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Install Solaris Package in Alternate Base Directory

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Unless you specify a different administrative file, the pkgadd command reads “/var/sadm/install/admin/default”, which specifies the base directory as “/opt”. Do not change the settings in this file, but rather create a custom admin file and enter an alternate “basedir” directive if you want to install your package into a different directory. We are going to install our package into “/var/applications”, and call our custom admin file “custom”.

First, create and edit “/var/sadm/install/admin/custom”, adding a line similar to this:
basedir=/var/applications/$PKGINST

Next, issue the pkgadd command with the “-a” flag to call you alternative admin file:

pkgadd -d device -a custom PackageName

This really comes in handy when your customers want to retain control over their packages, but you don’t want to give them access to write packages into the system area. More detailed instructions can be found here.

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RHEL3 Upgrade to RHEL4 Breaks up2date

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Last week I had to upgrade one of our old RHEL3 servers in order to get it to address disks larger than 2TB. I did the upgrade from CD, and it went fairly smoothly, except up2date would not run after the box came back up.

It gave me the following error:

[root@x up2date]# Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 27, in ?
    from up2date_client import repoDirector
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoDirector.py", line 5, in ?
    import rhnChannel
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnChannel.py", line 10, in ?
    import up2dateAuth
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 5, in ?
    import rpcServer
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 23, in ?
    from rhn import rpclib
ImportError: No module named rhn

It turns out that there is no “really easy” way to fix it, but these directions on spaceblog do work. Basically it involves removing a lot of packages and re-adding them. The problem is related to python, so rather than remove the entire list of packages, I focused only on those relating to python and up2date:


libxml2-python
popt
pyOpenSSL
python
rhnlib
rhpl
up2date

Make sure not to remove these packages:


rpm
rpm-libs
rpm-python

Or you will break rpm and not be able to add the packages back after you remove them. All told, this is a grisly process, and you will have to use rpm -e --nodeps in order to get it done. This sucks, but up2date will work everything out once you can get it running again.

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Horde / IMP on RHEL 4 From RPM HOWTO

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Whenever you go to install applications and services on registered RHEL servers, it’s always nice to use the RPMs because up2date will keep everything current for you. Managing upgrades gets a whole lot easier when you can bring your system up to current with one simple command. Because of this, I decided that I would try to use as many RPMs as I could when I set up our latest Horde / IMP installation.

Unfortunately, RedHat does not supply RPMs for the Horde applications, but luckily CentOS does. You should be able to download them from here. Get the latest version, which at the time of this writing was horde-3.1.3-1 and imp-h3-4.1.3-1.

Don’t install them yet though because Horde and IMP have always had a lot of dependancies which must be installed and enabled first. Installing the following RPMs should take care of them.

  • mysql-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
  • mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
  • mysqlclient10-devel-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
  • mysql-devel-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
  • mysql-server-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
  • perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9004-3.1.i386.rpm
  • php-4.3.9-3.15.i386.rpm
  • php-devel-4.3.9-3.15.i386.rpm
  • php-domxml-4.3.9-3.15.i386.rpm
  • php-imap-4.3.9-3.15.i386.rpm
  • php-ldap-4.3.9-3.15.i386.rpm
  • php-mysql-4.3.9-3.15.i386.rpm
  • php-pear-4.3.9-3.15.i386.rpm

Assuming you will want up2date to handle upgrades of these packages, it is very important that you either use “up2date” to install them, or download them from correct channel at the RedHat website. You could also simply get them from the CD distribution that you used to install the system itself.

Once PEAR is installed, you will have to upgrade it, and install the PEAR::Log module.

[root@server]# pear upgrade -a PEAR-1.3.6
[root@server]# pear upgrade PEAR

Ok, now let’s make sure the web server is configured to start when the system comes up:

[root@server /]# /sbin/chkconfig --list httpd

You should see this:

httpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

But if you see 5:off, simply run:

[root@server /]# /sbin/chkconfig httpd on

Now we enable and start up our new MySQL database server:

[root@server /]# /sbin/chkconfig mysqld on
[root@server /]# /sbin/service mysqld start

And we’re ready to install Horde and IMP. Install the following RPM’s, which will put everything in /usr/share/horde and creates a file called horde.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d/

  • horde-3.1.3-1.c4.noarch.rpm
  • imp-h3-4.1.3-1.c4.noarch.rpm

This will install the HORDE and IMP packages in /usr/share, and /usr/share/horde respectively.

Finally, we start or restart apache:

[root@server /]# /sbin/service httpd start

Grab a browser and go to the following URL to proceed with the Horde and IMP configuration.

http://server.example.com/horde/

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SUNWqlc Drivers Don’t Work With thw QLogic QLA2340 HBA

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The Qlogic QLA2340 HBA is a 64-bit, 133MHz PCI-X to 2 Gb Fibre Channel adapter. It’s a cool card, but it doesn’t work with the standard SUNWqlc and SUNWqlcx drivers. You have to remove these driver packages and install the one directly from QLogic in order to get it working.

# pkgrm SUNWqlc
# pkgrm SUNWqlcx

Now, download the QLogic drivers (qla2300.sparc_pkg.Z) HERE. Or HERE if you are not using SPARC Solaris.

Then, it’s just a matter of unzipping them, and installing them using the instructions that come with the drivers. The only bummer is that you won’t be able to use the luxadm commands anymore.

Hopefully this has been helpful. Have fun with your speedy new HBA.

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