Dax's Blog tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2009-02-17:/dax/2 2010-01-20T23:35:22Z Movable Type 4.32-en Behind the scenes of YaST tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2010:/dax//2.277 2010-01-20T22:55:37Z 2010-01-20T23:35:22Z SUSE has long used YaST as a management tool. It makes it easy to make changes to your system without knowing (or caring) what happens behind the scenes. At Guru Labs, our Linux Training is all about teaching students what... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax SUSE has long used YaST as a management tool. It makes it easy to make changes to your system without knowing (or caring) what happens behind the scenes.

At Guru Labs, our Linux Training is all about teaching students what happens "behind the scenes". We strive to document the official and best practice techniques (not always the same thing, unfortunately).

Recently we were updating our courseware and wanted to document how to disable IPv6 in the various Enterprise Linux distributions. The question came up, "What does YaST actually do when you toggle the Enable/Disable IPv6 checkbox in the YaST network module." To answer that question I performed the following steps on SLES11.

Search for the string IPv6 in the YaST network module.

grep -n IPv6 $(rpm -ql yast2-network)

In the output, found these lines looked interesting (Note the Disable/Enable strings)

/usr/share/YaST2/modules/Lan.ycp:316:global void SetIPv6(boolean status){
/usr/share/YaST2/modules/Lan.ycp:324:void writeIPv6(){
/usr/share/YaST2/modules/Lan.ycp:424: writeIPv6();
/usr/share/YaST2/modules/Lan.ycp:654: status_v6 = _("Support for IPv6 protocol is enabled");
/usr/share/YaST2/modules/Lan.ycp:656: link_v6 = Hyperlink (href_v6, _("Disable IPv6"));
/usr/share/YaST2/modules/Lan.ycp:662: status_v6 = _("Support for IPv6 protocol is disabled");
/usr/share/YaST2/modules/Lan.ycp:664: link_v6 = Hyperlink (href_v6, _("Enable IPv6"));

Based on my experience I guessed that the writeIPv6 function does the work of enabling and disabling IPv6 on the system.

So I took a look at that function using the line number found by grep:

vim /usr/share/YaST2/modules/Lan.ycp +324

I found the following:

void writeIPv6(){
SCR::Write(.target.string, "/etc/modprobe.d/ipv6", sformat("%1install ipv6 /bin/true", ipv6?"#":""));
SCR::Write(.sysconfig.windowmanager.KDE_USE_IPV6, ipv6?"yes":"no");
}

That pointed me at the two files "/etc/modprobe.d/ipv6" and "/etc/sysconfig/windowmanger".

Looking at the files it seems YaST simply removes/adds the comment character in front of the one-and-only line in the file /etc/modprobe.d/ipv6 and it toggles the variable KDE_USE_IPV6 in /etc/sysconfg/windowmanager.

If you ever have the need to discover what YaST is doing behind the scenes, you can use the same technique.

]]> Resetting Movable Type Passwords using SQL tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2009:/dax//2.276 2009-11-30T17:43:40Z 2009-11-30T18:49:30Z As far as blogging software goes, it's hard to go wrong with Movable Type. It is open source, supports PostgreSQL (unfortunately, due to be dropped in MT5.0, hopefully it will be re-added in 5.1), supports multiple users and blogs out... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax As far as blogging software goes, it's hard to go wrong with Movable Type. It is open source, supports PostgreSQL (unfortunately, due to be dropped in MT5.0, hopefully it will be re-added in 5.1), supports multiple users and blogs out of the box, can operate in static, partial-dynamic, and full dynamic mode.

If for some reason you or a user forgets their password you can reset the password via the following SQL commands

PostgreSQL

Make sure to install the postgresql-contrib package if you don't already have it installed.

Install the crypto functions into the Movable Type database, this is a one time task.

psql -d movabletype -f /usr/share/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto.sql

Now connect to the movabletype database and run the following command to reset a password:

UPDATE mt_author SET author_password = crypt('the-new-password', gen_salt('des')) WHERE author_name = 'USERNAME-GOES-HERE';

MySQL

The MySQL database already has the crypto functions built-in, so reset the password with the following SQL statement:

UPDATE mt_author SET author_password = encrypt('the-new-password') WHERE author_name = 'USERNAME-GOES-HERE';

]]> What GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 means tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2009:/dax//2.274 2009-10-20T20:03:14Z 2009-10-20T21:03:57Z I noticed in the list of Common Fedora 12 Bugs that in order to run the current version of Adobe Acroread for Linux it must be launched with: GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 acroread Note that GDK is the underlying graphical toolkit for creating... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax I noticed in the list of Common Fedora 12 Bugs that in order to run the current version of Adobe Acroread for Linux it must be launched with:
GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 acroread

Note that GDK is the underlying graphical toolkit for creating GUI applications using GTK (most commonly for applications used on the GNOME desktop). The Linux version of Adobe Acroread uses GTK/GDK.

I was curious about GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 and I found the following information:

From www.gtk.org I found


GDK has been rewritten to use 'client-side windows'. This means that GDK maintains its own window hierarchy and only uses X windows where it is necessary or explicitly requested. Some of the benefits of this change are

  • Reduced flicker
  • The ability to do transformed and animated rendering of widgets
  • Easier embedding of GTK+ widgets, e.g. into Clutter scene graphs


Launching an app with GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 application turns off this feature. This is needed if the application manipulates the windows it creates using direct X API calls or a mixture of X API and GDK instead of just going through GDK. When using "client-side windows" all window manipulation by an application must go through GDK. Adobe needs to update Acroread to be compatible with this feature.

Here is a video demonstration from Alexander Larsson showing some of the effects made possible with 'client-side-windows'. You can also check out his blog post The return of client side windows:

The official documentation on ClientSideWindows is here.

]]> eSATA vs SATA vs USB 2.0 Hard disks tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2009:/dax//2.270 2009-07-15T19:06:54Z 2009-10-21T18:26:00Z I have a ThinkPad T61p Fedora 11 Linux laptop. Lately for some Linux training products we have been developing I've been doing alot of virtualization work on my laptop. Even though it has a fast dual core CPU, 8GB of... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax I have a ThinkPad T61p Fedora 11 Linux laptop. Lately for some Linux training products we have been developing I've been doing alot of virtualization work on my laptop. Even though it has a fast dual core CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a fast internal 500GB SATA hard drive I've been seriously bottlenecked when I have a bunch of virtual machines doing lots of I/O. Some operations that normally take 20 minutes to complete have been taking 90 minutes. That is a serious productivity killer.

I need to add more hard drives and spread the I/O load across them. I would like to upgrade to a SSD drive, but I require 500GB capacity and although the just hit the market, it has several draw backs (besides the price) including using a MLC architecture. I briefly considered USB 2.0 hard drives but I knew that the USB 2.0 connection was a bottleneck

I decided to add an external eSATA hard drive using an ExpressCard eSATA controller.

Here are raw sequential I/O throughput the benchmark numbers on three drives. I tested the performance using hdparm -tT /dev/{sda,sdb,sdc}

Internal SATA SAMSUNG HM500LI 500GB
73.4 MB/sec

eSATA Western Digital WD10EVVS-63E 1TB "My DVR Expander"
85.1 MB/sec

USB 2.0 Lacie 120GB rugged
24.4 MB/sec

I used a Syba SD-PCBX-ESA2 ExpressCard SIL3132 Chipset 2x e-SATA II, 54mm. The great thing about Linux is that the controller was supported out of the box by Linux's sata_sil24 driver. I had nothing to install. I just plugged everything in and it all worked.

It would have been nice if my laptop had a built-in eSATA port. Hopefully my next Calpella platform based Thinkpad will have bottleneck free USB 3.0 ports and hopefully eSATA as well.

]]> Rebuilding the kmod-nvidia RPM for new kernels tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2009:/dax//2.268 2009-07-09T21:11:34Z 2009-07-09T21:37:26Z I've been running Fedora 11 on my T61p laptop, and I recently ran into the bug that caused repeated kernel oopes when running a NFS server and serving a bunch of data. This bug has been fixed with the F11... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax I've been running Fedora 11 on my T61p laptop, and I recently ran into the bug that caused repeated kernel oopes when running a NFS server and serving a bunch of data.

