Re: Repo for updateso to an old SL

2021-12-19 Thread ~Stack~
-9yiY87HDGU6eSjvkRwF63qmYK6dsioceQtrv1H-wsE_SgP8=I4NZKJ693jinKprUrR8t6_15ttv1XecSEKYiFM7mfB8= ~Stack~

Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

2021-10-26 Thread ~Stack~
to steal their thunder. :-) If you are interested in more information, you can create an account at chat.rockylinux.org and then add the SIG/HPC channel to chat with a lot of people in the Rocky HPC community. Happy computing! ~Stack~

Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

2021-10-26 Thread ~Stack~
fast) group of HPC and scientific computing professionals using Rocky 8 already. ~Stack~

Re: google-chrome

2021-10-23 Thread ~Stack~
of the project and then we went back to Firefox for everything. I too recommend Singularity for containerization, but there are other containers out there if you look. ~Stack~

Re: customize bash promt to full path

2021-08-12 Thread ~Stack~
\$ ' Then tack on PWD like this: PS1='$\u@\h:\w\$PWD$ ' That should do it or at least get you close enough that a web search can get you the rest of the way. Hope that helps. ~Stack~

Re: timeshift

2021-08-09 Thread ~Stack~
file name, but also by scanning content when necessary (including viewing an image file such as JPEG or a video file such as MP4). Rsnapshot allows for you to run manually whenever you want. As for finding files, it is just any utility you want to use to look at the filesystem. ~Stack~

Re: Rocky Linux 8.4 General Availability

2021-06-24 Thread ~Stack~
-3A__chat.rockylinux.org_=DwICaQ=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A=uAQJH-2OdPuT0wfzfLVJqMVh0JTQ49SkczrjTlQLIi4=LX9L94ELZNAG4m70udC-Ve4zGZFP2eAizZO1RNMG4-c= Thanks! ~Stack~ On 6/22/21 10:45 AM, Dave Dykstra wrote: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2

Re: In search for a SL replacement

2021-05-06 Thread ~Stack~
I switch between all three with a single kickstart that I just switch by commenting out the `url` line I don't want and uncommenting the `url` like that I do. It's that easy. I get a consistent build with any of the three OS every time. ~Stack~

Re: In search for a SL replacement - almalinux

2021-05-06 Thread ~Stack~
nough in the HEP community got together to form a Rocky SIG it might be easier to address the concerns you have with the OS tools already built for you. Hope that helps. ~Stack~

Re: In search for a SL replacement - almalinux

2021-05-06 Thread ~Stack~
it's good to have multiple distros taking place of CentOS and the healthier both communities are the better for everyone. ~Stack~

Re: c++17,17,20... - was Re: [SL-Users] Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-05 Thread ~Stack~
lled/tweaked/tuned - they just know it works. ~Stack~

Re: Code bias video, watch it ASAP

2021-04-27 Thread ~Stack~
On 4/27/21 8:41 AM, LaToya Anderson wrote: [snip] Tell me, how many Black people are in this group? And what practices have been put into place to ensure you retain Black people? In other words, what has been done within this group to check bias to.ensure that you have a diverse group of

Re: sudo - was Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-11 Thread ~Stack~
end to be old school my fingers just type `sudo su -` before my brain fully processes the thought. Yes, `sudo -i` is fewer characters but muscle memory...it just happens. *shrug* :-D Not sure that was "helpful" information, but hopefully it answered the question. :-D ~Stack~

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-04 Thread ~Stack~
s a proper community. Just my 2 cents. ~Stack~

Re: numfmt issue on SL 7.9; possible bug?

2021-02-11 Thread ~Stack~
On 2/11/21 2:25 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:59 PM Dietrich, Stefan wrote: Hi, you might be running into this issue: bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925204 This has been introduced with glibc-2.17-322.el7_9 and has been fixed in glibc-2.17-323.el7_9. CentOS 7

Re: numfmt issue on SL 7.9; possible bug?

2021-02-10 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, Thanks for checking. That seems to fit that every other distro is fine. But I've now check a dozen different systems on SL 7.9 and all show it. Thanks! ~Stack~ On 2/10/21 7:37 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: here goes, all on physical machines. sl6, macos: no numfmt, sorry

numfmt issue on SL 7.9; possible bug?

