report this problem to the owner of the sl-security repository.
>
> Is this something I've configured incorrectly or are other
> people getting it?
Do a full refresh of the metadata and see if it does the same:
$ yum clean all
$ yum check-update
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to port
the python based "Airflow" tool to a stable environment, and it only
took 100 for SL 7. Fedora would have been much smaller, since many of
them were backports of Fedora packages.
Thanks in advance for your time. I want to say I have several of your
messages tagged. I'v
On 12/04/16 23:37, Larry Linder wrote:
> I am looking for a good - easy to use sftp client.
type this into your file browser in the desktop:
sftp://username@your-host-here
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st get lost in the noise of CentOS.
Considering you can change from SL to CentOS on a running system with
only one reboot, you'll notice how small a change this actually is.
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On 29/03/2016 8:23 AM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Steven Haigh wrote:
>
>> RedHat seems to have something on this - but its locked behind the
>> subscription:
>>https://access.redhat.com/solutions/29845
>>
>> If its only the overnight
modify /etc/sysconfig/yum-autoupdate and add "yum clean all" to PRERUN.
I note that I only ever get these from 7.x systems. 6.x doesn't seem to
throw this at all.
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network, then it might be a
different story...
As far as the question of patches, you won't get a package until at
least the disclosure date.
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package managed service files.
This attitude causes problems and is the very salt in the wound of
veteran system administrators. Fix the breakage - not apply workarounds
- this isn't Windows, and we completely reject these "solutions".
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de of being a downstream distro.
>
> Just because it's on git.centos.org doesn't mean that this is a CentOS
> change. It's an import from RH. CentOS doesn't diverge from RHEL with
> downstream patches. And, AFAIK, SL uses pristine RH sources and not
> those modified by CentOS.
Correct - that was my point. This is part of a change that RH pushed
internally and to CentOS. The origin is RedHat - and the change shows
the source of the bug - RedHat :)
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t's a workaround. named-checkconf and
> named-checkzone can, and should be able to, correctly operate for a
> chroot'ed named. I wrote configuration testing Makefiles to do this
> way, way back in 2012? I'm not sure if I still have those
> anywhere.
The above quoted l
as broken in this commit:
https://git.centos.org/blobdiff/rpms!bind.git/d56ed2d3a2736a07a09c268f3b2607cca8f1b6ca/SOURCES!named-chroot.service
That was in release bind-9.9.4-29.el7 on 19th November 2015.
This an actual error in the commit that was released to public - void of
any QA - as even
On 17/03/2016 10:53 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 17/03/16 12:40, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> On 17/03/2016 10:25 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
>>> On 17/03/16 06:36, Bill Maidment wrote:
>>>> Hi guys
>>>> Another named update and still the named-chroot.se
- so Fedora is a happy medium for me - as I
still have the fedora-updates-testing repo enabled. My work laptop as
well as my personal laptop - and now my home desktop all run Fedora 23
(KDE Spin if you hate Gnome 3 - like me).
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n the yum-utils package, there is a
>> needs-restarting utility that seems to be designed to do about the
>> same thing (I haven't looked into it).
>>
>> Would you know how that one or the command line you mentioned compare?
>> Is one more reliable/safer/easier than the other?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Iosif Fettich
>>
>>
>
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On 31/01/16 20:37, Jose Marques wrote:
>> On 31 Jan 2016, at 04:17, Steven Haigh wrote:
>>
>> If you're doing desktop stuff, I don't think EL7 has it anymore - may as
>> well use Fedora. I use Fedora + KDE5 on my laptop and its about as good
>> as gnome was
Fedora. I use Fedora + KDE5 on my laptop and its about as good
as gnome was before the great dumbing down that made Gnome 3.
And yeah, I get told off in the official channels all the time for this,
but I still disable selinux on just about everything.
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On 15/01/16 21:38, Jean-Michel Barbet wrote:
> On 01/15/2016 10:07 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
>
>> Just to through a spanner in the works, have you thought about using an
>> overlay filesystem?
>
> Hi Steven,
>
> Thanks, I quickly read the link you provided. I thi
bout using an
overlay filesystem?
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
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related to the -devel list.
That being said, I'm glad I don't get 200 emails a day through this
list, and would be happy to see the off topic drivel stop so we can go
back to focussing on actual problems - not constructed problems about a
false understanding of lack of choice.
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>
> I am happy to add SL project developers as ops if they wish and as time
> goes by I would expect to add others who show they are responsible.
>
> Rega
On 28/10/2014 1:05 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> On 10/26/2014 12:39 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> On 25/10/2014 10:28 PM, Shane Voss wrote:
>>> On 25/10/14 05:06, Steven Haigh wrote:> I also want to go and put a
>>> custom URL in the sl6x.repo to go to my
>&
On 25/10/2014 10:28 PM, Shane Voss wrote:
> On 25/10/14 05:06, Steven Haigh wrote:> I also want to go and put a
> custom URL in the sl6x.repo to go to my
>> local repository that I mirror.
