Re: firefox 45.1 crashes

On 28 April 2016 at 14:25, Graham Allan wrote: > After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're > getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing. > I would see if you can get data on what the crashes are as they may be related to a specific set

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird unpatched question

On 25 April 2016 at 07:44, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 25/04/16 04:51, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> On 04/24/2016 07:43 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> >> We are currently 38.7.0 ESR. As far as ESR goes, it is on >> 45.0 >> >>

Re: Fermi has stopped using SL?

On 8 April 2016 at 20:07, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > I heard a rumor today that said Fermi labs has moved off of Scientific Linux > to Centos? > Scientific Linux was at one point a collaboration between Fermi Lab, CERN and maybe some other groups at Argonne and maybe

Re: Issue with EPEL repo

On 6 April 2016 at 10:09, 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: Issue with EPEL repo

On 5 April 2016 at 16:34, Yasha Karant wrote: > On 04/05/2016 09:37 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Dave Howorth > wrote: >> >> On 2016-04-05 16:40, Alan Bartlett wrote: >>> >>> On 5 April 2016 at 15:57, Yasha Karant

Re: Issue with EPEL repo

On 5 April 2016 at 08:57, Yasha Karant wrote: > I know from past experience that ElRepo persons do read and reply to this > list. Does any EPEL person? If not, does anyone know how to contact the > EPEL maintainers? > > There is an issue with the EPEL MATE install method. > >

Re: Need bootable no install SL 7 DVD

On Apr 1, 2016 13:07, "Yasha Karant" wrote: > > My spouse's laptop appears to be failing in hardware -- there are repeated errors coming from the SL 6 boot screen including what appears to be a failing hard drive (but this could also be the mother board disk controller). > > As

Re: LAN connectivity via VirtualBox to MS Win

On 29 March 2016 at 12:41, Yasha Karant wrote: > My understanding is that 802.11 NAT, etc., connectivity from SL 7 to > VirtualBox to MS Win does not work because the kernel releases for SL 7 no > longer support this possibility. I know it functions in SL 6 because my > spouse

Re: openssl

On 4 March 2016 at 08:24, Connie Sieh wrote: > I do not think it will. You will notice that there is nothing in that > directory newer than 2012. > > The RHEL support matrix is at > > https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata > > If you need errata support for RHEL

Re: crash on boot since the first .327... kernel update

On 1 February 2016 at 08:23, Robert Blair wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have an old compaq f700 laptop that I installed SL7 on. It ran fine > until three kernel updates ago. All of the 327 patches cause it to > crash on boot. I have had to

Re: two mysteries

On Jan 27, 2016 11:58, "Yasha Karant" wrote: > > On 01/27/2016 07:02 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:41 AM, jdow wrote: >>> >>> On 2016-01-26 05:17, Tom H wrote: IIRC, Yasha's issue with 802.11 is that he cannot bridge a wifi NIC

Re: SL7.2 systemd and ordering

On 15 January 2016 at 01:13, Jean-Michel Barbet wrote: > Hello all, > > I am fighting with SL72 systemd. I am trying to build kind of an > appliance based on a LiveCD (created with livecd-creator). > > The idea is to read an USB key, early enough in the

Re: Kickstart / PXE / Cobbler / Ansible

On 14 January 2016 at 06:33, Benjamin Lefoul wrote: > Hi all, > > I am actually interested in the automated install topic (currently taking > place in the other discussion, but I don't want to feed the troll so I'll > start a new one). > > Someone just mentioned

Re: a year later - CERN move to Centos - what are we doing?

On 12 January 2016 at 08:29, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > I have made one move to SL-7, and it hasn't been great. I live behind a > firewall that prevents me from raiding other RH-based repositories, so I > lost xmgrace in the process. Also, I could never find something as >

Re: Fast TSC calibration failed, Intel DX79SR

On 5 January 2016 at 14:29, Nathan Moore wrote: > rhgb quiet Try removing these two lines so that if the error is something else it will be printed -- Stephen J Smoogen.

