Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux power tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  thanks for any suggestions. iperf, mtr and configuring browser with java to enable running NDT.

Re: _tentative_ release date for Fermi 5.6?

2011-02-28 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov wrote: On 02/25/2011 11:36 PM, Larry Vaden wrote: It is my understanding that Fermi is a hardened variant of SL and I thus wonder Kerberized varient.  With all the kerberos stuff pointing to Fermilab's kerberos realm. Not really

_tentative_ release date for Fermi 5.6?

2011-02-25 Thread Larry Vaden
It is my understanding that Fermi is a hardened variant of SL and I thus wonder 1) is there a tentative release date for Fermi 5.6? 2) is the diff available as a script? kind regards/va...@texoma.net

Re: SL6 boot.iso: cockpit error or _?

2011-02-24 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov wrote: Hi Larry, Do you mind sending a lspci from when it is booted in linux, whether knoppix or some other way. Thanks Troy Good evening Troy and Connie, By the way, did the install via VNC connection go away in SL6?

Re: SL6 boot.iso: cockpit error or _?

2011-02-23 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov wrote: At the bootup screen, what parameters are you passing. These have changed since SL5, and it's quite likely that an option has changes since SL5, *especially* if it is network related. The environment is Compaq CL1850R (dual

Re: SL6 boot.iso: cockpit error or _?

2011-02-23 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov wrote: Hi, What happens if you don't append anything? Just hit enter at the boot line without adding or removing anything. Hi Troy, The CLR1850R locks up and requires power on reset. can't find IRQ for PCI INT D, probably buggy MP

Re: SL6 boot.iso: cockpit error or _?

2011-02-23 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: Can you verify that the network was enabled.  You should be able to see info on this by ctrl-alt-f2 or ctrl-alt-f3. Hi Connie, Booted SL5.6 from cpqarray to prove network was operational, 30 ms due south :) Booted SL6

Re: replacing yum-conf-55 with yum-conf-5x

2011-02-22 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Jan Kundrát kundr...@fzu.cz wrote: Hi there, I've got a fresh install of SL5.5, and would like to set it up to use the 5x repositories, whatever they are (or, to be more precise, I want this machine to receive updates from new releases as they come, and I

SL6 boot.iso: cockpit error or _?

2011-02-22 Thread Larry Vaden
The objective is to follow http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/build/sites to build a common Server Only CD suitable for use as the base for single-purpose-built servers and then yum the server's only reason for existence from a local repo of current vintage (BIND-9.7.3 and DHCP

Re: off topic - services

2011-02-21 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Arturo Fatturi cwc...@gmail.com wrote: What other services can I disable and maintain performance/security? In no particular order, http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/factsheets/rhel5-pamphlet-i731.pdf

Re: fatal error during install of SL-6-x86_64-2011-02-11-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-02-14 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov wrote: On 02/13/2011 01:05 AM, Larry Vaden wrote: Hello SL Developers and Users, . fatal Error during installation of DBUS . .iso was verified after download, burned on Windows 7 using native Windows Disc Image Burner with verify

Re: fatal error during install of SL-6-x86_64-2011-02-11-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-02-14 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov wrote: Hi Larry, More information is needed about how you were installing. Particularly, did you select any extra repositories in the screen where you can? There is a known bug/feature that when doing an install from the Everything

a request for independent confirmation|refutation of observed behavior of 5.6 x86_64 X11

2011-02-14 Thread Larry Vaden
Hello SL list members, This is a request for independent confirmation or refutation of observed behavior of 5.6 x86_64 X11. The observed behavior is that X11 on an AMD 64 locks up when probed with 'nmap -A -PN host.domain.tld' (Nmap v 4.11 from 5.6) whereas it does not lock up when probed with a

fatal error during install of SL-6-x86_64-2011-02-11-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-02-12 Thread Larry Vaden
Hello SL Developers and Users, . fatal Error during installation of DBUS . .iso was verified after download, burned on Windows 7 using native Windows Disc Image Burner with verify disc after burning . .iso was checked on target machine during installation . HP Desktop, specs at

Re: SL 5.6 released?

2011-02-11 Thread Larry Vaden
.} My presumption is that non-government use of SL is permitted if not welcome; feel free to correct me on that. As an ISP using CentOS, we'd like to migrate to SL if we are welcome to do that. kind regards/ldv Larry Vaden, CoFounder Internet Texoma, Inc. Serving Rural Texomaland Since 1995 We

Re: SL 5.6 released?

2011-02-09 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Ewan Mac Mahon e...@macmahon.me.uk wrote: However, someone from CERN IT (discussing some experiment software which seems to break on 5.6) has just told a grid deployment meeting that:  FNAL released SL 5.6 last week Clearly either my understanding is flawed or

Re: SL 5.6 released?

2011-02-09 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Ewan Mac Mahon e...@macmahon.me.uk wrote: I'm a little bit hazy on the details, but there are some slides from the meeting here[1]:  http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=8sessionId=1resId=1materialId=slidesconfId=106641 THANKS! On Wed, Feb 9,

Re: Migrate from CentOS 5.5 to SL5.5

2011-01-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Larry Vaden va...@texoma.net wrote: What did I do wrong and/or how do I fix this? With apologies for replying to my own post, the final solution (possibly regarded as draconian and puerile by others) which seemed to work to return to a consistent state

Re: Migrate from CentOS 5.5 to SL5.5

2011-01-28 Thread Larry Vaden
migration. My thanks to Seth Vidal and other folks who prefer/require anonymity and please excuse the cross post, and, of course, to those at the Big Purple Shipper. kind regards/ldv Larry Vaden, CoFounder Internet Texoma, Inc. Serving Rural Texomaland Since 1995 We Care About Your Connection

Re: Migrating from EL3 to SL5

2011-01-28 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Chris Tooley ctoo...@uvic.ca wrote: Small question, Ok, I just found an OLD machine, which has EL3 on it - has anyone ever successfully migrated from EL3 to SL5?  (I can probably wipe it too, but I was interested if I could do this) The Fedora folks have a