[AG-TECH] internal venue server

[Benedikt Bjarni Bogason]

Thank you for the tips, does anyone else have any success stories he or
she would like to share with me, regarding setting up a linux venue
server?

To follow up, when I have successfully set up the linux server (I've
actually already managed to set up a windows one) I will probably be
trying to set up a certificate server as well. And again would appreciate
ANY tips you can spare, if you have gone through that process on a linux
machine.


Thanks a lot,
Benedikt.

Benedikt Bogason
BT Exact
benedikt.bogasson at bt.com

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>> The only issue that I can think of re: RedHat 9 is that you
>> probably will
>> have to acquire and load the openssl096 and openssl096b packages
>> from your
>> favourite RedHat mirror.  Oh, yes - with 2.2 you will run into an
>> issuewith python-optik (bugzilla'd already) - but the way that I
>> dealt with
>> that is just to remove up2date (you'll have to get rid of a couple of
>> other packages as well), since the RedHat Network no longer applies
>> forthis release.  Once you've removed up2date and the RedHat
>> version of
>> python-optik, the install of 2.2 is clean.
>
> Actually i have the same problem, but when i tried to remove the up2date
> package, it failed because of dependencies.
>  up2date is needed by (installed) firstboot-1.0.5-11
>  up2date = 3.1.23.2 is needed by (installed) up2date-gnome-3.1.23.2-1
>  /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT is needed by (installed)
> rhn-applet-2.0.9-0.9.0.1
>
> Randy, is that ok to remove these packages ?
>
> Thanks
> Madhan
> Student Assistant
> LBNL, Berkeley
>
>>
>> You will definitely need certificates - there is no way around
>> that.  I
>> haven't attempted to configure our setup to only use our internal CA
>> (though I believe that it is possible) - that's one of the items on
>> my to
>> do list.
>>
>> -randy
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Benedikt Bjarni Bogason wrote:
>>
>> > Hello everybody.
>> >
>> > I am in the process of looking into setting up an internal venue
>> server> for my company (BT) behind our firewalls. I understand this
>> has been done,
>> > at least with one company (Boeing). For the time being we are only
>> > thinking about connecting maybe 4-5 clients, mostly PIGs, but if
>> > successful we might extend it further. Right now we are looking
>> into the
>> > possibility of one or two of our colleagues working from home
>> using a
>> > broadband connection (firewall problem not an issue).
>> >
>> > For this trial run we will be using as a server an old Linux box,
>> and were
>> > wondering if any of you had any suggestions which flavour of
>> Linux we
>> > should be using. Is there a particular version that works better
>> for AG2.2
>> > than others?
>> >
>> > And also, will there be any severe certificate problems? As it
>> will be
>> > only used within the company, within our firewalls, we really
>> have no
>> > practical use for them; I don't suppose there is any way of just
>> skipping> them? If not, would it be difficult to run our own
>> certificate server?
>> >
>> > If anyone has any useful tips, or has gone through this process
>> before us
>> > and is willing to warn us of the pitfalls, I would be very grateful.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Benedikt Bogason
>> > benedikt.bogasson at bt.com
>> >
>> >
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