Ben Scott wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, I forgot to mention, here's a little script I wrote to help me
find the cruft that a yum upgrade somehow manages to leave behind on
occasion (imperfect Obsoletes: I assume):
(... Google
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe 'comm -12 file1 file2' will come close to giving you an
intersection of two [sorted] files.
close? :) The man page seems to indicate that's exactly what it will do.
Assuming it works as advertised, I think
Drew Van Zandt writes:
Hey all,
I'm looking for old, not necessarily functional rackmount equipment to
fill a rack with for some airflow experiments I'm doing, and I was wondering
if anyone had junk lying around that would qualify. Anything I can bolt
into a rack will do, from shelves to
On Oct 21, 2008, at 08:25, Ben Scott wrote:
close? :) The man page seems to indicate that's exactly what
it will do.
nice. I had as much luck Googling as you did. I think we need
keywords/tags for 'man -k' to use. The correct keyword was 'common',
but I was trying 'sets,
Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Due to an installer regression in Fedora 9 that has yet to be fixed for
F10 (installer pukes on Samsung hard drives that have a '/' in their
model name), I had to install F8 on a box last week, and opted to go
straight to rawhide from there. It worked
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40:50PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
But I always go one step at a time. Most recently I took one
machine from F7 - 8 - 9. Unfortunately I suspect I'll have
a hard time bringing my FC3 system up to date that way. ;)
Maybe less trouble than you think, the machine I'm
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyways, I've successfully used yum on multiple systems to upgrade.
But I always go one step at a time. Most recently I took one
machine from F7 - 8 - 9. Unfortunately I suspect I'll have
a hard time bringing my FC3
That's good to know Mike, thanks! Thankfully I don't have a need for gdm as
I don't know that it is installed. Even if it is, we don't normally run
these systems in desktop mode as its all remote.
If I have any issues with the upgrade, I will certainly post them here if I
cannot figure (Google)
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think we need keywords/tags for 'man -k' to use.
Well, there's man -K, but it's slw. I typically use Google as
a substitute, but that failed me in this case. I suspect I'd still
fail though, even with a better
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:40 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Due to an installer regression in Fedora 9 that has yet to be fixed for
F10 (installer pukes on Samsung hard drives that have a '/' in their
model name), I had to install F8 on a box last week,
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:18 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Anyways, I've successfully used yum on multiple systems to
upgrade.
But I always go one step at a time. Most recently I took one
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:56:21 -0400 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Bill McGonigle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Efficiency is surprisingly worse with bash/comm, I don't get
why:
*Very* interesting. I don't get
Note, only valid in bash, not sh.
Yah, and it doesn't matter if you use #!/bin/bash at the top
if you're running the script with sh foo.sh. It took me five
minutes to figure that out just now. D'oh.
That process substitution facility is a favorite of mine but
it isn't POSIX, and IIRC
First off - my humble thanks to the wisdom of the list for helping me
along in this crazy journey.
My Cell blade processor now boots and runs YDL6.0. Of course that is all
that it does at this point, eventually I will actually have to use it for
something besides a space heater...
When I was
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:29 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:40 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Due to an installer regression in Fedora 9 that has yet to be fixed for
F10 (installer pukes on Samsung hard drives that have a '/' in
On Oct 21, 2008, at 13:56, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Bill McGonigle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think we need keywords/tags for 'man -k' to use.
Well, there's man -K, but it's slw. I typically use Google as
a substitute, but that failed me in this case. I
Ben Scott writes:
Consider: If the RPM database is in cache, then the
package-cleanup utility is going to mainly be reading data from
already cached pages (memory mapped file I/O). In the Perl script,
everything is serialized. But in the bash script, both
package-cleanup invocations can
mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40:50PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
But I always go one step at a time. Most recently I took one
machine from F7 - 8 - 9. Unfortunately I suspect I'll have
a hard time bringing my FC3 system up to date that way. ;)
Maybe
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 16:33 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40:50PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
But I always go one step at a time. Most recently I took one
machine from F7 - 8 - 9. Unfortunately I suspect I'll have
a hard
Quoting Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Oh, yeah, I hit this issue too. Wasn't TOO hard to deal with manually,
but still quite annoying to have to.
Packager error when you encounter that. Shouldn't ever happen, newer
distro should always have a higher NVR.
The one I remember was frysk.
Anyone installed ubuntu to be
dual boot with centos? What do I look out for?
If you wanted to use a shared /boot between the two, it'd be a bit
messy... For one, Ubuntu uses menu.lst for its grub config, CentOS uses
grub.conf, with a menu.lst symlink to it, so depending on which distros
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:53:22PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
I borked it pretty hard trying to yum upgrade from fc8-9 yesterday;
some of the packages on a fully up-to-date fc8 system have higher
version numbers than the same packages in the fc9 repositories, which
made things
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 17:25 -0400, mike ledoux wrote:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:53:22PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
I borked it pretty hard trying to yum upgrade from fc8-9 yesterday;
some of the packages on a fully up-to-date fc8 system have higher
version numbers than the same
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 17:03 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
Quoting Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Oh, yeah, I hit this issue too. Wasn't TOO hard to deal with manually,
but still quite annoying to have to.
Packager error when you encounter that. Shouldn't ever happen, newer
distro
On Oct 21, 2008, at 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why are these linices hostile to each other?
They don't agree on the best version and file layout for their
bootloaders. Bootloading and grub especially are among the most
harrowing aspects of running a Linux machine. There's room for
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it because the shell tools fork, and children aren't counted?
If that were so my shell numbers should be lower.
Good point. As you suggest, maybe time(1) is just borken on MP.
Neither the time(1) man page, nor the
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Challenge accepted okay, intersect.pl will follow in a separate message.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# intersect.pl
# Gives the intersection of two text files (lines contained in both files).
# Similar to comm(1), but does not
On Oct 21, 2008, at 5:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone installed ubuntu to be
dual boot with centos? What do I look out for?
If you wanted to use a shared /boot between the two, it'd be a bit
messy... For one, Ubuntu uses menu.lst for its grub config, CentOS
uses
grub.conf, with a
On Oct 21, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On Oct 21, 2008, at 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why are these linices hostile to each other?
They don't agree on the best version and file layout for their
bootloaders. Bootloading and grub especially are among the most
On Oct 21, 2008, at 21:26, Jarod Wilson wrote:
First and foremost, you need disk space free.
While non-destructively repartitioning is possible with just a
commandline, the GParted LiveCD sure makes it easy if you can reboot
the machine:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?
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