Re: Scientific Linux 6.2 available on Amazon EC2
Well, I tried reading more thoroughly The AWS Customer Agreement. ... 5.1. Service Fees. We calculate and bill fees and charges monthly. We may bill you more frequently for fees accrued if we suspect that your account is fraudulent or at risk of non-payment. You will pay us the applicable fees and charges for use of the Service Offerings as described on the AWS Site using one of the payment methods we support. All amounts payable under this Agreement will be made without setoff or counterclaim, and without any deduction or withholding. Fees and charges for any new Service or new feature of a Service will be effective when we post updated fees and charges on the AWS Site unless we expressly state otherwise in a notice. We may increase or add new fees and charges for any existing Services by giving you at least 30 days’ advance notice. We may charge you interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (or the highest rate permitted by law, if less) on all late payments. ... I am afraid that when I apply for AWS, give my credit card details and forget to stop using services, or AWS notifies by posting on the AWS Site, then I should pay for something new, or something overseen? What happens if I do not follow posts on the AWS Site? I am interested in AWS, but do not want to make contract that I will later be sorry for. Why isn't 'free' simply free? If I pay 'as I go', why don't give credit card details and make payments 'as I go'? Zoran On 5/3/2012 6:27 PM, Kinney, Jamie wrote: Hi Zoran, AWS charges on a utility basis for our infrastructure and platform services. However, we do have a free tier which is described at http://aws.amazon.com/free We also have a education/research grant program that may be of interest. It is described at http://aws.amazon.com/education Thanks, Jamie Kinney Solution Architecture - Worldwide Public Sector Amazon Web Services E: jkin...@amazon.com mailto:jkin...@amazon.com M: 206 265-9439 twitter.com/awscloud On May 3, 2012, at 2:15 AM, Zoran Ovcin wrote: On 5/3/2012 10:56 AM, Jamie Kinney wrote: I have created a Scientific Linux 6.2 x86_64 Amazon EC2 machine image (AMI) and would welcome your feedback. The AMI currently resides in the us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) Amazon EC2 region. If there is enough interest, I could easily publish this AMI to all AWS regions. The AMI is ami-e2a0058b. https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-e2a0058b Feel free to contact me directly with any questions/comments. Best regards, Jamie Kinney HPC/Big Data Solution Architect - Amazon Web Services jkin...@amazon.com mailto:jkin...@amazon.com I never tried using AWS. Before creating the account, I read The Terms of Agreement. Could not understand: is the use of AWS free or is it going to be charged? Zoran -- Zoran Ovcin, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences Serbia, +381-(0)21-485-2298, mailto:zov...@uns.ac.rs -- Zoran Ovcin, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences Serbia, +381-(0)21-485-2298, mailto:zov...@uns.ac.rs
Re: Scientific Linux 6.2 available on Amazon EC2
On 5/3/2012 10:56 AM, Jamie Kinney wrote: I have created a Scientific Linux 6.2 x86_64 Amazon EC2 machine image (AMI) and would welcome your feedback. The AMI currently resides in the us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) Amazon EC2 region. If there is enough interest, I could easily publish this AMI to all AWS regions. The AMI is ami-e2a0058b. https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-e2a0058b Feel free to contact me directly with any questions/comments. Best regards, Jamie Kinney HPC/Big Data Solution Architect - Amazon Web Services jkin...@amazon.com I never tried using AWS. Before creating the account, I read The Terms of Agreement. Could not understand: is the use of AWS free or is it going to be charged? Zoran -- Zoran Ovcin, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences Serbia, +381-(0)21-485-2298, mailto:zov...@uns.ac.rs
Re: a question on mozilla applications
On 2/21/2012 3:24 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 02/20/2012 04:07 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 2/20/2012 5:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 02/20/2012 02:32 PM, Chris Pemberton wrote: On 02/20/12 13:29, Yasha Karant wrote: Before someone states that this is not a Scientific Linux issue, as it seems to be restricted to this distribution (perhaps other EL distributions as well), this issue would seem to qualify. Rather than using the Mozilla packages that exist within the distribution repository, I use the production (not testing or beta) installations from Mozilla: firefox, thunderbird/lightning, and seamonkey, currently 10.0.2 except SeaMonkey 2.7.2. My laptop and workstation are operating environment identical except that my laptop is IA-32 SL6x and my workstation is X86-64 SL6x (and there are some hardware differences reflected in driver differences). On my workstation, as root, I can update any of the Mozilla applications I have mentioned within a major release (e.g., 10.0.1 to 10.0.2) from within the application. However, on my laptop, this generally fails and I must download a new tar.bz2 file that I must unpack into the appropriate directory. Does anyone have an idea on what is the reason? Note that my mozilla configuration files between the two platforms are the same in so far as I have any control over these (e.g., visitation to different URLs from firefox or seamonkey might have different cookies, etc., loaded -- but all URLs are either mandated by my university or from clean sites). I have done a cursory check of the mozilla public lists but have found nothing of relevance. Thanks for any insight. Yasha Karant Could you start firefox from a terminal, try the internal update process, and see if any usefull information is given in the terminal? Sure sounds like a permission problem; but you said you are using root? You should be able to destroy anything as root:) Chris There is no problem in downloading from Mozilla the entire update as a tar.bz2 package followed by the manual installation ( tar -vxjf ) as root into the appropriate directory. However, there is a mechanism, for minor release updates (e.g., 10.0.1 to 10.0.2) within firefox, thunderbird/lightning, and seamonkey without the manual unpacking -- the files are updated within the running application and the updated instance is invoked at the next initiation (restart) of the application. This mechanism needs to be as root if the files are installed in a systems, as contrasted with an ordinary end-user, directory. However, the mechanism fails on one SL6x box but succeeds on another; when the mechanism fails, then I must used the manual installation method from the tar.bz2 file as explained above. Yasha Karant I believe Chris is well aware of that. He instructed you to start firefox from a terminal and attempt the update process from within firefox (meaning _not_ the tar.bz2) and see if it has any errors written to stdout or stderr in the terminal. It helps if you read the email you are replying to. -Mark I missed that -- sorry. But in fact, that is what I do. E.g., I start a terminal as an end-user, su, and then /usr/lib/firefox/firefox . The diagnostics I get are not related to the update process. Here is an example: [root@localhost ykarant]# /usr/lib/firefox/firefox failed to create drawable (firefox:3299): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported. Nonetheless, despite these diagnostics, on one machine there is success and another not. However, the next time I go to do this, I shall record the specific diagnostics, but having read these in the past, there has never been an obvious significant difference. Note that firefox invoked as above appears to be fully functional as a web browser. Yasha Karant Just a guess: Do you have DISPLAY environment variable exported? $ export DISPLAY=:0 Zoran Ovcin
Re: How to migrate yum installed on RHEL 6 to update from SL6 repository?
On 05/16/2011 06:22 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Zoran Ovcinzov...@uns.ac.rs wrote: On 05/15/2011 04:58 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Zoran Ovcinzov...@uns.ac.rswrote: It worked out. Now I am on Scientific linux, yum update passed ok. Great. What does yum list extras say? And did you re-install all your packages, so you're not in license violation with Red Hat ? For now, since I hadn't updated RHEL6, only packages that are newer in SL6 than matching packages in RHEL6 are updated. But, yum update works. What is with extras packages? Are they within SL6? Can they be updated also? Zoran That command shows RPM's that are not part of your currently enabled repositories. It's very handy, when switching repositories, to identify ones that you don't want sticking around. In this case, it would help reveal packages from RHEL or CentOS or whatever you switched *from* that had different versions and might cause depencency conflicts. Here is the output: # yum list extras Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, presto, protect-packages, refresh-packagekit, : rhnplugin, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock This system is not registered with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: mirror01.th.ifl.net * epel-testing: mirror01.th.ifl.net * sl: ftp.scientificlinux.org * sl-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org * sl6x: ftp.scientificlinux.org * sl6x-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org Extra Packages Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-en-US.noarch 1-21.el6 @anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201009221801.x86_64 acroread.i6869.4.0-1.el6 @SupplementInstallMedia/6Workstation flash-plugin.x86_64 10.3.162.29-0.1.el6.rf @rpmforge/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun.x86_641:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun-demo.x86_64 1:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-demo-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun-devel.x86_64 1:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-devel-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc.x86_64 1:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun-plugin.x86_64 1:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun-src.x86_641:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-src-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation kmod-kspiceusb-rhel60.x86_64 4.9-14.el6 @SupplementInstallMedia/6Workstation libavcore0.x86_640.6.1-38.1_git20110115.el6 @atrpms/6Workstation libssh2.x86_64 1.2.7-1.el5.rf @rpmforge/6Workstation libva-0.32.0.1_1.x86_64 0.32.0-3_sds1.el6 @atrpms/6Workstation libva-x11-0.32.0.1_1.x86_64 0.32.0-3_sds1.el6 @atrpms/6Workstation perl-XML-Writer.noarch 0.612-1.el6.rf @rpmforge/6Workstation skype.i586 2.2.0.25-fc10 @/skype-2.2.0.25-fedora.i586 spice-usb-share.x86_64 4.9-9.el6 @/spice-usb-share-4.9-9.el6.x86_64/6Workstation tetex-xdvi.x86_643.0-33.8.el5_5.6 installed virtio-win.noarch1.1.16-0.el6 @/virtio-win-1.1.16-0.el6.noarch/6Workstation zhongyi-song-fonts.noarch0.1.20020329.1-15.el6 @SupplementInstallMedia/6Workstation zhongyi-song-fonts-ghostscript.noarch 0.1.20020329.1-15.el6 @SupplementInstallMedia/6Workstation I had some conflicts so I disabled some testing repositories. Is there a repository from which I can update Java? But since I switched to SL, there have been no updates on the SL repo. Is that ok? Zoran -- Zoran Ovcin, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences Serbia, +381-(0)21-485-2298, mailto:zov...@uns.ac.rs
Re: How to migrate yum installed on RHEL 6 to update from SL6 repository?
It worked out. Now I am on Scientific linux, yum update passed ok. We have replaced repo, rhn, yum and release packages muanually. Then yum update worked. On 04/28/2011 05:31 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Zoran Ovcinzov...@uns.ac.rs wrote: Recently I installed RHEL6 from an installation DVD (not Beta). I was aware that my yum update will not get the RHN support. This will *BREAK* things, such as redhat-release. Don't do it. Migrate the installed packages to SL6 first, especially the *-release packages. Also, rip out yum-rhn-plugin. This will turn off the attempts to access the upstream RHN repositories. Is it possible to use the SL6 rpm repository for updating my system? If yes, what do I have to change in order to be able to do yum update? It's a potentially nasty interaction: packages of the same name may have subtle discrepancies, and tools that look for /etc/issue.net contents will be confused at compilation time. Thanks, Zoran Ovcin
Re: How to migrate yum installed on RHEL 6 to update from SL6 repository?
On 05/15/2011 04:58 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Zoran Ovcinzov...@uns.ac.rs wrote: It worked out. Now I am on Scientific linux, yum update passed ok. Great. What does yum list extras say? And did you re-install all your packages, so you're not in license violation with Red Hat ? For now, since I hadn't updated RHEL6, only packages that are newer in SL6 than matching packages in RHEL6 are updated. But, yum update works. What is with extras packages? Are they within SL6? Can they be updated also? Zoran
How to migrate yum installed on RHEL 6 to update from SL6 repository?
Recently I installed RHEL6 from an installation DVD (not Beta). I was aware that my yum update will not get the RHN support. Is it possible to use the SL6 rpm repository for updating my system? If yes, what do I have to change in order to be able to do yum update? Thanks, Zoran Ovcin
