Re: dnsmasq and systemd

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 5:08 PM Orion Poplawski wrote: > Probably related: > >--tftp-secure > Enable TFTP secure mode: without this, any file which is > readable by the dnsmasq process under normal unix access- > control rules is availabl

Re: dnsmasq and systemd

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:07 PM Teh, Kenneth M. <0864eace5c83-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > On 5/16/19 9:23 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> On 5/16/19 1:23 PM, Teh, Kenneth M. wrote: >>> >>> Systemd continues to baffle me. >>> >>> I've set up a router machine that provides pxe boot an

Re: question regarding the future

On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 5:59 PM Mark Rousell wrote: > On 03/05/2019 08:19, Tom H wrote: >> >> Red hat can limit access to its source RPMs to its paying customers >> and prevent free rebuilds > > Although Red Hat have an extensive end user licence agreement, it is > ge

Re: question regarding the future

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 11:17 PM David Sommerseth wrote: > First of all, it is Red Hat (two words) :) Yes! :) > But I don't really understand this Red Hat scepticism. Anti-corporate world attitude? > What would Red Hat, even from a commercial standpoint, win by > crippling CentOS or its op

Re: IPv6 DUID

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 2:44 PM Stephen Berg (Code 7309) <08e536c5aab1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > Is there a file that contains, or command that will display, the DUID a > system is using when communicating to a DHCPv6 server? I need to know > what the DUID is so I can set a st

Re: parted and mount

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 8:38 AM Yasha Karant wrote: > > I have attempted to mount USB external formatted media on a SL7 > system. One was a flash drive with a MS format (reported by parted as > FAT32); the other was a 2 Tbyte hard drive XFS formatted on a > different SL7 system. > > In both cases,

Re: Re [EXTERNAL] kernel/firmware update made computer inaccessible

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Steve Talbott wrote: > Miles O'Neal wrote: >> >> I would look into a new video driver. Which driver were you using? > > Nouveau, last updated a year ago in January. I have now found this in the > 7.4 release notes (should have looked before!): > > "The default DDX

Re: Tip: when your terminal gets all screwed up

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 1:34 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2017-11-11 04:26, Tom H wrote: >> >> So it should be: >> >> PS1="\[\e[0m\][\u@\h:\l \w]\$ " > > Maybe. I got silly and experimented. > > PS1="\[\e[1m\][\u@\h:\l \w]\$ " > and &g

Re: Tip: when your terminal gets all screwed up

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Tom H wrote: > [ Hundreds of lines of fine-tuning prompt manipulation code and theory > snipped, especially involving quote handling ] Hundreds?! Hopefully someone find them useful! > A

Re: Tip: when your terminal gets all screwed up

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:41 PM, jdow wrote: > So I went through some documentation. Now I am back up to speed for > ANSI escape sequences and the theoretical interaction of > PROMPT_COMMAND and PS1. PROMPT_COMMAND is run then PS1 is displayed. > PROMPT_COMMAND already has the \e0m in it. \e is

Re: Tip: when your terminal gets all screwed up

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:48 PM, jdow wrote: > > 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 What do you mean by "VT parser"? Because whether you are on a VT or in an

Re: Tip: when your terminal gets all screwed up

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: > > For what its worth, I've been using this for years: > PS1="\[\033[01;37m\]\$? \$(if [[ \$? == 0 ]]; then echo \"\[\033[01;32m\] > \342\234\223\"; else echo \"\[\033[01;31m\]\342\234\227\"; fi) $(if [[ ${EUID} > == 0 ]]; then echo '\[\033[01

Re: Tip: when your terminal gets all screwed up

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:21 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2017-11-10 15:14, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> >> Ever cat a binary file by accident and your >> terminal gets all screwed up. >> >> I had a developer on the Perl 6 chat line give me >> a tip on how to unscrew your terminal and set it >> back to normal.

Re: Unknown tag: Recommends: yelp ???

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:11 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > SL 7.4 > > What am I doing wrong? > > $ rpmbuild --rebuild simple-scan-3.26.1-1.fc27.src.rpm > Installing simple-scan-3.26.1-1.fc27.src.rpm > ... > error: line 25: Unknown tag: Recommends: yelp > > $ rpm -qa yelp\* > yelp-3.22.0-1.el7.x86

Re: software raid after the fact?

