RPM for Hydra is now on EPEL
Hi All, On my prompting, our intrepid heroes over at EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) have starting supporting RPMs for Hydra. Yipee! (Now to figure out how to use it.) --- Comment #3 from Fedora Update System --- hydra-7.5-1.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hydra-7.5-1.el6 -T -- ~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~
Re: RPM for Hydra is now on EPEL
Hi All, On my prompting, our intrepid heroes over at EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) have starting supporting RPMs for Hydra. Yipee! (Now to figure out how to use it.) --- Comment #3 from Fedora Update System --- hydra-7.5-1.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.__org/updates/hydra-7.5-1.el6 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hydra-7.5-1.el6 -T -- ~~__ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~__ On 09/18/2013 09:57 AM, Taylor Woods wrote: Wow that's awesome! Sent from the Samsung Galaxy S4 of Taylor Woods On Sep 18, 2013 12:54 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: :-) Now for an RPM of Metasploit! https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1008778 -T
How do I change my eMail address?
Hi All, I have been looking around the http://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/scientific-linux-users.html to no avail trying to figure out how to change my eMail address. Maybe I am blind. Anyone have any tips? Many thanks, -T
RPM for THC Hydra
Anyone know of an RPM for THC Hydra? pbone and google draw a blank http://sectools.org/tool/hydra/ Many thanks, -T
Re: RPM for THC Hydra
On 09/16/2013 04:10 AM, Taylor Woods wrote: There is tutorial for this not sure there is one in rpm. Www.Thc.Org http://Www.Thc.Org Sent from the Samsung Galaxy S4 of Taylor Woods On Sep 16, 2013 2:50 AM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know of an RPM for THC Hydra? pbone and google draw a blank http://sectools.org/tool/__hydra/ http://sectools.org/tool/hydra/ Many thanks, -T Found an FC19 SRPM: # rpmbuild --rebuild hydra-7.5-1.fc19.src.rpm Installing hydra-7.5-1.fc19.src.rpm error: Failed build dependencies: apr-devel is needed by hydra-7.5-1.el6.x86_64 libssh-devel is needed by hydra-7.5-1.el6.x86_64 libidn-devel is needed by hydra-7.5-1.el6.x86_64 subversion-devel is needed by hydra-7.5-1.el6.x86_64 postgresql-devel is needed by hydra-7.5-1.el6.x86_64 pcre-devel is needed by hydra-7.5-1.el6.x86_64 firebird-devel is needed by hydra-7.5-1.el6.x86_64 mysql-devel is needed by hydra-7.5-1.el6.x86_64 # yum --skip-broken --enablerepo=* --setopt=protected_multilib=false install apr-devel libssh-devel libidn-devel subversion-devel postgresql-devel pcre-devel firebird-devel mysql-devel After all that nonsense: Made me two RPMs: hydra-7.5-1.el6.x86_64.rpm hydra-frontend-7.5-1.el6.x86_64.rpm haven't installed them yet. -T
Re: slow loading browser homepage
On 09/14/2013 05:34 PM, Tom Rosmond wrote: T. No luck. Making your suggested changes didn't solve the problem. I think it is because for some reason 'resolv.conf' didn't recreate, even after a reboot. So without it there was no nameservice and nothing worked. I forgot to tell yo to restart your netowrking daemon. Sorry. I put the original back in place and that restored nameservice, but at the original slowdown. I assume this is because of the DNS mismatch between 'ifcfg-eth0' and 'resolv.conf'? I tried putting the Google DNS values in 'resolv.conf' and restarting 'eth0', and now the file was recreated, but with my own router and ISP nameservice addresses. The 'dhclient' deamon seems to insist on that. This problem is not unique to me. I see similar threads in various Linux forums (Ubuntu, Redhat, etc) complaining about slow nameservice compared to Windows. And no clear resolution of the problem. You have probably gone a far as you can go.
Re: Anyone know of a best ISO VM for security testing?
On 09/13/2013 04:03 AM, Taylor Woods wrote: So he wants to simulate an infection and work a solution I gather, there are quite a few Linux based programs you just have to look to see which suits your exact need. And most pof the links to them are stale. But this one is still working: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbe-distro/ And, oh man does it stink! Perfect for testing! Wish I could get one for Windows too, but ... -T
Anyone know of a best ISO VM for security testing?
Hi All, I am getting tooled up to do some Penitration Testing for PCI compliance (Ethical Hacking). Refernce: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/infosupp_11_3_penetration_testing.pdf There is a VM Ware virtual machine out there that is a deliberte security nightmare to practice with. Problem: I use KVM and Spice, not VM Ware. And I run Live CD through KVM. Anyone know of a similar Live CD or KVM machine that is deliberately a security nightmare to practice with? Many thanks, -T -- ~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~
Re: Anyone know of a best ISO VM for security testing?
On 09/11/2013 10:44 AM, Taylor Woods wrote: I have tried SBEr1 it wasnt a walk in the park, it made me second think abiut doing it. Hi Taylor, Thank you, Do you have a reference to this? Google gives me a bunch of unrelated clutter. -T Taylor Sent from the Samsung Galaxy S4 of Taylor Woods On Sep 11, 2013 1:03 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am getting tooled up to do some Penitration Testing for PCI compliance (Ethical Hacking). Refernce: https://www.__pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/__infosupp_11_3_penetration___testing.pdf https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/infosupp_11_3_penetration_testing.pdf There is a VM Ware virtual machine out there that is a deliberte security nightmare to practice with. Problem: I use KVM and Spice, not VM Ware. And I run Live CD through KVM. Anyone know of a similar Live CD or KVM machine that is deliberately a security nightmare to practice with? Many thanks, -T -- ~~__ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~__
Re: Anyone know of a best ISO VM for security testing?
On 09/11/2013 02:58 PM, Elias Persson wrote: On 2013-09-11 20:37, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 09/11/2013 10:44 AM, Taylor Woods wrote: I have tried SBEr1 it wasnt a walk in the park, it made me second think abiut doing it. Hi Taylor, Thank you, Do you have a reference to this? Google gives me a bunch of unrelated clutter. -T I suspect this is what's being referred to: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbe-distro/ (google sber1 linux) At a glance, seems like the opposite of what you're looking for. Backtrack might be appropriate, but seems more like the tool you'd use to punch holes than the thing to perforate. If you have that VM Ware image (or know where to get it), why not use it? (not a rhetorical question.) (for more info, if needed, google convert vmware kvm) It is the opposite. I am looking for one that is deliberately messed up. If I can ever find that vmware iso again, I will use your convert string. Thank you! -T
Re: Anyone know of a best ISO VM for security testing?
On 09/11/2013 02:58 PM, Elias Persson wrote: On 2013-09-11 20:37, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 09/11/2013 10:44 AM, Taylor Woods wrote: I have tried SBEr1 it wasnt a walk in the park, it made me second think abiut doing it. Hi Taylor, Thank you, Do you have a reference to this? Google gives me a bunch of unrelated clutter. -T I suspect this is what's being referred to: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbe-distro/ (google sber1 linux) At a glance, seems like the opposite of what you're looking for. Backtrack might be appropriate, but seems more like the tool you'd use to punch holes than the thing to perforate. If you have that VM Ware image (or know where to get it), why not use it? (not a rhetorical question.) (for more info, if needed, google convert vmware kvm) Finally found this great article: http://lwn.net/Articles/437221/
Re: Anyone know of a best ISO VM for security testing?
On 09/11/2013 02:58 PM, Elias Persson wrote: On 2013-09-11 20:37, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 09/11/2013 10:44 AM, Taylor Woods wrote: I have tried SBEr1 it wasnt a walk in the park, it made me second think abiut doing it. Hi Taylor, Thank you, Do you have a reference to this? Google gives me a bunch of unrelated clutter. -T I suspect this is what's being referred to: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbe-distro/ (google sber1 linux) At a glance, seems like the opposite of what you're looking for. Backtrack might be appropriate, but seems more like the tool you'd use to punch holes than the thing to perforate. If you have that VM Ware image (or know where to get it), why not use it? (not a rhetorical question.) (for more info, if needed, google convert vmware kvm) I am downloading this one: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/sfnet_virtualhacking/downloads/os/dvl/DVL_1.5_Infectious_Disease.iso/
Any rumors on rhel 7?
