Kostas' random thoughts

I wasn’t expecting to see IcedTea available so soon in Fedora but it looks like it’s going to be on Fedora 8 if everything goes well with the package review. Not sure how usable it is yet but I am building an rpm right now so I’ll find out soon I guess.

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The fan at my shuttle at home died last week so the temperature inside the case reached around 65C and the disk drive couldn’t cope with it. So I moved the disk on my desktop and now the machine is running as a domU in xen. Surprisingly no problems so far beyond mplayer stuttering every [...]

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I was looking todat at a puppet ticket and I found this little gem in ruby’s svn. No wonder poor puppet got upset. I guess I’ll have to build new ruby rpms with a fix for this for my fedora machines at home until there is a new fedora rpm :(

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Here is how to compile and install an selinux module since I’ll forget if I don’t save it somwehere (based on audit2allow -M mysaslauthd -i /var/log/audit/audit.log output). # cat mysaslauthd.te module mysaslauthd 1.0.8; require { class dir { search write add_name remove_name }; class file { getattr lock read write create rename unlink }; type [...]

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This is driving me crazy, I found out why it wasn’t working with sasl_keytab: … (#200892) and rebuilding the cyrus-sasl rpm with the patch fixed this problem. Now after a reboot it stopped working!! I suspect that SELinux is somehow affecting the kerberos server but I can’t see anything related in the audit logs. Really [...]

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No srpm for sun’s java 6 on jpackage.org yet, I guess I would have to look at the available patches in the maling list and and test them. Probably a good opportunity to merge the plugin related changes from the ibm spec file. The existing setup fails once firefox/mozilla/seamonkey gets updated and the users start [...]

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