>>
>> That means I'd want to turn this:
> [snip]
>
>> to thi
ught I'd reach out and see if anyone
else has done this before :)
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ntific Linux will progress? I'm just about happy to
head in from day #1 of builds being available...
I have some systems on Arch Linux now due to various factors that I'd
like to migrate to EL7 when it comes along. It can't really break much
more than when an Arch update goes wrong ;)
-
possibly a network
issue as I'm getting interesting results from a traceroute.
The web site seems to be up however. Additional mirror sites can be
found here:
http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirrors
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On 27/10/2012 1:36 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
On 27/10/2012 10:58 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
This is somewhat odd, I'd expect this to be text/plain or something in
that direction. But that's set based o
th application/octet-stream.
Maybe - but I'd expect thunderbird would do the right thing? :\
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incorrect
causing it not to display properly? This one isn't really my field of
expertise...
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On 28/07/2012 6:58 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
Hi all,
I'm hunting for a decent and semi-recent howto on how to configure
DNSSEC for use with bind in SL6.
Does anyone have something good that they have used? My googling seems
to find more presentations and tech docs than actual howt
Hi all,
I'm hunting for a decent and semi-recent howto on how to configure
DNSSEC for use with bind in SL6.
Does anyone have something good that they have used? My googling seems
to find more presentations and tech docs than actual howtos or
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Great bug report.
This should probably also go to the sl-devel list. CC'ed them in.
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On 20/07/2012 7:21 PM, Klaus Steinberger wrote:
Hi,
today we were hit by a b
pace?
What is it with people thinking that CentOS is some kind of competition
for SL or RHEL?
Sure, CentOS do things differently. If it compiles, ship it.
SL will more than likely do a Beta, RC, then release - just like they
have with each other point release.
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ore I can get
to it.
Booting using the standard SL6.1 kernel-2.6.32-131.0.15 works perfectly.
Has anyone else come across this?
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On 9/05/2012 4:20 PM, vivek chalotra wrote:
I am installing SLC 5.8 64 bit in HP Pavilion g6 notebook. It has
installed sucessfully but its giving error in starting the X server.
Any help is appreciated.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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the subject, and also
adds the List-Post: header. Works fine for me with the Thunderbird
"Reply to List" functionality.
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error and fix it -
although you may well end up with a block of corrupted data as a result.
The only theoretical way to fix this would be to add parity - and then
you're in the RAID5/6 area
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l probably still say this until a kernel update is done. The
splash stuff is loaded from the boot portions of the kernel and is not
updated automatically.
Don't stress about it - it'll fix itself on the next kernel update.
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ither maintain it
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On 21/02/2012 2:17 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Regarding the Xen for SL 6: I note that th
On 20/02/2012 1:14 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Steven Haigh mailto:net...@crc.id.au>> wrote:
I didn't agree with TUV in dropping Xen - however I'm pretty sure it
will return in EL7.
I'm not sure about this. There are things I di
, set it
to "permissive" instead of "disabled" and collect some logs. There are
also some notes at http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/RHEL6_Xen4_Tutorial that
look interesting.
I did look at this - however it seems that from all my experiments this
is too much work to be feasible for just me t
ine with 32 bit software) to test them out and let me know if it
works.
Sadly, I don't have any spare hardware I can run this up as a test on!
My howto guide on setting it up is here:
http://www.crc.id.au/xen-on-rhel6-scientific-linux-6-centos-6-howto/
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mirror site you are having troubles connecting to. I think we both
picked up on you using the Fedora packages instead of EL6 - however we
both missed that it sounds like a network error!
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On 17/02/2012 9:00 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
## Scientific Linux Users mailing list.
:0 Wfh
* ^Sender: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov
| sed -e '/^Subject:/ s/\[SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS\] *//g' && sed
':a;N;$!ba;s/Precedence: list/Precedence: list\nList-Post:
&
RPM Fusion web site
for kmod-nvidia...
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<mailto:scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov>/g'
:0 A
.Mail\ Lists.SL-Users/
Now, as I know some mail clients will mess this up with wrapping lines,
the following is the first two chars of a new line:
:0
*
|
:0
.M
Procmail can do some pretty awe
rch.rpm
Taken from:
http://www.rpmfusion.org/Configuration
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... If a system follows the sl6x repos, will this automatically
update to 6.2 as the packages hit the mirrors?
I started life with SL at 6.1 - so I've never gone through the minor
version change with SL before.
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On 14/02/2012 5:02 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 02/11/2012 07:06 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
Hi all,
I build a repo with Xen and a EL6 kernel for a Xen Dom0 and I'm hoping
to pick
the brain of a few gurus here on sorting a few things out that I've
broken.
Until now, I've been pack
6.1 is a released verison.
6.2 is currently in RC2 and isn't too far of a public release - however
it is not considered a stable version until it is accepted as the 6.2
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scribe all your machines to RHEL licenses.
This will give you an avenue to support and a direct feed to techs at RH
to fix these issues for you. You benefit in this situation, and
indirectly, all SL and CentOS users benefit too.
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On 8/01/2012 1:44 AM, Ilya A. Otyutskiy wrote:
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
Woah! That is certainly not what I want. I must have screwed up and
downloaded the wrong ISO. I've just made sure only the 6x repos are enabled
and I'm in the middle of a dist-sync now.
On 8/01/2012 1:37 AM, Ilya A. Otyutskiy wrote:
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
To be honest, I'm not sure if I'm using a beta or what...
The ISO I downloaded was from:
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/scientific/6/x86_64/iso/
I downloaded SL-61-x86_64-2011-11-
On 8/01/2012 1:21 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
On Jan 7, 2012, at 15:00 , Steven Haigh wrote:
I'm hoping someone will either have a workaround or a suggestion for me.
I'm trying to get arcconf and the firmware updater for an IBM SAS RAID adapter.
Sadly it seems the binaries that IBM
m clean all && yum install glibc.i686'
Still got the same results. It looks like there are also no updates via
'yum check-update'.
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blem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Am I attempting to do this the wrong way or is something else playing up
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as a bug on the SL-devel list,
however I have yet to hear any progress on what has happened.
The outcome is that without a live network connection, the install will
fail - even on the standalone install DVDs.
Maybe Connie can comment on this?
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Every time I put the laptop to sleep, or hibernate etc I need to run my
script again to set up the trackpad again.
Is there a 'gnome way' to do this? Somewhere that I don't have to worry
about running this script all the time?
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a way to force a SATA port to be re-enabled after being
disabled via the error handler? At the moment, I'm stuck with having to
reboot the entire machine - which is not good for a Xen Dom0 :(
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ey is not to layer too many things on top of each other or you'll
run into issues with block boundaries etc.
It also shows a different way to install CentOS 5 in this case - however
it should be easily adjustable to just about any EL OS.
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-on-rhel6-scientific-linux-6-centos-6-howto/
I still find Xen much better than KVM...
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On 29/07/2011 5:48 AM, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote:
Hi,
Here's a list of upgrade options from SL 6.0 to SL 6.1.
Am I correct in thinking that sl6x includes what would be in sl-updates?
So in theory, the only repos that require to be enabled are [sl6x] and
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On 20/07/2011 8:16 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
On 20/07/2011 6:54 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
2011/7/19 Stephen John Smoogen:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 13:30, Justin Sandy
wrote:
Is there a way to install xen on 32-bit or 64-bit
ting phase - but I use them both on my setup without
issues. Bug reports welcome! :)
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kernel.org source[3] - currently
version 2.6.32.41.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated - on both the howto and the
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[1] http://www.crc.id.au/xen-on
Hmmm - Not 100% sure if this will solve it, however try installing
kernel-xen from http://www.crc.id.au/repo
Its kernel version 2.6.32.41 - and although it has the extensions to run
as a Xen Dom0, most of the config should be the same as a stock EL6
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specifically related to SL do so
on the unofficial forums.
Here is a good start:
http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showforum=7
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seriously, if anyone still hasn't
figured out basic mailing list etiquette, they're not ready to
participate in such lists.
rday (who is getting seriously tired of, every week, reading the same
swill on a mailing list somewhere)
Sorry, I just had to ;)
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didn't
support being a xen host anymore.
I use a self-compiled Xen 4.1.0 with a self-compiled 2.6.32.40 kernel.
I'm looking at making them all into RPMs and hosting a Xen repo for
kernel + xen - but I'm not that experienced in creating RPMs as yet. In
time, I'll get aro
id so with no errors.
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ack on the use of procmail - as I'd like to tidy that up a bit but
haven't been able to find a way to do so.
All feedback welcome - via the list or the thread.
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:
590fd1993441556fc9f3879395d623162d42d2f9171dafab7453d343c24c13c8
SL-61-x86_64-2011-05-31-boot.iso
7ed319c6a98ddced4b72e4d48cbdea7fc5f1046749458771c9eb6f2770f5d752
SL-61-x86_64-2011-05-31-Install-DVD.iso
The same seems to apply for the i386 images.
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olumes for
different Xen DomUs and it is a piece of cake to add/remove/resize
volumes on the fly.
I've found messing with partitions directly on a disk can be quite
troublesome - especially if you need to modify things later...
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new kernel to run as the Xen Dom0 and the first virtual machines back up
and running on it.
I'm that impressed that over time I'm going to start migrating all my
CentOS / Fedora based virtual machines over to SL6.
Thanks to all for their hard work, it really made my day :)
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