Re: How does NetworkManager monitor the connection files?

2016-03-31 Thread jdow
On 2016-03-31 02:53, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Benjamin Lefoul wrote: But sed -i ALSO changes the inode, and as I said it doesn't work: root@hoptop:~# touch a root@hoptop:~# ls -i a 9700011 a root@hoptop:~# sed -i 's/q/a/g' a root@hoptop:~# ls

Re: How does NetworkManager monitor the connection files?

2016-03-30 Thread jdow
On 2016-03-30 20:35, olli hauer wrote: On 2016-03-31 05:02, Yasha Karant wrote: On 03/30/2016 06:56 PM, jdow wrote: On 2016-03-30 10:59, Yasha Karant wrote: ... Yasha, you may find you have to modify the virtual box settings so that they are not trying to use a network connection

Re: How does NetworkManager monitor the connection files?

2016-03-30 Thread jdow
On 2016-03-30 10:59, Yasha Karant wrote: On 03/30/2016 09:14 AM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Benjamin Lefoul wrote: Hi, I have set monitor-connection-files=true in my /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf It works fine (in fact, instantly) if I edit

Re: snooping windows 10 - how to stop it on a linux gateway?

2016-03-05 Thread jdow
ransaction. Original Message From: jdow Sent: Friday, March 4, 2016 23:35 To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: snooping windows 10 - how to stop it on a linux gateway? That windows update server is a relay for the "snoop" messages. About the only way to totally stop the snoop me

Re: snooping windows 10 - how to stop it on a linux gateway?

2016-03-05 Thread jdow
using squid and an external Perl regex filter script or other filter application, but you will take a latency hit because you will have to inspect every transaction. Original Message From: jdow Sent: Friday, March 4, 2016 23:35 To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: snooping windows 10

Re: snooping windows 10 - how to stop it on a linux gateway?

2016-03-04 Thread jdow
That windows update server is a relay for the "snoop" messages. About the only way to totally stop the snoop messages is to totally isolate the network containing Windows machines from the network. Any windows machine can serve as a relay point for any others. {o.o} On 2016-03-04 20:16,

Re: snooping windows 10 - how to stop it on a linux gateway?

2016-03-04 Thread jdow
Can't be done economically. ANY machine that can reach Windows Update will also feed the snooping reports. The blocking is probably not needed as it consists of error reports after you've turned off everything in the various settings dialogs. Of course, one must never run Cortana if one is

Re: CVE 2015-7547

2016-02-19 Thread jdow
# rpm -qa | grep glibc glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64 glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.i686 glibc-utils-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64 glibc-common-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64 glibc-devel-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64 glibc-headers-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64 Already installed with updates as of a day or so ago.

Re: two mysteries

2016-01-27 Thread jdow
On 2016-01-27 13:23, David Sommerseth wrote: On 27/01/16 11:13, jdow wrote: Fascinating. I made a bad "assumption" about network devices. It seems they are created dynamically without any presence in /dev. IIRC, *BSD provides /dev nodes for network devices which the user-spa

Re: two mysteries

2016-01-27 Thread jdow
On 2016-01-26 22:52, Yasha Karant wrote: On 01/26/2016 09:41 PM, jdow wrote: On 2016-01-26 05:17, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:12 AM, David Sommerseth <sl+us...@lists.topphemmelig.net> wrote: On 26/01/16 08:13, Yasha Karant wrote: As neither VMware player nor VirtualBo

Re: two mysteries

2016-01-26 Thread jdow
On 2016-01-26 05:17, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:12 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 26/01/16 08:13, Yasha Karant wrote: As neither VMware player nor VirtualBox seem capable of providing a MS Win guest with any form of Internet access to an 802.11

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

2016-01-13 Thread jdow
There is at least one other sub group around here who value generally quiet sober support when they have a problem. Ubuntu and many other distros are quality distros, and perhaps better support what some people want. But the Ubuntu and Fedora mailing lists and support are unbelievably noisy and

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

2014-11-19 Thread jdow
Thanks. I figured I was not the only one; and redundancy helps. (I'm 2000+ miles from the machine in a hotel room with a raging head cold. Otherwise I'd have gone looking.) {^_^} Joanne On 2014/11/19 07:34, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 11/19/2014 09:25 AM, jdow wrote: Latest patches won't

Re: OpenGL

2014-02-20 Thread jdow
On 2014/02/20 03:21, David Sommerseth wrote: On 19/02/14 15:08, jdow wrote: On 2014/02/19 01:59, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:29 PM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: What happened to it? It's really hard to get VirtualBox clients to work without OpenGL when you want to use

6x-6.4?

