Re: Scientific Linux Advice

Larry, It's NOT difficult to support a distro for 22 years.  Look at Slackware. It's difficult to keep up with shiny kewl new toys, many of which after 15 years STILL don't work correctly (i.e. don't have serious regressions that break running systems). The issue is that developers get kewl

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

hich you cover in a bit more detail your experience with the actual installation and any issues that arose during the installation (including disk layout, file systems used, etc)? On 4/3/21 7:18 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 4/3/21 4:43 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I have not downloaded (and thus not

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

On 4/3/21 4:43 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I have not downloaded (and thus not installed) AL8.  From below: with > unfortunate issues precisely replicing [replicating?] those of RHEL installation > media, such as an absurd number of confusingly distinct software > channels, and no default mirror li

Re: not all ports detected on 7-port Sabrent usb hub

On 2/11/21 1:17 PM, Stephen L. Talbott wrote: Greetings — Is there an reason why a rather vanilla SL-7.9 system might report “4 ports detected” on a new, Sabrent 7-port, powered USB 3.0 hub (HB-BUP7)? Memory sticks are recognized only in 4 ports. (I just now checked one of the other three for c

Re: kicked off the list via Office 365?

On 11/16/18 9:25 AM, Franchisseur Robert wrote: -- Le (On) 2018-11-16 + à (at) 10:25:46 Fred Liu écrivit (wrote): -- me too So after this message I subscribe with an other address for nothing :( Two years ago I got the same with a different diag : -

Re: Bind Scientific Linux to AD

On 10/26/18 7:17 AM, Alvi, Adil H wrote: Good Morning, I was trying to bind a workstation running SL 6.5 to AD, so that users can login with their AD accounts, and mount a Windows File Share Server binded to AD. After spending a week, I gave up. Steps, links/resources  to bind SL will be

Re: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

en you peek under the covers and look how they work the performance penality is not worth the trouble. Larry Linder On Sat, 2018-10-13 at 09:55 -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote: My one and only question is, do you see the device for sde, in any form (/dev/sdeX, /dev/disk/by-*, etc) present in /etc/fstab wi

Re: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

Linux form version 4 to current and before that RH 7->9 and BSD 4.3. We really do not have a performance problem even on long 3d renderings- The slowest thing in the room is the speed one can type or point. Models, simulations, drawings are done before you can reach for your cup. Thank You La

Re: XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

On 10/12/18 8:09 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: On 10/12/2018 07:35 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: [snip] On SL 7? Why? Is there any reason not to use xfs? I've appreciated the ext filesystems, I've known its original author for decades. (He was my little brother in my fraternity!) But there's not a compellin

Re: RStudio Server can't find GLIBCXX_3.4.20

On 07/25/2018 12:57 PM, Lofgren, Eric wrote: The trials and travails of my poor server continue. The hard drive upgrade went well, but right after it was done, some students on the server got…creative. One of them updated what version of gcc was on it for another project. One of the primary pu

Re: We're into weird and wonderful land... The g_ether kernel module

On 1/20/18 4:26 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 21 January 2018 at 00:08, Bruce Ferrell wrote: clippage here -- the hexadecimal ID pairing for my example being 0b95:7720. That ID pairing points to the asix driver. Alan. Thanks loads Alan, The "gadget" I'm plugging is, is a R

Re: We're into weird and wonderful land... The g_ether kernel module

On 1/20/18 3:42 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 19 January 2018 at 22:32, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 1/19/18 12:41 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 1/18/18 3:51 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 01/18/2018 05:58 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: I just checked a

Re: We're into weird and wonderful land... The g_ether kernel module

On 1/19/18 12:41 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 1/18/18 3:51 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 01/18/2018 05:58 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: I just checked a vanilla kernel source tree against the kernel source rpm... ./drivers/usb/gadget is empty in the

Re: We're into weird and wonderful land... The g_ether kernel module

On 1/18/18 3:51 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 01/18/2018 05:58 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 01/18/2018 01:49 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 01/17/2018 08:11 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: Hi all, I'm on kernel 3.10.108-1 and I've found the "gadget" modules don't seem to be b

Re: We're into weird and wonderful land... The g_ether kernel module

On 01/18/2018 05:58 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 01/18/2018 01:49 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 01/17/2018 08:11 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: Hi all, I'm on kernel 3.10.108-1 and I've found the "gadget" modules don't seem to be built. make oldconfig in ther kernel source SE

Re: We're into weird and wonderful land... The g_ether kernel module

On 01/17/2018 08:11 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: Hi all, I'm on kernel 3.10.108-1 and I've found the "gadget" modules don't seem to be built. make oldconfig in ther kernel source SEEMS to show them selected, Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in advance Bruce I just

We're into weird and wonderful land... The g_ether kernel module

Hi all, I'm on kernel 3.10.108-1 and I've found the "gadget" modules don't seem to be built. make oldconfig in ther kernel source SEEMS to show them selected, Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in advance Bruce

openssl-1.0.1e SNI on 6.9

Anyone know if openssl-1.0.1e has SNI compiled in? I'm trying to do ssl certs for apache namebased virtual hosts

Re: davmail

On 9/28/17 6:09 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 9/28/17 2:36 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 28/09/17 06:50, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 09/27/2017 06:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I have been instructed to use davmail by the university IT who insist that the university use a proprietary Microsoft email

Re: davmail

On 9/28/17 2:36 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 28/09/17 06:50, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 09/27/2017 06:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I have been instructed to use davmail by the university IT who insist that the university use a proprietary Microsoft email service. Although the service nominally

Re: davmail

On 09/27/2017 09:56 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 09/27/2017 09:50 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 09/27/2017 06:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I have been instructed to use davmail by the university IT who insist that the university use a proprietary Microsoft email service.  Although the service

Re: davmail

On 09/27/2017 06:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I have been instructed to use davmail by the university IT who insist that the university use a proprietary Microsoft email service.  Although the service nominally provides IETF SMTP and IMAP compliant access, this access has been unreliable.  I have

Re: glibc revisions on 6.9

On 07/12/2017 07:07 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 7:49 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 12/07/17 18:12, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 7/12/17 5:20 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: I learned it and learned to dislike it even more in that learning. After five years of dealing with it

Re: glibc revisions on 6.9

On 07/12/2017 04:49 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 12/07/17 18:12, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 7/12/17 5:20 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 09/07/17 09:03, Bruce Ferrell wrote: OK, before the flames start I KNOW it's not normal. Has anyone have a method to upgrade glibc beyond 2.12? Upgr

Re: glibc revisions on 6.9

On 7/12/17 5:20 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 09/07/17 09:03, Bruce Ferrell wrote: OK, before the flames start I KNOW it's not normal. Has anyone have a method to upgrade glibc beyond 2.12? Upgrading core system libraries, such as glibc usually requires a full rebuild of all applica

Re: glibc revisions on 6.9

On 07/11/2017 10:38 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 12:03:02AM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote: OK, before the flames start I KNOW it's not normal. an boot, then dance from there. As step zero, I would setup a network-bootable system with NFS-Root, as it is much si

Re: glibc revisions on 6.9

On 07/09/2017 01:58 PM, Tru Huynh wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 10:13:03PM +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote: On Jul 9, 2017, at 18:32 , Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 07/09/2017 05:51 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 12:03:02AM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote: OK, before the flames start I

Re: glibc revisions on 6.9

On 07/09/2017 01:13 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: On Jul 9, 2017, at 18:32 , Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 07/09/2017 05:51 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 12:03:02AM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote: OK, before the flames start I KNOW it's not normal. Has anyone have a method to up

Re: glibc revisions on 6.9

On 07/09/2017 06:09 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 3:03 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: OK, before the flames start I KNOW it's not normal. Has anyone have a method to upgrade glibc beyond 2.12? I know sci 7 has 2.17, and except for the fact of it also having system

Re: glibc revisions on 6.9

On 07/09/2017 05:51 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 12:03:02AM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote: OK, before the flames start I KNOW it's not normal. Has anyone have a method to upgrade glibc beyond 2.12? I would suggest trying singularity (http://singularity.lbl.gov) and put

Re: glibc revisions on 6.9

On 07/09/2017 01:12 AM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2017, Bruce Ferrell wrote: OK, before the flames start I KNOW it's not normal. Has anyone have a method to upgrade glibc beyond 2.12? I've tried, but not succeeded so far, so would be interested to hear from anyone el

glibc revisions on 6.9

OK, before the flames start I KNOW it's not normal. Has anyone have a method to upgrade glibc beyond 2.12? I know sci 7 has 2.17, and except for the fact of it also having systemd I'd consider a full on upgrade, but systemd is completely unacceptable. Inquiring minds want to know

Re: Scientific Linux 5 End of Life

On 04/05/2017 05:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 03/31/2017 03:06 PM, Larry Linder wrote: We are still using SL 5.10 on a number of workstations. The users are used to using KDE with a lot of desktops - 12 or more. We switched a number of boxes to SL 6.8 and we get a lot of grumbles about desktop.

Re: SNMP scanner?

On 8/5/16 7:19 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 07/30/2016 06:35 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: I am looking to do network discovery. Basically, everything on the interface, regardless of what network it belongs to or if even has an ip assigned. Like AutoScan Network, only not abandoned. I have a dedicated i

Re: SNMP scanner?

Never mind. autoscan is a gui wrapper for nmap and ping... And not really as good as the existing ones (zenmap, xnmap nmapfe) found in the repositories as nmap-frontend. What autoscan does is to have a set of IP ranges and performs nmap scans of them. No magic' just brute force wrapped in co

Re: SNMP scanner?

Todd, I've been doing networking since before TCP/IP was common... We had to know ethenet frame types to get IPX/SPX, SNA and DECnet to work. With that background, I'm fascinated to find out how it does what you claim it does. I found autoscan-network.com and downloaded the linux binary, but

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

Larry, the thing about the python ecosystem is that it holds to a philosophy of "backwards compatibility my A**! we told we're gonna break it and we did! We have a new, shiny idea and it's better. recode your already working stuff". Not acceptable in my mind, but to each their own. There can

Re: SNMP scanner?

fing is certainly an interesting tool and useful. It found a minor misconfig on my network. it *seems* nmap will do what fing does though with: nmap -sn Am I the only one concerned about what appears to be a closed source utility that duplicates well audited utilities on their network that c

Re: SNMP scanner?

you might want to have a look at netdisco: http://search.cpan.org/~oliver/App-Netdisco-2.033006/lib/App/Netdisco.pm On 07/29/2016 06:06 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 07/29/2016 05:21 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >> >> Openvas, nmap and so on >> >> >> 30.7.2016 2.15 ap. "ToddAndMargo" >