This bug has been fixed with the F11 kernel 2.6.29.6-213.fc11 which (as of July 9th, 2009) hasn't been pushed out yet (it is currently pending for fedora-updates-testing). I installed the new kernel and it has fixed the bug. Hurray for progress.

Unfortunately the yak shaving continues. I'm using RPM Fusion to get drivers for my Nvidia video card in my laptop. Since I'm running an unreleased kernel, the RPM Fusion repo doesn't have a matching kmod-nvidia package for the kernel portion of the Nvidia driver. My system automatically reverted to the VESA driver. Having the Nvidia libraries installed while using the VESA driver caused Unexpected signal: 11 problems for VMware workstation.

In order to build a matching kmod-nvidia package I performed the following (note I'm running 64bit Linux).

# yum install -y buildsys-build-rpmfusion-kerneldevpkgs-newest-x86_64

Now install the kernel-devel package for the newer kernel. I downloaded it from the Koji web page and manually installed it with rpm -ivh.

Download the newest nvidia-kmod.src.rpm from http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/11/SRPMS/. Adjust the URL as needed for your version of Fedora.

Then, the command to rebuild the binary RPM that matches your running kernel is.

$ rpmbuild --rebuild nvidia-kmod-VERSIONINFO.src.rpm --define "kernels $(uname -r)" --target $(uname -m)

In my particular case it was:

$ rpmbuild --rebuild nvidia-kmod-185.18.14-1.fc11.1.src.rpm --define "kernels $(uname -r)" --target $(uname -m)

]]> Palm Pre webOS Internals tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2009:/dax//2.266 2009-06-11T21:00:04Z 2009-06-15T16:57:20Z At Guru Labs we've been long time smartphone users. I purchased a Treo 600 in October of 2003 and have had pretty much all the Treo revisions since then. Having a smartphone is extremely handy for in my line of... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax At Guru Labs we've been long time smartphone users. I purchased a Treo 600 in October of 2003 and have had pretty much all the Treo revisions since then.

Having a smartphone is extremely handy for in my line of work (traveling and doing Linux training). The original PalmOS has gotten pretty dated and I admit I've had some iPhone envy the last couple years. Lack of multi-tasking, Apple control issues, AT&T, and no real keyboard has kept my envy at bay. Ever since Palm announced that they'd have a Linux powered Treo back in 2004 I've been patiently waiting.

Finally, after 5 years of waiting, I have a Linux powered Palm smartphone! I've had the Palm Pre running webOS for the past few days.

This phone is awesome. Highly recommended.

If you are the tinkering type of person and don't mind potentially having to do a factory restore on your device (which isn't so bad given that you can easily restore your settings and data via your Palm Profile) you might want to:

1. Gain root access on your phone via "Developer Mode".
2. Install a SSH backdoor door ongoing access (a procedure to which I contributed a great deal)

Palm webOS is a fairly typical Linux distribution. Here is data from version 1.0.2 (As of June 11th 2009).


Memory - After about 12 hours of heavy use, bunch of apps open

dkelson@castle:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 245036 236772 8264 0 12288 54020
-/+ buffers/cache: 170464 74572
Swap: 131064 37520 93544



Kernel/Version Info

root@castle:/etc# uname -a
Linux castle 2.6.24-palm-joplin-3430 #1 175.1.15 armv7l unknown

root@castle:/etc# lsmod
Module Size Used by
sd8xxx 184732 1
bridgedriver 187924 1
g_composite 99292 0

root@castle:/etc# **cat palm-build-info **
PRODUCT_VERSION_STRING=Palm webOS 1.0.2
BUILDNAME=Nova-Sprint-Castle
BUILDNUMBER=118
BUILDSET=base
BUILDTIME=20090522140049
BUILDMARK=165841

root@castle:/etc# **cat issue.net **
Rockhopper .dev-snapshot-20090522 %h


Kernel Command Line

root@castle:/var/home/root# **cat /proc/cmdline **
root=b302 rootdelay=2 ro fb=0x8f600000 fbcon=disable console=tty1
nduid=DeviceSpecificIDGoesHere klog=0x8ff00000 klog_len=0x100000
boardtype=castle-dvt3 dsp_base=0x8f900000 dsp_len=0x600000


Listening Ports - (see firewall below)

root@castle:/etc# netstat -taunp
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:14400 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1092/PmBtStack
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8083 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1131/java
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1173/dnsmasq
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:16888 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1092/PmBtStack
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:16889 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1092/PmBtStack
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:6010 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 6053/dropbear
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:4444 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1031/dbus-daemon
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:4445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1025/dbus-daemon
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:222 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1163/dropbear
tcp 0 0 174.149.231.221:55005 205.140.203.34:5222 ESTABLISHED 1179/pubsubservice
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:34071 127.0.0.1:14400 ESTABLISHED 1437/PmBtEngine
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:55756 127.0.0.1:4445 ESTABLISHED 1571/contextupload
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:4445 127.0.0.1:55756 ESTABLISHED 1025/dbus-daemon
tcp 0 576 10.2.3.203:222 10.2.3.228:58423 ESTABLISHED 6053/dropbear
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:14400 127.0.0.1:34071 ESTABLISHED 1092/PmBtStack
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:33941 0.0.0.0:* 1173/dnsmasq
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:53 0.0.0.0:* 1173/dnsmasq
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:67 0.0.0.0:* 1173/dnsmasq
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:68 0.0.0.0:* 6557/dhclient


File System Layout - (I have 5.2GB of my own data in /media/internal)

root@castle:/var/home/root# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 441.7M 368.9M 72.8M 84% /
/dev/root 31.0M 11.1M 19.9M 36% /boot
/dev/mapper/store-root
441.7M 368.9M 72.8M 84% /
/dev/mapper/store-root
441.7M 368.9M 72.8M 84% /dev/.static/dev
tmpfs 2.0M 152.0k 1.9M 7% /dev
/dev/mapper/store-var
248.0M 77.6M 170.4M 31% /var
/dev/mapper/store-log
38.7M 6.4M 32.3M 17% /var/log
tmpfs 64.0M 2.8M 61.2M 4% /tmp
tmpfs 119.6M 0 119.6M 0% /media/ram
/dev/mapper/store-media
6.7G 1.4G 5.2G 22% /media/internal


LVM Layout

root@castle:/var/home/root# vgdisplay -v
Finding all volume groups
Finding volume group "store"
--- Volume group ---
VG Name store
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 2
Metadata Sequence No 7
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 6
Open LV 5
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 7.62 GB
PE Size 8.00 MB
Total PE 975
Alloc PE / Size 973 / 7.60 GB
Free PE / Size 2 / 16.00 MB
VG UUID tWVoWv-vlFA-XwWT-33LX-1ZaV-twiY-qF9bDN

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/store/root
VG Name store
LV UUID NBwspO-rIY3-4Zuh-m8Ms-tXzA-lpWE-0RdiX3
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 456.00 MB
Current LE 57
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Persistent major 254
Persistent minor 0
Block device 254:0

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/store/var
VG Name store
LV UUID FTnu68-LsSa-YRch-aIOu-VbAp-hHW7-4hJU32
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 256.00 MB
Current LE 32
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Persistent major 254
Persistent minor 1
Block device 254:1

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/store/update
VG Name store
LV UUID 7HPOTh-0QgT-0Nq4-BD9x-vTt0-R2kq-DE3dOf
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 56.00 MB
Current LE 7
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Persistent major 254
Persistent minor 2
Block device 254:2

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/store/log
VG Name store
LV UUID 73c7a7-S71k-wWLI-nn9v-U6Eh-8RIQ-cnuQNA
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 40.00 MB
Current LE 5
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Persistent major 254
Persistent minor 3
Block device 254:3

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/store/media
VG Name store
LV UUID bfLJQ3-M3Vs-AhfQ-8uYp-N2iC-39mS-4TuXuI
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 6.69 GB
Current LE 856
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Persistent major 254
Persistent minor 4
Block device 254:4

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/store/swap
VG Name store
LV UUID lGNstl-OH3S-a5SA-fJhT-pSPH-brEu-Q8FAEG
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 128.00 MB
Current LE 16
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Persistent major 254
Persistent minor 5
Block device 254:5

