Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
Matthew Saltzman wrote:

 But it seems to me that it should be easy enough to cater for all users,
 by having a setting in some /etc/NM.conf which will allow NM to start
 with a specific connection before anyone logs in
 _if that is what one wants_,
 or if not requires the user to authenticate before connection.
 
 
 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F9Common#networkmanager-static

I read this, and followed the instructions there as well as I could,
creating the following /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 
--
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NM_CONTROLLED=Yes
HWADDR=00:02:2D:21:03:C9
IPADDR=192.168.2.19
NETWORK=192.168.2.0
GATEWAY=192.168.2.2
TYPE=Wireless
DHCP_HOSTNAME=mary.gayleard.com
IPV6INIT=no
ESSID=dd-wrt
KEY=secret
--

But the effect of installing this was to stop NM working.
(It had been working perfectly.)
Actually, WiFi appeared to be working from the flashing lights
on my WiFi card, but I got the message Network unavailable.

In any case, as far as I could see NM (or nm-applet) did not start up
until I logged in, as usual, so even if this had worked
I don't think it would improved matters.

As I said before, the fact that NM starts late does not actually worry me
too much, I just find it puzzling.
To date I have 4 files in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/
to run various programs (eg NFS mount)
which have to wait for a network connection.




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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

 Occasionally I try to access the internet from a WiFi hotspot
 but my experience in Ireland is that this is rarely as simple as it
 sounds.
 (Last time I tried in a pub here it turned out that they wanted me to
 pay
 the equivalent of several pints of beer.)
 
 OT, but there used to be a place in Westmoreland St. Dublin that allowed
 you unlimited Wifi for the cost of a cup of coffee. We spent a whole
 afternoon there a couple of years ago.
 
 Unfortunately, they've gone out of business ...

Completely OT, but the story of this cafe (Bewley's) was very sad.
The owner (Vincent Bewley) was a quaker saint
who gave all the shares in his very successful group of cafes
to the staff (with shares distributed equally, I believe) ...

This might have succeeded in heaven, but not on earth.


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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-04 Thread Matthew Saltzman

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 14:58 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
 Matthew Saltzman wrote:
 
  But it seems to me that it should be easy enough to cater for all users,
  by having a setting in some /etc/NM.conf which will allow NM to start
  with a specific connection before anyone logs in
  _if that is what one wants_,
  or if not requires the user to authenticate before connection.
  
  
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F9Common#networkmanager-static
 
 I read this, and followed the instructions there as well as I could,
 creating the following /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 
 --
 DEVICE=eth1
 ONBOOT=yes
 BOOTPROTO=dhcp
 NM_CONTROLLED=Yes
 HWADDR=00:02:2D:21:03:C9
 IPADDR=192.168.2.19
 NETWORK=192.168.2.0
 GATEWAY=192.168.2.2
 TYPE=Wireless
 DHCP_HOSTNAME=mary.gayleard.com
 IPV6INIT=no
 ESSID=dd-wrt
 KEY=secret
 --
 
 But the effect of installing this was to stop NM working.
 (It had been working perfectly.)
 Actually, WiFi appeared to be working from the flashing lights
 on my WiFi card, but I got the message Network unavailable.
 
 In any case, as far as I could see NM (or nm-applet) did not start up
 until I logged in, as usual, so even if this had worked
 I don't think it would improved matters.

First, I haven't actually tired this yet, as I haven't had time to
install F9 on any of my machines.  But I will have a chance sometime
soon, maybe this weekend.

nm-applet doesn't start until you log in, but NetworkManager starts at
boot if it is set to do so.  My understanding is that NM (the service)
should start an interface at boot if ifcfg-device is set up correctly.
It's likely that mobile users wouldn't want an interface to come up if
it wasn't under their control (through nm-applet).

 
 As I said before, the fact that NM starts late does not actually worry me
 too much, I just find it puzzling.
 To date I have 4 files in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/
 to run various programs (eg NFS mount)
 which have to wait for a network connection.

I think I've seen that the NM service will be set to start earlier in
the boot sequence in a soon-to-be-released update.  The longer-term
solution would be to have services that require a network understand how
to wait for one to come up (through dBus, for example).

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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
Matthew Saltzman wrote:

  But it seems to me that it should be easy enough to cater for all
  users, by having a setting in some /etc/NM.conf which will allow NM to
  start with a specific connection before anyone logs in
  _if that is what one wants_,
  or if not requires the user to authenticate before connection.
  
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F9Common#networkmanager-static
 
 I read this, and followed the instructions there as well as I could,

 First, I haven't actually tired this yet, as I haven't had time to
 install F9 on any of my machines.  But I will have a chance sometime
 soon, maybe this weekend.

I've tried it with various versions of ifcfg-eth1 .
(It was suggested to me that giving an IPADDR when using dhcp 
might confuse NM.)

In any case, my experience has been that as soon as I move ifcfg-eth1
to /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ , NM stops working,
with the message You have been disconnected ...

(So at least NM must be looking at this file.
I'm pretty sure it didn't do that earlier in its life.)

 nm-applet doesn't start until you log in, but NetworkManager starts at
 boot if it is set to do so.  My understanding is that NM (the service)
 should start an interface at boot if ifcfg-device is set up correctly.
 It's likely that mobile users wouldn't want an interface to come up if
 it wasn't under their control (through nm-applet).

Depends what you mean by a mobile user.

Personally, I would like NM to try to connect
to the last ESSID it succeeded in connecting to,
and if it can't connect then ask me which of the ESSIDs it sees
I want to connect to.

Just like Windows XP, in fact, which seems to me to have this about right.

 I think I've seen that the NM service will be set to start earlier in
 the boot sequence in a soon-to-be-released update.  The longer-term
 solution would be to have services that require a network understand how
 to wait for one to come up (through dBus, for example).

