[CentOS] rpm command option

2020-05-05 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
We located an application recommended by one of customers for sharing certain data.  It was available for installation using a few different methods.  Using yum was also recommended for the installation.  The install instructions began with what appeared to be a fairly typical command as indicated

[CentOS] System Time

2020-03-08 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
A few years ago, one of our interns was curious about system time keeping features in computer systems.  This intern was also the proud owner of an inexpensive Radio-Controlled Clock. The intern wondered why computer motherboards were not just equipped with a chip like the ones in the RCC so that t

[CentOS] Network Diagnostics

2020-01-07 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
In our smallest office, we have a Dell CentOS 7 system, a Windows system and an HP 8610 printer, all hard-wire Ethernet connected with a Linksys router. The router provides Internet connection. All of the network-connected systems get their IP address from the router at power up. Successful networ

[CentOS] gedit font size

2019-07-07 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
We recently installed CentOS 7 on a system. We chose the GNOME desktop install option and have used yum to install all of the available updates.  The first run of yum update yielded about 450 megabytes of items to be installed or updated. All of the updates have been successful. One issue with our

[CentOS] mplayer

2019-06-25 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
We recently installed CentOS 7 from DVD.  Our install selection was the GNOME desktop option. yum update yielded about 465 megabytes of updates all of which were successful with no warnings.  The multi media option was not chosen because KDE was listed. GNOME was not apparent in the software list f

[CentOS] Disk Performance Issue

2019-06-24 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
We have a very old Dell desk top machine that has been running CentOS 6 for the past five years.  It received a new, 1 TB disk and additional memory before the OS installation.  It has been the primary Linux machine in our smallest and most remote field office.  It has been updated at least once a

[CentOS] Firefox Video Capability

2018-11-13 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
One of our summer interns has stayed on during the school year to work some weekends on special projects. This past weekend, her assignment was to trouble shoot problems with Firefox when trying to view various on-line training videos. At some web sites, the video associated with the page will not

[CentOS] Address Codes

2018-10-30 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
One of our summer interns has stayed on during the school year to work some weekends on special assignments. This past weekend, her assignment was to draft, and try out, procedures for scanning all incoming regular mail including the envelopes. This is a new effort for us because previous mail hand

[CentOS] Firefox Issue

2018-09-17 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
We have several small networks, some of which have only four systems that are usually a mix of Windows 7 and CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machines. All of these systems are Internet connected and updated regularly when yum finds packages available.  Information about one of the CentOS 6 machines is includ

[CentOS] Distributed System Monitoring

2018-06-07 Thread Chris Olson
We have recently been assigned to help with the development of a system that will power non-computer/non-network devices located at various places within a 10,000 square ft facility. Most of these devices will operate on a fairly wide range of DC input power. The availability of surplus Cat-5 cabl

[CentOS] Network Performance Update

2018-05-04 Thread Chris Olson
My thanks to all that responded to my posting about measuring network performance.  Helpful suggestions are always very much appreciated.  The type of testing that we were attempting does not appear to be a major topic of interest on the list but the additional information below may be helpful to s

[CentOS] Network Performance

2018-04-30 Thread Chris Olson
One of our summer interns has stayed on working part time on weekends during the school year.  This schedule presents an opportunity for technical investigations and some needed performance testing.  The last weekend assignment included data rate testing on one specific network pathway. Checking o

[CentOS] evince

2018-03-02 Thread Chris Olson
We have some small networks with connectivity to the Internet through firewall routers.  The smallest has one Windows 7 system and three Linux systems including both CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machines.  The Windows 7 systems have full Adobe packages that are updated regularly and are trouble free. On

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 autofs flakyness

2018-01-11 Thread Chris Olson
We have had this problem before but not for a long time.The problem was eventually traced to a router (we think)and corrected when the old router was replaced. On Thursday, January 11, 2018 2:17 PM, "m.r...@5-cent.us" wrote: I have a user who couldn't get in via WinSCP to a server.

Re: [CentOS] Audio Output Timer Utility

2018-01-09 Thread Chris Olson
Thanks for the information on festival.I think that this will work for at leastsome of our applications. On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:43 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:34:32 + (UTC) Chris Olson wrote: > One of our test directors suggested that we use a digital co

[CentOS] Audio Output Timer Utility

2018-01-09 Thread Chris Olson
We have several CentOS 6.x systems that are incorporated into suites of special test equipment.  One of the requirements for these systems is that they be kept up to date and they are kept up to date using yum once per week or more frequently, as needed. All of our CentOS 6.x systems have at least

[CentOS] Intel Flaw

2018-01-05 Thread Chris Olson
How does the latest Intel flaw relate to CentOS 6.x systems that run under VirtualBox hosted on Windows 7 computers? Given the virtual machine degree of separation from the hardware, can this issue actually be detected and exploited in the operating systems that run virtually?  If there is a slow d