--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/mmcblk0p3
PV UUID GJUws6-7CBV-8gzk-s7VA-uY1Q-3HxG-96ygIP
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 975 / 2


Network Interfaces - eth0 (WiFi) ppp0 (EVDO)

root@castle:/var/home/root# ifconfig
bsl0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:FE:34:7D:72
inet addr:10.1.1.10 Bcast:10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:FE:XX:XX:XX
inet addr:10.2.3.203 Bcast:10.2.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2282 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:315417 (308.0 KiB) TX bytes:677358 (661.4 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3580 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3580 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:294062 (287.1 KiB) TX bytes:294062 (287.1 KiB)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:174.149.231.221 P-t-P:66.174.200.5 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:3428 errors:5 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4745 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:1746157 (1.6 MiB) TX bytes:3258322 (3.1 MiB)


CPU Speed Scaling - (Palm locks it to 500Mhz at boot)

root@castle:# cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq
root@castle:# cat scaling_available_frequencies
600000 550000 500000 250000 125000
root@castle:# cat scaling_cur_freq
500000
root@castle:# cat scaling_available_governors
ondemand userspace
root@castle:# cat scaling_governor
userspace


Default Firewall Rules

root@castle:/var/home/root# iptables -nvL
Chain INPUT (policy DROP 233 packets, 11729 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
3580 294K ALLOWED_PACKETS all -- lo * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
0 0 INVALID_PACKETS all -- !lo * 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/0
0 0 REJECT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:113 flags:0x17/0x02 state NEW reject-with tcp-reset
0 0 DROP tcp -- bsl0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpts:4444:4445
5627 3296K ALLOWED_PACKETS all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS all -- bsl0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS all -- usb0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 0 state NEW
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 limit: avg 1/sec burst 5 icmp type 0
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 3 state NEW
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 limit: avg 1/sec burst 5 icmp type 3
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 4 state NEW
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 limit: avg 1/sec burst 5 icmp type 4
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 5 state NEW
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 limit: avg 1/sec burst 5 icmp type 5
4 324 ICMPFLOOD icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 8 state NEW
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 11 state NEW
0 0 ALLOWED_PACKETS icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 limit: avg 1/sec burst 5 icmp type 11
217 11089 LOG all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 limit: avg 1/sec burst 10 LOG flags 0 level 7 prefix `IPT_PACKET_DROPPED_NO_MATCH: '

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 14456 packets, 4914K bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

Chain ALLOWED_PACKETS (15 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
9211 3590K ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0

Chain ICMPFLOOD (1 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
4 324 all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 recent: SET name: ICMP side: source
0 0 LOG all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 recent: UPDATE seconds: 1 hit_count: 6 TTL-Match name: ICMP side: source limit: avg 1/sec burst 1 LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix `IPT_ICMPFLOOD: '
0 0 DROP all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 recent: UPDATE seconds: 1 hit_count: 6 TTL-Match name: ICMP side: source
4 324 ALLOWED_PACKETS all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0

Chain INVALID_PACKETS (1 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
0 0 LOG all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 limit: avg 1/sec burst 100 LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix `IPT_INVALID_PACKETS_DROPPED: '
0 0 DROP all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0


Running processes

root@castle:/etc# ps -ax -o user,cmd
USER CMD
root /sbin/upstart
root [kthreadd]
root [ksoftirqd/0]
root [watchdog/0]
root [events/0]
root [khelper]
root [kblockd/0]
root [cqueue/0]
root [twl4030-irq]
root [omap2_mcspi]
root [ksuspend_usbd]
root [khubd]
root [kmmcd]
root [pdflush]
root [pdflush]
root [kswapd0]
root [aio/0]
root [cifsoplockd]
root [cifsdnotifyd]
root [modem_act]
root [modem_rmw]
root [cdc-acm]
root [gadget_event]
root [tp_wq]
root [temt6200_light]
root [w1_control]
root [w1_bus_master1]
root [ksnapd]
root [kondemand/0]
root [rpciod/0]
root [mmcqd]
root [kjournald]
root [kjournald]
root udevd --daemon
root [kjournald]
root [kjournald]
root /usr/bin/pmsyslogd -z -f 6 -m
root [usb_charger]
root [file-storage-ga]
root /sbin/getty -L ttyS2 115200 vt100
root /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --system
root /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --session
root /usr/bin/PmNetConfigManager
root /usr/bin/SprintDaemon
root /usr/bin/luna-prefs-service
root /usr/bin/PmSystemTimeout
root /usr/bin/rdxd -v
root /usr/bin/hidd -v -f /etc/hidd/HidPlugins.xml --output-syslog
root /usr/sbin/storaged -s -d
root /usr/bin/uploadd -v
root /usr/bin/UpdateDaemon
root /usr/bin/PDFService
root /usr/bin/OfficeService
root BluetoothMonitor
root /usr/sbin/audiod -n -1
root /usr/bin/PmBtStack -C /dev/btuart -B 115200 00:1D:FE:XX:XX:XX 1 0x3afc 16888 1
root /usr/bin/PmWanDaemon
root /usr/bin/PmConnectionManager
root /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5-palm/bin/java -Xexact -m 10M -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5-palm/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5-palm/jre/bin:
root /usr/bin/LunaSysService
root /usr/bin/extractfs -f /var/luna/data/extractfs
root /usr/bin/fileindexer
root /usr/sbin/powerd
pulse /usr/bin/pulseaudio --log-target=syslog
root /usr/sbin/memchute
root /opt/sbin/dropbear -w -F -p 222
root /usr/bin/PmWiFiService
root /usr/bin/LunaSysMgr
root /usr/bin/dnsmasq -d -C /etc/dnsmasq.palm.conf
root /usr/bin/pubsubservice
root /usr/bin/TelephonyInterfaceLayerCdma
root /usr/bin/PmBtEngine
root /usr/bin/contextupload
root pppd /dev/tts/modem0 file /etc/ppp/options-cdma mtu 1480
root /opt/sbin/dropbear -w -F -p 222
dkelson -sh
root /usr/bin/BrowserServer
root -sh
root /usr/bin/mediaserver -l --gst-debug=1 castle
root [wlan_main_servi]
root /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -D wext -B -c /tmp/.wpa_supplicant.conf -i eth0
root /sbin/dhclient -d -cf /etc/PmWiFiDhclient.conf -sf /etc/PmWiFiDhclient-script -lf /tmp/dhclient.eth0.leases.784 -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth
root ps -ax -o user,cmd


Packages Installed

root@castle:/var/home/root# ipkg list
agg - 2.4-2 -
alsa-conf-base - 1.0.18-2.1 - Alsa sound library
alsa-lib - 1.0.18-2.1 - Alsa sound library
alsa-plugins - 1.0.18-3 - ALSA Plugins
alsa-utils - 1.0.18-1 -
alsa-utils-amixer - 1.0.18-1 -
alsa-utils-aplay - 1.0.18-1 -
amazonservice - 1.0-5 - Amazon Service
audiod - 1.0-131.2 - Audio Policy Manager
audiod-config - 1.0-78 -
audiod-config-sprint - 1.0-2 - Audio Policy Manager Sprint Configuration
base-files - 3.0.14.2-6 - Miscellaneous files for the base system.
base-passwd - 3.5.9-r5 -
bcprov - 1.41-2 -
binutils - 2.17.50.0.8-r0 -
bootchart - 0.9-r2 -
bootloader - 1.0.0-145.2.5 - Bootie 'da Bootloader
browser-adapter - 1.0.0-81.1 - browser-adapter
browserserver - 1.0.0-147.15 - BrowserServer
busybox - 1.11.3-6 -
bzip2 - 1.0.2-r3 -
cairo - 1.3.14-r0 -
camd-omap34xx - 1.0.1-31 - Reference Platform SW Camera 3A Daemon
camsrc-omap34xx - 1.0.0-25 - Reference Platform SW Camera Gstreamer Plugin
castlecdmafw - 1.0.0-51 - Modem Firmware package for Castle CDMA EVT0B
castletpfw - 1.0.2-15 -
castleumtsfw - 1.0.0-49 -
cifs - 3.0.23c-1 -
cjson - 1.0-8.1 - cjson
codesourcery-arm - 2007q3-1 -
com.handson.app.nascar - 1.0-25 - NASCAR App
com.mobitv.app.sprinttv - 1.0-36 - SprintTV App
com.motionapps.rom.classic - 1.0.0-15 -
com.motionapps.service.classic - 1.0.0-15 -
com.palm.app.amazonstore - 1.0-56 - Amazon Music Store
com.palm.app.backup - 1.0-46.4 - Backup application
com.palm.app.bluetooth - 1.0-95 - Bluetooth Panel
com.palm.app.browser - 1.0-95.6 - Browser application
com.palm.app.calculator - 1.0-20 -
com.palm.app.calendar - 1.0-134.7 - Calendar application
com.palm.app.camera - 1.0-73 - Camera application
com.palm.app.certificate - 1.0-22 - Certificate Panel
com.palm.app.clock - 1.0-19 - Clock
com.palm.app.contacts - 1.0-142.6 - Contacts application
com.palm.app.dataimport - 1.0-18.3 - Data Import application
com.palm.app.dateandtime - 1.0-32.2 - Date and Time Pref
com.palm.app.deviceinfo - 1.0-53.4.4 - Device info application
com.palm.app.devmodeswitcher - 1.0-1 -
com.palm.app.docviewer - 1.0-67.4 - Office Document Viewer application
com.palm.app.email - 1.0-135.6 - eMail application
com.palm.app.findapps - 1.0-119.2 - FindApps application
com.palm.app.firstuse - 1.0-130.7 - First Use application
com.palm.app.help - 1.0-16 - Help App
com.palm.app.languagepicker - 1.0-23.1.1.1 - Langauge Preference Panel
com.palm.app.location - 1.0-9.1.1 -
com.palm.app.maps - 1.0-22.1.1 -
com.palm.app.messaging - 1.0-118.6.1 - Messaging application
com.palm.app.musicplayer - 1.0-134 - Music Player
com.palm.app.notes - 1.0-33.1 - Notes application
com.palm.app.pdfviewer - 1.0-64.1 - PDFViewer application
com.palm.app.phone - 1.0-196.11.1 - PhoneApp
com.palm.app.phoneprefs - 1.0-83.7.1.1 - PhonePrefs App
com.palm.app.photos - 1.0-100072.1.1.1 - Photos application
com.palm.app.screenlock - 1.0-40.7.1.1 - Screen Lock Preference Panel
com.palm.app.soundsandalerts - 1.0-27.6.1.1 - Sounds & Alerts Preference Panel
com.palm.app.sprintportal - 1.0-7 - Sprint Portal launcher icon
com.palm.app.streamingmusicplayer - 1.0-34 - Streaming Music Player
com.palm.app.tasks - 1.0-55.1.1 - Tasks application
com.palm.app.updates - 1.0-40.1.1 -
com.palm.app.videoplayer - 1.0-73.1 - Video Player
com.palm.app.wifi - 1.0-59 - Wifi Panel
com.palm.app.youtube - 1.0-23.1.1 - YouTube App
com.palm.crotest - 1.0-11 -
com.telenav.app.sprintnavigation - 1.0.0-50.8 - Telenav App
com.telenav.sprintnavigation - 1.0.0-50.8 - Telenav Service
contextupload - 1.0-6 - Context upload Service
cryptsetup - 1.0.6-r2 -
curl - 7.19.3-r2 -
cypress-multitouch - 1.0.0-26 -
dbus - 1.1.20-r14 -
dbus-lib - 1.1.20-r14 -
dbus-util - 1.0-4 -
default-content - 1.0.0-10 -
dhcp-client - 3.0.2-r5 -
directfb - 1.1.0-9 -
dnsmasq - 2.40-r0 -
docadapterbase - 1.0.0-12 -
documentserver - 1.0.1-82.3 - DocumentServer
domparser - 1.0-11 -
dosfstools - 3.0.2-r1 -
downloadupdate - 1.0.0-37 -
dropbear - 0.52-3 - Lightweight SSH client and server system
dspmon-omap34xx - 1.0.0-6 -
e2fsprogs-badblocks - 1.41.4-r0 -
e2fsprogs-blkid - 1.41.4-r0 -
e2fsprogs-e2fsck - 1.41.4-r0 -
e2fsprogs-fsck - 1.41.4-r0 -
e2fsprogs-libs - 1.41.4-r0 -
e2fsprogs-mke2fs - 1.41.4-r0 -
e2fsprogs-tune2fs - 1.41.4-r0 -
e2fsprogs-uuidgen - 1.41.4-r0 -
exmap-console - 0.4.1-r1 - Exmap-console is a suite of command line applications developed around the Exmap memory analysis tool.
expat - 1.95.8-r1 -
extractfs - 1.0.1-36.3.1 - Palm embedded file extractor
fbdraw - 1.0.0-5 -
fbset - 2.1-r2 -
ffmpeg - svnr16648-r4 -
fileindexer - 1.0.1-98.3.2 - File Indexer
firstuse-media - 1.0-1 - Media file used by luna app com.palm.app.firstuse
fnmbl-clientapi - 1.0-21 -
fnmbl-clientframework - 1.0-2.1 -
fontconfig - 2.3.2-r2 -
freefont-ttf - 20061128-r1 -
freetype - 2.3.6-r2 - Freetype font rendering library
fuse - 2.7.2-r1 - With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program
fuse-utils - 2.7.2-r1 - With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program
fuser - 22.2-r1 -
gdata-java-client - 1.0-4 -
gdb - 6.8-r0 -
gdbm - 1.8.3-r3 -
geolocation-adapter - 1.0-8 - geolocation-adapter
giflib - 4.1.6-r1 -
glib-2.0 - 2.14.4-r5 - GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, f
gloox - 1.0-8 -
gmflag - 1.0.0-1 -
gnutls - 1.6.1-r1 - GNU Transport Layer Security Library
goodfork - 1.0.0-2 -
google-rfc-2445 - 1.0-5 -
gst-ffmpeg - 0.10.6-r20 -
gst-plugins-bad - 0.10.9-r20 -
gst-plugins-base - 0.10.21-r23 -
gst-plugins-good - 0.10.11-r21 -
gstreamer - 0.10.21-r20.1 - GStreamer is a multimedia framework for encoding and decoding video and sound. It supports a wide range of formats including mp
harmony - 5.0.r603534-48.1 - Apache Harmony class library
harmonykernel - 1.0.0-20 -
hidaccelerometer - 1.0.0-22 -
hidavrcp - 1.0.0-1001 -
hidd - 1.0.0-41 -
hidkeypad - 1.0.0-26 -
hidlib - 1.0.0-28 - Library for HID plugins and utilities
hidlight - 1.0.0-8 -
hidproximity - 1.0.0-10 -
hidqemukeypad - 1.0.0-5 -
hidqemutouchpanel - 1.0.0-5 -
hidtouchpanel - 1.0.0-118.3 - HidTouchpanel is the userspace touchscreen plugin.
icu4j - 3.8-3 -
initscripts - 1.1-19.2 - SysV init scripts
install-first - 1.0.0-3 -
integcheck - 1.0-7 -
ipkg - 0.99.163-r8 -
iproute2 - 2.6.18-r0 -
iptables - 1.4.2-1 -
iputils-arping - 20020927-r4 -
java-activerecord - 1.0-89.1 - ActiveRecord
java-async - 1.0-6.1 -
java-com.palm.accounts - 1.0-79.3 - Accounts
java-com.palm.accountservices - 1.0-80.1 - Nova Account Service
java-com.palm.backup - 1.0-68.1 - Backup
