Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: [ much snipped ] I owe Konstantin an apology. I read things into his directions that were not there, especially concerning customized kernels (which he did not suggest) I still don't like the autoupdate tool because

Re: df checks in check_mk oddity

I'd not export bind mounts. But have you examined your SELinux settings on the NFS server? Nico Kadel-Garcia Email: nka...@gmail.com Sent from iPhone > On May 5, 2016, at 8:22, "Stephen Berg (Contractor)" > <stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote: > > Had this

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Konstantin Olchanski <olcha...@triumf.ca> wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 12:49:01PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> > Use the much better yum-autoupdate from CERN instead: >> >> > http://www.trium

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yum-cron problem on 7.x

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Konstantin Olchanski <olcha...@triumf.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:20:13PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> > >> > Use the much better yum-autoupdate from CERN instead: >> > http://www.triumf.i

Re: SSH port forward with firewalld

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Karel Lang AFD wrote: > Hi, > > i see 2 basic ways howto go about this > > firstly, > yes, you can solve this by port-forwarding on the iptables level on the host > machine. > Unfortunately, i dont use firewalld, i use only iptables, so can't say if >

Re: abiword

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > On 04/14/2016 02:01 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >> >> On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, R P Herrold wrote: >> >>> The content is now at: >>> ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC/abiword/ >>> and will move to: >>>

Re: Issue with EPEL repo

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 04/05/2016 06:34 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: >> >> Note that, unlike ELRepo folks with whom one can communicate via the SL >> list (persons who even are willing to identify themselves, and not "hide" >> behind some Bugzilla-like

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > There were two more postings by me with suffix [2] and then [3] pursuant to > the situation with SL7.2 Live on this particular platform, including the > Ubuntu description of the hardware. > As far as I can tell, all of the

Re: MAC file sharing

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:02 PM, wrote: > Back in the day I use to use neatalk the Linux AFP server but i'm not sure > Mac OSX still uses AFP. Oh, brother. I used to *publish* the hooks to get CAP, the Columbia Appletalk Protocol server, and later netatalk to work for

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: > SL-72-x86_64-2016-02-03-LiveDVDkde.iso would not boot on a HP Pavilion > Laptop Computer model N5R26UA#ABA, although the list of hardware on the > machine should have been supported by SL 7. Fortunately, one of my

Re: SL6, firefox, flash, and upgrade failures

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Is there a way to TURN OFF Firefox "flash is insecure" nagging, > or FORCE "Always Activate" when it is grayed out in about:addons? Use Chrome? Or lynx? Or Emacs? Or *anything* to avoid the suckitude that is modern

Re: Any favorite FTP server

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:18 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 03/21/2016 03:32 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: >> >> vsftp is pretty much the standard these days >> >> there is a standard package, its fairly simple to setup as a basic ftp >> server but it has a lot of options,

Re: named-chroot issue - AGAIN

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:53 PM, David Sommerseth > wrote: >> >> Not going to argue that this could have been done better, I agree with you >> here. On the other hand, maybe *that* is one reason

Re: Setting hostname

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is that the $HOSTNAME for the system isn't published in > DNS, nor is it the first hostname for a line in /etc/hosts, so the > "hostname --fqdn" is not finding it associat

Re: Setting hostname

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > > Benjamin Lefoul writes: > >> Hi Loris, >> >> On SL7, I believe hostnames are best set declaratively in the file >> /etc/hostname (as has been the case for long on other

Re: Offline update FAQ?

Check out my old tools at https://github.com/nkadel/nkadel-rsync-scripts . On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: > On 03/02/2016 09:12 AM, Howard, Chris wrote: >> >> Can someone point me to a good cookbook for doing offline updates? >> >> My fuzzy

Re: 7.2 update instructions

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > I actually use an rsync mirror (the copy is done with rsync -avHAX, although > symlinks can be disturbed if not careful) to another disk; an rsync backup > is restored quite simply, and using hardlinking can trim quite a bit

Re: 7.2 update instructions

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: > I have burned the current production SL 7.2 4 Gbyte install DVD. The DVD > boots but does not seem to have an upgrade option, only an install option. > Note that I plan to overwrite all files/partitions used by the system