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:19 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 08/19/2017 05:04 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 8:46 PM, ToddAndMargo >> wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to create software raid 1 after the fact? >>> Meaning, you already instal

Re: software raid after the fact?

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 8:46 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > Is there a way to create software raid 1 after the fact? > Meaning, you already installed SL on a stand alone drive. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Converting_an_existing_system

Re: tip: Secondary Selection clipboard

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2017, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:38 PM, ToddAndMargo >> wrote: >>> >>> I have been using UNIX and Linux for over 25 years and did not >>> realize X11 has

Re: tip: Secondary Selection clipboard

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Ken Teh wrote: > On 06/27/2017 06:23 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:38 PM, ToddAndMargo >> wrote: >>> >>> I have been using UNIX and Linux for over 25 years and did not >>> realize X11 has four clipb

Re: tip: Secondary Selection clipboard

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:38 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > I have been using UNIX and Linux for over 25 years and did not realize > X11 has four clipboards. I recently discovered the Secondary Selection > keyboard. > > It really saves a bunch of time when I am programming as I don't lose > my cursor

Re: 7.4

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:18 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 06/19/2017 05:12 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:16 AM, ToddAndMargo >> wrote: >>> >>> Any rumors on when 7.4 will hit SL? >> >> Why are you always so keen about dot-releases?

Re: 7.4

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:16 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > Any rumors on when 7.4 will hit SL? Why are you always so keen about dot-releases? Do you perform installs for every dot-release or are you using versioned yum repos (the latter doesn't make sense if you always switch to the latest dot-re

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Jose Marques wrote: >> On 10 Apr 2017, at 18:23, David Sommerseth >> wrote: >> >> But I'll give you that Oracle is probably a very different beast on >> the legal side and doesn't have a too good "open source karma". > > ZFS on Linux is based on OpenZFS > (

Re: RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:23 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 10/04/17 09:15, Tom H wrote: >> >> zfs'll never be in-tree for licensing reasons. > > Well, "never" might be a too strong word. Stranger things have > happened, like Microsoft embracing Linux and

Re: Examples of customized grub2 configuration files?

re on the intertubes. > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 01:52:30AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> If you set "GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=false" in "/etc/default/grub", the >> boot submenu will have single-user entry for every kernel. >> >> If you set "

Re: nmcli question

On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 5:36 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: >> I will spare the details, but suffice to say I am in a position where >> after many years knowing the 'network' commands I've been tasked to >> learn nmcli much better than I do now. Th

Re: RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:01 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > I would never run btrfs on *any* production server, regardless of > currently available kernel versions. Because it is not deemed ready > for production yet. For testing I would be willing to experiment with > it, as there I can tolerate

Re: RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:15 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 06/04/17 10:54, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:50 AM, David Sommerseth >> wrote: >>> >>> ZFS looks great, so does btrfs - on the paper. But until ZFS is native >>> in Linux or btrf

Re: RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:50 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > > ZFS looks great, so does btrfs - on the paper. But until ZFS is native > in Linux or btrfs stabilizes on the same level as ext4 and XFS, I'm > not going that path for production environments. What do you mean by "native?" The upstream d

Re: Examples of customized grub2 configuration files?

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > Hi, you may find it easier to do the work using the SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX > boot loader. > > In my experience, it takes less time to learn how to use syslinux from > zero, compared to doing anything at all non-standard in grub/grub2. If

Re: Examples of customized grub2 configuration files?

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > I'm looking for examples (with explanatory comments) of > customized configuration files to use in the /etc/grub.d > directory, somewhere out there on the intertubes. > > Specifically, what I hope to add is a "11_single" file > to /etc/grub

Re: Copying a system: no login possible

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Lars Behrens wrote: >> Am 21.03.2017 um 14:05 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: >>> >>> How did you "copy the system"? Tar, for example, does not carry >>> along SELinux

Re: Copying a system: no login possible

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Lars Behrens wrote: > Am 21.03.2017 um 14:05 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: >> >> How did you "copy the system"? Tar, for example, does not carry >> along SELinux permissions. The "star" tool can. > > Yes, I forgot about the SELinux permissions, you're right. > > I di

Re: [solved] Re: Copying a system: no login possible

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Lars Behrens wrote: > Am 21.03.2017 um 14:14 schrieb Tom H: >> It's probably a relabel issue. >> >> You can either run, while chrooted, "touch ./autorelabel" (and the >> relabel will happen at reboot) or "fixfiles

Re: Copying a system: no login possible

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Lars Behrens wrote: >> >> * copy the origin to mounted target device > > How did you "copy the system"? Tar, for example, does not carry along > SELinux permissions. The "star" tool can. tar has an "--se

Re: Copying a system: no login possible

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Lars Behrens wrote: > > After copying a system like I have done a million times before (but only > with debianic, suse or arch systems) by > > * starting a live system on the target > * copy the origin to mounted target device > * chroot afterwards > * adapt /etc/f

Re: Is there a qemu-kvm forum?

On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailm

Re: Is there a qemu-kvm forum?

On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > > There is also a very active "centos-virt" mailing list For CentOS users

Re: Is there a qemu-kvm forum?

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 7:55 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > I have a Windows 10 PE fash drive that won't fully start (stops at the > blue window logo before the Annoy Balls start circling). The drive > will boot natively. I am stumped. > > Google is failing me here. Is there a qemu-kvm forum hiding ou

Re: Integration with Apple iPad 2 air

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:30 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > Are there any email apps, preferably licensed for free and not > requiring an additional service, that will connect to arbitrary MAP > servers and provide anything close to a Thunderbird email client > end-user experience? Isn't the iOS "M

Re: Adventures with 7.2

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:11 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2017-01-03 09:56, David Sommerseth wrote: >> >> Remember that firewalld provides an API over D-Bus for dynamic >> firewall updates, so this is kind of to "seal" the configuration >> without breaking any component depending on manipulating the firewa

Re: Adventures with 7.2

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 5:06 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2017-01-02 08:47, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:42 AM, jdow wrote: >>> On 2017-01-02 01:35, David Sommerseth wrote: >>>> Anaconda is the installer. To be honest, I've never understood why >>>

Re: Adventures with 7.2

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:58 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2017-01-02 07:26, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:12 AM, jdow wrote: >>> >>> The SYS5 stuff in 6.x and prior lacked flexibility, to be sure. It was >>> simple enough that figuring out what was goi

Re: Adventures with 7.2

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:56 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2017-01-02 06:16, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:03 AM, jdow wrote: >>> >>> systemctl unmask firewalld failed. >> >> >> I run "systemctl disable firewalld" before running "sy

Re: Adventures with 7.2

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:42 AM, jdow wrote: > On 2017-01-02 01:35, David Sommerseth wrote: >> >> Anaconda is the installer. To be honest, I've never understood why >> anaconda needs to be installed on a final production server. The >> production boxes I have where firewalld is uninstalled also hav

Re: Adventures with 7.2

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:00 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > Number of man pages is not the same as good documentation. Part of the > difficulty of documenting systemd is its sprawl into different systems > that have nothing to do with daemon management itself, including > logging, DHCP, network c

Re: Adventures with 7.2

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:24 AM, jdow wrote: > > Did the second half. The first half had a large collection of dependencies > that would be removed as well, little things like "anaconda-core". Erm, that > might not be a good thing. I'm not interested in throwing the system into > the dark ages. Yo

Re: Adventures with 7.2

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:12 AM, jdow wrote: > The SYS5 stuff in 6.x and prior lacked flexibility, to be sure. It was > simple enough that figuring out what was going on became easy. And > where the documentation failed the workarounds were not all that > difficult. But, then,the first 'ix I play

Re: Adventures with 7.2

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:03 AM, jdow wrote: > > systemctl unmask firewalld failed. I run "systemctl disable firewalld" before running "systemctl unmask firewalld" because otherwise the logs have the "firewalld is masked" messages. Did you run "systemctl enable firewalld" after running "systemctl

Re: problem (with Gnome,on non-root logins)

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > There's been a big thread over in the Fedora mailing lists about how > software updates break active Gnome sessions, and the workarounds are > fundamentally crazed. I encourage you and other developers and > desktop users to avoid using

Re: Amusing/Sad Gnome3/Wayland story

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Last week, a leader of the Gnome project spoke to our > local Linux user's group. He had a new Lenovo laptop > running Gnome 3 with the Wayland replacement for X. He > could NOT get his HDMI port working with our projector; > that's the fi

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Snap - the better,higher,faster etc

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Tom H wrote: >> The first that I heard of snaps being available on non-Ubuntu systems >> was on the fedora-devel@ list where the poster floated the idea of >> banning snapd because

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Snap - the better,higher,faster etc

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Max Linke wrote: > > https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/06/16/on-snappy-and-flatpak-business-as-usual-in-the-canonical-propaganda-department/ > > A good post giving a little bit of context for the actual snapy adoption by > other distributions. The pres release fro

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] GPT?

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Jose Marques wrote: >> On 15 Jun 2016, at 13:33, Tom H wrote: >> >> For a journaled filesystem, if you have access to a Mac, you can >> disable the journal before using the disk on SL 7. > > Just to make things interestin

Re: GPT?

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:16 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > I should have said GPT partition with HFS+ format. Thanks for the confirmation. I meant to ask earlier, but forgot, whether you were assuming that the disk was gpt because it came from a Apple because, when you format a disk on OS X, you ha

Re: GPT?

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 06/11/2016 03:12 PM, Joseph Areeda wrote: >> >> I can give this a try for you I'm a little confused. Pretty sure the >> partition tables are fine but I don't think you can use the Apple file >> system, Mac OS X extended. >> >> The FAT or EX F

how to upgrade with yum from SL 7.2 DVD

The upgrade procedure that I posted was from 7 to later 7 not 6 to 7.

Re: how to upgrade with yum from SL 7.2 DVD

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > Would someone please remind me how to do the following. > > The current SL 7.2 DVD does not have an upgrade in place choice (only from a > SL 7.x system; EL does not support upgrade between different major > releases). I recall that someone

Re: df shows wrong mount point

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: > > The logical volume for my home directory is mounted on /export/home locally, > and /home via NFS/automounter. In the SL5.x and SL6.x days it would have > been a bind mount and I could filter out bind mounts from the df output, >

Re: df shows wrong mount point

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: > > Mount points that are available on the local hardware under /export/home/ > *AND* through the automounter under /home/ show up under /home/ when they > should be showing up under their actual mount point, /export/home/. > > It s

Re: Filesystem package messes with /usr/local

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Steve Gaarder wrote: > > I always thought that /usr/local was defined to be an area left alone by the > operating system. For many years, we have made it a symlink to a read-only > directory in AFS space. This has worked fine - until now. When I tried to > update t

Re: VMware

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: > On 2015.10.29 at 03:24:37 -0400, Tom H wrote next: >> >> You cannot bridge a wireless NIC: >> >> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bridge#It_doesn.27t_work_with_my_Wireless_card.

Re: VMware

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > Although the KVM solution discussed here may work, the description of this > in operation appears to be a true > hypervisor even when only used to run, say, MS Windows as an application > environment virtual machine under SL. That is, this s

Re: help debugging a kickstart install

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Ken Teh wrote: >> >> I'm having problems with an 6.7 install. Here are the relevant lines: >> >> # partitions >> >> # clearpart --drives=disk/by-id/ata-SATA_SSD_96D70756062400160297 >> part /boot --fsty

Re: SL 7.1 not installing from DVD on unpartitioned disk

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> The difficulty is that anaconda has become a python nightmare of >>> complexity, coupled

Re: SL 7.1 not installing from DVD on unpartitioned disk

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > The difficulty is that anaconda has become a python nightmare of > complexity, coupled with an unnecessary GUI of complexity. New > features of sophisticated interaction and "pretty pictures" ti nabage > LVM, various clustering filesyst

Re: root is unable to open display

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> systemd introduced "

Re: root is unable to open display

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Tom H wrote: >> systemd introduced "machinectl shell localhost" in systemd 225 that >> essentially does the same as "ssh localhost" from an env perspective. >>