2014-01-13 Thread jdow
I figure this is a stupid question; but, is 6.5 really not ready for prime time yet? I see that the 6.5 repo tree appears to be open for business. But 6x seems to point to 6.4. {o.o} Joanne

ddclient vs selinux

2013-12-14 Thread jdow
For some time now ddclient has not been working quite right. I made some changes that finally brought to light the reason for this. I removed the tweaked ddclient.conf, then yum removed ddclient, yum install ddclient, and finally edited the ddclient.conf file to make it happy. I started

Re: cloning with dd

2013-01-29 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/29 10:20, Bluejay Adametz wrote: target hard drive. The hard drive on A is /dev/sda, call it Ahd. A is shut down power off. Bhd is installed into an available bay on A, A is booted, and Bhd appears as /dev/sdb in A. Using dd on A, clone /dev/sda to /dev/sdb . Mount on A the

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/25 12:28, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:19:14PM -0800, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: 3) nvidia and elrepo make a mess of the information on which cards are supported by which drivers. To elaborate: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia The grand total of

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/25 13:04, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:57 PM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: the gentlemen at elrepo . They seem to be basically very good folks. s/basically// ;-) By the way there is more than gentlemen on the ELRepo team... but that's not important

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/25 13:31, Lamar Owen wrote: On Jan 25, 2013, at 3:57 PM, jdow wrote: To a degree I can sympathize with the elrepo people. Nvidia has screwed up. This is not the first time nvidia cards have gone 'legacy'. There are now three supported legacy nvidia driver versions (304.xx, 173.xx

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/25 15:04, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: It seems there should have been some way to cozen yum into sending the administrator email regarding the process that needs to be taken. snip I ask once again that all elrepo-related talks

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread jdow
the right to be cranky. (Or are you telling me old age and guile beat youth and enthusiasm yet again.) {^_-} On 2013/01/25 15:04, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: It seems there should have been some way to cozen yum into sending the administrator

Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-24 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/23 23:55, Phil Perry wrote: Here is the announcement I made back in November that the 310.xx series nvidia drivers were dropping support for older 6xxx and 7xxx based hardware: http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2012-November/001525.html And how was I to know that and how

Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-24 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/24 01:12, Phil Perry wrote: On 24/01/13 08:08, jdow wrote: On 2013/01/23 23:55, Phil Perry wrote: Here is the announcement I made back in November that the 310.xx series nvidia drivers were dropping support for older 6xxx and 7xxx based hardware: http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail

Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-23 Thread jdow
Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon? It seems elrepo released a new set of nvidia modules that don't work with the 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 kernel. That one only supports through nvidia 304 and the download is 310. {^_^}

Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-23 Thread jdow
, jdow j...@earthlink.net mailto:j...@earthlink.net wrote: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon? It seems elrepo released a new set of nvidia modules that don't work with the 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 kernel. That one only supports through nvidia 304 and the download

Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-23 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/23 08:51, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:20 AM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon? It seems elrepo released a new set of nvidia modules that don't work with the 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 kernel. That one only supports

Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-23 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/23 19:27, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 24 January 2013 02:52, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: Um, 4 weeks is a trifle long for no Gnome or KDE. Ah well, I guess I wait. I seldom use the machine from a GUI anyway. It seems ElRepo may have screwed up. {^_^} I fail to see the significance

Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-23 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/23 20:33, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:04 PM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2013/01/23 19:27, Alan Bartlett wrote: I fail to see the significance -- or relevance -- of your last sentence. Please remember this is the main support channel for Scientific Linux

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Yum update problem -

2012-10-31 Thread jdow
On 2012/10/31 15:40, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 31/10/12 18:17, David Sommerseth wrote: Otherwise, have a look in /etc/yum.repos.d ... and use rpm -qif repo-file to see where this file came from. If it's something you've added manually, you won't find a match. Otherwise, it's

