Re: Minimal-installation vagrant-box

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Max Linke wrote: > > I'm looking into creating a vagrant-test image of SL7 so that I can try out > code on my development laptop (the laptop runs fedora). > > Does a minimal vagrant box of SL7 exists or does anyone have a kickstart > file

Re: Samba update killed my servers

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:45 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: > > I am running SL6 on my Samba servers. I am in an environment where I am > required to apply security patches daily. Yum auto updates nearly all > security patches for me every morning (only a few things like the kernel >

Re: MATE on SL 7

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/06/2016 04:11 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Debian has a tradition of chopping packages up. >> >> For Gnome, there's gnome-core and gnome. The former provides a minimal >> Gnome envir

Re: MATE on SL 7

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > From: > > http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 > > MATE is available through the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux > (EPEL) repository, maintained by the Fedora Project. This should work

Re: Virtual Box MS Win 7 guest no NAT issue now understood

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > I have now resolved the cause of the lack of NAT Internet connection > on a Virtual Box MS Win 7 guest. After I installed SL 7.2 on my > wife's new laptop, I restored (via a cp from an external USB hard > drive that held

Re: Linux on HP consumer laptop

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: > On 04/04/2016 07:02 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: >>> >>> In this regard, is anyone using Ubuntu LTS in a production

Re: Linux on HP consumer laptop

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Brandon Vincent wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: >> >> In this regard, is anyone using Ubuntu LTS in a production environment? Is >> it fact both stable and (reasonably) hardened (e.g., not a

Re: Linux on HP consumer laptop

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: > The Ubuntu LTS ("stable" "server" "hardened" "enterprise" distro) > bootable DVD actually works in the consumer HP laptop my wife may have > to use. > > The kernel Ubuntu LTS uses is: > > 4.2.0-35.40~14.04.1 That's

Re: Linux GUI use of a touchpad laptop without physical buttons

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > The typical Linux GUI uses a pointing device with three buttons; the > center button can be emulated on two button pointing devices by > simultaneously depressing both buttons. (Some track balls only have > two buttons

Re: MAC file sharing

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:02 PM, wrote: >> >> Back in the day I use to use neatalk the Linux AFP server but i'm not >> sure Mac OSX still uses AFP. > > Oh, brother. I used to *publish* the hooks to

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > There were two more postings by me with suffix [2] and then [3] pursuant to > the situation with SL7.2 Live on this particular platform, including the > Ubuntu description of the hardware. > > As far as I can tell, all of

Re: How does NetworkManager monitor the connection files?

On Mar 31, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Benjamin Lefoul <benjamin.lef...@nwise.se> wrote: > On Mar 31, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for this. I meant to suggest in my last email that you ask on >> the NM list but pressed "send"

Re: How does NetworkManager monitor the connection files?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Benjamin Lefoul wrote: > > Done with bug 764402: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764402 Thanks for this. I meant to suggest in my last email that you ask on the NM list but pressed "send" too quickly. So the problem's

Re: How does NetworkManager monitor the connection files?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:49 AM, Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote: > On 03/30/2016 05:04 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> I no longer have a wired connection but I remember that NM either doesn't >> have an indicator for wired connections or has a different one. > > It

Re: How does NetworkManager monitor the connection files?

ot@hoptop:~# ls -i a > 9700013 a > > Benjamin Lefoul > > > > From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov > <owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov> on behalf of Tom H > <tomh0...@gmail.com> > Sent: 30 March

Re: How does NetworkManager monitor the connection files?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > I have a related question. I have now inserted an appropriate UTP cable > into the RJ-45 jack on my laptop, I have a green LED (meaning MAC signal) -- > thus I have a 802.3 connection. However, unlike previous

Re: How does NetworkManager monitor the connection files?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Benjamin Lefoul wrote: > > I have set monitor-connection-files=true in my > /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf > > It works fine (in fact, instantly) if I edit > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 with emacs or vi (for

Re: named-chroot issue - AGAIN

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Steven Haigh <net...@crc.id.au> wrote: > On 17/03/2016 9:39 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> You just have to override it in "/etc/systemd/system/". > > Which (as I pointed out on the bug report associated with this issue) is > a comp

Re: Setting hostname

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Nico K

Re: Setting hostname

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> The problem is that the $HOSTNAME for the system isn't published in >> DNS, nor is it the first hostname for a line in /etc/hosts, so the

Re: named-chroot issue - AGAIN

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:17 PM, David Sommerseth <sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote: > On 17/03/16 13:23, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:53 PM, David Sommerseth >> <sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote: >>> >>> Not going to argue t

