On Sun, 13 Dec 2015, Albert wrote:
Dear:
I am a new Scientific user and I've got some naive questions. I would be
appreciated if somebody can give me some advice.
(1) I found there are different iso file from:
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/iso/
If I would like
So we're working along our SL6 and AD Server 2008R2 integration, using SSSD for
authentication and such. We've realized that AD won't allow groups and users to
have the same name. For common software like puppet and quemu that has this
setup, what do you do? Change the program configuration to
WellThe same user should be able to login from multiple clients at the same time so as long as the gids and uids on your file system are consistent across the board that's a non issue.But a word of advice DO NOT PUT THE USERS FOR YOUR SERVICES IN AD OR ANY OTHER LDAP SERVERIts a horrible idea
/network-scripts/ hackery and I agree. But it's good
hackery. As a multi-distro user, I wish that all distributions used
the same hackery...
for real work.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're calling the scripts in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ hackery and I agree. But it's good
hackery. As a multi-distro user, I wish that all distributions used
the same hackery...
Amen. But I wish our favorite upstream vendor would use
this
business
of system and user network connections.
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/part-Networking.html
You've apparently read the document. I'll withdraw the complaint that
there is no way to turn it off. But having to install
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 uninstallable (but I didn't try to do so with GNOME or
another DE
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
?
Enterprise Linux != Server-only Linux.
Workstation users may very well be on a network where the physical
connection is per-user authenticated with something like 802.1x NAC.
This isn't just for wireless. I can think of numerous use cases where
an ethernet-connected workstation should not have
, ...
Complaint rejected.
RTFM the Deployment Guide, section Networking.
It tells you to use nm-connection-editor. It even explains all this business
of system and user network connections.
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/part
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.
No matter that I am in Canada and I need to manage a machine in Japan
hidden behind 25 firewalls. Ping time is 200 ms, ssh
Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
This disables the super-clever extra-useful network manager feature
where it enables networking when a user logs in into the console and
helpfully disables the networking when a user logs out from the console.
Do I grok this aright - you set up an SL workstation
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 01:54:21PM +, Winnie Lacesso wrote:
Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
This disables the super-clever extra-useful network manager feature
where it enables networking when a user logs in into the console and
helpfully disables the networking when a user logs out from
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,
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
On 12/09/2012 07:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
If you look at the /ets/sysconfig/network-scripts maze of twisty
little scripts, all different, you'll see that most of the ifup,
ifdown, and similar executable scripts actually source
/etc/sysconfig/network somewhere in their actual operation.
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 09:53:34AM -0600, Jos? Pablo M?ndez Soto wrote:
I noticed that my virtual machine with GUI, that I built from the
SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Install-DVD.iso, won't reply to pings or open SSH
sessions until a user logs in.
Open network manager - edit connections or run
present until user logs in on GUI.
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 09:53:34AM -0600, Jos? Pablo M?ndez Soto wrote:
I noticed that my virtual machine with GUI, that I built from the
SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Install-DVD.iso, won't reply to pings or open SSH
sessions until a user logs in.
Open network
or open SSH
sessions until a user logs in.
I tried the same on a CentOS 6.2 built similarly, and no matter if there
are users or no users logged in, it always have networking and you can SSH
into it.
Any idea about this difference? Can it be changed in SL so to initiate
connections before a GUI log
-x86_64-2012-08-02-Install-DVD.iso, won't reply to pings or open SSH
sessions until a user logs in.
I tried the same on a CentOS 6.2 built similarly, and no matter if there
are users or no users logged in, it always have networking and you can SSH
into it.
Any idea about this difference? Can
On 9 December 2012 17:05, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote:
2012/12/9 José Pablo Méndez Soto aux...@gmail.com:
I noticed that my virtual machine with GUI, that I built from the
SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Install-DVD.iso, won't reply to pings or open SSH
sessions until a user logs
...@iki.fi wrote:
2012/12/9 José Pablo Méndez Soto aux...@gmail.com:
I noticed that my virtual machine with GUI, that I built from the
SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Install-DVD.iso, won't reply to pings or open
SSH
sessions until a user logs in.
I tried the same on a CentOS 6.2 built
.