Re: SL 7.2 not booting on HP Microserver N36L

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:12 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Try this kernel parameter on boot for workaround: > initcall_blacklist=clocksource_done_booting > > -- > Eero I ran into a very similar issue myself yesterday trying to install 7.2 on a server. I'll try that one

Re: Problem with setting permissions in /etc/fstab

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Bill Maidment wrote: > An update. > I have put the same /etc/fstab entry in another SL7.2 machine and it sets the > permissions correctly on boot. > > On the problem machine I have tried setting the permissions on the directory > to 0770 before

Re: SL 7.2 - Gnome 3.14 - gnome-terminal - titles

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Thompson, Herb wrote: > FYI for those who might be affected: 7.2 comes with an upgrade to Gnome 3.14 > which, as is usually the case for Gnome upgrades, results on the loss of > some features present in the previous version. The first

Re: repositories need IPv6 connectivity

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Antonio Querubin wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:43:16 -1000 >> From: Antonio Querubin >> To: scientific-linux-de...@fnal.gov >> Subject: repositories need IPv6

Re: forced fsck

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 02:38:23PM -0800, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> sl 7.2 (Yipee!) >> >> How do I force an fsck on next reboot on all >> three of the following partitions: >> >> / >> /boot >> /home >>

Re: Kickstart / PXE / Cobbler / Ansible

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:37 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 14/01/16 15:21, Loris Bennett wrote: >> Hi Benjamin, >> >> Benjamin Lefoul writes: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am actually interested in the automated install topic (currently

Re: Vbox with new Kernel vers. 3.10.0-327.3.1(SL7.1)

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > On 12/29/2015 02:42 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: >> >> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Yasha Karant wrote: >> >>> On 12/28/2015 01:37 PM, S A wrote: >>> I am confused. As I thought I understood the current EL situation, Red >>> Hat owns

Re: SL 7.1 not installing from DVD on unpartitioned disk

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Konstantin Olchanski <olcha...@triumf.ca> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 03:54:18PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> Hilarity ensued. I had to explain to several engineers, for both VM's >> and for repurposing hardware, that you sh

Re: SL 7.1 not installing from DVD on unpartitioned disk

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Dirk Hoffmann wrote: > >> It's very difficult to verify or get details from your complaint. And >> now you seem upset because I called the difficulty into question. > > > No, I am dissatisfied, because of general remarks instead of concrete

Re: SL 7.1 not installing from DVD on unpartitioned disk

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Dirk Hoffmann wrote: > >> Reporting "someone else had a probem, but I don't know how it >> happened" is one of the great problems of debugging. It's not clear, >> for example, if your colleague was trying to install on top of >>

Re: SL 7.1 not installing from DVD on unpartitioned disk

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Dirk Hoffmann wrote: > Dear community, > > Sorry, if this is a "known issue" or "feature", but we tried to install > SL7.1 from DVD on a totally new disk without partition table. This seems to > fail systematically with a hanging dark

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] GDM login screen (dconf and system name)

eference/x135.html > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Nathan Moore <ntmo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I submitted a request to the GDM documentation folks. Thanks for the >>> pointer.

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] GDM login screen (dconf and system name)

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Nathan Moore wrote: > I submitted a request to the GDM documentation folks. Thanks for the > pointer. > > Rephrasing my question: Let's say I have 50 machine in my cluster, with > hostnames "linux01" "linux02" ... "linux50" > > In previous

Re: clang and Scientific Linux

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: --047d7bd9006e956b96051cfc958d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have installed Scientific Linux. I would like to use clang. I see that clang is not part of the yum

Re: Set kdump in kickstart

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Mark Whidby mark.whi...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 05:34 -0500, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: Can't seem to find a kickstart setting for either enabling or disabling kdump from a kickstart installation. Does anyone know what I can put in

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] RHEL - SL conversion

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Pat Riehecky riehe...@fnal.gov wrote: Thanks Jim! On top of that, for the very curious, we try to include the patches we apply to the SRPMs in the SRPMs themselves for a clear explanation of exactly what was changed. The SL approach to this is *very good*.