Actually, it is not too difficult to start them
in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ .

I just don't think it is a very rational arrangement.




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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-04 Thread Mike Chambers
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 12:33 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

Since this subject is bout Boinc and solved, shouldn't another thread be
started, at least about what your currently talking about so can be
followed from archives a little easier?  Otherwise, who would know to
search for boinc when discussing NM stuff? LOL

Sorry, not ranting on your discussion, I don't care, just bringing up a
suggestion for future fedoraers haha (is that a word?)

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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 15:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
 
  Occasionally I try to access the internet from a WiFi hotspot
  but my experience in Ireland is that this is rarely as simple as it
  sounds.
  (Last time I tried in a pub here it turned out that they wanted me to
  pay
  the equivalent of several pints of beer.)
  
  OT, but there used to be a place in Westmoreland St. Dublin that allowed
  you unlimited Wifi for the cost of a cup of coffee. We spent a whole
  afternoon there a couple of years ago.
  
  Unfortunately, they've gone out of business ...
 
 Completely OT, but the story of this cafe (Bewley's) was very sad.
 The owner (Vincent Bewley) was a quaker saint
 who gave all the shares in his very successful group of cafes
 to the staff (with shares distributed equally, I believe) ...
 
 This might have succeeded in heaven, but not on earth.

Bewley's actually was extremely successful for over 150 years until it
closed in 2004. The Grafton St. branch has since reopened under new
management but of course it's not the same. I think they still have the
amazing stained-glass windows though.

Anyway, the place I'm talking about wasn't Bewley's, or indeed even
remotely in the same class.

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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rahul Sundaram wrote:

 Sorry, Rahul, you have lost me here.
 When I say that NM waits until the user logs in
 I mean that NetworkManager does not connect me to my AP
 until I login.
 
 Again, you are confusing between NM and nm-applet.

I don't think so.
I am using the term NetworkManager - as I think most people do -
to mean NM and any associated programs which it may start.

 Therefore any application that requires me to be connected
 has to wait until I login.
 This doesn't worry me particularly, but it does puzzle me.
 
 I am asking the reason for this delay.
 
 I believe I already answered that. NM was initially designed to manage
 wireless networks easily where it makes more sense to connect after you
 login. Refer
 
 http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/

Thanks for that reference, which looks pretty good at a quick first glance.

I guess I start from a different point to yourself and the NM developer(s).
I and my family use WiFi on laptops in my house,
to connect to the desktop connected to the internet.
Occasionally I try to access the internet from a WiFi hotspot
but my experience in Ireland is that this is rarely as simple as it sounds.
(Last time I tried in a pub here it turned out that they wanted me to pay
the equivalent of several pints of beer.)
But 99% of the time we are using laptops to connect to a fixed AP.

In other words, for me WiFi is simply a replacement for ethernet.
I suspect that is the case for a large majority of WiFi users.

In fact, for people like me - which as I say I suspect is most users -
the standard network service would be fine if it worked.
It used to work reasonably well under Redhat-9 (and earlier)
but it has never worked properly under Fedora, for me.

But it seems to me that it should be easy enough to cater for all users,
by having a setting in some /etc/NM.conf which will allow NM to start
with a specific connection before anyone logs in
_if that is what one wants_,
or if not requires the user to authenticate before connection.

 Perhaps if there was some minimal documentation for NM this might be
 clear.
 
 Perhaps if you will volunteer to contribute, it would have been done by
 now. If you want to wait for someone else to do the work, it is going to
 be done when others find time and interest to do it.

It would be very foolish for me to try to document NM.
I recall with horror a HOWTO written by Karl you-know-who
which was guaranteed to sow utter confusion in any reader.

But it always surprises me that a developer who must have spent weeks 
if not months thinking about his pet project
has never found it useful for him/her-self if no-one else
to set down the basic principles of the project.
I often think one of the advantages of democracy
is that when politicians and bureaucrats are forced to document
what they are doing they usually find that this increases 
their own understanding, and so improves their performance.

Actually, the document you pointed to seems to me
a pretty good starting point.

But the question it does not answer, and which it is obvious
many users would like an answer to, is:
What can I do if NetworkManager does not connect me to my AP?
How can I tell where it has broken down?
And what steps can I take to solve the problem?







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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:40 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
 Occasionally I try to access the internet from a WiFi hotspot
 but my experience in Ireland is that this is rarely as simple as it
 sounds.
 (Last time I tried in a pub here it turned out that they wanted me to
 pay
 the equivalent of several pints of beer.)

OT, but there used to be a place in Westmoreland St. Dublin that allowed
you unlimited Wifi for the cost of a cup of coffee. We spent a whole
afternoon there a couple of years ago.

Unfortunately, they've gone out of business ...

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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-03 Thread Matthew Saltzman

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:40 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 
  Sorry, Rahul, you have lost me here.
  When I say that NM waits until the user logs in
  I mean that NetworkManager does not connect me to my AP
  until I login.
  
  Again, you are confusing between NM and nm-applet.
 
 I don't think so.
 I am using the term NetworkManager - as I think most people do -
 to mean NM and any associated programs which it may start.
 
  Therefore any application that requires me to be connected
  has to wait until I login.
  This doesn't worry me particularly, but it does puzzle me.
  
  I am asking the reason for this delay.
  
  I believe I already answered that. NM was initially designed to manage
  wireless networks easily where it makes more sense to connect after you
  login. Refer
  
  http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/
 
 Thanks for that reference, which looks pretty good at a quick first glance.
 