Re: Iptable rule required to block youtube

2012-10-05 Thread jdow
Presuming that is the right address for your region on this ball of dirt, how do you access Google? Google and YouTube share the same address block, which is addresses 74.125.239.0-74.125.239.14. Google owns 74.125.0.0/16 for that matter. I don't doubt that they have other netblocks, too. {o.o}

Re: clock factor file

2012-10-03 Thread jdow
Do you mean adjtime by any chance? Unfortunately the values in its fields do not seem to be well defined. It is part of the initscripts package. {^_^} On 2012/10/02 22:09, g wrote: greetings. in unix, there is a file, name of which i do not recall, used as a 'clock factor' and controls the

Re: clock factor file

2012-10-03 Thread jdow
On 2012/10/03 01:33, g wrote: On 10/03/2012 06:45 AM, jdow wrote: On 2012/10/02 22:09, g wrote: greetings. in unix, there is a file, name of which i do not recall, used as a 'clock factor' and controls the 'tick rate' for the system clock. is such a file used in scientific linux and what

Re: SSD and RAID question

2012-09-08 Thread jdow
On 2012/09/08 18:34, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 09/05/2012 03:34 PM, jdow wrote: But if the real limit is related to read write cycles on the memory locations you may find that temperature has little real affect on the system lifetime. I did some reliability analysis for the military

Re: SSD and RAID question

2012-09-05 Thread jdow
On 2012/09/05 11:38, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 09/04/2012 12:21 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: Cherryville drives have a 1.2 million hour MTBF (mean time between failure) and a 5 year warranty. Note that MTBF of 1.2 Mhrs (137 years?!?) is the*vendor's estimate*. Baloney check. 1.2

Re: SSD and RAID question

2012-09-02 Thread jdow
On 2012/09/02 20:26, Nathan wrote: In my experience, I've had more problems with hardware RAID controllers than any other component (hardware OR software) except for traditional hard drives themselves. We switched to software RAID (Linux) and ZFS (*BSD and Solaris) years ago. But that's

Re: jumbo frames?

2012-08-27 Thread jdow
On 2012/08/27 14:37, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 08/27/2012 01:57 PM, Carl Friedberg wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner- scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Todd And Margo Chester Sent: Monday, August 27,

Re: jumbo frames?

2012-08-27 Thread jdow
On 2012/08/27 15:32, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 08/27/2012 03:16 PM, jdow wrote: ifconfig comes to mind. {^_^} $ ifconfig virbr0 virbr0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:EB:2D:7B inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP

Re: Procmail problem

2012-08-23 Thread jdow
On 2012/08/23 01:04, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 22:40, jdow wrote: On 2012/08/22 11:08, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 18:17, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:33:09PM +0100

Re: Procmail problem

2012-08-22 Thread jdow
On 2012/08/22 04:33, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/08/12 20:02, Gerald Waugh wrote: On 08/21/2012 01:50 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: For reasons not relevant to this list, I've been using GMail to read my mail for a while, so I hadn't noticed that my local

Re: Procmail problem

2012-08-22 Thread jdow
On 2012/08/22 11:08, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/12 18:17, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:33:09PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: ... procmail appears to be not doing its stuff What could be wrong? Why just had a spike of

Re: is the drop to fsck visual fixed in 6.3?

2012-07-19 Thread jdow
On 2012/07/19 16:33, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 01:17:47AM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: ... even an automatic fsck shouldn't cause much extra delay next time you boot. With full respect, extra delay being a subjective term, etc, but do you have any idea how long

For the RPMForge guys

2012-06-27 Thread jdow
Latest clamav update main.cvd is an empty file. It apparently should not be empty. For two days now I've gotten this message: ERROR: Corrupted database file /var/clamav/main.cld: Broken or not a CVD file {^_^}

Re: For the RPMForge guys

2012-06-27 Thread jdow
On 2012/06/27 12:43, S.Tindall wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 12:31 -0700, jdow wrote: Latest clamav update main.cvd is an empty file. It apparently should not be empty. For two days now I've gotten this message: ERROR: Corrupted database file /var/clamav/main.cld: Broken or not a CVD file

Re: yum vs sl-source repo

2012-06-15 Thread jdow
Ah - nope. all does not work, either. {^_^} On 2012/06/15 04:24, Adam Bishop wrote: Does it work if you take off the .src.rpm? Adam Bishop On 15 Jun 2012, at 04:26, jdow wrote: yum --enablerepo=sl-source list available libusb1-1.0.3-1.el6.src.rpm Janet is a trading name of The JNT

