On 2013-01-17, at 7:00 PM, Tom Rosmond wrote:
> I am trying to configure my SL 5.5 system for smart card authentication.
> I believe I have installed all the required software packages for
> reading smart cards, but something still seems to be missing. I am
> using a Dell keyboard with a built i
> So with this background, I don't think we will ever see that HTML5 or any
> later standards will replace Java at all. HTML may take advantage of Java
> Applets when the HTML + JavaScript is not powerful enough to solve your task.
To be fair, I can't really think of a Java application that cou
Another option is to install Google Chrome and get more recent versions of
Flash provided for you by Google. As far as I know, Google made an agreement
with Adobe to allow Google to support Flash on linux - I'm willing to be
corrected on this if someone has a source that negates this premise.
In a browser on the machine, go to:
http://localhost:631
To see a CUPS interface. This will allow you to install a printer, if it isn't
already. I am unsure how to get XFCE to recognize that there is a printer,
perhaps the above interface will yield some useful results though.
-Chris
On 2012-
If/when you find out what it is, would you kindly report back to the list what
you find? This has got me really curious now. :D
-Chris
On 2012-11-28, at 5:51 AM, David Fitzgerald
wrote:
> Thank you everyone for all the good ideas. I have class this evening and
> will be able to use your sug
Hello!
Which version of Firefox are you using? I newer version might help reduce
CPU/Mem load. You might also try Google Chrome, there's a linux installer
available - I've found chrome to be slightly better at memory management and a
bit speedier... (Although new versions of firefox may negate
Hello,
Konstantin touched on Cyanogenmod, which I think would be your best bet for
having a more open OS (and ability to interact with CLI I would assume),
however, I don't think it's yet supported for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (see the
list here: http://get.cm/). Perhaps communications with wi
Hi, this page might give you some useful information on what mdstat gives you:
https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Mdstat
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
On 2012-09-18, at 10:25 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:46:34PM -0700, T
Another option is to perform a 'net install - smaller image to download and
only the packages specified for install are downloaded (as far as I understand
it, anyway)
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca<mailto:ctoo...@uvic.ca>
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
On 2012-08-31,
Hi Anne,
For me, it's sendmail that provides that - I found this out by using yum
provides ala:
yum provides /etc/smrsh
chris
On 2012-08-23, at 3:10 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
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> On 23/08/12 10:07, Andrey Y. Shevel wrote:
>>
>> Did you
ought this was a nautilus error but it looks more like there
was an issue on the server than with the client machine.
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
On 2012-07-30, at 5:05 PM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> It looks like one of my SL6.2 m
Hello all,
It looks like one of my SL6.2 machines is not correctly hooking up with dbus -
a user has some bookmarks defined as sftp links, and they are no longer working
after a restart on the weekend.
The error reported is:
"Could not open location 'sftp://@/'
DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.E
On 2012-06-08, at 10:27 PM, Mark Rousell wrote:
> On 26/03/2012 19:33, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>> "no-one received", "online videos", "founders are demonstrating", "preorder
>> now" and "available soon" is the definition of vaporware.
>>
>> One official vendor is:
>> http://www.element14.com/
On 2012-05-19, at 4:09 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2012, Christopher Tooley wrote:
>
>> Dropbox works fantastically with Scientific Linux,
>> and it's been around for a while now.
>
> Which SL and which DropBox implementation are you using ?
[
> Maybe we were given a stunted version to test, but on Google's own OS
> and Mac OSX we had to deliberately drag & drop each file that we wanted
> saved to the local computer for access offline.
I thought I would just verify that, on my Mac OS X (10.7.4) Core 2 Duo Macbook
Pro with Google driv
Thought I would chime in here.
> Also, I didn't mention this because I thought it was obvious, but you
> don't exactly "mount" the Google Drive. Its basically like a
> feature-deprived version of Dropbox with an even worse privacy policy
> that only integrates with Google products. It is absolu
> It isn't clear if you are looking to provide your user with some
> voluntary self-filtering or if your user wants to impose filtering on
> others.
Ah, apologies to everyone! (I was curious about the "political" statement).
It is indeed *self* inflicted. The user is having trouble getting his
Hello All,
I've been requested to whitelist websites for a local user here, apparently the
internet is extremely distracting for work, save for certain sites - has anyone
done something like this before? I know I could put IPs and website addresses
in /etc/hosts, but I don't want to have to fix
On 2012-05-08, at 12:12 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote:
Hi,
I think this is what you're looking for:
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32993
For a bit further clarification for Bob:
Just in case you didn't know, CentOS and Scientific Linux are both based off of
the same open so
On 2012-05-08, at 11:20 PM, vivek chalotra wrote:
> I am installing SLC 5.8 64 bit in HP Pavilion g6 notebook. It has installed
> sucessfully but its giving error in starting the X server.
Vivek, there is an xorg log in which the X server will output any errors
prepended with "(EE)" located at
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 will get used to it.