[CentOS] USB Serial Ports

2017-11-16 Thread Chris Olson
We have several CentOS 6 systems that are used in various configurations of test equipment.  One of the primary functions of these systems is the connectivity to serial ports of some operational systems that have serial port control requirements.  Lack of interface bus slots led us to the use of US

[CentOS] Gulliver

2017-10-30 Thread Chris Olson
We have been fortunate to hang onto one of our summer interns for part time work on weekends during the current school year. One of the intern's jobs is to load documents and data which are then processed.  The documents are .txt, .docx, and .pdf files. The data files are raw sensor outputs usually

[CentOS] CentOS 7 yum Issue

2017-09-20 Thread Chris Olson
We have been following the email list discussion regarding recent problems with yum and the upgrade to the most current CentOS 7. We have also tried some of the remedies suggested or recommended. None of these measures has yielded success, and it is not totally clear whether or not our most recent

[CentOS] Network Interrogation

2017-09-05 Thread Chris Olson
Small private networks are a necessary part of our business. We also run some small networks with Internet connectivity through firewall routers.  The smallest of these networks has only a printer and a mix of five CentOS and Windows 7 machines. We use a commercial protection product on the W7 sy

[CentOS] Power Fail Protection Update II

2017-08-18 Thread Chris Olson
Many thanks once again to those that responded to my original posting (and my follow up message) with information about Network UPS Tools, other Linux-based tools like rtcwake, and commercial UPS products. We have quite a bit more evaluation and testing work to do before a power fail protection met

[CentOS] Power Fail Protection Update

2017-08-16 Thread Chris Olson
Many thanks to those that responded to my original posting with information about Network UPS Tools and commercial UPS products. In our planning a path forward to implement UPS-based power fail protection, we have come across what appears to be an issue with the state of the CentOS 6 machines bein

[CentOS] Power Fail Protection

2017-08-08 Thread Chris Olson
Some of our largest systems run Windows because it supports engineering applications that we use regularly.  These applications have unattended runs that often take between ten and fifteen hours to complete.  We have taken the recommendation of the application supplier and equipped these Windows m

Re: [CentOS] CentOS SDR Support

2017-07-19 Thread Chris Olson
Software Defined Radio On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 8:40 AM, "m.r...@5-cent.us" wrote: Chris Olson wrote: > > Several weeks ago, we posted a message seeking information about > time sources.  There were many helpful and educational responses. > An excerpt from o

[CentOS] CentOS SDR Support

2017-07-19 Thread Chris Olson
Several weeks ago, we posted a message seeking information about time sources.  There were many helpful and educational responses. An excerpt from one of the responses is included below.  We have been following up with regard to how SDR capabilities might be used for obtaining time using SDR dongl

Re: [CentOS] System Start-Up Issue Progress

2017-07-04 Thread Chris Olson
d sendmail. Thanks again for responses to my messages. We are still learning. On Tuesday, July 4, 2017 1:42 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 04.07.2017 um 19:13 schrieb Gordon Messmer: > On 07/04/2017 09:21 AM, Chris Olson wrote: >> It remains a mystery what could have happened du

Re: [CentOS] System Start-Up Issue Progress

2017-07-04 Thread Chris Olson
Jul 4, 2017, at 8:01 AM, Chris Olson wrote: > Starting ipmidetectd: ipmidetectd: No nodes configured  [FAILED] > Starting sendmail: Any chance that this system doesn’t have valid DNS lookups? What I see above is that ipmidetetd failed (which doesn’t block) and then it is stuck st

[CentOS] System Start-Up Issue Progress

2017-07-04 Thread Chris Olson
My thanks to all that responded to my posting about our virtual machine CentOS 6 system start-up issue.  I found the alternative boot options to be the most helpful.  Interrupting the boot-up process with Alt-d or Escape allowed me to see what appears to be a quite normal string of start, install a

Re: [CentOS] System Start-Up Issue

2017-07-03 Thread Chris Olson
None of the previous kernels will boot properly. On Monday, July 3, 2017 5:58 AM, "m.r...@5-cent.us" wrote: Chris Olson wrote: > I went on vacation right after an update to one of our virtual CentOS 6.9 > systems so it was not restarted for a period of time. 

[CentOS] System Start-Up Issue

2017-07-03 Thread Chris Olson
We run several Intel-based CentOS machines.  They are all at 6.9 or 7.x. One of each OS is Oracle VirtualBox hosted on an up to date Windows 7 system. We use these virtual machines for checkout of new applications before they are loaded on native CentOS platforms.  Regular weekly updates are run on

[CentOS] System Time Source Responses

2017-05-24 Thread Chris Olson
It looks like we may have hit on a popular subject with the questions about system time sources.  Thanks for all of the responses.  Our intern and senior software staff now have useful information and new perspective. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cento

[CentOS] System Time Source

2017-05-24 Thread Chris Olson
One of our STEM interns recently observed that there are inexpensive clocks that sync via radio to standard time services.  This begged a question about why every computer would not have a radio module to receive time.  Our senior staff did not have a good answer or if time from such a radio module

[CentOS] Firefox Issue

2017-01-04 Thread Chris Olson
Everyone is back at work and starting to use computers on our smallest network which has Internet access through a rather old Linksys router.  Two systems were left on and screen-locked over the extra long weekend.  There does not appear to have been any Internet access interruption in our absence.