 I guess I start from a different point to yourself and the NM developer(s).
 I and my family use WiFi on laptops in my house,
 to connect to the desktop connected to the internet.
 Occasionally I try to access the internet from a WiFi hotspot
 but my experience in Ireland is that this is rarely as simple as it sounds.
 (Last time I tried in a pub here it turned out that they wanted me to pay
 the equivalent of several pints of beer.)
 But 99% of the time we are using laptops to connect to a fixed AP.
 
 In other words, for me WiFi is simply a replacement for ethernet.
 I suspect that is the case for a large majority of WiFi users.
 
 In fact, for people like me - which as I say I suspect is most users -
 the standard network service would be fine if it worked.
 It used to work reasonably well under Redhat-9 (and earlier)
 but it has never worked properly under Fedora, for me.
 
 But it seems to me that it should be easy enough to cater for all users,
 by having a setting in some /etc/NM.conf which will allow NM to start
 with a specific connection before anyone logs in
 _if that is what one wants_,
 or if not requires the user to authenticate before connection.


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F9Common#networkmanager-static


  Perhaps if there was some minimal documentation for NM this might be
  clear.
  
  Perhaps if you will volunteer to contribute, it would have been done by
  now. If you want to wait for someone else to do the work, it is going to
  be done when others find time and interest to do it.
 
 It would be very foolish for me to try to document NM.
 I recall with horror a HOWTO written by Karl you-know-who
 which was guaranteed to sow utter confusion in any reader.
 
 But it always surprises me that a developer who must have spent weeks 
 if not months thinking about his pet project
 has never found it useful for him/her-self if no-one else
 to set down the basic principles of the project.
 I often think one of the advantages of democracy
 is that when politicians and bureaucrats are forced to document
 what they are doing they usually find that this increases 
 their own understanding, and so improves their performance.
 
 Actually, the document you pointed to seems to me
 a pretty good starting point.
 
 But the question it does not answer, and which it is obvious
 many users would like an answer to, is:
 What can I do if NetworkManager does not connect me to my AP?
 How can I tell where it has broken down?
 And what steps can I take to solve the problem?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: BOINC again !? -- LAST POST

2008-07-03 Thread William Case
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 19:57 -0700, Craig White wrote:
 On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 22:52 -0400, William Case wrote:

[SNIP]
 
 report it just like you did above...if the packager has questions, he'll
 ask but I would suggest that you file it against NetworkManager package.
 
 It's important to work out all of the issues with NetworkManager to
 solve them once and for all.
 
 Craig
 

I reported it as a bug.  Just got the following reply:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453317

Boinc is probably starting so soon after NetworkManager that the
network is not up yet.  It's technically a bug in Boinc that it doesn't
wait for a network connection and periodically re-try to send/grab the
data.  But for the moment, you can add the line:

NETWORKWAIT=yes

to /etc/sysconfig/network and startup will block for 10 seconds or until
a network connection is up, whichever is sooner.

I added the suggested line, because it probably covers all instances of
shutdowns, crashes etc.  whereas the rc.local solution only works with a
normal clean startup.

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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
Andrew Kelly wrote:

 There is also a large amount of work that needs to
 be done on fixing software that doesn't react well to network
 connections disappearing underneath them as happens often with wireless
 networks on laptops and mobile systems.
 
 Rahul

 As much as I am not a fan of NetworkManager, I think I have to give
 that post an A'men. 'Specially that last sentence.
 
 NM is a worthy target for criticism, but it shouldn't be a punching boy
 for other applications weaknesses.

But this was a specific, concrete query.
Why does NM wait until the user has logged in to start?
I don't think you can blame other applications for problems this causes.



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Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up.

2008-07-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mike Evans wrote:

 For machines with a wired connection I have been in the habit of
 disabling NM and using the good old network service.  Works like a dream
 and doesn't need tampering with.  You can do that through the
 Admin-services gui if you don't like fiddling with the links in the
 init directories.

But most people nowadays use a WiFi connection, at least on laptops,
so the advice to use the good old network service is not much help.
as the network service is much, much worse than NM with WiFi
in my experience.

Both are completely undocumented, so one is in the world of magic.




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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram

Timothy Murphy wrote:


But this was a specific, concrete query.
Why does NM wait until the user has logged in to start?


That's a wrong assumption. NM doesn't wait until the user has started. 
It is a system service which starts at boot. nm-applet(GNOME) or 
Knetworkmanager (KDE) is just a frontend to the system service called 
NM. It is possible to write a console frontend  to do a similar task for 
the non-desktop case but NM atleast initially was designed to make 
wireless network access easier. It has grown additional functionality 
over time however.


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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rahul Sundaram wrote:

 But this was a specific, concrete query.
 Why does NM wait until the user has logged in to start?
 
 That's a wrong assumption. NM doesn't wait until the user has started.
 It is a system service which starts at boot. nm-applet(GNOME) or
 Knetworkmanager (KDE) is just a frontend to the system service called
 NM. It is possible to write a console frontend  to do a similar task for
 the non-desktop case but NM atleast initially was designed to make
 wireless network access easier. It has grown additional functionality
 over time however.

Sorry, Rahul, you have lost me here.
When I say that NM waits until the user logs in
I mean that NetworkManager does not connect me to my AP
until I login.
Therefore any application that requires me to be connected
has to wait until I login.
This doesn't worry me particularly, but it does puzzle me.

I am asking the reason for this delay.
Perhaps if there was some minimal documentation for NM this might be clear.

The standard network service, on the rare occasions when it works for me,
does not wait for me to login.


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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram

Timothy Murphy wrote:

Sorry, Rahul, you have lost me here.
When I say that NM waits until the user logs in
I mean that NetworkManager does not connect me to my AP
until I login.


Again, you are confusing between NM and nm-applet.


Therefore any application that requires me to be connected
has to wait until I login.
This doesn't worry me particularly, but it does puzzle me.