java-com.palm.calendar - 1.0-83.8 - Calendar
java-com.palm.carriernetworksettings - 1.0-49 -
java-com.palm.contacts - 1.0-89.7 - Contacts Service
java-com.palm.customization - 1.0-30 -
java-com.palm.dataimport - 1.0-17 -
java-com.palm.datamigration - 1.0-4 -
java-com.palm.defaultdatabasebuilder - 1.0-3 - Default Database Builder
java-com.palm.deviceprofile - 1.0-35 -
java-com.palm.devicewipe - 1.0-6 -
java-com.palm.findapps - 1.0-1.1 -
java-com.palm.interfaceregistry - 1.0-3.1 -
java-com.palm.location - 1.0-43 -
java-com.palm.mail - 1.0-137.8 - Mail
java-com.palm.mediaevents - 1.0-8 -
java-com.palm.messaging - 1.0-162.2 - Messaging
java-com.palm.messagingrouter - 1.0-29 -
java-com.palm.notes - 1.0-3 -
java-com.palm.packageinfo - 1.0-9.1 -
java-com.palm.photos - 1.0-4 -
java-com.palm.pim - 1.0-155.7 - PIM
java-com.palm.pimsync - 1.0-92.2 - PIMSync
java-com.palm.scheduler - 1.0-26 - Scheduler
java-com.palm.serviceboot - 1.0-37.1 - ServiceBoot
java-com.palm.superlog - 1.0-18 -
java-com.palm.tasks - 1.0-23.1 -
java-com.palm.telephony - 1.0-141 -
java-service - 1.0-54 -
java-utils - 1.0-56 -
jemalloc - 1.0-3 -
joda-time - 1.0-3.1 -
jpeg - 6b-r6 -
jpegdecodelib-omap34xx - 1.0.0-11 -
jpegtranscodeclient-omap34xx - 1.0.0-7 -
jpegtranscodeserver-omap34xx - 1.0.0-16 -
jwap - 1.2.cvs04012008-7 -
kernel - 2.6.24-175.1.15 - Rockhoppper Linux Kernel, v2.6.24
kernel-dev - 2.6.24-175.1.15 - Rockhoppper Linux Kernel, v2.6.24
kernel-image-2.6.24-palm-joplin-3430 - 2.6.24-175.1.15 - Rockhoppper Linux Kernel, v2.6.24
kernel-module-ecb - 2.6.24-175.1.15 - ecb kernel module; ECB block cipher algorithm
kernel-module-g-composite - 2.6.24-175.1.15 - g-composite kernel module; USB Gadget filesystem
kernel-module-oprofile - 2.6.24-175.1.15 - oprofile kernel module; OProfile system profiler
kernel-module-pcbc - 2.6.24-175.1.15 - pcbc kernel module; PCBC block cipher algorithm
kernel-module-scsi-wait-scan - 2.6.24-175.1.15 - scsi-wait-scan kernel module; SCSI wait for scans
kernel-modules - 2.6.24-175.1.15 - Kernel modules meta package
killall - 22.2-r1 -
klog - 1.0-1 -
ksoap - 2.1.1-2 -
libasound - 1.0.18-2.1 - Alsa sound library
libasound-module-ctl-pulse - 1.0.18-3 - Alsa plugin for ctl-pulse
libasound-module-pcm-pulse - 1.0.18-3 - Alsa plugin for pcm-pulse
libatomic-ops - 1.2-1 -
libavcodec - svnr16648-r4 -
libavdevice - svnr16648-r4 -
libavformat - svnr16648-r4 -
libavutil - svnr16648-r4 -
libcrypto - 0.9.8j-r2 -
libcurl - 7.19.3-r2 -
libgcrypt - 1.4.4-r1 - A general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG
libgdbus - 1.0.0-r7 -
libgpg-error - 1.4-r2 - GPG-Error library
libgpod - 0.6.0-r0 -
libicudata - 3.6-r2 -
libicui18n - 3.6-r2 -
libicuio - 3.6-r2 -
libicule - 3.6-r2 -
libiculx - 3.6-r2 -
libicutu - 3.6-r2 -
libicuuc - 3.6-r2 -
libipkg - 0.99.163-r8 -
libltdl - 1.5.24-r1 -
libmatthew-java - 0.7-r1 -
liboil - 0.3.14-r0 -
libpcap - 0.9.3-r2 - Network Packet Capture Library
libpng - 1.2.12-r5 -
libpng12 - 1.2.12-r5 -
libpulse - 0.9.14-5.4 - Pulseaudio is a sound server for Linux and Unix-like operating systems.
libpulse-simple - 0.9.14-5.4 - Pulseaudio is a sound server for Linux and Unix-like operating systems.
libpulsecore - 0.9.14-5.4 - Pulseaudio is a sound server for Linux and Unix-like operating systems.
libpurple - 1.0-r23 - multi-protocol instant messaging library
libpurple-adapter - 1.0-70 - Wrapper around libpurple for exposing libpurple functionality over dbus
libsamplerate0 - 0.1.2-r2 -
libsndfile1 - 1.0.17-r5 -
libspeex - 1.2rc1-r2 -
libsqlite - 3.6.1-r0 -
libssl - 0.9.8j-r2 -
libsysfs - 2.0.0-r0 -
libulockmgr - 2.7.2-r1 - With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program
libvolume-id - 115-r15 -
libxml2 - 2.6.26-r4 - GNOME XML Parser library
libxslt - 1.1.17-r5 - GNOME XSLT library
locationadapter - 1.0-12 - locationadapter
logctld - 1.0-25 - Log Control service
luna-applauncher - 1.0-83.4.1 - Luna Application Launcher
luna-fonts - 1.0-16 -
luna-init - 1.0-37.3 - Luna Init
luna-keymap-headers - 1.0-14 -
luna-media - 1.0-84 - Media Objects for Luna
luna-media-adapter - 1.0-45 - LunaMediaAdapter
luna-network - 1.0-17.6.1 -
luna-prefs - 1.0-43 - LunaPreferencesManager
luna-pseudocard - 1.0-7.1 - Pseudocard for luna
luna-service - 1.0.0-61 -
luna-sysmgr - 1.0-471.45 - LunaWindowManager
luna-sysservice - 1.0-34.6 - Luna System Service
luna-systemui - 1.0-183.16.1 - Luna System UI
luna-webkit - v8-162.40 - Webkit 31 + v8 Javascript engine
lvm2 - 2.02.44-r1 -
lvm2-config - 2.02.44-r1 -
lvm2-static - 2.02.44-r1 -
makedevs - 1.0.0-r2 -
masflib - 1.0-4 -
mediaadpcmdecodelib - 1.0.0-1 -
mediaregistryapp - 1.0.0-18 -
mediaserver - 1.0.0-145.13 - PmMediaServer
memchute - 1.0.0-13 - Palm Memchute - low-memory manager
minicore2 - 1.0.0-13 -
mjson - 1.0-12 -
mkbootfs-tools - 1.0-6 -
mobitv-sprint-rtspsrc - 1.0.0-16 - MobiTV GStreamer RTSP Source Element
module-init-tools - 3.2.2-r3 -
module-init-tools-depmod - 3.2.2-r3 -
modutils-initscripts - 1.0-r2 -
mojo - 1.0-175.7 - Mojo Application Framework
mtools - 3.9.11-r4 -
ncurses - 5.4-r9 -
net-tools-netstat - 1.60-r3 -
netbase - 4.21-r16 -
netcat - 0.7.1-r1 -
novacom - 1.0-5 -
novacomd - 1.0-45 -
npapiinterfacelib - 1.0.0-11 - NPAPIInterface
ntpdate - 4.2.2p3-r1 -
oasisharmonyvm - 1.0-96.2 - Oasis VM
officeadapter - 1.0.0-47 -
officeserver - 1.0.0-68.1 - OfficeServer
omadm - 1.0.0-94.1 -
omxclientlib-omap34xx - 1.0.0-14 -
openssl - 0.9.8j-r2 -
oprofile - 0.9.3-r3 -
org.json - 1.0-2.1 -
ossinfo - 1.0.0-9 -
palmaacdemux - 1.0.0-24 -
palmadpcmdecoder - 1.0.0-5 -
palmamrdemux - 1.0.0-10 -
palmaudiodecoder-omap34xx - 1.0.0-52 - palmaudiodecoder: audio decoder plugin that supports mp3, amr and aac
palmbuildinfo - 1.0.3-118 - Build Info
palmcustomizationinfo - 1.0.0-118 - Customization Info
palmdrmlib - 1.0.0-12 -
palmdrmutilslib - 1.0.0-3 -
palmhttpsrc - 1.0.0-47 - PmMediaGstHttpSrcLib
palmipc-java - 1.0.0-21 - palmipc-java
palmjpgencsink-omap34xx - 1.0.0-44 - PmMediaGstJpegEncSinkLib
palmmp3demux - 1.0.0-82 - PmMediaGstMp3DemuxLib
palmqcelpdemux - 1.0.0-15 -
palmvideodecoder-omap34xx - 1.0.0-42 - palmvideodecoder
palmvideoencoder-omap34xx - 1.0.0-3 -
palmvideosink-omap34xx - 1.0.0-34 - PmMediaGstVideoSinkLib
passthrud-castle - 1.0.0-31 -
pdfadapter - 1.0.0-36 -
piranha - 1.1-60.1 -
pmappsigningcerts - 1.0.0-1 -
pmbtcontacts - 1.0.0-1006.1 -
pmbtengine - 1.0.0-100000 -
pmbtlib - 1.0.0-38 -
pmbtos - 1.0.0-1009 -
pmbtstack - 1.0.1-100000 -
pmbtstartup - 1.0.0-1004 -
pmbttest - 1.0.0-71 - PmBtTest
pmcasper - 1.0.0-10 -
