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

[Albert Chu]

It's not clear the order you did the above, the typical procedure is:

make clean
./configure --prefix=/tmp/new
make


It's possible "--exec-prefix=/tmp/new" is also needed in the configure
line, depending on your environment.

Al


On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 5:55 PM, VJ <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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> >
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