I noticed that my virtual machine with GUI, that I built from the
SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Install-DVD.iso, won't reply to pings or open SSH
sessions until a user logs in.
I tried the same on a CentOS 6.2 built similarly, and no matter if there
are users or no users logged in, it always
NetworkManager is *not the friend* of anyone running a server. It's
unfortunately difficult to rip out by the roots,
I've had pretty good luck with a 'yum remove NetworkManager'. The only
thing I've found depending on it has been NetworkManager-gnome, and
that's no big loss. Maybe I'm missing
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Bluejay Adametz blue...@fujifilm.com wrote:
NetworkManager is *not the friend* of anyone running a server. It's
unfortunately difficult to rip out by the roots,
I've had pretty good luck with a 'yum remove NetworkManager'. The only
thing I've found depending on
or just to have a criteria on how they both differ, being RedHat
re-distros.
I noticed that my virtual machine with GUI, that I built from the
SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Install-DVD.iso, won't reply to pings or open SSH
sessions until a user logs in.
I tried the same on a CentOS 6.2 built
until a user logs in.
I tried the same on a CentOS 6.2 built similarly, and no matter if there
are users or no users logged in, it always have networking and you can SSH
into it.
Any idea about this difference? Can it be changed in SL so to initiate
connections before a GUI log in?
On RHEL 6
On 09/14/2012 03:58 AM, Winnie Lacesso wrote:
Server has 16GB RAM 20GB swap; problem is, it's a compute server used by
many. So one user (later mortified remorseful, but) causes grief for
many. And a forced reset is always a concern re: possible filesystem
corruption.
Thank you all very much
On Sep 13, 2012, at 18:59 , Chris Schanzle wrote:
In our experience, if memory is allocated and never touched, it's like you
never allocated it at all (with respect to swap). Allocated but untouched
pages will not be swapped.
Right, but they do count as committed. Thus, once
Greetings,
Several times over past few years I've seen user processes go mad
(programming error) use all RAM, then all swap (as ganglia so vividly
shows), then the box ends up at a kernel panic.
(Server OS is SL5.x 64-bit BTW)
What's puzzling is, shouldn't the OS by default not allow users
Hello Winnie,
On Sep 13, 2012, at 16:01 , Winnie Lacesso wrote:
Several times over past few years I've seen user processes go mad
(programming error) use all RAM, then all swap (as ganglia so vividly
shows), then the box ends up at a kernel panic.
(Server OS is SL5.x 64-bit BTW)
we
On 09/13/2012 10:32 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
Hello Winnie,
On Sep 13, 2012, at 16:01 , Winnie Lacesso wrote:
Several times over past few years I've seen user processes go mad
(programming error) use all RAM, then all swap (as ganglia so vividly
shows), then the box ends up at a kernel
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 04:32:00PM +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
Hello Winnie,
On Sep 13, 2012, at 16:01 , Winnie Lacesso wrote:
Several times over past few years I've seen user processes go mad
(programming error) use all RAM, then all swap (as ganglia so vividly
shows
On 08/23/2012 03:18 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
On 08/18/2012 03:57 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
Hi,
I've been running Scientific Linux since the 6.0 days, and single-user mode
have basically behaved how I have expected it those few times I needed it.
As I usually set up my boxes root accounts
On 08/18/2012 03:57 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
Hi,
I've been running Scientific Linux since the 6.0 days, and single-user
mode have basically behaved how I have expected it those few times I
needed it. As I usually set up my boxes root accounts with passwords
disabled, single-user mode
Hi,
On Aug 23, 2012, at 15:18 , Pat Riehecky riehe...@fnal.gov wrote:
On 08/18/2012 03:57 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
Hi,
I've been running Scientific Linux since the 6.0 days, and single-user mode
have basically behaved how I have expected it those few times I needed it.
As I usually
Hi,
I've been running Scientific Linux since the 6.0 days, and single-user mode
have basically behaved how I have expected it those few times I needed it. As
I usually set up my boxes root accounts with passwords disabled, single-user
mode needs to be without root password.
Today, after
.
is the behaviour not different here.?