Re: SMR drives - has anybody tried?

On 4 December 2015 at 01:25, lejeczek wrote: > hi, > from the reading I've done there is that first conclusion - it may different > a lot with each FS - people theorize. I wonder if anybody put them into > practice. > I wondered if btrfs/xfs was any good, etx4 in current

Re: RHEL - SL conversion

On 7 May 2015 at 13:36, Vinod Gupta vi...@princeton.edu wrote: CMS is one of about twenty Physics groups here in Princeton University. We have our own Linux distribution based on RHEL with a few Princeton specific home grown RPMs. The CMS group has been using SL. We are trying to find a most

Re: SL 7.1 PXE install: xfs not found

I ran into this with upstream last week: http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2015/04/note-to-future-self-random-problems.html The kernel and initrd.img must be the kernel and initrd.img that is in the version being used in the pivot root (eg if you have 7.0 kernel and 7.1 kernel). This was because

Re: Bizarre bug

On 3 March 2015 at 11:52, P. Larry Nelson lnel...@illinois.edu wrote: Hi Stephen, Replies in-line below. Thanks, - Larry I want to thank you for giving all the details of your testing. I would like to use it as a future example of how to be constructive and helpful to other people

Re: Bizarre bug

On 3 March 2015 at 12:00, P. Larry Nelson lnel...@illinois.edu wrote: hosts: files nis dns Try removing the nis out to see if that affects things. If it is trying to lookup something and is timing out waiting for the nis which isn't around anymore.. that would cause a long wait for

Re: Bizarre bug

On 3 March 2015 at 13:33, P. Larry Nelson lnel...@illinois.edu wrote: Well, that's the question I am now asking myself. As I mentioned before, it was because it was in my notes to switch the order. But I don't remember why exactly. I remember switching the order for NIS/DNS from the RHL-5.x

Re: Bizarre bug

On Mar 3, 2015 8:49 AM, P. Larry Nelson lnel...@illinois.edu wrote: I am seeing a bizarre bug where an SL6.x system hangs on either shutdown or reboot at the point where it wants to shutdown the loopback interface. Let me start off by saying I'm running a mixed shop of SL5.x servers (DNS,

Re: SL7 client for Microsoft ActiveSync

On Feb 8, 2015 11:41 PM, 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: static linked ISA executables

On 28 January 2015 at 10:20, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Suppose one has an ISA executable file (e.g., an application that is a native binary executable, not an interpreted executable) that works under a different Linux distribution -- for clarity, call that OTHER Linux. OTHER may

Re: SL7: Missing texlive-* packages

On 6 January 2015 at 17:33, Anthony Seward anthony.sew...@ieee.org wrote: After digging through the .spec file, I believe you are correct. Ugh!. Looks like I’ll have to see how hard it is to make a TexLive Software Collection from a Fedora version of TexLive. Double Ugh!! Standard way of

Re: SL7: Missing texlive-* packages

On 6 January 2015 at 13:54, Anthony Seward anthony.sew...@ieee.org wrote: I have encountered some missing packages in SL 7 and I can’t find any explanation in the release notes or through web searches. Does anyone know why the following packages are missing from SL7? texlive-pdfcrop-*

Re: ypbind not registering with rpcbind on SL7

On 6 January 2015 at 05:08, Dirk Hoffmann hoffm...@cppm.in2p3.fr wrote: Dear SL fellow users (admins?), I installed SL7 yesterday from the standard DVD in Computing node flavour. yum update ran correctly, then I needed YP/NIS. Network configured and working (one if out of six activated).

Re: openldap

On 22 December 2014 at 16:31, Werf, C.G. van der (Carel) c.g.vanderw...@uu.nl wrote: Is anybody familiar with memory leaks in OpenLDAP version 2.4.39, which is current in SL6x.repo ? Does anybody know if OpenLDAP 2.4.40 is being added to SL6x.repo soon ? If the openldap is what is shipped

Re: Longest LTS - still SL/RHEL?

