Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

2016-05-07 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: [ much snipped ] I owe Konstantin an apology. I read things into his directions that were not there, especially concerning customized kernels (which he did not suggest) I still don't like the autoupdate tool because it's not in the main

Re: Strange messages from yum daily updates

2016-05-06 Thread John Pilkington
On 06/05/16 12:31, John Pilkington wrote: On 06/05/16 11:25, Mark Whidby wrote: Hi, I've been getting these for a few days now on 7.1 SL systems: /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron: Update notice SLBA-2015:0563-1 (from sl-security) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping. You should report this

Re: Strange messages from yum daily updates

2016-05-06 Thread Steven Haigh
On 6/05/2016 8:25 PM, Mark Whidby wrote: > Hi, > > I've been getting these for a few days now on 7.1 SL systems: > > /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron: > > Update notice SLBA-2015:0563-1 (from sl-security) is broken, or a bad > duplicate, skipping. > You should report this problem to the owner of

Re: Strange messages from yum daily updates

2016-05-06 Thread John Pilkington
On 06/05/16 11:25, Mark Whidby wrote: Hi, I've been getting these for a few days now on 7.1 SL systems: /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron: Update notice SLBA-2015:0563-1 (from sl-security) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping. You should report this problem to the owner of the sl-security re

Re: Linux on HP consumer laptop

2016-05-05 Thread davefile
Try looking at the ARCH distro https://www.archlinux.org Best Regards, Dave On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 04/04/2016 07:02 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: In this regard, is anyone using Ubuntu LTS in a production...

Re: df checks in check_mk oddity

2016-05-05 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
I'd not export bind mounts. But have you examined your SELinux settings on the NFS server? Nico Kadel-Garcia Email: nka...@gmail.com Sent from iPhone > On May 5, 2016, at 8:22, "Stephen Berg (Contractor)" > wrote: > > Had this problem for quite awhile now, still haven't found a solution. > >

Re: df checks in check_mk oddity

2016-05-05 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
On 05/05/2016 07:57 AM, olli hauer wrote: On 2016-05-05 14:22, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: Had this problem for quite awhile now, still haven't found a solution. We use NFS automounts quite extensively here. Lot's of filesystems that show up (to the user's) as /u/. On the system where t

Re: df checks in check_mk oddity

2016-05-05 Thread olli hauer
On 2016-05-05 14:22, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: > Had this problem for quite awhile now, still haven't found a solution. > > We use NFS automounts quite extensively here. Lot's of filesystems that show > up (to the user's) as /u/. On the system where the filesystem actually > lives it wi

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

2016-05-04 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 09:16:35AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Konstantin Olchanski > >> >> > http://www.triumf.info/wiki/DAQwiki/index.php/SLinstall#Enable_automatic_system_updates_.28CentOS7.29 (on-list reply) A factually incorrect statement has been made

Re: Cisco VPN Client on SL6.7

2016-05-04 Thread prmarino1
Now I would use the strongswan (or whichever swan client was available) ‎client which integrates into network manager.    Original Message   From: Carl Friedberg Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 14:21 To: 'Bluejay Adametz'; 'Mailling list for Scientific Linux users worldwide' Su

RE: Cisco VPN Client on SL6.7

2016-05-04 Thread Carl Friedberg
c-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Bluejay Adametz Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 7:39 AM To: Mailling list for Scientific Linux users worldwide Subject: Re: Cisco VPN Client on SL6.7 > It appears the CiscoVPN client is version 2.5.6005 I

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Security ERRATA Moderate: kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

2016-05-04 Thread olli hauer
On 2016-05-04 19:45, Pat Riehecky wrote: > > > On 05/04/2016 12:39 PM, olli hauer wrote: >> On 2016-05-04 15:31, Pat Riehecky wrote: >>> Synopsis: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement >>> Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:0715-1 >>> Issue Date:2016-05-04 >>> CVE Numbers

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Security ERRATA Moderate: kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

2016-05-04 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 05/04/2016 12:39 PM, olli hauer wrote: On 2016-05-04 15:31, Pat Riehecky wrote: Synopsis: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:0715-1 Issue Date:2016-05-04 CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-5157 CVE-2015-8767 -- ...

Re: Security ERRATA Moderate: kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

2016-05-04 Thread olli hauer
On 2016-05-04 15:31, Pat Riehecky wrote: > Synopsis: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement > Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:0715-1 > Issue Date:2016-05-04 > CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-5157 >CVE-2015-8767 > -- > ... Hi Pat / SL Team, don't know i

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

2016-05-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 12:49:01PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> > Use the much better yum-autoupdate from CERN instead: >> >> > http://www.triumf.info/wiki/DAQwiki/index.php/SLinstall#Enable_automatic_system_updates_.28CentOS7

Re: Cisco VPN Client on SL6.7

2016-05-04 Thread Bluejay Adametz
> It appears the CiscoVPN client is version 2.5.6005 I use the Cisco AnyConnect client version 3.1.06073 on SL 5 and 6 machines without incident. Maybe upgrade? - Bluejay Adametz A theory is always better than an explanation. -- NOTICE:

Re: Cisco VPN Client on SL6.7

2016-05-04 Thread Karel Lang AFD
Hello, this is hard to say, i don't use cisco client, so can't say for sure, but I'd start with a common steps used to solve problems: - try to run the cisco client directly from command line - and observe, if there is any messages displayed there - check /var/log/messages for any possible e

Re: firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-05-03 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2016-04-29 +0200 à (at) 15:51:11 Franchisseur Robert écrivit (wrote): -- > -- Le (On) 2016-04-28 -0500 à (at) 13:25:00 Graham Allan écrivit (wrote): -- > > > After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're > > getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing.

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL6.7: yum complains "6.7/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum"

2016-05-03 Thread Christopher J. Walker
27;ve already done a re-sync and a 'yum clean all', could you please verify the 6.7 metadata? ls -ltr /mirror/linux/scientific/6.7/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/ total 8509 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1181784 Apr 26 23:51 primary.xml.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel69860 Apr 26 23:51 oth

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

2016-05-02 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 12:49:01PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> > Use the much better yum-autoupdate from CERN instead: > >> > http://www.triumf.info/wiki/DAQwiki/index.php/SLinstall#Enable_automatic_system_updates_.28CentOS7.29 > > The directions and tools are also entirely incompatible wi

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

2016-05-01 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:20:13PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> > >> > Use the much better yum-autoupdate from CERN instead: >> > http://www.triumf.info/wiki/DAQwiki/index.php/SLinstall#Enable_automatic_system_updates_.28CentOS7

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

2016-04-30 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:20:13PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > > Use the much better yum-autoupdate from CERN instead: > > http://www.triumf.info/wiki/DAQwiki/index.php/SLinstall#Enable_automatic_system_updates_.28CentOS7.29 > > Sorry, but that thing is a complex nightmare. > Excuse me

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

2016-04-30 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:06:42PM -0500, Pat Riehecky wrote: >> On 04/26/2016 11:59 AM, Dan McDaniel wrote: >> >Is there any way to get yum-cron to read environment variables? There >> >doesn't seem to be anyway in /etc/yum/yum-cron.

Re: firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 01:25:00PM -0500, Graham Allan wrote: > After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, > we're getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing. Ask them if they were visiting any specific web sites at the moment of the crash. Last time we had problems

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

2016-04-29 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:06:42PM -0500, Pat Riehecky wrote: > On 04/26/2016 11:59 AM, Dan McDaniel wrote: > >Is there any way to get yum-cron to read environment variables? There > >doesn't seem to be anyway in /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf. They seem to expect > >you to edit that file on every single s

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread David Sommerseth
On 29/04/16 17:43, Graham Allan wrote: > On 4/29/2016 10:37 AM, Iosif Fettich wrote: >> >> I'll just second Pat: no problem encountered so far, despite heavy use. >> >> Just in case that might make a difference (it did, occasionally, in the >> past): I'm having 16 GiB of memory in my desktop. >> >>

Re: firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/28/2016 11:25 AM, Graham Allan wrote: After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing. I've had people try the obvious things (disable plugins esp. flash, create a new firefox profile, reboot entire workstation) witho

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Graham Allan
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 05:56:12PM +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > > Crashes were seen here, and tracked down to the presence of ffmpeg from a 3rd > party repo, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330898 It looks very likely that's the same cause here. I wonder if this is a firefox

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Apr 29, 2016, at 17:18 , Pat Riehecky wrote: > On 04/28/2016 01:25 PM, Graham Allan wrote: >> After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're >> getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing. >> >> I've had people try the obvious things (disable plugins esp. flash,

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Graham Allan
On 4/29/2016 10:37 AM, Iosif Fettich wrote: I'll just second Pat: no problem encountered so far, despite heavy use. Just in case that might make a difference (it did, occasionally, in the past): I'm having 16 GiB of memory in my desktop. Iosif Fettich Good point; I have a machine with 16GB o

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Graham Allan
On 4/29/2016 10:18 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/28/2016 01:25 PM, Graham Allan wrote: After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing. I've had people try the obvious things (disable plugins esp. flash, create a new fir

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Iosif Fettich
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/28/2016 01:25 PM, Graham Allan wrote: After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing. I've had people try the obvious things (disable plugins esp. flash, create a new fi

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 04/28/2016 01:25 PM, Graham Allan wrote: After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing. I've had people try the obvious things (disable plugins esp. flash, create a new firefox profile, reboot entire workstation) wit

Re: firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2016-04-28 -0500 à (at) 13:25:00 Graham Allan écrivit (wrote): -- > After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're > getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing. > > I've had people try the obvious things (disable plugins esp. flash, > create a new firef

Re: firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 28 April 2016 at 14:25, Graham Allan wrote: > After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're > getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing. > I would see if you can get data on what the crashes are as they may be related to a specific set of features that 45 has t

Re: SSH port forward with firewalld

2016-04-28 Thread Benjamin Lefoul
virsh net-edit hyperspace And replace this line: With this one: Regards, Benjamin Lefoul From: Nico Kadel-Garcia Sent: 28 April 2016 13:49:11 To: Karel Lang AFD Cc: Benjamin Lefoul; scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: SSH port forward with fir

Re: SSH port forward with firewalld

2016-04-28 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Karel Lang AFD wrote: > Hi, > > i see 2 basic ways howto go about this > > firstly, > yes, you can solve this by port-forwarding on the iptables level on the host > machine. > Unfortunately, i dont use firewalld, i use only iptables, so can't say if > your config i

Re: SSH port forward with firewalld

2016-04-28 Thread Karel Lang AFD
Hi, i see 2 basic ways howto go about this firstly, yes, you can solve this by port-forwarding on the iptables level on the host machine. Unfortunately, i dont use firewalld, i use only iptables, so can't say if your config is right or not. But basically if the forwarding firewall rule works

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

2016-04-27 Thread Dan McDaniel
On Wed 27.Apr.16 08:41, Jose Marques wrote: On 26 Apr 2016, at 17:59, Dan McDaniel wrote: Am I missing something simple? A possible work around is to use augeas. Still need to run a command on each host but that is easier than editing a file manually. YMMV. I use it a lot in kickstart scr

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL6.7: yum complains "6.7/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum"

2016-04-27 Thread olli hauer
: [Errno -1] >> Metadata file does not match checksum >> >> I've already done a re-sync and a 'yum clean all', could you please verify >> the 6.7 metadata? >> ... > > The files look right on the system, but I'll rebuild the metadata just to be > safe. Should take about 10m. > > Pat > Now it looks good, -- Thanks, olli

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL6.7: yum complains "6.7/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum"

2016-04-27 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 04/27/2016 01:03 AM, olli hauer wrote: Hi SL Team, it seems the metadata for SL6.7 has some issues. On my 6.7 systems yum complains ... 6.7/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum I've already done a re-sync and a '

Re: Minimal-installation vagrant-box

2016-04-27 Thread Tom H
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 that installs a minimal ve

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

2016-04-27 Thread Jose Marques
> On 26 Apr 2016, at 17:59, Dan McDaniel > wrote: > > Am I missing something simple? A possible work around is to use augeas. Still need to run a command on each host but that is easier than editing a file manually. YMMV. I use it a lot in kickstart scripts. yum install augeas augtool s

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-26 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: As to which minor versions are current, it may be about to get simpler as https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mozilla.com_2d37383433353432352d3...@resource.calendar.google.com suggests that we should see 38.8 esr and 45.1 esr from Mozilla

Re: Split deployment: Fedora desktops, SL servers

2016-04-26 Thread Steven Haigh
built on an older OS without a lot of work. Same questions I posed to Nico. They are in the forwarded message below. Btw, I want to publicly thank Nico for his responses to the list. I've found his responses to be very insightful and helpful. Forwarded Message Subject: Re

Re: yum update of python-smbios

2016-04-26 Thread Dietrich, Stefan
> For systems with Dell management software installed, yum updates are > broken because of an incompatibility in the libsmbios library (see below) > > If I remove the python-smbios, I can "fix" the problem in that updates now > work, but this breaks the Dell management software. If I try to reinst

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

2016-04-26 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 04/26/2016 11:59 AM, Dan McDaniel wrote: Is there any way to get yum-cron to read environment variables? There doesn't seem to be anyway in /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf. They seem to expect you to edit that file on every single system. I want to change the email_from setting because getting 100 ema

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 25 April 2016 at 07:44, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 25/04/16 04:51, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> On 04/24/2016 07:43 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> >> We are currently 38.7.0 ESR. As far as ESR goes, it is on >> 45.0 >> >> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.0esr/ > > Please have a loo

Re: GDM with alternative desktop environments.

2016-04-25 Thread Johan Guldmyr
I'd like to know this too! I use DWM and as a workaround I use slock to manually lock the screen http://tools.suckless.org/slock/ However I haven't gotten it to work with sssd (or passwords not stored in normal local unix storage). I don't think this would work on a larger scale though. //

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-25 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/25/2016 07:32 AM, Graham Allan wrote: I have been waiting to see what will happen here. I thought I saw something which implied RHEL would support ESR 45, but it was very unclear (of course there were other changes like switch to GDK3 which made it sound like it couldn't happen). However I

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-25 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/25/2016 06:44 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: Please have a look at the "What does the Mozilla Firefox ESR life cycle look like?" section in the ESR faq. 38.7.0 is still a release being up-to-date on the Firefox 38 base release. Hi

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-25 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/25/2016 12:45 AM, Jarek Polok wrote: On 04/25/2016 02:32 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird updates anymore. EL Linux is suppose to keep up with security updates but Red Hat obviously picks and chooses: Firefox and Thunderbird ar

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-25 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Jarek Polok wrote: On 04/25/2016 02:32 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird updates anymore. EL Linux is suppose to keep up with security updates but Red Hat obviously picks and chooses: Firefox and Thunderbird

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-25 Thread Graham Allan
I have been waiting to see what will happen here. I thought I saw something which implied RHEL would support ESR 45, but it was very unclear (of course there were other changes like switch to GDK3 which made it sound like it couldn't happen). However I think the two ESR versions overlap for one

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-25 Thread David Sommerseth
On 25/04/16 04:51, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 04/24/2016 07:43 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On Apr 24, 2016 20:32, "ToddAndMargo" >>> > wrote: Hi All, Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird updates anymore. EL

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-25 Thread Jarek Polok
On 04/25/2016 02:32 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird updates anymore. EL Linux is suppose to keep up with security updates but Red Hat obviously picks and chooses: Firefox and Thunderbird are typically left unpatched. That is incorr

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-25 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/24/2016 08:30 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:51 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 04/24/2016 07:43 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On Apr 24, 2016 20:32, "ToddAndMargo" mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote: Hi All, Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-24 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:51 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 04/24/2016 07:43 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On Apr 24, 2016 20:32, "ToddAndMargo" >>> > wrote: Hi All, Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-24 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 04/24/2016 07:43 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On Apr 24, 2016 20:32, "ToddAndMargo" mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote: Hi All, Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird updates anymore. EL Linux is suppose to keep up with security updates but Red Hat obviou

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

2016-04-24 Thread ToddAndMargo
On Apr 24, 2016 20:32, "ToddAndMargo" mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote: Hi All, Seems like SL7 is not keeping up with Firefox and Thunderbird updates anymore. EL Linux is suppose to keep up with security updates but Red Hat obviously picks and chooses: Firefox and Thunderbir

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

2016-04-24 Thread Joseph Areeda
I have the same experience. After patch rebuilding the repo everything works for me using Larry's suggestion of clean all then update. Thanks for the help. Joe On 4/23/16 8:00 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: Forgot to say that one should do a 'yum clean all' and then 'yum update' works. - Larry

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

2016-04-23 Thread P. Larry Nelson
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 th

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

2016-04-23 Thread P. Larry Nelson
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 havin

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

2016-04-23 Thread Pat Riehecky
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 having same problem with 3 of my SL5.x systems. One is 5.1 and two are 5.4

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

2016-04-23 Thread P. Larry Nelson
I am having same problem with 3 of my SL5.x systems. One is 5.1 and two are 5.4. All my other SL 5.x are 5.5 and have had no problems, nor have I seen this problem with any of my SL6.x systems. The problem seems to be with sl-security repo. If I do a 'yum update --disablerepo=sl-security' on th

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

2016-04-23 Thread Joseph Areeda
I see people are having the same problem with some of the version 7 repos. But I don't understand how to figure out which repo is causing the problem. Are people disabling star and enabling one at a time? Thanks, Joe On 4/23/16 1:53 PM, Joseph Areeda wrote: We started getting this error coup

Re: Is there a problem with SL7 security updates repo??

2016-04-22 Thread Christopher J. Walker
On 22/04/16 10:16, Mark Whidby wrote: Hi, Is there a problem? I'm getting this: # yum clean all Loaded plugins: langpacks Cleaning repos: epel sl sl-security Cleaning up everything # cat sl7-security.repo [sl-security] name=Scientific Linux $slreleasever - $basearch - security updates #baseur

Re: Is there a problem with SL7 security updates repo??

2016-04-22 Thread John Pilkington
On 22/04/16 10:16, Mark Whidby wrote: Hi, Is there a problem? I'm getting this: # yum clean all Loaded plugins: langpacks Cleaning repos: epel sl sl-security Cleaning up everything # cat sl7-security.repo [sl-security] name=Scientific Linux $slreleasever - $basearch - security updates #baseur

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL7 DVD creation

2016-04-21 Thread Mark Stodola
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! Now to learn some new tools... -Mark On 04/21/2016 01:39 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote: Hi Mark, We use lorax (in SL) to create the install trees and pungi to create the media (was in EPEL). You can host an SL context on the DVD following: http://ft

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL7 DVD creation

2016-04-21 Thread Pat Riehecky
Hi Mark, We use lorax (in SL) to create the install trees and pungi to create the media (was in EPEL). You can host an SL context on the DVD following: http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7/contexts/#_context_directory_structure You can also use the attached script to build a D

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] libssh in SL 7

2016-04-19 Thread Pat Riehecky
The updated libssh will be published shortly. Not sure why the build scripts didn't take care of it already. Pat On 04/19/2016 12:06 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: Hi, libssh is needed by EPEL's x2goclient. In RHEL 7, it is in the "Extras" channel. In SL 7.1, libssh 0.7.1-1 is available in sl-fast