The system should boot in single user mode , it does but then it asks for root
password for maintenace.or press Ctrl-D to continue.
i tried typing '1 or s instead of single , but still it prompts for the
password.
my kernel is 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686
Try booting
Hi-
Sorry for such a simple question; couldn't find the answer through search:
How do you launch the Users Groups GUI from the command line?
(I need it for some remote management-- doing what I need to do directly
via the command line is too tedious.)
Thanks,
Wil
Greetings,
I've just started out with Sceintific Linux 6.2
I have a question: how do I register for the scientificlinux.org website (a
link, please)? I can see where to log in, but there's no link there for those
(like me) who need an account.
Another question: Is there a Scientific Linux
Hi Carl,
please go here:
http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=scientific-linux-usersA=1
This is not a wiki but similarly in-line to your search:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/scientific-linux-repos.html
a little deep into yum and rpm
another session of google gave me
http://askubuntu.com/questions/79318/how-can-i-switch-users-from-within-xfce
quote:
Note: The next version of XFCE, 4.10, will include a Switch User button in
the Actions plugin, and deprecate the session
menuhttps://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8358#c1
of google gave me
http://askubuntu.com/questions/79318/how-can-i-switch-users-from-within-xfce
quote:
Note: The next version of XFCE, 4.10, will include a Switch User button
in the Actions plugin, and deprecate the session
menuhttps://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8358#c1
.
Guys haven't
Hello,
how do i add switch user capability to XFCE?
it seemed that in 4.8 (at least ubuntu team) had to add it. But i can't
find any solution for RH.
it seemed that i need to have xfswitch, but found nothing in the regular
repos.
The closest i found is this one -
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux
On 03/03/2012 08:51 PM, Andrew Z wrote:
Hello,
how do i add switch user capability to XFCE?
it seemed that in 4.8 (at least ubuntu team) had to add it. But i
can't find any solution for RH.
it seemed that i need to have xfswitch, but found nothing in the regular
repos.
The closest i found
On 03/04/2012 04:51 AM, Andrew Z wrote:
Hello,
how do i add switch user capability to XFCE?
it seemed that in 4.8 (at least ubuntu team) had to add it. But i can't
find any solution for RH.
it seemed that i need to have xfswitch, but found nothing in the regular
repos.
The closest i
On 21 November 2011 07:28, Dr. Sunil M. Dogra smdo...@gmail.com wrote:
May be a easy question.
I have web-server and now would like to create users so that they have
personal pages like
http://www.myserver.com/~user
Please suggest ?
Not really SL-specific but an Apache httpd question
.
Steven Yellin
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Dr. Sunil M. Dogra wrote:
Hi,
May be a easy question.
I have web-server and now would like to create users so that they have
personal pages like
http://www.myserver.com/~user
Please suggest ?
Thank you
With best Regards
sunil
to create users so that they have
personal pages like
http://www.myserver.com/~user
Please suggest ?
Thank you
With best Regards
sunil
Depending on what it is exactly you have in mind you may also find The
Apache Cookbook by O'Reily to be extremely helpful. it's not a step-by-step
per
wrote:
Hi,
May be a easy question.
I have web-server and now would like to create users so that they have
personal pages like
http://www.myserver.com/~user
Please suggest ?
Thank you
With best Regards
sunil
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
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 changing permissions on the smd directory (and smd/public_html if
necessary) with 'chmod 755 smd', provided you're willing to let
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 changing permissions on the smd directory (and smd/public_html if
necessary) with 'chmod 755 smd', provided you're willing
Hi,
May be a easy question.
I have web-server and now would like to create users so that they have
personal pages like
http://www.myserver.com/~user
Please suggest ?
Thank you
With best Regards
sunil
personal pages like
http://www.myserver.com/~user
Please suggest ?
Thank you
With best Regards
sunil
://www.myserver.com/~user
Please suggest ?
Thank you
With best Regards
sunil
apparently doesn't like some of my users names. Specifically, I
have a user named BJ (real birth name; doesn't stand for anything; yes,
he has heard all the jokes) and another user who prefers to use his
initials as his login name. For a very long time this has worked just
fine with this old LDAP system
On 08/27/2011 12:37 PM, Jan van Eldik wrote:
Sounds very much like
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706860 , which contains
a workaround that we have successfully deployed.
hth, cheers, Jan
I went through and read a bunch of LDAP bugs but I didn't find that one.