On 15 December 2014 at 03:29, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: I was sad to learn that there will not be a 32 bit version of SL7 / RHEL7 . I run older T60 laptops with 3x4 aspect ratio screens, and have a stockpile of spares and screens and keyboards that should last a long time. I

Re: SL6 incompatible update of X11

On 5 November 2014 16:36, 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 are

Re: Need help with SL 7, Wine, and 32 bit problem

On 3 November 2014 14:39, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, This is kind of critical. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Okay, I give up. Downloaded and installed Wine from EPEL. SL7 wine-1.7.22-1.el7.x86_64 I think it is because EPEL isn't able to build the 32 bit

Re: xterm -exec and fonts

On 3 November 2014 17:51, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: On 11/03/2014 04:18 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On SL 7, I installed xterm-295-3.el7.x86_64 What happened to -exec? This broke a ton of my script launchers! On SL6.5, I am running xterm-253-1.el6.x86_64 Do have to revert to

Re: xterm -exec and fonts

On 3 November 2014 18:32, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: On 11/03/2014 05:24 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 3 November 2014 17:51, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: On 11/03/2014 04:18 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On SL 7, I

Re: Dell Latitude E6540

On 22 October 2014 23:07, 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. Dell

Re: bash bugs - alternative shell

On 2 October 2014 18:01, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 05:39:36PM -0400, Brett Viren wrote: Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca writes: For interactive use, most people switched from /bin/sh to /bin/tcsh back in the mid-1990-ies. (Bash,

Re: Ye old Thorn Symbol

On 29 September 2014 15:04, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, What am I doing wrong. Not sure what this has to do with Scientific Linux as it isn't about the distro building or science. EL6 and EL7 if you run the command screen and type CONTROL-A, CONTROL-V it will prompt

Re: read my dvd capabilities?

On 3 September 2014 22:30, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: On 09/02/2014 02:11 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Look at the output wodim gives with the verbose flag. Hi Stephen, wodim throws a yum error: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/devdump from install

Re: read my dvd capabilities?

On 2 September 2014 14:35, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, I noticed that K3B and Brasero both do not tell me the things my dvd drive can do, as does CD Burner XP in Windows. Look at the output wodim gives with the verbose flag. That is what the dvd player has. If the DVD

Re: How do you speed up rsync?

On 11 July 2014 13:58, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi All, I have a bash script for synchronizing a flashing drive (target) with my hard drive (source) I take to customer sites (with a read only switch so I don't spread viruses). I currently rsync 11 different directories.

Re: How do you speed up rsync?

On 11 July 2014 14:26, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: I'd imagine your local disk is unencrypted while you are reading/writing to it On 07/11/2014 01:11 PM, Steven Miano wrote: rsync be default is using an encryption method most likely more taxing than arcfour. Just

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

On 9 July 2014 15:34, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 04:16:46PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: On 07/08/2014 12:07 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: As a full IA-32 environment will no longer readily be available as an off-the-shelf EL distribution (that is, the

Re: Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA rc.local doesn't work

On 8 July 2014 08:07, Semi s...@bgu.ac.il wrote: Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA rc.local doesn't work. Any solution? I tried the following: chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.local ln -s /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service /etc/systemd/system/multi- user.target.wants/rc-local.service systemctl enable

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

On 8 July 2014 08:31, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:19:58AM -0700, Jim McCarthy wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Connie Sieh wrote: I note that only X86-64 is available; have I missed something about supported ISAs, or will there also be an IA-32

Re: Is Red Hat Upgrade Tool ready to go with 7?

On 11 June 2014 20:53, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if the RHEL version of Fed Up is ready to go? https://github.com/dashea/redhat-upgrade-tool Upgrading Fedora is so easy with Fed Up. I was hoping to do the same with SL 7. -T Upgrading with

Re: 224.0.0.251

On 23 May 2014 16:12, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: On 05/23/2014 02:25 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: This is why I ask (VLC's doing): kernel: Vlan-out Everything Else IN= OUT=eth0.5 SRC=192.168.254.10 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=56 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353

Re: Any 7 rumors?

On 16 May 2014 18:09, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Any rumors on if the upgrade tool will be ready to go with 7? The following are confirmed rumours[1]. * EL-7 will be launcing a new age of compliance to the RFC with RFC 1149 and RFC 2549 fully supported [2]. * Current work is

Re: Any 7 rumors?

defines an upgrade as being wipe and reinstall then any OS can upgrade another one. My apologies for pulling people's legs when it is not April 1st. On 17 May 2014 12:07, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 May 2014 18:09, ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: Any

Re: How do I elevate in a script?

On 29 April 2014 15:20, 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 continue the

Re: Any 7 rumors?

On 9 April 2014 11:17, David Sommerseth sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.netwrote: On 09/04/14 16:27, Paul Robert Marino wrote: No it was always required because the shopping cart itself may in some cases contain data which could possibly be used to gain access to sensitive customer data. Also

Re: Create 4TB RAID volumes during install?

On 28 March 2014 14:42, CS_DBA cs_...@consistentstate.com wrote: Hi All; I have a server which we've setup with 2 - 500GB drives and 6 - 4TB drives I want to mirror the 2 500GB drives as a RAID 1 volume - works as expected However I also want to add all 6 4TB drives to a single RAID 10

Re: SL 6.4 Ethernet Port is dead - maybe

On 7 March 2014 14:47, Larry Linder larry.lin...@micro-controls.com wrote: I am looking for a way to check the functionality of an Ethernet port on a 4 mo old new system. We use this box for number crunching and reducing data. Since no one uses the desktop we left it as Gnome and set up

Re: How do I change my eMail address?

On 18 September 2013 16:35, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, I have been looking around the http://listserv.fnal.gov/**archives/scientific-linux-**users.htmlhttp://listserv.fnal.gov/archives/scientific-linux-users.html to no avail trying to figure out how to

Re: Cheap PCI-E Solid State Disks (SSD)

On 30 July 2013 18:21, Gerard Bernabeu gera...@fnal.gov wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some fast (~1GB/s on sequential writesreads) SSDs that are both cheap and compatible with linux. Do you know of any? Some examples would be: OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 (1.3GB/s writes on the 960GB version, ~$1530 =

Re: EXTERNAL HARD DISK 2 TB ISSUE

On 9 July 2013 08:36, Pritam Khedekar pritamkhedek...@gmail.com wrote: guys, i have 2 tb external drive which was working fine now suddenly it doesn't show in my computer it detect as usb drive but doesn't show in my computer or in disk managemnet This problem is usually either a

Re: Desktop Cinnamon

On 13 December 2012 06:32, Larry Linder larry.lin...@micro-controls.com wrote: Has anyone tried to use Cinnamon desktop onto SL. The Desktops on 6.X were unusable from our vantage point and that is why we stalled at 5.8. Well without a definition of what unusable is.. then I would not see how

Re: Scala missing in the official repo(s)

On 26 November 2012 21:59, Freak Trick trickfr...@ymail.com wrote: I was attempting to install Scala (the programming language). The query 'yum search scala' on SL 6.3, did not return any positive results. Furthermore, there are no packages in non-official repo(s) either. Is it even possible to

Re: task blocked for more than 120 seconds

On 14 November 2012 10:20, Ken Teh t...@anl.gov wrote: The common thread is I/O to a MegaRAID raid5 device. Which is cause for concern since the primary function of both machines where I've encountered this problem is file-serving. Perhaps I am just unlucky and have 2 bad MegaRAID cards in a

Re: Unreadable YUM cron job logs.

On 26 October 2012 13:03, Steven Haigh net...@crc.id.au wrote: Hi all, Recently I've noticed a trend to get some logs from yum updates that happen automatically that don't display. Looking at the message source, I see: Something in the mail system is encoding this as base64 but not putting in

Re: CD recording nowadays

On 21 October 2012 07:17, Andrew Z form...@gmail.com wrote: Gents, i'm a bit ;) confused as of the current state of CD burning on our platform. Back in the days it was cdrecord, now ... i'm not sure... I see there is cdrtools and cdrkit... but neither(?) seemed to be included in the main

Re: jumbo frames?

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

Re: SL 6 vs. other RHEL clones: security advisory comparison

On 20 August 2012 17:22, Ian murra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: you are over simplifying the process. Eg. What was the time lag from when the srpm was released and the rhn notes published to when CentOS released that specific update ? I seriously think this is the wrong place to discuss CentOS

Re: LTO tape drives

On 18 June 2012 08:38, Ken Teh t...@anl.gov wrote: Hi all, I need some help and advice with LTO tape drives.  I haven't kept up with tape technology for several years now and from a quick google, it appears that the only games in town are LTO and DDS.  We do have a single DDS deployment and

Re: Set path -

On 11 April 2012 16:50, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote:           I just installed SL-6 on another computer and it's really a           bother to have to enter /usr/bin/locate etc. as user bobg.           How do I fix that? -ENOINFO A lot more information is

Re: Multiple terminal windows won't send jobs to individual cores

On 5 April 2012 10:47, Wil Irwin wil.ir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi- I am totally stumped and at a complete loss on this one. In an 'old school' manner (a.k.a poor man's grid engine), it is a common practice (at least for me) to open multiple terminal windows on a mullti-core machine. Submitting

Re: roller ball weirdness

On 29 March 2012 14:32, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am using Scientific Linux 6.2 x64 and Xfce 4.8. Since upgrading to 6.2, I have noticed if I scroll too fast on my mouse wheel, that I change windows. I wind up in a different program and have to click

Re: Odd password issue...

On 12 March 2012 12:18, Robert Tilden til...@northwestern.edu wrote: One of our systems running ‘Scientific Linux Fermi LTS release 4.9’ is exhibiting some odd password behavior. I can log in using a legitimate password for an account, but I can also log in when I add random characters at

Re: Anyone play with java 7 yet?

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 17:40, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All,   Anyone play with Java 7 yet?  What is you opinion of upgrading to it? http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-se-jre-7-download-432155.html In the past each Java version upgrade

Re: Unable to install SL6.1 with only 1GB of RAM?

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 09:30, Kenni Lund ke...@kelu.dk wrote: Hi Is it expected behaviour that SL6.1 requires more than 1GB of RAM to install when using anaconda for the install? I've just had the installer crash on me twice due to low memory, when I had 1024MB dedicated to the VM. I didn't

Re: xen on Scientific Linux 6 32-Bit or 64-Bit

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 13:30, Justin Sandy justmatt9...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to install xen on 32-bit or 64-bit Scientific Linux 6? Probably not easily. The kernels are optimized to work with KVM. You would need to tear out that kernel and build one for Xen and a xen image --

Re: DNS with bind

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 14:56, Mike Peterson mikeli...@yahoo.com wrote: Does DNS with bind on Scientific Linux work different than bind on RHEL and CentOS? If not, will bind be fixed with the release of Scientific Linux 6.1? I feel it is broken because files that are listed as being in the

Re: Enough with the frivolous emails

At some point in this long thread people have forgotten what the original email was about. 1) Please post on this list about problems with the OS. 2) Don't post here about non-OS related issues. Look there are a ton of places to post non-OS related items, and it wouldn't take too much to set up

Re: non-stop printer notification

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:59, Ken Teh t...@anl.gov wrote: I have a user who's print job was cancelled and he now gets dialog box popping up every minute telling him so and suggesting he find out why.  And little else. Sound familiar?  Is there a simple way of shutting up the machine short of

Re: chances of PPC64 build?