Re: yum vs sl-source repo

2012-06-15 Thread jdow
On 2012/06/15 17:20, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:52 PM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/06/15 16:36, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:35 PM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/06/15 05:27, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:47 AM, jdow j...@earthlink.net

yum vs sl-source repo

2012-06-14 Thread jdow
This line returns nothing: yum --enablerepo=sl-source list available *src.rpm Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, refresh- : packagekit, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * elrepo: elrepo.org * epel:

Re: Please update vsftpd package

2012-06-08 Thread jdow
On 2012/06/08 05:44, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: And in this day and age with password sniffing going on over local networks by zombied machines and happening as a matter of government policy worldwide in data centers, and the historic firewall wackiness with FTP's 2 channel communications, *WHY*

Re: Please update vsftpd package

2012-06-08 Thread jdow
On 2012/06/08 07:46, Dennis Schridde wrote: Hello everyone! Am Freitag, 8. Juni 2012, 08:44:35 schrieben Sie: ... Or are they using FTPS? So far I found no client that reliably supports FTPS. Especially nothing that comes with the OS by default (I tried Chrome, Firefox, KDE/Dolphin). Can you

fcoe

2012-03-14 Thread jdow
Lately my log has been cluttered with these messages: Mar 14 12:43:53 me2 fcoemon: error 111 Connection refused Mar 14 12:43:53 me2 fcoemon: Failed to connect to lldpad WTF is it, why, and how do I get rid of the messages? Starting or stopping the fcoe service ddoes not stop the infernal

Re: Wine RPM's

2012-02-26 Thread jdow
On 2012/02/25 23:08, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 2012/02/25 19:59, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, Anyone know of a source of up to date RPMs for Wine? Many thanks, -T On 02/25/2012 09:36 PM, jdow wrote: It depends on just HOW up to date you mean: Available Packages

Re: Wine RPM's

2012-02-26 Thread jdow
On 2012/02/26 09:25, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 2012/2/26 Łukasz Posadowski lukasz.posadow...@gmail.com mailto:lukasz.posadow...@gmail.com Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:08:20 -0800 Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com: I need at least 1.4rc5. See

Re: Wine RPM's

2012-02-26 Thread jdow
On 2012/02/26 11:54, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 02/26/2012 04:41 AM, jdow wrote: On 2012/02/25 23:08, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 2012/02/25 19:59, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, Anyone know of a source of up to date RPMs for Wine? Many thanks, -T On 02/25/2012 09:36 PM

Re: Wine RPM's

2012-02-25 Thread jdow
It depends on just HOW up to date you mean: Available Packages wine.i686 1.2.3-1.el6 epel wine.x86_64 1.2.3-1.el6 epel wine-alsa.i686 1.2.3-1.el6 epel wine-alsa.x86_64

Re: coreutils for 64 bit

2012-02-06 Thread jdow
Let's think about the read and write advantages with very large block sizes. With small (default 512 byte) reads you get extreme overhead with modern disks. With older disks you got one disk block per read transaction. Way back when the disk read time was actually large compared to the

Re: coreutils for 64 bit

2012-02-06 Thread jdow
You are seeing the memory fragmentation effect I mentioned. A 2g allocation may be possible. But it's going to be a largish number of individual and smaller allocations within physical memory. Drivers transfer into physical memory. So really large blocks are a problem. They get broken into many

Re: coreutils for 64 bit

2012-02-06 Thread jdow
On 2012/02/06 13:37, Chris Schanzle wrote: 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

Re: coreutils for 64 bit

2012-02-01 Thread jdow
Just on a hunch how much does it copy if you give it a BS=1GB? This might be an uncaught 32 bit int on only the block size value. {^_^} On 2012/02/01 09:58, Andrey Y. Shevel wrote: Hi Stephen, thanks for the reply. I am not sure that I do understand you (sorry for my stupidity). I have

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

2012-02-01 Thread jdow
On 2012/02/01 09:28, Yasha Karant wrote: On 02/01/2012 09:03 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 08:47:28AM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636628 [snip] Anyone with physical access to the machine can walk away with your disks, or

