On Thu, 19 May 2016, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
On 05/19/2016 05:27 AM, Tom H wrote:
1) Can your monitoring software be taught that /home and /export/home
are the same?
Not easily as far as I know. It just relies on what the agent reports, and
the agent just shows what this command o
I see that RedHat also released this for RHEL6
(although the release number suggests it took extra work).
Is there an estimate of when thunderbird 38.8 will be available for SL6 ?
Thanks.
On Tue, 17 May 2016, Connie Sieh wrote:
Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisor
c_len += VLAN_HLEN;
}
# endif /* LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 27) */
So there is already lots of tweaking for kernel versions in this area;
we just need someone to add a tweak for this kernel.
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2.621-release.x86_64.rpm
Looks like Adobe have released the new rpm but not yet updated their
yum repo.
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On Tue, 31 May 2016, Ralf wrote:
Hello,
Moved a few days ago from Upstream Vendor to SL6.
A little contribution regarding the kernel version present in the SL
testing repo:
- GNU Linux Kernel 2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64 won't compile latest
"virtualbox 5.0.20 r106931" modules issued from Oracle's Vi
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Yasha Karant wrote:
WYSIWYG (not LyX that produces LaTeX but internally is not LaTeX)? Thus far,
I have not found such a WYSIWYG.
EPEL includs Kile
http://kile.sourceforge.net/
(possibly an abbreviation of KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment).
I some problem holding up an SL release of Firefox 45.2.0 ESR ?
Red Hat released this critical security update almost a week ago:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1217.html
Thanks,
Kevin and gang,
Thanks for releasing the firefox 45.2.0 security update.
On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
Hi all,
Please don't shoot the questioner (me), as I have no experience with
Python, other than knowing "what" it is and that my SL6.8 systems have
version 2.6.6 installed.
I have been asked by one of our Professors that one of his grad students
appa
thon 27 not installed on [uname nodename]"
}
}
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2016, ToddAndMargo wrote:
2016-08-01 8:23 GMT+03:00 ToddAndMargo :
On 07/31/2016 10:15 PM, Jon Brinkmann wrote:
'nmap -sX 192.168.1.1-255 10.1-255.1-255.1-255 ...'?
That is still scanning IP's over a range. :'(
On 07/31/2016 10:42 PM, Eero Volotinen w
On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Bill Maidment wrote:
Hi again
My research has revealed that nfs in SL 7.2 is translating the
POSIX ACL to NFSv4 ACL (a completely different format).
I wondered if that was the problem. Sun was working hard to be compatible
with Microsoft when the NFSv4 ACL spec was written
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, Yasha Karant wrote:
From a colleague:
Your mail client doesn’t play nicely with mine (Mac Mail).
As you can see by the screen snap, it doesn’t wrap text
Toggle Word Wrap :: Add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/toggle-word-wrap/
might do what you want.
When should we expect the critical security update firefox 45.5.0
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
?
Thanks,
Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Andrew C Aitchison
wrote:
When should we expect the critical security update firefox 45.5.0
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
?
It's out. :)
Thanks Akemi and Pat and the team.
/errata/RHSA-2016-2843.html
The same bug is also in Thunderbird:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2850.html
Thanks,
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.i686.rpm
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2017, Yasha Karant wrote:
I understand that this not an Apple forum. However, my spouse has been
assigned an Apple iPad 2 Air from our university administration, and she was
reluctant for political reasons to demand a Linux or Android "equivalent" of
this unit.
I have been at
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, jdow wrote:
Ran yum --releasever=6.7 update sl-release
Same error going 6.6 to 6.7 as 6,6 to 6.x (6.8).
Transaction Check Error:
file /lib64/libasound.so.2.0.0 from install of alsa-lib-1.1.0-4.el6.x86_64
conflicts with file from package libasound2-1.0.24.1-35.el6.x86_64
support for older OpenSSL,
but you are on your own if you try to use such.
