Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] XFS vs Ext4

), so maybe that doesn't really matter. Current versions of most distros also default to xfs, so it's also keeping up with the Joneses from a compatability standpoint. -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept

Re: hard drive cloning

ust one way to do so. -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept. of Physics and Astronomy aha...@umn.edu https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__neutrino.d.umn.

Re: hard drive cloning

try: you can always reformat the new disk if it doesn't work. -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept. of Physics and Astronomy aha...@umn.edu https://urldefense.proofpoi

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] recommended sl6 containers

rs were a thing when I want to see what even older experiments might have to say about something :) (Even if they were would probably have to cross my fingers and hope old 8mm tapes still worked to get to the software, though.) Alec -- Alec Habig

Re: off SL

Also worth noting that on Fedora, upgrades in place via the repository (it's a simple dnf plugin) work great, and has for a while. So, to the extent that Fedora developments often get rolled into RHEL once they mature, that's also a good sign. -- Alec Habig

Re: Revisiting Cent 8

ll KDE (or your favorite from Konstantin's list above) from the repositories and go. Certainly, this was true of previous CentOS's. -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept. of Physics and Ast

Re: centOS 8 ... Gnome 3, Mate

me having to mouse over the desktop to do this. Never thought I'd be wanting to steal a gnome3 thing! -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept. of Physics and Astronomy ha...@neutrino.

Re: pointing stick (trackpoint) activation

-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A=oyf4qwThKG8cdN67JBq11Qln4z30IXyo7MF6XiuPlVk=S04H-q9R2lu6O8Hwevvv0CUELpnOPzPgBbRQ3gmuccU= There's example xorg.conf entries down the page a bit, for example. -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept

Re: LSI MegaRAID management

status on lepton.d.umn.edu Controller a0: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9280-16i4e No of Physical disks online : 6 Degraded : 0 Failed Disks : 0 -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] freeipmi update

fact on a verify. The procedure which served me well for many 6.x upgrades needs one more tweak for 7.x upgrades! Is this expected behavior, or is there somethign to be tweaked with the sl-release rpm (or its scripts)? thanks! Alec --

freeipmi update

into dependancy hell. thanks, Alec -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept. of Physics and Astronomy ha...@neutrino.d.umn.edu https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2

Re: RHEL 7.4 Beta as a Security Update?

security updates. -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept. of Physics and Astronomy ha...@neutrino.d.umn.edu http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/

Re: SL 7.3 autoupdate failing - "dependency resolution failed"

Just saw this too. I tried: yum remove libgpod which took with it (for me) only Rhythmbox, which I don't use anyway. The update then went cleanly. If you use Rhythmbox, or have other libgpod dependancies, your mileage may vary :) Alec -- Alec Habig

Re: rkhunter whining about no appropriate hash

satisfied myself that ipcs was an ok copy and did a --propupd, and now the rkhunter cron job is happy. -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept. of Physics and Astronomy ha...@neutrino.d.umn.e