pmcertificatemgr - 1.0.0-11 -
pmcertificatemgrservice - 1.0.0-18 -
pmcertstore - 1.0.1-5.1 -
pmconnectionmanager - 1.0.0-38 - Provides Connection Management functionality for the system
pmeloop - 1.0.0-3 -
pmipcdispatch - 1.0.0-8 -
pmipclib - 1.0.0-44.3 - Palm IPC Library
pmlinuxmodemcmd - 1.0.0-6 -
pmlogctl - 1.0.0-7 -
pmlogdaemon - 1.0.0-57 -
pmloglib - 1.0.0-8 -
pmmedia - 1.0.0-2 -
pmmedia-omap34xx - 1.0.0-2 -
pmmodemfactory - 1.0.0-21 -
pmmodeminfo - 1.0.0-19 -
pmmodempower - 1.0-5 -
pmmodemupdater - 1.0.0-56 -
pmnetconfiglib - 1.0.0-9 -
pmnetconfigmanager - 1.0.0-27 -
pmnetworking - 1.0.0- -
pmnetworking-castle - 1.0.0- -
pmsystemtimeout - 1.0-1 -
pmtelephony - 1.0.0-1 -
pmtelephony-msm6xxx - 1.0.0-1 -
pmtpupdater - 1.0.1-24 -
pmupdater - 1.0.0-89 -
pmwandaemon - 1.0.0-101.5 - PmWanDaemon
pmwanpppplugin - 1.0.0-14 -
pmwifidriver - 1.0.0-39-175.1.15 - Marvell's WiFi Driver for SD8686 chipset
pmwifiservice - 1.0.0-63 - PmWiFiService: Linux Daemon which controls WiFi subsystem
popt - 1.7-r4 -
powerd - 1.0.0-124 - Palm powerd daemon
ppp - 2.4.3-r3 -
procps - 3.2.7-r8 -
psmisc - 22.2-r1 -
pstree - 22.2-r1 -
pubsubservice - 1.0-49.2 - Publish Subscribe Service
pulseaudio - 0.9.14-5.4 - Pulseaudio is a sound server for Linux and Unix-like operating systems.
pulseaudio-lib-alsa-util - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for alsa-util
pulseaudio-lib-auth-cookie - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for auth-cookie
pulseaudio-lib-authkey - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for authkey
pulseaudio-lib-cli - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for cli
pulseaudio-lib-iochannel - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for iochannel
pulseaudio-lib-ioline - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for ioline
pulseaudio-lib-ipacl - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for ipacl
pulseaudio-lib-packet - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for packet
pulseaudio-lib-pdispatch - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for pdispatch
pulseaudio-lib-protocol-cli - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for protocol-cli
pulseaudio-lib-protocol-native - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for protocol-native
pulseaudio-lib-pstream - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for pstream
pulseaudio-lib-pstream-util - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for pstream-util
pulseaudio-lib-socket-server - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for socket-server
pulseaudio-lib-socket-util - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for socket-util
pulseaudio-lib-strlist - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for strlist
pulseaudio-lib-tagstruct - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio library for tagstruct
pulseaudio-misc - 0.9.14-5.4 - Pulseaudio is a sound server for Linux and Unix-like operating systems.
pulseaudio-module-alsa-sink - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for alsa-sink
pulseaudio-module-alsa-source - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for alsa-source
pulseaudio-module-cli - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for cli
pulseaudio-module-cli-protocol-unix - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for cli-protocol-unix
pulseaudio-module-default-device-restore - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for default-device-restore
pulseaudio-module-detect - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for detect
pulseaudio-module-native-protocol-unix - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for native-protocol-unix
pulseaudio-module-null-sink - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for null-sink
pulseaudio-module-palm-a2dp-provider-sink - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for palm-a2dp-provider-sink
pulseaudio-module-palm-policy - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for palm-policy
pulseaudio-module-rescue-streams - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for rescue-streams
pulseaudio-module-suspend-on-idle - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for suspend-on-idle
pulseaudio-module-volume-restore - 0.9.14-5.4 - PulseAudio module for volume-restore
pulseaudio-server - 0.9.14-5.4 - Pulseaudio is a sound server for Linux and Unix-like operating systems.
rdxd - 1.0.0-44.2 - Remote diagnostics daemon
readline - 4.3-r4 -
redbend - 2.1.1.13-2 -
rsync - 2.6.9-r0 -
saxparser - 1.0-13 - saxparser
screen - 4.0.2-r1 -
setcharge - 0.1-4 -
setserial - 2.17-r1 -
shutdownscripts - 1.0.0-15 -
sprintdaemon - 1.0.0-51.6 - SprintDaemon listens for IPC messages send by client or server (Sprint) for provisioning and device configuration, and launches
sqlite-service - 1.0-6 -
sqlite3 - 3.6.1-r0 -
sqlite3-palm-extension - 1.0-15 -
sqlitejdbc - v053-4 -
storaged - 1.0-51.1 - Storage Manager
strace - 4.5.14-r4 -
sweatshop-sprint-castle - 1.0-118 - Version 1.0-118 of package sweatshop-sprint-castle
sysfsutils - 2.0.0-r0 -
sysstat - 9.0.1-r1 -
systemsoundsloader - 1.0.0-13 -
sysvinit - 2.86-r36 -
sysvinit-pidof - 2.86-r36 -
telephonyinterfacelayer1cdma - 1.0.0-118.9 - TelephonyInterfaceLayer for CDMA
telephonyinterfacelayer1gsm - 1.0.0-125 -
telephonyinterfacelayercommon - 1.0.0-2 -
tellbootie - 1.0-3 -
thumbnailextractorlib-omap34xx - 1.0.0-21 - ThumbnailExtractor
tiff - 3.7.1-r0 -
tilipctest - 1.0.0-54 -
timezone - 2006l-r1 -
tiopenmax - L23.8M3-127-175.1.15 - OpenMax IL implementation from Texas Instruments
touchpanel-measure - 1.0-2 -
trenchcoat - 1.1-33 - Trenchcoat -- Palm's Flashing Tool
udev - 115-r15 -
update-modules - 1.0-r4 -
update-rc.d - 0.7-r0 -
updatedaemon - 1.0.0-115 - UpdateDaemon listens for IPC messages involving a system software update, and launches the OmaDm, Downloader, and PmUpdater exe
uploadd - 1.0.0-17 -
upstart - 0.3.8-16-r1 -
upstart-initscripts - 1.0-66.1 - upstart jobs not package-specific
upstart-sysvcompat - 0.3.8-16-r1 -
uriparser - 0.7.4-r0 -
usbmon - 1.0-3 -
usbnet - 1.0.0-1 -
util-linux-ng-blockdev - 2.14.2-r4 -
util-linux-ng-ionice - 2.14.2-r4 -
util-linux-ng-losetup - 2.14.2-r4 -
util-linux-ng-mkswap - 2.14.2-r4 -
util-linux-ng-swaponoff - 2.14.2-r4 -
vibetonz - 1.0.0-4 -
vibetonz-castle - 1.0.0-4 -
wireless-tools - 29-r2 -
wpa-supplicant - 0.6.4-r0 -
wxwidgets - 2.8.7-r3 - wxWidgets is a cross platform application framework utilizing native widgets.
zlib - 1.2.3-r2 -

