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UBC Physics & Astronomy
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142.103.236.40 (cups)
142.103.236.8 (svn)

CUPS/SVN SERVER running CentOS 5.5

NEED TO UPDATE
Pentium 4 (Intel SE7210TP10 MBoard s/n), 3.2 GHz, 4 Gb DDRAM (XxXXXMb), 2x80GB 7200 RPM (s/n ), 
* Intel E7210 chipset with Intel Performance Acceleration Technology.
* one Intel PRO/1000 and one Intel PRO/100 Server Network Connection.
* Support for up to 4 GB of Error-Correcting Code (ECC) DDR PC2100/PC2700/PC32002 SDRAM memory through four DIMM sockets.
* Two Serial ATA ports with RAID 0 and 1, up to 150 MB/sec throughput per drive using Serial ATA hard drives.
* Three 64-bit/66MHz PCI-X adapter slots and one 32-bit/33MHz PCI slot.
* Integrated ATI RAGE XL SVGA PCI video controller.
 Purchased from Varsity, date, Inv. #
Product Info    Downloads

 NEED TO UPDATE

BIOS SETUP

DISASTER RECOVERY

Install a new server.

SVN Server
How to add svn user for Atlas group:

cd /home/svn/atlastrt/conf
vim svnserve_auth_file

[root@delta ~]# ps -ef | grep -i svn
root      3859  3827  0 11:53 pts/2    00:00:00 grep -i svn
root     26890     1  0 Aug11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/svnserve --daemon --listen-port=3690 -r /home/svn
root     26997 26890  0 02:46 ?        00:00:00 [svnserve] 

[root@delta ~]# chkconfig --list | grep svn
svnserve       	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
[root@delta ~]# service svnserve status
here 4
Subversion (svnserve [4909]) Running ...

[root@delta ~]# rpm -qa | grep svn                         [  OK  ]
ltrace-0.5-20.45svn.el5
mod_dav_svn-1.6.13-0.1.el5.rf

[root@delta ~]# rpm -ql mod_dav_svn
/etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf
/usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_authz_svn.so
/usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so

[root@delta ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/svnserve
subversion-1.6.13-0.1.el5.rf

11-11-29 - install MySQL-zrm

root@delta:~# yum --disablerepo=rpmforge install MySQL-zrm

Now remove rpmforge permanently:

[root@delta yum.repos.d]# rpm -e rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf
[root@delta yum.repos.d]# yum update

11-07-13
Problem: printing to lp - cover page only Problem:
printing to lp - cover page only. Seemed to be hanging up on pykota. Printing to other printers was OK.

Solution: At printer, use resets menu to clear all maintenance messages. make sure toner, and paper trays are supplied.

How I determined problem:

In /etc/pykota/pykota.conf, set debug to YES.
In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, set
Loglevel debug2 (normally is WARN)
Restart cups
Monitor /var/log/cups/error_log, eg.
tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log | grep

In my case, I saw:

[root@delta]# tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log | grep rap
[CGI] printer_state_message[0]="PyKota (PID 5659) : rap@lp(59507) => Job
accounting begins."
job_originating_user_name[0]="rap"
[Job 59507] PyKota (PID 5659) : rap@lp(59507) => SNMP answer decoded : PageCounter
: 503768  PrinterStatus : 'idle'  DeviceStatus : 'warning'  PrinterErrorState :
'['Low Paper', 'No Toner', 'Service Requested']'
[Job 59507] PyKota (PID 5659) : rap@lp(59507) => Error conditions for mask 0x4fcc
: ['No Paper', 'Offline', 'Jammed', 'Door Open', 'Service Requested', 'Input Tray
Missing', 'Output Tray Missing', 'Input Tray Empty', 'Output Full']
[Job 59507] PyKota (PID 5659) : rap@lp(59507) => Error condition 'Service
Requested' encountered. PyKota will wait until this problem is fixed.
[Job 59507] PyKota (PID 5659) : rap@lp(59507) => Waiting for printer lp's idle
status to stabilize...

