Tech Info 080: EtherShare 3.1/WebShare 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 Linux

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HELIOS TechInfo #080

Fri, 04 Jun 2004

EtherShare 3.1/WebShare 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 Linux  

On Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 Linux AS/ES/WS the AppleTalk kernel modules are not installed by default anymore.
As a result, not all EtherShare services can start and the system message file “/var/log/messages” will list entries for process “atalkd”:
Jun  3 11:09:45 taroon atalkd[2619]: configureInterface: socket Address family not supported by protocol
Jun  3 11:09:45 taroon atalkd[2619]: shutdown_if: socket Address family not supported by protocol
Jun  3 11:09:45 taroon atalkd[2619]: no interfaces configured, stopped
Jun  3 11:09:45 taroon srvsrv[2617]: service atalkd (pid 2619) exited with status 1
You need to install the required kernel RPMS from the 3rd Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 AS/ES/WS CD (“RHEL/3 i386”) to enable AppleTalk.
Inside the “RedHat/RPMS” directory, this is either the package “RedHat/RPMS/kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-4.EL.i686.rpm” or the “RedHat/RPMS/kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-4.EL.i686.rpm” package.
Depending on release date of your Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 CD set the versions can be different.
After installation of the RPM you can start EtherShare services or all HELIOS services, a reboot of the server is not required. 

Note for customer compiling their own kernel

Instead of installing the binary “kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-4...” package, a new kernel could be compiled. In this case the network protocol “appletalk” needs to be turned on as a module. After this all HELIOS services will work.

Java Version for the HELIOS WebShare WebObjects Server

If you also need Java for WebShare, install from the Red Hat CD 9 ("Extra CD") the IBM Java. If you want to use WebShare with HTTPS, that Java version may not be sufficient. If you get an error message listing “Algorithm SunX509 not available”, install a SUN Java 1.4.x or newer.

Please note:

The Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 WS (Workstation) release is sufficient for all HELIOS products. The difference between WS, ES, AS are the support options, additional server services and different CPU and memory configurations.