RE: Problem with setting permissions in /etc/fstab

2016-02-08 Thread Bill Maidment
Nico Thanks for your suggestions. I know it is not a typo as I did copy and paste into the second machine /etc/fstab and it worked. I note that /etc/mtab contains /dev/shm /var/spool/MIMEDefang tmpfs rw,relatime,size=262144k,mode=770,uid=991,gid=990 0 0 so it looks like the mount is working OK.

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] ABRT / rhtsupport.conf

2016-02-08 Thread Pat Riehecky
You may have ended up with libreport-plugin-rhtsupport installed. you should be able to remove that plugin with yum. Pat On 02/08/2016 01:39 PM, Thomas Leavitt wrote: Abrt prompts me to activate autoreporting (this appeared after an install from 7.0 media and an update to 7.2), and fails… is

ABRT / rhtsupport.conf

2016-02-08 Thread Thomas Leavitt
Abrt prompts me to activate autoreporting (this appeared after an install from 7.0 media and an update to 7.2), and fails... is this a branding issue, or a non-existent functionality issue, or should it work? (see attached screenshot) Thomas -- Thomas Leavitt (tleav...@eag.com) Interim Sr. Linu

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Upgrading SL 7.1 to SL 7.2 - auto update switched back on

2016-02-08 Thread Pat Riehecky
This is an upstream bug: id=1293513 On 02/08/2016 12:02 PM, Tim Kanuka wrote: The effect of installing SL_yum-cron_no_automated_apply_updates and SL_yum-cron_no_default_excludes were *both* undone by the update. As Bill implies, the TUV change of a config file back to the default for the sake

RE: Upgrading SL 7.1 to SL 7.2 - auto update switched back on

2016-02-08 Thread Tim Kanuka
The effect of installing SL_yum-cron_no_automated_apply_updates and SL_yum-cron_no_default_excludes were *both* undone by the update. As Bill implies, the TUV change of a config file back to the default for the sake of a few comment lines seems a bit severe (although, admittedly, those comment l

Troubles updating from 7.1 to 7.2...

2016-02-08 Thread S A
Greetings, I posted a while back about conflicts that came up under 7.1 when the kernel for 7.2 was dropped into the 7.1 security repo. I had issues with VirtualBox kernel modules and dependencies to packages not backported from 7.2 into 7.1. Since that time I had avoided doing kernel updates

Re: Problem with setting permissions in /etc/fstab

2016-02-08 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Bill Maidment wrote: > An update. > I have put the same /etc/fstab entry in another SL7.2 machine and it sets the > permissions correctly on boot. > > On the problem machine I have tried setting the permissions on the directory > to 0770 before rebooting, but some