2021-02-10 Thread ~Stack~
coreutils-8.22-24.el7_9.2.x86_64 and incorrectly returns 'nan'. I'm hoping the devs can confirm and/or offer suggestions. Thanks! ~Stack~

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-25 Thread ~Stack~
servers. Yet, I do rely on a lot of things in systemd (see previous email about dealing with stuck NVidia GPU's). It's not that I don't see systemd shortcomings. It has some. But so did SysV and the old init. Again, it's just a tool. How it is used and if it is used well is up to the one who needs to use it. :-) ~Stack~

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-25 Thread ~Stack~
For people like us, the desktop is more of a way to have more shell windows open! :-D ~Stack~

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-23 Thread ~Stack~
ng for or against, just saying that this conversation is on going. Similar for Go, but ohh...I've got some love and hate for Go and will spare you that rambling rant! :-D ~Stack~

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-23 Thread ~Stack~
enough biased politics the last few years shouted at me by the media. I sure as hell don't care to engage in SystemD politics any more. :-D I hope that helps. ~Stack~

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-22 Thread ~Stack~
to Red Hat ~Stack~

Sustainable computing - Re: CentOS EOL - politics?

2020-12-12 Thread ~Stack~
. I'm just curious what you are thinking about what it means to have a more sustainable footing within these clusters and what we as a community can do to lead the way such that in the next decades it matters less what OS is running on the hardware of these long term science HPC clusters. ~Stack~

Re: Rocky Linux

2020-12-10 Thread ~Stack~
directions in January when the initial excitement has died down. I do believe it is wise that you are following and keeping informed about the variants. ~Stack~

Re: Rocky Linux

2020-12-09 Thread ~Stack~
noticed and are talking about it on /. , reddit, lwn, ect. That's pretty impressive and it speaks volumes about the number of people who really do want a true-to-RHEL variant. ~Stack~

Rocky Linux

2020-12-09 Thread ~Stack~
on the rockylinux page. I'm sure if any of the Scientific Linux team wanted to throw some pointers over to the group it would be very appreciated. As would any support/help from those who want to see a solid EL8 clone. :-) Thanks! ~Stack~

CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-08 Thread ~Stack~
can shift nearly all of our infrastructure to Ubuntu LTS but there's a lot still left that I'm not sure we can move to CentOS Stream nor can we afford to go to RHEL. Guess we are freezing our conversations about moving away from SL7 and have year to figure it out then make it happen... *sigh* ~Stack~

Re: Who Uses Scientific Linux, and How/Why?

2020-02-28 Thread ~Stack~
Hope this helps. I understand the sysadmin pain in trying to meet the rapidly evolving ML/AI researcher demands. :-) ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Who Uses Scientific Linux, and How/Why?

2020-02-24 Thread ~Stack~
of it by end of summer (both hardware support ending and EL6 being EOL in November). So I'm trying to figure out if I am going to take the easy path to SL7 that I know I can do or if I jump it to 8... *shrug* So that's more than just a short blurb...guess I will shut up now. :-D ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: No Scientific Linux 8 planned?

2019-08-03 Thread ~Stack~
ey would continue to support 7 until EoL. So I would expect that the lists would continue to at least that point. As for the lists being quiet, I guess I've always thought this list was quiet. Especially compared to the other lists I'm on! :-D ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Enterprise Linux 8 beta

2019-01-14 Thread ~Stack~
on't comment on the rest. Red Hat is doing some things amazing well and they are doing other things quite poorly. Fretting over what may or may not happen does no one good. Let's just wait and see, shall we? :-) ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Planning for hypothetical RHEL/CentOS cancellation

2019-01-07 Thread ~Stack~
s Encrypt. Easy setup and has clients for a ton of devices. ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-14 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/13/2018 11:22 AM, Adam Jensen wrote: > On 10/12/2018 11:09 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: >> For all the arguments of performance, well I wouldn't use either XFS or >> EXT4. I use ZFS and Ceph on the systems I want performance out of. > > For a single, modest server that runs ev

Re: XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-14 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/13/2018 04:41 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:09 PM ~Stack~ wrote: >> >> On 10/12/2018 07:35 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> [snip] >>> On SL 7? Why? Is there any reason not to use xfs? I've appreciated the >>> ext file

XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-12 Thread ~Stack~
heard XFS eating files. And the few times it is EXT4 I don't worry because the tools for recovery are long and well tested. The best that can be said for XFS recovery tools is "Well, they are better now then they were." To me, it still boggles my mind why it is the default FS in the EL wo

Re: SL6 firefox issue.

2018-07-16 Thread ~Stack~
. > In short, open /usr/bin/firefox and change the last line: > > exec $MOZ_LAUNCHER $script_args $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@" > > to > > exec env XDG_DATA_DIRS="$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox/bundled/share" > $MOZ_LAUNCHER $script_args $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@" > (note this is one line) > > Akemi Thanks for posting this. Just had users report this issue to me today. The fix worked for me. :-) ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Fwd: Services - Server

2018-07-13 Thread ~Stack~
age. > > -Server Domain: ???                     Dir.: . service ??? /etc/??? ;-) > Thank you. You're welcome. :-) ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Best option for php version 7?

2018-01-04 Thread ~Stack~
r it over Software Collections when I can. I'm actively running PHP 7.1 from IUS on a production server and I run several of their packages across my data center. Hope this helps! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: not recovering session after locking SL 7.4

2017-11-02 Thread ~Stack~
with several issues that I was able to take back to SL7.4 (or wait for the patch to filter down). It's primarily just been a ton of digging around on the Internet and in the log files. Good luck! ~Stack~ On 10/26/2017 09:23 AM, Stefano Vergani wrote: > Hi all, > > > I have just upgraded Scie

Re: tip: Secondary Selection clipboard

2017-07-01 Thread ~Stack~
hrough the list on my dev machine testing them out. There are some interesting pro's to a few of them. If this is a need, give a few of them a try. ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: nmcli question

2017-04-09 Thread ~Stack~
or Infiniband (which NetworkManager is supposed to handle well), and I find myself needing to learn it now. At least one good thing has come from me studying this weekend. I discovered the reason behind one of the oddities in networking on our KVM server. So that was a plus! :-) Thanks! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: nmcli question

2017-04-09 Thread ~Stack~
On 04/08/2017 09:59 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 5:36 PM, ~Stack~ <i.am.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > Because they're trying to weld NetworkManagers's graphical interface, > on top of poorly integrated command line interface, on top of the > actual under

nmcli question

2017-04-08 Thread ~Stack~
with "device disconnect" but bring it up with "connection up"? Thank you! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Compress kdumps over scp

2017-03-09 Thread ~Stack~
? Thanks! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Server going to uncommanded sleep or suspend

2017-03-09 Thread ~Stack~
at's why the hardware works perfectly for years on non-systemd OS's. *rolls eyes* Anyway, once you get used to debugging and disabling all of the stupid stuff systemd does, it's not /too/ bad. Just gotta learn to get good at learning how to debug its weirdness. :-) ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: What does this SELinux command do?

2017-02-27 Thread ~Stack~
enable it. ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Strange network device name chages on reboot of SL7 kvm guests

2017-02-26 Thread ~Stack~
osdevname"; I'm pretty sure that wasn't in the docs when I was having a problem with 7.1 as I don't recall seeing it before, but it looks interesting. You might just want to go through that chapter and give those suggestions a go. Hope that helps! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-18 Thread ~Stack~
m /proc/cpuinfo). Sorry. You're right. I forgot to tell the motherboard and I typo'd the processor! Ugh. It was a long day. :-) The processor is Intel Xeon E5-2637v4 (not the 2630) and it is in a SuperMicro X10SRW-F board. ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-17 Thread ~Stack~
out next week if there is any strange fall out from this, but for today they seem to be working just fine. I am hoping they continue to do so until a patch/kernel update rolls down the line. Thanks again! I really do appreciate the help. The ideas got me thinking on the right track and helpe

Re: Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-17 Thread ~Stack~
line? If not, do > so, so you're sure to get all the kernel messages. It might not be > hanging where you think it is. > I did remove 'quiet' as well as 'rhgb'. Thanks! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Need help Debuging boot

2017-02-16 Thread ~Stack~
* Are there *any* suggestions at all as to how I can figure out what it is hanging on? Is there a list of things after EDD that I can just start disabling till I get a different result? Thoughts? Thanks! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: CVE-2016-5195: mad cow disease

2016-10-23 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/22/2016 02:52 PM, Denice wrote: > As well, the importance of this vulnerability hinges on user access; > in SANS newsbites yesterday, one of the editors made this remark > about this kernel vulnerablity (branded by the person(s) who raised > the issue: "Dirty Cow"): > >This is a

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-31 Thread ~Stack~
where but we needed more packages then they provide and it was a pain managing all those packages manually. Same with SCL. We use it elsewhere too, but anything that the users have to interact with, we found they get frustrated because of the weird subshell-environment it uses. Good luck! ~Stack~ s

Re: ELRepo Kernel Repository

2016-07-29 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, On 07/29/2016 10:42 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: > There being so many repositories with "sub-repositories" that I do not > keep track of many; however, yumex reveals many of these. For ELRepo, > there is an EL7 community kernel repository. Is anyone using this for > production machines

Re: sl6.8 libcgroup

2016-07-27 Thread ~Stack~
rnel. I haven't filed a bug report against it yet as I didn't have time yesterday to really dig into it. My "workaround" was to "yum downgrade libcgroup" on all my hosts until I could figure it out. ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: SL7 on a tablet

2016-07-15 Thread ~Stack~
d I would love to hear if you find one! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Dual booting while encrypted

2015-09-09 Thread ~Stack~
through never works properly for video/sound to Display Port/HDMI. Has anyone conquered this? Any suggestions? I have done about 5 installs of both OS's today and I am really close to just going back to the USB method of booting Lubuntu even if it is ridiculously slow. Thanks! ~Stack

Re: SL 7.1 on a ECS Liva

2015-07-09 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, On 07/09/2015 08:43 AM, Jonathan Barber wrote: On 8 July 2015 at 23:30, ~Stack~ i.am.st...@gmail.com mailto:i.am.st...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any clue how I might be able to either force the drivers to be loaded at the DVD boot menu or get anaconda to rescan

SL 7.1 on a ECS Liva

2015-07-08 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, For Christmas I was given a ECS Liva Mini PC. 6 months later I still can't get it to do anything useful. Between the weird drivers that are required (all in certain versions of the Kernel) and that stupid UEFI junk, I can't get anything but the latest version of Ubuntu to install on it

Re: What library is needed to have X11 borders?

2015-02-27 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, On 02/26/2015 07:01 PM, Jim McCarthy wrote: For very minimal yet classic X11 functionality, I would recommend that you investigate installing mwm (the Motif window manager). Other alternative are twm (Tom's window manager ?), and closer-to-gnome but much more minimal (in terms of

Re: What library is needed to have X11 borders?

2015-02-27 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, On 02/27/2015 12:18 AM, Francesco M. Taurino wrote: Install x2go server, icewm or openbox and a simple xterminal. With this stack your gui apps will be usable even on slow networks. Wow! Thanks for that! I haven't heard of x2go before. Reading their site, I am quite excited

What library is needed to have X11 borders?

2015-02-26 Thread ~Stack~
anyone help me figure out which package I need? Thanks! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

fastbugs: yum-autoupdate package broken?

2015-01-07 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, Is anyone else having this issue? A bunch of my servers sent me emails this morning about the yum-autoupdate package. Should I just be patient and wait for a while or is there an actual issue? Thanks. ~Stack~ # yum clean all yum update Loaded plugins: security Cleaning repos: epel sl

Re: advice on auto version upgrade with sl6x.repo

2014-03-19 Thread ~Stack~
to redirect the default baseurl to my local server. :-) Hope that helps. ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Assistance in tracking a kernel error

2013-12-18 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, I have had my work laptop for well over a year now running SL6 and everything has been fantastic. Never once have I had a kernel panic/problem. That is until the latest updates of which the kernel(+ its extras) were the only things that were updated. Rolling back to the previous kernel

Unexplained Kernel Panic / Hung Task

2013-12-04 Thread ~Stack~
last night, and I am kind of stumped. I would greatly appreciate others thoughts and input on what the problem might be. Thanks! ~Stack~ Dec 4 02:25:09 testbox kernel: INFO: task jbd2/cciss!c0d0:273 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Dec 4 02:25:09 testbox kernel: echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel

Re: No DHCP on boot with a fresh install

2013-12-04 Thread ~Stack~
. :-) Thanks for the input! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: No DHCP on boot with a fresh install

2013-12-04 Thread ~Stack~
On 12/04/2013 05:13 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 4 December 2013 23:07, ~Stack~ i.am.st...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/04/2013 08:19 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: I would suggest trying a NIC that uses a different driver or getting a newer driver from ELrepo (kmod-tg3). Broadcom has been known to have

Re: No DHCP on boot with a fresh install

2013-12-04 Thread ~Stack~
On 12/04/2013 05:39 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: On 12/04/2013 05:13 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 4 December 2013 23:07, ~Stack~ i.am.st...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/04/2013 08:19 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: I would suggest trying a NIC that uses a different driver or getting a newer driver from ELrepo (kmod