Re: network manager questions

2012-04-06 Thread Joel Maslak
On Apr 6, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Stable IP address assignments are important for any SSH or SSL based access. > OpenSSH, in particular, doesn't have useful behavior if the IP addresses swap > and you have old public host keys stored locally. SSL doesn't care about IP, o

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-06 Thread zxq9
On 04/07/2012 11:19 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Stable IP address assignments are important for any SSH or SSL based access. OpenSSH, in particular, doesn't have useful behavior if the IP addresses swap and you have old public host keys stored locally. Now that you mention it, every permanent

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-06 Thread zxq9
On 04/07/2012 08:51 AM, Chris Schanzle wrote: Just thought I'd toss out another perspective -- it works for us quite well, and surely there are better methods we could apply too, but that's for another day. Regards, chris Chris, Very interesting. I've never used DHCP for anything other than g

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-06 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Joel Maslak wrote: > On Apr 6, 2012, at 4:23 PM, zxq9 wrote: > > > Do you mean there are serious networks that use DHCP by default for > systems other than transient network guests residing in their own little > subnet (like laptops)? And server IP assignment by D

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-06 Thread Joel Maslak
On Apr 6, 2012, at 4:23 PM, zxq9 wrote: > Do you mean there are serious networks that use DHCP by default for systems > other than transient network guests residing in their own little subnet (like > laptops)? And server IP assignment by DHCP... I can't believe this is really > done, or am I b

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-06 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:23 PM, zxq9 wrote: > On 04/07/2012 03:28 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > >> I tend to think that these days one should go back to static IP addresses >> for server-type machines, after all, all DHCP, network manager& co do is >> assign >> the same IP address to the sam

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 04/06/2012 06:23 PM, zxq9 wrote: On 04/07/2012 03:28 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: I tend to think that these days one should go back to static IP addresses for server-type machines, after all, all DHCP, network manager& co do is assign the same IP address to the same machine over and ov

Re: opengl on remote SL6 system when local system uses nvidia

2012-04-06 Thread zxq9
On 04/07/2012 01:12 AM, Devin Bougie wrote: Hi, All. We're seeing a problem running opengl on a remote SL6 system when the local system uses the proprietary nvidia drivers. > This does not seem to be a problem with remote SL5 systems. The problem seems to only be when sitting at a local syste

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-06 Thread zxq9
On 04/07/2012 03:28 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: I tend to think that these days one should go back to static IP addresses for server-type machines, after all, all DHCP, network manager& co do is assign the same IP address to the same machine over and over and over again with the only variat

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-06 Thread Tam Nguyen
Hello Ken, please take a look at this article. http://kb.iu.edu/data/bbsr.html -Tam

Re: Anyone fire up w8 preview in KVM?

2012-04-06 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 03/30/2012 09:19 AM, Christopher Tooley wrote: I have also set up windows 8 preview in a VirtualBox environment, and it works just fine (my host is not super fast though, so the vm was pretty slow). Very interesting and, to me, compelling, interface; I'm wondering how easily the average user w

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-06 Thread Ken Teh
TUV needs an option in kickstart to turn off NM for designated cards. Btw, NM_CONTROLLED="no" in ifcfg-eth0 is not sufficient. When you do this, I lose DNS as well since apparently, NetworkManager usurps dhcp-client's role in this. When I chkconfig NetworkManager off, everything works. So I

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-06 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 02:46:50PM -0500, Ken Teh wrote: > Is it true that the network manager service turns off the network when there > is no activity? Think of it this way. The network manager was invented to handle Wifi on laptops. (And it works well enough for that). When used for any oth

Re: Multiple terminal windows won't send jobs to individual cores

2012-04-06 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 09:47:45AM -0700, Wil Irwin wrote: > > ... Submitting a job in each terminal window will send it to a core which is > not being used. > I sense a deep conceptual misunderstanding. In traditional time shared multiprocessing systems, such as Linux or WinNT, you do not "sen

Re: 6.2 install -

2012-04-06 Thread zxq9
On 04/07/2012 01:51 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 04/06/2012 12:15 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: I haven't yet installed SL6, but I have installed SL5 on a PC from the PC's disk, after what could go on a DVD is instead on a partition that's to be left alone by installation. That

Re: 6.2 install -

2012-04-06 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/06/2012 12:15 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: I haven't yet installed SL6, but I have installed SL5 on a PC from the PC's disk, after what could go on a DVD is instead on a partition that's to be left alone by installation. That should also be an alternative for SL6. Steven Yellin On

Re: 6.2 install -

2012-04-06 Thread Steven J. Yellin
I haven't yet installed SL6, but I have installed SL5 on a PC from the PC's disk, after what could go on a DVD is instead on a partition that's to be left alone by installation. That should also be an alternative for SL6. Steven Yellin On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, US

opengl on remote SL6 system when local system uses nvidia

2012-04-06 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi, All. We're seeing a problem running opengl on a remote SL6 system when the local system uses the proprietary nvidia drivers. This does not seem to be a problem with remote SL5 systems. The problem seems to only be when sitting at a local system with the nvidia drivers (tested with local S

Re: 6.2 install -

2012-04-06 Thread Adam Bohlander
This works for me onto a 4g flash drive. Obviously adjust architecture and device names to suit your situation. wget http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/scientific-linux/6x/x86_64/iso/SL-62-x86_64-2012-02-16-LiveDVD.iso sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=100 sudo dd if=SL-62-x86_64-2012-02-16-L

6.2 install -

2012-04-06 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
Can someone explain what the problem is here? I really don't care about creating a live Linux on a flash drive, just want to install without burning a DVD but nothing I have tried so far has met with success. I am open to suggestions. Bob [bobg@box7 ~]$