This prompted me to use the RESETS menu to reset the service setting.

In /etc/pykota/pykota.conf, set debug to NO.
In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, set
Loglevel WARN
Restart cups

10-03-23
Restricted logins to www

- put /etc/nologin for most shells
- put a banner in /etc/ssh/sshd_banner
- modified /etc/ssh/sshd_config, added the following lines:
Banner /etc/ssh/sshd_banner
# restrict who can login, use spaces, no commas
AllowUsers   rap map grieve tazana
#AllowGroups  root itstaff sysadmin

10-03-15 - install denyhosts

root@hyper:~# yum install denyhosts
root@hyper:/etc# vim /etc/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg

09-09-29 - HP P2035n installation

HP P2035n printer for Hebb 40.
To add this printer to CUPs I was able to use hp-install. Not sure why it didn't work before, but now it did!

hp-setup 142.103.238.5

The hp-setup utility automatically downloaded and installed the correct plug-in that was needed specially for this printer.

09-09-21 - HPLIP installation

See these instructions. The version of hplip that comes with CentOS is rather old. Many of the current printers, especially the all-in-ones, require a later version to work properly.

Note that I have not been able to get hp-setup's graphic mode working. I tried installing sip and PyQt4 from source, but the PyQt4 install does this:

Checking to see if the dbus support module should be built...
The Python dbus module doesn't seem to be installed.

It looks for dbus/dbus-python.h which apparently is in the package dbus-python-debug which I cannot find for CentOS 5.3.

This lack of PyQt4 also means, however, that hp-tools won't work. You should be able to setup a printer using "hp-setup -i" rather than "hp-setup".

rpm -e hplip
cd /usr/local/src/hplip
yum install xsane cups-devel libjpeg-devel python-devel pyqt pyqt-devel net-snmp-devel net-snmp-utils libusb-devel sane-backends-devel dbus-devel python-imaging
ln -s /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8e /lib/libcrypto.so
cd hplip-3.9.8
./configure --with-hpppddir=/usr/share/ppd/HP --prefix=/usr --enable-qt4 --enable-doc-build --enable-cups-ppd-install --disable-foomatic-drv-install --disable-foomatic-ppd-install --disable-hpijs-install --disable-policykit --disable-cups-drv-install --enable-hpcups-install --enable-network-build --enable-dbus-build --disable-scan-build --disable-fax-build
su - rap; make; exit
make install
hp-check
cp /usr/local/src/hplip/hplip-3.9.8/prnt/hpijs/foomatic-rip-hplip /usr/bin/
ln -s /usr/bin/foomatic-rip-hplip /usr/lib/cups/filter/

[root@delta]# hp-makeuri 142.103.238.5
warning: python-dbus not installed.
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.8)
Device URI Creation Utility ver. 5.0

CUPS URI: hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_P2035n?ip=142.103.238.5

09-07-30 - Make self-signed certs

cd /etc/pki/tls
vi openssl.cnf 
make genkey
cd certs
mv /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key.orig
/usr/bin/openssl genrsa 1024 > /etc/pki/tls/private/delta.phas.ubc.ca.key
chmod go-rwx /etc/pki/tls/private/delta.phas.ubc.ca.key
umask 77 ; /usr/bin/openssl req -utf8 -new -key /etc/pki/tls/private/delta.phas.ubc.ca,key -x509 -days 3650 -out /etc/pki/tls/certs/delta.phas.ubc.ca.crt -set_serial 0
cp /etc/pki/tls/private/delta.phas.ubc.ca.key /etc/pki/tls/private/svn.phas.ubc.ca.key
umask 77 ; /usr/bin/openssl req -utf8 -new -key /etc/pki/tls/private/svn.phas.ubc.ca.key -x509 -days 3650 -out /etc/pki/tls/certs/svn.phas.ubc.ca.crt

09-07-15 - Installing pykota (continued)
Copied /etc/cups/cupsd.conf from hyper and made minor changes (eg. ipaddreses)

Made link in /usr/lib/cups/backend...

cd /usr/lib/cups/backend
ln -s /usr/share/pykota/cupspykota cupspykota

Other commands I needed to run:

cd /etc
mkdir pykota
cd pykota/
scp hyper:/etc/pykota/* .
chown -R pykota:pykota /etc/pykota
service cups restart
cd /usr/bin
cp pkbanner pkbanner.orig
scp hyper:/usr/bin/pkbanner .

