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2010-01-04 Thread Bluejay Adametz
@xxx ~]# iptables is not used. - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Phosflink v. To flick a bulb on and off when it burns out. (To fix it?)

Re: apc or tripplite or something else

2010-11-12 Thread Bluejay Adametz
do show up in dbus. I haven't seen any comprehensive software to monitor these UPSs, but then I haven't looked real hard either.          - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. - Wilson Mizner NOTICE: Th

Re: hanging kernel-update on sl5

2010-12-02 Thread Bluejay Adametz
nging? - Bluejay Adametz I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. - Wilson Mizner NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information, or information otherwise protected

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-13 Thread Bluejay Adametz
t i can do to eliminate them? Something like: -A OUTPUT -d nnn.ip.addr.nnn -p all -j REJECT added to your /etc/sysconfig/iptables file and a restart of iptables ought to block access to the specified IP address. But that's just covering up the root cause.

Re: yum update, exclude single files?

2011-03-02 Thread Bluejay Adametz
xorg.conf, I keep a copy off to the side just in case something decides to "work" on it. - Bluejay Adametz There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek proble

SL 6.0 Java plugin

2011-03-09 Thread Bluejay Adametz
eeded. Is this the preferred solution at this time? From reading the bugzilla report, it might be a while before we see a fix from TUV. - Bluejay Adametz Life is complex: it has both real and imaginary parts. NOTICE: This message, inc

Re: nfs kickstart scripts

2011-03-09 Thread Bluejay Adametz
may do what you want. There is a note to this effect on the boot screen, but it's not real obvious. I missed it for a while.          - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 Be careful what you teach You might have to learn it one day.  

SL6 text-installer upgrade

2011-03-11 Thread Bluejay Adametz
about conflicting specifications, and whenever the system booted it'd throw a lot of "operation not supported" from setfilecon on all the /dev files. Very little would even start with SELinux enabled. - Bluejay Adametz C

SL6 livecd and md RAID partitions - danger

2011-03-13 Thread Bluejay Adametz
to speed, and I have one issue yet to work and a couple of minor things to configure. I have another retired box with the same RAID setup and it too, got hosed by the live CD. I'm going to play with this box to see if I can find a way to recover from this. Beware. - Bluejay Ad

Re: SL6 livecd and md RAID partitions - danger

2011-03-13 Thread Bluejay Adametz
d.dm=0 and it still assembled the RAID sets (with the wrong device numbers). >Bluejay, do you see /etc/mdadm.conf, if you boot your system with the LiveCD? Nope, no /etc/mdadm.conf on the CD. Thanks for the suggestions and interest in this. - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P,

Re: gnome desktop with garbled letters and glibc problems

2011-03-14 Thread Bluejay Adametz
d as little blocks. - Bluejay Adametz "First things first -- but not necessarily in that order" - The Doctor NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information, or informat

Ekiga on SL6?

2011-03-30 Thread Bluejay Adametz
believe this isn't as broken as it seems to be and I'll probably slap my forehead when I see what I'm doing wrong, but right now I don't see it and googling all over the place hasn't helped. My thanks for any advice... - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, A

Re: Ekiga on SL6?

2011-03-31 Thread Bluejay Adametz
it some time later". Maybe I'll try building the latest ekiga from sources... - Bluejay Adametz Be led by reason - Greek proverb NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and

Re: repos

2011-04-01 Thread Bluejay Adametz
omething. I can then decide how to proceed, enabling the required repositories. - Bluejay Adametz Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s)

Re: Ekiga on SL6?

2011-04-02 Thread Bluejay Adametz
al problem is something about how it's built in SL/TUV. A tip o' the hat to Eugen over on the Ekiga mailing list for the necessary clues. Now to deal with some network issues...          - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 One bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bu

Re: Sound on SL6

2011-04-03 Thread Bluejay Adametz
-pulseaudio package, so either that or the group will probably pull in a bunch of audio stuff. I'd try that and see what yum picks up for dependencies.          - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 Definition of Hardware: Part of computer system that can be kicked when b

Re: aspell dictionaries

2011-04-07 Thread Bluejay Adametz
re the only ones I see there, but maybe that'll help. - Bluejay Adametz The optimum committee has no members. - Norman Augustine NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s)

SL6: ogg playback in gstreamer/totem/rhythmbox

2011-04-18 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ce to have a real solution for this. - Bluejay Adametz Death is the greatest kick of all. That's why they save it for last. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-19 Thread Bluejay Adametz
erally), then you want ... well, you probably want VMS, but the Next Best Thing in my mind is Linux. And rather than deal with different distributions, I run SL on my workstations and home machines.      - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 Predestination was doomed from

Re: SL6: ogg playback in gstreamer/totem/rhythmbox

2011-04-24 Thread Bluejay Adametz
es. Is anyone else in a position to test this? [yeah, I know, that's what I get for using a "server" OS for my multimedia desktop... just thought I'd say it before someone else does :) :)] - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 If you continue to do Wh

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

2011-04-25 Thread Bluejay Adametz
dig, perl, ... just a whole tool box full o' fun :). - Bluejay Adametz All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the in

Re: Upgrade to SL6 ?

2011-04-25 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ful. There were packages that weren't installed, dependencies were broken, and after sorting out a couple of them I gave up. Caveat sysadmin (what's Latin for "system administrator"? :)) - Bluejay Adametz There was proces

Re: OT: What kinds of Linux use business? (Was: Re: What kins of business use Linux?)

2011-04-27 Thread Bluejay Adametz
Linux where we don't need that support. SL has a slight lead over RedHat for our production systems. Then there are a number of workstations and test machines that are running SL. - Bluejay Adametz "It's bad luck to be

Re: SL6 site/spin building

2011-04-27 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ckage for this to work, and this does require some bandwidth... - Bluejay Adametz "It is practice of the right kind that makes perfect." - Anonymous NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the in

Re: Version of GPL license

2011-05-12 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ing system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. $ - Bluejay Adametz "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to

Re: Disk Space Utilization

2011-06-06 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ID controller volume. I've had luck using the hpacucli-8.50-6.0.noarch.rpm (on SL5) or hpacucli-8.70-8.0.noarch.rpm (on SL6) packages from HP to monitor my HP RAID arrays; this will also show you the configuration. - Bluejay Adametz Noth

Re: usb attached mouse is dying and usbcore is missing

2011-06-21 Thread Bluejay Adametz
in /sys or /proc? - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Flopcorn n. The unpopped kernels at the bottom of the cooker. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information, or information otherwis

Re: usb attached mouse is dying and usbcore is missing

2011-06-21 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ase modules on my own SL 6 system. Do you know differently? - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Burgacide n. When a hamburger commits suicide by jumping onto the coals. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intende

Re: openvz kernel conflicts with yum upgrade (SL6 wants to upgrade kernel from official repo)

2011-07-01 Thread Bluejay Adametz
es, if you have some other repository set up for your kernels. - Bluejay Adametz If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning"

Re: Problems with a cron task under SL6.x

2011-07-25 Thread Bluejay Adametz
se cron for this, so I'm curious why one vs. the other. - Bluejay Adametz Sanity and insanity overlap a fine gray line. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain co

Re: upgrading from SL5 to SL6

2011-07-29 Thread Bluejay Adametz
fresh install, which I've been quite satisfied with.      - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward NOTICE: This message, including any attac

6.1, boot & reset

2011-08-01 Thread Bluejay Adametz
s; the last line I can make out on the screen is something like "waiting"..."hardware" Ideas? - Bluejay Adametz You can't fall off the floor. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the us

Re: 6.1, boot & reset

2011-08-02 Thread Bluejay Adametz
, I end up with a reset. Just for the heck of it, I also tried 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686, with the same (reset) result, as does the debug version of 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.i686. I tried blacklisting my video driver and CDROM drivers (since that's the last thing I can see being detected), also to n

Re: 6.1, boot & reset - worked around

2011-08-03 Thread Bluejay Adametz
he screen capture. I'll try to get time to pull the radeon card and see if it's the combination that's messing it up or something about the i915 driver itself, but for now I'll consider the problem "worked around". Thanks for all the help and suggestions.

Re: migrating disk with SL 6.1 from one machine to another

2011-08-14 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ers. I'm always flummoxing the Windows guys when I say I just have to restore the backup to another machine, using a live CD, and everything works :). I've even got some scripts on that CD so it's almost an automatic disaster-recovery. - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P,

Re: unix command

2011-09-01 Thread Bluejay Adametz
> sorry but could some one tell me what this command will do > > @ variable = ${variable} + 1 Increment (add 1 to) the value in variable. If you're using csh. - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Retrocarbonic n. Any drink machine

Re: unix command

2011-09-01 Thread Bluejay Adametz
> But what " @"  is doing here??? It makes it work. From the man page: The ‘@’ command permits numeric calcu- lations to be performed and the result assigned to a variable. Take a look at: man csh for more detail. - Bl

Re: MozNSS crash in apache?

2011-09-01 Thread Bluejay Adametz
inux boolean httpd_can_network_connect: setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1 I'm no expert on LDAP, but "works interactively, fails under httpd" has lead me in this direction before. Some other booleans may also be involved; look at: getsebool -a | grep http    

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] System hangs on "Starting system logger" during initial boot

2011-09-19 Thread Bluejay Adametz
fast. I was able to catch just enough to get me pointed in the right direction. - Bluejay Adametz Blore's Razor: Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments,

Re: Scientific Linux 6.1 on CD?

2011-10-03 Thread Bluejay Adametz
itiate an installation over the network. - Bluejay Adametz All of our social problems arise out of doing the wrong thing righter. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wr

Re: SL 5.7 Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 SandyBridge

2011-10-17 Thread Bluejay Adametz
memory under SL5.x using the PAE kernel (AIUI all the SL6 kernels are PAE). - Bluejay Adametz The tears of a stranger are only water - Russian proverb NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended rec

Re: output of var/log/messages on the terminal

2011-12-10 Thread Bluejay Adametz
s when the messages log file rolls over. - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 Definition: Snuggage n. The act of retying both shoestrings when only one needed it. NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential

Re: No route to host

2011-12-27 Thread Bluejay Adametz
maybe iptables. If it takes a few seconds, then it's more likely that the machine just isn't responding to the ARP request, because it didn't receive it or it's not listening. - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Nestles n. The

Re: No route to host

2011-12-27 Thread Bluejay Adametz
w it, every time. Are there any routers involved, or are both the home and office machines on the same LAN, in the configuration where you see the failures? - Bluejay Adametz If you don't climb out on the limb, you may never get the fruit

Re: An upstream kernel bug that causes a system crash in SL-6

2012-01-06 Thread Bluejay Adametz
r on the SL > Japanese mailing list [1]. --- >has an overflow. cyc * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu) exceeds 64 bits, causing >the final value to become zero. Is the problem only on 64-bit machines? The one I have at 252 days uptime is 32-bit. - Bl

Re: An upstream kernel bug that causes a system crash in SL-6

2012-01-06 Thread Bluejay Adametz
relevant. The 252-day-uptime machine I have is a VMware virtual machine, so that may explain that. - Bluejay Adametz "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr

Re: Netbackup 7.5 and Relax and Recover

2012-03-16 Thread Bluejay Adametz
from backups. An additional exercise would be to write a script to do all the work so you have a boot & recover disk. Works quite well for us. - Bluejay Adametz "Money talks, but it can't sing and dan

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

2012-04-05 Thread Bluejay Adametz
pens? How's memory look? - Bluejay Adametz Everything bows to success, even grammar. -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged informati

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-09 Thread Bluejay Adametz
for a short-lifetime bleeding-edge distribution like Fedora. They are, however, very good candidates for SL or RHEL.      - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 The best way to escape your problem is to solve it. -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for

Re: wireless not working

2012-05-14 Thread Bluejay Adametz
> 04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n > Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) Looks like this may be helpful: http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod - Bluejay Adametz You manage things; you lead

Re: Please update vsftpd package

2012-06-08 Thread Bluejay Adametz
lacing those systems with things that are shiny and new now, this is deemed quite acceptable. I don't know anything about the original poster's environment or how he's using FTP, but in my experience there situations where it is perfectly acceptable.

Re: kernel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.x86_64 stalled at stage2 during boot

2012-07-06 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ing a video of the screen to catch just where it was failing. - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 A man who sets out to carry a cat by it's tail is about to learn something which will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful. -- NOTICE:

Re: KVM VM's disappeared

2012-07-09 Thread Bluejay Adametz
> Jul 09 11:19:22 Updated: selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-155.el6_3.noarch Easy enough to eliminate SElinux with a setenforce 0 as root. - Bluejay Adametz God is great Beer is good People are strange -- NOTICE: This mess

Re: When will 6.3 released

2012-07-13 Thread Bluejay Adametz
> This is a Virtual machine on Vmware ESXi 5.0, a test box. SL 6.2 did work > fine on the same environment. What version virtual machine and what kind of virtual disk/controller? I haven't fooled with V5 yet, but V4 has a number of options.      - Bluejay Adametz, CFII,

Re: SL to 6.3 release

2012-07-19 Thread Bluejay Adametz
> What I would like to see is a faster release of updates, Faster, better, cheaper... any two are achievable. - Bluejay Adametz If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what about an empty desk? -- NOTICE: This mess

Re: Curious SL not resolve DNS.