I am asking the reason for this delay.


I believe I already answered that. NM was initially designed to manage 
wireless networks easily where it makes more sense to connect after you 
login. Refer


http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/networkmanager/


Perhaps if there was some minimal documentation for NM this might be clear.


Perhaps if you will volunteer to contribute, it would have been done by 
now. If you want to wait for someone else to do the work, it is going to 
be done when others find time and interest to do it.


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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-02 Thread Matthew Saltzman

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:30 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: 
 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 
  But this was a specific, concrete query.
  Why does NM wait until the user has logged in to start?
  
  That's a wrong assumption. NM doesn't wait until the user has started.
  It is a system service which starts at boot. nm-applet(GNOME) or
  Knetworkmanager (KDE) is just a frontend to the system service called
  NM. It is possible to write a console frontend  to do a similar task for
  the non-desktop case but NM atleast initially was designed to make
  wireless network access easier. It has grown additional functionality
  over time however.
 
 Sorry, Rahul, you have lost me here.
 When I say that NM waits until the user logs in
 I mean that NetworkManager does not connect me to my AP
 until I login.
 Therefore any application that requires me to be connected
 has to wait until I login.
 This doesn't worry me particularly, but it does puzzle me.
 
 I am asking the reason for this delay.
 Perhaps if there was some minimal documentation for NM this might be clear.
 
 The standard network service, on the rare occasions when it works for me,
 does not wait for me to login.

Think about how accessing wireless systems works.  If you have to
authenticate, then you have to be logged in to do it (or you have to
preconfigure it).  If you are a mobile user, you may have to do it
several times--NM makes the process about as convenient as possible.
Authentication should be tied to a user: user A should not necessarily
be able to authenticate to user B's WAP unless user A also knows the
key.  (Apropos another thread, that's why the keyring is used to store
encrypted keys.)

NM was originally designed primarily for mobile machines that may
connect to many different networks or no network, so management by a
logged-in user is a reasonable assumption.  The F9 NM supposedly also
has the ability to set system-level access parameters (including static
IPs) and connect at boot, but that mostly makes sense for workstations
and servers.  (I'm still running F8, so I haven't figured out how to do
it yet.)

 
 
 
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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:09 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

 Think about how accessing wireless systems works.  If you have to
 authenticate, then you have to be logged in to do it (or you have to
 preconfigure it).  If you are a mobile user, you may have to do it
 several times--NM makes the process about as convenient as possible.
 Authentication should be tied to a user: user A should not necessarily
 be able to authenticate to user B's WAP unless user A also knows the
 key.  (Apropos another thread, that's why the keyring is used to store
 encrypted keys.)

This actually raises an interesting point. The various discussions of
wireless authentication I've seen don't clearly distinguish between the
user and the device in all cases. Sometimes they do (e.g. when using WPA
in an enterprise mode which requires authenticating the actual user to a
central server) and other times they don't (such as the very common PSK
mode where everyone just knows the magic passphrase).

What happens in the following scenario: User A logs in to his laptop and
authenticates. Without logging out, User B comes along and logs in as
well (on a different virtual console). Can User B now access the network
without needing to authenticate again? If so, NM is treating the
authentication as per-device, if not, then it's per-user. Does it depend
on the WPA mode? I don't know.

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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-02 Thread Matthew Saltzman

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
 On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:09 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
 
  Think about how accessing wireless systems works.  If you have to
  authenticate, then you have to be logged in to do it (or you have to
  preconfigure it).  If you are a mobile user, you may have to do it
  several times--NM makes the process about as convenient as possible.
  Authentication should be tied to a user: user A should not necessarily
  be able to authenticate to user B's WAP unless user A also knows the
  key.  (Apropos another thread, that's why the keyring is used to store
  encrypted keys.)
 
 This actually raises an interesting point. The various discussions of
 wireless authentication I've seen don't clearly distinguish between the
 user and the device in all cases. Sometimes they do (e.g. when using WPA
 in an enterprise mode which requires authenticating the actual user to a
 central server) and other times they don't (such as the very common PSK
 mode where everyone just knows the magic passphrase).
 
 What happens in the following scenario: User A logs in to his laptop and
 authenticates. Without logging out, User B comes along and logs in as
 well (on a different virtual console). Can User B now access the network
 without needing to authenticate again? If so, NM is treating the
 authentication as per-device, if not, then it's per-user. Does it depend
 on the WPA mode? I don't know.

Ooh, good point.  The answer is, once the link is up, it's tied to the
device.  I think you can even log out of your session and into another
without taking the link down (but I haven't tried that).

I'll leave it to Dan Williams (NM developer) to address possible
alternative architectures.

 
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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-07-02 Thread Tim
Timothy Murphy:
 Perhaps if there was some minimal documentation for NM this might be clear.

Rahul Sundaram:
 Perhaps if you will volunteer to contribute, it would have been done by 
 now. If you want to wait for someone else to do the work, it is going to 
 be done when others find time and interest to do it.

How could anybody without the needed information write documentation for
it?  And trying to figure out documentation by reading the source code,
apart from being a difficult task, is only going to sensible if the
authors don't change what the program does.

Program authors have to write the documentation.  Anybody else doing it
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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram

Tom Horsley wrote:


I don't think any problems in NetworkManager will ever be considered
bugs until RedHat foists it on their paying RHEL customers


There is a little problem with that theory. Both Red Hat and upstream 
bugzilla shows a considerable amount of bugs being filed and fixed on a 
regular basis and RHEL 5 already includes NetworkManager as a fully 
supported component. There is also a large amount of work that needs to 
be done on fixing software that doesn't react well to network 
connections disappearing underneath them as happens often with wireless 
networks on laptops and mobile systems.