Re: root is unable to open display

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:54 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> >>> I can run anything as a regular user but not my apps >>> as root. I am sure a reboot w

Re: root is unable to open display

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:54 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> >>> I can run anything as a regular user but not my apps >>> as root. I am sure a reboot w

Re: root is unable to open display

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:54 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > I can run anything as a regular user but not my apps > as root. I am sure a reboot will fix this, but > is there a way to fix this without rebooting? > > This started after I fired up two VM's in KVM > > # leafpad smb.conf & > [1] 16905 > [

Re: SL 7.1 upgrade has been a disaster

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:21 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 08/24/2015 05:31 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:36 AM, ToddAndMargo >> wrote: >>> >>> I just upgraded from SL 6.6 to 7.1. >>> >>> What a disaster. :'( >

Re: SL 7.1 upgrade has been a disaster

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 5:36 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > I just upgraded from SL 6.6 to 7.1. > > ¡Ay, caramba! > > 1) I have to have my backup sata drives removed to boot. > SL7 tries to mount them as my 9750-4I raid controller > and freezes up. After booting up I can insert the > eS

Re: is beesu suppose to remember your password?

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:37 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > I finally took the plunge and upgraded to SL 7.1. > > Since I no longer have access to gksu, I installed beesu: > > # rpm -qa beesu > beesu-2.7-23.el7.x86_64 > > Question: it remembers your password and doesn't prompt > for it after the fir

Re: IPv6 address popping up

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > > It's sufficient to type something like "host ::0" to get it autoloaded. The > correct way to disable IPv6 on SL6 is to have an "options ipv6 disable=1" > somewhere in modprobe.d . +1 for SL6 because ipv6 is compiled as a module But use

Re: IPv6 address popping up

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Bill Maidment wrote: > From: Andreas Mock > Sent: Wed 05-08-2015 19:14 > Subject:AW: IPv6 address popping up > To: Bill Maidment ; scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov; >> >> Thank you for that hint. I'll try it. >> Can you explain what the difference to

Re: systemctl disable vs mask question

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:02 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 16 June 2015 07:52:05 CEST, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> >> # systemctl disable firewalld.service > > This avoids the firewalld.service unit to be automatically started during > boot. The service may still be started using 'systemctl start

Re: Sl 7: where did the dhcp.leases file go?

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 2:22 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > Okay, I give up. What happened to > > /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases ps ax | grep dhc | grep -v grep and the "-lf" file will show you the lease.

Re: SL7: Is there a GUI for systemctl?

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 1:45 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 06/13/2015 10:21 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:19 PM, ToddAndMargo >> wrote: >>> ? >> >> There's systemd-ui but it was dropped from Fedora in F22 and there was >> a discussi

Re: sl7: under systemclt, what is the new /etc/rc.d/init.d?

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:56 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > sl7: under systemclt, what is the new /etc/rc.d/init.d? /etc/systemd/system/ /run/systemd/system/ /lib/systemd/system/ as well as /run/systemd/generator/ /run/systemd/generator.early/ /run/systemd/generator.late/

Re: What determines when things start with systemclt

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:23 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > /etc/rc/d/rc5.d with its numbered start points are being > phased out. In SL7, systemctl, what determines when things > start? The dependencies and the order are set in the "[Unit]" section of a systemd unit file via Requires=, Wants=, Req

Re: SL7: Is there a GUI for systemctl?

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:19 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > ? There's systemd-ui but it was dropped from Fedora in F22 and there was a discussion on systemd-devel@ about dropping it upstream earlier this year.

Re: Adding files to the sl repo

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:57 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > The only exception is that if it is supported by the Fedora > project. RHEL and clones are variations of Fedora. SL6 > is essentially Fedora Core 13 and SL7 is essentially > Fedora Core 21. I doubt that the RHEL developers would like the "es

Re: installing 32 acrobat reader in 64 bit SL7

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:56 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > linux32 rpmbuild --rebuild pangox-compat-0.0.2-2.el7.src.rpm > > I have been doing a lot of the linux32 lately, but I am not > all the sure of exactly what it does. "linux32" short for "setarch linux32".

Re: Is it time to think about another disto?

