Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum error, SL 6.3, file is encrypted or is not a database

Forgot to say that one should do a 'yum clean all' and then 'yum update' works. - Larry P. Larry Nelson wrote on 4/23/16 9:49 PM: Fixed! Thanks Pat! - Larry Pat Riehecky wrote on 4/23/16 5:52 PM: Weird, the only change to the on April 21 was a security errata that was published just like

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum error, SL 6.3, file is encrypted or is not a database

Fixed! Thanks Pat! - Larry Pat Riehecky wrote on 4/23/16 5:52 PM: Weird, the only change to the on April 21 was a security errata that was published just like the rest. I'll rebuild the metadata across the board just to be safe. Pat On 04/23/2016 05:38 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: I am

Re: yum error, SL 6.3, file is encrypted or is not a database

/primary_db | 12 MB 00:06 Error: file is encrypted or is not a database [root@mavraki yum.repos.d]# -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | IT Administrator 457 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo: lnel

Re: RHEL 5/6/7 "rosetta stone"

e right thing with them. Keith -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | IT Administrator 457 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo: lnel...@illinoi

Re: SL 7.1 not installing from DVD on unpartitioned disk

ome installers helpfully tell you the disk size, so you know which one of the identically listed "6tb wdc disk" to use). Aparently the thinking is that presenting users with disk serial numbers will confuse them (and forger about telling them the physical SATA ports or SATA topo

Bizarre bug

correct the situation, but I have no time right now to spend a week on that not knowing it would even work. Comments and suggestions are welcome. - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | IT Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL

Re: Bizarre bug

time. Apparently I didn't figure it out well enough. So, I guess I'll just return to the default order of 'files nis' and forget the whole thing and get some sleep. :-) But it's still a weird bug, which bugs me.. Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | IT Administrator 461 Loomis

Re: Bizarre bug

Hi Stephen, Replies in-line below. Thanks, - Larry On 3/3/15 11:49 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Mar 3, 2015 8:49 AM, P. Larry Nelson lnel...@illinois.edu mailto:lnel...@illinois.edu wrote: I am seeing a bizarre bug where an SL6.x system hangs on either shutdown or reboot

Re: Bizarre bug

:41 PM, Ken Teh wrote: Just out of curiosity, why *do* you switch them around? Are you overriding the password/group/etc, content? My NIS maps only contain content that is local to the cluster. Leaves the system accounts, etc, untouched. On 03/03/2015 01:33 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi Ken

Re: Bizarre bug

that already had comments so it was easier to read. Thanks, - Larry -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | IT Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@illinois.edu

Linux UID/GID issues

into unix - SunOS), I chose 666 for my UID and I've made it follow me everywhere since. Devilishly clever, I thought. :-) There's more. Scroll on down On 03/03/2015 04:44 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 03/03/2015 03:33 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: That used to happen in the old days before system

Re: Security ERRATA Important: openssl on SL5.x i386/x86_64

-devel-0.9.8e-27.el5_10.3.i386.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@illinois.edu| http

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] OpenSSL Vulnerability

486-4208 tel:510%20486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-4204 tel:510%20486-4204 -- Thanks, Jamie Duncan @jamieeduncan -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL

Web server breaks after nss/nspr update

? Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@illinois.edu| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson

Re: Web server breaks after nss/nspr update

Update... Scratch the bit at the end about the [warn] messages in the ssl_error_log. Looking way back into the logs, I get them all the time. So, that's not a clue anymore. - Larry P. Larry Nelson wrote on 12/13/2013 12:09 PM: Wondering if anyone else has seen this... I have a web server

Re: how do I disable background updates?

of yum has this? The web page (above) says the 'history' command was added sometime around the end of 2009. The yum we are currently using (in SL 5.5) is yum-3.2.22-26 with a build date of 04 May 2010 and does *not* have the 'history' command. Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855

Re: how do I disable background updates?

errata updates a day in advance. - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@uiuc.edu| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson

Re: how do I disable background updates?

Hi Todd, On 7/9/12 7:05 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 07/09/2012 04:26 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: On 7/9/12 6:11 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 10 July 2012 00:03, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back ground

Re: Policy on SL lifetimes

contain Redhat in the body of the message, while another 74 contain Red Hat. I don't recall anyone ever getting their typing fingers slapped. Thanks! -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana

Re: How do i change hostname?

, __ __ Please consider investing in a good Linux System administration book. __ __ Regards -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill

Re: questions about how to get access to the files under windows 7 system when using a linux system on VMware

/ws_running_shared_folders.html - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@uiuc.edu| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson

Re: Security ERRATA Moderate: lvm2-cluster,lvm2 for SL5

-2.02.56-8.el5_5.6.i386.rpm x86_64: lvm2-2.02.56-8.el5_5.6.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel

OpenSSL 1.x

. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@uiuc.edu| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson

Re: OpenSSL 1.x

distribution channels. Doug Thanks for the clarification. Maybe a followup email to g...@opensciencegrid.org with that explanation might put some nerves at ease. :-) - Larry On 1/28/2010 11:25 AM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi, I just received a HIGH criticality email from secur

Re: OpenSSL 1.x

Hi Troy, Troy Dawson wrote on 1/28/2010 1:55 PM: P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi, I just received a HIGH criticality email from secur...@opensciencegrid.org stating: Do NOT upgrade to OpenSSL 1.x. The new OpenSSL version breaks the certificate authentication for OSG/VDT. Not having my ear

Yum off after upgrade to 4.8

:off 6:off Bug or feature? Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@uiuc.edu| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson

Re: Yum off after upgrade to 4.8

to chkconfig it on manually. Have seen this happen on several machines. Steve On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi, this is probably a Troy or Connie question, but I've noticed that after upgrading systems installed with SL4.6 to SL4.8, following the HowTo instructions on the SL web

Re: Yum off after upgrade to 4.8

Hi Connie, Connie Sieh wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi Troy, Troy Dawson wrote: Here is the script that yum-conf (not yum) runs on install to turn itself on. /sbin/chkconfig --add yum /sbin/chkconfig yum on /sbin/service yum restart /dev/null If you had previously

Last nite's update

, not getting any more cpu time. Any ideas Troy Connie? Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@uiuc.edu| http

Re: Last nite's update

, and it happened again when I tried yum update a few minutes ago (not long after noon CST) after rebooting an SL5.1 machine. Steven Yellin On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi, Is anyone else seeing last nite's update hang on SL5.1 systems? Near as I can tell, it's hanging on cups-1.3.7-11

Re: Last nite's update

No prob. But I am curious about this 'yum-complete-transaction' command that's mentioned in the 5.x version of the yum man page (not in 4.x) but is not found as a command. Thanks again! - Larry P. Larry Nelson wrote: Troy, Troy Dawson wrote on 11/12/2009 1:18 PM: Back when we originally tried

yum-complete-transaction

' and as far as I can tell, things are ok. - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@uiuc.edu| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson

Re: yum-complete-transaction

Steve, Steven Timm wrote on 11/12/2009 3:03 PM: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, P. Larry Nelson wrote: [snip...] The concerned part: I know I can easily install yum-utils (now that I know about it), but why is it not included in SL, and more importantly is there a possibility that something

SL 4.8 Live CD questions

there that will let one edit ISO images to extract or add files (ISO Master for Linux is one I found, but not tried). Any thoughts on this and/or does anyone have experience editing an ISO image? Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab

Re: SL 4.8 Live CD questions

an own live CD. PS. I use for internet banking an uptodate Linux installation. In my option this is enough secure. P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi all, the following article has convinced me to go the Live CD route when doing online banking. I had been using a squeaky-clean and bare-bones Windows

Re: SL 4.8 Live CD questions

the CERN Howto, has the link you referenced above. Dohp! Dunno how I missed that - obviously I was in a bit of a tunnel vision trying to figure out the initial steps to create a LiveCD. Thanks Urs! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab

latest kernel and CVE-2692

buffer overruns when converting unicode strings sent by server CVE-2009-1389 kernel: r8169: fix crash when large packets are received [snip...] End Original Message -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High

Re: Security ERRATA Important: bind security for SL 4.x on i386/x86_64

.el4_8.4.i386.rpm bind-libs-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4.x86_64.rpm bind-utils-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept

Re: Security ERRATA Important: bind security for SL 4.x on i386/x86_64

. I think that 47 , 46, 45 are done now for x86_64 and all of the i386 ones are not done. You also may need to do a clean all to clean out the yum cache. -Connie Sieh On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Connie, On every SL4.7 system I tried, doing a 'yum update', I'm getting

Re: MP3s on SL4.6

and Gnome. P. Larry Nelson wrote on 6/5/2009 3:59 PM: Hi Troy, Thanks, but no joy. Installed the 2 you mentioned, restarted firefox and same sequence of events occurs - Helix fires up but another box pops up right away saying I need RealPlayer. This doesn't need a reboot does it? Then I tried

Re: CUPS access control

to figure it out. Thanks, - Larry Jon Peatfield wrote on 5/29/2009 3:34 PM: On Fri, 29 May 2009, P. Larry Nelson wrote: I have a CUPS access control question. This relates to cups-1.3.7-8.el5_3.4 on a SL 5.1 system fully patched. This also relates to using CUPS as a printer server where all my other

CUPS access control

anymore? Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@uiuc.edu| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson

Re: NFS default protocol change

Hi Stephan, Stephan Wiesand wrote on 2/27/2009 2:00 AM: Hi Larry, On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi Connie, Connie Sieh wrote on 2/26/2009 2:00 PM: [snip...] My main question is, lacking any explicit protocol designation in the fstab, how can one tell which protocol

NFS default protocol change

transmission, the client will hang and filesystems will need to be unmounted and remounted. So it would seem UDP is better, at least in our case. Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St

Re: NFS default protocol change

been explicitly entered in the fstab. Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@uiuc.edu| http://www.roadkill.com

Re: NFS default protocol change

Hi Miles, Miles O'Neal wrote on 2/26/2009 2:04 PM: P. Larry Nelson said... ... |I am currently going thru and adding udp to all the SL4.7 clients' fstab |entries so they will use UDP rather than TCP. | |My main question is, lacking any explicit protocol designation in the fstab, |how can one

lam-lib cleanup error

failed due to something wrong on my system An 'rpm -qa | grep lam' yields: lam-7.1.2-15.el4 lam-libs-7.1.2-8 lam-libs-7.1.2-15.el4 - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL

Upgrade question

the lonnng rpm command would do? Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.roadkill.com

Recent openssh problem

others are experiencing the same problem or maybe Troy/Connie have a thought or fix. Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:[EMAIL

hugemem

vs. fine running? Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson

Grub question

in grub.conf? Does anything have to be done after that so grub is aware, like one had to do with the old lilo.conf, i.e., run lilo after any changes that were made? Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy

Re: Grub question

Jan Kundrát wrote on 4/18/2008 10:52 AM: P. Larry Nelson wrote: Here's what I assume to be a simple grub question OT: please don't click reply when you have a question that isn't realted to previous message, it breaks message threading. Really!! How bizarre! I changed the subject so

SL 4.4 systems upgraded to SL 4.6

' ?? - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson

Re: SL 4.4 systems upgraded to SL 4.6

' ? Thanks! - Larry Troy Dawson wrote on 3/14/2008 1:23 PM: P. Larry Nelson wrote: Looking thru my yum email logs today, I noticed that ten of my SL 4.4 systems (I have some 40 SL 4.4 systems - servers of one form or another - all nearly identical installations) had big updates to the tune

XFS file system

bits incorporated in the SL44 kernel? If so, how does one enable it? If not, how does one go about enabling an xfs filesystem? Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL