Re: Iptables perf degradation and alternatives

2013-02-27 Thread Steven Haigh
What makes you think that is iptables based? -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: CONFIG_EEEPC_LAPTOP is not set

2013-03-10 Thread Steven Haigh
On 11/03/2013 12:58 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 11 March 2013 00:59, Steven Haigh wrote: On 11/03/2013 1:13 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 11/03/13 00:52, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: Not sure if

ath9k wifi dropouts

2013-03-12 Thread Steven Haigh
I've tried 'iwconfig wlan0 power off' to disable power management from the wifi adapter, but the dropouts still seem to randomly happen. The AP is secured with WPA2-PSK (AES+TKIP) - not sure if that makes a difference... Does anyone have any thoughts in troubleshooting this? --

Re: ath9k wifi dropouts

2013-03-12 Thread Steven Haigh
On 12/03/13 21:03, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to figure out the cause of this... It seems I'll be using the wifi without issue, then NetworkManager will indicate that it is reconnecting. It seems to happen randomly with no real pattern. iw events -t shows: 4b:d

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] ath9k wifi dropouts

2013-03-12 Thread Steven Haigh
On 03/13/2013 02:54 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 03/12/2013 05:45 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 12/03/13 21:03, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to figure out the cause of this... It seems I'll be using the wifi without issue, then NetworkManager will indicate that it is re

Re: ath9k wifi dropouts

2013-03-12 Thread Steven Haigh
On 13/03/13 02:58, Steven Haigh wrote: On 03/13/2013 02:54 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 03/12/2013 05:45 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 12/03/13 21:03, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to figure out the cause of this... It seems I'll be using the wifi without issue, then Netw

Re: ath9k wifi dropouts

2013-03-12 Thread Steven Haigh
On 13/03/13 08:08, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 03/12/2013 04:03 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 13/03/13 02:58, Steven Haigh wrote: On 03/13/2013 02:54 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 03/12/2013 05:45 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 12/03/13 21:03, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to figur

Re: ath9k wifi dropouts

2013-03-13 Thread Steven Haigh
wlan0: new station 1c:4b:d6:98:14:48 So, as far as the access point goes, it seems the client disassociates itself, then associates again. The PC seems think that the access point has gone away, and disconnects. Strange. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299

Re: ath9k wifi dropouts

2013-03-13 Thread Steven Haigh
managed to track it down. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299

Re: ath9k wifi dropouts

2013-03-13 Thread Steven Haigh
On 14/03/13 09:42, Steven Haigh wrote: On 03/14/2013 01:54 AM, Matt Lewandowsky wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:27:48 +1100, From: net...@crc.id.au So, as far as the access point goes, it seems the client disassociates itself, then associates again. The PC seems think that the access point has

Re: ath9k wifi dropouts

2013-03-14 Thread Steven Haigh
On 14/03/13 16:20, Steven Haigh wrote: On 14/03/13 09:42, Steven Haigh wrote: On 03/14/2013 01:54 AM, Matt Lewandowsky wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:27:48 +1100, From: net...@crc.id.au So, as far as the access point goes, it seems the client disassociates itself, then associates again. The

udev renaming ethernet adapaters to vlan names?

2013-03-14 Thread Steven Haigh
PV6_AUTOCONF=no IPV6ADDR=2002:cb38:f71b:1::1 IPV6FORWARDING=yes As you can see, there isn't very much out of a normal ethernet setup - but the where the udev rule comes from is beyond me. It happens guaranteed every time yum installs a kernel update. Does anyone have any pointers on wher

Re: udev renaming ethernet adapaters to vlan names?

2013-03-14 Thread Steven Haigh
is basically my router / firewall. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299

Re: ath9k wifi dropouts

2013-03-14 Thread Steven Haigh
f that did something that caused the problem to go away... -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299

multi-monitor problems...

2013-03-15 Thread Steven Haigh
they were last, or the centre by default? Sorry if these seem to be fairly newbie questions - my history with linux has always been on the server / CLI end - this is the first time I've really been using linux on the desktop... -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.

Re: nfs+xfs - was Re: SL6.3 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 kernel panic

2013-03-18 Thread Steven Haigh
uge), and I mount it via NFS to other systems. I haven't had a kernel crash as yet. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299

Power management with ATI Radeon cards using the radeon driver.

2013-03-18 Thread Steven Haigh
d when the monitors are in the dpms off state. I've found that the 'low' setting seems to work fine in every day desktop tasks - and it certainly causes the fan to be much, much quieter than the default profile. References: * http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299

Re: Power management with ATI Radeon cards using the radeon driver.

2013-03-18 Thread Steven Haigh
rnel. You never know what backported stuff you'll get. Sometimes I think it is called 2.6.32 only because that is what it started with. The end result certainly isn't 2.6.32 anymore ;) -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299

Re: VolGroup-lv_home has disappeared

2013-04-02 Thread Steven Haigh
try vgscan, lvscan etc and see what appears. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299

Re:

2013-04-09 Thread Steven Haigh
as a lesson as to WHY a backup is important. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299

Re: Bootable USB installer for SL6.3

2013-04-11 Thread Steven Haigh
=/dev/usbstick Then boot from the USB stick. I've done this for a netinstall of Fedora, SL, etc etc for a long, long time. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299

Re: Google chrome stable 28.0 installation problem

2013-07-02 Thread Steven Haigh
C++ Library Repo: sl6x Matched from: Other : libstdc++.so.6 I'd recommend is using chromium if you don't rely on any Google-only features. There is a thread about this on the SL forums: http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=1134 -- Steven Haigh E

Re: Google chrome stable 28.0 installation problem

2013-07-02 Thread Steven Haigh
On 3/07/2013 9:47 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 3/07/2013 9:33 AM, Tam Nguyen wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Yasha Karant <mailto:ykar...@csusb.edu>> wrote: Add/remove software shows: google-chrome-stable-28.0.__1500.70-209565 (x86_64) but installation res

Re: Google chrome stable 28.0 installation problem

2013-07-03 Thread Steven Haigh
On 3/07/2013 6:04 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 07/02/2013 04:47 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 3/07/2013 9:33 AM, Tam Nguyen wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Yasha Karant <mailto:ykar...@csusb.edu>> wrote: Add/remove software shows: google-chrome-stable-28.0.__1500.70-20956

Re: Bug in yum-autoupdate

2013-08-01 Thread Steven Haigh
On 02/08/13 02:26, Vincent Liggio wrote: On 08/01/2013 12:16 PM, Elias Persson wrote: All the more reason to read up on the differences, and if it's only one system 'yum remove yum-autoupdate' is hardly a big deal. If it's 1200 systems, what difference would an option in anaconda make? It's not

Re: Bug in yum-autoupdate

2013-08-01 Thread Steven Haigh
On 02/08/13 09:59, Vincent Liggio wrote: On 08/01/2013 06:07 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: If you really do have 1200 systems to worry about, I'd be looking at things like satellite. I have ~20-25 systems and yum-autoupdate is fantastic. It does what it says on the box and relieves me of havi

pam + mysql + vsftp

2013-09-17 Thread Steven Haigh
password check failure. My only thought is that somehow the password format supplied by the database (which works on dovecot) is different than expected by PAM... Does anyone have any thoughts on this? -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0

Re: pam + mysql + vsftp

2013-09-18 Thread Steven Haigh
Ok, so replying to myself - I managed to figure this out... On 18/09/2013 1:11 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been butting my head against this one for a while - so I figured > its time to get help... ;) > > I'm trying to use pam_mysql to authenticate

Re: furlough?

2013-10-11 Thread Steven Haigh
ad on how this can even happen. While I don't want to start a politics thread here - the thought of that happening elsewhere in the world is just unimaginable. Sorry to the American citizens - but you're being taken for a ride. Your country is broken and needs to be fixed. -- Steve

Re: NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel

2013-10-21 Thread Steven Haigh
nd have some experiences to share? Does it matter? EL6 won't ever have NFTables support. EL7 probably won't either. Don't stress and keep doing what you're doing. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax:

Re: CentOS + RHEL join forces...