Re: named-chroot issue - AGAIN

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Bill Maidment wrote: > > Another named update and still the named-chroot.service file has not > been fixed. It is really annoying to have to manually fix it every > time, just to get DNS working after an update. Why is the -t > /var/named/chroot

Re: named-chroot issue - AGAIN

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:53 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > > Not going to argue that this could have been done better, I agree with you > here. On the other hand, maybe *that* is one reason it takes time to get this > issue resolved too? That Red Hat QE is

Re: Setting hostname

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: > > To satisfy my own curiosity I looked on an SL6.7 computer for how > hostname gets set. > > In /etc/init.d/network, which brings networking up and down, are lines > > cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts > .

Re: Problem with setting permissions in /etc/fstab [RESOLVED]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Bill Maidment wrote: > > The issue has been resolved. > I discovered a file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/mimedefang.conf which contained the > following line (among others): > z /var/spool/MD-Quarantine 0750 defang defang - - > > This is obvious used in

Re: two mysteries

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: > On 01/27/2016 07:02 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:41 AM, jdow <j...@earthlink.net> wrote: >>> On 2016-01-26 05:17, Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> IIRC, Yasha's

Re: two mysteries

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:41 AM, jdow <j...@earthlink.net> wrote: > On 2016-01-26 05:17, Tom H wrote: >> >> IIRC, Yasha's issue with 802.11 is that he cannot bridge a wifi NIC (I >> pointed out in Oct/Nov that it's because the kernel prevents it). > >

Re: two mysteries

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:12 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 26/01/16 08:13, Yasha Karant wrote: >> >> As neither VMware player nor VirtualBox seem capable of providing a MS >> Win guest with any form of Internet access to an 802.11 connection from >> the host

Re: FQDM = nala.example.com.example.com

On Sunday, January 20, 2013, Torpey List l...@torpey.org wrote: I may not be a newbie but this problem has me feeling like one. Here is how the hostname is being reported: # hostname nala.example.com # hostname -s nala # hostname -f nala.example.com.example.com # domainname example.com

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

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: NM in F-17/F-18 understands ifcfg files defining bonds, bridges, vlans. I've installed an X-less F-18 and uninstalled NM without a hitch so it's still

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

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 09:19:05PM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Since it's packaged as the default from the upstream vendor

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

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 05:15:58PM -0500, Tom H wrote: I don't use the GUI ... Yes, right. New way of thinking, if you are not using a GUI you are some kind of luddite. Not using a GUI at all on SL or TUV

Re: Desktop Cinnamon

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Larry Linder larry.lin...@micro-controls.com wrote: Has anyone tried to use Cinnamon desktop onto SL. The Desktops on 6.X were unusable from our vantage point and that is why we stalled at 5.8. You cannot use Cinnamon with SL-6 because Cinnamon's a shell for

Re: Desktop Cinnamon

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: Cinnamon is actually a fork of Gnome 3, so you can't really have it in EL6. It's a fork of GNOME-Shell not GNOME 3, like Unity.

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

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: Well, I had expected this behavior for the longest, actually, simply from my long-ago reading of the 'ifup' man page. It's not explicitly stated, but given the two files listed and the wording, it is, to my mind at least,

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

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: You can put NM_MANAGER=no in /etc/sysconfig/network, along with NO_ZEROCONF=yes

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

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2012/12/9 José Pablo Méndez Soto aux...@gmail.com: Hello, I am playing around with SL instead of CentOS so to know which one behaves better

Re: recent kernel and root raid1

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:33 PM, David Sommerseth sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net wrote: On 12/11/12 22:14, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 08:14:41AM -0600, Robert Blair wrote: I have a system that failed to boot after the most recent kernel update. It took a while, but I

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Pat Riehecky riehe...@fnal.gov wrote: On 10/31/2012 09:50 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 31/10/12 10:14, Pat Riehecky wrote: syslinux-4.05-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 is not from SL, I suspect your problem is coming from there. Well where would it

Re: how to resize Windows KVM guest on LVM backend?

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Can anyone please tell me, or direct me to a website with instructions, how to resize

Re: how to resize Windows KVM guest on LVM backend?

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Can anyone please tell me, or direct me to a website with instructions, how to resize a Windows based KVM guest, when the Windows KVM guest is setup on LVM? The host server runs on CentOS 6, with no GUI installed. The

Re: Autofs segfaults on 6.3 - and solution

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 07:00:00AM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 04:28:22PM +0200, Gerhard Schneider wrote: After

Re: Autofs segfaults on 6.3 - and solution

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Sean Murray mur...@tlabs.ac.za wrote: RAID0: LOL. If I suggested using RAID0, even on a simple dev box, I'd either be asked to clear my desk on the spot or my name would rise immediately to #1 on the headcount-reduction list... That is supposed to be RAID1, I

Re: Autofs segfaults on 6.3 - and solution

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 04:28:22PM +0200, Gerhard Schneider wrote: After upgrading to 6.3 we were seeing autofs segfaulting on many machines. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. First busted NIS (no

Re: Using all 3 of pair bonding, tagged VLAN's, and KVM compatible bridges?

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: I've got an SL 6 setup to deal with which I inherited, with hosts that only have two NIC's, need to be on three VLAN's, and need to run KVM virtual servers. 9Actually, they may wind up as our favorite upstream vendor's

Re: Using all 3 of pair bonding, tagged VLAN's, and KVM compatible bridges?

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: I've got an SL 6 setup to deal with which I inherited, with hosts that only have two NIC's, need to be on three VLAN's, and need to run KVM virtual

Re: ntop for EL6

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:02 PM, zxq9 z...@zxq9.com wrote: just sit happily and inactively in /usr/lib/systemd/system. The location of which is (comically) not only against the intent of the FHS (which we don't care about anymore -- paraphrasing LP hisself) but also the original spirit

Re: ntop for EL6

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Volker Fröhlich volke...@gmx.at wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 16:20 -0700, Henrique Junior wrote: I'm already a Fedora packager (not an experient one) and I'd love to put ntop in EPEL (it is in EPEL for EL5). The problem in maintain ntop in EPEL6 is that Fedora

Re: ntop for EL6

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Henrique Junior henrique...@gmail.com wrote: I'm already a Fedora packager (not an experient one) and I'd love to put ntop in EPEL (it is in EPEL for EL5). The problem in maintain ntop

Re: SL giving up on DHCP search

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:40:38PM -0600, Nathan wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:15:24PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: If you're

Re: significance of indicating root partition location in bot process

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:37 AM, anuraag chowdhry eila...@gmail.com wrote: in the following print from grub.conf: title Scientific Linux (2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686 ro root=UUID=8ea0b46d-4a99-4e10 -a40b-6c265ae4a09e what is the

Re: Port puzzle

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On 06/07/12 14:08, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/06/2012 04:06 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Logwatch on my laptop tells me Listed by source hosts: Dropped 30 packets on interface eth0 From 192.168.0.40 - 30 packets to

Re: Port puzzle

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: OK - I had left the defaults, which it does say is random for the outgoing port. I've restarted nfs, now I have to wait until Saturday morning, to see whether tomorrow's log is clean :-) Thanks for all the help -

Re: Install SL out of another linux on a VPS

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Adam Bishop adam.bis...@ja.net wrote: 1) Disable the old OS's swap partition 2) DD the install DVD to the former swap partition I'm going to be *really surpised* if you've got a swap

Re: Policy on SL lifetimes

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:57 PM, P. Larry Nelson lnel...@uiuc.edu wrote: zxq9 wrote on 6/13/2012 12:32 AM: On 06/13/2012 06:44 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: (On this list, are we really required to say TUV instead of ***censored***, as if we were playing a 1984 double-speak live action

Re: SL on ARM

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: Not likely. SL is a rebuild of an upstream vendor's industry class server OS.  If our favorite upstream vendor goes there, then that could happen. But if you look at Fedora as the leading edge of what that vendor plans

Re: Q re: CentOS vs SL Security updates dot releases

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Winnie Lacesso winnie.lace...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: In 2009 I was surprised to learn from this useful+informative SL-User's list, that CentOS does not always release security updates in a timely manner: snip Question: that was in 2009. Does anyone know, is the

Re: kickstart network settings

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote: according to http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6

Re: kickstart network settings

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote: according to http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html in a kickstart file I can use this: network --onboot yes --bootproto dhcp --device bootif

Re: Difference between the various SL6 repos?

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Back to my question:  is there such a matrix?  Has anyone -- paid professional or volunteer -- prepared such a matrix? http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/yum.apt.repo [ It's pretty funny to see apt is in the

Re: SL^ and NFS4 -

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:37 AM, zxq9 z...@zxq9.com wrote: On 05/05/2012 07:26 PM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:48 PM, zxq9z...@zxq9.com  wrote: [root@services sysconfig]# vim nfs MOUNTD_NFS_V1=no MOUNTD_NFS_V2=no MOUNTD_NFS_V3=no I'm not sure whether this is still the case

Re: SL^ and NFS4 -

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:48 PM, zxq9 z...@zxq9.com wrote: [root@services sysconfig]# vim nfs MOUNTD_NFS_V1=no MOUNTD_NFS_V2=no MOUNTD_NFS_V3=no I'm not sure whether this is still the case but you used to need a yes for one of these because nfsv4 needs mountd to export mounts even though

Re: SL^ and NFS4 -

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Tam Nguyen tam8gu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: Can someone suggest a clear instruction for setting up an NSF4 server on SL6.2/64, preferably with an example. I have NFS3

Re: SL^ and NFS4 -

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:39 AM, zxq9 z...@zxq9.com wrote: [root@services etc]# vim exports ###FILE## /mnt/export       192.168.0.0/16(rw,fsid=0,insecure) /mnt/export/home  192.168.0.0/16(rw,nohide,insecure)

Re: change local definitions

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Ivo Daniel Alves ivodaniel.al...@gmail.com wrote: Em 01-05-2012 14:40, Tom H escreveu: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Ivo Daniel Alves ivodaniel.al...@gmail.com  wrote: I'm using Amanda on SL 6.2 to backup several computers including windows workstations

Re: change local definitions

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Ivo Daniel Alves ivodaniel.al...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using Amanda on SL 6.2 to backup several computers including windows workstations. When I do the backups from windows clients, I get some errors when compressing with zip because of special chars that like

Re: network manager questions

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:42 AM, zxq9 z...@zxq9.com wrote: On 04/10/2012 02:22 PM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcianka...@gmail.com  wrote: Bring popcorn. Fedora 17 is getting rid of /bin and /sbin, replacing the directories with symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr

Re: network manager questions

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I write backports for EPEL and Repoforge from Fedora, and use a Fedora test environment to make sure my older packages will be forward compatible. The

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] network manager questions

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 12:03:33PM -0500, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/09/2012 12:02 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: That's right. Nm manager gui or vi. Our way or the highway. So you arrive to a remote location to

Re: network manager questions

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 12:44:42PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: On Monday, April 09, 2012 12:31:39 PM Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 10:40:02AM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: ... and the current

Re: network manager questions

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 03:44:31PM -0400, Tom H wrote: It's RH's right as a distribution to decide to make us choose between vi and nm-connection-editor Well, within limits. Otherwise you have user rebelions, etc

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] network manager questions

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Adrian Sevcenco adrian.sevce...@cern.ch wrote: On 04/09/12 22:36, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 12:03:33PM -0500, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/09/2012 12:02 PM, Konstantin

Re: network manager questions

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Ken Teh t...@anl.gov wrote: TUV needs an option in kickstart to turn off NM for designated cards.  Btw, NM_CONTROLLED=no in ifcfg-eth0 is not sufficient.  When you do this, I lose DNS as well since apparently, NetworkManager usurps dhcp-client's role in this.  

Re: pxeboot kernel problem (additional)

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil wrote: On 03/05/2012 11:04 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: ksdevice=link seems to work for us when reinstalling SL5 systems with SL6. But maybe that's just because we have installed all systems with

Re: pxeboot kernel problem (additional)

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil wrote: On 03/06/2012 06:00 AM, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil  wrote: On 03/05/2012 11:04 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: ksdevice

Re: pxeboot kernel problem (additional)

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil wrote: On 03/06/2012 08:06 AM, William of BHE wrote: Can you post your grub.conf lines? And maybe what kind of NICs you're using? Logs? Why the pxeboot kernel initrd if you're not using pxe? title

Re: pxeboot kernel problem (additional)

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil wrote: On 03/06/2012 12:15 PM, Tom H wrote: IIUC, you're copying the pxe vmlinuz and initrd.img to your remote server's /boot and creating a new grub.conf entry to point to these two files

Re: Degraded array issues with SL 6.1 and SL 6.2

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Bill Maidment b...@maidment.vu wrote: -Original message- From:   Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com Sent:   Thu 23-02-2012 01:12 Subject:        Re: Degraded array issues with SL 6.1 and SL 6.2 To:     SL Users scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov; On Wed, Feb 22

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: On 02/03/2012 02:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:04 PM, jdowj...@earthlink.net  wrote: On 2012/02/01 15:38, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcianka...@gmail.com  wrote: On Wed, Feb 1

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 11:22:39PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1202L=scientific-linux-usersT=0P=243 [With rd_NO_PLYMOUTH ... no ... prompt for the password for the root

Re: upstart

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: I have been looking into the issue of upstart. From: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ Copyright © 2010 Canonical Ltd. Upstart is a trademark of Canonical Ltd. which date indicates that the above list may be obsolete, and

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:04 PM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/02/01 15:38, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcianka...@gmail.com  wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Yasha Karantykar...@csusb.edu  wrote: Back to my primary point:  the bug in accepting

Re: From where does fsck failure prompt root passwd come?

