Re: SL policy on errata that came out with the 5.6 release

2011-01-13 Thread Urs Beyerle
On 01/14/2011 07:49 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > On 1/13/2011 9:29, Troy Dawson wrote: >> Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: >>> Which release has the higher priority? SL 6.0 or SL 5.6? >> >> SL 6.0 has higher priority. > > My apologies if I'm missing something, but why does SL 6 get priority > when SL 5

Re: SL policy on errata that came out with the 5.6 release

2011-01-13 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 1/13/2011 9:29, Troy Dawson wrote: Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: Which release has the higher priority? SL 6.0 or SL 5.6? SL 6.0 has higher priority. My apologies if I'm missing something, but why does SL 6 get priority when SL 5 is the only one of the two with a production install base?

sata_mv driver - Re: SL policy on errata that came out with the 5.6 release

2011-01-13 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:11:25AM -0600, Troy Dawson wrote: > > First, the kernel. > As a policy, we do not release the kernel that comes out with a new > release as a security errata. In this case, the kernel is > 2.6.18-238.el5. This kernel will not go out as a security errata for > the ot

Re: NFS Tuning + Benchmarking on Scientific Linux [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-01-13 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 03:22:11PM +1100, LEES, Cooper wrote: > 1) > Is there better options I should use to obtain better performance? > > 2) > Is there a package (preferably within Scientific Linux Packages - if not > easily compilable) to do benchmarks on a mounted NFS filesystem? What kind of

Re: SL policy on errata that came out with the 5.6 release

2011-01-13 Thread Troy Dawson
Doug Benjamin wrote: Hi Troy, Are there plans to put cvmfs into SL including the cvmfs kernel module? Thanks, Doug Benjamin Troy Dawson wrote: Hi Doug, We can give it a try. I haven't gotten the latest stable release of it yet. Troy -- __

Re: Network Shared close periodically

2011-01-13 Thread Rachid Ayad
Sorry I forgot to mention that this is exactly what I was doing in windows just unplug and plug the adapter and the network comes back but I experienced it stopps again and this is what I mean it stops periodically. I will investigate more. Thank you, Rachid On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Mark Stodo

Re: Network Shared close periodically

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Stodola
This could be a simple matter of firmware for the USB wireless adapters. Have you tried removing the USB adapters for a few seconds after linux has been shutdown, then booting windows? You could also unplug them while windows is running and then replug to load windows' copy of the firmware.

Re: Network Shared close periodically

2011-01-13 Thread Rachid Ayad
Sorry i forgot to say even when only windows is running the network is also stopping priodically. Before installing linux as double boot I shrinked the NTFS parttion to free space for linux so The wireless source is in a linux box running linux enterprize. Thank you, Rachid On Thu, 13

Re: SL policy on errata that came out with the 5.6 release

2011-01-13 Thread Doug Benjamin
Hi Troy, Are there plans to put cvmfs into SL including the cvmfs kernel module? Thanks, Doug Benjamin Troy Dawson wrote:

Re: Network Shared close periodically

2011-01-13 Thread Rachid Ayad
Justly I just arrived at a Lab that has many wondows boxes and I need linux for my work so I installed SL Linux 5.5 as double boot with VISTA and in all machines with double boot windows-linux the network is lost periodically. All the PCs have USB wireless probe. I am new in the Lab but at the

Re: SL policy on errata that came out with the 5.6 release

2011-01-13 Thread Troy Dawson
Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: Hi Troy, Thanks for this this information. Which release has the higher priority? SL 6.0 or SL 5.6? SL 6.0 has higher priority. But we know the process of building SL 5, so it's easier. We should be able to do both without too much trouble. Troy Thank you for y

Re: SL policy on errata that came out with the 5.6 release

2011-01-13 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
Hi Troy, Thanks for this this information. Which release has the higher priority? SL 6.0 or SL 5.6? Thank you for your work on SL Linux. Best regards, Morten > -Original Message- > From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner- > scientific-linux-users@listserv.fn

SL policy on errata that came out with the 5.6 release

2011-01-13 Thread Troy Dawson
Hello, Since there are many people new to the SL mailing list since the last update, I figure I should send out an email explaining the procedure for security errata that comes out when a new release comes out. First, the kernel. As a policy, we do not release the kernel that comes out with a

Re: Intel Q965 / Dell Optiplex 745 hard-lockup when X starts.

2011-01-13 Thread Paulo Herrera
Hi, I'm running SL 6 on a Dell Optiplex 980 and I also had a blank screen after installation. In my case, the problem was due to using a relatively new NVIDIA graphics card. The work around was to modify the kernel boot options: delete "quiet" and add "nomodeset". Then, I downloaded and installed

Re: Intel Q965 / Dell Optiplex 745 hard-lockup when X starts.

2011-01-13 Thread Bill Askew
I tried to do a install of 5.5 and 5.4 on this same system. The anaconda graphical install wizard did not come up and the screen went blank. I installed using the text interface and the install finished but, Like in your case, starting X hangs the system. I worked around this issues by installin

Network Shared close periodically

2011-01-13 Thread Francesco Alfano
Hello, I have a problem with the (exported) sharing of network resources. Initially i've used a sever with RedHat 7.3 kernel 2.4 now i've installed Scientific Linux 5.5 with kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5PAE with Samba version 3.0.33-3.29.el5_5.1. The problem is that I lose the network connection pe

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-13 Thread g
On 01/13/2011 12:00 PM, Bluejay Adametz wrote: bluejay, thank you for reply; > Something like: > > -A OUTPUT -d nnn.ip.addr.nnn -p all -j REJECT this is true. > added to your /etc/sysconfig/iptables file and a restart of iptables > ought to block access to the specified IP address. locate

Re: NFS Tuning + Benchmarking on Scientific Linux [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-01-13 Thread Felix Reinel
On 01/13/2011 02:07 PM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Felix Reinel wrote: > >> Hi, >>> 1) >>> Is there better options I should use to obtain better performance? >>> (e.g. >>> noac will but I would the server to commit to disk and flash should >>> help >>> my speed there) >> De

Re: NFS Tuning + Benchmarking on Scientific Linux [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-01-13 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Felix Reinel wrote: Hi, 1) Is there better options I should use to obtain better performance? (e.g. noac will but I would the server to commit to disk and flash should help my speed there) Depending on the NFS version you are using, tuning the block sizes might help (rsize

Re: NFS Tuning + Benchmarking on Scientific Linux [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-01-13 Thread Felix Reinel
Hi, > 1) > Is there better options I should use to obtain better performance? (e.g. > noac will but I would the server to commit to disk and flash should help > my speed there) Depending on the NFS version you are using, tuning the block sizes might help (rsize, wsize). The newer versions already h

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-13 Thread Bluejay Adametz
>> i tried putting name in '/etc/hosts' file to send them to '127.0.0.1', >> but this did not work, so i am presuming that what ever is causing >> connections is doing so by address and not by name lookup. >> >> anyone know of above two and what i can do to eliminate them? Something like: -A OUTP