2012-08-13 Thread Bluejay Adametz
the hosts: line. - Bluejay Adametz The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information, or inform

Re: SL-compatible webcam recommendations?

2012-09-04 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ostly with GoogleTalk.          - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 You know the great thing about TV? If something important happens anywhere at all in the world, no matter what time of the day or night, you can always change the channel. - Jim Ignatowski -- NOTICE: Th

Re: Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread Bluejay Adametz
> And you ran no update for several months. I don't think that is very safe for > a server. That depends on what the server is doing/being used for. I think we've had that conversation before. - Bluejay Adametz Life must

Re: mt and LTO

2012-10-31 Thread Bluejay Adametz
are is somehow messing things up. I have mt on all my Linux NetBackup servers. - Bluejay Adametz The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- NOTICE: This

Re: SL 6.3 doesn't no network present until user logs in on GUI.

2012-12-09 Thread Bluejay Adametz
x27;s no big loss. Maybe I'm missing removing something, but that seems to work. - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill --

Re: How to get IA-32 compatibility with X86-64

2013-01-23 Thread Bluejay Adametz
nstall both bits with one installation.          - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 We are all stalks sprung from what we bury in ourselves. - A.J.Axline -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may cont

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ontexts will get set properly when it boots. - Bluejay Adametz Definition: Alponium n. (chemical symbol:Ap) Initial blast of odor from a can of dog food. -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privil

Re: New install boot problem -

2013-01-29 Thread Bluejay Adametz
is 0, the second one is 1, third is 2, etc... Same numbering for partitions. - Bluejay Adametz Mind if I smoke? -- Why, are you on fire? -- NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of the intended recipient

Re: darktable

2013-07-02 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ersion 1.0.5-3 from LinuxTech. It works fine, although I haven't scratched the surface of darktable's features.          - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B, http://wildcorvid.org The only fun way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. -- NOTICE: This message, including

Re: Maintain ip locally accessible even interface without connection (cable not plugged)

2013-08-07 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ns get ugly if they can't figure out who they're running on. I think if you edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file and change NM_CONTROLLED to "no" that may get the Network-Manager to leave it alone. - Blue

Re: No DHCP on boot with a fresh install

2013-12-01 Thread Bluejay Adametz
> They said it works if they do "ifup eth0" after the system as > completely booted. Is there anything in the syslog to indicate why the initial/boot-time ifup isn't working? I don't recall any conversation on that...

Re: Finally figured out what is causing bug 836696

2013-12-10 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ts where the storage admins might just say "ok, here's another 100gb 'disk' for you". So, it depends on your environment as much as your preferences. Yeah, it takes some getting used to, but so did electric typewriters :).

Re: movie editor?

2014-03-18 Thread Bluejay Adametz
talled and it works fine. http://www.youtube.com/user/velocorvid for examples has videos (all but the earliest two) I've done with OpenShot. - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B, http://wildcorvid.org Definition: Neonphancy n. A fluorescent light bulb struggling to come to

Re: How do I elevate in a script?

2014-04-30 Thread Bluejay Adametz
, and output a clear error message if it's not met. Sometimes it's possible to "dumb things down" too much. - Bluejay Adametz Matter may be created or destroyed, but it may not be returned without a receipt. -- N

Re: Network question - disable access to an IP without running ifdown ?

2014-05-01 Thread Bluejay Adametz
do the job (I do that sort of thing with a lot of Cisco switches to collect information). Or you might be able to do it through SNMP. - Bluejay Adametz When life gives you lemons, keep them. Hey, I mean, free lemons, right? -- NOTICE

Re: cups without a password?

2015-02-21 Thread Bluejay Adametz
ated a group and added it to the SystemGroup line in /etc/cupsd.conf. Assign the user account(s) membership to that group. - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B, http://wildcorvid.org 186,000 miles/second. It's not just a good idea. It's the LAW! -- NOTICE: This message,

Re: wireless network broken after update to 2.6.32-573 kernel

2015-08-07 Thread Bluejay Adametz
all a new kernel, the previous couple of kernels are still there and bootable from the grub menu. That will help determine if it was, in fact, the kernel, or if something else has changed. If it works, you can then load additional tools.

Re: Cisco VPN Client on SL6.7

2016-05-04 Thread Bluejay Adametz
> It appears the CiscoVPN client is version 2.5.6005 I use the Cisco AnyConnect client version 3.1.06073 on SL 5 and 6 machines without incident. Maybe upgrade? - Bluejay Adametz A theory is always better than an explanation. -- NOT