Christopher Tooley
On 2012-03-26, at 10:08 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:38:31AM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>> http://www.redsleeve.org/
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:18:19AM -0700, Christopher Tooley wrote:
>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/
>
On 2012-03-26, at 8:10 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:38:31AM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>
>> ... similar ARM distro ...
>> http://www.redsleeve.org/
>>
>
> But this is very theoretical as there are no common ARM hardware to run on.
> (links to newegg, please!)
>
Hello all,
I'm sure someone has experience with this:
How do I install packages from CTAN onto a SL5.5 system (for example:
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tcolorbox)? I can't seem to find a CTAN package in yum,
and there's no tlmgr nor mpm on the repos as far as I can tell..? I suppose I
can install
On 2012-02-21, at 11:01 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
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> On 19/02/12 19:57, Kevin Wood wrote:
> Kino has captured the clip and I can see the timeline, but of
> course
>> it is in .kino format. I thought that .mov might be the best bet,
>> but k
fixes it.
That did it!
Started nscd, reinstalled AdobeReader_enu and now it works. What a bizarre
solution. Thank you so much for the help!
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
script and then run the binary, but it then
proceeds to complain at me that I am not starting it up via the script.
Bananas, I tell you!
Well, I spent the better part of an hour attempting to get it working, and will
continue to attempt to get it working, but has anyone experienced this before?
On 2011-11-22, at 5:22 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Christopher Tooley wrote:
>>
>> You might also be able to make a bootable USB stick by using the tool found
>> here:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
>&g
On 2011-11-22, at 3:18 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 04:09:15PM -0600, Connie Sieh wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, SL users - I have constructed an SL6 installer USB disk and it works
>>> but after asking all the questions, right b
Hello!
As far as I know, changing *only* ~smd/public_html to 755 should be sufficient.
Changing your home directory to readable/executable by all is not very private
unless you're on a machine that has only one user. :)
-Chris
On 2011-11-21, at 9:14 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
> Try chan
I have actually upgraded a machine from i686 to x86_64 (different point
releases), but there are a number of files not upgraded that bugger up yum. You
would have to search through a number of /etc/ and /usr/lib/ and /usr/share
files (iirc) that contain various bits regarding the architecture of
d normally. It also
> affects everyone who's logged in, not just me.
>
> Cheers,
> Yi
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
>> I haven't experienced this myself, but I can offer some possible
>> troubleshooting tips :)
>>
>&
I haven't experienced this myself, but I can offer some possible
troubleshooting tips :)
See if it happens in xterm as well. If so, it might have something to do with
your bashrc or bash_profile (if you're using bash, that is, others have
different preference files)
If it doesn't slow down in
Apologies if I've muddied the waters regarding this! Please do not take my
word over Connie's or anyone else on the SL support staff!!
-Chris
On 2011-11-07, at 10:53 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> This was the exact procedure that I requested from the SL support staff
> -- using the bootable install DVD for SL 6 to update a SL 5 system, and
> was told that such a procedure is not recommended and is not supported
> as one of the options pr
> I have been informed that "update" will not work from EL N to EL N+1 for
> major releases, only for minor sub-releases (EL 6.0 to EL 6.1, etc.).
They were probably thinking about the yum update procedure. The DVD/CD update
procedure is definitely available - though perhaps not as nice as a co
# yum search trident
Loaded plugins: kernel-module
=== Matched: trident ===
xorg-x11-drv-trident.i386 : Xorg X11 trident video driver
# yum info xorg-x11-drv-trident
Loaded plugins: kernel-module
Installed Packages
Name : xorg-x11-drv-t
Apologies, forgot to post to the list :P
For optimisation:
I've found that going over the SQL queries and attempting to pare them down a
bit helps a lot. Use "EXPLAIN" and become familiar with it's syntax, it will
tell you how it's doing the queries and you can then optimize. (for instance,
th
On 2011-10-17, at 9:20 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 06:38 AM, Mark Stodola wrote:
> [...]
> Now I have a decision to make: IA-32 SL 6.1 or X86-64 SL 6.1 . The
> processor will support X86-64, but the machine only has 4 Mbyte of RAM
> as delivered (upgradeable to 8 Mbyte -- but this
On 2011-10-09, at 10:38 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> On 10/09/2011 09:56 AM, Andrew Z wrote:
>> Sorry to hear Yasha about the trouble with lappy.
>> May i suggest to look into tablets?
>> Another idea maybe to look at fatwallet, I just saw a few deals for smth
>> around $300 or so.
>> --
>> Sent from
Hello Larry,
This may be something you want to bring up to the Libreoffice mailing list. I
would assume that TUV only packages the software, not modifies it - and they
would definitely have more expertise in their software than the SL mailing list
folks :)
LibreOffice mailing lists: http://ww
VLC is in rpmforge. If you install the rpmforge repo:
yum install rpmforge--release
You should be able to install vlc:
yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install vlc
There is also an adobe repository:
yum install adobe-release
then install the flash plugin:
yum in
L 5.4 to SL 5.7 x86_64.