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Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 22:52 -0700, Craig White wrote:
[big snip]
 
 yum install mod_ssl
 service httpd restart
 
Port 443 now appears in netstat.  Thanks.
Boinc still not working -- but that is an application problem to be
figured out in the morning. 

 seems hard to believe that mod_ssl wasn't already installed.
 
 What packages are required by boinc?  Are they installed? Sounds like
 you built it from source and not from rpm packaging.
 

Had it working fine in Fedora 8 when it was an rpm install from the
Boinc site.  If you are wondering; it is a distributed computing program
working on cancer, dengue fever cures etc.

This time it was packaged in the Fedora 9 repo site.
I downloaded and installed it with yum (yumex).

Thanks Craig.  I actually learned a lot about a subject(s) I had been
putting off too long.  I appreciate your help. 

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Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-28 Thread Markku Kolkka
Craig White kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 28. 
kesäkuuta 2008):
 
 don't know anything about BOINC but do you have/need httpd
 running (sounds like it)

You don't need httpd to run the BOINC client. It doesn't need any 
incoming firewall ports open either. I think this thread got 
sidetracked somewhere, I don't believe the OP wants to run a 
BOINC project server.

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Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-28 Thread Mike Burger

 On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 23:22 -0400, William Case wrote:
 On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:19 -0400, John Munn wrote:
  You need to open the ports in your firewall (iptables).
 Didn't have iptables running.  I do now with ports 80 and 443 set as
 trusted -- still nothing.

 Do I have to move or link some file(s) from /var/lib/boinc to $HOME?
 
 don't know anything about BOINC but do you have/need httpd running
 (sounds like it)

 /sbin/service httpd status
 /sbin/service httpd start

Boinc does not require httpd to be running on the local system.


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Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
Hi Markku;

On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:37 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote:
 Craig White kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 28. 
 kesäkuuta 2008):
  
  don't know anything about BOINC but do you have/need httpd
  running (sounds like it)
 
 You don't need httpd to run the BOINC client. It doesn't need any 
 incoming firewall ports open either. I think this thread got 
 sidetracked somewhere, I don't believe the OP wants to run a 
 BOINC project server.
 
You are right.  I don't want to run a server.  I just want to get the
boinc applications (boinc-clent and boincmgr) that I downloaded (yumed)
from the Fedora 9 repo up and running.  And, I want to keep it running
after I re-boot.

My problem is I keep getting this error message from bonicmgr: BOINC is
unable to communicate with a project and needs an Internet connection.
Please connect to the Internet, then select the 'retry communications'
item off the advanced menu.

I am connected to the internet.  I have selected the 'retry
communications item off the advanced menu.  I always get: Sat 28 Jun
2008 09:39:50 AM EDT|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request:
Requested by user.  Requesting 2 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed
tasks and Sat 28 Jun 2008 09:39:55 AM EDT|World Community Grid|
Scheduler request failed: Couldn't resolve host name

I never had this problem when I installed in F8 from the boinc site rpm.
Boinc works in F9 immediately after a new install.

By the way, time wasn't wasted last night.  I did delve into learning
about matters I should have dealt with before.

But... Any suggestions on how I get my boinc working.

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Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-28 Thread Tom Weniger
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 But... Any suggestions on how I get my boinc working.

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Greetings William,

I have used the following site to get my boinc going:

http://www.gaztronics.net/rc/boinc.php

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Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up.

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
Hi;

I give up.  I am filing a bug.

On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:48 -0600, Tom Weniger wrote:
 On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  But... Any suggestions on how I get my boinc working.
 
  --

 Greetings William,
 
 I have used the following site to get my boinc going:
 
 http://www.gaztronics.net/rc/boinc.php
 
 Hope this helps
I have followed all of the advice given here.  I greatly appreciate
everyone's effort to help.

However, I still have the original problem.  When I yum erase
boinc-client and boincmgr and start over with a fresh yum install --
boinc works. It is finding all my projects and running them
successfully. Boincmgr reports accurately what boinc is doing and
responds to my commands. It is now running in the background.  

If I where to shutdown my computer and restart, boinc won't restart even
though service boinc is running. I can't be more definite than that
because I don't have a clue what the problem is.

I am not a complete beginner, and no package should be this difficult
(two days now) to analyze and get running.  The only solution is to file
a Fedora bug on boinc and put up with being seared at by the packagers
and maintainers.

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Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up.

2008-06-28 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote:
 Hi;
 
 I give up.  I am filing a bug.
 
 On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:48 -0600, Tom Weniger wrote:
  On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   But... Any suggestions on how I get my boinc working.
  
   --
 
  Greetings William,
  
  I have used the following site to get my boinc going:
  
  http://www.gaztronics.net/rc/boinc.php
  
  Hope this helps
 I have followed all of the advice given here.  I greatly appreciate
 everyone's effort to help.
 
 However, I still have the original problem.  When I yum erase
 boinc-client and boincmgr and start over with a fresh yum install --
 boinc works. It is finding all my projects and running them
 successfully. Boincmgr reports accurately what boinc is doing and
 responds to my commands. It is now running in the background.  
 
 If I where to shutdown my computer and restart, boinc won't restart even
 though service boinc is running. I can't be more definite than that
 because I don't have a clue what the problem is.
 
 I am not a complete beginner, and no package should be this difficult
 (two days now) to analyze and get running.  The only solution is to file
 a Fedora bug on boinc and put up with being seared at by the packagers
 and maintainers.

I believe that what Patrick was trying to tell you is that if you are
using NetworkManager, then it's entirely possible that networking isn't
fully operational when boinc service starts at bootup which would cause
it to fail. That can probably be verified by merely issuing
'/sbin/service boinc restart' (assuming that restart is an option for
the boinc sysv script). If that works, then it might just be easier to
put that command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (/sbin/service boinc restart)

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Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up.

