Re: [Freeipmi-users] in-band failure on Suns

[Al Chu]

Hey Dave,

Doh!  Thanks for tracking this down.  I see it.  That's totally a bug.
Let me get a new tar.gz out for you to try.

Al

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 22:25 +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> I've figured out what's going on to give the difference between my
> simple build of the new version and the rpm.  First of all, they are
> both dynamically linked -- I'd forgotten how libtool builds work, and
> had just seen ldd say `not a dynamic executable' without thinking in a
> hurry.
> 
> The difference is that the packaged version was picking up my existing
> /etc/freeipmi.conf (unlike the one destined for /usr/local).  That has
> 
>   workaround-flags authcap
> 
> appropriate for the majority of our nodes out-of-band.  Commenting that
> out makes the new bmc-info work in-band with the kernel drivers loaded.
> 
> Is that a bug or expected?  (The business of these workarounds is rather
> a nightmare.)
> 
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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory