Using custom startup scripts with rhgb
by Gijs Hollestelle
Hi,
At our university we have a script that runs at boot time, which
brings the system's packages up to date with a central server and does
some other configuration stuff (compare it to running yum update at
boot time). This script can take up to 5 minutes to complete but
includes progress meters so that the user can see what is happening,
this works nicely in the details pane of rhgb and when using text
mode.
This situation causes two problems under rhgb:
1) There appears to be no way of setting the caption (where it
normally says things like Starting Networking) for the text box field,
other than adding the string to the main.c file in rhgb. I would like
to be able to set a caption like 'Checking for updated packages' or
something alike.
2) If there is no rhgb ping command for 35 seconds rhgb swithces back
to terminal 1 (which does not show te progress, that is shown
correctly in the details pane, but displays only the start of the boot
process with two empty lines between every message). Is there a way to
disable this time-out (temporarily) other than hacking it away in the
main.c file?
If there is currently no way of doing these 2 without changing the C
code, would it be possible to add commands to rhgb-client to support
these? as I could imagine they would be useful to others as well.
Kind regards,
Gijs Hollestelle
19 years, 5 months
Re: Using custom startup scripts with rhgb
by Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:07:29AM -0500, Nick Bargnesi wrote:
> > > I would suggest disabling it too. A better idea would be to have that
> > > stuff executing in a cron job during down time. Remembering my
> > > University years, I would not have wanted to wait for my workstation
> > > to retrieve updates.
> > Yeah, but you want the system to come up "clean" at first boot....
> How do you mean clean? I've never needed to reboot after package
> updates. He could always run the job at a particular time with cron,
> or with anacron, or atd, or whatever; and force a reboot afterwards.
Not that. I mean that if a system has been down for a while, you don't want
to wait N hours for security updates to be applied. You want them before
system services even start, so there's no window of vulnerability.
--
Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
19 years, 5 months
rawhide report: 20050118 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
abiword-1:2.2.3-1
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* Mon Jan 17 2005 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.2.3-1
- bump to new version
- drop integrated silenceabidash patch
cpio-2.6-3
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* Mon Jan 17 2005 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec(a)redhat.com>
- fix symlinks pack (#145225)
* Fri Jan 14 2005 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec(a)redhat.com>
- new fixed version of lfs patch (#144688)
* Thu Jan 13 2005 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec(a)redhat.com>
- upgrade to cpio-2.6
device-mapper-1.01.00-1
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* Mon Jan 17 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 1.01.00-1
- Update lib interface to make open_count optional.
eclipse-3.1-0.M4.19
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* Mon Jan 17 2005 Andrew Overholt <overholt(a)redhat.com> 3.1-0.M4.19
- more 64-bit platform and launching script fixes
- add ppc
ethereal-0.10.8-3
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* Tue Jan 18 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal(a)redhat.com> 0.10.8-3
- plugins are back
- fixed spec file, removed libs renaming
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.88
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* Tue Jan 18 2005 David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)redhat.com>
- Fix and update and include missing ATM headers (#127098)
- Update MTD headers.
* Fri Dec 10 2004 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com>
- update syscall numbers on x86_64, ia64
- removed many files users should not need
- update ia64 ptrace_offsets.h (#117234)
- other misc updates from upstream
* Tue Aug 31 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com>
- update input.h
kernel-2.6.10-1.1090_FC4
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* Mon Jan 17 2005 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
- apply dmi fix, now xenU boots again
lvm2-2.01.00-1.0
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* Mon Jan 17 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.01.00-1.0
- Fix metadata auto-correction. Only request open_count when needed.
man-pages-ja-20050115-1
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* Tue Jan 18 2005 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 20050115-1
- updates to 20050115.
pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-4.4
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* Tue Jan 18 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Remove various old compatability cruft from rc.pcmcia
- Update Requires: list.
* Mon Jan 10 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Fix missing return on new_tuple() (#137857)
perl-3:5.8.6-1
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* Mon Jan 17 2005 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> - 3:5.8.6-1
- update to 5.8.6
* Wed Dec 01 2004 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> 3:5.8.5-13
- rebuild
* Wed Dec 01 2004 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> 3:5.8.5-11
- bugzilla: 140563, nptl doesn't act like linuxthreads; threads have no PIDs
quagga-0:0.98.0-2
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* Sun Jan 16 2005 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 0.98.0-2
- New upstream version. This fixes bz#143796
- --with-rtadv needs to be --enable-rtadv according to configure.
(but it was enabled by default, so this is a cosmetic change only)
Change /etc/logrotate.d/* to /etc/logrotate.d/quagga in this spec file.
- Modify this spec file to move the .so files to the base package
and close bz#140894
- Modify this spec file to separate out /usr/include/quagga/ospfd
from .../*.h and /usr/include/quagga/ospfapi from .../*.h
Rpmbuild probably shouldn't allow %dir of a plain file.
* Wed Jan 12 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.97.3-3
- Rebuilt for new readline.
- Don't explicitly require readline. The correct dependency is automatically
picked up by linking against it.
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20050118
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subversion-1.1.3-1
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* Sun Jan 16 2005 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.1.3-1
- update to 1.1.3 (#145236)
- fix python bindings location on x86_64 (#143522)
system-config-printer-0.6.120-1
-------------------------------
* Mon Jan 17 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.6.120-1
- 0.6.120:
- Disable CUPS import altogether (bug #142898).
- Make sure chkconfig output is parseable (bug #142978).
- Set LC_ALL=C instead of LANG=C (bug #143035).
- Prevent infinite recursion in printconf_conf (bug #145335).
* Fri Dec 10 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.6.119-1
- Purge magicfilter references (bug #45687).
- 0.6.119:
- Purge magicfilter references (bug #45687).
- Avoid traceback when there is no IEEE 1284 ID (bug #141430).
* Tue Nov 30 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.6.118-1
- 0.6.118:
- Allow queue names to start with digits (bug #121772).
wireless-tools-1:28-0.pre4.3
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* Mon Jan 17 2005 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 28-0.pre4
- Update to latest wireless-tools
19 years, 5 months
DB_File needs compatible versions of libdb & db.h
by Cream
Im trying out rawhide, and have run into a problem can someone please tell
me how i can fix this? (or what packages / files to look at)
DB_File needs compatible versions of libdb & db.h
you have db.h version 4.3.21 and libdb version 4.3.27
Compilation failed in require at /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl line
1246.
19 years, 5 months
New icon placement on gnome desktop.
by Michael Favia
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New icons that are automatically added to the desktop upon insertion of
removable media (e.g. USB mass storage, cd, dvd) often place themselves
behind existing icons on my desktop and create a ugly kaleidescope like
mash of icon and text. Is this a known issue (e.i. bug report filed and
i cant find it) or if not is this a gnome based issue or is HAL/udev at
work here (to report it)?
BTW it is fixed by simple "Arranging by name" but it seems a silly
requirement. Sorry if mildly/not so mildly off topic (but im not looking
for someone to fix "my" problem).
- --
Michael Favia michael.favia(a)insitesinc.com
Insites Incorporated http://michael.insitesinc.com
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19 years, 5 months
website update
by Zoltan Kota
Hi,
Could somebody update the list of mailing lists at fedora.redhat.com ->
Communicate? Fedora Extras and some of the fedora-trans-xy related lists
are missing (at least).
A menu for CVS would be also nice.
Zoltan
19 years, 5 months
