documented sudo?
I'm transitioning some machines to SL7.x from ancient RHEL 5.x. I am encountering selinux, firewalld, systemd, and other command-line configured tools, which produce many little disconnected XML files, rather than the /etc configuration files I am used to. I put lots of comments with observations, intent, hints, helpful webpages, and other useful information in my config files, and use those comments to get up to speed years later, when I repair or upgrade those files. This is difficult to do with the *d command-line tools. I would expect there would be something like a "dodo" command, pronounced "dew-dew" (*), an abbreviation for "documented do". This would help document every sudo, timed and in context with every other dodo, per subsystem and in sequence. Syntax errors would be treated separately, FMM(**) corrections aided. This seems like an obvious help tool for sysadmin using the new config-file-free tools, so it probably exists. What is it called? If it does not exist, would someone please earn fame and fortune by writing it? Keith (*) dodo pronounced "dew-dew" indicates cognoscenti who've got their s**t together. Pronounced "doe-doe", like the extinct flightless bird, indicates a clueless newbie. I hope this is an additional incentive to snarky tool writers to write this for me. (**) FMM == frequently made mistakes . I tend to repeat typing errors and other brain-o's. If I make the same mistake a second time, perhaps months later, dodo could offer my prior correction. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
Re: MATE on SL 7
It'd also be nice to have a non GUI way to set the DE to launch, as with XFCE anyway I have to select for every user, can't seem to find anything to twiddle with puppet. Now, I'm not sure I want to enforce it either, but just change the default. James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University On 04/09/2016 12:55 AM, S. Tindall wrote: On 04/08/2016 09:16 PM, Bill Maidment wrote: Hi Guys I installed (yum groupinstall mate-desktop) on SL 7.2 and I can select MATE using the icon next to the "Sign In" button on the password entry screen. It seems to remember what your last selection was, too. Cheers Bill Thanks Bill! You are absolutely correct. Switched back to GDM and the MATE selection was exactly where you said it would be. Before, I looked everywhere for a desktop selection at login, but never thought to look again after selecting my username. I don't recall having to select MATE from a login list after installing under 7.1. Steve
Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Fermi has stopped using SL?
On 04/08/2016 09:07 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: I heard a rumor today that said Fermi labs has moved off of Scientific Linux to Centos? Is this a factual thing? We are very much still here. Pat http://www.scientificlinux.org/about/
abiword
Is there any EL7 rpm or other successful build of a recent stable release of abiword? If so, what is URL to download the build including whatever other rpms are required (or a large static image that does not require any .so components that are not part of the standard SL 7 repo)? Yasha Karant
php5.6
Hi, thanks for all your help, get it running with the remi-epo. Greetings, Ralf Farke