]]> Linux Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1 Released tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2009:/dax//2.258 2009-04-02T22:51:21Z 2009-04-02T23:12:51Z Today I noticed that Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1 was released. It turns out that it was released last Wednesday, but I didn't notice until today when Adobe put it in their RPM yum repository. On Windows is common to have... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax Today I noticed that Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1 was released. It turns out that it was released last Wednesday, but I didn't notice until today when Adobe put it in their RPM yum repository.

On Windows is common to have lots application specific background apps wasting memory checking to see if new versions have been released. The Linux software update model is definitely better in that regard (though it does have it's own issues such as having to wait until the next stable distribution release to cleanly get the next version of GNOME).

]]> Sun's Java JRE/JDK on Linux including 64bit applet support tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2009:/dax//2.255 2009-03-17T16:06:45Z 2009-09-21T21:50:58Z My last blog entry covered issues running a 64bit Linux desktop. I promised more details on installing and using 64bit Java applet support with 64bit Firefox. Note this blog entry has been updated on Sept 21st, 2009 to reflect JDK... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax My last blog entry covered issues running a 64bit Linux desktop. I promised more details on installing and using 64bit Java applet support with 64bit Firefox.

Note this blog entry has been updated on Sept 21st, 2009 to reflect JDK 6 Update 16.

Java Installation Primer
Currently, there are many methods to install Java on Linux:


  1. Use the Sun Java RPMs or installer only.

  2. Use the Sun Java RPMs along with the java-1.6.0-sun-compat RPM to get JPackage policy compliance enabling the /etc/alternatives for managing multiple concurrent Java JVM installation.

  3. Use the Sun Java RPMs provided by your distribution. For example, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, enabling the RHEL Supplementary software channel enables you to install and automatically keep current the Sun Java RPMs which have been repackaged into a JPackage compliant form.

Using Method 1 - Sun RPMs only

When using method 1 above, you'll download the file jdk-6u16-linux-x64-rpm.bin or jdk-6u16-linux-i586-rpm.bin. After making it executable, you'll run the file which will extract and then install the following RPMs:

jdk-6u16-linux-amd64.rpm or jdk-6u16-linux-i586.rpm
sun-javadb-client-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm
sun-javadb-common-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm
sun-javadb-core-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm
sun-javadb-demo-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm
sun-javadb-docs-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm
sun-javadb-javadoc-10.4.2-1.1.i386.rpm

Finally, to install Java Applet support for Firefox and other browsers that are compatible with Firefox plugins, create a symlink in the Mozilla plugin directory:

  • 64bit Java Applet Support (new with Java 1.6.0_12)

cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.16/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so

  • 32bit Java Applet Support

cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.16/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Notice that the browser plugin library filename is different between 32bit and 64bit java.

Using Method 2 - Sun RPMs with JPackage compatibility

To use method 2, install the same RPMs in method 1 above, but then install one more additional RPM that makes the Sun RPMs compatible with the JPackage policy.

That RPM is the java-1.6.0-sun-compat RPM, and you would normally simply obtain it from the JPackage website. The only problem is that as of September 2009, the package is out of date (currently only supporting Sun Java 1.6.0_03).

I have created a java-1.6.0-sun-compat RPM that works with 1.6.0_16. Note that ever since Sun Java version 1.6.0_12 64bit Java Applet support has been available. You can grab it here:

64bit - java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.16-1jpp.x86_64.rpm
32bit - java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.16-1jpp.i586.rpm

Using the java-1.6.0-sun-compat RPM there is no need to manually create the browser plugin symlink.

For the sake of completeness and if you are into creating RPMs yourself, you might be interested in the SPEC and the SRPM file and the patch to the SPEC. Normally you don't need these files.

java-1.6.0-sun-compat.spec
java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0_06-to-1.6.0_12.spec.patch
java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.16-1jpp.src.rpm

Using Method 3 - Using Sun Java included with your distribution

If you are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 with a RHN subscription, getting the latest Sun Java automatically installed on your systems is pretty easy.

  1. Login to RHN
  2. Subscribe to the RHEL Supplementary software channel on the desired system
  3. Back on your 64bit system run: 
    yum install java-1.6.0-sun java-1.6.0-sun-plugin.x86_64
    On a 32bit system run: 
    yum install java-1.6.0-sun java-1.6.0-sun-plugin
  4. Optionally, if you want the JDK and not just the JRE (because you plan on compiling Java software), then run: 
    yum install java-1.6.0-sun-devel
]]> Issues running a 64bit Linux desktop tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2009:/dax//2.254 2009-03-16T22:20:28Z 2009-03-17T21:17:01Z Running a 64bit Linux desktop has a few bumpy areas. I've been running a 64bit Linux desktop for the past year to take advantage of the 8GB of RAM that my T61p laptop now has. The bumpy areas are: 32bit... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax Running a 64bit Linux desktop has a few bumpy areas. I've been running a 64bit Linux desktop for the past year to take advantage of the 8GB of RAM that my T61p laptop now has. The bumpy areas are:

  • 32bit applications require all the 32bit libraries to be installed. This primarily concerns proprietary apps like Adobe Acroread since virtually all open sources apps are compiled to 64bit binaries already. This isn't a huge issue, just a little more bloat on the hard drive and package updates have to be pulled down for both architectures.
  • The old trick of having mplayer (or similar apps) use DLLs from Windows for some codecs such as WMV9 no longer work. There are workarounds (such as having a separate 32bit version of mplayer installed), but I don't encounter much WMV9 video on the internet -- most sites use Flash video or H.264 nowadays.
  • Linux Flash support. Two ways to address this. Use the 32bit Flash plugin with nspluginwrapper, or use the new (not production quality yet) 64bit Flash plugin (with or without nspluginwrapper).
  • 64bit Java Applet support. Even though Sun has been shipping 64bit Java JVMs forever, there has been no 64bit Java Applet plugin for 64bit browsers. The request has been tracked in the Sun java bug database as bug id 4802695 (bug created in Jan 2003). In 2008 there was some progress outside of Sun to bring 64bit applet support to fruition as part of the IcedTea project's gcjwebplugin with partial success. Finally, on February 20th, 2009 Sun released JDK/JRE 1.6.0_12 with "64-Bit Browser Support for Java Plugin and Java Webstart".

My next blog post will cover how to install and use the new 64bit Java applet support.

]]> Flash 10 Released for Linux! tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2008:/dax//1.253 2008-10-15T19:25:14Z 2008-10-17T00:22:49Z Today I noticed that Flash 10 was released for Linux. The version is 10.0.12.36. Still no 64bit version but, the the long standing bug of having flash menus appear behind other content has been finally fixed (assuming you have Firefox... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax Today I noticed that Flash 10 was released for Linux. The version is 10.0.12.36.

Still no 64bit version but, the the long standing bug of having flash menus appear behind other content has been finally fixed (assuming you have Firefox 3.0.2 or newer).

On systems that use RPM you can run:

$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm

Or if you have Adobe yum repo installed (recommended), just do a:

$ sudo yum update flash-plugin

Be sure to read the Flash 10 Tips for important info on using Flash 10.

]]> Official Details on IBM/Lenovo T61 tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2007:/dax//1.237 2007-04-24T17:01:58Z 2008-01-28T23:05:47Z Having owned several IBM T-series ThinkPads I've always been a fan. The ownership of T-series has spread throughout the troupe of Linux Training instructors here at Guru Labs as lesser laptops have fallen to the wayside. I've had my current... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax Having owned several IBM T-series ThinkPads I've always been a fan. The ownership of T-series has spread throughout the troupe of Linux Training instructors here at Guru Labs as lesser laptops have fallen to the wayside.

I've had my current T42p for almost three years now. I've been very happy with it. The build quality is excellent, and it anyone looking at it would never guess it has been used daily for the last three years. The Linux support is superb. The only problem is that the 2.0 Ghz Pentium-m CPU in it doesn't support PAE so Xen in RHEL5/FC6 doesn't work.

