Strange network device name chages on reboot of SL7 kvm guests
Hi again I have recently rebooted KVM guests with two virtual NICs (e.g. /dev/ens4 and /dev/eth0) only to find that the device name of the eth0 changes to eth1 and so the ifcfg-eth0 doesn't match. So I fix the ifcfg file and restart network - all OK. On a later reboot eth1 changes back to eth0. What is going on? Anyone else observe this phenomena? Cheers Bill Maidment
Bad diskboot.img file for i386 SL6.x
Hello, for your information I noticed that the file diskboot.img for i386 in http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.8/i386/os/images/ has empty files in syslinux and can't be used : drwxr-xr-x root root 1024 Jun 29 2016 ./images -rw-r--r-- root root 145551360 Jun 29 2016 ./images/install.img drwx-- root root 12288 Jun 29 2016 ./lost+found drwxr-xr-x root root 1024 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux -r--r--r-- root root 0 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/TRANS.TBL -r--r--r-- root root 2048 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/boot.cat -rw-r--r-- root root84 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/boot.msg -r--r--r-- root root 933 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/extlinux.conf -r--r--r-- root root 142 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/grub.conf -rw-r--r-- root root 36798464 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/initrd.img -r--r--r-- root root 0 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/isolinux.bin -r--r--r-- root root 0 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/ldlinux.sys -r--r--r-- root root 0 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/memtest -r--r--r-- root root 0 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/splash.jpg -r--r--r-- root root 0 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/vesamenu.c32 -rwxr-xr-x root root 0 Jun 29 2016 ./syslinux/vmlinuz Many thanks and best wishes to Connie. -- Best regards, Robert FRANCHISSEUR Apollo_gist :-)___ | Robert FRANCHISSEUR Phone : +33 (0)950 635 636 | | 30 rue René Hamon Phone : +33 (0)1 46 78 37 29 | | F-94800 VILLEJUIFe-mail : Robert at Franchisseur . fr | --- pgp_5JBk1VwWk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Connie Sieh, founder of Scientific Linux, retires from Fermilab
Thanks to Bonnie and the entire SL team, who have done so much to make SL usable in the scientific community. As a user at another national lab, I can assure you that your work helps us with ours every day. Thanks and good luck in retirement. On 2/24/17 4:52 PM, Bonnie King wrote: Friends, The Scientific Linux team is at once happy and sad to announce Connie Sieh's retirement after 23 years. Today is her last full-time day at Fermilab. Connie Sieh founded the Fermi Linux and Scientific Linux projects and has worked on them continuously. She has sometimes preferred to toil behind the scenes and leave public announcements to others, but has always been a driving force behind the projects. The Scientific Linux story started in the late 1990s when Connie's group explored using commodity PC hardware and Linux as an alternative to commercial servers with proprietary UNIX operating systems. From the distributions available at the time, Red Hat Linux was chosen. In 1998, Connie announced Fermi Linux at HEPiX, a semi-annual meeting of High Energy Physics IT staff. Fermi Linux was a customized and re-branded version of Red Hat Linux with some tweaks for integration with the Fermilab environment. It also introduced an installer modification called Workgroups, a framework to customize package sets for use at different sites and for different purposes. The Workgroups concept lives on today in the form of Contexts for SL7. In October 2003 TUV changed their product model and introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Enterprise Linux was no longer freely distributed in binary form, but sources remained available. Connie and her colleagues started building from these sources, creating one of the first Enterprise Linux rebuilds. A preview, dubbed HEPL, was presented at spring HEPiX 2004. In May 2004, the rebuild was released as Scientific Linux. The name was chosen to reflect the goals and user base of the product. Our colleagues at CERN collaborated, customizing and using Scientific Linux as Scientific Linux CERN (SLC). SL became a standard OS for Scientific Computing in High Energy Physics at Fermilab, CERN and beyond. SL is freely available to the general public, and is a popular Enterprise Linux rebuild. As a result, it has built a community outside of Fermilab and HEP. With gratitude, the Scientific Linux team would like to recognize Connie's many years of service and her immense contribution to the project she founded. Connie's outstanding technical and non-technical judgement are the foundation of Scientific Linux. Her legacy will continue to inform the way we run SL and we hope she'll remain as a collaborator. All the best to Connie in her well-earned retirement. She will be dearly missed! -- John Haggerty email: hagge...@bnl.gov cell: 631 741 3358
Re: Connie Sieh, founder of Scientific Linux, retires from Fermilab
Hello Connie, Thanks for all the time and love you put into Scientific Linux. I really appreciate your work on the distro and am one happy user running it on all of my systems :) I wish you well and enjoy your retirement! greetings, Maarten On 2017-02-24 22:52, Bonnie King wrote: Friends, The Scientific Linux team is at once happy and sad to announce Connie Sieh's retirement after 23 years. Today is her last full-time day at Fermilab. Connie Sieh founded the Fermi Linux and Scientific Linux projects and has worked on them continuously. She has sometimes preferred to toil behind the scenes and leave public announcements to others, but has always been a driving force behind the projects. The Scientific Linux story started in the late 1990s when Connie's group explored using commodity PC hardware and Linux as an alternative to commercial servers with proprietary UNIX operating systems. From the distributions available at the time, Red Hat Linux was chosen. In 1998, Connie announced Fermi Linux at HEPiX, a semi-annual meeting of High Energy Physics IT staff. Fermi Linux was a customized and re-branded version of Red Hat Linux with some tweaks for integration with the Fermilab environment. It also introduced an installer modification called Workgroups, a framework to customize package sets for use at different sites and for different purposes. The Workgroups concept lives on today in the form of Contexts for SL7. In October 2003 TUV changed their product model and introduced Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Enterprise Linux was no longer freely distributed in binary form, but sources remained available. Connie and her colleagues started building from these sources, creating one of the first Enterprise Linux rebuilds. A preview, dubbed HEPL, was presented at spring HEPiX 2004. In May 2004, the rebuild was released as Scientific Linux. The name was chosen to reflect the goals and user base of the product. Our colleagues at CERN collaborated, customizing and using Scientific Linux as Scientific Linux CERN (SLC). SL became a standard OS for Scientific Computing in High Energy Physics at Fermilab, CERN and beyond. SL is freely available to the general public, and is a popular Enterprise Linux rebuild. As a result, it has built a community outside of Fermilab and HEP. With gratitude, the Scientific Linux team would like to recognize Connie's many years of service and her immense contribution to the project she founded. Connie's outstanding technical and non-technical judgement are the foundation of Scientific Linux. Her legacy will continue to inform the way we run SL and we hope she'll remain as a collaborator. All the best to Connie in her well-earned retirement. She will be dearly missed!