Hi All, I just got a bug update: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988732 that targets RHEL 7. Is 7 in beta? Any target date to the general release? Red Hat's web site is still saying 6 is it. Many thanks, -T
Re: KVM live snapshotting
On 07/18/2013 03:50 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 18/07/13 21:19, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 07/18/2013 01:34 AM, Steve Hill wrote: On 18.07.13 00:54, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Start by updating to SL 6.4 with all the KVM updates? KVM is interesting, but not mature, so any more difficult operations such as snapshotting are likely to benefit from using the latest releases. I've tried that - no change. Although as far as I can tell the qemu-kvm in the SL 6.2 security updates (which I was originally running) is the same version that is shipped in 6.4, so wasn't upgraded. As mentioned, I've not found any especially good documentation online specifically referring to Scientific Linux / RHEL, etc. But something I did find suggested that RHEL doesn't support live snapshotting but RHEV does. I don't know how accurate this is or how it relates to Scientific Linux though. Hi Steve, You can try asking the developers directly over at Spice-devel mailing list spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel No offence, but maybe sending people to the right place is a good idea. SPICE is related to both KVM and QEMU, but it's still not the same thing. Same same but different, kind of. So may I recommend one of these lists instead? * KVM mailing lists and IRC channels http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Lists%2C_IRC * QEMU mailing lists http://wiki.qemu.org/MailingLists They take questions from the general public. (They can get cranky though.) Yeah, I can understand that though ... asking about things in the wrong list can also cause such issues. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth Hi David, Ooops. I am on both KVM's and Spice's lists and copies and pasted the wrong group. I though I saw what I saw. Thank you for sending Steve the correct links. -T -T
Fwd: Re: vlc-2.0.7
Hi brother, you disabled many codecs while configuring the vlc... --disable-avcodec --disable-swscale --disable-postproc avc codec are most important with postprocessing filters.. these thing are also disabled.. try torebuilding the same without disabling such options On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/11/2013 05:49 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: Under X86-64 SL6x, I have successfully built vlc-2.0.7 from source with the configure command: ./configure --disable-lua --disable-mad --disable-avcodec --disable-swscale --disable-postproc --disable-a52 the resulting vlc does run , but cannot open many types of files, including files of extension webm Does anyone know either which RPMs or which files/libraries that need to built from source will address the above shortcomings, irrespective of the geographical location from which these must be downloaded? Yasha Karant Hi Yasha, I just use the RPM from atrpms and the following script. First time through, change upgrade to install. -T #!/bin/bash Cmd=yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=atrpms* upgrade vlc echo $Cmd su root -c $Cmd -- Thanks Regards, Pritam Khedekar | Sr. Engineer - Technical, Vistaas Digital Media Pvt. Ltd. | Mumbai Tel: + 91 90 22 25 54 20 Web: www.vistaas.com http://www.vistaas.com/ | www.divineindia.com http://www.divineindia.com/ - Note: This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of authorized persons. If you are not an intended recipient, or have received the message in error, you are not authorized to read, copy, disseminate, distribute or use the Electronic Mail or any attachment in any way. Please notify the sender by return E-Mail or over the telephone and delete this e-mail. The sender endeavors to exclude viruses from all communications, but it remains the obligation of the recipient to check any mail attachments for viruses. *~~ *Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.* ~~*
Re: LO destroyed envelopes
On 06/25/2013 10:40 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 06/25/2013 12:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, Can you guys tell if this is finger pointing or if this really is not a Libre Office problem? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42327 Many thanks, -T Having had my fair share of odd behavior with CUPS, I would lean toward that as the culprit. There are several different filters that get used depending on the mime type provided. For instance, on SL 5, texttopaps did very bad things, causing me to force texttops for text/plain processing. Some of these filters have been known to double-rotate, which might be what you are experiencing. It might also be worth skimming through the ppd for the printer to see if the paper definitions or orientation are wrong. If the ppd contains a page orientation, and the program specifies a rotation, this can also lead to incorrect orientation. -Mark One of the guys on LO's bug reporter gave me a work around: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42327#c23 It does look like this is a CUPS issue. Lets hope Red Hat decided the roll out the patch that already works in Fedora. -T
LO destroyed envelopes
Hi All, Can you guys tell if this is finger pointing or if this really is not a Libre Office problem? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42327 Many thanks, -T
Re: LO destroyed envelopes
On 06/25/2013 10:40 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 06/25/2013 12:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, Can you guys tell if this is finger pointing or if this really is not a Libre Office problem? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42327 Many thanks, -T Having had my fair share of odd behavior with CUPS, I would lean toward that as the culprit. There are several different filters that get used depending on the mime type provided. For instance, on SL 5, texttopaps did very bad things, causing me to force texttops for text/plain processing. Some of these filters have been known to double-rotate, which might be what you are experiencing. It might also be worth skimming through the ppd for the printer to see if the paper definitions or orientation are wrong. If the ppd contains a page orientation, and the program specifies a rotation, this can also lead to incorrect orientation. -Mark Hi Mark, The frustrating thing is that I have no problems printing from anything else. I can print an envelope just fine from Wine/Word Pro, which also uses CUPS. Other programs, portrait or landscape, print just as it is told. Anyway, I opened up the following with Red Hat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977976 Maybe, someday, I will be able to print an envelope through LO. Thank you for your response. -T
Replacement for Acrobat Professional?
Anyone know of a Linux replacement for Acrobat Professional? I need to be able to create and edit fill in forms. Many thanks, -T
Re: Replacement for Acrobat Professional?
Original message From: Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com Date: 06/11/2013 12:45 AM (GMT-05:00) To: Scientific Linux Users SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@listserv.fnal.gov Subject: Replacement for Acrobat Professional? Anyone know of a Linux replacement for Acrobat Professional? I need to be able to create and edit fill in forms. Many thanks, -T On 06/10/2013 09:49 PM, Taylor Woods wrote: Pdf Sign Seal have also used CutPDF also. Thank you. I will look at it. Sent via from the Samsung Galaxy Note® II of Taylor Woods The clear choice to fill the smartphone void is a Andriod Be careful not to answer any root prompts on your Andriod! http://www.technewsdaily.com/18290-super-android-trojan.html
Re: Replacement for Acrobat Professional?
On 06/10/2013 09:49 PM, Taylor Woods wrote: Pdf Sign Seal have also used CutPDF also. Thank you. I will look at it. Rats. No sign of fill in forms in either of their manuals/ web sites. :'(
Re: Replacement for Acrobat Professional?
On 06/10/2013 09:59 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: PDF Studio Pro http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/ I use PDF Studio Pro routinely as an application to replace Acrobat. The only thing missing is Adobe Distiller that converts a PostScript file to PDF. Yasha Karant On 06/10/2013 09:45 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Anyone know of a Linux replacement for Acrobat Professional? I need to be able to create and edit fill in forms. Many thanks, -T http://www.qoppa.com/files/pdfstudio/guide/ page 139. I can fill in forms, but no utility to create them. Rats! Thank you for the tip. -T
Re: kvm xp and in place reinstalls
On 05/29/2013 02:23 AM, Bill Maidment wrote: -Original message- From:Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday 29th May 2013 9:50 To: Scientific Linux Users SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV Subject: kvm xp and in place reinstalls Hi All, SL 6.4 x64 Do any of you run XP in KVM? Have you noticed that you have to do occasional in place reinstalls of XP to correct a severe case of the slows? I have two XP VM (and others). I just got through having to in place both of them (again). If you have had the same problem, do yo come up with a way to prevent it recurring? Many thanks, -T Hi I've noticed this behaviour and on Win 7 too. A reboot seems to make it slightly better, but up to now I have assumed it's a Windows issue. Hi Bill, W7 and W8 even more so are such bad quality that it is hard to tell at times if it is the VM or the OS. I have had to rebuild my W7 once already too. XP, although not the sharpest tack in the box, is not so flaky. I do all my Windows work that won't run in Wine in XP. Anyway, I have been looking for a pattern. At first I thought it was a virt or kvm update. But, the last time there weren't any. I did forget to shutdown both XP's before shutting down Linux, causing them to save themselves. But, I forget all the time and nothing bad happens. This was just the first time I ha forgotten two at once. So, the plot thickens. And, it is probably a Windows problem. I work on native Windows machines for a living and oh mama do they have boot up and slow problems. It us especially annoying when W7 rolls back due to a minor crash and decided to repair itself. That is repair itself for ever. -T
kvm xp and in place reinstalls
Hi All, SL 6.4 x64 Do any of you run XP in KVM? Have you noticed that you have to do occasional in place reinstalls of XP to correct a severe case of the slows? I have two XP VM (and others). I just got through having to in place both of them (again). If you have had the same problem, do yo come up with a way to prevent it recurring? Many thanks, -T
Re: What is a Protected multilib version?
On 05/14/2013 12:01 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 13/05/13 09:49, R Morris wrote: Hi All, I had this recently when I did ctrl-c in the middle of a long 'yum -y update' and was left with 161 duplicate packages and a feeling of deep regret i had to write script to do rpm -e packag --nodeps on a list of the duplicate packages. The system is now fully functional again and I have learnt my lesson! Couldn't yum-complete-transaction (from the yum-utils package) help you clean up this? At least let it complete and then clean up the packages you don't need/want afterwards. This should (in theory at least) do the same thing in a more safe and controlled manner. kind regards, David Sommerseth On 13 May 2013 04:30, Jamie Duncan jamie.e.dun...@gmail.com mailto:jamie.e.dun...@gmail.com wrote: Read that article. There's an option in yum that can turn on/off that behavior in RHEL6 and clones. On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/12/2013 08:10 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com__ wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com__ mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Yum is giving me a error I don't know how to handle: # yum --skip-broken upgrade ... Error: Protected multilib versions: sqlite-3.6.23.1-0.3.el6.x86_64 != sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 Error: Protected multilib versions: raptor-1.4.21-0.10.el6.x86_64 != raptor-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.x86___64\ What is a Protected multilib version? And, how do I fix it? Many thanks, -T On 05/12/2013 07:25 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: try: rpm -qa sqlite and rpm -qa raptor You likely have multiple versions installed, and need to yum remove the older one (assuming that's the one you want removed). Hi Jamie, # rpm -qa sqlite\* sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.x86_64 When I tried to remove sqlite, oh holy molly: On 05/12/2013 08:07 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: do you need all of those 32-bit libs? Komposer yes, but none of the rest Found a 64 bit Kompozer: kompozer-0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.x86___64.rpm -- Thanks, Jamie Duncan # yum-complete-transaction Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit 32 packages excluded due to repository priority protections No unfinished transactions left.
Re: What is a Protected multilib version?
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com__ wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com__ mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Yum is giving me a error I don't know how to handle: # yum --skip-broken upgrade ... Error: Protected multilib versions: sqlite-3.6.23.1-0.3.el6.x86_64 != sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 Error: Protected multilib versions: raptor-1.4.21-0.10.el6.x86_64 != raptor-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.x86___64\ What is a Protected multilib version? And, how do I fix it? Many thanks, -T On 05/12/2013 07:25 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: try: rpm -qa sqlite and rpm -qa raptor You likely have multiple versions installed, and need to yum remove the older one (assuming that's the one you want removed). Hi Jamie, # rpm -qa sqlite\* sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.x86_64 When I tried to remove sqlite, oh holy molly: On 05/12/2013 08:07 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: do you need all of those 32-bit libs? Komposer yes, but none of the rest -- Thanks, Jamie Duncan @jamieeduncan On 05/12/2013 08:20 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/57783 Tells me I need a subscription. Do you know what it says?
Re: What is a Protected multilib version?