2014-01-07 Thread Steven Haigh
On 8/01/2014 1:08 PM, Steven Miano wrote: > So how does that impact Scientific Linux? In a nutshell? It doesn't. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Centos / Redhat announcement

2014-01-09 Thread Steven Haigh
nt >> >> We are in the process of researching/evaluating this news and how it >> impacts Scientific Linux. > > "CentOS Scientific Edition" has a nice ring to it. Why sully the good name of Scientific Linux? :P -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www

Re: DNS Servers

2014-01-09 Thread Steven Haigh
been with going to something other > than BIND. > > Having a database backend is very attractive, but so is having a > manageable GUI for those in the department that work with adding devices > and are scared of text files and the black of terminal. Use bind. DNS is all about rel

Re: NTP DOS issue?

2014-01-29 Thread Steven Haigh
ore details chief? I can give you an answer of pure guesswork - but I certainly can't find anything new here -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Exchange server alternative?

2014-02-07 Thread Steven Haigh
tied into Thunderbird / Android.... -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299 1 - https://www.crc.id.au/virtual-mail-hosting-on-el6/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: TTF fonts

2014-03-11 Thread Steven Haigh
I'm a bit lazy with this I have an archive of all fonts from C:\Windows\Fonts - I simply extract this to a new directory in /usr/share/fonts/Windows. I then run the following as root: fc-cache -f -v From then on, all the windows fonts are available. -- Steven Haigh Email

Re: VMs of EL and other environments

2014-04-07 Thread Steven Haigh
ly, I get that you think KVM is a steaming pile > how > does this relate to Yasha's question? More to the point, how do you feel > about > VirtualBox as an enterprise platform? > I'm a little biased - but check out: http://xen.crc.id.au/ -- Steven Haigh Email: ne

Re: VMs of EL and other environments

2014-04-08 Thread Steven Haigh
On 08/04/14 22:24, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: > >> I'm a little biased - but check out: http://xen.crc.id.au/ > > Heh. I've not had a chance to play with Xen in about 6 years, when > I published the first

Re: RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

2014-06-10 Thread Steven Haigh
onymous source with no official ties to Red Hat?' Time will tell. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

2014-06-11 Thread Steven Haigh
On 11/06/14 17:24, Matthias Schroeder wrote: > On 06/11/2014 04:12 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 11/06/14 12:07, Paul Robert Marino wrote: >>> Yes a lot of us noticed. >>> Recompiling an entire distro from scratch is not an easy proposition. >>> Furthermore t

Re: RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

2014-06-11 Thread Steven Haigh
and verification of the origin of the source on git.centos.org - be it a procedure, crytosigning or something else that can prove that things haven't been tampered with - and also externally verified. (hell, even my emails are signed and will flag tampering etc - an OS should at least have that

Re: RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

2014-06-20 Thread Steven Haigh
ing EL7 as a git based setup - HOWEVER, there needs to be separation between CentOS and RH work. ie CentOS should have forked from a RH repository. CentOS can then do whatever they like to their git, but the RH stuff is preserved and ONLY updated to keep in sync with their source tree. CentOS could then pull those changes, and again do whatever they want to. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How do you speed up rsync?

2014-07-11 Thread Steven Haigh
u'd be much better off getting a better flash drive (ie not add hack upon hack that may not help) and fixing the root cause of the problem. Hell, get a small laptop HDD and put it in a USB caddy case. Get a small SSD (they're cheap!) and put that in a case... -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How do you speed up rsync?