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL 7.1 schedule? (was Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo)

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Steve Gaarder gaar...@math.cornell.edu wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Pat Riehecky wrote: Depending on your needs, utilizing the BETA may help alleviate your problems. I presume I would do that by enabling the sl7-rolling repo, correct? My main concern would

Re: IMAP client backup applications

You're on Linux. yum install fetchmail; man fetchmail should get you pretty far. Any IMAP system that can handle multiple accounts should then allow you to move messages back, and forth, to multiple accounts: this was built into Thunderbird, as I remember from some years back. On Fri, Mar 6,

Re: flip cell phone

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:04 AM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, Anyone have a favorite dumb flip cell phone whose camera will allow SL to plug into its USB port and read it pictures? Many thanks, -T Which SL release? USB and peripheral integration has been a kernel

Re: cups without a password?

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Brandon Vincent brandon.vinc...@asu.edu wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 5:17 PM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Before you shake the finger at me, all of the below were no security installations, The finger will be shook regardless. Eventually a no

Re: SL7 client for Microsoft ActiveSync

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:40 AM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu 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.

Re: Docker

Yasha writes; Please correct me if I am in error. RHEL, binary licensed for fee, is built from a source that RH does not seem to release. You've already got it backwards: Red Hat publishes as much as possible as open source, preferably even freeware, and has been a champion if turning

Re: [clamav-users] Which anti-virus do you prefer on Linux desktop?

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Franklin Wang franklin2...@y7mail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Of course, it's wonderful to know more friends with the same hobby. But I wonder to know the answer about it for long. The virus db of clamav may be the same on the

Re: Which SL 7 accepts which TUV Fedora release RPMS

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Although I should have been able to find this information from a different source, via Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux I found: Fedora 19 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Is it correct

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Heads up to the el6 guys

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: On 11/19/2014 08:34 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 11/19/2014 09:25 AM, jdow wrote: Latest patches won't install: Error: Package: hdf5-mpich-1.8.5.patch1-9.el6.x86_64 (epel) Requires: libmpichf90.so.12()(64bit)

Re: Anyone want my Wine compile notes?

:30 PM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: On 11/13/2014 05:31 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:12 PM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, It about killed me, but I finally managed to get Wine 1.7.30.i686 to compile on SL 6.5 64 bit. Would any

Re: Anyone want my Wine compile notes?

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:12 PM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, It about killed me, but I finally managed to get Wine 1.7.30.i686 to compile on SL 6.5 64 bit. Would any of you like my notes on the matter? They will save you endless hours (Wine's config file is pretty

Re: SL6 incompatible update of X11

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:54 AM, James M. Pulver jmp...@cornell.edu wrote: Quote: Let me offer a suggestion that may help for production environments. Use something like rsnapshot to make locked copies of an rsync mirror of Scientific Linux, and ensure that your local yum setup is aimed at a

Re: SL6 incompatible update of X11

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: A few days ago an updated linux kernel and updated xorg packages were pushed into the SL6 updates. These updates are automatically installed by the default yum configuration of SL6.5. Unfortunately these updates

Re: Dell Latitude E6540

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Is anyone running SL 7 on a Dell Latitude E6540? My institution is considering this unit over the equivalent HP unit, to replace the five year old laptop that I currently use, because of the net lower cost of the Dell.

Re: bash bugs - alternative shell

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 06:47:12PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 2 October 2014 18:01, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: Tcsh: 1981 (file-completion feature merge with csh) But go 1 step

Re: AW: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Questions about SL 7.0

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti lopre...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Pat Riehecky riehe...@fnal.gov wrote: The sources were taken from git. They were then compared to the sources from the public Release Candidate provided by upstream on April 22 2014.