On 05/17/2013 02:41 PM, Jeffrey Anderson wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/14/2013 12:01 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 13/05/13 09:49, R Morris wrote: Hi All, I had this recently when I did ctrl-c in the middle of a long 'yum -y update' and was left with 161 duplicate packages and a feeling of deep regret i had to write script to do rpm -e packag --nodeps on a list of the duplicate packages. The system is now fully functional again and I have learnt my lesson! Couldn't yum-complete-transaction (from the yum-utils package) help you clean up this? At least let it complete and then clean up the packages you don't need/want afterwards. This should (in theory at least) do the same thing in a more safe and controlled manner. kind regards, David Sommerseth # yum-complete-transaction Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit 32 packages excluded due to repository priority protections No unfinished transactions left. Perhaps 'package-cleanup --cleandupes' 'man package-cleanup' for details. -- -- Jeffrey Anderson| jdander...@lbl.gov # package-cleanup --cleandupes Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit 32 packages excluded due to repository priority protections No duplicates to remove
Re: What is a Protected multilib version?
On 05/17/2013 05:57 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 18 May 2013 01:38, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: # package-cleanup --cleandupes Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit 32 packages excluded due to repository priority protections No duplicates to remove I've now lost track of the ins-and-outs of this thread but perhaps this script [1] may help. It runs in test-mode by default (no action is taken). When executed with the --notest flag, then the actual work is done. A typical usage sequence would be: ./rpmdup_remover.sh ./rpmdup_remover.sh --notest yum update Alan. [1] http://www.centos.toracat.org/ajb/scripts/rpmdup_remover.sh Hi Alan, Thank you! The script unscrambled things to the point that I was able to finish the job manually. I had a duplicate qt in both 32 bit and 64 bit. I removed the 32 bit. Now things are much better behaved. I also found that if you add --setopt=protected_multilib=false to your yum run string, you don't get the protected error, but the just kicks the can down the road. -T
my method of reinstalling wine on 64 bit
Hi All, I don't envy anyone who has to remove and replace Wine on 64 bit. Since I have ZERO 64 bit Windows apps (they don't run any faster anyway), I installed 32 bit wine. From what I can piece together from my command history, this is what I had to go through: # yum downgrade sqlite # yum --setopt=protected_multilib=false install openldap.i686 # yum --setopt=protected_multilib=false install gettext-libs.i686 # yum --setopt=protected_multilib=false --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel* install wine-ldap.i68 # yum --setopt=protected_multilib=false install openldap.i686 # yum --setopt=protected_multilib=false install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 # yum --setopt=protected_multilib=false --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel* install wine*.i686 Hope this helps someone else, -T
What is a Protected multilib version?
Hi All, Yum is giving me a error I don't know how to handle: # yum --skip-broken upgrade ... Error: Protected multilib versions: sqlite-3.6.23.1-0.3.el6.x86_64 != sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 Error: Protected multilib versions: raptor-1.4.21-0.10.el6.x86_64 != raptor-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.x86_64\ What is a Protected multilib version? And, how do I fix it? Many thanks, -T
Re: What is a Protected multilib version?
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Yum is giving me a error I don't know how to handle: # yum --skip-broken upgrade ... Error: Protected multilib versions: sqlite-3.6.23.1-0.3.el6.x86_64 != sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 Error: Protected multilib versions: raptor-1.4.21-0.10.el6.x86_64 != raptor-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.x86___64\ What is a Protected multilib version? And, how do I fix it? Many thanks, -T On 05/12/2013 07:25 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: try: rpm -qa sqlite and rpm -qa raptor You likely have multiple versions installed, and need to yum remove the older one (assuming that's the one you want removed). Hi Jamie, # rpm -qa sqlite\* sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.x86_64 When I tried to remove sqlite, oh holy molly: # rpm -e sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 error: Failed dependencies: libsqlite3.so.0 is needed by (installed) nss-softokn-3.12.9-11.el6.i686 libsqlite3.so.0 is needed by (installed) libsndfile-1.0.20-5.el6.i686 libsqlite3.so.0 is needed by (installed) qt-sqlite-1:4.6.2-26.el6_4.i686 # rpm -e sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 nss-softokn-3.12.9-11.el6.i686 libsndfile-1.0.20-5.el6.i686 qt-sqlite-4.6.2-26.el6_4.i686 nss-3.14.0.0-12.el6.i686 nss-3.14.0.0-12.el6.i686 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 qt-x11-4.6.2-26.el6_4.i686 error: Failed dependencies: libnss3.so is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-core-4.0-7.el6.i686 libnss3.so is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so is needed by (installed) libcurl-7.19.7-36.el6_4.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.10) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.10) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.10) is needed by (installed) libcurl-7.19.7-36.el6_4.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.11) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.11.1) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.11.1) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.12) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.12) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.12) is needed by (installed) libcurl-7.19.7-36.el6_4.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.12.1) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.12.1) is needed by (installed) libcurl-7.19.7-36.el6_4.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.12.5) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.12.5) is needed by (installed) libcurl-7.19.7-36.el6_4.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.12.9) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.2) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.2) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.2) is needed by (installed) libcurl-7.19.7-36.el6_4.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.3) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.3) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.3) is needed by (installed) libcurl-7.19.7-36.el6_4.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.4) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.4) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.4) is needed by (installed) libcurl-7.19.7-36.el6_4.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.5) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.5) is needed by (installed) libcurl-7.19.7-36.el6_4.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.6) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.6) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.7) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.8) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.9) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.9.2) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.5) is needed by (installed) libcurl-7.19.7-36.el6_4.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.6) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.6) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.7) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.8) is needed by (installed) openldap-2.4.23-31.el6.i686 libnss3.so(NSS_3.9) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.i586 libnss3.so(NSS_3.9.2) is needed by (installed) kompozer-1:0.8
Re: What is a Protected multilib version?
On 05/12/2013 08:10 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com__ wrote: Hi All, Yum is giving me a error I don't know how to handle: # yum --skip-broken upgrade ... Error: Protected multilib versions: sqlite-3.6.23.1-0.3.el6.x86_64 != sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 Error: Protected multilib versions: raptor-1.4.21-0.10.el6.x86_64 != raptor-1.4.18-5.el6_2.1.x86_64\ What is a Protected multilib version? And, how do I fix it? Many thanks, -T On 05/12/2013 07:25 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: try: rpm -qa sqlite and rpm -qa raptor You likely have multiple versions installed, and need to yum remove the older one (assuming that's the one you want removed). Hi Jamie, # rpm -qa sqlite\* sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.x86_64 When I tried to remove sqlite, oh holy molly: On 05/12/2013 08:07 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: do you need all of those 32-bit libs? Komposer yes, but none of the rest Found a 64 bit Kompozer: kompozer-0.8-0.5.b3.fc13.x86_64.rpm
Re: google earth problems
On 05/06/2013 05:31 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Fri, 3 May 2013, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, I downloaded the latest Google Earth from Google and installed it without issue: # rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm ...[100%] job 8 at 2013-05-03 17:13 # rpm -qa \*google\* google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1580-0.x86_64 But when I go to start the thing: $ /usr/bin/google-earth ./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libglide3.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And Yum draws a blank: # yum --enablerepo=* whatprovides */libglide3.so.3 Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit, security ... No Matches found Can't find libglide3.so.3 in pbone either, even for FC19 Fedora 15 and 16 had Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/Glide3-20050815-11.fc15.x86_64.rpm which includes /usr/lib64/libglide3.so.3 and /usr/lib64/libglide3.so.3.10.0 I've not tested these either with or without google earth. GE 7 will start, but tells you you have a bad video card. Blasting past the notice and you get an unpainted screen. :'(
Re: google earth problems
On 05/04/2013 12:39 PM, Ree, Jan-Albert van wrote: I've played with it for days and couldn't make it work... Downgrading to any Google Earth 6.X release and it's working again. -- Jan-Albert van Ree Jan-Albert van Ree Linux System Administrator MSuG MARIN Support Group E mailto:j.a.v@marin.nl T +31 317 49 35 48 MARIN 2, Haagsteeg, P.O. Box 28, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands T +31 317 49 39 11, F +31 317 49 32 45, I www.marin.nl From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] on behalf of Todd And Margo Chester [toddandma...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 02:33 To: Scientific Linux Users Subject: google earth problems Hi All, I downloaded the latest Google Earth from Google and installed it without issue: # rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm ...[100%] job 8 at 2013-05-03 17:13 # rpm -qa \*google\* google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1580-0.x86_64 But when I go to start the thing: $ /usr/bin/google-earth ./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libglide3.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And Yum draws a blank: # yum --enablerepo=* whatprovides */libglide3.so.3 Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit, security ... No Matches found Can't find libglide3.so.3 in pbone either, even for FC19 Any ideas how to fix this? -T Hi Jan-Albert, Thank you. I reverted to 6.2.1.6014-0. Now I can see me fishing holes again. :-) -T
Re: google earth problems
On 05/04/2013 03:51 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 05/04/2013 12:39 PM, Ree, Jan-Albert van wrote: I've played with it for days and couldn't make it work... Downgrading to any Google Earth 6.X release and it's working again. -- Jan-Albert van Ree Jan-Albert van Ree Linux System Administrator MSuG MARIN Support Group E mailto:j.a.v@marin.nl T +31 317 49 35 48 MARIN 2, Haagsteeg, P.O. Box 28, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands T +31 317 49 39 11, F +31 317 49 32 45, I www.marin.nl From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] on behalf of Todd And Margo Chester [toddandma...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 02:33 To: Scientific Linux Users Subject: google earth problems Hi All, I downloaded the latest Google Earth from Google and installed it without issue: # rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm ...[100%] job 8 at 2013-05-03 17:13 # rpm -qa \*google\* google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1580-0.x86_64 But when I go to start the thing: $ /usr/bin/google-earth ./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libglide3.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And Yum draws a blank: # yum --enablerepo=* whatprovides */libglide3.so.3 Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit, security ... No Matches found Can't find libglide3.so.3 in pbone either, even for FC19 Any ideas how to fix this? -T Hi Jan-Albert, Thank you. I reverted to 6.2.1.6014-0. Now I can see me fishing holes again. :-) -T http://code.google.com/p/earth-issues/issues/detail?id=1586
google earth problems
Hi All, I downloaded the latest Google Earth from Google and installed it without issue: # rpm -Uvh google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm ...[100%] job 8 at 2013-05-03 17:13 # rpm -qa \*google\* google-earth-stable-7.1.1.1580-0.x86_64 But when I go to start the thing: $ /usr/bin/google-earth ./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libglide3.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And Yum draws a blank: # yum --enablerepo=* whatprovides */libglide3.so.3 Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit, security ... No Matches found Can't find libglide3.so.3 in pbone either, even for FC19 Any ideas how to fix this? -T
Re: Anyone know of a status site for the Internet?
