Missing NetworkManager-pptp package

2011-01-12 Thread Paulo Herrera
Hi everyone, This is my first post. I just installed SL 6 alpha 4. Everything works fine, however I cannot create a new VPN connection because the NetworkManager-pptp package is missing. Do you plan to include this package in future updates? Thanks, Paulo

Re: Missing NetworkManager-pptp package

2011-01-12 Thread Troy Dawson
Paulo Herrera wrote: Hi everyone, This is my first post. I just installed SL 6 alpha 4. Everything works fine, however I cannot create a new VPN connection because the NetworkManager-pptp package is missing. Do you plan to include this package in future updates? Thanks, Paulo For VPN

Re: yum update with '/sbin/restorecon reset' message

2011-01-12 Thread Troy Dawson
g wrote: greetings, while running yum update from command line, i got several messages stating /sbin/restorecon reset. are these something to be of concern, or is this normal? ria, i received no such messages in previous updates. messages: +++ Running Transaction Updating :

Re: yum update with '/sbin/restorecon reset' message

2011-01-12 Thread g
On 01/12/2011 03:49 PM, Troy Dawson wrote: g wrote: snip Updating : java-1.6.0-sun-compat Updating : selinux-policy-targeted /sbin/restorecon reset /etc/cups/interfaces context system_u:object_r:cup t:s0-system_u:object_r:cupsd_interface_t:s0 /sbin/restorecon reset

Re: Missing NetworkManager-pptp package

2011-01-12 Thread Paulo Herrera
Troy, Thanks for your quick reply. My company's VPN uses the PPTP protocol. I saw the NetworkManager-openswan package, but I thought it does not support pptp (maybe, I'm wrong). In other linux distros, I always have to install the pptp-client package (which is available in SL 6) and

unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-12 Thread g
greetings, for some time, i have been noticing network traffic when i open firefox. my 'round to it' finally installed wireshark and i have found that i have data transfers with to sites. #1 - 72.167.239.239 = godaddy.com #2 - 82.103.148.40 = easyspeedy.com i have no firefox add-ons related

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-12 Thread Steven J. Yellin
You can learn enough about iptables to use your firewall for blocking traffic to and from those sites. Maybe you'll then find some image you're used to seeing will vanish. Steven Yellin On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, g wrote: greetings, for some time, i have been noticing network traffic when i

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-12 Thread g
On 01/13/2011 12:46 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: You can learn enough about iptables to use your firewall for blocking traffic to and from those sites. Maybe you'll then find some image you're used to seeing will vanish. i read/studied 4 good books on operations of ipchains and iptables

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-12 Thread Phong Nguyen
Have you tried monitoring network traffic with iftop or netstat to determine what exactly is opening connections to those servers? GoDaddy also is a major SSL certificate authority and Firefox may be verifying a certificate from them. On 12 Jan 2011, at 1737, g wrote: greetings, for some

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens [SOLVED]

2011-01-12 Thread g
On 01/13/2011 01:58 AM, Phong Nguyen wrote: Have you tried monitoring network traffic with iftop or netstat to determine what exactly is opening connections to those servers? GoDaddy also is a major SSL certificate authority and Firefox may be verifying a certificate from them. thank you for

NFS Tuning + Benchmarking on Scientific Linux [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-01-12 Thread LEES, Cooper
Hi All, I am mounting NFS from a Sun (Oracle) x4540 using the following options: plumper.ansto.gov.au:/cesspool/home/home nfs defaults,bg,intr,hard,noacl 0 0 (Have played with noac as well etc.) 1) Is there better options I should use to obtain better performance? (e.g. noac will

Re: NFS Tuning + Benchmarking on Scientific Linux [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-01-12 Thread Steven Timm
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, LEES, Cooper wrote: Hi All, I am mounting NFS from a Sun (Oracle) x4540 using the following options: plumper.ansto.gov.au:/cesspool/home/home nfs defaults,bg,intr,hard,noacl 0 0 (Have played with noac as well etc.) Suggest the book Managing NFS and

RE: NFS Tuning + Benchmarking on Scientific Linux [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-01-12 Thread LEES, Cooper
Thanks Frank, Will give it a whirl. -Original Message- From: Frank Crawford [mailto:frank.crawf...@ac3.com.au] Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 3:31 PM To: LEES, Cooper Cc: scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov; fr...@ac3.com.au Subject: Re: NFS Tuning + Benchmarking on Scientific