I can of course build a local OpenSSL v1.0.2 for exim, but if there were
a system version it would be simpler for me.
Thanks,
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2017, Steven Haigh wrote:
On 04/02/17 03:22, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1530413
explains Red Hat's position on this, but it can only be read by
those with a Red Hat contract.
You don't have to have a contract, only an account.
s are el..., whereas the 6_8.4 are all sl...
Of course sl6_8.3 comes after el6_8.4 so the updates are ignored :-(
I'm now confused, should they be el6... or sl6... ?
(I'm also confused about whether I should be using sl-security or
sl6-security, but that is less important).
Thank
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, Al Russell wrote:
I have been unable to get the SL6 openssl update to 8.4 that was announced in
today's Scientific-Linux-Errata. When I check the SL6 sl-security repository
all I find is the openssl-1.0.1e-48.el6_8.3.i686.rpm family. Is there a
problem or am I missing some
On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Hi All,
Can anyone point me to a reference to the hooks for
reading and writing into both of X11's clipboards?
For the cut and paste buffers:
man XStoreBuffer XFetchBuffer XRotateBuffers
(all the same page)
man xcutsel
man xclip
/gui/x/xlib/window-information/selection.html
Sorry I pointed you in the wrong direction to start with.
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
Hi, there. I wonder if anybody else is seeing the same problem with el7:
The symptoms are: no ping, dead video, dead keyboard. After power cycle,
syslog shows that the system has attempted to go into sleep or suspend
or whatever they call it.
Thi
et it from epel)
dia www.gnome.org/projects/dia
Zirkel / CaR (Compass and ruler)
http://car.rene-grothmann.de/
One interesting feature of dia is that it can be used
to generate sql schema.
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2017, Roxana Tesileanu wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to access GDAL in Python and tried "sudo pip install GDAL". But an
error comes out. I've downloaded also the packege from the GDAL website but
still doesn't work. Could you please help me out? Many thanks! Roxana
I use gdal on SL6
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, Pat Riehecky wrote:
Scientific Linux 6.9 i386/x86_64 Apr 17, 2017
SL 6x users:
Please run yum clean expire-cache
That did not work for me, but
yum clean metadata
did.
Sorry, I have lost the original error message, but it was to the effect
that the cach
On Tue, 9 May 2017, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
Since the mid-April update, firefox 52.1.0 (32-bit) "esr"
has been crashing often, on three similar SL6.9 machines.
segmentation fault, no debugging information, also in
firefox -safe-mode
Has anyone else solved this?
I've seen no problems with firef
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Larry Linder wrote:
As usual we are always behind.
We own a cad package that runs fine on SL 5.11 but will not run on SL
6.9. When you run it on 6.9 It complains about missing libs. If you do
a "whereis" on the "the missing lib" - it finds it.
From what I could get from g
t sadly
it fails to run on SL6, wanting /lib64/libc.so.6 version 'GLIBC_2.14'
but SL6 only has libc upto 'GLIBC_2.12'.
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is a forum for Scientific Linux at
https://scientificlinuxforum.org/
which might be able to help you in real-time
(I've never used it).
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lection.html
which makes clear that this is not a standard gtk feature;
there are experimental modified gtk3 libraries which support
secondary selection (no source yet).
gtk3 means it doesn't run on SL6, so I haven't been able to explore
further.
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On Sun, 9 Jul 2017, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
OK, before the flames start I KNOW it's not normal.
Has anyone have a method to upgrade glibc beyond 2.12?
I've tried, but not succeeded so far, so would be interested
to hear from anyone else who has.
I would recommend *not* replacing glibc, but inst
other uses of /proc
- which version of exim are you using - the one from epel ?
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.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
jasper-utils-1.900.1-21.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Thanks,
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Pat Riehecky wrote:
Not sure why they didn't make it out, should be there now.
Thanks.
