Re: No DHCP on boot with a fresh install

2013-12-01 Thread John Lauro
If the switches have spanning tree protocol (default for most enterprise grade switches), they probably disable the port for 30-60 seconds to make sure there is no loop, and so loading the network driver may unlink the port long enough for the switch to disable the port again for 30-60 seconds.

Re: Finally figured out what is causing bug 836696

2013-12-09 Thread John Lauro
If you want deterministic assignments, and things do not always start in the same order, you just need to setup rules. http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html and then you can use /dev/sda1, etc... in fstab. - Original Message - > From: "Konstantin Olchanski" > To: "ToddAn

Re: Finally figured out what is causing bug 836696

2013-12-09 Thread John Lauro
To be honest, I tend to dislike udev, and about the only thing I do with them on a regular basis is delete lines in the persistent-net file so I can reclaim eth0... UUID and labels might be better options, but udev should work too. (Assuming you can get the rules figured out). I tend to disli

Re: Finally figured out what is causing bug 836696

2013-12-09 Thread John Lauro
To use LABEL=, e2label /dev/sdb1 backup Then in /etc/fstab instead of having /dev/sdb1, put in LABEL=backup or you can say something like: mount LABLE=backup /backup Looks cleaner then ugly UUID numbers to me, especially if you put a different disk in there each time. It has the advantage of

Re: Finally figured out what is causing bug 836696

2013-12-10 Thread John Lauro
Personally, with a SAN, I just grow the volume/disk instead of adding another disk, which works fine without LVM. With LVM, it's definitely easier if you want multiple disks to look as one. However, if you grow a disk, I find it slightly easier if it's just a regular partition (at least for th

Re: Where I can find the default environment of PATH

2013-12-11 Thread John Lauro
Several programs like login and sshd set default paths. strings /usr/sbin/sshd | grep local/bin strings /bin/login | grep local/bin - Original Message - > From: "Yan Xiaofei" > To: "Scientific Linux Users" > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:08:25 AM > Subject: Where I can find t

Re: Ping Nico: AD?

2014-02-10 Thread John Lauro
The out of date rarely bothers me. If SAMBA (and 98% of other things) isn't new enough, I just build the latest from source... Most things are good enought, and if not then it's normally at most one major package (and it's dependencies) per server that needs to be "newer". Some things can get

Re: SL 6.4 Ethernet Port is dead - maybe

2014-03-07 Thread John Lauro
Did you try a cold boot? I have seen problematic network drivers that work after a cold boot, but fail if you do a warm boot on a box. Have you tried "ethtool eth0"? Does it show link detected? It might be worth trying a live cd of something newer that would more likely support network of new

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

2014-05-02 Thread John Lauro
Any reason not just using heartbeat on the two nodes? (yum install heartbeat) Then setup multiple interfaces between the two servers and let heartbeat bring services up/down as needed, and heartbeat can control which node has the secondary ip address active, etc. - Original Message - >

Re: /dev/zero and flash drives

2014-05-16 Thread John Lauro
That would only wipe one partition, not the entire drive. If you want to erase the entire drive use /dev/sdc (or whatever device). Also, be aware that unlike hard drives, for flash drives it likely does not "erase" the drive. Internally the drive might just mark the sectors as all clear and f

Re: /dev/zero and flash drives

2014-05-16 Thread John Lauro
> So "zero" does not clear the charge? > I always "smack" my old drives with a hammer before tossing them. It depends on the drive. Many probably do.

Re: telnet is too slow in Scientific Linux

2014-05-27 Thread John Lauro
The remote system is probably doing a reverse DNS lookup or some other lookup of the incoming connection. Make sure DNS is configured on the server side, and that there is a reverse address for your client. Another possibility is the remote server is trying to do a ident on the incoming connec

Re: Is Red Hat Upgrade Tool ready to go with 7?

2014-06-12 Thread John Lauro
Keep in mind that fed Up doesn't work in certain situations, such as a software md raid 1 on the boot drive. - Original Message - > From: "Stephen John Smoogen" > To: "ToddAndMargo" > Cc: "Scientific Linux Users" > > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:48:22 AM > Subject: Re: Is Red Hat

Re: RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

2014-06-13 Thread John Lauro
The GPL should keep it (at least the majority if not all packages) from being significantly encumbered. The more significant issue would be getting timely security updates... It would be fine as a "starting point", but not really usable long term... that is why the git stuff has to be bothered w

Re: [SL-Users] Re: Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA

2014-07-07 Thread John Lauro
One thing noticed missing on testing... docker package is missing from SL7. Just downloaded and installed Centos 7, and it has it (via yum). Checking into a little more, it's in the extras repo (default enabled with Centos). Could not find an extras repo on SL7 (no yum config to add it, or an

Re: How do I discover all the MAC address on my Ethernet?

2014-07-27 Thread John Lauro
If you want to get the mac addresses configured as different networks or subnetworks, but on the same phyiscal network the best way would be to query the switches on the network. A couple of common commands for managed Cisco-like switches is show mac address-table or show bridge address-table

Re: Longest LTS - still SL/RHEL?

2014-12-15 Thread John Lauro
You probably should use the November 30, 2020 date instead of the 2023 date for replacement planning purposes. There might be some embedded distros with longer LTS, but I am not aware of any general purpose desktop or server distro with a longer LTS than Redhat EL and distros based off of it.

Re: need release command for find -exec

2015-02-27 Thread John Lauro
find / -type f -print0 | while read -d '' -r file ; do /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 "$file" & done should work... - Original Message - > From: "ToddAndMargo" > To: "Brad Cable" , "Scientific Linux Users" > > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 7:52:03 PM > Subject: Re: need release command

Re: need release command for find -exec

2015-02-27 Thread John Lauro
Oops, I meant... find -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.pdf -print0 | while read -d '' -r file ; do /opt/pdfstudio9/pdfstudio9 "$file" & done but you probably caught that - Original Message - > From: "John Lauro" > To: "ToddAndMargo" > C