Re: AW: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Questions about SL 7.0

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Andreas Mock andreas.m...@drumedar.de wrote: Hi Pat, hi Patrick, thanks for your answers and comments. How would someone like me get a SRPM for a binary package found or installed on a SL 7.0 system? I really don't understand in the moment how it is

Re: nmap to find mac addressees

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:14 PM, David Sommerseth sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net wrote: I'd recommend you to install mock and build it via mock. Your user account must be member of the mock group to function. Mock builds pulls down the needed packages for the distribution you build your

Re: Questions about SL 7.0

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:45 PM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: It's quite galling: the current semi-manual re-assembly of local branches, based on git log entries

Re: any workaround for `GLIBC_2.14' not found on SL 6x

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Is there any workaround for the issue below other than moving to SL 7 (once that release goes into production from beta)? ykarant@jb344 Downloads]$ /usr/bin/AfterShotPro2X64 Install Path:

Re: Microsoft Active Directory and SCCM

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2014-08-05 20:29 GMT+03:00 Paul Robert Marino prmari...@gmail.com: I've never heard of SCCM but the Microsoft's AD thing is doable but difficult. Doable, not difficult as it required only authconfig command

Re: XFS and dump?

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:25 AM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: I have notes on how to restore the whole potato with restore that I will share with anyone the needs it -- just ping me in the subject line. Fast compared to build partitions, mount them, rsync from upstream snapshot

Re: rpm problem

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:00 PM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: On 07/23/2014 09:05 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/23/2014 10:43 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, I am having trouble installing the PDF Studio RPM.

Re: New binary package set for EL6 x86_64

The maven and tomcat and ruby193 packages look nice. Organized access to those could save me a lot if local setup work. Nico Kadel-Garcia Email: nka...@gmail.com Sent from iPhone On Jul 11, 2014, at 8:24, Jonathan Perkin jper...@joyent.com wrote: * On 2014-07-11 at 12:58 BST, James M

Re: New binary package set for EL6 x86_64

Nico Kadel-Garcia Email: nka...@gmail.com Sent from iPhone On Jul 11, 2014, at 8:59, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: The maven and tomcat and ruby193 packages look nice. Organized access to those could save me a lot if local setup work. Nico Kadel-Garcia Email: nka

Re: Scientific Linux 7 -- no more IA-32 ?

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Brett Viren b...@bnl.gov wrote: Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu writes: how much additional RAM and hard drive space is required by this X86-64 implementation? The memory usage going from 32 to 64bit x86 really depends on the code you run. My understanding is

Re: How to keep multiple glibc release instances in use

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: This post is a follow-up to Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] glibc-2.15-60.el6.x86_64.rpm [correction]. I had forgotten this trick, but I received an off-list email that explained what to do. This sort of information should be

Re: [SL-Users] Re: Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA - Updating

The cron scripts I mentioned for doing local rsyncs are up at https://github.com/nkadel/nkadel-rsync-scripts/ There's also my old 'reposync' script, suitable for slurping yum based access repositories into a local mirror. It's what I used to use to pull RHEL SRPM's or RPM's, *only with a valid

Re: [SL-Users] Re: Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA - Updating

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Joseph Areeda newsre...@areeda.com wrote: On 07/04/2014 09:12 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: All, Please refrain from posting anything other than testing results of the released SL packages

Re: [SL-Users] Re: Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA - Updating

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Joseph Areeda newsre...@areeda.com wrote: On 07/05/2014 08:03 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Joseph Areeda newsre...@areeda.com wrote: On 07/04/2014 09:12 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Set up a local rsync mirror from any

Re: Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Pat Riehecky riehe...@fnal.gov wrote: Users interested in Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA can review: http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1407L=scientific-linux-develT=0X=30246605F08F0DC7EDP=74 -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer

Re: [SL-Users] Re: Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: All, Please refrain from posting anything other than testing results of the released SL packages in this thread. Let's keep this one free of trolls. Akemi The SL 7 Alpha is running well in PC Virtualbox (my virtualiztion

Re: R.x86_64 (R-core) on SL7.0

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Semi s...@bgu.ac.il wrote: I tried to install R.x86_64 (R-core) on RHEL7 But blas-devel and lapack-devel texinfo-tex unavailable in epel repositories. It will be any solution in SL7.0? --- Package R-core-devel.x86_64 0:3.1.0-5.el7 will be installed

Re: In Place install of SL 6.5 over Centos 6.5 ?