09-07-14 - Installing pykota

cd /usr/local/src/pykota/
wget http://www.math.ohiou.edu/pub/pykota/EL4/SRPMS/ghostpcl-1.41-3.el4.mrh.nosrc.rpm
rpm -i ghostpcl-1.41-3.el4.mrh.nosrc.rpm (puts spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS)
cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
wget http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/GhostPCL/ghostpcl_1.41.tar.bz2
rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ghostpcl.spec (complaints about XFree86-devel being needed...)

No XFree86-devel exists for CentOS 5.3 so I did the following:

vi /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ghostpcl.spec
  Comment out line 12
#BuildRequires: XFree86-devel
  and replace it with the xorg-x11-proto-devel line:
BuildRequires: xorg-x11-proto-devel

yum install xorg-x11-proto-devel
yum install libXt-devel
yum install libXext-devel
rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ghostpcl.spec
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ghostpcl-1.41-3.i386.rpm


yum localinstall pykota-*.rpm
  --> Missing Dependency: MySQL-python >= 1.2.2 is needed by package pykota-mysql-1.26_official-2.el5.mrh.noarch (pykota-mysql-1.26_official-2.el5.mrh.noarch.rpm)

wget http://www.math.ohiou.edu/pub/pykota/EL4/SRPMS/MySQL-python-1.2.2-0.src.rpm
rpm --rebuild MySQL-python-1.2.2-0.src.rpm 
 error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
 ....

vi /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/MySQL-python.spec
  (uncomment the following three lines:)
/usr/%{_lib}/python%{pyver}/site-packages/MySQLdb/*.pyo
/usr/%{_lib}/python%{pyver}/site-packages/MySQLdb/constants/*.pyo
/usr/%{_lib}/python%{pyver}/site-packages/*.pyo

rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/MySQL-python.spec
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/MySQL-python-1.2.2-0.i386.rpm

yum localinstall pykota-*.rpm
...
Dependencies Resolved
...
Package pykota-1.26_official-2.el5.mrh.noarch.rpm is not signed

Edit /etc/yum.conf; replace gpgcheck=1 with gpgcheck=0


yum localinstall pykota-*.rpm  (now works!)

 NEED TO UPDATE

[root@dns /]# chkconfig --list | grep on

root@dns:/tftpboot/ncd/configs]$ chkconfig --list | grep on

[root@dns /]# ifconfig -a

root@dns:/tftpboot/ncd/configs]$ ifconfig -a
 NEED TO UPDATE

09-07-14 - Installing pykota

cd /usr/local/src/pykota/
wget http://www.math.ohiou.edu/pub/pykota/EL4/SRPMS/ghostpcl-1.41-3.el4.mrh.nosrc.rpm
rpm -i ghostpcl-1.41-3.el4.mrh.nosrc.rpm (puts spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS)
cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
wget http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/GhostPCL/ghostpcl_1.41.tar.bz2
rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ghostpcl.spec (complaints about XFree86-devel being needed...)
yum install xorg-x11-proto-devel
yum install libXt-devel
yum install libXext-devel
rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ghostpcl.spec
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ghostpcl-1.41-3.i386.rpm


yum localinstall pykota-*.rpm
  --> Missing Dependency: MySQL-python >= 1.2.2 is needed by package pykota-mysql-1.26_official-2.el5.mrh.noarch (pykota-mysql-1.26_official-2.el5.mrh.noarch.rpm)

wget http://www.math.ohiou.edu/pub/pykota/EL4/SRPMS/MySQL-python-1.2.2-0.src.rpm
rpm --rebuild MySQL-python-1.2.2-0.src.rpm
 error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
 ....

vi /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/MySQL-python.spec
(uncomment the following three lines:)
/usr/%{_lib}/python%{pyver}/site-packages/MySQLdb/*.pyo
/usr/%{_lib}/python%{pyver}/site-packages/MySQLdb/constants/*.pyo
/usr/%{_lib}/python%{pyver}/site-packages/*.pyo

rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/MySQL-python.spec
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/MySQL-python-1.2.2-0.i386.rpm

yum localinstall pykota-*.rpm
...
Dependencies Resolved
...
Package pykota-1.26_official-2.el5.mrh.noarch.rpm is not signed

Edit /etc/yum.conf; replace gpgcheck=1 with gpgcheck=0


yum localinstall pykota-*.rpm  (now works!)

09-0x-xx
- xxxxxxxxx
09-06-16
- installed drupal - installed drupal cron job:

[root@delta default]# crontab -l
45 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q -t 1 http://delta.phas.ubc.ca/drupal/cron.php

09-05-15
Initial Installation

   chkconfig httpd on
   service httpd start
   pup
   chkconfig mysqld on
   service mysqld start
   cd /etc/httpd/conf.d
   vi ssl.conf 
   cd /var/www
   mkdir shtml
   yum install php-xml
   yum install php-devel
   yum install php-devel
   yum install phpmyadmin
   rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*
   yum update
   rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
   yum install phpmyadmin
   cd /tmp
   wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
   rpm -qlp rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm 
   rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm 
   yum install phpmyadmin
   cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
   yum install phpmyadmin
   cd /etc/httpd/conf.d/
   mv phpmyadmin.conf phpmyadmin.conf.ssl
   vi ssl.conf 
   service httpd restart
   cd /var/www/shtml/
   cd /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
   vi config.inc.php
   yum install alpine

08-07-15
- xxxxxxxxx
09-06-17
- pykota install
- downloaded rpms from http://www.pykota.com/software/pykota/download/tarballs/official-rpms-for-rhel5/ - running rpm -Uvh pykota-* produced some dependency problems so ran yum to try to resolve them.

yum install python-pkpgcounter python-pkipplib python-jaxml python-reportlab python-imaging python-chardet python-snmp PyPAM MySQL-python python-osd

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://www.math.ohiou.edu/pub/pykota/mrh-pykota-el.repo

needed to edit this file fix link to gpg key, new line is:

gpgkey=http://www.math.ohiou.edu/pub/casit/RPM-GPG-KEY-casit

yum update
rpm -Uvh pykota-1.26_official-2.el5.mrh.noarch.rpm 
yum install python-pkpgcounter python-pkipplib python-jaxml python-chardet python-snmp PyPAM
rpm -Uvh pykota-1.26_official-2.el5.mrh.noarch.rpm 
rpm -Uvh pykota-osd-1.26_official-2.el5.mrh.noarch.rpm

The pykota-mysql depended on MySQL-python >= 1.2.2 but I only had MySQL-python-1.2.1-1.i386 and yum said it was installed and already at the latest version. I tried installing a newer verion using the src rpms on the http://www.math.ohiou.edu but there were too many problems so I just forced the install.

error: Failed dependencies:
	MySQL-python >= 1.2.2 is needed by pykota-mysql-1.26_official-2.el5.mrh.noarch
rpm -Uvh pykota-mysql-1.26_official-2.el5.mrh.noarch.rpm --nodeps

DMESG OUTPUT GOES HERE

For more assistance contact Ron Parachoniak, rap@phas.ubc.ca ( Sysadmin )

sysadmin@phas.ubc.ca [Dept. Home Page] last updated: May 18, 2009