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

2012-02-01 Thread jdow
On 2012/02/01 15:38, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcianka...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Yasha Karantykar...@csusb.edu wrote: Back to my primary point: the bug in accepting the root password upon a failed fsck during boot is from TUV and

Re: No route to host

2011-12-30 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/30 00:06, MT Julianto wrote: On 27 December 2011 15:11, MT Julianto mtjulia...@gmail.com mailto:mtjulia...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 December 2011 08:57, zxq9 z...@zxq9.com mailto:z...@zxq9.com wrote: On 12/27/2011 04:12 PM, MT Julianto wrote: The machine

Re: No route to host

2011-12-30 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/30 00:14, MT Julianto wrote: On 27 December 2011 21:02, jdow j...@earthlink.net mailto:j...@earthlink.net wrote: If the server is not busy that might be an interesting way to keep hackers out of the machine. It would also make my log files smaller. Indeed, I found some

Re: No route to host

2011-12-30 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/30 17:24, MT Julianto wrote: On 30 December 2011 14:15, jdow j...@earthlink.net mailto:j...@earthlink.net wrote: All possibilities are negative: not power mode issue, not dhcp issue (see below), not iptables issue (see below), not hacking issue (/var/log

Re: output of var/log/messages on the terminal

2011-12-30 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/10 12:54, Mark Stodola wrote: On 12/10/2011 1:49 PM, Andrew Z wrote: gys, how can i send the /var/log/messages on a designated terminal? i remember some many years ago i saw on of SAs having messages file to 11 or 10 terminal from the moment machine booted. The gain - they just

Re: No route to host

2011-12-30 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/30 18:05, MT Julianto wrote: On 30 December 2011 14:22, jdow j...@earthlink.net mailto:j...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2011/12/30 00:14, MT Julianto wrote: Indeed, I found some traces of intruder trying to get root access via ssh, but none is succeeded. Now

Re: No route to host

2011-12-30 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/30 18:11, MT Julianto wrote: On 31 December 2011 03:01, jdow j...@earthlink.net mailto:j...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2011/12/30 17:24, MT Julianto wrote: On 30 December 2011 14:15, jdow j...@earthlink.net mailto:j...@earthlink.net mailto:j...@earthlink.net

Re: No route to host

2011-12-30 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/30 19:04, MT Julianto wrote: On 31 December 2011 03:16, jdow j...@earthlink.net mailto:j...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2011/12/30 18:05, MT Julianto wrote: On 30 December 2011 14:22, jdow j...@earthlink.net mailto:j...@earthlink.net mailto:j...@earthlink.net

Re: No route to host

2011-12-27 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/27 09:13, Bluejay Adametz wrote: When it fails, does it fail immediately, or does it take a few seconds before the error shows up? If it fails immediately, it could be a router or firewall blocking something or maybe iptables. It fails immediately, and soon the error message is

Re: Move a SL6 server from md software raid 5 to hardware raid 5

2011-12-20 Thread jdow
(privately) There is another factor I did not mention called IPAHS, Innate Perversity of Animate Homo Sapiens. We may be faced with that at this time. {^_-} On 2011/12/20 17:14, Jason Bronner wrote: There is something to be said for minimizing downtime, but every time i've tried getting

Re: Move a SL6 server from md software raid 5 to hardware raid 5

2011-12-19 Thread jdow
First take a complete backup of the md raid. Then if the laws if Innate Perversity of Inanimate Objects you'll be able to move the disks and have them just work. Your data is protected. (If you had no backup IPIO would, of course, lead to the transition failing expensively.) Even if IPIO does

Re: Move a SL6 server from md software raid 5 to hardware raid 5

2011-12-19 Thread jdow
. Furthermore I want not do this because then I will have two raids: one raid per software (md) into one per hardware.. my thoughts are about copying manually the dirs of the operating system, then modifying configurations.. I think it is a more secure process. Thanks for the answer jdow ;) 2011

Repo update error

2011-12-12 Thread jdow
YUM - security Error: Package: icewm-1.3.7-1.el6.x86_64 (epel) Requires: bluecurve-icon-theme You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest I installed it to see what it

Re: Repo update error

2011-12-12 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/12 02:28, Stephan Wiesand wrote: On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:49 , jdow wrote: YUM - security Error: Package: icewm-1.3.7-1.el6.x86_64 (epel) Requires: bluecurve-icon-theme You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

Re: output of var/log/messages on the terminal

2011-12-10 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/10 14:17, Bluejay Adametz wrote: how can i send the /var/log/messages on a designated terminal? i remember some many years ago i saw on of SAs having messages file to 11 or 10 terminal from the moment machine booted. The gain - they just switch to it instead of typing tail .

Re: unable to cut a DVD from iso

2011-12-06 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/06 14:37, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 12/06/2011 02:09 PM, Andrew Z wrote: On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com

Re: unable to cut a DVD from iso

2011-12-06 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/06 16:38, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 12/06/2011 04:29 PM, jdow wrote: On 2011/12/06 14:37, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 12/06/2011 02:09 PM, Andrew Z wrote: On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote

Re: unable to cut a DVD from iso

2011-12-06 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/06 16:54, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 12/06/2011 04:50 PM, jdow wrote: On 2011/12/06 16:38, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 12/06/2011 04:29 PM, jdow wrote: On 2011/12/06 14:37, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 12/06/2011 02:09 PM, Andrew Z wrote: On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4

Re: Can't access SL repos - DNS problem

2011-12-05 Thread jdow
[jdow@me2 ~]$ host ftp.scientificlinux.org Host ftp.scientificlinux.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) {^_^} generic Ontario California area On 2011/12/05 08:53, N.N. wrote: Hello Vladim. ftp.scientificlinux.org is on-line. Alain. On 12/5/11, Vladimir Mosgalinmosga...@vm10124.spb.edu wrote

Re: Can't access SL repos - DNS problem

2011-12-05 Thread jdow
Addendum - Thought I'd give host scientificlinux.org a try. It works. scientificlinux.org has address 131.225.111.32 {^_^} On 2011/12/05 15:00, jdow wrote: [jdow@me2 ~]$ host ftp.scientificlinux.org Host ftp.scientificlinux.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) {^_^} generic Ontario California area

Re: Strange issues with my bind9 host

2011-10-29 Thread jdow
It occurs to me that he's locking out an Australian /24 subnet with his choice of IP there. 10.1.1.1 might be a little better. {o.o} On 2011/10/29 16:56, Cristian Ciupitu wrote: Hi, Try using something like this if you want to use only server 1.1.1.1: forward only;

Re: UEFI

2011-10-20 Thread jdow
On 2011/10/20 08:10, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Thomas Bendler thomas.bend...@gmail.com wrote: Secure boot is simply a design mistake. Instead of giving everyone the opportunity to upload own certificates to the certificate store (like browsers do), they implemented a hard

Re: Red Hat engineer renews attack on Windows 8-certified secure boot

2011-10-20 Thread jdow
Somebody ought to complain to the CSUSB and to Verizon about his spam. Or maybe configure the spam filter being used to block CSUSB until he is removed. That's a little harsh. But, what is there to do when it's really easy for him to simply setup a new alias and have more of his fun? (Sadly

Re: Distribution Servers Downtime - 15 hours on October 15th 2011 from 03:00 - 18:00 CDT (Completed)

2011-10-17 Thread jdow
Pat, you did send it out on the 12th. 2011/10/12 14:08 {o.o} On 2011/10/17 06:27, Pat Riehecky wrote: Apologies, I apologize for not sending this out on time. I have lots of good sounding excuses, but they are just excuses and avoid the fact that I didn't do it. The downtime is completed and

Re: How to run to launch script when nic interface is up

2011-10-13 Thread jdow
On 2011/10/13 05:45, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: Hi jdow! On 2011.10.12 at 18:28:02 -0700, jdow wrote next: Is it possible under SL6.1 to run a script (or insert commands in ifcfg-ethX files) when a nic is up, immediatly after network script runs?? Like for example it can do with debian

Re: How to run to launch script when nic interface is up

2011-10-13 Thread jdow
On 2011/10/13 07:15, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin mosga...@vm10124.spb.edu wrote: On 2011.10.12 at 18:28:02 -0700, jdow wrote next: Is it possible under SL6.1 to run a script (or insert commands in ifcfg-ethX files) when a nic is up, immediatly after

Re: [jdow solved] How to run to launch script when nic interface is up

2011-10-13 Thread jdow
On 2011/10/13 21:24, William Scott wrote: On 14 October 2011 14:13, jdowj...@earthlink.net wrote: It acts as if the file is not even seen since there are no selinux problems reported for it. So that makes me think something spooky is going on. Where did you put your script? if [ -x

AMD Athlon II 215 X2 ASRock N68C-GS - no sound

2011-10-10 Thread jdow
VIA VT1705 Audio Codec Latest kernel update leads to no sound. Booting old kernels gives no sound. Modprobe includes dist-alsa.conf: install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe snd-seq dist-oss.conf is disabled (for good reason.) The only new thing is

Re: Flash plugin

2011-10-07 Thread jdow
On 2011/10/07 00:12, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Yasha Karant wrote: On 10/06/2011 04:37 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Yasha Karant wrote: I realise that except for the Fermilab/CERN staff persons, almost all of the rest of those maintaining material for SL are unpaid

Flash plugin

2011-10-06 Thread jdow
I have the elrepo 64 bit beta flash plugin installed. A 32 bit flash update is being forced on my system. Here are the error messages. Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/applications/flash-player-properties.desktop from install of flash-plugin-11.0.1.152-release.i386 conflicts with file

Re: Flash plugin

2011-10-06 Thread jdow
On 2011/10/06 07:38, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: On 2011.10.06 at 05:05:05 -0700, jdow wrote next: Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:05:05 -0700 From: jdow j...@earthlink.net To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov X-Original-To: mosgalin@localhost Subject: Flash

Re: Flash plugin

2011-10-06 Thread jdow
On 2011/10/06 13:12, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Dag Wieers wrote: RPMforge provides already the (beta) 64bit flash-plugin, so there's no need to wait for it. In this case the 64bit

Re: Flash plugin

2011-10-06 Thread jdow
On 2011/10/06 17:22, Yasha Karant wrote: On 10/06/2011 04:37 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Yasha Karant wrote: On 10/06/2011 04:19 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Dr Andrew C

Re: Does SL6 support yum-plugin-security ?

2011-09-18 Thread jdow
, it's already there. [jdow ~]$ yum list yum-presto Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, refresh- : packagekit, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * elrepo: elrepo.org * epel: mirror.steadfast.net * rpmforge

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-18 Thread jdow
On 2011/09/18 10:00, Yasha Karant wrote: A small side question: if SL6X happens to be pointing to SL6.m for some m (currently 2), after the update/enhancement will the target now display SL6.m as the installed release? Yes. That is what happened here upgrading from 6.0-6.1 via Yum. cat

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-18 Thread jdow
Seriously, I'd suggest you do one thing or the other. But I am not going to make your decision for you. On one machine (a virtual box machine) the transition from 6.0 to 6.1 was painless. (Or let's say no more pain than already existed with SELinux.) On the other machine I had an nVidia related

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-17 Thread jdow
On 2011/09/17 01:06, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcianka...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjeebum@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Connie Siehcs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy

Re: Should yum-autoupdate depend on mailx?

2011-09-16 Thread jdow
Yum autoupdate sends email to root about updates performed. Perhaps that is the reason it is looking for mailx. It uses mailx in a scripted mode to create the messages. {^_^} On 2011/09/16 02:33, Dennis Schridde wrote: Hello! Line 211 of /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate calls /bin/mail, but

Re: {OT} Saga with certificates continues : Hackers steal SSL certificates for CIA, MI6, Mossad

2011-09-07 Thread jdow
On 2011/09/05 21:38, Franchisseur Robert wrote: -- Le (On) 2011-09-06 +0200 à (at) 00:53:39 Andreas Petzold écrivit (wrote): -- On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 00:26:22 Valerii D. wrote: snip Yes. And the distribution is still the browser 3. 6. 2 without security updates. And with a

Re: Farewell from Troy

2011-08-26 Thread jdow
Troy, I'm relatively new here. But it's also highly evident that we're going to miss you. I hope it all goes well for you and for us. {^_^} On 2011/08/24 11:40, Troy Dawson wrote: Hi, I have loved all the years that I have been a developer and architect for Scientific Linux, but it is time for

Re: Re: SL site unreachable

2011-08-14 Thread jdow
On 11:59, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Vincent Verhagenvinc...@zijnemail.nl wrote: Hi all, As I don't have access to the web site admins email addresses, a heads up for them via this list :) I'm having trouble accessing the SL site (http://www.scientificlinux.org). I get

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