2008-06-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote:
 On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote:
  Hi;
  
  I give up.  I am filing a bug.
  
  On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:48 -0600, Tom Weniger wrote:
   On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
But... Any suggestions on how I get my boinc working.
   
--
  
   Greetings William,
   
   I have used the following site to get my boinc going:
   
   http://www.gaztronics.net/rc/boinc.php
   
   Hope this helps
  I have followed all of the advice given here.  I greatly appreciate
  everyone's effort to help.
  
  However, I still have the original problem.  When I yum erase
  boinc-client and boincmgr and start over with a fresh yum install --
  boinc works. It is finding all my projects and running them
  successfully. Boincmgr reports accurately what boinc is doing and
  responds to my commands. It is now running in the background.  
  
  If I where to shutdown my computer and restart, boinc won't restart even
  though service boinc is running. I can't be more definite than that
  because I don't have a clue what the problem is.
  
  I am not a complete beginner, and no package should be this difficult
  (two days now) to analyze and get running.  The only solution is to file
  a Fedora bug on boinc and put up with being seared at by the packagers
  and maintainers.
 
 I believe that what Patrick was trying to tell you is that if you are
 using NetworkManager, then it's entirely possible that networking isn't
 fully operational when boinc service starts at bootup which would cause
 it to fail. That can probably be verified by merely issuing
 '/sbin/service boinc restart' (assuming that restart is an option for
 the boinc sysv script). If that works, then it might just be easier to
 put that command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (/sbin/service boinc restart)

Exactly.

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Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up.

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
Hi Craig;

On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote:
 On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote:
  Hi;
  
  I give up.  I am filing a bug.
  
  On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:48 -0600, Tom Weniger wrote:
   On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 AM, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
But... Any suggestions on how I get my boinc working.
   
--
  

 
 I believe that what Patrick was trying to tell you is that if you are
 using NetworkManager, then it's entirely possible that networking isn't
 fully operational when boinc service starts at bootup which would cause
 it to fail. That can probably be verified by merely issuing
 '/sbin/service boinc restart' (assuming that restart is an option for
 the boinc sysv script). If that works, then it might just be easier to
 put that command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (/sbin/service boinc restart)
 
 Craig
 

Yes, I am using NetworkManager.  I have tried one last test. I removed
and re-installed boinc.  With that, boinc was able to connect to WCG and
download 2 more work units.  Boinc has only been able to connect to WCG
to get work units on a new install -- never after a re-boot.  Boinc is
processing those work units now. 

I have since shut down my computer and rebooted.  Since the work units
are on my machine, my computer is continuing to process those units.  It
will take approximately 6 hrs to finish processing them.  I am waiting
to see if then it can automagically re-connect to WCG and obtain further
work units.  

If it can't I will try Patrick's Network Manager solution.

If that works, I then have to decide whether this is a Network Manager
bug; a Boinc bug; or both.  Of course, if boincmgr does successfully
reconnect to WCG and download additional work units, I will write the
whole thing off as my screwing around too much while Boinc was just
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Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up. --correction

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
[snip]
 If that works, I then have to decide whether this is a Network Manager
 bug; a Boinc bug; or both.  Of course, if boincmgr does successfully

bug; a Boinc bug; or both.  Of course, if boinc-clent does successfully

 reconnect to WCG and download additional work units, I will write the
 whole thing off as my screwing around too much while Boinc was just
 trying to do its thing.
 

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Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up.

2008-06-28 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 16:19 -0400, William Case wrote:

 If it can't I will try Patrick's Network Manager solution.
 
 If that works, I then have to decide whether this is a Network Manager
 bug; a Boinc bug; or both.  Of course, if boincmgr does successfully
 reconnect to WCG and download additional work units, I will write the
 whole thing off as my screwing around too much while Boinc was just
 trying to do its thing.

service boinc restart

a relatively simple fix.

If you were to file a bug report, I would file it against NetworkManager
as this would mean that boinc works when networking is fully functional.

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Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up.

2008-06-28 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 06:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
 Craig White wrote:
  On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 16:19 -0400, William Case wrote:
  
  If it can't I will try Patrick's Network Manager solution.
 
  If that works, I then have to decide whether this is a Network Manager
  bug; a Boinc bug; or both.  Of course, if boincmgr does successfully
  reconnect to WCG and download additional work units, I will write the
  whole thing off as my screwing around too much while Boinc was just
  trying to do its thing.
  
  service boinc restart
  
  a relatively simple fix.
  
  If you were to file a bug report, I would file it against NetworkManager
  as this would mean that boinc works when networking is fully functional.
 
 If the analysis of NM starting too late in the boot process is correct, 
 wouldn't one of these make life a bit more tolerable?  Keeping in mind that 
 I don't use F9, NM, or BOINC.  :-)
 
 1.   Change the script number in /etc/init.d of NM to a lower number than 
 BOINC or change BOINC number to one higher than NM.
 
 2.Do not configure BOINC to start a boot time in the usual manner but 
 add a server boinc start to rc.local.

I too don't use NM or BOINC but I do use F9

On F8, this clearly was a problem...
# grep chkconfig /etc/init.d/NetworkManager
# chkconfig: - 98 02

but on F9, I would have thought that this would have solved some of
these issues...
# grep chkconfig /etc/init.d/NetworkManager
# chkconfig: - 27 84

which would have it start up much earlier (of course if this was an
upgrade instead of clean install, I don't know if the sequences are
adjusted when the upgrade is accomplished). I don't have BOINC installed
but I have to believe that the startup sequence number would already
have it loading after NM.

I would think that moving it up from 98 to 27 would have solved many of
the reported issues but perhaps not...I just don't know and as you say,
I don't personally use NM.

My own personal preference would be to leave NM enabled at boot time and
put '/sbin/server boinc restart' in rc.local only because sometimes I
look at boot time services and would want to know that the 'intent' was
to start it up.

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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-06-28 Thread William Case
Hi Patrick and Craig;

Thanks a million, I would and thousands of others would never have
guessed NetworkManager was BOINC's problem in a thousand years.

On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote:
 On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote:

 
 I believe that what Patrick was trying to tell you is that if you are
 using NetworkManager, then it's entirely possible that networking isn't
 fully operational when boinc service starts at bootup which would cause
 it to fail. That can probably be verified by merely issuing
 '/sbin/service boinc restart' (assuming that restart is an option for
 the boinc sysv script). If that works, then it might just be easier to
 put that command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (/sbin/service boinc restart)
 
 Craig
 
As I said, after re-installing Boinc and then re-booting,  I ran a new
set of the work units to the end.  No new units would download.
boincmgr complained about a lack of a connection -- BINGO.

I re-booted just to see.  No joy -- BINGO

I then added '/sbin/service boinc-client restart' to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
and re-booted once again.  --BINGO  

Everything was up and running. New work units were down loaded
automatically and boinc is happily processing away as I write.

N.B.  For anyone following this saga and has a similar problem notice
one correction.  The line is '/sbin/service boinc-client restart', not
'/sbin/service boinc restart'.

Re: Bug reporting.  I think this bug is worth reporting, although you
probably know better which details to report regarding NetworkManager.
Some poor unlucky shmuck could get caught from 2 days to a week trying
to figure out what was wrong.

Once again, thanks very much to both of you, and the others that tried
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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-06-28 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 22:52 -0400, William Case wrote:
 Hi Patrick and Craig;
 
 Thanks a million, I would and thousands of others would never have
 guessed NetworkManager was BOINC's problem in a thousand years.
 
 On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:51 -0700, Craig White wrote:
  On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 14:30 -0400, William Case wrote:
 
  
  I believe that what Patrick was trying to tell you is that if you are
  using NetworkManager, then it's entirely possible that networking isn't
  fully operational when boinc service starts at bootup which would cause
  it to fail. That can probably be verified by merely issuing
  '/sbin/service boinc restart' (assuming that restart is an option for
  the boinc sysv script). If that works, then it might just be easier to
  put that command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (/sbin/service boinc restart)
  
  Craig
  
 As I said, after re-installing Boinc and then re-booting,  I ran a new
 set of the work units to the end.  No new units would download.
 boincmgr complained about a lack of a connection -- BINGO.
 
 I re-booted just to see.  No joy -- BINGO
 
 I then added '/sbin/service boinc-client restart' to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
 and re-booted once again.  --BINGO  
 
 Everything was up and running. New work units were down loaded
 automatically and boinc is happily processing away as I write.
 
 N.B.  For anyone following this saga and has a similar problem notice
 one correction.  The line is '/sbin/service boinc-client restart', not
 '/sbin/service boinc restart'.
 
 Re: Bug reporting.  I think this bug is worth reporting, although you
 probably know better which details to report regarding NetworkManager.
 Some poor unlucky shmuck could get caught from 2 days to a week trying
 to figure out what was wrong.
 
 Once again, thanks very much to both of you, and the others that tried
 to give me a hand.

report it just like you did above...if the packager has questions, he'll
ask but I would suggest that you file it against NetworkManager package.

It's important to work out all of the issues with NetworkManager to
solve them once and for all.

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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-06-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 22:52 -0400, William Case wrote:
 Thanks a million, I would and thousands of others would never have
 guessed NetworkManager was BOINC's problem in a thousand years.

Lucky guesses sometimes work out :-)

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Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up.

2008-06-28 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 06:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
 If the analysis of NM starting too late in the boot process is
 correct, wouldn't one of these make life a bit more tolerable?
 Keeping in mind that I don't use F9, NM, or BOINC.  :-)
 
 1.   Change the script number in /etc/init.d of NM to a lower number
 than BOINC or change BOINC number to one higher than NM.

While I don't use BOINC, I've had had similar issues with other
programs, and moving network manager's start up position has helped with
some, but not with others.  Moving those other things start up position
further back has helped with a few more, but not all.

I have two concerns with doing that sort of thing:  I shouldn't have to
do so much mangling to get things to work that are expected to work in
their current configuration.  And I might have to keep on fiddling
around if updates undo my mangling.

 2.Do not configure BOINC to start a boot time in the usual manner
 but add a server boinc start to rc.local.

I've had to do something similar.

It strikes me that something is *really* broken with Network Manager.
Other services wait until they start before returning to the next item
in the startup sequence.  Network Manager seems to be returning as
ready, before it is, and buggering up other things that follow.

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Re: BOINC again !? -- BINGO, BINGO and BINGO

2008-06-28 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 22:52 -0400, William Case wrote:
 I then added '/sbin/service boinc-client restart'
 to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and re-booted once again.  --BINGO  

Seeing as the problem's with Network Manager, I'd move the restart
script away from the rc.local file to the scripts that Network Manager
runs.  That way, if your network breaks then restarts (internet
dropouts, etc.), the service will restart. 

Look inside /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ for examples.

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Re: BOINC again !? -- I give up.

2008-06-28 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 14:10 +0930, Tim wrote:

 It strikes me that something is *really* broken with Network Manager.
 Other services wait until they start before returning to the next item
 in the startup sequence.  Network Manager seems to be returning as
 ready, before it is, and buggering up other things that follow.

I think that they've been intensely focused on quick startup from boot
times. Damn the torpedoes...full speed ahead.

That's why it's so important to bugzilla these things.

