Problems with VMWare tools

2011-04-09 Thread Nikola Wenta
Dear all, I am trying Scientific Linux and want to get VMWare tools installed. Can someone tell me where I can download the required Kernel C header files, and under what path they will be installed? Cheers, Niko This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may conta

Re: Problems with VMWare tools

2011-04-09 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/4/9 Nikola Wenta : > Dear all, > I am trying Scientific Linux and want to get VMWare tools installed. Can > someone tell me where I can download the required Kernel C header files, and > under what path they will be installed? > Cheers, > Niko What is your vmware esx(i) version? what is you

Re: How do I install xfce?

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/08/2011 12:41 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: I gather you came from the CentOS world.:) Yes xfce is in the CentOS-5 extras repo. Akemi A really, really old version. :-( -T

Re: How do I install xfce?

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/08/2011 12:54 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Not sure which version of Scientific Linux you are looking to have. SL6 xfce is not in the main distro EL6 repository and not in EPEL for EL6. I am hoping to fix that soon (well for EPEL that is) Cool. What kind of time frame are you look

Re: How do I install xfce?

2011-04-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:33, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > On 04/08/2011 12:54 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> Not sure which version of Scientific Linux you are looking to have. > > SL6 > >> xfce is not in the main distro EL6 repository and not in EPEL for EL6. >> I am hoping to fix that

Re: Problems with VMWare tools

2011-04-09 Thread Lukas Press
On 04/09/2011 11:34 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2011/4/9 Nikola Wenta: Dear all, I am trying Scientific Linux and want to get VMWare tools installed. Can someone tell me where I can download the required Kernel C header files, and under what path they will be installed? Cheers, Niko kernel-h

Re: Time keeping Errors of 15 minutes / week

2011-04-09 Thread Dan M.
Try checking your cmos battery as the possible culprit. On 08/04/2011, Larry Linder wrote: > I loaded SL 5.5 64 bit on a Gigabyte 770T-USB3 mother board based system we > are thingking of using in our shop. My only real problem is that with > other > Linux and Windoze boxes in the system this s

Updates missing

2011-04-09 Thread Federico Alves
Dear fellow scientists Red Hat just came with an important kernel upgrade. It would be nice if we could get it in our distribution. Federico

Re: Updates missing

2011-04-09 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Federico Alves wrote: > Dear fellow scientists > Red Hat just came with an important kernel upgrade. It would be nice if we > could get it in our distribution. > Federico Not to worry. It will come. :-) Akemi

Re: Problems with VMWare tools

2011-04-09 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Lukas Press wrote: > On 04/09/2011 11:34 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >> >> 2011/4/9 Nikola Wenta: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> I am trying Scientific Linux and want to get VMWare tools installed. Can >>> someone tell me where I can download the required Kernel C header files

repositories

2011-04-09 Thread Federico Alves
> >I could not enable the extra repositories at installation time, for lack >of network access. How do I add them now after installation? Federico

Re: How do I install xfce?

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/09/2011 10:52 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Cool. What kind of time frame are you looking at? And, will you announce > it to us all when you do? I am hoping by end of April and will announce. It may or may not be 4.8 depending on whether it works for EL6 or not. I have an almost bare

Re: repositories

2011-04-09 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Federico Alves wrote: >> >>I could not enable the extra repositories at installation time, for lack >>of network access. How do I add them now after installation? > Federico If you now have network connection, try running: yum groupinfo "Yum Repositories" That w

Re: How do I install xfce?

2011-04-09 Thread Shaun Jones
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Todd And Margo Chester < toddandma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/09/2011 10:52 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> Cool. What kind of time frame are you looking at? And, will you announce >>> > it to us all when you do? >>> >> I am hoping by end of April and will

Re: How do I install xfce?

2011-04-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 18:10, Shaun Jones wrote: > > > You need any help packaging it up ? At the moment, I do not think so.. as they should just be the Fedora packages recompiled to EL6. However if some sort of naming issue is required and such I will definitely call out. > -- > Mister Jones >

Re: repositories

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/09/2011 05:05 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Federico Alves wrote: I could not enable the extra repositories at installation time, for lack of network access. How do I add them now after installation?

Bridges

2011-04-09 Thread Federico Alves
Is there any way to make bridges retain their properties after a reboot, save for a script? I have abridge that loses its physical interface when the machine reboots, and as a result of that, all my virtual machines have no internet access. Specifically, this command does not survive a reboot. Brct

Re: Bridges

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/10/2011 12:25 AM, Federico Alves wrote: Brctl addif br1 eth1 Hi Federico, Back "in the day" before Virtual Box took care of the bridge itself, I use to put this kind of stuff into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. It is a bash script that runs at the very end of your boot up. Just and idea. -T p.s.

Re: repositories

2011-04-09 Thread Federico Alves
I use KVM, the technology included in the kernel. Federico From: Todd And Margo Chester Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:54:14 -0700 To: Akemi Yagi Cc: Federico Alves , "scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov" Subject: Re: repositories On 04/09/2011 05:05 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 9

Re: Bridges

2011-04-09 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > On 04/10/2011 12:25 AM, Federico Alves wrote: >> >> Brctl addif br1 eth1 >> > Hi Federico, > > Back "in the day" before Virtual Box took care > of the bridge itself,  I use to put this kind of stuff > into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. It is a

Re: repositories

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/10/2011 02:45 AM, Federico Alves wrote: I use KVM, the technology included in the kernel. Federico That is my next project after I get Xfce installed.

Re: Bridges

2011-04-09 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/09/2011 08:00 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 04/10/2011 12:25 AM, Federico Alves wrote: Brctl addif br1 eth1 Hi Federico, Back "in the day" before V