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 17:43, Jeremy Enos je...@ncsa.illinois.edu wrote: Hi there- Suppose I'm assembling a list of OS candidates to run on a very large PPC64 based supercomputer- what are the odds of seeing a SL6 PPC64 version? thx- PPC64 seems to be a hard platform to support it would seem.

Re: Firefox 4?

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 14:39, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Under SL6, are we stuck with Firefox 3.6?  Is there some plan to support Firefox 4 in our future?  (I have just been using the binary under CentOS 5.6.) I think this was asked earlier with 5.x.

Re: Installing SL6 on a Dell PE1950

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 08:27, Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.de wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 15:48, Randall Martin wrote: I’m having trouble installing SL6 on a Dell PE1950 via PXE kickstart. Works for me: # dmidecode |grep Product        Product Name: PowerEdge 1950 # lspci|grep

XFCE 4.8 in EPEL *soon*

Thanks to a lot of work by various people, XFCE-4.8 will be in EPEL as soon as enough testers say its working (or it is not which is just as good so it can be fixed). I claim NO credit on doing this because it was all done by Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com who has been catching up requests in

Re: Version of GPL license

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 06:21, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 08:20, Miguel Angel Diaz miguelangel.d...@ciemat.es wrote: Hi. I agree with you that packages have their own

Re: Version of GPL license

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 08:20, Miguel Angel Diaz miguelangel.d...@ciemat.es wrote: Hi. I agree with you that packages have their own licenses. But my question follows in other way. Imagine I want to create other .iso based on S.L.iso. I need to read .iso license to know if I am doing well.

Re: Rsync flaws

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 05:08, Federico Alves sa...@minixel.com wrote: The limitation is not my hardware. The servers are both Dell R900 with SAS disk arrays. Also, from a Windows virtual machine, inside the same server, I get around 400 MB speed using FTP transfer, windows to windows. There

Re: How do I install xfce?

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 18:10, Shaun Jones mister.s.jo...@gmail.com wrote: You need any help packaging it up ? At the moment, I do not think so.. as they should just be the Fedora packages recompiled to EL6. However if some sort of naming issue is required and such I will definitely call out.

Re: How do I install xfce?

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 13:25, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I just installed the basic server option on a new server.  I am happily setting at an init 3 command prompt.  I can contract the Internet with wget and yum. How do I install Xfce?    yum

Re: Time keeping Errors of 15 minutes / week

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 15:13, Larry Linder larry.lin...@micro-controls.com wrote: I loaded SL 5.5 64 bit on a Gigabyte 770T-USB3 mother board based system we are thingking of using in our shop.   My only real problem is that with other Linux and Windoze boxes in the system this system is losing

Re: Race condition with mdadm at boot [still mystifying]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 20:24, Chuck Munro chu...@seafoam.net wrote: This is a bit long-winded, but I wanted to share some info Regarding my earlier message about a possible race condition with mdadm, I have been doing all sorts of poking around with the boot process. Thanks to a tip

Re: Only One Disk ??

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:21, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Pablo Cavero wrote: --Boundary_(ID_1WtxFdl26Ek8oiWQEIWo7A) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Troy, Thanks for your fast reply. But, I insist. The space used by 2 DVD Disk, or 1 DVD + 1 CD,

Re: yum memory leak?

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:44, Ken Schumacher ks...@fnal.gov wrote: Stephen, On Dec 17, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 14:28, Ken Schumacher ks...@fnal.gov wrote: Greetings, I have a repeatable problem on at least one of our SLF 4.4 systems

Re: install alien

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 08:16, Frenck Cacia cr...@libero.it wrote: hello, I need to install a program alien to convert from deb to rpm. thanks Ok what are you trying to convert from a .deb to a .rpm Working from there may find an easier solution. -- Stephen J Smoogen. The core skill of

Re: smart statistics issue

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 09:13, William Lutter wjlut...@wisc.edu wrote: I have a desktop PC at work that shows a bad block.  PC runs Scientific LInux 5.0 and is a 2 TB  WD Green Technology 2 Tb HD (Caviar Green WD2CSRTL).   This one has worked fine out of the box for several months.  No

Re: disabling /tmp cleaning after reboot

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:31, Arnau Bria arnaub...@pic.es wrote: Hi all, may I disable /tmp cleaning after reboot? If yes, could some one tell me what file do I have to modify? I would think this would break all kinds of software. Most programs assume /tmp is available to them to put in

Re: disabling /tmp cleaning after reboot

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:44, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:31, Arnau Bria arnaub...@pic.es wrote: Hi all, may I disable /tmp cleaning after reboot? If yes, could some one tell me what file do I have to modify? I would think this would break all

Re: Another side effect that crept in with SL 5.5

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:08, Larry Linder larry.lin...@micro-controls.com wrote: I hate to say this but Linux has been around a long time and refuses to grow up.   The kids at Fedora scare me to death, due to lack to testing and maturity.   How does some thing that has worked for a long long

Re: minimal sci-lnx glibc v. 2.7

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Salvador Aguinaga salvador.aguin...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Jon Stephen: The app that I downloaded is available as a binary because the source code is proprietary.  I might be able to ask the owner to rebuild it for me using glibc v2.5 but if that's not

Re: minimal sci-lnx glibc v. 2.7

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Salvador Aguinaga salvador.aguin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a app that requires glibc 2.7 and the version installed with SL5.4 is 2.5. Should I download glibc 2.7 and install it from source or are there more complicated dependencies that prevent me

Re: slow ssh login

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Andy Mastbaum mastb...@hep.upenn.edu wrote: Hello, all. I'm having a weird problem with my SL 5.3 login server. All of a sudden (and without me changing anything) logins over SSH are very, very slow -- up to a few minutes. Once users are logged in,

Re: whats this new exploit then? (2009/11/03)

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Faye Gibbins fgibb...@staffmail.ed.ac.uk wrote: Hi,  Any comment from the SL5 distro  maintainers on this exploit apparently in recent RHEL releases? The vulnerability has been there for a long time. It has only just been found by someone who works on the

Re: Disk I/O operations sloooooowwww... :-(

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Alexandre Pereira iskandhar2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Forum I have installed SL-5.3 x86_64 default installation/partitioning scheme in my laptop... the only... call it different thing that I have done is an LVM Luks encryption of my HDD ( It is a laptop, and I

Re: ssh-keyscan does not return the right key !

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Jean-Michel Barbet jean-michel.bar...@subatech.in2p3.fr wrote: Hello, I am puzzled by this one : Performing a ssh-keyscan from an SL4.5 i368 server to retrieve the RSA key of a newly installed server in SL5.3 x86_64 does not return the right RSA public key.

Re: Mirroring SL with Cobbler

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Chris O'Regan ch...@encs.concordia.ca wrote: Is anyone using Cobbler to mirror SL? I am about to set up a local mirror and would appreciate any recommendations. I found some documentation on the SL web site regarding mirroring, but it seems a bit outdated (looks

Re: nfsd woes on 5.2

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Miles O'Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: useful info deleted for focus. So, we have two (possibly) problems. 1) Are the stats wrong, or is the problem not really in the number of threads? This is a fast, dual, quadcore SuperMicro server, so I'm not worried

Re: when is an sda an hda?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Ken Teh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting confused with the sda/hda naming conventions. I thought all SATA disks were sd devices. They were a while back but apparently, not anymore. And, I can't seem to make any sense of when an sda is an hda. I'm

Re: Recent openssh problem

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:31 AM, P. Larry Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've run into a problem with ssh X11 forwarding, apparently since the 8/23/2008 yum update of openssh packages. In the very recent past we were able to 'ssh -X' from an SL 4.6 host to another SL 4.6 system, and from

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