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Re: [Freeipmi-users] bmc-config : Unknown section `User11'


From: VJ
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] bmc-config : Unknown section `User11'
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:55:27 -0800

so how does the make system work ?
I made the change to bmc-config.c and did a $ make clean all
and I also did a configure --prefix=/tmp/newinstall

but it still seems to take the old installation

Can you plz give me some tips ?

Thanks.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Albert Chu <address@hidden> wrote:

> Internally, bmc-config uses that number of users a motherboard supports
> to determine what configurations specified by the user are legal or
> illegal.  In your case, the 10 user motherboard will issue an error on
> "User11" b/c it is illegal for that machine.
>
> There isn't a flag to change this behavior at the moment.  I have
> created an issue to investigate this as an option.
>
> Most users of bmc-config have per-motherboard configurations, so this
> use case isn't very common.  One idea: the sections in the config file
> don't have to be in order.  User11-User16 could be at the end of the
> file instead of earlier in the file.  If you had a conf file with only
> user11-user16, this could be appended to the end of a "generic" conf
> file.
>
> Al
>
> On Mon, 2017-01-30 at 14:03 -0800, VJ wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Some BMCs have 10 users, and the others might have 16, I order to have a
> > generic bmc-config conf I would like to have more than 10 user section.
> >
> > But, when I use this config on bmc that have only 10 user capacity it
> gives
> > an error saying : Unknown section `User11'
> >
> > Is there a flag to change it as warning so it works on both BMCs ( one
> with
> > 10 and 16 user capacity ?) or Is that an IPMI specification?
> >
> > Thanks.
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> --
> Albert Chu
> address@hidden
> Computer Scientist
> High Performance Systems Division
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>
>
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