Re: abiword

2016-04-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/16/2016 02:29 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: I may be in a university environment, but we do not waste time reinventing the wheel for research or research support activities -- and neither does any other viable research group. No insult was intended, incidentally, but you are still in a differ

Re: abiword

2016-04-15 Thread Yasha Karant
On 04/15/2016 12:54 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 04/15/2016 11:48 AM, R P Herrold wrote: as well as a well documented, and solved problem with the buildsystem which EPEL uses (I was perhaps too eliptical yesterday), and thus my dis-interest in re-inventing or re-documenting this wheel ** yet

Re: abiword

2016-04-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/14/2016 03:49 PM, R P Herrold wrote: Lamar -- could you please pull and build SRPMs out of the 'local' path, and confirm that no gremlins have crept in, via a cross-check on your buildsystem? I don't use 'mock' for scratch solves I did not get this done; too many work-related things havin

Re: abiword

2016-04-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/15/2016 11:48 AM, R P Herrold wrote: as well as a well documented, and solved problem with the buildsystem which EPEL uses (I was perhaps too eliptical yesterday), and thus my dis-interest in re-inventing or re-documenting this wheel ** yet again ** -- Russ herrold Thanks for working

Re: abiword

2016-04-15 Thread R P Herrold
gt; become clear. It is also a *solved* problem, in the form of > the 'smock' perl script, which you can find at > https://github.com/richm/scripts/blob/master/smock.pl as well as a well documented, and solved problem with the buildsystem which EPEL uses (I was perhaps too elipti

Re: abiword

2016-04-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/14/2016 03:49 PM, R P Herrold wrote: Lamar -- could you please pull and build SRPMs out of the 'local' path, and confirm that no gremlins have crept in, via a cross-check on your buildsystem? I don't use 'mock' for scratch solves Thanks -- Russ Russ, I'll try to look at it later today. W

Re: abiword

2016-04-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > On 04/14/2016 02:01 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >> >> On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, R P Herrold wrote: >> >>> The content is now at: >>> ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC/abiword/ >>> and will move to: >>> ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirro

Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread Yasha Karant
On 04/14/2016 02:01 PM, R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, R P Herrold wrote: The content is now at: ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC/abiword/ and will move to: ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/abiword/ just got a clean build with RawHide's abiword-3.0.1-4

Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, R P Herrold wrote: > The content is now at: > ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC/abiword/ > and will move to: > ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/abiword/ just got a clean build with RawHide's abiword-3.0.1-4.orc7.src.rpm which I have pushed an

Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread R P Herrold
ry RPMS made from the above .src.rpm > files with the usual acknowledgement (thanking you and your > firm, but no guarantee that anything works and no guarantee > that the binaries will not "destroy" any system upon which > these are installed)? If we do build from your .s

Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread Yasha Karant
t;destroy" any system upon which these are installed)? If we do build from your .src.rpm s and things work, why should others have re-invent the wheel and/or redo the labor? Yasha Karant

Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, R P Herrold wrote: > I have a local solution in a 'scratch build' environment, > yielding: abiword-3.0.1-2.el7.centos.src.rpm. It 'runs' at > soon, soon and now done The content is now at: ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC/abiword/ and will move to:

Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Yasha Karant wrote: > > so, thus, my earlier mention of poking EPEL As the day has passed, I 'poked' the EPEL package database https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/abiword/ and as the link Pat noted earlier in the day says, this starts a countdown clock to sl

Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread Yasha Karant
On 04/14/2016 11:22 AM, R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Yasha Karant wrote: I don't and haven't 'publish' binaries for a long time now, Although you evidently are not a "repo", are you willing to allow others access to the built RPMs (not SRPMs) needed for an executable install of abiw

Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Yasha Karant wrote: > > I don't and haven't 'publish' binaries for a long time now, > Although you evidently are not a "repo", are you willing to > allow others access to the built RPMs (not SRPMs) needed for > an executable install of abiword? The RPMs I have are all > 2.

Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread Yasha Karant
On 04/14/2016 08:28 AM, R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, R P Herrold wrote: I'll poke at it today and with an older abiword-3.0.1-1 spec I have been working with, I get a complete build save for: abiword-3.0.1/plugins/openxml/imp/xp/OXML_LangToScriptConverter.gperf and abiword-3.0.1-1

Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, R P Herrold wrote: > I'll poke at it today and with an older abiword-3.0.1-1 spec I have been working with, I get a complete build save for: abiword-3.0.1/plugins/openxml/imp/xp/OXML_LangToScriptConverter.gperf and abiword-3.0.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64/usr/lib64/girepository-

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] abiword

2016-04-14 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 04/14/2016 09:26 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 04/14/2016 10:08 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/14/2016 12:27 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: Not sure how difficult that will be to get those packages (and the packages the -devel packages depend upon) built. I have a client who is waiting on a CentOS 7-com

Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, R P Herrold wrote: > looks like libasio -- sounds like a task for EPEL devel ML actually I got a build there as well, with only a minimal rpmlint snark /home/herrold/rpmbuild/SRPMS/asio-1.4.8-3.orc7.src.rpm /home/herrold/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/asio-devel-1.4.8-3.orc7.x86_64.r

Re: sci-l-u] Re: abiword

2016-04-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Lamar Owen wrote: > Several of abiword's buildrequires are not in the various EL7 repos. There > aren't very many of them; in attempting to rebuild the FC22 Abiword and > attempting to install the buildreqs I get: > No package aiksaurus-devel available. > No package aiksaurus

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] abiword

2016-04-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/14/2016 10:08 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/14/2016 12:27 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: Not sure how difficult that will be to get those packages (and the packages the -devel packages depend upon) built. I have a client who is waiting on a CentOS 7-compatible Abiword to migrate to CentOS 7 fro

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] abiword

2016-04-14 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 04/14/2016 12:27 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 04/11/2016 07:02 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: Is there any EL7 rpm or other successful build of a recent stable release of abiword? If so, what is URL to download the build including whatever other rpms are required (or a large static image that does not

Re: Samba update killed my servers

2016-04-14 Thread Shane Voss
Anyone else have horrific issues with this update?? For some years we have been relying on using DNS CNAMEs to find our servers. It seems this is effectively the bug that has just been fixed. In simple terms, it seems that you must have a service principal name (SPN) that matches the name of t

Re: Samba update killed my servers

2016-04-14 Thread Matthieu Guionnet
I had a big issue too with the last samba3 updates on SL6. The windows PC has been updated too. Windows users couldn't connect. The system reply that's it couldn't connect to the domain. On the server, I get some messages like this : rpc_server/netlogon/srv_netlog_nt.c:976(_netr_ServerAuthentica

Re: Samba update killed my servers

2016-04-14 Thread Tom H
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 > are excluded). > > This

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Samba update killed my servers

2016-04-14 Thread Jose Marques
> On 13 Apr 2016, at 22:45, ~Stack~ wrote: > > Anyone else have horrific issues with this update?? I notice you've not updated the kernel. Sometimes I've seen selinux updates that depend on a kernel update and stuff won't work until the kernel is also updated. Probably nothing to do with your

Re: abiword

2016-04-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/11/2016 07:02 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: Is there any EL7 rpm or other successful build of a recent stable release of abiword? If so, what is URL to download the build including whatever other rpms are required (or a large static image that does not require any .so components that are not p

Re: Security ERRATA Critical: samba and samba4 on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64

2016-04-13 Thread Glenn Morris
Thanks, it works fine now.

Re: Security ERRATA Critical: samba and samba4 on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64

2016-04-13 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 04/13/2016 10:36 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: Hi, Pat Riehecky wrote: SL7 x86_64 [...] openchange-2.0-10.el7_2.i686.rpm openchange-2.0-10.el7_2.x86_64.rpm openchange-debuginfo-2.0-10.el7_2.i686.rpm openchange-debuginfo-2.0-10.el7_2.x86_64.rpm These ones don't seem to ap

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