Nico's is missing the '\n'. It should be: rm -rf /tmp/failed /tmp/success mkdir /tmp/failed /tmp/success RPMLIST=`rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'` for name in $RPMLIST; do yum reinstall $name -y 2/tmp/failed/$name /tmp/success/$name done

Re: In Place install of SL 6.5 over Centos 6.5 ?

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Elias Persson delre...@takeit.se wrote: On 2014-06-28 22:49, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Running yum distro-sync failed to detect any discrepancy and did not re-install them. Lamar wasn't very clear, perhaps, but it's `distro-sync full` that relies

Re: In Place install of SL 6.5 over Centos 6.5 ?

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: It is unfortunate that even with EL7 it seems to not be doing exactly what it says it is going to do; I would personally prefer a 'distro-sync force' that would reinstall everything from the selected repos no matter what, but

Re: In Place install of SL 6.5 over Centos 6.5 ?

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On 06/25/2014 07:42 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: Yes, it will work partially. To make the switchover complete you need to do a 'yum distro-sync full' afterwards

Re: what does this cc1plus error mean?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 3:14 AM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi Pete, Ye old out-of-date strikes again. Probably will have to wait for SL7. Rats! Thank you for helping me with this, Or you could rpm -U file.src.rpm, edit the resulting .spec file to manipulate the CFLAGS

Re: In Place install of SL 6.5 over Centos 6.5 ?

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On 06/25/2014 12:15 PM, James Fait wrote: Hi All: I recently received a new server system that has Centos 6.5 installed on it. I would like to change that to a Scientific Linux 6.5 system without having to do a full

Re: RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On 06/19/2014 09:16 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Take a look at even a simple SPEC file, such as ntp.spec to see how much interpretation it's doing. Oh, I'm well aware of that. Relying on the upstream authors to always do

Re: RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

Hi, Dag!! Haven't seen you since that London Linux conference, I'm back in the USA now. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Dag Wieers d...@wieers.com wrote: Self-criticism (and yes, I feel part of Red Hat's community) is essential. And a decision that makes Red Hat weaker, weakens my case as

Re: RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On 06/18/2014 08:22 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: (different topic, different reply) On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: The various spec files include the release numbers, and you can track

Re: RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: So, somewhat paradoxically, I would have a greater confidence in source from git than source from a signed source RPM, again due to git's design. Yeah, I know, it's not what we're used to, and there is a bit of information that

Re: RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

to extract the list of actual repositories, many components of which may be renamed or discarded in future RHEL 7 releases. This is going to be a lot of work. On 06/10/2014 05:11 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I'm staring at http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/6/red-hat-unveils-rhel-7

RHEL 7 just hit the market place, I'm looking forward to when we can start testing SL 7

I'm staring at http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/6/red-hat-unveils-rhel-7, Looks like we can start testing trying to build it. Is there anything I can do to help?

Re: need bash variable syntax help

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:52 PM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, In Bash script language, how do I create a variable name from a variable? I am trying to create a variable called abcStatus x=abc $xStatus=xyz obviously doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Many

Re: Replacing bridge interface online

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Johan Guldmyr johan.guld...@csc.fi wrote: Hi! On a SL6.5 machine we now have two connections to the same switch/vlan. One is 1GbE (eth0) and the other is 10GbE (eth5). Could I just do a brctl addif br0 eth5 and then brctl delif br0 eth0 and it switch to use

Re: how do I troubleshoot a udev freeze?

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:00 PM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, I have a rather old computer out in my shop with SL6.5, x64 on it. It has run beautifully on Linux for years and years. Now, when it boots up, it freeze up at udev. Nothing else shows other than udev. I

Re: /dev/zero and flash drives

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:45 AM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: On 05/16/2014 09:40 PM, John Lauro wrote: Also, be aware that unlike hard drives, for flash drives it likely does not erase the drive. Internally the drive might just mark the sectors as all clear and flag the

Re: Any 7 rumors?

