[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI - Alpha-4 QA-1 Released.

[Albert Chu]

Hey AB,

I just realized this.  For sensors and bmc-config, I think we should
also have a --io-port option.  So they can be used on machine sthat
don't use 0xCA2 as their KCS i/o port ... 

Al

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Albert Chu
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----- Original Message -----
From: Albert Chu <address@hidden>
Date: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:48 am
Subject: Re: FreeIPMI - Alpha-4 QA-1 Released.

> Hey AB,
> 
> A few issues with the sensors and bmc-config stuff.
> 
> sensors
> 
> It seems the sensors cache is always stored in /var/tmp.  I don't 
> thinkthis is the greatest location for it.  We have cronjobs that 
> regularlycleanup/remove files in /var/tmp.  Perhaps we could have 
> an option that
> allows us to specify the location of the sensors cache?  Or perhaps a
> fish configuratoin file can always be read which lists an alternate 
> default location.  It might be best to ask Robin and the admin team 
> whatthe best option is though.
> 
> bmc-config
> 
> I assume that some of the issues we talked about in the last e-mail
> thread about bmc-config just aren't done yet, so I won't talk about 
> them.  
> 
> I did notice a problem with userX_password configuration in the
> configuration file.  If you don't list a password for an already
> existent user, the password is automatically changed to NULL.  That
> means we'd always have to re-type the password in the configuration 
> fileif we want to re-commit that configuration file.
> 
> How about if userX_password is a special case and is always commented
> out when you do a --checkout?  That way, the values are only 
> changed if
> the user really wants them changed. So ...
> 
> ###   Uncomment following to assign password
> ###   Empty password is acceptable.
> #user1_password 
> #user2_password 
> #user3_password 
> #user4_password
> 
> Al
> 
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> Albert Chu
> address@hidden
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Anand Babu <address@hidden>
> Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:11 am
> Subject: FreeIPMI - Alpha-4 QA-1 Released.
> 
> >     ********* THIS IS NOT A RELEASE. ONLY FOR QA TEAM *********
> > Alpha-4 QA-1 Released:
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.californiadigital.com/pub/freeipmi/fish-0.1.0-alpha4-
> > 
> qa1.tar.gzftp://ftp.californiadigital.com/pub/freeipmi/libfreeipmi-
> > 0.0.0-alpha4-qa1.tar.gz
> > 
> >     ********* THIS IS NOT A RELEASE. ONLY FOR QA TEAM *********
> > 
> > After installing of "fish", you will find "sensors" and "bmc-config"
> > installed in the ${prefix}/sbin dir. Man pages are available for 
> both> the utilities.
> > 
> > Whats New!
> > ----------
> >  - Closed all reported BUGS [#8062 #8064 #8067 #8075 #8076 #8082 
> > #8084].  - Proper exit status.
> > 
> > Happy Hacking,
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> > (_||_)
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> > 
>