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a lot of calls lately about poor Internet service from customers. Mostly it is during one of the DDOS attacks, like the one recently on Spamhaus. Does anyone know of a site that gives status on this sort of thing, so I do not have to wait to hear it on the news? Took a trip over to us-cert.gov http://us-cert.gov, but could not find anything useful (doesn't mean it was not there, just that I had no luck finding it). Many thanks, -T On 04/13/2013 08:19 PM, John Hebert wrote: See the external links at the bottom of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack. Those customer's PCs may be infected and part of the DDoS botnet. Uh oh! I wonder.
Re: Anyone know of a status site for the Internet?
On 04/13/2013 08:43 PM, zxq9 wrote: On 04/14/2013 11:07 AM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Does anyone know of a site that gives status on this sort of thing, so I do not have to wait to hear it on the news? http://www.internetweathermap.com/ Visualization of aggregated latency times in various regions. I haven't used this one much so I don't know how accurate its stats are VS the way things feel at the user level. http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm Anything disruptive enough to impact a region or large ISP will usually show up here, but it doesn't carry much detail. The only reliable way to test things is check point-to-point, of course, but most of the time users saying the internet is slow means latency between me and one of Facebook, Google, YouTube, Vimeo, or [favorite game server] is slow so point-to-point checks don't always make sense and a general traffic report might not provide any heads up. Thank you!
Re: spice-guest-tools for widows 8?
On 03/29/2013 07:00 AM, Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) wrote: Correct the drivers are not in the Fedora virtio-win package. The versions included in the spice guest tools build are also out of date and unsigned. - Chris From the Spice developers: The QXL driver from git does not support Win8 yet, so no beta version to try out for now.
perl yum problem
Hi All, Any idea how to fix this? Many thanks, -T Error: Package: perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 (@sl/6x) Requires: perl = 4:5.10.1-127.el6 Removing: 4:perl-5.10.1-127.el6.x86_64 (@sl/6x) perl = 4:5.10.1-127.el6 Updated By: 4:perl-5.10.1-130.el6_4.x86_64 (sl-security) perl = 4:5.10.1-130.el6_4 Fixed it. Don't know if it is the official approved method, but here goes: 1) # rpm -e --nodeps perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 2) # yum upgrade 3) # yum install perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 ... Installed: perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2.noarch 0:2.015-1.el6.rf Happy camping has returned. -T
Re: spice-guest-tools for widows 8?
-Original Message- From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Todd And Margo Chester Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:38 AM To: Scientific Linux Users Subject: spice-guest-tools for widows 8? Hi All, spice-guest-tools-0.52.exe does not support Windows 8. Anyone know of a version that does? No QXL driver is annoying. Many thanks, -T On 03/27/2013 07:18 AM, Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) wrote: This would be a question better suited to spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org However as I have noted over time the spice guys do not seem to be very motivated to create and publish up to date windows drivers. They still have as of yet to publish properly signed QXL drivers for Windows 7. *HINT* These drivers do exist as part of the virtio-win package however if you have an active RHEL subscription :-) - Chris Found something over at: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/virtio-win-0.1-52.iso Have yet to test it -T
Re: spice-guest-tools for widows 8?
-Original Message- From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Todd And Margo Chester Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:38 AM To: Scientific Linux Users Subject: spice-guest-tools for widows 8? Hi All, spice-guest-tools-0.52.exe does not support Windows 8. Anyone know of a version that does? No QXL driver is annoying. Many thanks, -T On 03/27/2013 07:18 AM, Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) wrote: This would be a question better suited to spice-de...@lists.freedesktop.org However as I have noted over time the spice guys do not seem to be very motivated to create and publish up to date windows drivers. They still have as of yet to publish properly signed QXL drivers for Windows 7. *HINT* These drivers do exist as part of the virtio-win package however if you have an active RHEL subscription :-) - Chris Found something over at: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/virtio-win-0.1-52.iso Have yet to test it -T Hm. Not sure that iso contains the QXL drivers. W8 sure doesn't think there are any video drivers in it.
spice-guest-tools for widows 8?
Hi All, spice-guest-tools-0.52.exe does not support Windows 8. Anyone know of a version that does? No QXL driver is annoying. Many thanks, -T
perl yum problem
Hi All, Any idea how to fix this? Many thanks, -T Error: Package: perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 (@sl/6x) Requires: perl = 4:5.10.1-127.el6 Removing: 4:perl-5.10.1-127.el6.x86_64 (@sl/6x) perl = 4:5.10.1-127.el6 Updated By: 4:perl-5.10.1-130.el6_4.x86_64 (sl-security) perl = 4:5.10.1-130.el6_4
how to find internet dead spots
Hi All, I have a Cent OS 5.x server sitting on a DSL line acting as a firewall. I have noticed that there are dead spots, up to a minute, every so often in their Internet service. It could be a storm on someone's part, but the worst they run is IMAP. No music; no video. Is there a utility I can run to map this? Many thanks, -T
Re: Will HTML5 eventually sub for Java?
On 01/18/2013 05:26 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, With all the security problems in Java right now, does anyone know if HTML5 will eventually sub for Java? And, will HTML5 have its own list of prodigious security problems? Many thanks, -T On 01/18/2013 06:09 PM, Joseph Areeda wrote: Well, I'll add my 2¢ but don't think I have a definitive answer for you. First of all, HTML5 is meant to obviate the need for many browser plugin and when combined with Javascript will be able to substitute for some of the things applets are used for. Java is much more than a browser plug-in and HTML5 has nothing to do with its other uses. Joe Hi Joe, I am not so security concerned about non-browser plugin Java programs as I am the browser stuff. I would love it if Java was no longer needed by Firefox. Then worry about Java programs the same as you would a C++ program or any other non-browser program. -T
Re: No more flash updates?
On 01/16/2013 03:22 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: Close but thats not the whole truth. Most of the functions of flash plus better 3D rendering can now be achieved by HTML 5, so really flash is only being used now for legacy web site support. Most mobile devices don't support flash but they all support HTML 5. Adobe has even started changing their development suites to output HTML5 instead of flash whenever possible. There is really no point in developing new web apps in flash any more unless the programmer hasn't learned HTML 5 yet. My point is expect flash to disappear entirely at some point in the next few years. Flash is now a lot of development work for Adobe and won't make them money for much longer. Linux is their smallest market for the flash player so it's the first to go but others wont be far behind. Hi Paul, Just an aside, Firefox 19 beta supposedly has an HTML5 PDF viewer build in. This I will adore. So, HTML5 is coming along! -T
No more flash updates?
Hi All, Over on http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=JZEFT it states: NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux. Is not Flash a bit of a security nightmare to start with? Or is better if we only get backports? -T
Re: Figured out my flash-plugin problem
On 01/02/2013 11:51 AM, Phil Perry wrote: On 02/01/13 19:06, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 12/29/2012 11:15 PM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, Figured out my flash-plugin problem: If you are using flash-plugin higher than 11.1.102.63 and you are getting reversed colors and artifacts in Firefox, open a flash video right click in the video while it is playing, go to settings, Display (tab), unclick Enable hardware acceleration Which graphics card (and driver) do you have ? EVGA 01G-P3-1370-TR GeForce GTX 460 Graphics Card - PCI Express 2.0 x16 - 1 GB GDDR5 SDRAM $ rpm -qa \*nvidia\* nvidia-x11-drv-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 kmod-nvidia-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 Your drivers are quite outdated (the current release is 310.19). At least two security issues have been fixed in subsequent releases: Fixed in 295.71 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.full-disclosure/86747 Fixed in 295.40 CVE-2012-0946 http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3109/~/security-vulnerability-cve-2012-0946-in-the-nvidia-unix-driver Not to mention numerous bug fixes including a few affecting issues with flash. Any reason yum isn't automatically updating these for you? Hi Phil, Three reasons: 1) elrepo has a bad habit of not playing well with the other children in the sandbox, especially RPM Forge. So I leave the elrepo repo turned off. And as such, I am usually not aware of an available update from it. 2) although I know how to cope with it (I made copious notes), I have had a number of bad experiences with X11 not starting after upgrading these drivers. It is a pain in the neck. 3) I am allergic to automatic updates. They make me say words that are not in the dictionary (although Microsoft actually is in the dictionary). This is a mission critical machine. I can not be having bad updates crash me. I have had this experience too many times. So, I look at the update icon in my task bar to see if anything new is available, then I review and choose what I wish to update. And I know who got updated in case all hell breaks loose. Just out of interest, I find less troubles with Fedora's updates than SL's. That being said, I just updated before writing you and everything rebooted fine. Wrote myself a script to do the update. And before anyone asks, I use su instead of sudo because it is far more trouble free. And, you will have to remove Thunderbird's forced scroll on the Cmd line. Thank you for the help! Very much appreciated. -T #!/bin/bash Cmd=yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo* upgrade nvidia-x11-drv nvidia-x11-drv-32bit kmod-nvidia echo $Cmd su root -c $Cmd
Re: Figured out my flash-plugin problem
On 01/03/2013 03:25 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: 1) elrepo has a bad habit of not playing well with the other children in the sandbox, especially RPM Forge. So I leave the elrepo repo turned off. And as such, I am usually not aware of an available update from it. Excuse me? Do you really mean elrepo? Or you are mixing it up with EPEL? One of the ELRepo team members is Dag. And he runs repoforge/rpmforge (surprise!!). So, there should not be any trouble between the two repos. ;-) Akemi oops. You are correct. EPEL is the one with the dependency nightmares. I only leave the SL repos and rpmforge turned on.
Figured out my flash-plugin problem
Hi All, Figured out my flash-plugin problem: If you are using flash-plugin higher than 11.1.102.63 and you are getting reversed colors and artifacts in Firefox, open a flash video right click in the video while it is playing, go to settings, Display (tab), unclick Enable hardware acceleration Hope this helps someone else, -T
Re: flash replacement
On 11/13/2012 08:57 PM, Andrew Z wrote: hello, is there an alternative for ( lots of grumpy swearing omitted ) flash plugin in FF? with the latest 11.2.202.251 x86 release the HD videos in full-screen a crashing. [bitching on] first i deal with an invasion of Avatars - the blue people and now $$$ thing won't even play for longer than 4 minutes in full screen [bitching off] Hi Andrew, Oh good. I get to help someone for a change. The recent Flash player is a DISASTER. Can't seem to get anyone to fix it either. Back off to flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm (or 32 bit, if that's what you are running) and turn off auto updates. http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm # rpm -e flash-plugin # rpm -ivh flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm HTH, -T Dag, can you fix this?
Re: Bug report: label problem in gparted
On 11/10/2012 01:16 AM, Urs Beyerle wrote: Hi Todd Thanks for reporting this. But gparted-0.6.0 is not part of SL. It comes from EPEL http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL. Since gparted is quite useful, we also put it on the SL LiveCD/DVDs.Could you please report the problem to EPEL. 'If you find a bug in a EPEL maintained package, please report it to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ under the Fedora EPEL component.' Thanks a lot! Urs Hi Urs, Thank you for the heads up on the proper place to report the bug. Hopefully I now have it reported properly. (Red Hat originally told me to report it to you.) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875377 -T
Bug report: label problem in gparted
Hi All, According to: https://www.scientificlinux.org/news/archive/bug.feature.tracker.removed If you have found a bug in Scientific Linux, or have a feature request, please send them to the scientific-linux-users mailling list. So here goes. Would one of our intrepid heroes please fix this for me? Currently in our version of gparted (0.6.0), on fat32 flash drives, the labeling utility converts labels to all upper case. This is reported and solved by the following gparted bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625337 Currently, the only way I have to get lower case letters in labels is to reformat the drive: # mkfs.vfat -n MyCDs /dev/sdc1 I would really like to be able to change my labels without having to reformat. As stated in the above gparted bug report, to solve this will require us to upgrade to GParted 0.11.0. Would one of our heroes please re-spin this for us/me? Many thanks, -T $ rpm -qi gparted Name: gparted Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.6.0 Vendor: Fedora Project Release : 1.el6 Build Date: Thu 01 Jul 2010 05:45:31 AM PDT Install Date: Fri 03 Jun 2011 08:52:34 PM PDT Build Host: x86-06.phx2.fedoraproject.org Group : Applications/System Source RPM: gparted-0.6.0-1.el6.src.rpm Size: 3598093 License: GPLv2+ Signature : RSA/8, Thu 01 Jul 2010 01:57:06 PM PDT, Key ID 3b49df2a0608b895 Packager: Fedora Project URL : http://gparted.sourceforge.net Summary : Gnome Partition Editor
Re: usb
On 10/29/2012 02:41 PM, Andrew Z wrote: since the weather is perfect t for drinking and catching up on all the little things that ive been procrastinated to do, i decided to revive the virus ridden laptop. That's some alienware from Dell . it doesn't have a cd/dvd . So the only option is to boot from usb stick. i have win7 iso and followed http://reboot.pro/8381/. yet the only result on the screen i see is SYSLINUX 4.02 20120 and black screen. Anything i need to be aware of ? Any feedback is welcomed. AZ Hi Andrew, I do not know about the usb stick thing, but have you thought of borrowing someone's USB external DVD drive? Also, if you have a boot sector virus and you intend to wipe anyway, this always works for me: THIS WILL RUIN YOUR PARTITION TABLE and all your data! Boot off a live CD: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=100 I have had to do this just to get the Windows Installer (XP and W7) to recognize a hard drive that had a boot sector virus several times. (Live CD rescues Windows yet again!) -T
Re: How do I trigger an fsck on boot for a drive not in fstab?
On 10/27/2012 07:42 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: You can put an fsck command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Steven Yellin On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, SL 6.2, x64 I have an ext 4 drive (/dev/sdb1) I use for backup that is deliberately not in my fstab. touch /forcefsck will only force a check on my main (/) drive. Question: is there a way to trigger an an fsck at boot on this backup drive? Many thanks, -T Thank you. Thank will work. Actually, I am trying to solve the mystery of how to get it to fsck at the same time as touch /forcefsck. Do you know how to do this? Many thanks, -T
Re: How do I trigger an fsck on boot for a drive not in fstab?
On 10/28/2012 09:13 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 10/28/2012 03:29 AM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 10/27/2012 07:42 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: You can put an fsck command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Steven Yellin On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, SL 6.2, x64 I have an ext 4 drive (/dev/sdb1) I use for backup that is deliberately not in my fstab. touch /forcefsck will only force a check on my main (/) drive. Question: is there a way to trigger an an fsck at boot on this backup drive? Many thanks, -T Thank you. Thank will work. Actually, I am trying to solve the mystery of how to get it to fsck at the same time as touch /forcefsck. Do you know how to do this? Many thanks, -T Hi Todd, Have you perused through tune2fs(8) to notice you may set a max-mount-counts to 1 or maybe a daily interval-between-checks to 1d? Why are you so adverse to an fstab entry? If you specify option noauto it won't be mounted on boot, but it *might* fsck with the others. Hi Chris, Only certain scripts need access or even need to know this drive exists. I deliberately do not have it in my fstab. I use this drive as you would a removable flash drive. What I am up to is trying to see if there is any clue as to why I drop to maintenance mode every so often with a message that fsck can not lock the drive because it is in use. Our intrepid heroes at Red Hat are troubleshooting this for me: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836696 cat /proc/mounts in maintenance mode does not even show the drive as mounted (it is not suppose to be). And lsof shows nothing accessing the drive (it is not mounted). I am just digging around looking for any clue that might help them. I just used your suggestion on tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/lin-bak and posted it to the bug. Thank you for the help, -T
my vlc upgrade script
Hi All, I am just sharing with the group. This is my VLC upgrade script. You have to have atrpms repo loaded. I like this script, as I make A LOT of typos. Run it from a command line. It will prompt you for your root's password. -T cat upgrade-vlc #!/bin/bash Cmd=yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=atrpms* upgrade vlc echo $Cmd su root -c $Cmd
Re: SSD and RAID question
On 2012-09-18, at 10:25 AM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:46:34PM -0700, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Yes, I did miss the sda on all four partitions. Does the [2/1] mean this is the first of two drives? On 09/18/2012 11:18 AM, Christopher Tooley wrote: Hi, this page might give you some useful information on what mdstat gives you: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Mdstat Christopher Tooley ctoo...@uvic.ca Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic Hi Chris, Awesome reference. I am about to copy it down in my reference file. Thank you! -T
Re: SSD and RAID question
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 09/10/2012 12:41 PM, Jeff Siddall wrote: On 09/10/2012 02:52 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 09/10/2012 10:05 AM, Jeff Siddall wrote: ME software RAID1 is very reliable Have you had a software RAID failure? What was the alert? And, what did you have to do to repair it? Never had a software failure. I have had [too] many hardware failures, and those show up with the standard MD email alerts (example attached below). Jeff -- This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md1. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md3 : active raid1 sda5[0] 371727936 blocks [2/1] [U_] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] 104320 blocks [2/1] [U_] md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] 2096384 blocks [2/1] [U_] md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] 16779776 blocks [2/1] [U_] unused devices: none Hi Jeff, Thank you. I do not understand what I am looking at. All four entries are RAID1, meaning two drives in the array. But what two drives go together? What does the [U_] stand for? Up? Should md1 be [D_] for down? What does [2/1] stand for? And, just out of curiosity, is it possible to have a hot spare with the above arrangement? -T On 09/17/2012 12:22 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: I believe that this is the interpretation of /proc/mdstat: Consider, for example, md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] 2096384 blocks [2/1] [U_] The device is /dev/md2. It is raid1, meaning partitions on two disk drives mirror each other. One of the two is /dev/sda3; the other isn't given because something went wrong, but I'll guess it would be /dev/sdb3 if sdb were working, and you would also have in the md2 line an identification of the second participant in the mirror, sdb3[1]. The mirrored partitions have 2096384 blocks, which I think means about 2 GB. The [2/1] means there should be 2 disks in md2, but there is actually 1. The [U_] would be [UU] if md2 were in perfect working order, but the second drive in md2 is absent. Perhaps U stands for up, or for available in some language other than English. You can have a hot spare. If the md2 line read md2 : active raid1 sdc3[2] sdb3[1] sda3[0] then the mirror would still consist of sda3 and sdb3. You can tell sdc3 is the spare because of its [2]; only [0] and [1] are needed for successful mirroring. Steven Yellin Hi Steven, Thank you! It looks like in the example that all four drives are in their own RAID1 arrays, but are missing their companion drives. A misconfiguration perhaps? -T
Re: SSD and RAID question
On 09/17/2012 07:27 PM, Jeff Siddall wrote: On 09/17/2012 03:03 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi Steven, Thank you! It looks like in the example that all four drives are in their own RAID1 arrays, but are missing their companion drives. A misconfiguration perhaps? -T Nope. There are 4 RAID 1 arrays on 4 separate partitions on the same drive. When the drive disappears all 4 arrays are degraded. Jeff Yes, I did miss the sda on all four partitions. Does the [2/1] mean this is the first of two drives?
