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

2021-04-12 Thread P. Larry Nelson
-04-07 9:28 a.m., Teh, Kenneth M. wrote: >> If you need to run a lot of commands as root, the easiest sudo method >> is simply 'sudo su -' which makes you into root.  The trailing '-' >> does a login which replaces your environment with root's. -- P. Larry Nelson (217-693-741

Re: Way Off Topic - HEP Network Symphony Orchestra

2020-12-23 Thread P. Larry Nelson
networks.  There are likely some excellent astronomical and geophysical uses for that. I'd guess that readers of this list know the people who know the people who know how to do this.  What could we slap together in a hurry? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom  kei...@keithl.com -- P. Larry Nelson

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread P. Larry Nelson
erests the end-user or not. I've witnessed "amateurs" walk away, try to delete everything they ever contributed, and get mad when folks wouldn't forget what had been said. At least with "amateurs" you can afford more of them, and have backups for when people do leave. As far as R

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

2020-02-25 Thread P. Larry Nelson
RHEL3, moved to SL4, then SL5 (my favorite) and wound up at SL6. SL7 was out and the HEP community was transitioning to it when I retired so I didn't have to deal with it. :-) Anyways, now back to retirement. - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-693-7418) | IT Administrator Emeritus 810 Ventura Rd

Re: Is Scientfic Linux Still Active as a Distribution?

2020-02-21 Thread P. Larry Nelson
- then get fedora and be done with it. -- P. Larry Nelson (217-693-7418) | IT Administrator Emeritus 810 Ventura Rd.| High Energy Physics Group Champaign, IL 61820 | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo: lnel...@illinois.edu | https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/

Re: Update via SL 7.5 install USB flash drive

2018-10-18 Thread P. Larry Nelson
especially the one for Scientific Linux. -- P. Larry Nelson (217-693-7418) | IT Administrator Emeritus 810 Ventura Rd.| High Energy Physics Group Champaign, IL 61820 | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo: lnel...@illinois.edu | https:/

Re: is the disk failing ?

2018-10-16 Thread P. Larry Nelson
omise" not to mention any vendor names. ;-} -- P. Larry Nelson (217-693-7418) | IT Administrator Emeritus 810 Ventura Rd.| High Energy Physics Group Champaign, IL 61820 | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo: lnel...@illinois.edu | https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/

Re: SP: proofpoint.com URLs in sl-users messages

2018-07-24 Thread P. Larry Nelson
ocalhost=DwICaQ=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A=ZGI1z1l3vfqoHxT9bkh2uTtKg-5zoSMkjMa7dJwVne0=INI4G8jasFk0qatIiVrK7ndowa48nV-He-K2gNoIkII= and URLs in sig... -s On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 2:45 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hmmm, my copy sure doesn't

Re: SP: proofpoint.com URLs in sl-users messages

2018-07-24 Thread P. Larry Nelson
Hmmm, my copy sure doesn't look like HTML format. I surrender P. Larry Nelson wrote on 7/24/18 1:44 PM: Same test only now I've composed in HTML format. Same URL: (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_=DwIDaQ=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P

Re: SP: proofpoint.com URLs in sl-users messages

2018-07-24 Thread P. Larry Nelson
=TZGZbRrxKyrMRUQCxm4kUvNcS7tHO8hynCK27Kro7ig=) P. Larry Nelson wrote on 7/24/18 1:40 PM: I concur with the previous posts about ProofPoint. The U of I campus implemented this several years ago. I complained.  Fell on deaf ears. Implemented by our security folks.  Rationale being that 99% of the campus email users (i.e

Re: SP: proofpoint.com URLs in sl-users messages

2018-07-24 Thread P. Larry Nelson
s. expressed by Konsantin. -- P. Larry Nelson (217-693-7418) | IT Administrator Emeritus 810 Ventura Rd.| High Energy Physics Group Champaign, IL 61820 | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo: lnel...@illinois.edu | https://urldefense.pro

Re: SNMP scanner?

2016-08-05 Thread P. Larry Nelson
for the ports and/or VLANs I'm interested in looking at, and then capture all the traffic (I capture all traffic then filter it out). Not as clean as some other solutions, but it does get everything. -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | IT Administrator 457 Loomis Lab | High Energy

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-30 Thread P. Larry Nelson
. You can install a separate python environment in a users home directory. On 31/07/16 09:36, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi all, Please don't shoot the questioner (me), as I have no experience with Python, other than knowing "what" it is and that my SL6.8 systems have version 2.6.6 ins

Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-30 Thread P. Larry Nelson
;No way - won't work." I think the student probably has access to CERN systems that probably have what he's looking for. I've followed up with that inquiry to the student and waiting to hear back. Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | IT Administrator 457 Loomis Lab

Re: SNMP scanner?

2016-07-30 Thread P. Larry Nelson
yours to install? On my SL5.5 system, 'rpm -ivh overlook-fing-2.2.rpm' It just did it - no complaints. - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | IT Administrator 457 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo

Re: SNMP scanner?

2016-07-30 Thread P. Larry Nelson
all on a flash drive. I do know how to convert ova's to qemu-kvm, but still ... Thank you for helping me with this! -T -- ~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~ On 07/30/2016

Re: SNMP scanner?

2016-07-30 Thread P. Larry Nelson
. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~ -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | IT Administrator 457 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo: lnel...@illinois.edu | http://hep.p

Re: bash-update

2014-09-25 Thread P. Larry Nelson
/articles/1200223 Red Hat advises customers to upgrade to the version of bash which contains the fix for CVE-2014-6271 and not wait for the patch which fixes CVE-2014-7169. CVE-2014-7169 is a less severe issue and patches for it are being worked on. -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems

Re: advice on using latest firefox from mozilla

2013-06-07 Thread P. Larry Nelson
?title=Main_Page Jeff Verrry nice! Had not heard of Cluster SSH before. BTW, if you have epel enabled, one can just do 'yum install clusterssh' - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St