Scientific Linux LiveCD/DVD 6.3 officially released
Hi, Scientific Linux 6.3 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD are officially released. They are available for 32-bit and 64-bit and come with following window manager LiveMiniCD icewm LiveCD gnome LiveDVDgnome, kde, icewm Software was added from rpmforge, epel and elrepo (see EXTRA SOFTWARE) to include additional filesystem support (ntfs, reiserfs), secure network connection (openvpn, vpnc, pptp), filesystem tools (dd_rescue, ddrescue, gparted, gdisk), and better multimedia support (gstreamer-ffmpeg, flash-plugin) DOWNLOAD - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/63/i386 - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/63/x86_64 Or - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.3/i386/iso - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.3/x86_64/iso Alternatively use a public mirror or torrent: - http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirrors - http://www.osst.co.uk/Download/scientific/livecd/?id=28 CHANGES SINCE SL6.2 LIVE - software based on SL6.3 - add boot parameter eject, which ejects LiveCD/DVD at shutdown NOTES - For SL6 the way how the LiveCD was built has completely changed. It is now based on the Fedora LiveCD tools. - If you install the LiveCD to hard drive, the installation of the live image is done by anaconda similar to the normal SL6 installation. All changes done during LiveCD usage are lost! - You can install the LiveCD on an USB stick with persistent changes using liveusb-creator included in SL6. - To build your own LiveCD use livecd-tools from SL6. SOFTWARE - kernel 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6 - xorg 1.7.7 - icewm 1.2.37 - gnome 2.28 - firefox 10.0.6 - thunderbird 10.0.6 - libreoffice 3.4.5.2 (only on LiveDVD) - kde 4.3.4 (only on LiveDVD) ... EXTRA SOFTWARE (repo sl-livecd-extra) - fuse-sshfs - ntfs-3g - ntfsprogs - dd_rescue - ddrescue - iperf - flash-plugin - gstreamer-ffmpeg - rxvt-unicode (only MiniCD) - gparted - gdisk - NetworkManager-openvpn - NetworkManager-vpnc - NetworkManager-pptp - vpnc-consoleuser - kmod-reiserfs - reiserfs-utils BOOT PARAMETERS - live_ram copy entire Live image to RAM (takes a few minutes) - noswap do not use SWAP partition found on hard drive - pw=any_password set password - noautologin disable auto login - automountenable auto mounting (rw) of all found hard drives - user=usernameusername of local user, default is liveuser - cups=server set CUPS server - hostname=nameset hostname - checkverify LiveCD before booting - liveinst directly start graphical installation to hard drive - textinst directly start text based installation to hard drive - overlay=UUID=defines the UUID of the USB device used for persistent overlay - rdinitdebug debug dracut boot process - ejecteject LiveCD/DVD at shutdown More information can be found at http://www.livecd.ethz.ch Urs Beyerle
Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Password required in single-user mode? (solved)
On 08/23/2012 03:18 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 08/18/2012 03:57 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: Hi, I've been running Scientific Linux since the 6.0 days, and single-user mode have basically behaved how I have expected it those few times I needed it. As I usually set up my boxes root accounts with passwords disabled, single-user mode needs to be without root password. Today, after having upgraded from 6.3, I needed to enter single-user mode at boot. And I was asked for a password at boot time. Is this change intentional? # cat /etc/redhat-release Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon) # rpm -qa | grep -i sl_password_for_singleuser | wc -l 0 # grep SINGLE /etc/sysconfig/init SINGLE=/sbin/sushell If this change was intentional, how can I go back to the old behaviour? I double checked the behaviour with an old VM with SL6.1, and that behaves as expected. kind regards, David Sommerseth Hi David, The behavior shouldn't have changed. You've provided just about all the relevant details in your email, so there isn't really anything I want to ask for more information. Can I have you try setting /etc/sysconfig/init => SINGLE to /sbin/sulogin rebooting and setting it back to /sbin/sushell? Perhaps something got 'stuck' wrong /sbin/sushell is a shell script, so can I have you verify its contents? Mine looks like: #!/bin/bash [ -z "$SUSHELL" ] && SUSHELL=/bin/bash exec $SUSHELL Hi Pat, First of all, tanks a lot for your answer, and to Stephan for his input as well. I checked /sbin/sushell and the SINGLE variable in /etc/sysconfig/init. And it was currently working just as expected - in both modes. But as I knew it had been failing, I added an extra disk to the VM I have with SL6.3. Double checked adding 's' to the kernel command line gave me a shell without asking for password. Then I added this disk to /etc/fstab ... and removed the extra disk. This time, I was asked for a root password when booting up - both when I was asking for 's'ingle user-mode and without it. Adding the disk back, and the "proper" behaviour is back too. So that's the issue I hit, as I in my real setup had just added and configured a new disk with encryption on my VM - but messed up the encryption key. When I then wanted to rescue the system, instead of solving it via 'single-user mode' I had to use guestfish on the root filesystem of the failing machine and disable the new disk in /etc/cryptotab and /etc/fstab. Then I could start setting up the disk again with a proper key. But the hint from Stephan, setting EMERGENCY=/sbin/sushell in /etc/sysconfig/init did the trick. So that's what I need to set on all my boxes. Lesson learnt: Emergency mode supersedes single-user mode, especially with filesystem failures. Thanks all! kind regards, David Sommerseth
Hylafax's "faxstat -r" shows nothing
SL 6.3, x64 hylafax-client-6.0.5-1rhel5.x86_64 hylafax-server-6.0.5-1rhel5.x86_64 Hi All, Hylafax's "faxstat -r" shows nothing in the queues (other utilities do not either). # faxstat -r HylaFAX scheduler on rn4.rent-a-nerd.local: Running Modem ttyS1 (1.775.265.5150): Running and idle But my queue has stuff in it. # ls -al /var/spool/hylafax/recvq ... -rw---. 1 uucp uucp 43522 Aug 18 19:00 fax1.tif -rw---. 1 uucp uucp 7946 Aug 25 18:30 fax4.tif -rw---. 1 uucp uucp 1 Aug 25 18:35 seqf What am I doing wrong? Many thanks, -T
