Comments for Patrick's Blog(2)

Comment on NFSv4 on CentOS 5.3 and Fedora 11 by Deadpan110

Deadpan110 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:15:24 +0000

Once again I'm back here for my quick n easy point of reference :) Just a note about my above mentioned MOUNTD_NFS_V3="no". I am not exactly sure what that is in the config for as when it is set, the nfs service fails to start even with RPCNFSDARGS="-N 2 -N 3 -U" set. (I suppose I could Google but figured I would leave a comment here to correct my above answer).

Comment on NFSv4 on CentOS 5.3 and Fedora 11 by Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:28:18 +0000

@mathiaz , @Deadpan110 : Apologies for not responding sooner and thank you both for your feedback. I will correct the rpcbind typo. Please let me know if there's anything else I should add or change.

Comment on NFSv4 on CentOS 5.3 and Fedora 11 by Deadpan110

Deadpan110 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:29:05 +0000

@mathiaz …It seems that after a month, this blog owner has not commented back regarding his useful NFSv4 posting.

I can confirm that ‘rpcidmapd’ is what you will need – it may be a typo as the rest of the post refers correcly.

Also, MOUNTD_NFS_V3=”no” can be used but IMHO, it would be best to leave that because NFSv4 can then still be mounted as NFSv3 in case of any difficulties.

Now I have said that… perhaps fallback to NFSv3 would mean that it would not be wise to remove ‘nfslock’ either.

On a final note for other readers… as this method does not use kerberos with any other types of authentication, you will also need a method to match users and group numbers across the server and clients (as with NFSv3)… for a small network (Like my home network)… I just create our few users on every machine which avoids the use of LDAP/NIS/etc (failing to do this will cause some strange owner and group numbers on the client machines and cause the share to be mainly unusable).

Other than that… I also use this posting as a point of reference – good work!

Comment on NFSv4 on CentOS 5.3 and Fedora 11 by mathiaz

mathiaz — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:22:37 +0000

hi,

good work !
very usefull!

On the client
“service rpcbind start”
I don’t have any rpcbind. Is it rpcidmapd instead?

On the server why don’t you add
MOUNTD_NFS_V3=”no” ?

Thanks,
Mathiaz

Comment on Nokia N900 – no FLAC and Ogg support by limux

limux — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:04:54 +0000

It is a Linux you know. You can pretty much get them function right away by yourself with earlier Maemo’s flac and oggvorbis libraries. I do not think that maemo has changed a lot, so that they wouldn’t function. And if they DON’T, the community will quite quickly fix the situation…

Oh and you don’t need to talk about firmwares “anymore”. There will be updates for seperate parts of the system, not the whole firmware. Ofcourse, as it is embedded device, it has a firmware.. but there is no need to update the whole firmware just to get a FLAC support on a media player, for example. Just like in your PC.. install the basic system (firmware), then you just update it.

Comment on FreeSWITCH 1.0.4 released by Peter Briffett

Peter Briffett — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:27:13 +0000

G.729 is now available for Freeswitch – get a free trial on http://www.howlertech.com

Comment on Nokia N95 SIP and Asterisk 1.4 by yuliantz

yuliantz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:35:02 +0000

Nice info…

it’s works my N95 with asterisk.. the VoIP sound very clear… thanks…

Comment on PCI Wi-Fi card & Fedora by Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:04:36 +0000

@Fevrin: after I updated my MythTV box to Fedora 10 I could no longer make that Conceptronic card work with either the rt2500 code from serialmonkey.com or the built-in drivers. I got fed up with trying and did some research on a PCI or USB WiFi alternative on http://www.linuxwireless.org/

As a result I bought a Linksys WMP54G PCI card, a Linksys WUSB54G USB stick and a Belkin F5D7050 v.4000 USB stick. The PCI card is recognized out of the box in Fedora 10 but the wireless link keeps getting disconnected/deauthenticated. I haven’t tried the two USB sticks. Will leave a comment when I have.

Comment on PCI Wi-Fi card & Fedora by Fevrin

Fevrin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:51:42 +0000

Unfortunately, it’s difficult when you use a Ralink card (rt2500pci driver) that’s now longer supported in newer distributions :/ My Hawking HWP54G (rev. R) card was supported just fine up to Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Fedora 9, but newer than that, no luck. One of the common denominators between those distros is GNOME, but whatever it is, no amount of magic seems to allow my perfectly capable card from working in those cases.

Comment on SVN and WebSVN over SSL with self-signed certificates by Anders C. Madsen

Anders C. Madsen — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:21:08 +0000

Just a note to those following this tutorial:

A self-signed CA will no longer work with Firefox and should be avoided since you cannot add an exception for the untrusted signature (but you can for a certificate created without a CA).

Hence, item 2) in the list above can be condenced into this:

$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 4096
$ openssl req -x509 -new -days 365 -set_serial 01 -key server.key -out server.crt
$ openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.insecure
$ mv server.key server.key.secure
$ mv server.key.insecure server.key

Proceed from step 3) from here.

You will most likely have to accept the new certificate (p)ermanently once per svn client.