Fedora 18 / Fog problem - newbie
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Matt,
your clearly not sorry, I can tell by the fact that you called me immature, condescending, disrespectful, impolite, and accused me of having a bad attitude in a single post. The points I made were in fact valid, and I never said you implied you had all the answers. I said you were less than helpful to the OP. After reading his responses my points are validated… Tim clearly states that he did not wish to simply wipe his server and start over in Ubuntu.I know text is not as transparent as voice and visible body language, but I was not intending to be rude. I was being honest, which I see you have mistaken for disrespectful and having a poor attitude. Please read the rest of my post carefully and you will see that my attitude was of a helpful nature. That said, I am sorry if the truth is offensive to you.
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OK…so just skirting around the side-issues here…I think I’ve solved the problem…seems to be an obscure thing relating to VSFTPD and Fedora 17/18 (and perhaps Redhat generally). [URL='https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845980’]Here’s the thread[/URL] and I fixed it by adding “seccomp_sandbox=NO” to vsftpd.conf and restarting the service. I was then able to update the PXEMENU for the master password. Haven’t tested whether I can push and pull images yet.
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@Tim, I applaud your bravery for installing FOG on a server that runs a pile of other stuff. During the install, FOG warns you that it will install and overwrite most settings for mySQL, Apache, php, etc and advises you NOT to run this on a production server. I’m glad you got it working.
@David, We’re always open to feature requests and bug reports. FOG 0.32 is going on 2 years old, and runs best on versions of Linux from about the time of its release. Also, many of the active contributors to the forums and the wiki run FOG on Ubuntu, including myself, and often suggest it for users having issues because we can support it better. That doesn’t mean we are forcing people to a particular version if they don’t want to use it, just that we’re better able to help if you run it on something we are more familiar with.
If you have a list of issues with FOG, please post them in their own thread and not hijack this one. We’ll be glad to address them to either clarify the issue, or address it however it needs to be addressed.
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Sorry, was not meant to hijack… I did not expect answers for these issues here. I just meant to mention that these are some of the items I have noticed. Maybe I was not clear but I was listing them here because I found the issues on Fedora 17. The OP is also using Fedora, so my point was that as he runs into some of these (if he does) then maybe there will be answers. I have already (as you know) started mentioning them in the bugs forum.
Also as to the “forcing users to use Ubuntu”, that was a bit harsh I guess. I was just shocked that the answer was “why fedora?” and “can try a clean install on ubuntu?”. What I meant is that something like “here’s what I did in Ubuntu” is generally received better than “why fedora? can try a clean install on ubuntu?”. It gives the impression that the poster is saying Fedora is not as good as Ubuntu, whether that was meant or not. I have seen many forums turn into a “my distro is better than yours” diatribe that goes on page after page over similar remarks.
Again, I am sorry if I offended.
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I have absolutely no intention of starting an immature flame war over who’s distro is better. Fact is I only use ubuntu for fog anyhow, I use other distro’s for some of my other servers. I think you’ve come to these forums expecting them to be like most others mate… they’re not. We’re all quite friendly and nobody’s forcing anyone to use any distro they dont want to. The moment this forum turns into a distro war platform, I’d be out of here myself.
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Just a further update…ran into the same problems others have reported with a blank task screen…I’m running PHP version 5.4.11…[URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/error-creating-tasks-internal-service-error.3798/’]as reported elsewhere[/URL] I replaced &$tmp with $tmp throughout tasks.confirm.include.php and FOG is now scheduling tasks…and [I]@chad-bisd[/I]… not a production server!..a home server…although the install did break mediatomb…
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Glad to hear you have it working and it didn’t mess things up too bad.
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Good job Tim!
I ran into several selinux issues myself regarding tftp contexts in the “/tftpboot” directory. I was able to fox them by cd’ing in to that directory and running the following command:[CODE]for F in $(find ./* -type f); do chcon -t tftpdir_rw_t $F; done[/CODE]
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[quote=“David Dreggors, post: 10816, member: 3390”]Good job Tim!
I ran into several selinux issues myself regarding tftp contexts in the “/tftpboot” directory. I was able to fox them by cd’ing in to that directory and running the following command:[CODE]for F in $(find ./* -type f); do chcon -t tftpdir_rw_t $F; done[/CODE][/quote]
Thanks for that David, but I already had selinux disabled. More problematic though is that I don’t want to run FOG with the firewall disabled. I’ve tried configuring the firewall ports to allow NFS by using static ports for the various RPC services, but the imaging process just fails to mount the NFS share with no route to host. Turning off the firewall allows it to work. I’m wondering if the TFTP kernel uses some other ports I don’t know about for communicating back to the fog server… -
I did some firewall configs a while back and posted them [URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/firewall-config.27/#post-75’]here[/URL]. They’re far from perfect, but they might help point you in the right direction.