Re: SSD and RAID question
On 09/10/2012 12:41 PM, Jeff Siddall wrote: On 09/10/2012 02:52 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 09/10/2012 10:05 AM, Jeff Siddall wrote: ME software RAID1 is very reliable Have you had a software RAID failure? What was the alert? And, what did you have to do to repair it? Never had a software failure. I have had [too] many hardware failures, and those show up with the standard MD email alerts (example attached below). Jeff -- This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md1. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md3 : active raid1 sda5[0] 371727936 blocks [2/1] [U_] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] 104320 blocks [2/1] [U_] md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] 2096384 blocks [2/1] [U_] md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] 16779776 blocks [2/1] [U_] unused devices: none Hi Jeff, Thank you. I do not understand what I am looking at. All four entries are RAID1, meaning two drives in the array. But what two drives go together? What does the [U_] stand for? Up? Should md1 be [D_] for down? What does [2/1] stand for? And, just out of curiosity, is it possible to have a hot spare with the above arrangement? -T
Re: SSD and RAID question
On 09/10/2012 10:05 AM, Jeff Siddall wrote: ME software RAID1 is very reliable Have you had a software RAID failure? What was the alert? And, what did you have to do to repair it? -T
Re: SSD and RAID question
On 09/05/2012 03:34 PM, jdow wrote: But if the real limit is related to read write cycles on the memory locations you may find that temperature has little real affect on the system lifetime. I did some reliability analysis for the military about 25 yuears ago. It was pretty much following general guidlines and most of it was baloney. What I do remember was that failures from temperature was not a linear curve, it was an exponential curve. I will strongly concur with you that heat is your enemy. What I would love to see, but have never seen, is a Peltier heat pump to mount hard drives on. -T
Re: SSD and RAID question
On 09/04/2012 12:21 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: Cherryville drives have a 1.2 million hour MTBF (mean time between failure) and a 5 year warranty. Note that MTBF of 1.2 Mhrs (137 years?!?) is the*vendor's estimate*. Baloney check. 1.2 Mhrs does not mean that the device is expected to last 137 years. It means that if you have 1.2 million devices in front of you on a test bench, you would expect one device to fail in one hour. -T
Re: SSD and RAID question
On 09/04/2012 12:21 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: every USB3 and all except 1 brand USB2 flash drives fail within a few weeks I have been selling a few Kanguru USB 3 flash drives as backup sticks. So far so good. Any idea what is happening on your end? (USB3 sticks are so fast.)
SSD and RAID question
Hi All, On several Windows machines lately, I have been using Intel's Cherryville enterprise SSD drives. They work very, very well. Cherryville drives have a 1.2 million hour MTBF (mean time between failure) and a 5 year warranty. I have been thinking, for small business servers with a low data requirement, what would be the risk of dropping RAID in favor of just one of these drives? Seems to me the RAID controller would have a worse MTBF than a Cherryville SSD drive? And, does SL 6 have trim stuff built into it? What do you all think? Many thanks, -T
Re: SSD and RAID question
On 09/02/2012 08:26 PM, Nathan wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, On several Windows machines lately, I have been using Intel's Cherryville enterprise SSD drives. They work very, very well. Cherryville drives have a 1.2 million hour MTBF (mean time between failure) and a 5 year warranty. I have been thinking, for small business servers with a low data requirement, what would be the risk of dropping RAID in favor of just one of these drives? Seems to me the RAID controller would have a worse MTBF than a Cherryville SSD drive? And, does SL 6 have trim stuff built into it? What do you all think? In my experience, I've had more problems with hardware RAID controllers than any other component (hardware OR software) except for traditional hard drives themselves. We switched to software RAID (Linux) and ZFS (*BSD and Solaris) years ago. But that's just us. YMMV. ~ Nathan Hmm. Never had a bad hardware RAID controller. Had several mechanical hard drives go bad. Anyone have an opinion(s) on SSD's in a small work group server?
Re: Hylafax's faxstat -r shows nothing
On 08/26/2012 09:21 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: SL 6.3, x64 hylafax-client-6.0.5-1rhel5.x86_64 hylafax-server-6.0.5-1rhel5.x86_64 Hi All, Hylafax's faxstat -r shows nothing in the queues (other utilities do not either). # faxstat -r HylaFAX scheduler on rn4.rent-a-nerd.local: Running Modem ttyS1 (1.775.265.5150): Running and idle But my queue has stuff in it. # ls -al /var/spool/hylafax/recvq ... -rw---. 1 uucp uucp 43522 Aug 18 19:00 fax1.tif -rw---. 1 uucp uucp 7946 Aug 25 18:30 fax4.tif -rw---. 1 uucp uucp 1 Aug 25 18:35 seqf What am I doing wrong? Many thanks, -T Figured it out: Changing # grep -i RecvFileMode /var/spool/hylafax/etc/congig.__ttyS1 RecvFileMode: 0600 to 0777 Fixed it. -T
Re: cups and hylafax
On 08/27/2012 05:48 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/19/2012 09:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/19/2012 05:56 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: By the time the print job gets handed to CUPS, it's supposed to be an actual print job. In *theory*, I suppose you could do a wrapper to deduce who the sender was, what X session or tty they're running from, and do a pop-up. But then that would fail for scheduled fax jobs, which would have to use something else. And you'd have to specify print requests to hit that particular printer. If you're going to all that work of setting the particular printer, why not go to the extra wrap of piping the print job to a pre-processor that will set up the fax? And, it looks like somebody already wrote one, called fax4CUPS at http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/fax4CUPS/ / I already have this one installed. And, can not get it to work. I have gone over the man page till my eye pop out. The only error message I can find is in CUPS: aborted Unknown error (return code 1) What did the logs say? And did you make sure that the lp user has appropriate sudo access? Hi All, FINALLY figured it out. http://files.yajhfc.de/doc/cupsfaxprinter.shtml Pops right up after about a two second delay. There 3 entirely different approaches listed there. Which did you use? Ooops. I used the first one, called: Using YajHFC's TCP printer port together with CUPS' socket: backend
jumbo frames?
Hi All, Can anyone tell me what this means? just disable jumbo frames on centos host interface ifcfg and ethernet switch. Many thanks, -T
Re: jumbo frames?
On 08/27/2012 01:57 PM, Carl Friedberg wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner- scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Todd And Margo Chester Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 4:49 PM To: Scientific Linux Users Subject: jumbo frames? Hi All, Can anyone tell me what this means? just disable jumbo frames on centos host interface ifcfg and ethernet switch. Many thanks, -T Todd and Margo Chester: I can give you some information. jumbo frames refer to a capability to send very large packets over gigabit Ethernet (somewhere near 9,000 bytes), as opposed to the traditional ~1500 byte packet size on traditional Ethernet. This only works between two end-points if every switch handling the frame/packet has jumbo frame capability enabled. There have been instances (I've run into them, but not on SL) where enabling jumbo frames can cause issues. So, since you didn't provide context on that piece of advice, I can't guess why they were suggesting disabling jumbo frames. Typically, jumbo frames are disabled by default (but, I don't know what the SL policy is). Carl Carl Friedberg www.about.me/carl.friedberg friedb...@comets.com www.comets.com Problems Solved Where would I go to check on this? Is there a utility?
Re: jumbo frames?
On 08/27/2012 03:16 PM, jdow wrote:
On 2012/08/27 14:37, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
On 08/27/2012 01:57 PM, Carl Friedberg wrote:
-Original Message-
From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-
scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Todd And Margo
Chester
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 4:49 PM
To: Scientific Linux Users
Subject: jumbo frames?
Hi All,
Can anyone tell me what this means?
just disable jumbo frames on centos host interface
ifcfg and ethernet switch.
Many thanks,
-T
Todd and Margo Chester:
I can give you some information.
jumbo frames refer to a capability to send very large packets
over gigabit Ethernet (somewhere near 9,000 bytes), as
opposed to the traditional ~1500 byte packet size on
traditional Ethernet.
This only works between two end-points if every switch
handling the frame/packet has jumbo frame capability
enabled.
There have been instances (I've run into them, but not
on SL) where enabling jumbo frames can cause issues.
So, since you didn't provide context on that piece of
advice, I can't guess why they were suggesting
disabling jumbo frames.
Typically, jumbo frames are disabled by default (but,
I don't know what the SL policy is).
Carl
Carl Friedberg
www.about.me/carl.friedberg
friedb...@comets.com
www.comets.com
Problems Solved
Where would I go to check on this? Is there a utility?
ifconfig comes to mind.
{^_^}
$ ifconfig virbr0
virbr0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:EB:2D:7B
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
What am I looking for?
Re: jumbo frames?
On 08/27/2012 03:16 PM, Alec T. Habig wrote: Todd And Margo Chester writes: Where would I go to check on this? Is there a utility? # ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:B2:10:D7 inet addr:131.212.37.6 Bcast:131.212.37.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:9000 Metric:1 RX packets:6914505 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3983544 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:6511170177 (6.0 GiB) TX bytes:1440910442 (1.3 GiB) Interrupt:18 Memory:c420-c422 The MTU 9000 says it's on for me on this interface. # ifconfig eth2 eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:85:EF:AD inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:138324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:201726 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:18886234 (18.0 MiB) TX bytes:154781925 (147.6 MiB) Interrupt:20 Base address:0x6000 in here, MTU's only 1500, so no jumbo frames. Hi Alex, $ ifconfig virbr0 virbr0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:EB:2D:7B inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) It is the MTU, so no jumbo frames. Thank you! -T
Re: jumbo frames?
On 08/27/2012 03:39 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 27 August 2012 14:48, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Can anyone tell me what this means? just disable jumbo frames on centos host interface ifcfg and ethernet switch. Well first of all. What is giving you this error or message? Jumbo frames are not usually turned on CentOS/Scientific Linux without some extra configuration (eg in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 or the likes.). To see if they are enabled on the system.. ifconfig eth0 and look for the MTU line. If it is 1500 that is standard. If it is 9000 then it has been configured to be such somehow. Many thanks, -T Oh, I am getting frequent BSODs when I shut down my KVM virtual XP. Someone over on the centos vm list told me he cured his by removing jumbo frames. I did not know what he was talking about, so I asked over here.