Today I found that IBM has posted details on the new Santa Rosa chipset based T61 laptops to be released next month. I plan on picking one up to replace my T42p. Some of the highlights:

* All the benefits of Santa Rosa platform
* LCD roll cage
* Firewire port
* NVIDIA Quadro 140M replaces ATI as high video card option
* Four-in-one media reader
* New Intel 4965AGN WiFi card

More information is available in the Announcement Letter (HTML) or Announcement Letter (PDF)

]]> Software and Development News tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2006:/dax//1.205 2006-07-19T23:08:52Z 2008-01-28T23:05:46Z There has been lots of activity the past little while on the software development front. Here is a sampling of few things that caught my eye. SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 On Monday, Novell released the long awaited SUSE Linux Enterprise... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax There has been lots of activity the past little while on the software development front. Here is a sampling of few things that caught my eye.

SUSE Enterprise Linux 10

On Monday, Novell released the long awaited SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop version 10. Guru Lab's Linux courseware and classes cover both SUSE Linux Enterprise as well as Red Hat Linux Enterprise and we are working on releasing updated materials to cover this new version 10 release (and later this year, RHEL5).

Major Squid Release

The Squid web proxy server has a new major v2.6 release after several years. Some of the new features include better scalability, a "totally transparent" mode which rewrites layer 3 and 4 address and port numbers, support for Negotiate/Kerberos authentication, hardware assisted SSL support, and many other features. I authored the Squid chapter and lab used in our GL275: Enterprise Linux Services class and I'm excited about adding coverage the new v2.6 features. Too bad that none of the 2006 Enterprise Linux releases will include Squid v2.6.

Compiz in Fedora

On the Fedora Core v6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 development front there has been a few things of note. The OpenGL window and compositing manger, Compiz has been added to rawhide. It seems that 2006 is the year of ubber eye-candy in Linux. I doubt it will ship as part of RHEL5, but FC6 desktops should be all set. On difference between SUSE and Fedora is that Compiz sits on top of AIGLX instead of XGL. A Red Hat developer provides some more details in a post to the fedora-devel-list.

Essential Perl Modules now in Fedora

Several years ago when we added comprehensive LDAP coverage to the GL275 class we ran into a deficiency. We teach the best practice approaches to using LDAP as a NIS replacement. That often involves importing user accounts into LDAP from files in /etc. The PADL migration tools leave a lot to be desired from a functionality and user friendliness perspective. So I wrote a new migration tool in perl called "ldapmigrate". Of course when communicating with the LDAP server it is best to do so over an encrypted SSL/TLS connection. To that end my "ldapmigrate" script makes use of the perl modules IO-Socket-SSL and Net_SSLeay. By having those two modules installed the perl LDAP module can make the encrypted connections. Although SUSE included those modules as part of the distribution, Red Hat did not and I filed a bug report in 2003 to add them. In the interim we compiled and provided those modules in class. Finally, today they were added to rawhide so those modules will part of Fedora Core v6 and RHEL5.

]]> Treo700p Mini-review tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2006:/dax//1.195 2006-06-08T21:37:03Z 2008-01-28T23:05:46Z I've had my shiny new Treo700p for the past week and I thought I share a few things I've noticed about upgrading from my Treo650. By far, the best new feature is support for super fast (slightly less fast than... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax I've had my shiny new Treo700p for the past week and I thought I share a few things I've noticed about upgrading from my Treo650.

By far, the best new feature is support for super fast (slightly less fast than DSL) data access via EVDO. The speed difference is incredible and the latency is about 1/2 of what it used to be.

Benefits of the speed increase (and latency decrease):


  • SSH sessions have nearly no lag! (note that I use pssh as my PalmOS SSH client)

  • IRC, VNC and RDP remote desktop sessions are also greatly improved with nearly zero lag.

  • Web browsing is MUCH faster due to the lower latency, faster download speeds and improvements to cache handling in Blazer v4.5.

  • Doing a new email check my IMAP inbox (with 24,000+ messages) now takes about 10 seconds versus a minute on the Treo650. New emails download very fast.

  • High quality streaming audio and video is now possible. I know lots of people are going gagga over the fact that Orb works. The 3GP test page worked fine for me.

  • Tethering your Laptop via Bluetooth DUN results in speeds around 250Kbs. If you tether your laptop via USB the speeds are around 950Kbs!

Besides the killer speed increase there has also been a large round of polishing. Some things I've noticed in that regard include:


  • The "screen is locked" dialog now shows the time.

  • Contacts can be assigned a custom ring tone in the Contacts app.

  • The SMS app has seen a face lift.

  • The excellent Documents To Go app with PDF, MS Word, MS Excel (incidentally, it does calculations on TEXT cells the same way as Excel), MS Powerpoint support is now included and installed the ROM.

All in all I'm very pleased with the upgrade to the Treo700p.

]]> OpenOffice Calc Is Evil tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2006:/dax//1.194 2006-06-07T21:56:32Z 2008-01-28T23:05:46Z Uggh. I hate to do this, but I don't want to have someone trip over this unmarked landmind and possibly lose a bunch of money/reputation/sanity. All over the world OpenOffice.org/StarOffice is pitched as a replacement for Microsoft office including Excel.... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax Uggh. I hate to do this, but I don't want to have someone trip over this unmarked landmind and possibly lose a bunch of money/reputation/sanity.

All over the world OpenOffice.org/StarOffice is pitched as a replacement for Microsoft office including Excel.

As such OO calc can read MS Excel files, but it does something very very bad. It performs calculations DIFFERENTLY than Excel (no warnings even).

This is pure evil.

The issue is that Excel will perform math calculations on numbers even if the cell is formatted as "TEXT" or has text in it. The very newest Excel indicates something is amiss by having a small green triangle in the corner of the cell, but this behavior is not likely to ever change so as to maintain backwards compatibility.

The problem with OpenOffice Calc is that in most situations (but not always) it will silently ignore numbers in "text" cells that are part of formulas or calculations and in the end produce wrong answers.

This Excel compatibility problem was reported 5 years ago!

See http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5658 for the sad sad commentary, many duplicate bug reports as well as the unfortunate inability by the OO.org developer(s) to consider this a problem of any importance.

For example, some developer comments:

"not a defect."
"Not a bug ! Text is text and not a number so you can't calculate with text."
"IMHO not a bug from Calc but from Excel"
"we are not an Excel clone and will not be !"

I *almost* had a $20,000 mistake (not in my favor) thanks to OpenOffice.org Calc while I was creating an invoice from an Excel XLS file emailed to me by a client.

]]> GPL Dell Server Management and Linux tag:blogs.gurulabs.com,2006:/dax//1.193 2006-06-07T19:44:47Z 2008-01-28T23:05:46Z Server vendors like Dell love Linux as it helps them sell hardware. It is in their best interest to have their servers work well with Linux. Dell has long had a server management software called Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA)... Dax http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax Server vendors like Dell love Linux as it helps them sell hardware. It is in their best interest to have their servers work well with Linux.

Dell has long had a server management software called Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) which provides a command line and web interface to monitors hardware details and failures as well as has the ability to "plug-in" to various datacenter management platforms like HP OpenView, CA Unicenter, and Novell Zenworks.

Historically OMSA required several binary-only kernel modules for drivers to the system management chips. This meant that if you used OMSA, it would "taint" your kernel rendering your system unsupported by kernel developers (although you could still get support from your Enterprise Linux vendor and Dell).

Today I noticed that Dell OpenManage Server Administrator v5.0 was released. The press release didn't mention this, but digging deeper I discovered this tidbit:

Starting with OMSA 5.0, all necessary kernel components are now fully open source, GPL licensed, and included in kernel.org 2.6.x. This includes the OpenIPMI drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi* drivers, drivers/firmware/dell_rbu Remote BIOS Update driver, and drivers/firmware/dcdbas Dell Base Systems Managment driver. This should make it much easier to install and run OMSA on a variety of Linux distributions (userspace library incompatibilities, if any, notwithstanding).

That is very cool! Well done Dell.

I also found out today that Dell makes it easy (relatively so) to install OMSA via a "unofficial" yum repository. Do any other big hardware vendors have yum repos for their management tools?

Information on the repository is available at: http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/

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