Kikkoman

If you’re running any of the rpm based Linux distros, you should really check out RedCarpet by Ximian. Its basically like Windows Update for Linux. Eg, looks at what RPM’s you have and what RPMs have been updated. Gives you a nice gui to select them and then downloads and installs them.

For more and better info go here .

Anyways, back to the story. Recently on several FC1 boxes, I haven’t been able to run RedCarpet as rcd looses it and starts eating all the cpu. Eventually tracked it down to OpenCarpet. It seems like rcd goes into an endless loop trying to retrieve data from open-carpet.org. So how to fix it?

Remove open-carpet.org references from the rcd config file. /var/lib/rcd/services.xml

So that gets rcd and RedCarpet running again, unfortunately I now don’t have a solution for getting updated rpms, other than running the dog slow RedHat updater.

Update: OpenCarpet now seems to be fine on my home dev box. Will see what happens tomorrow with the FC1 boxes at work.