On Thursday 18 January 2007 16:24, RickS wrote:
> Shocky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > Any ideas? Is this a problem in the openssl package? Or an openssl
> > > change that hasn't been reflected in the partimage package? Am I back
> > > to building from source again? Should I log a bug, or am I doing
> > > something wrong?
> > >
> > > Shocky
>
> Hi Shocky,
> I had the same errors out of the box, so I would check bugzilla and
> see if there is one already or file a bug for this.
> Also add what you did to fix it, whether its upstream or not.

Yeah, I'll put that on my to do list, to report the bugs.

It turned out that getting partimaged to start was only the beginning of my 
journey. To make a very long story slightly shorter, the partimage client and 
partimaged server have to be exactly the same version, and be compiled with 
the same login and ssl settings - you can't select at run-time whether to 
require, allow or disallow logins, they are either required or not allowed, 
and this is selected at compile time. The ssl part also seems to be broken. 
But to be fair to the partimage team, they clearly state that this is alpha 
software, especially the network support.

The partimage on the system rescue cd is version 0.6.4, compiled with login 
and ssl disabled. Since I can't change this, this is what I have to work 
with. The package from Mandriva is also 0.6.4, but is compiled with login and 
ssl enabled, so there is no way to make these work together. 

The latest stable version of partimage available as source is 0.6.5, which 
also won't work with the system rescue cd, regardless of the compile options, 
because of the version mismatch.

Finally, on sourceforge I was able to find source for 0.6.4, configure it as 
follows:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-login --disable-ssl

And start up a partimaged server that the system rescue cd partimage client 
can connect to. I also had to open up tcp port 4025 on shorewall to allow 
them to connect.

With ssl disabled, all that stuff with broken/missing ssl scripts goes away. 
Of course, they warn you that disabling ssl opens up a big security hole, so 
only do it on a trusted network. But I don't plan on running image backups 
over the internet anyway, and those ports are still safely closed on my main 
ipcop firewall (yes, I'm paranoid).

So finally, very late last night, I got it to work. Woohoo!

If anyone wants it, I have the rpm built by checkinstall.

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