LEVAI Daniel wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We're administering a high number of IBM x series servers, and it has a
> remote
> control interface where you can see the machine like you were sitting in
> front of it (like booting, bios, etc...). It is very useful when you must
> diagnose an OS failure. However, it is entirely java based, and it only works
> with jre-1.5 plugin. Every time we tried, it failed with any other newer
> versions. OpenBSD -current has 1.7, but I couldn't find the plugin installed
> under the jre directory to test it with that, and I couldn't find a package
> for {jdk,jre}-1.5.
> Do I have to compile 1.5 from ports myself, and if I do, will it contain the
> mozilla plugin when done? Or is there somewhere a package for 1.5 from the
> old days?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Daniel
>
We also have couple of blade systems and I'm using JRE1.5 to manage
them. One pity thing is that as blades uses ssl, java console need write
permission to /usr/local/jdk-1.5.0/jre/lib/security for saving
certificates. My workaround was to chown that dir to my local account
(which is the only one).
c