2014-07-11 Thread Steven Haigh
On 12/07/2014 3:49 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 07/11/2014 10:44 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 12/07/2014 3:24 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> On 07/11/2014 01:49 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti >>>>

Re: need wget help: dos not resolt file name

2014-07-27 Thread Steven Haigh
erlooksoft.com/packages/download?plat=lx64&ext=rpm > > It get a file called: download?plat=lx64&ext=rpm > > Firefox does resolve this. What am I doing wrong with > wget? > > Many thanks, > -T -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.cr

Re: need wget help: dos not resolt file name

2014-07-28 Thread Steven Haigh
ww.overlooksoft.com/packages/download?plat=lx64&ext=rpm >>> >>> It get a file called: download?plat=lx64&ext=rpm >>> >>> Firefox does resolve this. What am I doing wrong with >>> wget? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> -T >>

Re: sl7 systemd sysvinit

2014-08-25 Thread Steven Haigh
evolved into has included blowing out its scope to just about everything on your system. This is the wrong way to do things. There is no excuse for violating the basic principles of system design and administration for 'wooo it boots faster'. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: sl7 systemd sysvinit

2014-08-26 Thread Steven Haigh
On 26/08/2014 9:42 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 26/08/14 01:57, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 26/08/2014 9:36 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: >>> Hi Ken Teh! >>> >>> On 2014.08.25 at 12:58:21 -0500, Ken Teh wrote next: >>> >>>&g

Re: Final Solution to Chinese Break in

2014-10-03 Thread Steven Haigh
might work wel. I'm quite curious how Github and Bitbucket > and git.centos.org do it. Github, at least, did report partial > vulnerability, which the've addressed. > > It wouldn't do bupkiss for most svn+ssh or rsync over SSH backup setups. rsync actually has an 'rrsync' utility in /usr/share/doc/rsync-x/support/ It is preferred to use this as the ForceCommand section of ssh config. This prevents getting a full shell and (should) resolve this issue. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

kickstart to install to whole disk

2014-10-22 Thread Steven Haigh
titioning first - and not the entire disk. Without supplying a kickstart file, the installer will bail saying no disks found. It's been this way for MANY years, but I heard rumours of a magical kickstart option - but I can't seem to find it... -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au

Re: kickstart to install to whole disk

2014-10-23 Thread Steven Haigh
On 24/10/2014 1:59 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 10/22/2014 03:23 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm wondering - I'm looking to simplify my Xen DomU installation via a >> kickstart file... >> >> As my Xen config has /dev/xvda - which

Re: kickstart to install to whole disk

2014-10-23 Thread Steven Haigh
On 24/10/2014 2:59 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 10/23/2014 09:05 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 24/10/2014 1:59 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >>> On 10/22/2014 03:23 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm wondering - I'm l

Re: kickstart to install to whole disk

2014-10-23 Thread Steven Haigh
On 24/10/2014 3:08 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 10/23/2014 10:02 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> For the record, I did manage to get this going: >> ## Wipe the disk completely and use the whole disk in ext4 config. >> zerombr >> clearpart --all --drives=xvda >> par

Re: SL: not a good choice as a workstation

2014-11-08 Thread Steven Haigh
y things settle down later on. I can't see any ground breaking changes in the near future of linux that will cause EL6 to be outdated anytime soon as a day to day OS - unlike the EL5 -> EL6 days. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: SL: not a good choice as a workstation

2014-11-08 Thread Steven Haigh
r is a nearly full OS environment, lacking only > unnecessary details like full hardware access to the hos holding the > containers? Yeah, it's somewhere between chroot and > paravirtualization. You mean its Solaris / BSD jails? :) Hmmm - haven't we come full circle? -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Optimus / combination graphics

2014-12-17 Thread Steven Haigh
idia 1GB Ram card, which is used only 5% > of time then and 95% time is used ugly Intel VGA? > Haha, i see it just as another clever plot to trick out us, poor users. I'm still not sure why you think Intel graphics are ugly. As I said, it'll throw 1920x1080 to a laptop screen all day an

Re: Optimus / combination graphics

2014-12-19 Thread Steven Haigh
entific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Karel > Lang AFD > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:53 AM > To: Jeff McWilliams > Cc: Steven Haigh; scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov > Subject: Re: Optimus / combination graphics > > Hi Jeff, > thanks for a tip :] > >

Re: CVE-2015-0235 / RHSA-2015:0092

2015-01-27 Thread Steven Haigh
.el6_6.4 gives me a working system again. On 28/01/2015 11:44 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: > As an FYI: > > A heap-based buffer overflow was found in __nss_hostname_digits_dots(), > which is used by the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() glibc function > call. A remote attacker could u