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:09 PM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Any rumors on if the upgrade tool will be ready to go with 7? https://github.com/dashea/redhat-upgrade-tool FedUp for Fedora works really well. Fedora does not have as long between releases, and as much serious

Re: Any 7 rumors?

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: The RHEL 7 Public Release Candidate has been out since April 21. Our complete guess is June or early July. So This redefining the OS sounds probable. Only guessing . There are enough significant layout differences,

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Thank you for the information on www.nomachine.com, etc. Two points: I was not confused about the mechanisms and terminology of X windows, but the university network security czar administrative (not academic) group

Re: ssh -X xinit failure

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Thanks for the information. At my institution, we were told by the university network security group that after ssh -X, one still needed to activate X for the session by xinit or the like for security reasons. Evidently,

Re: Network question - disable access to an IP without running ifdown ?

Don't use the main IP address for your traffic. Use a secondary, virtual IP address on the same port or ports, say ifcfg-eth0:1, and tie it to any of the common VIP monitoring packages such as is used by the master-master-mysql monitoring program. Basically, they communicate over the available,

Re: How do I elevate in a script?

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Matthieu Guionnet guion...@insa-toulouse.fr wrote: Hi Todd, why don't you just use setuid ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid Because the kernel does not permit this for scripts. http://www.krenel.org/setuid-and-shell-scripts-explained/ Setuid

Re: How do I elevate in a script?

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:20 PM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, I have a bash script that need to be run as root. In the script, I check to see if it is running as root and flag the user to run appropriately. Is there a way to use su to prompt for the password and

Re: Fwd: Virt manager error

And what does virsh say? virt-manager is basically a GUI on top of the virsh command line tool. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Francesco M. Taurino francesco.taur...@gmail.com wrote: nay clue from log files? f Il 24/04/14 09:01, Pritam Khedekar ha scritto: Dear all, please help on

Re: Any 7 rumors?

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2014 11:17, David Sommerseth sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net Really!? I've been involved in a few PCI-DSS certification rounds for a company which provided online payment services back in the days.

Re: Any 7 rumors?

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:14 PM, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, I have a customer who is going to have to upgrade a whole pail of stuff for PCI compliance (credit card security). Part of what he is going to have upgrade is his old CentOS 5.x server (it is too

Re: VMs of EL and other environments

Maybe someone altered the Apache configuration to allow directory browsing? It wasn't browseable when I looked!!! Hi Nico, I am able to browse the public yum server. Am I missing something ? http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/5/base/x86_64/ Cheers, Paul

Re: Virt manager error

First: update to release 6.5 for the server, if you can, just to avoid known bugs. Second: review whether security tools like SElinux or iptables are possibly interfering with your system. You might turn them off, temporarily, just to see if virt-manager works. Third, review what virsth reports

Re: what is the error on this rebuild?

The version of RPM in Fedora these days supports the %install process installing files in the BUILDROOT target directories and referencing them in the RPM '%files' directives, with their full patch as documents. That's a new behavior, not supported in older versions of RPM. Take a good look at

Re: Need help with rpm rebuild error

Fedora has a significantly more recent version of RPM than Scientific Linux 6, and many of the dependencies have significantly modified names. That seems to be a stable package, it was in Fedora 15. Perhaps you could rebuild the SRPM from a Fedora 15 archive site, or compare the .spec files, to

Re: Upgraded to SL 6.5 - no Ethernet - Working

That Alan didn't include, because if that's Alan Bartlett from Samba work he's *brilliant* and probably already knows all this stuff, is that the /etc/grub.conf file is a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.con. If you edit it with some editors, it will replace the symlink with your new file, and not

Re: Upgraded to SL 6.5 - no Ethernet - Working

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: That Alan didn't include, because if that's Alan Bartlett from Samba work he's *brilliant* and probably already knows all this stuff, is Err, you mean

Re: SL 6.4 Ethernet Port is dead - maybe

Grab the latest live Ubuntu live DVD or CD. See if *that* can talk to the ethernet port, since the kernels tend to be more recent than the industry grade, stable kernels in Scientific Linux. But after a power failure on a clear day sounds like hardware failure.. I assume you;ve tested the cables

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