am good to go I think. Thankyou for your help Howard. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Dell Perc 4/DC and PowerVault 220S - firmware upgrade under Fedora

2009-07-07 Thread Howard Wilkinson
I have 4 Powervault 220s devices which need the firmware on the embedded controller cards upgraded. I have download the dell Linux utilities and tried to do the upgrade. However, this is failing - seemingly because I have mirrored drives for the root filing systems (software mirror using md)

Problem with uw-imap-static (Fedora 9) on x86_64 can anybody help?

2009-07-06 Thread Howard Wilkinson
I am building a version of Asterisk for use on Fedora 9 derived systems. The environment is patched up to the latest updates. The Asterisk Voicemail does not work unless linked against the static library for c-client. This worked fine on the i386 platform but is failing with the following

Re: rpm package with many files inside

2009-06-24 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Florian, While this may not be a possibility for you, in the bad old days we used to use archive (aka libraries or '.a') files to get round this and to 'save' disk and inode usage. The software was then modified to use library extraction to get the files it needed. I know this is not in-line

Looking for advice on a gigabit networking problem

2009-06-18 Thread Howard Wilkinson
This may not be right forum to ask this question but I am hoping some Fedora buffs will know the right place for me to go with this. I have a network built around some Cisco switches. There is a 3550-12T and a pair of 2950-48's connected via gigabit links to this switch. I have 7 server boxes

Status of aic79xx driver in the linux kernel

2009-05-02 Thread Howard Wilkinson
I have been having some problems with an Adaptec 39320A-R card and have been poking around and found that the driver in the kernel claims to be derived from an Adaptec version 2.0.15 which was release in October 2005! There is a later version on the Adaptec site from April 2007 - 2.0.26. I was

Advice on a regression testing framework for a system daemon?

2009-02-18 Thread Howard Wilkinson
I am currently developing extensions to the MyDNS-ng software and want to include a regression testing suite with the next release. Rather than reinvent the wheel I was hoping to find a suitable framework for building and running this sute. Unfortunately I must be looking under the wrong rocks

Building krb5 on Fedora 9

2008-12-08 Thread Howard Wilkinson
I have just tried to build the latest krb5 release for Fedora 9 on a system patched up to the latest updates set. The system compile_et facility fails on the i386 platform but works on x86_64 platform. Anybody know why? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Kernel-headers from Fedora 8 updates missing ext3_fs.h

2008-09-05 Thread Howard Wilkinson
The build for kernel-headers from the latest Fedora 8 is missing linux/ext3_fs.h it would seem that the config in the i386 build does not pull it in. Does anybody know how I can alter the source RPM to get this and other missing headers loaded? -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Kernel-headers from Fedora 8 updates missing ext3_fs.h

2008-09-05 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Karl-Olov Serrander wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Howard Wilkinson wrote: The build for kernel-headers from the latest Fedora 8 is missing linux/ext3_fs.h it would seem that the config in the i386 build does not pull it in. Does anybody know how I can alter the source RPM to get this and other

Fedora 9 and old video cards?

2008-07-19 Thread Howard Wilkinson
We have a large number of Matrox Millenium video cards. Mainly G400's but also some g450's and G550's. What is the current status of drivers for these cards. Have they been updated to work with the latest X.org release in Fedora 9. Can we run dual head with these drivers and if so does anybody

Re: Privoxy blocking a page

2008-07-08 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Colin Paul Adams wrote: I'm seeing the following, but I don't understand why the page is being blocked, or what I need to change in the configuration to stop it: Forwarding settings: Requests for http://www.nikona.org/adsrv/adframe.php?n=a5c3367cwhat=zone:16 will be made directly, no

Re: Services error -- new to me !?

2008-07-08 Thread Howard Wilkinson
William Case wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 21:49 -0400, William Case wrote: Thanks Craig; I am too worn out to start a new trip down learning lane tonight. On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:13 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 21:05 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; Just

Re: Downloading everything under .../Everything .../Fedora

2008-06-21 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Frank Murphy wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 08:32 -0400, David Boles wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: What is the best method to download everything under the ../Everything .../Fedora from one of the mirrors wget? waht options Need the F9 stuff for testing. Why would you want to

Re: DNS: Question about setting abc.com record

2008-06-18 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I have several DNS servers and wondered if the following record entry is properly set for all of my DNS servers: $TTL 172800 @IN SOA ns1.abc.com. admin.abc.com. ( 1 ; serial 3H; refresh 15M

Re: DNS: Question about setting abc.com record

2008-06-18 Thread Howard Wilkinson
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Howard Wilkinson wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I have several DNS servers and wondered if the following record entry is properly set for all of my DNS servers: $TTL 172800 @IN SOA ns1.abc.com. admin.abc.com. ( 1 ; serial