Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-02 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 04/02/2016 01:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: Other than stating that EL 7 will not work, are there any other suggestions? Best option is to remove the drive and put your own in for testing. Alternatively, clone the drive with CloneZilla or if you're more comfortable, "dd | gzip -1" and muck

Re: need rsync exclude help

2015-03-07 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 03/07/2015 06:32 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: From: ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com To: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@listserv.fnal.gov Sent: 7. March 2015 05:40:43 Subject: Re: need rsync exclude help --exclude='{wine-*,wine-1.7.24}' /home/CDs/Linux /mnt/MyCDs/. I

Re: SL7 client for Microsoft ActiveSync

2015-02-09 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 02/09/2015 01:40 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: My university IT department, external to any academic or research unit, has made the arbitrary decision to force us to use a Microsoft Office365 external distributed proprietary (cloud) service for official university email. Although this service

Re: Adobe flash plugin replacement for Firefox

2014-12-22 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 12/22/2014 12:51 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: We have end users that we support on machines currently running IA-32 SL6x who need Adobe Flash capability in a Mozilla Firefox browser. From Adobe (presumably under the influence/control of the Microsoft monopoly): *NOTE*: Adobe Flash Player 11.2

Re: telnet is too slow in Scientific Linux

2014-05-28 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 5/27/14, 6:06 AM, Edison, Arul (GE Healthcare) wrote: Hi All, In my system, I want to provide telnet feature and hence I installed the telnet rpms . however I found that , when connected from another system with telnet command, it takes 30 mins to show the telnet login prompt.

Re: mount -o question

2014-05-05 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 5/5/14, 3:21 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On May 5, 2014 2:10, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, # is roots user prompt $ is my user's prompt # mount -t ext3 -o users,exec /dev/sdc1 /mnt/LIVE # chmod -R 2777 /mnt/LIVE $ cp -R /home/CDs/Keepers/Linux/Usb.CreateLiveUSB /mnt/LIVE $

Re: gstreamer1-plugins-base

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 03/06/2014 05:51 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: I can highly recommend the Fluendo plug-ins, if you want to stay on the legal side (which is a requirement for the computers I use for work). Interesting. Made me look. :-) I may be misunderstanding, but the end user license agreement prohibits

Re: How to add from SL 6x bootable install DVD

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 01/18/2013 09:40 AM, Connie Sieh wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Yasha Karant wrote: During the installation process of SL 6x from a bootable installation DVD, there is an opportunity to configure in detail the selection of the actual applications and utilities (packages) that one wants. If

Re: clients slow down due to unknown process

2012-12-04 Thread Chris Schanzle
Interesting! Since you are getting (relatively) high i/o wait states, that means you likely have enough nfs daemons on the server to process client requests, but nfs server is just too slow to process the client's i/o and it gets backed up. You mention editing/compiling fortran programs;

Re: Suggestions wanted for reducing CPU load

2012-11-14 Thread Chris Schanzle
You're using most of your swap. Note below the Xorg server is 3.1G resident; that's big (and something's leaking), log out and log back in to free it up. plugin-container is obviously an issue too. I've had firefox open since Nov8 (6 days), with some views to Flash sites/youtube, and I'm

Re: firefox segmentation fault after update

2012-11-06 Thread Chris Schanzle
At least for EL5 users, Red Hat's update today looks like it may solve what's happening in this thread. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-1429.html * The out-of-process plug-ins feature was previously disabled for wrapped plug-ins by default. This could cause Firefox to terminate

Re: Iptable rule required to block youtube

2012-10-04 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 10/04/2012 09:58 AM, Steven Miano wrote: dig youtube.com http://youtube.com | egrep youtube.com http://youtube.com | awk '{ print $5 }' | grep . | grep -v '' yt.dig You'd block google's DNS servers with that, which might not be a problem on the client, but may I suggest a new and

Re: Autofs segfaults on 6.3 - and solution

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 09/29/2012 10:28 AM, Gerhard Schneider wrote: After upgrading to 6.3 we were seeing autofs segfaulting on many machines. A bug fix can be downloaded via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846852 Only as an information if someone is needing it - it seems that we have to wait very

Re: Strange partial window redraws in SL 6

2012-10-01 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 09/21/2012 02:03 PM, Steve Gaarder wrote: Some applications do not show the bottom part of their window, especially if that area is in the bottom half of the screen. Emacs is a good example; it happens with Cheese and Jitsi also. I'm running SL 6.2 32-bit on a Dell GX270 with dual monitors

Re: User proc uses all RAM+swap = kernel panic - shouldn't OS not allow?

2012-09-14 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 09/14/2012 03:58 AM, Winnie Lacesso wrote: Server has 16GB RAM 20GB swap; problem is, it's a compute server used by many. So one user (later mortified remorseful, but) causes grief for many. And a forced reset is always a concern re: possible filesystem corruption. Thank you all very much

Re: User proc uses all RAM+swap = kernel panic - shouldn't OS not allow?

2012-09-13 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 09/13/2012 10:32 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: Hello Winnie, On Sep 13, 2012, at 16:01 , Winnie Lacesso wrote: Several times over past few years I've seen user processes go mad (programming error) use all RAM, then all swap (as ganglia so vividly shows), then the box ends up at a kernel

Re: boot problems

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 09/08/2012 09:22 PM, zxq9 wrote: That fstab looked pretty normal, I think the next bit you pasted is more relevant... On 09/09/2012 08:00 AM, Dirk Brandherm wrote: Filesystem 1k-blocks UsedAvailable Use% 51606140516040440

Re: SSD and RAID question

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Schanzle
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? yes, many times ( 10). Emails come from mdmonitor

Re: SL-compatible webcam recommendations?

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 09/04/2012 04:01 PM, Steve Gaarder wrote: I'm looking for a webcam that I can use reliably with SL6 and Ekiga, one that has support in the SL or EPEL repos. Any suggestions? Logitech 9000 is excellent.

Re: SL-compatible webcam recommendations?

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 09/05/2012 06:17 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 09/04/2012 04:01 PM, Steve Gaarder wrote: I'm looking for a webcam that I can use reliably with SL6 and Ekiga, one that has support in the SL or EPEL repos. Any suggestions? Logitech 9000 is excellent. Let me rephrase that. We've had good

Re: What is the correct way to set up a dual boot system for CentOS 6.3, or SL 6.3, and Windows 7?

2012-08-23 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 08/23/2012 07:06 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Mr IT Guru wrote: I'd do the following: Partition my hard disks Create a 100M partition as a boot partition at the start of the disk I have a machine with a 100M boot partition. With SL6 kernels taking 20MB of /boot/

Re: Scientific Linux 6.3 i386/x86_64 is now available

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 08/08/2012 04:58 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: *SL_password_for_singleuser* Changes /etc/inittab to require the root password for single user mode. This was added with SL 6.0 and continues in this release. Umm, without checking SL6, are you really changing /etc/inittab which says: #

Re: Problem with yum

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Schanzle
I think he needs to exclude the mono repo; the adobe one seems fine from his output (thanks for including it!). yum --disablerepo=mono list On 07/22/2012 12:06 PM, Steven C Timm wrote: Either there is something in your /etc/yum.repos.d that is pointing to that site Or there is one of the

Re: HFSS 14.0 on Scientific Linux 6

2012-07-16 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 07/16/2012 09:59 AM, eigenroot wrote: Hi everyone, I am wondering if anyone here use HFSS on Linux. After installation in my Scientific Linux 6 x86_64, there were errors when I launched this program: ### Warning: Unable to determine

Re: yum update / python

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 06/20/2012 07:30 AM, Andras Horvath wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:26:16 +0400 Oleg Sadovsa...@linux-ink.ru wrote: 20/06/2012 08:35 +0200, Andras Horvath wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:05:49 +0200 Andras Horvathm...@log69.com wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:59:26 -0700 Akemi

Re: yum update / python

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 06/20/2012 09:55 AM, Andras Horvath wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:49:04 -0400 Chris Schanzleschan...@nist.gov wrote: On 06/20/2012 07:30 AM, Andras Horvath wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:26:16 +0400 Oleg Sadovsa...@linux-ink.ru wrote: 20/06/2012 08:35 +0200, Andras Horvath wrote: On

Re: yum update / python

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 06/20/2012 10:09 AM, Andras Horvath wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:04:03 -0400 Chris Schanzleschan...@nist.gov wrote: On 06/20/2012 09:55 AM, Andras Horvath wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:49:04 -0400 Chris Schanzleschan...@nist.gov wrote: On 06/20/2012 07:30 AM, Andras Horvath wrote:

Re: yum update / python

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 06/20/2012 10:19 AM, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 06/20/2012 10:09 AM, Andras Horvath wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:04:03 -0400 Chris Schanzleschan...@nist.gov wrote: On 06/20/2012 09:55 AM, Andras Horvath wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:49:04 -0400 Chris Schanzleschan...@nist.govwrote

Re: yum update / python

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 06/20/2012 11:46 AM, Andras Horvath wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:18:21 +0200 Andras Horvath m...@log69.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:23:40 -0400 Chris Schanzle schan...@nist.gov wrote: On 06/20/2012 10:19 AM, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 06/20/2012 10:09 AM, Andras Horvath wrote

Re: yum update / python -- SL6 packaging issue?

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 06/20/2012 12:12 PM, Andras Horvath wrote: yum install expat.i686 Probably somehow my 32-bit libexpat.so disappeared, wonder what could have caused it (I take care of my system extremely careful). This looks like a Scientific Linux package building issue that perhaps Pat Riehecky or

Re: Please update vsftpd package

2012-06-08 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 06/08/2012 08:44 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Matthias Schroeder matthias.schro...@cern.ch mailto:matthias.schro...@cern.ch wrote: On 06/08/2012 11:27 AM, Dennis Schridde wrote: Hi! The version of the package currently available in SL6

Re: Root password

2012-04-16 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 04/16/2012 02:29 AM, Larry wrote: On 04/16/2012 01:28 AM, vivek chalotra wrote: Dear all, I have forgotten the root password of my main server having SLC 5.7. Kindly let me know the easiest way to change or retrieve it. boot to single user mode and reset it :) Unless you've changed

Re: Remote package management

2012-04-16 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 04/15/2012 03:43 PM, Christopher Brown wrote: Hi, My apologies if members don't consider this list appropriate, if so perhaps a more appropriate forum could be suggested. I am using scientific linux 6.2. I will be installing it on 4-5 computers that will make up my lab. I plan to add some

Re: network manager questions

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 04/09/2012 04:55 PM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Given that rc.local does NOT work in F16 [snip] Umm, Adrian - are sure about that? Note /etc/rc.d/rc.local (not /etc/rc.local). $ systemctl -a | grep rc.local rc-local.service loaded active exited/etc/rc.d/rc.local

Re: adobe yum repo

2012-03-08 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 03/08/2012 02:11 PM, Ken Teh wrote: I just found out there is an adobe yum repo where you can keep the flash-plugin up-todate. Is any one using it? Yup. Works well. Note two different repos exist for 32-bit stuff (adobe reader, 32-bit flash) and 64-bit stuff (flash-plugin). Might not

Re: nfsd stats on SL6

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 02/28/2012 05:05 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 02/28/2012 02:25 PM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: On 2012.02.28 at 11:32:17 -0500, Wayne Betts wrote next: We have a couple of Scientific Linux 6.1 NFS servers. I looked at /proc/net/rpc/nfsd and was surprised to see on both of them

Re: Video editing help needed

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 02/21/2012 02:24 PM, Christopher Tooley wrote: On 2012-02-21, at 11:01 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/02/12 19:57, Kevin Wood wrote: Kino has captured the clip and I can see the timeline, but of course it is in .kino format. I thought that

Re: backup/clone NTFS partition?