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:45 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 05/23/2015 03:46 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> AFAIR, the kvm bugs that you reported were RFEs. >> >> Within a release, RH's very conservative when considering RFEs and >> rarely if ever does it do apply

Re: Is it time to think about another disto?

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:44 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 05/23/2015 04:02 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 4:20 PM, ToddAndMargo >> wrote: >>> On 05/23/2015 01:10 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: >>>> >>>> How far back should red hat port

Re: Edit a spec file with rpmbuild ????

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:16 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 05/23/2015 03:24 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 4:28 PM, ToddAndMargo >> wrote: >>> >>> I am reading a paper on how to port Wine 32 to Cent OS 7: >>> https://www.ce

Re: Is it time to think about another disto?

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:14 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > > So when you complain about an unfixed issue in qemu in a specific RHEL/SL > release > and point at the upstream bugtracker, upstream have all rights to say that > the EL > release is outdated and is fixed in a newer upstream release. B

Re: Is it time to think about another disto?

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 4:20 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 05/23/2015 01:10 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: >> >> How far back should red hat port fixes? The policy is public and adhered >> to... > > They should just follow their word. They state 2020. > Support means support. Freezing all the bugs in > is

Re: Is it time to think about another disto?

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 12:16 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 05/20/2015 03:36 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: >> >> That means that once a new major release of RHEL is out, it aims to be >> rock solid and stable for a long time > > Sometimes. Other times it freezes bugs and instabilities in > place, lik

Re: Edit a spec file with rpmbuild ????

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 4:28 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > I am reading a paper on how to port Wine 32 to Cent OS 7: > https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=49542 > > linux32 rpmrebuild chrpath-0.13-14.el7.src.rpm > > What??? The proper syntax is: > > linux32 rpmbui

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Steve Gaarder wrote: > > In that case, I'm thinking that it could be useful to maintain an EPEL > mirror that does not get updated between TUV's release and the SL release. I > could do that for my own use or it could be a community effort. Thoughts? I was going

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Steve Gaarder wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Steve Gaarder wrote: >> >> I see this also with libgtop2. I currently cannot install the Mate >> group because the packages in EPEL require libgtop-2.0.so.10, which is >> in the package libgtop2-2.28.4-7.el7.x86_64.rpm,

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:04 AM, John Pilkington wrote: > On 27/03/15 08:53, Tom H wrote: >> >> Point releases are just a snapshot of the packages at a certain point >> in time, like Debian 6.x/7.x and Ubuntu 12.04.x/14.04.x. >> >> RHEL offers its customers an EU

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >>> >>> The ultimate cause of this issue was an upgrade of glib2 by RedHat in RHEL >>> 7.1. An

Re: Other linux

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > I fully realise that this is a SL list (along with the occasional mention of > RHEL, CentOS, etc.). I currently am using X86-64 SL 7 on my workstation. > Our primary research compute engine is using X86-64 SL 6 with MPI and Nvidia > CUDA. A

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 03/19/2015 03:34 AM, John Pilkington wrote: >> >> I had been under the impression that it was likely to be safe to use 'epel' >> packages, so, wishing to provide feedback, I installed a new version of >> qtwebkit from epel-testing. No hi

Re: update transaction errors

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > On 03/06/2015 06:57 PM, Phil Wyett wrote: >> On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 15:46 -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: >>> >>> I attempted to update a SL 7 system using the Add/Remove Software GUI >>> update feature. The update fails with: >>> >>> Test Transact

Re: Linux UID/GID issues

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:50 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: > > Thanks Chris for the info on login.defs. I did not realize that > file existed. Other than the occasional rants on this list, I pretty > much learn something new every day, and I've been at this a long time. >> >> On 03/03/2015 04:44 PM,

Re: Docker

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:59 AM, wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2015, Tom H wrote: >> >> Of course errors can happen. I'd expect RH to fix them quickly because >> it's in its interest for RHEL rebuilders to publish a distro as >> similar to RHEL as possible. > &

Re: systemd (again)

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: > On 2015.02.13 at 23:06:02 -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote next: >> >> 3) Will systemd require Gnome 3/4/5/..N to manage properly? > > I don't even know what do you mean, systemd has nothing to do with > graphics environment, you can manage ev

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