Re: [cobalt-users] Raq 550 patch question/concern

["John D. Gorena" <Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian,

Concerning your concerns about the Raq550 installs and updates.  Here is
what you need to know from a Cobalt Raq550 crash test dummy.

READ ALL THIS EMAIL FIRST BEFORE UPDATING.  I have some points and a
manual fix that you will need to do too.

1) I had a reboot problem on one Raq550 that it needed to resync
everytime I rebooted.  The latest Kernal Patch seemed to fix that.  

2) Typically after all the updates, the BluelinQ is a good way to update
but it is important to load them in a proper order.  The proper order
can be found at 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=cobalt/raq550.eng&nav=patchpage

you may need to cut and paste the link if it is in two lines in this
email.  It should all be on one line.  These patches should be installed
from the bottom up.  I would print the BlueLineQ page from your GUI and
print the patches page above.  Starting with the bottom of the patches
page, number the patches from last to first.  Then match these updates
with the BlueLineQ page.

The last time I did this, I found an extra update on the patch list
page.  As you update the BlueLinQ patches, manually update the one
missing by copying the url location (right click, etc ...) and then
pasting that into the BlueLinQ Manual Patch URL location.  Look at it,
you should understand what I am talking about here.

3) THE MANUAL FIX has to do with PAM Module.  One of the patches added a
line to the top of a config file.  It should have removed the # from the
line in the file instead.  Here are the instructions as I have posted
them on this list before.


HOW TO FIX PAM MODULE from a past RAQ550 UPDATE

1) Login as root
2) Use editor to edit httpd.conf file like
   "pico /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf"

The top line of httpd.conf has the following line since the update:
LoadModule pam_external_auth_module modules/mod_auth_pam_external.so

This line is also remarked out in the httpd.conf file.  You will need to
find it in the httpd.conf file and remove the # AND ALSO you will need
to remove the top line copy.

In pico, go to this line with your cursor and cut it out by pressing
Ctrl-K


IF FOR SOME reason you do not see the line in the file then Move down to
the ClearModuleList section and place it in the section so that it
looks:
ClearModuleList
AddModule mod_so.c
AddModule mod_perl.c
LoadModule pam_external_auth_module modules/mod_auth_pam_external.so
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so

Press Ctrl-x to exit and save the file.

3) Type the following on the command line:
/etc/init.d/httpd reload
And press enter.

Then:
You will get something like:
[root] /etc/init.d/httpd reload
Reloading httpd: httpd ok

Now Run:
[root] /etc/init.d/httpd restart

It should now be fixed

John - A Cobalt Raq550 Crash Test Dummy.  You can learn a lot from a
dummy! (Yes, the phrase is borrowed from the Department of
Transportation's safety belt awareness program).