Thank you for
majority of my users, this roll out went
smoothly and they love 6.1.
Problem:
LDAP apparently doesn't like some of my users names. Specifically, I
have a user named BJ (real birth name; doesn't stand for anything; yes,
he has heard all the jokes) and another user who prefers to use his
initials
Hi all,
Just wanted to say G'day to fellow SL users. I installed SL6 last night
for the first time ever and was quite impressed. I've been a long time
CentOS / Fedora / Redhat user so I'm quite at home.
Within 6 hours I had recompiled Xen for SL6, and checked out and built a
new kernel
Larry,
Could you elaborate on this. I'm having trouble following what exactly
you are trying to accomplish. If you want to provide a web interface to
a mysql database using php, this is certainly possible. You'll need
apache, php, php-mysql all installed and functioning. If you've written
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 16:31 -0500, Larry Linder wrote:
Have a nice set of html interfaces for humans. Planed to use php scripts
to
insert data into data base. However there is a catch to this scheme the php
is a server side script and will not execute - or at least I couldn't get it
to
On 29/04/10 07:53, vivek chal wrote:
hi all,
i have a user account named globus and i want to give it all the
administrative privileges
What is the command to do it.
As root run 'visudo' and add a line like this:
globus ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
This will give globus the ability
send those lines
under separate cover if necessary.
Also I have never been able to make that feature work
without disabling SELinux altogether.
Steve
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, vivek chal wrote:
hi all,
i have a user account named globus and i want to give it all the
administrative privileges
.
Steve
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Tim Edwards wrote:
On 29/04/10 07:53, vivek chal wrote:
hi all,
i have a user account named globus and i want to give it all the
administrative privileges
What is the command to do it.
As root run 'visudo' and add a line like this:
globus ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD
Well,
Those modules didn't get wireless working...and when I tried
blacklisting ath5k, the mouse stopped working (?). But I realized that
the rpms are for standard madwifi. (I had been asking about a newer
version with some different code that allows using AR5007 chipsets,
madwifi-hal-10.5.6; it
Ibidem wrote:
Hello all,
I've recently started using SL 5.4 (installed from mini-livecd) on my
Aspire One, with kernels 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 (original) and
2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 (updated). Ath5k is functional on the live cd,
halfway working on the old kernel, somewhat better on the updated
kernel;
Hello all,
I've recently started using SL 5.4 (installed from mini-livecd) on my
Aspire One, with kernels 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 (original) and
2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 (updated). Ath5k is functional on the live cd,
halfway working on the old kernel, somewhat better on the updated
kernel; but it comes
Jon Peatfield wrote:
BTW the default reboot/shutdown procedures in el5/sl5 don't give user
processes very long to checkpoint themselves, and I *think* that
networking may have been turned off by the time they get signalled. We
That's too silly for words. How likely is it that users
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, John Summerfield wrote:
Jon Peatfield wrote:
BTW the default reboot/shutdown procedures in el5/sl5 don't give user
processes very long to checkpoint themselves, and I *think* that
networking may have been turned off by the time they get signalled. We
That's too
rebooted into an
updated kernel. User-writing code often check-points, so the actual
calculation time lost is not significant, but calculations in
commercial packages such as Mathematica and Maple are often less good about
check-pointing.
How do people balance the disruption of killing user
Brandon Galbraith wrote:
Or run your services/calculations in a VM on Xen that you can snapshot,
upgrade the host, and then bring the VMs back up. There are some things you
just can't get around (like reboots for core components).
That adds a layer of complexity, where's the benefit? Real or
I'm simply stating that if you use Xen, you can hot migrate the service and
keep it running. If you must update/upgrade services users are using on the
virtual image (Firefox, etc), then yes, Xen is overkill and adds complexity.
In some cases, downtime is unavoidable.
-brandon
On Tue, Jun 16,
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
Or run your services/calculations in a VM on Xen that you can snapshot,
upgrade the host, and then bring the VMs back up. There are some things you
just can't get around (like reboots for core components).
That is worth considering, though
I agree.
