Folks,

The next Camus Linux Services meeting is posted.

http://sysnews.ncsu.edu/news/4ad4989f

We'll be talking primarily about configuration management and file systems.  Ye OIT'ers are of course welcome and encuraged to come.

It would be uber sweet if someone would volunteer to take notes.

A question commonly asked, how does one best edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables during a Web-Kickstart %post?

You could include the entire file in the %post section of your kickstart.  However, what about the default ports added for AFS, or another use file that may wish to slightly alter the host's firewall?

My friends, sed is the answer.  The RHEL or Realm Linux 5 firewalls include a 'RH-Firewall-1-INPUT' chain where the Red Hat customizations live, so lets edit that:

We have hundreds if not thousands of servers and VMs to manage.  There are some naming schemes being used.  I would like to propose that we work to unify all our servers and VMs under one naming scheme.  This gives us many advantages such as:

I've rumored it quite a bit and now its official.  The first NCSU FOSS         
Fair will be held Monday, February 2nd in Engineering Building 2.  More
information here:                                

https://opensource.ncsu.edu/FossFair2009

The fair is open to students, staff, faculty, Red Hat, and guests and is       
run in an unconference style.  Sign up to talk about your Open Source
project, get feedback from the community, hold a hackfest, plan your          

In the Documentation section under the Vision category I've created a brief document on how to sign and verify RPM packages.  As we move forward with the new OIT unix systems yum repository all packages there will need to be signed with the key as documented.  I have set the unixsys.repo configuration file to check for proper GPG signatures.