Re: jumbo frames?
On 08/27/2012 03:41 PM, jdow wrote:
On 2012/08/27 15:32, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
On 08/27/2012 03:16 PM, jdow wrote:
ifconfig comes to mind.
{^_^}
$ ifconfig virbr0
virbr0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:EB:2D:7B
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
What am I looking for?
MTU:1500
This interface is not doing jumbo frames.
Betcha this shows the same thing:
cat /sys/class/net/virbr0/mtu
(Or find it under /sys/devices/virtual/net possibly.)
Mess with it carefully.
{^_^}
I would loose that bet:
$ cat /sys/class/net/virbr0/mtu
1500
Hylafax's faxstat -r shows nothing
SL 6.3, x64 hylafax-client-6.0.5-1rhel5.x86_64 hylafax-server-6.0.5-1rhel5.x86_64 Hi All, Hylafax's faxstat -r shows nothing in the queues (other utilities do not either). # faxstat -r HylaFAX scheduler on rn4.rent-a-nerd.local: Running Modem ttyS1 (1.775.265.5150): Running and idle But my queue has stuff in it. # ls -al /var/spool/hylafax/recvq ... -rw---. 1 uucp uucp 43522 Aug 18 19:00 fax1.tif -rw---. 1 uucp uucp 7946 Aug 25 18:30 fax4.tif -rw---. 1 uucp uucp 1 Aug 25 18:35 seqf What am I doing wrong? Many thanks, -T
Re: cups and hylafax
On 08/19/2012 09:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/19/2012 05:56 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: By the time the print job gets handed to CUPS, it's supposed to be an actual print job. In *theory*, I suppose you could do a wrapper to deduce who the sender was, what X session or tty they're running from, and do a pop-up. But then that would fail for scheduled fax jobs, which would have to use something else. And you'd have to specify print requests to hit that particular printer. If you're going to all that work of setting the particular printer, why not go to the extra wrap of piping the print job to a pre-processor that will set up the fax? And, it looks like somebody already wrote one, called fax4CUPS at http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/fax4CUPS/ / I already have this one installed. And, can not get it to work. I have gone over the man page till my eye pop out. The only error message I can find is in CUPS: aborted Unknown error (return code 1) What did the logs say? And did you make sure that the lp user has appropriate sudo access? Hi All, FINALLY figured it out. http://files.yajhfc.de/doc/cupsfaxprinter.shtml Pops right up after about a two second delay. -T
Re: cups and hylafax
On 08/19/2012 09:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/19/2012 05:56 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: By the time the print job gets handed to CUPS, it's supposed to be an actual print job. In *theory*, I suppose you could do a wrapper to deduce who the sender was, what X session or tty they're running from, and do a pop-up. But then that would fail for scheduled fax jobs, which would have to use something else. And you'd have to specify print requests to hit that particular printer. If you're going to all that work of setting the particular printer, why not go to the extra wrap of piping the print job to a pre-processor that will set up the fax? And, it looks like somebody already wrote one, called fax4CUPS at http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/fax4CUPS/ / I already have this one installed. And, can not get it to work. I have gone over the man page till my eye pop out. The only error message I can find is in CUPS: aborted Unknown error (return code 1) What did the logs say? And did you make sure that the lp user has appropriate sudo access? Hi Niko, That is just the thing. I could not find a log with anything pertaining to the problem in it. If it helps, I have /usr/bin/sendfax set up through sudo such that a regular user can and do send fax'es. (This is required by the man fax4CUPS manual page.) I am really frustrated. Thank you for the help, -T
Re: inittab question
Regards Bill Maidment Maidment Enterprises Pty Ltd -Original message- *From:* Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com *Sent:* Sunday 19th August 2012 12:25 *To:* Scientific Linux Users SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV *Subject:* inittab question Hi All, Why does this work: #/usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 but, placing this in my /etc/inittab does not? m0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1 I have run init q several times to no avail. Can anyone see a typo I am missing? # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep nothing After invoking from the command line, I get # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep 9827 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 What am I missing? Many thanks, -T On 08/18/2012 10:33 PM, Bill Maidment wrote: You need to put it in /etc/init/ nowadays. Read the notes at the top of /etc/inittab Thank you. I missed that. Now to figure out how to use /etc/init. -T
Re: inittab question
Regards Bill Maidment Maidment Enterprises Pty Ltd -Original message- *From:* Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com *Sent:* Sunday 19th August 2012 12:25 *To:* Scientific Linux Users SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV *Subject:* inittab question Hi All, Why does this work: #/usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 but, placing this in my /etc/inittab does not? m0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1 I have run init q several times to no avail. Can anyone see a typo I am missing? # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep nothing After invoking from the command line, I get # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep 9827 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 What am I missing? Many thanks, -T On 08/18/2012 10:33 PM, Bill Maidment wrote: You need to put it in /etc/init/ nowadays. Read the notes at the top of /etc/inittab Thank you. I missed that. Now to figure out how to use /etc/init. -T Figured it out. Scientific Linux/RHEL 6.x Create a file touch /etc/init/faxgetty.conf For ttyS1, fill it with start on runlevel [2345] stop on runlevel [S016] respawn exec /usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1 Then do: initctl start faxgetty
Re: cups and hylafax
On 08/19/2012 05:56 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: By the time the print job gets handed to CUPS, it's supposed to be an actual print job. In *theory*, I suppose you could do a wrapper to deduce who the sender was, what X session or tty they're running from, and do a pop-up. But then that would fail for scheduled fax jobs, which would have to use something else. And you'd have to specify print requests to hit that particular printer. If you're going to all that work of setting the particular printer, why not go to the extra wrap of piping the print job to a pre-processor that will set up the fax? And, it looks like somebody already wrote one, called fax4CUPS at http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/fax4CUPS/ / I already have this one installed. And, can not get it to work. I have gone over the man page till my eye pop out. The only error message I can find is in CUPS: aborted Unknown error (return code 1) :'( -T
cups and hylafax
Hi All, SL 6.3, x64 Anyone come up with a way to print to Hylafax through CUPS? -T
inittab question
Hi All, Why does this work: #/usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 but, placing this in my /etc/inittab does not? m0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1 I have run init q several times to no avail. Can anyone see a typo I am missing? # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep nothing After invoking from the command line, I get # ps ax | grep -i faxget | grep -v grep 9827 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/faxgetty -D ttyS1 What am I missing? Many thanks, -T
What do you use for a contacts manager?
Hi All, SL 6.2, x64 I am looking for a simple contacts manager. I like Contacts, but I can not figure out how to import my CSV contacts list from Windows into it. Contacts will supposedly import a VCF, but I can not figure out how to translate a CSV into a VCF. And, if I am not mistaken, isn't a VCF one record at a time, not a whole address book? Do you guys have a favorite simple contact manager/address book that will import a CSV? Many thanks, -T
Re: What do you use for a contacts manager?
