RHEL6 (beta)

This is just a case of RTFM but I thought I'd share...

I'm setting up ingo with dovecot sieve. I first verified that dovecot's sieve server is working properly by using the thunderbird sieve plugin (which is a sort of pointless plugin, you end up having to write in sieve language anyway, i'd expect a nicer gui front end like ingo has).

After making my backends.local.php in ingo's config directory, I did a tcpdump to verify that the web server was talking to the sieve server. Sadly it wasn't. (Sidebar…



We store our host information in ldap. Previously using ldap for host lookups was done by adding the appropriate entries to /etc/ldap.conf and changing nsswitch.conf.

With 6, nss_ldap has been replaced by nslcd, so I needed to change our setup a little.
I put the following into nslcd.conf


uid nslcd
gid ldap
uri ldap://ldap2.example.com
uri ldap://ldap.example.com
base dc=example,dc=com
# this is only host information, no need to use ssl
#ssl start_tls
#tls_cacertfile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
base hosts ou=…



In the process of munging our RHEL5 kickstarts to RHEL6, we started getting this error "Partition requires a size specification", the partition had a size of 0 set in the kickstart, with grow.
part pv.2 --size=0 --grow
reading kickstart.py, it seems that the check for size has gone from pd.size = None to not self.size
if not self.size and not self.onPart: raise KickstartValueError, formatErrorMsg(self.lineno, msg="Partition requires a size specification")
The fix…