From benjamin at py-soft.co.uk  Fri Jun  1 06:45:28 2007
From: benjamin at py-soft.co.uk (Benjamin Donnachie)
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:45:28 +0100
Subject: [cAos] caos3 development
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Michael Jennings wrote:
>> Here's the bind_update script I use on my system in a monthly cron
>> job.
> It's in bind-9.3.2-3.caos.

I've updated my copy to lose the ping test:

--- bind_update 2007-06-01 14:42:11.000000000 +0100
+++ bind_update 2007-05-18 00:30:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -33,15 +33,15 @@
     exit 1
  }

-# Are we online?  Ping a server at your ISP
- case `ping -qnc 1 news.bbc.co.uk 2>&1` in
-   *'100% packet loss'*)
-        echo "Subject: named.ca NOT updated.  The network is DOWN."
-        echo
-        echo "The subject says it all"
-        exit 1
-        ;;
- esac
+# # Are we online?  Ping a server at your ISP
+# case `ping -qnc 1 news.bbc.co.uk 2>&1` in
+#   *'100% packet loss'*)
+#        echo "Subject: named.ca NOT updated.  The network is DOWN."
+#        echo
+#        echo "The subject says it all"
+#        exit 1
+#        ;;
+# esac

  dig @e.root-servers.net . ns >named.ca.new 2> errors


My new firewall doesn't allow machines on the DMZ to ping and any errors
should be caught by the script anyway.  Plus it avoids all cAos users
trying to ping the same server at once! :-)

Take care,

Ben


From slaton at berkeley.edu  Wed Jun  6 14:22:52 2007
From: slaton at berkeley.edu (slaton)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:22:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [cAos] Anyone using Qlogic FC cards?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706061413020.16677@toro.berkeley.edu>

Anyone out there using Qlogic fibrechannel cards with caos? If so i'm 
curious how you got this working.

The qla2xxx driver included with the kernel (i'm using 2.6.17.11-103) 
seems to work via modprobe, IF already booted. But to mount FC-attached 
filesystems during boot, the card wants to load its firmware from a file 
during the boot process.

(Aside...i read somewhere that including firmware with the kernel is no 
longer kosher, so while the firmware may still be in the kernel source it 
is deprecated and thus ignored.)

This is where i'm having trouble. I've added /lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin 
to my inird, since the driver docs mention putting the firmware here. It 
doesn't work, i still get the "Firmware image unavailable" error during 
boot. My modprobe.conf includes:

 alias scsi_hostadapter3 qla2xxx

Anyone have this working, with fc attached filesystems mounting during 
boot?

tia

Slaton Lipscomb
Nogales Lab, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://cryoem.berkeley.edu