On 08/16/2012 05:30 PM, zxq9 wrote: On 08/17/2012 03:41 AM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, SL 6.2, x64 I am looking for a simple contacts manager. I like Contacts, but I can not figure out how to import my CSV contacts list from Windows into it. Contacts will supposedly import a VCF, but I can not figure out how to translate a CSV into a VCF. And, if I am not mistaken, isn't a VCF one record at a time, not a whole address book? Do you guys have a favorite simple contact manager/address book that will import a CSV? CSV can mean anything, so there is no universal way to import a CSV file (it just means that each field is separated by a comma, but there is no way to tell what order the fields are in). What program exported the CSV file from Windows? If the CSV isn't very complicated then it wouldn't be too hard to put a script together to convert your data, and there probably already is a tool for that floating around somewhere. The CSV came from Lotus Smart Suite Address Book. The headers, after I turned the database into a CSV, look like this: 0 xFirst Name xLast Name xTitle xJob Title xCompany Name xStreet Address xCity xState xZip xCountry/Region xPhone xExtension xFax xEmail yStreet Address yCity yState yZip yCountry/Region yPhone yFax yEmail But, I can make the headers anything I want. My big issue is how to import VCF into Contacts. Or, dump Contacts for something more import friendly. And, I though VCF was one record at a time. I have tried changing the headers to Outlook's and using csv2vcard, but I only get a single VCF record with no data, just VCF tags. I suppose if I can not find anything better than Contacts, I could crack Contacts database directly and create a new database for Contacts. But what a pain in the neck. Thank you for the help, -T
Re: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak, but it disappears after I reboot
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/04/2012 06:25 AM, Tam Nguyen wrote: Thanks Todd. -Tam On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com__ wrote: On 07/31/2012 05:29 AM, Tam Nguyen wrote: You are very welcome, Todd. Please share with us your finding. I would love to learn the mystery behind your issue. -Tam Hi Tam, So far: crypttab coughs on passwords with space: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845698 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/__show_bug.cgi?id=845698 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/__show_bug.cgi?id=845698 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845698 Crypttab does not mount volume at boot: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845701 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/__show_bug.cgi?id=845701 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/__show_bug.cgi?id=845701 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845701 Red Hat is pretty good about looking into these things, so now we wait. -T Hi Tam, Figured it out. Or, rather the Red Hat guys figured it out for me. As it transpires, crypttab thinks everything in the key file is part of the pass phrase AND THAT INCLUDES THE *stinkin'* LINE FEED! You can see what I mean with the following: $ echo abc | hexdump -c 000 a b c \n The \n at the end is the line feed and crypttab thinks it is part of the pass phrase! To create a \n free key file, you have to use -n option in echo. For instance: $ echo -n abc | hexdump -c 000 a b c As you can see, no \n at the end. I asked Red Hat if they would document this is the man page. I have not heard back from them yet. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/__show_bug.cgi?id=845701 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845701 [editorial comment]__!!__!!![/editorial comment] Thank you for all the help in fixing this. I commented out my rc.local work around and fstab now mounts /lin-bak correct at boot. -T On 08/07/2012 05:32 AM, Tam Nguyen wrote: Hi Todd, Thank you for the update. I am going to test that out. -Tam Hi Tam, If all else fails, I wrote a proposed update to the man page. crypttab tab man page password section needs to be update https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846140 And, Red Hat accepted it! -T
Re: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak, but it disappears after I reboot
On 08/04/2012 06:25 AM, Tam Nguyen wrote: Thanks Todd. -Tam On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/31/2012 05:29 AM, Tam Nguyen wrote: You are very welcome, Todd. Please share with us your finding. I would love to learn the mystery behind your issue. -Tam Hi Tam, So far: crypttab coughs on passwords with space: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/__show_bug.cgi?id=845698 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845698 Crypttab does not mount volume at boot: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/__show_bug.cgi?id=845701 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845701 Red Hat is pretty good about looking into these things, so now we wait. -T Hi Tam, Figured it out. Or, rather the Red Hat guys figured it out for me. As it transpires, crypttab thinks everything in the key file is part of the pass phrase AND THAT INCLUDES THE *stinkin'* LINE FEED! You can see what I mean with the following: $ echo abc | hexdump -c 000 a b c \n The \n at the end is the line feed and crypttab thinks it is part of the pass phrase! To create a \n free key file, you have to use -n option in echo. For instance: $ echo -n abc | hexdump -c 000 a b c As you can see, no \n at the end. I asked Red Hat if they would document this is the man page. I have not heard back from them yet. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845701 [editorial comment]![/editorial comment] Thank you for all the help in fixing this. I commented out my rc.local work around and fstab now mounts /lin-bak correct at boot. -T
Re: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak, but it disappears after I reboot
On 07/31/2012 05:29 AM, Tam Nguyen wrote: You are very welcome, Todd. Please share with us your finding. I would love to learn the mystery behind your issue. -Tam Hi Tam, So far: crypttab coughs on passwords with space: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845698 Crypttab does not mount volume at boot: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845701 Red Hat is pretty good about looking into these things, so now we wait. -T
Locked door on my dvd player
Hi All, SL 6.2, 64 bit My DVD placer (Sony Optiarc DVDRW AD-7260S-0B) has a weird problem. If I press the eject button on the door, it rattles and clunks, shakes a bit too, but the door does not open. It does open fine in BIOS. If I issue $ eject -v /dev/sr0 it opens beautifully and smoothly. Anyone know what is going on? Is there something in Linux that is holding my DVD player closed? Many thanks, -T
Re: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak, but it disappears after I reboot
On 07/31/2012 05:29 AM, Tam Nguyen wrote: ou are very welcome, Todd. Please share with us your finding. I would love to learn the mystery behind your issue. Will do
Re: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak, but it disappears after I reboot
On 07/30/2012 06:26 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote: Todd, let's keep it simple, get it right and work, then you can take off from there. So do this: vi /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/lin-bak /mnt ext4 defaults 0 0 Hi Tam, I have tried this. With and without the first parameter set to allow dump, which I do need. vi /etc/crypttab: lin-bak/dev/sdb1 I have tried this. At boot I get mount: special device /dev/mapper/lin-bak does not exist mount -a without /dev/mapper/lin-bak, it won't mount. reboot /dev/mapper/lin-bak disappears Then we'll go from there. -Tam You know what I have not tried, removing the dash from lin-bak in crypttab -T
Re: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak, but it disappears after I reboot
On 07/30/2012 06:26 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote: Todd, let's keep it simple, get it right and work, then you can take off from there. So do this: vi /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/lin-bak /mnt ext4 defaults 0 0 Hi Tam, I have tried this. With and without the first parameter set to allow dump, which I do need. vi /etc/crypttab: lin-bak/dev/sdb1 I have tried this. At boot I get mount: special device /dev/mapper/lin-bak does not exist mount -a without /dev/mapper/lin-bak, it won't mount. reboot /dev/mapper/lin-bak disappears Then we'll go from there. -Tam You know what I have not tried, removing the dash from lin-bak in crypttab Makes no difference. -T I am mounting now by using rc.local: # if I can not get /etc/crypttab to work, this will populate # /dev/mapper with lin-bak and mount /lin-bak if [ ! -L /dev/mapper/lin-bak ]; then cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak /etc/crypttab.lin-bak.key if [ -L /dev/mapper/lin-bak ] [ -n $(mount -l | grep -i lin-bak) ]; then mount /lin-bak fi fi I suppose I don't need the [ -n $(mount -l | grep -i lin-bak) ] But, I was pleased with my coding, so I left it in. -T
Re: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak, but it disappears after I reboot
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/30/2012 06:26 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote: Todd, let's keep it simple, get it right and work, then you can take off from there. So do this: vi /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/lin-bak /mnt ext4 defaults 0 0 Hi Tam, I have tried this. With and without the first parameter set to allow dump, which I do need. vi /etc/crypttab: lin-bak/dev/sdb1 I have tried this. At boot I get mount: special device /dev/mapper/lin-bak does not exist mount -a without /dev/mapper/lin-bak, it won't mount. reboot /dev/mapper/lin-bak disappears Then we'll go from there. -Tam You know what I have not tried, removing the dash from lin-bak in crypttab Makes no difference. -T I am mounting now by using rc.local: # if I can not get /etc/crypttab to work, this will populate # /dev/mapper with lin-bak and mount /lin-bak if [ ! -L /dev/mapper/lin-bak ]; then cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak /etc/crypttab.lin-bak.key if [ -L /dev/mapper/lin-bak ] [ -n $(mount -l | grep -i lin-bak) ]; then mount /lin-bak fi fi I suppose I don't need the [ -n $(mount -l | grep -i lin-bak) ] But, I was pleased with my coding, so I left it in. -T On 07/30/2012 08:04 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote: Todd, I am glad it works for you. I get my working on the VM without touching the rc.local file. You should research on it. Good luck Hi Tam, Thank you for the copious amounts of time and your knowledge you shared with me helping me! Red Hat is going to get a few bug reports out of this in the next few days! -T
Re: LUKS and fstab question
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com__ wrote: Hi All, Xfce 4.8 Scientific Linux 6.2, 64 bit I have just encrypted my backup drive. Is there anyway to get it into my fstab? Problem is rebooting removed the label I created in /dev/mapper with # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak and in fstab, I can add: /dev/mapper/lin-bak /lin-bak ext4 defaults 1 0 But /dev/mapper/lin-bak vanishes on me after a reboot. I can double click on the icon on my desktop and it will mount in /media/lin-bak. But this plays havoc on my scripts. Gives me a long funny name in /dev/mapper too, which disappears when you dismount. Be nice to be able to get the drive into my fstab. If not, how do I mount it from the command line? If I try to mount directly, I get # mount /dev/sdb1 /lin-bak mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS' Perplexed, -T On 07/28/2012 07:31 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote: You need to map it in the file /etc/crypttab. You want to configure your /etc/crypttab file to look like this: lin-bak /dev/sdb1 Ah ha! Thank you! In /etc/crypttab, how do you handle passwords with spaces in them? I think it gags on quote marks. -T On 07/28/2012 09:46 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote: I haven't tested it with password that contains space. Try escape with back slash key( \ ). Hi Tam, With both quotes and backslashes, I get key file missing. So I switched to a keyfile. Now I get: special device /dev/mapper/lin-bak does not exist. I can create /dev/mapper/lin-bak with cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak but /dev/mapper/lin-bak disappears after I reboot. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? -T
How can I reuse my LUKS password at boot?
Hi All, I now have two encrypted hard drives. The second one is my backup drive. Both have the same password. When I boot up, I get prompted twice for each drive. My password is rather long and it is a bit annoying to have to put it in twice, let alone once. Is there a way get LUKS to automatically reuse my password from the first drive on the second drive at boot? Many thanks, -T Ooops. /etc/crypttab fix the problem.
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak, but it disappears after I reboot
Hi All, I can set up /dev/mapper/lin-bak with # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak but it disappears after I reboot. This messes up my crypttab/fstab. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Many thanks, -T
Re: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak, but it disappears after I reboot
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I can set up /dev/mapper/lin-bak with # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak but it disappears after I reboot. This messes up my crypttab/fstab. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Many thanks, -T On 07/29/2012 06:15 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote: Hi Todd, Did you create a file journal (mkfs...) after you executed the command?: # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak Basic steps are: 1) cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/xyz 2) cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/xyz abc ---then verify it in /dev/mapper 3) mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/abc --- i like to use ext4. Do research on this journal if you're not clear. Now that we got it settled. Come the fun part- automounting: 4) configure your /etc/fstab 5) then configure your /etc/crypttab Before you reboot your machine, do a tested mount: mount -a -Tam Yes, did all that. I can mount too. But, when I reboot, lin-bak disappears from /var/mapper. AAA! -T
How can I reuse my LUKS password at boot?
Hi All, I now have two encrypted hard drives. The second one is my backup drive. Both have the same password. When I boot up, I get prompted twice for each drive. My password is rather long and it is a bit annoying to have to put it in twice, let alone once. Is there a way get LUKS to automatically reuse my password from the first drive on the second drive at boot? Many thanks, -T
LUKS and fstab question
Hi All, Xfce 4.8 Scientific Linux 6.2, 64 bit I have just encrypted my backup drive. Is there anyway to get it into my fstab? Problem is rebooting removed the label I created in /dev/mapper with # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak and in fstab, I can add: /dev/mapper/lin-bak /lin-bak ext4 defaults 1 0 But /dev/mapper/lin-bak vanishes on me after a reboot. I can double click on the icon on my desktop and it will mount in /media/lin-bak. But this plays havoc on my scripts. Gives me a long funny name in /dev/mapper too, which disappears when you dismount. Be nice to be able to get the drive into my fstab. If not, how do I mount it from the command line? If I try to mount directly, I get # mount /dev/sdb1 /lin-bak mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS' Perplexed, -T
