No love for firewire?

2007-04-23 Thread Michael Hannon
such an unwanted step-child? Is this just a reflection of the marketplace, or an Intel-suppressing-TI thing, or ...? Also, is there any chance the situation will be different in SL 5? Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problem with rdiff-backup on SL 5.0, i386 systems

2007-06-18 Thread Michael Hannon
Jon Peatfield wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Michael Hannon wrote: Greetings. We're having trouble with the rdiff-backup package on i386 systems with SL 5.0 installed. . . . snip ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/_librsync.so: cannot restore segment prot after

Re: Problem with rdiff-backup on SL 5.0, i386 systems

2007-06-19 Thread Michael Hannon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Michael Hannon wrote: [...] ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/_librsync.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied [...] correct: setting selinux to Permissive mode makes the error go away

gsl, gsl-devel in SL 5.0?

2007-07-13 Thread Michael Hannon
: (not relocatable) Version : 1.8 Vendor: ATrpms.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qi gsl-devel Name: gsl-develRelocations: (not relocatable) Version : 1.8 Vendor: ATrpms.net -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept

The 'U' word

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Hannon
with this. Is anybody using Ubuntu clients with SL servers for instance? Any other words of wisdom on this topic? Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California

External (USB) DVD burner that works with SL?

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Hannon
(positive or negative) about such devices, please let me know. Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California 530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677

Problem with large, RAID file systems in SL 5

2007-08-06 Thread Michael Hannon
Greetings. We've got a new Dell PowerEdge (PE) 2950 server with a Dell MD 1000 external storage array attached. The PE 2950 is running Scientific Linux 5.0 with all patches installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Scientific Linux SL release 5.0 (Boron) [EMAIL

numpy, scipy on SL5?

2007-08-21 Thread Michael Hannon
, blas-devel, lapack, and lapack-devel packages. I guess the problem is to make numpy and scipy look in /usr/lib64, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet. If you have suggestions, please pass 'em along to me. Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannon

xen and the art of computer maintenance

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Hannon
the latest xen kernel (as of yesterday, 2007-10-24), and has been rebooted. Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong here, and/or tell me a better approach? Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics

xpdf in SL 3.0.9?

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Hannon
or workarounds? Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California 530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677

Re: Configuring PXE-boot server in SL 5.0?

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Hannon
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:56:51AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: . . . I'm sure it's covered in detail in the Red Hat documents. They should be part of SL (I've not looked), they _are_ hosted by CentOS and I'm sure by Red Hat. Largely forget Debian. I've use both, I don't think one is

Re: Zimbra on SL 5?

2008-01-17 Thread Michael Hannon
at the moment is just proof (or disproof, as the case may be) of principle. When/if I get this working on the ancient PIII machine in my office, I'll look into virtualizing it. Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept

Re: eSATA PCI card for use with SL?

2008-02-13 Thread Michael Hannon
. - Mike Michael Hannon wrote: Greetings. One of the guys here is trying to spin straw into gold: he's got a PC with a standard PCI expansion bus (i.e., NOT PCI-X or PCIe), and he'd like to hook up an eSATA drive to the computer. It appears that most of the linux support for eSATA devices

Generating PDF via PHP in SL 5.1?

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Hannon
into equilibrium here, but I keep thinking there must be a better way If you've got any cleaner way to deal with PHP/PDF, will you please let me know ASAP? Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics

Re: fsck.ext3 on large file systems?

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Hannon
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 06:56:17AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Michael Hannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. We have a lately had a lot of trouble with relatively large (order of 1TB) file systems mounted on RAID 5 or RAID 6 volumes. The file

Re: fsck.ext3 on large file systems?

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Hannon
. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California 530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677

Web-page editing in SL 5?

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Hannon
. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California 530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677

Re: unclean shutdown recovery

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Hannon
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Re: lockd bug in kernel

2008-08-29 Thread Michael Hannon
this. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California 530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677

Can't manage printers in SL 5.2

2008-09-29 Thread Michael Hannon
'em along. Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California 530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677

Using blue ray for data storage under linux?

2008-10-22 Thread Michael Hannon
(although I guess that for $25 I couldn't get too badly burned). Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California 530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677

RPM for scipy, SL 5.2?

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Hannon
python-numpy.i3861.0.1-1.el5.rf dag Does anybody know of an RPM for scipy? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum --enablerepo=* list | grep -i scipy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL

ext3 file system on sdc rather than sdc1???

2008-12-08 Thread Michael Hannon
. But I was wondering if there might be some way to short-circuit that process, maybe by using dd to copy some information from /dev/sdc to /dev/sdc1. Is this possible? If so, is it risky? Is there a better approach? Thanks. -- Mike -- Michael Hannonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept