SL 6 as Xen PV domU

2011-04-25 Thread Gerard Lally
Hi first of all many thanks to those responsible for this fine release. Simple question: is the kernel that comes with the SL 6 amd64 release Xen PV domU-ready, or do I need to get a PV domU kernel somewhere else? As a Slackware user I'm not familiar with rpm-based distros at all, but I hope to

Re: SL 5.5, installing nVidia display driver

2011-04-25 Thread Timmy Siu
Thank you Jason and all other contributors, atrmps has many nvidia drivers. I chose the v. 260 and it works great! :-D Timmy Siu On 2011-04-25 02:05 AM, Jason Bronner wrote: 1) login. init runlevel 3 it. compile / install your driver on the command line. change back to runlevel 5. 2) use

Re: SL 6 as Xen PV domU

2011-04-25 Thread Boris Derzhavets
Simple question: is the kernel that comes with the SL 6 amd64 release Xen PV domU-ready, Yes, as any other = 2.6.26. Xen DomU support merged mainline Linux a while ago. Boris. --- On Mon, 4/25/11, Gerard Lally ger...@netmail.ie wrote: From: Gerard Lally ger...@netmail.ie Subject: SL 6 as Xen

Re: Upgrade to SL6 ?

2011-04-25 Thread Troy Dawson
On 04/24/2011 08:14 PM, Nicolas Ross wrote: Hi all ! I am new to SL... I am a RedHat user since redhat 5 (the old red hat, not rhel5). I had several server running Tao Linux when it was discontinued. I then used CentOS to run my servers. I am happy with those for the moment. We have deployed

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux power tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Clint Bowman
I would second Rob's choices--rsync and wget are magic. -- Clint BowmanINTERNET: cl...@ecy.wa.gov Air Quality Modeler INTERNET: cl...@math.utah.edu Department of Ecology VOICE: (360) 407-6815 PO Box 47600FAX:

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux power tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Clint Bowman wrote: I would second Rob's choices--rsync and wget are magic. rest assured, i am making notes of all these suggestions, and thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] a quick poll: what are your favourite linux power tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Patrick Riehecky
On 04/24/2011 07:57 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux power tools, and i've already got the manual, but it looks like there's maybe 1.5 days worth of content there, so i have the freedom to fill up another 1/2 day with

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] a quick poll: what are your favourite linux power tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Bluejay Adametz
   any other topics people here use on a really regular basis that they find indispensable?  not necessarily admin level, just really, really handy programs.  i realize it's kind of an open-ended question, i'm just curious. The thing of it is, IMHO, UNIX, and especially most Linux

Re: Upgrade to SL6 ?

2011-04-25 Thread Connie Sieh
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: On 04/24/2011 08:14 PM, Nicolas Ross wrote: Hi all ! I am new to SL... I am a RedHat user since redhat 5 (the old red hat, not rhel5). I had several server running Tao Linux when it was discontinued. I then used CentOS to run my servers. I am happy with

Re: Upgrade to SL6 ?

2011-04-25 Thread Bluejay Adametz
Do note that TUV does NOT support upgrading from RHEL5 - RHEL6 at all. So there may be many pitfalls with doing a upgradeany as it has gotten NO/not much testing. I actually tried this on a test desktop box. What I ended up with wasn't really useful. There were packages that weren't installed,

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux power tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Steven Leikeim
Some tools that I like and use frequently: find wget screen wc grep (and all the fun of regular expressions) awk sed While not necessarily tools themselves, the following may also be interesting: Use of cron/crontabs Use of

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux power tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Michael Tiernan
Some tools that I like and use frequently: I'd like to add the tool multitail which is very helpful. -- MCTMichael C Tiernan MIT - Laboratory for Nuclear Science - http://www.lns.mit.edu High Perf Research Computing Facility at The Bates Linear Accelerator

RE: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux power tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Trutwin, Joshua
the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux power tools, and i've already got the manual, but it looks like there's maybe 1.5 days worth of content there, so i have the freedom to fill up another 1/2 day with whatever cool utilities i want. i'll be teaching the

RE: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux power tools?

2011-04-25 Thread Trutwin, Joshua
i'm going to add in some package management using yum, plus a quick tutorial on ssh. any other topics people here use on a really regular basis that they find indispensable? not necessarily admin level, just really, really handy programs. i realize it's kind of an open-ended