Date: Tuesday September 21, 04 I was getting some weird errors yesterday in my first attempt to automate a Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 install. There were lots of errors like… attempt to access beyond end of device I added an option to the PXE loader: ramdisk_size=65536 and it works now.
I hit upon bug 85346: in RHAS2.1, if you’re packaging a bunch of files that don’t have an owner known to the OS, you will get getUname: too many uid’s The simple solution was to add a chmod -R root:root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT to the %install section.
Listen to the wisdom: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200408/msg00372.html.
I found the magic: cd /path/to/port make -dA 2>&1 | less Thus I found “/etc/make.conf”, which says the version of Perl to use. I thought that use.perl port just said “ln -s /usr/{,local/}bin/perl”, but apparently it updates other things, too. /etc
I’m trying to figure out how other people set up their server equipment. Racks are a given; I’m looking information about patch panels, cabling, labeling, the console server… sage-members had a good discussion about how to label cables, from which I distill the rule “label all cables at both ends (and perhaps every 10 feet)…