Re: CVE-2015-0235 / RHSA-2015:0092

2015-01-27 Thread Steven Haigh
upgrade, make sure you have a copy of the old packages in case you find a problem too... On 28/01/2015 5:30 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: > Hi all, > > Looks like there is something wrong with the new glibc packages pushed > to address this. > > With the following packages installed:

Re: Library security updates

2015-01-28 Thread Steven Haigh
g the whole system every time there > is a security update? Depending on what the update is. If you want to be 100% certain, reboot. If you don't want to reboot, you can hunt through what programs use certain libraries using ld - however the effort taken to do this is much more than a reb

Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-30 Thread Steven Haigh
remote console interfaces... I'm hunting for a way to re-enable the disabled SSL methods, but I'm not quite sure how to do so... I'm on Fedora 21 on my desktop - but I believe its the same with any upgrade to 1.8 - even the Oracle JRE disables these SSL methods :( -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-30 Thread Steven Haigh
On 31/01/15 13:30, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 31/01/15 03:44, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: >> Hi hansel! >> >> On 2015.01.29 at 19:30:33 -0500, hansel wrote next: >> >>> If I download the Oracle rpm for 1.8, do the necessary links in >>> /etc/altern

Xen packages for EL7

2015-02-05 Thread Steven Haigh
://xen.crc.id.au/bugs/my_view_page.php Mailing list: https://lists.wireless.org.au/mailman/listinfo/kernel-xen -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: systemd (again)

2015-02-15 Thread Steven Haigh
. Web interfaces and other junk aside, systemd doesn't seem to do much in the way of improvement - in fact, most features of priorities and parallel start exist in sysvinit - but were never implemented properly by distributions... So instead, we reinvent the wheel again... -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: systemd (again)

2015-02-15 Thread Steven Haigh
On 16/02/2015 5:19 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 02/15/2015 08:53 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 16/02/2015 2:29 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >>>> From: "John Lauro" >>>> To: "David Sommerseth" >>>> Cc: "scientific-lin

Re: Migrating old SL 5 Xen server and guests to SL 6

2015-02-20 Thread Steven Haigh
5 would be welcome. I know > it's matured a *lot* since then, and a lot of guidelines just don't apply to > such an old setup. > > Nico Kadel-Garcia > Email: nka...@gmail.com > Sent from iPhone > >> On Feb 6, 2015, at 0:25, Steven Haigh wrote: >>

Re: Migrating old SL 5 Xen server and guests to SL 6

2015-02-20 Thread Steven Haigh
lowing me to install fully virtualized CentOS and SL 6 > servers for now. I'm afraid I'll have to wait until updating the Xen server > to switch them to para-virtualization, which I'd really prefer. > > Nico Kadel-Garcia > Email: nka...@gmail.com > Sent from

Re: IMAP client backup applications

2015-03-10 Thread Steven Haigh
virtual machine seems a bit overblown for email > save/restore. Also, don't get too caught up on the licensing. If you > are doing it 1 time for a handful of users, I wouldn't worry too much. > If you are going to use it on a regular basis, continuously, then the > licensing becomes much more of an issue. If you look at the licensing > plans, you can see it is bracketed by user count and on an annual basis, > targeted as a long term backup solution. > > My advice, if you are using linux, find a linux solution. There are > dozens of scripts/programs out there to do this, just pick one and > experiment. > > -Mark Apologies if I've jumped in part way and missed something - but fetchmail should do this? Seems people are trying to reinvent the wheel? -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: ld-linux.so.2

2015-04-27 Thread Steven Haigh
lly in /lib64/ You can install the 32 bit libraries on a 64 bit system - and things will work. Start with: yum whatprovides "/lib/ld-linux.so" -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: how do I to get the address of a mirror?