In a perfect world, services would be distributed with Xen in VM containers
across separate physical machines to ensure high availability, calculations
would take place using code that intelligently checkpointed (as well as
distributed the work appropriately over a cluster to remove
will be running when they are updated.
Some time later these applications may try to load and run plugins
which have been removed/updated.
Second, I have users with long running calculations (often weeks
or more) which would be interrupted if the machine were rebooted into
an updated kernel. User-writing code
have users with long running calculations (often weeks
or more) which would be interrupted if the machine were rebooted into an
updated kernel. User-writing code often check-points, so the actual
calculation time lost is not significant, but calculations in
commercial packages such as Mathematica
and run plugins
which have been removed/updated.
Second, I have users with long running calculations (often weeks
or more) which would be interrupted if the machine were rebooted into
an updated kernel. User-writing code often check-points, so the actual
calculation time lost is not significant
restart it.
Second, I have users with long running calculations (often weeks
or more) which would be interrupted if the machine were rebooted into an
updated kernel. User-writing code often check-points, so the actual
calculation time lost is not significant, but calculations in
commercial packages
that there's no user:group
mysql:mysql, which is indeed the case on a freshly installed box.
This was the output of `yum install` command:
Installing: mysql-server ### [10/11]
warning: user mysql does not exist - using root
warning: user mysql does not exist - using
### [10/11]
warning: user mysql does not exist - using root
warning: user mysql does not exist - using root
warning: user mysql does not exist - using root
Although this box was converted to LDAP using a custom cfengine setup,
other RPMs (httpd) create their users without
The prefs.js user.js files in the Firefox Profile are where the
printer settings should be stored, just make sure the Firefox clients
are closed when making edits as settings are cached saved upon closing
mozilla apps. There have been many mozilla bugs filed over the years
about persistent
Printing from firefox 3 for us is not reading in
customisations users have made to their printer
settings stored in their $HOME/.cups/lpoptions (or
$HOME/.lpoptions) file. This is not the case for firefox 2.
You can pick the options you desire from the firefox
print dialogue box, but you have to
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Printing from firefox 3 for us is not reading in
customisations users have made to their printer
settings stored in their $HOME/.cups/lpoptions (or
$HOME/.lpoptions) file. This is not the case for firefox 2.
You can pick the options you desire from
Things changed alot with Firefox 3.
You'll probably also notice that it doesn't use the bookmarks.html file
anymore, and a wide variety of things.
I personally don't know where it puts personal printing options. Have
you looked at through the mozilla website yet?
Troy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Le (On) 2008-11-05 -0600 à (at) 15:22:06 Troy Dawson écrivit (wrote): --
Things changed alot with Firefox 3.
You'll probably also notice that it doesn't use the bookmarks.html file
anymore, and a wide variety of things.
I personally don't know where it puts personal printing options.
Beyerle Urs wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hallo,
We have observed a strange problem with the latest firefox update in
SL4 and SL5. If the user has his firefox profile on AFS, he can not
open a New Window (Ctrl+N) in firefox anymore. Even more strange
this does not effect all users
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hallo,
We have observed a strange problem with the latest firefox update in
SL4 and SL5. If the user has his firefox profile on AFS, he can not
open a New Window (Ctrl+N) in firefox anymore. Even more strange
this does not effect all users - it also depends
OK folks, I figured this out
there was one rogue file with a wrong userid
which I missed the first time through.
Thanks
On Dec 12, 2007 10:33 AM, James Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
I just set up a Dell Precision 390 with Scientific Linux 5.0. When
adding an initial user account, I wasn't thinking and used an all
numeric user ID, which Scientific Linux rightly complained might be
confused
Hi,
After a power outage last night, one of my SL 4.5 (x86_64) server
failed to do
cd ~user
however,
cd /home/user
still works fine
Does anyone see problem like this before? I am using autofs via ldap to
mount home directory.
This prevents apache to mount user home directory
(http
Zhi-Wei Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After a power outage last night, one of my SL 4.5 (x86_64) server
failed to do
cd ~user
however,
cd /home/user
still works fine
Any filesystem damage? Any files found in lost+found/ sub
directories?
Does anyone see problem like this before? I am
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