Upon rebooting, yum would insist I had 386 arch, and the authentication method
I had was failing (it was looking for 64 bit versions of the pam modules and
nss modules).
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
On 2011-09-23, at 4:23 PM, Christoph
6_64 GNU/Linux
[root@ ~]#
-------
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
reads xps.
There is also ghostxps which can apparently convert from xps to pdf format.
(you'll probably have to compile that, but it's easy!)
http://www.ghostscript.com/download/
Christopher Tooley
On 2011-09-15, at 8:52 AM, Stephen Isard wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a way to read Mic
Nevermind, found it on EPEL :)
For some reason I always get that confused with elrepo. -_- I had searched on
elrepo and didn't find it - and assumed that was EPEL, which I *have* used
before...
Sorry for the chaff on the list!
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy
Hello,
Anyone installed ddd on SL6 before? Did you get it from a repo?
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
rt applications - super fast!)
Gnome+do
http://do.davebsd.com/
gnome+do docky:
http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/Docky
Synapse requires zeitgeist though, and I dunno if we have that in SL...
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca<mailto:ctoo...@uvic.ca>
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
On 2011-09-13,
On 2011-09-12, at 12:51 PM, Steve Jahl wrote:
I know I have successfully set up LDAP *and* NFS, because I can log in
remotely with SSH as well as on a terminal. However, when I try to log
>>> in
with GDM or XDM, it will accept my password, black out the screen, and
then
On 2011-09-12, at 12:51 PM, Steve Jahl wrote:
I know I have successfully set up LDAP *and* NFS, because I can log in
remotely with SSH as well as on a terminal. However, when I try to log
>>> in
with GDM or XDM, it will accept my password, black out the screen, and
then
;> -Original Message-
>> From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-
>> scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Christopher
> Tooley
>> Sent: 08 September 2011 17:20
>> To: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@listserv.fnal.gov
>> Subject
there something special about GDM or XDM with regards to LDAP or NFS that I
am unaware of? Shouldn't it just be using the same authorization as SSH or a
terminal login?
Thanks,
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
> On SL5.6 we use VLC.
>
> yum --enablerepo=dag install vlc
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Robert FRANCHISSEUR
Is Dag's repo considered a standard SL repo?
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
Gives me 2 errors, which may be ignored by firefox but most likely not by
thunderbird. - it looks like it's character encoding errors. (perhaps those who
enter the news for that site are using a non-ascii character s
On 2011-09-07, at 4:50 AM, lee wrote:
> E [07/Sep/2011:13:47:35 +0200] [cups-polld 196.21.127.104:631]
If you visit that with a browser from the problem computer, do you get a
403:Forbidden? (i.e. http://196.21.127.104:631)
-Chris
acerts]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
This will add the missing dbs and should work.
This was also on a SL6.1 server.
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
On 2011-09-02, at 2:18 PM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
> Hello all again,
>
> So, looking through the sour
Hello all again,
So, looking through the source of the openldap TLS stuff, I've found where the
message is happening:
http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;a=blob;f=libraries/libldap/tls_m.c;h=c85d322014fa838341f3fefdea9a5f693fadc079;hb=f7a0fc9f8b7fa9cfecd6a075b2867abd149dd0de#l
On 2011-09-01, at 5:29 PM, Bluejay Adametz wrote:
>> When I run the file in the CLI, I get a successful bind and connection to
>> the ldap server - it works as expected.
>>
>> However, when I load the EXACT same code in a browser through apache, I get
>> a "cannot bind" error. Here is some out
ven't a clue how to proceed. I cannot find this anywhere on
google, but maybe my google-fu isn't up to snuff today.
Thanks for any help! If I find a solution on my own I'll reply to this message
for future readers ;)
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
On 2011-08-29, at 9:43 AM, Andreas Petzold wrote:
> On Monday, August 29, 2011 18:11:33 Pablo Cavero wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> By Default this directory have an "700" like permissions.
>>
>> [root@Selene home]# ll
>> total 8
>> drwx--. 4 pablo pablo 4096 Aug 18 14:31 pablo
>>
>> but, inside of th
Oh Wow!
Congrats, and thank you for all the hard work and effort put into Scientific
Linux - You still going to remain part of the mailing list? ;)
-Chris
On 2011-08-24, at 11:40 AM, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hi,
> I have loved all the years that I have been a developer and architect
> for Scien
On 2011-08-18, at 8:41 AM, Pablo Cavero wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a little question, so how to I can disable the auto-update, or Yum
> Update in SL 6.0 ??
>
> Best Regards,
>
> --
> Pablo Cavero
> System Engineer
> +569 8920 9509
As a side note, if you want to disable it because you don't want
ds| Fax: +31 20 6948204
This may be a long shot, but there may be something wrong with your video card.
I've had garbled text on a terminal and it was due to my video card dying for
some reason.
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
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