[SLL] wanted: revived distro wars

2012-05-14 Thread William Kreuter
After sixteen years of faithful use of Red Hat, it's time to switch. May I have opinions as to which to choose for a home desktop? My criteria include hassle-free installation, similar look-and-feel to Red Hat, and full support of rhythmbox, ffmpeg, perhaps realplayer, and generally good

Re: [SLL] is rhel 6.2 hosed, or is it just me?

2012-02-02 Thread William Kreuter
Here's something. Following up a suspicion, I entered from root (which, by the way, I've had no difficulty ssh'ing into): setenforce 0 Everything instantly starting working on /home. I can now do a passwordless login, run X apps remotely (which previously were giving xauth locking

[SLL] OT need an egrep regexp clue

2012-01-24 Thread William Kreuter
I want to select every line from a csv file which has the literal 201110 in the third field. Neither of the following do it. egrep -e '^{.*;}{2}201110' filename.csv egrep -E '^{.*;}{2}201110' filename.csv I haven't really figured out the use of curly braces. It seems that they're for both

[SLL] so *now* who has shell accounts?

2011-05-07 Thread William Kreuter
I think that this was last discussed long enough ago that the information ought to be updated. I want to establish a shell account accessible by ssh, somewhat preferably offering a RHEL-6 command line and the stock applications that come with RHEL-5, 6, Fedora, or something reasonably close.

[SLL] vacation isn't working in rhel5

2011-01-30 Thread William Kreuter
The vacation autoresponder suite came with rhel3 and 4, but it's omitted from 5. My el5 box uses sendmail-8.13.8-8.el5, which is what yum gives you, and I don't want to switch to another mailhandler. I grabbed the binary for vacation 1.2.7 from an rhel4 box and it runs with no apparent error on

[SLL] mounting an iPod Touch

2010-07-30 Thread William Kreuter
I just got a Touch, which at least at first I don't want to jailbreak. It's the 8 GB model, so it has the second-generation firmware. It looks like tools like amarok can't use this model at all, and it looks like gtkpod can't mount it without jailbreaking. Is there any possibility of making it

[SLL] ramfs and tmpfs

2010-04-14 Thread William Kreuter
In, at least, RHEL 4 with a 2.6 kernel, when does one choose ramfs instead of tmpfs, or vice versa? They both enforce a maximum memory usage, don't they? One difference I see is that by default, userland has write permission with tmpfs, but not ramfs. I'm not sure what to conclude from that.

Re: [SLL] ramfs and tmpfs

2010-04-14 Thread William Kreuter
I did see the Debian article, but then I saw that ramfs now provides for a maximum size. I'm not a sysadmin and I don't know what backing store is, but it sounded like both ramfs and tmpfs restrict the size that the mounted ram can grow to. It does look like tmpfs suits me well and I'm happy to