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636628 That bug report is no good as it is filed against Fedora. If you want to see the same bug

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Back to my primary point:  the bug in accepting the root password upon a failed fsck during boot is from TUV and documented (please see a previous

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Tom H wrote: It's not a bug; it's a TUV decision. Requiring the root password for single user mode can be set through /etc/sysconfig/init. There is even a rpm for that called SL_password_for_singleuser . I

Re: missing iptables modules and filters in all SL distributions

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: On 01/27/2012 10:22 AM, SCHAER Frederic wrote: Looking for simple round robin solutions, I tried several times today to use iptables functions without success. The cause is that some targets and some matching

Re: Moving from EL N to EL N+1

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: This is where the one of the major differences between the RPM packaging and the DEB packaging shows itself. Debian (and Debian-derivatives) take

Re: Moving from EL N to EL N+1

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Monday, November 07, 2011 07:00:08 PM you wrote: On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: Yes that is our support stance.  It is NOT supported by either TUV or SL . I remember that thread and

Re: Moving from EL N to EL N+1

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Yasha Karant wrote: On 11/07/2011 09:31 AM, Christopher Tooley wrote: 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,

Re: UEFI

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Thomas Bendler thomas.bend...@gmail.com wrote: Secure boot is simply a design mistake. Instead of giving everyone the opportunity to upload own certificates to the certificate store (like browsers do), they implemented a hard coded list of certificates so that

Re: How to run to launch script when nic interface is up

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin mosga...@vm10124.spb.edu wrote:  On 2011.10.12 at 18:28:02 -0700, jdow wrote next:  Is it possible under SL6.1 to run a script (or insert commands in ifcfg-ethX files) when a nic is up, immediatly after network script runs?? Like for example

Re: How to run to launch script when nic interface is up

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:42 PM, carlopmart carlopm...@gmail.com wrote:  Is it possible under SL6.1 to run a script (or insert commands in ifcfg-ethX files) when a nic is up, immediatly after network script runs?? Like

Re: innovation of micro$oft...

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 2:24 AM, lancebaynes87 lancebayne...@zoho.com wrote: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/09/problems-with-microsoft-security.html It was just an accident, or not, mr. micro$oft? What does this have to do with SL?

Re: Installing SL6 behind a proxy

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Steven Haigh wrote: On 10/09/2011 1:46 AM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, madm...@comsoft.de  wrote: Set up a local mirror. Use *that* as the URL for your installation: the packages are GPG

Re: Installing SL6 behind a proxy

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Steven Haigh net...@crc.id.au wrote: On 10/09/2011 1:46 AM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, madm...@comsoft.de  wrote: Set up a local mirror. Use *that* as the URL

Re: Installing SL6 behind a proxy

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, mad m...@comsoft.de wrote: Set up a local mirror. Use *that* as the URL for your installation: the packages are GPG signed and thus authenticated, which helps I do exactly that. That is the reason why I am so confused. Why is the SL6 installation trying to

Re: Firefx EOL - was Re: need list of firefox4 rpms from fedora people

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk wrote: On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Tom H wrote: The same person has also packaged FF5 and FF6 for EL6 http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/ I don't know for how much longer he's going to be able

Re: need list of firefox4 rpms from fedora people

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: If any of you are still running 64 bit firefox4 from Fedora people on sl6.x, http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/leigh123linux/firefox4/epel-6/x86_64/ (which has been taken down) Have you read

Re: need list of firefox4 rpms from fedora people

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Andrew Z form...@gmail.com wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: If any of you are still running 64 bit firefox4 from Fedora people on sl6.x, http://repos.fedorapeople.org

Re: Network failure on SL 6.1 with a kickstart file

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:13 AM, ~Stack~ i.am.st...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/26/2011 06:57 PM, Tom H wrote: Add --activate to your network line. Done! Thank you very much. This worked! Of course, now that I know what option to look for, I find there is plenty of documentation on the activate

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