Craig

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Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-27 Thread John Munn

You need to open the ports in your firewall (iptables).

John


William Case wrote:

Hi;

I am having newbie problems with boinc, ports and SELinux -- I think.

Networks and SELinux are two subjects I have put off learning to any
rudimentary depth.  So here goes.

I can get Boinc to connect to the World Community Grid immediately after
first download and install.  (I have removed it and re-installed to test
this).  But after a reboot I can no longer connect to any of the project
sites.

I went to the WCG forum and explained my problem.  The response was --
open ports 80 and 443.

'netstat' does not list 80 or 443 as present, i.e, as active.
SELinux is in permissible mode.
SELinux gives the following for those two ports.
http_port_t tcp s0 80
http_port_t tcp s0 443

So ... where do I go from here?

  


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Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-27 Thread William Case
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:19 -0400, John Munn wrote:
 You need to open the ports in your firewall (iptables).
Didn't have iptables running.  I do now with ports 80 and 443 set as
trusted -- still nothing.  

Do I have to move or link some file(s) from /var/lib/boinc to $HOME?

 
 John
 
 
 William Case wrote:
  Hi;
 
  I am having newbie problems with boinc, ports and SELinux -- I think.
 
  Networks and SELinux are two subjects I have put off learning to any
  rudimentary depth.  So here goes.
 
  I can get Boinc to connect to the World Community Grid immediately after
  first download and install.  (I have removed it and re-installed to test
  this).  But after a reboot I can no longer connect to any of the project
  sites.
 
  I went to the WCG forum and explained my problem.  The response was --
  open ports 80 and 443.
 
  'netstat' does not list 80 or 443 as present, i.e, as active.
  SELinux is in permissible mode.
  SELinux gives the following for those two ports.
  http_port_t tcp s0 80
  http_port_t tcp s0 443
 
  So ... where do I go from here?
 

 
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Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-27 Thread William Case
Hi Craig;

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:54 -0700, Craig White wrote:
 On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 00:44 -0400, William Case wrote:
  Hi Craig;
  
  On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 20:55 -0700, Craig White wrote:
   On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 23:22 -0400, William Case wrote:
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:19 -0400, John Munn wrote:
 You need to open the ports in your firewall (iptables).
Didn't have iptables running.  I do now with ports 80 and 443 set as
trusted -- still nothing.  

Do I have to move or link some file(s) from /var/lib/boinc to $HOME?
   
   don't know anything about BOINC but do you have/need httpd running
   (sounds like it)
   
   /sbin/service httpd status
   /sbin/service httpd start
   
  
  Half-way there.  Now port 80 is showing on netstat but not 443.
  
  Never thought to check httpd service.  Every new install before Fedora 9
  automagically set httpd as a default service.  That is not a complaint
  -- just a weak wristed excuse.
 
 httpd should start both 80  443 and thus should show a Listener on both
 ports in netstat...
 
 # netstat -an|grep 443
 tcp0  0 :::443  :::*
 LISTEN
Nope.  Still not there.

 check /var/log/httpd/error_log

/httpd/error_log

[Sat Jun 28 00:29:16 2008] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd
running as context unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
[Sat Jun 28 00:29:16 2008] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled
(wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Sat Jun 28 00:29:16 2008] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
authentication ...
[Sat Jun 28 00:29:16 2008] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Jun 28 00:29:16 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) DAV/2 configured
-- resuming normal operations

It is still a bit Greek to me; but seems to be alright.
 and
 /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log for clues about problems.

I have no httpd/ssl_error_log 
 
 chkconfig httpd on
 will make sure that httpd always starts up when you restart
Shttpd was already set for all 4 runlevels

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Re: BOINC again !?

2008-06-27 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 01:45 -0400, William Case wrote:
 Hi Craig;
 
 On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:54 -0700, Craig White wrote:
  On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 00:44 -0400, William Case wrote:
   Hi Craig;
   
   On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 20:55 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 23:22 -0400, William Case wrote:
 On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:19 -0400, John Munn wrote:
  You need to open the ports in your firewall (iptables).
 Didn't have iptables running.  I do now with ports 80 and 443 set as
 trusted -- still nothing.  
 
 Do I have to move or link some file(s) from /var/lib/boinc to $HOME?

don't know anything about BOINC but do you have/need httpd running
(sounds like it)

/sbin/service httpd status
/sbin/service httpd start

   
   Half-way there.  Now port 80 is showing on netstat but not 443.
   
   Never thought to check httpd service.  Every new install before Fedora 9
   automagically set httpd as a default service.  That is not a complaint
   -- just a weak wristed excuse.
  
  httpd should start both 80  443 and thus should show a Listener on both
  ports in netstat...
  
  # netstat -an|grep 443
  tcp0  0 :::443  :::*
  LISTEN
 Nope.  Still not there.
 
  check /var/log/httpd/error_log
 
 /httpd/error_log
 
 [Sat Jun 28 00:29:16 2008] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd
 running as context unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
 [Sat Jun 28 00:29:16 2008] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled
 (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
 [Sat Jun 28 00:29:16 2008] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
 authentication ...
 [Sat Jun 28 00:29:16 2008] [notice] Digest: done
 [Sat Jun 28 00:29:16 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) DAV/2 configured
 -- resuming normal operations
 
 It is still a bit Greek to me; but seems to be alright.
  and
  /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log for clues about problems.
 
 I have no httpd/ssl_error_log 
  
  chkconfig httpd on
  will make sure that httpd always starts up when you restart
 Shttpd was already set for all 4 runlevels

yum install mod_ssl
service httpd restart

seems hard to believe that mod_ssl wasn't already installed.

What packages are required by boinc?  Are they installed? Sounds like
you built it from source and not from rpm packaging.

Craig

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