2015-06-10 Thread Steven Haigh
awk '{print $1}' > > > > And it does work. > > > > Is there an easier way? > > > > Many thanks, > > -T > > Dang the address it comes up with is bogus. $ host ftp.mozilla.org ftp.mozilla.org has address 63.245.215.56 ftp.mozilla.or

Re: What determines when things start with systemclt

2015-06-13 Thread Steven Haigh
or if it just throws its hands up in the air and complains (verbally or silently). Consider the following: a.service: [Unit] Before b.service b.service: [Unit] Before a.service Now generally, if you only use distro supplied packages, this should be fine - however it does make things more difficult for the packager. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: SL7: Is there a GUI for systemctl?

2015-06-14 Thread Steven Haigh
ave a init system that is that complex, it has a web interface (!) written around it. What. The. Hell. That is a complete web server, with toolstack, to help configure simply starting a computer. Have we lost the plot with regards to OS concepts these days? -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.i

Re: SL7: Is there a GUI for systemctl?

2015-06-14 Thread Steven Haigh
On 15/06/2015 3:05 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 14 June 2015 16:01:44 CEST, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 09:11:38 AM Steven Miano wrote: >>> In FC22 there is cockpit though, which does have a very nice WUI (Web >> User >>> Interface) for system

Re: unfortunate bind dns attack

2015-08-02 Thread Steven Haigh
t in SL5, but SL6 & SL7 don't have > the fix now.. See my request for this here: https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1508&L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-DEVEL&F=&S=&P=76 -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 93

Re: unfortunate bind dns attack

2015-08-02 Thread Steven Haigh
m ./os/Packages/bind-9.9.4-18.el7.x86_64.rpm -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: unfortunate bind dns attack

2015-08-03 Thread Steven Haigh
On 03/08/15 16:52, Bill Maidment wrote: > -Original message- > From: Steven Haigh > Sent: Mon 03-08-2015 16:35 > Subject: Re: unfortunate bind dns attack > Attachment: signature.asc > To: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov; >> On 03/08/15 16:31, Bill Maidm

Re: unfortunate bind dns attack

2015-08-03 Thread Steven Haigh
On 03/08/15 17:02, Steven Haigh wrote: > > On 03/08/15 16:52, Bill Maidment wrote: >> -Original message- >> From: Steven Haigh >> Sent:Mon 03-08-2015 16:35 >> Subject: Re: unfortunate bind dns attack >> Attachment: signature.asc >

Re: Perl 6?

2016-01-05 Thread Steven Haigh
On 5/01/2016 8:18 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Any rumors as to when we will be seeing Perl 6? RHEL 8 maybe? -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Updates of samba4 ?

2016-06-06 Thread Steven Haigh
ut you'll need more of an admin effort to make sure it all works. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897

Re: Updates of samba4 ?

2016-06-07 Thread Steven Haigh
On 7/06/2016 7:43 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 07/06/16 05:25, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 2016-06-07 11:14, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >>> On 6 June 2016 at 17:27, Rupert Kolb >>> wrote: >>>> Thanks for clarifying. I was not aware of this. >>

Re: free ssl certificate

2016-07-14 Thread Steven Haigh
e University of St Andrews >> is a charity registered in >> Scotland : No SC013532. > > -- > Keep Ithaka always in your mind. > Arriving there is what you are destined for. (Konstantinos P. Kavafis). > > > > > -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: free ssl certificate

2016-07-14 Thread Steven Haigh
valid for 1 year. > > Toolkit for ease of use: > > https://certbot.eff.org/ > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Steven Haigh <mailto:net...@crc.id.au>> wrote: > > And if you want a nice toolkit to make it easier: > https://github.com/CRCinA

Re: free ssl certificate

2016-07-14 Thread Steven Haigh
tes and management are all centralised - not on each individual system. Total time to renew a cert, about 5 minutes per year - and I know exactly where I have them - and whoever gets to take over after me will get the email reminders for each system as they come due. Of course, if you only run one

Re: libxml2-python Infected File

2016-07-24 Thread Steven Haigh
ity issue, you can try a 'yum verify' after installing the yum-plugin-verify package. This will check files installed on the system versus the packaged files. If all that comes back good, then you should be ok. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897

Re: sl6.8 libcgroup -- bug

2016-07-28 Thread Steven Haigh
"workaround" was to "yum downgrade libcgroup" on all my hosts until I could figure it out. ~Stack~ -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897

Re: Python 2.7 OS requirements

2016-07-30 Thread Steven Haigh
o way - won't work." > I think the student probably has access to CERN systems that probably > have what he's looking for. > > I've followed up with that inquiry to the student and waiting to hear back. > > Thanks! > - Larry > > -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: LDAP problems

2016-09-22 Thread Steven Haigh
pam_localuser.so > account sufficientpam_succeed_if.so uid < 1000 quiet > #account [default=bad success=ok user_unknown=ignore] pam_sss.so > ACCOUNT [DEFAULT=BAD SUCCESS=OK USER_UNKNOWN=IGNORE] PAM_LDAP.SO > account required pam_permit.so > > password

Kernel Local Privilege Escalation - CVE-2016-5195

2016-10-20 Thread Steven Haigh
pen a support case to gain access to the kpatch. --- END ADVICE --- Possible mitigation for the issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384344#c13 There are currently no fixed packages available anywhere to resolve this. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web:

Re: Perl 6 just hit

2016-12-30 Thread Steven Haigh
d with perl scripts - and that won't change anytime soon... -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Perl 6 just hit

2016-12-30 Thread Steven Haigh
g language should never dictate programming practices. That is up to the programmer to do. Trying to solve a human problem like 'style' with technology is a failure from the start. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Perl 6 just hit

2016-12-30 Thread Steven Haigh
a grip on the basics, the only real difference between languages is what specific formatting you give to the options to keep its compiler happy. bash is something you'll use every day - so its probably easy to deal with from the start. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https:/

Re: OpenSSL in SL6 ?

2017-02-03 Thread Steven Haigh
7;s also free 'developer' accounts if you wish. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: OpenSSL in SL6 ?

2017-02-04 Thread Steven Haigh
en requires less resources and keeps a far more > stable environment in a longer run. I do wonder if it will mean that EL6 or EL7 won't see TLS1.3 support though - or if they wholesale backport the entire TLS1.3 to OpenSSL 1.0.1. IIRC, TLS1.3 is supposed to arrive in OpenSSL 1.1.1 -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: certbot letsencrypt renewal selinux borkage

2017-02-09 Thread Steven Haigh
of writing up a blog post on my site regarding an automatic troubleshooter for selinux, but I'm not quite there yet. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897

Re: RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

2017-04-04 Thread Steven Haigh
experienced such issues? Several places on the net, >> the ata kernel error messages have been resolved by checking SATA cables >> and their seating. It just sounds a bit too incredible that two >> harddrives of the same brand and type in different HDD slots have the >> s

Re: nmcli question

2017-04-08 Thread Steven Haigh
which can cause its own problems - but its worth working around those for a stable network config. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Updateinfo file is not valid XML

2017-06-21 Thread Steven Haigh
ll' on the affected system will fix it - but it hasn't fixed it for all my systems. We get an email every hour from 15+ servers. I'm getting the same from wy more systems than that! That's why there's a "Mark all as read" option in most mail clients :) -

Re: 7.4

2017-06-23 Thread Steven Haigh
not until Jan 2018. > Just 7.4. When Red Hat Bugzilla notifies me they > have fixed something, they say they fixed it in 7.4. > > The way RH sounds, RHEL is already on 7.4, but I > haven't checked. Nope: $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3

[WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

2017-06-25 Thread Steven Haigh
200v5-spec-update.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/6th-gen-x-series-spec-update.html [1] iucode_tool -S will output your processor signature. This tool is available in the *contrib* repository, package "iucode-tool". -- Steven Haigh ? net...@crc.id.au ? http://www.crc.id.au ? +61 (3) 9001 6090? 0412 935 897

Re: Tip: when your terminal gets all screwed up

2017-11-10 Thread Steven Haigh
> > Here is what I have in my .bash_profile file: > > > if [ "$PS1" ]; then ># extra [ in front of \u unconfuses confused Linux VT parser >PS1="\e[0 [[\\u@\\h:\\l \\w]\\$ " > fi For what its worth, I've been using this for years: PS1="\

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