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 02/16/2012 12:20 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 02/15/2012 08:21 AM, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 02/14/2012 08:20 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Question: what do you think would be the easiest way to clone the NTFS partition: dd, Clonzilla? Your thoughts appreciated. I've had good

Re: SL 6.2 rpmfusion

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 02/16/2012 11:46 PM, Daniel Pun wrote: Hi all, After installation of SL 6.2 and epel, I installed rpmfusion repository by using su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Re: coreutils for 64 bit

2012-02-06 Thread Chris Schanzle
It's a shame the original question didn't explain what and why he was trying to do something with these large blocks. Huge block sizes are useful if you have lots of ram and are copying very large files on the same set of spindles. This minimizes disk seeking caused by head repositioning for

Re: coreutils for 64 bit

2012-02-06 Thread Chris Schanzle
0m2.410s regards, Stephen. On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Chris Schanzle wrote: It's a shame the original question didn't explain what and why he was trying to do something

Re: coreutils for 64 bit

2012-02-06 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 02/06/2012 04:02 PM, jdow wrote: (On a heavily loaded system, just when are you going to find 12 gigabytes of fully contiguous storage?) Probably lots of places on the below 1.0 TB Dell R910 box: :-) [no, not heavily loaded at the moment, so your point is still valid, but don't forget

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] question about SSL proxy solutions

2012-01-26 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 01/26/2012 04:17 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 01/26/2012 03:08 PM, Howard, Chris wrote: This may be a bit off track for the SL-users, but I'm hoping you can steer me a bit. I have a Dell PE-2950 running Oracle application server. I have the need to use SSL between the desktops and the app

Re: Install Mount Configuration

2012-01-25 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 01/25/2012 05:34 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: That seems like a pretty full /boot, maybe you should uninstall some older, unused kernels. 100M should be plenty of space for /boot. Hmm, I'm not so sure. Fedora uses a default of 500 MB to facilitate using preupgrade to upgrade to future

Re: what's the status of the HW acceleration with nvidia and flash?

2012-01-24 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 01/24/2012 08:43 AM, Andrew Z wrote: hello, from what i could find it seemed to -not_ been working on 64 machines for flash 10 and 11. Is this still holds true or i'm behind? thank you Andrew Your question is a bit ambiguous as it seems to imply that hardware acceleration works on

Re: what's the status of the HW acceleration with nvidia and flash?

2012-01-24 Thread Chris Schanzle
things. Such as : a . all youtube videos are in flash b. i used the flash player to watch them. i did have mplayer compiled with vdpau and that worked for stand alone video with 20% CPU util Do i make any sense? Andrew On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Chris Schanzle schan...@nist.gov

Re: nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-22 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 01/21/2012 11:01 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Chris Schanzleschan...@nist.gov wrote: On 01/20/2012 09:51 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: I feel obligated to vent about the ongoing mess-up of the nfs-utils package. In the nutshell, all of my SL6.1

Re: nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps

2012-01-20 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 01/20/2012 09:51 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: I feel obligated to vent about the ongoing mess-up of the nfs-utils package. In the nutshell, all of my SL6.1 machines are affected (not both machines, both dozens of machines, 24 is the last count). The / directory is filling up with 1 Mbyte

hang umounting file systems on reboot

2012-01-18 Thread Chris Schanzle
I haven't seen a bugreport anywhere yet, so I thought I'd start here. On SL6 systems, we can't reboot reliably, particularly if someone is logged on the console or if the user initiates the shutdown from the desktop. Have not seen one hang if no automounts are mounted. The last messages on the