Re: [CentOS] ghostscript update breaks evince

2017-01-04 Thread Chris Olson
Yes, it looks like evince is not working for .ps files on my system running fully up to date CentOS 6.8. Three years ago, a .pdf version of this file was created and it still displays as it should using evince. [user@computer Documents]$ evince DPS_2014_1443inv.ps & [1] 9865 [user@computer Documen

[CentOS] Unusual System State

2016-12-07 Thread Chris Olson
Our smallest network of systems has only four computers connected via Gigabit Ethernet.  The oldest and most stable platform is an eight year old Dell E520 running CentOS 6.8.  We often try out applications on this Dell/CentOS machine before moving them to other systems on our other networks. Last

[CentOS] Shutdown/Poweroff

2016-10-24 Thread Chris Olson
Is there a good source of information about how Linux distributions and installers identify and interact with the hardware devices in a system?  We are particularly interested in the shutdown process that leads to complete power-off.  Thanks. ___ CentOS

[CentOS] CentOS Virtual Machine System Time

2016-06-18 Thread Chris Olson
We run several CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 systems as virtual machines using VirtualBox on Windows 7.  Most of these systems have continuous up time. The Windows 7 foundation platforms have no difficulty keeping accurate system time unless they are shut down for some reason, which is rare in our environm

[CentOS] Nearly Instant Karma

2016-02-17 Thread Chris Olson
Our smallest network has just three systems permanently attached to a 100/1000 router.  There is one additional port available to temporarily plug in a laptop.  The largest systems are both Dells, one running Windows 7 and one running CentOS 6.7.  The Windows 7 system supports three flavors of Linu

[CentOS] Pi 2 Alternatives

2016-02-04 Thread Chris Olson
We have a requirement for a new application that will be used fixed, portable, and mobile.  The hardware requirements drive the need for networking as well as some general purpose and special purpose interfaces.  The software requirements are quite simple in comparison to many of our much larger sy

Re: [CentOS] HP OfficeJet Printing

2016-01-02 Thread Chris Olson
, January 2, 2016 4:21 AM, Nux! wrote: Why go through all this trouble when you can connect the printer to the network directly and be done with it? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro - Original Message - > From: "Chris Olson"

[CentOS] HP OfficeJet Printing

2016-01-01 Thread Chris Olson
There has been a bit of grumbling recently about HP printer capability in one of our smallest prototyping Labs.  We have a single GigE switch connecting a Windows 7 machine and a Dell/CentOS-6 machine.  The CentOS machine also has connectivity via another network.  Currently, only the Windows 7 mac

[CentOS] Power Management

2015-12-20 Thread Chris Olson
Recent power management discussions plugged into one of our current frustrations, namely the interaction of the screen lock and power-save features on Intel/CentOS 6 platforms. We certainly would not have guessed that locking the screen would inhibit going into the power-save mode, but it sure seem

[CentOS] Serial Communication

2015-12-19 Thread Chris Olson
Many years ago, we began scrapping the RTOS approach for some of our timing-critical applications.  Our first applications were based on Solaris real-time extensions and served well us well for many years.  Then came the era of shaky support for Intel Solaris and we moved many applications to Linux

[CentOS] USB Connected Voice Recorders

2015-08-26 Thread Chris Olson
We plan to use new digital voice recorders. Products are available from Olympus, Sony, and others.  All of these digital voice recorders offer file-based audio storage.  We would like to take advantage of this feature and move the files to our computers. It is not clear whether there is a differen

[CentOS] IPMI/BMC/BIOS

2015-07-02 Thread Chris Olson
We have recently been asked to evaluate some computing machinery for a new project. This particular end user has very limited experience with the stated security requirements in a lights-out environment. Their primary work (as well as mine) in the past has been with very small, simple networks of d

[CentOS] sudoers

2015-06-10 Thread Chris Olson
My experience with RHEL and CentOS is quite limited, andwould classify me as novice.  I have been running CentOS 6for a little over a year and recently brought up a CentOS 7system as a virtual machine under Windows 7. One of the first things I usually do after installation isedit the /etc/sudoers

[CentOS] CentOS 7 Gnome

2015-06-05 Thread Chris Olson
I installed CentOS 7 from the DVD iso file: CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso Yum update was used (with no update issues) to install and update many packages. The installer is significantly different from CentOS 6 where one can basicallychoose to "install everything" if one has the patience to check