On 07/26/2017 08:32 AM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Wed, 10 May 2017, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> Synopsis: Important: jasper security update
> Advisory ID:
On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Dan wrote:
Dear All,
I wonder if anyone can help with the following strange network problem
I'm having on my SL7.3 machine, please:
Every day, just after midday, I suddenly lose access to DNS name
resolution, and therefore become unable to interact with any remote
hosts, e
On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 08/17/2017 01:03 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
On 17/08/17 18:33, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 08/17/2017 09:23 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Mozilla Firefox 55 source tarball
The latest is 52 in sl-testing:
firefox-52.3.0-2.el7_4.i686 : Mozilla Firefox Web br
ecord the replaced version number so you would have to find those
some other way.
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vers and it only takes one careless mistake...
How do other SL6 users feel about this "wont fix" ?
I'm trying to write my own patch, but seem to be struggling to patch
a file near a ctrl-L character ...
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ive driver for a number of EPSON scanners and a
compatibility driver to interface with software built around the SANE
standard.
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On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Karel Lang AFD wrote:
Hello guys,
stumbled on weird thing today - wanted to setup some iptables rules based on
'mac address' and iptables failed to start.
cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux release 7.4 (Nitrogen)
iptables --version
iptables v1.4.21
yum list all |
ere to send the outgoing packets.
When the firewall is turned on again I guess that packets continue to
be sent until the system realises that they aren't being
acknowledged...
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On Tue, 15 May 2018, Lofgren, Eric wrote:
Iâm running a SL 7 server thatâs being used for a couple data
projects using MySQL Server - which I confess I donât know much
about. Two have my students have both encountered errors recently,
either joining tables or just restarting MySQL Server,
...@lists.fedoraproject.org
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f SL6 :-(
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
Just a heads up for anyone running firefox on
Scientific Linux 6 (and RHEL6 plus other clones,
or other GTK2-based platforms).
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 uses gtk2 in firefox 52.8esr,
but I see from
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id
tps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-3665
currently depends upon six other open bugs, but I don't
have access to see whether they cover RHEL6.
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ownload_28039&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=d81PuX-ca9yHRwR8_0D1PmZoObeT_rqIKdBccOzAs8Y&s=lZnbq0VQpWGZ8FcqImj94YtT3ayzgT7rbmgmiFxD2ZM&e=
- when a newer version is released, that page will be updated, with a
eally
say what you sould do to fix it; but looking in
/boot /boot/grub or perhaps /boot/grup2 may give you a clue.
- these directories will probably contain the new kernels,
not the ones which are actually being used.
You might even have a separate /boot partition, or had one befo
thanks,
Stefano
On 2019-01-29 11:42, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019, S. Vergani wrote:
I am running scientific linux on a ThinkPad t440p. During the past 1.5
years, I have been experiencing the same apparently unsolvable problem
with SL 7.5. Every time I closed the pc without lo
y include
information which could be personal compromise security
(they sound too big to email to the list).
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y a set of packages) with a with suitable compiler and
runtime.
IIRC they also have a clang compiler.
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and...@aitchison.me.uk
not see that we would switch these users
back to RHEL8 or CentOS8 now.
Those thoughts were behind my somewhat inaccurate statement.
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inks.
(For reasons of dual boot and having added a second disk my home dir was a
sym-link).
That struck me as a potentially significant limitation for institutional
use: in my experience automounters often result in sym-linked homedirs.
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strongest reason for us in the UK to want US rather than say German,
is indeed the language (though I wonder whether the US will turn to
Spanish ...)
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and...@aitchison.me.uk
se the GPL might allow a licencee to make the source
available ...).
What are the plans for SL6 after Nov 2020 ?
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and...@aitchison.me.uk
Yes it will be a pain to print to file in a container window,
then print the file from a host window, but there are ways around that.
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and...@aitchison.me.uk
buntu are setup this way, you never actually
use the root password to login into root).
If you remember the BIOS password, or never set one,
you can boot from an install or rescue disk/memory stick,
and do that "second computer" stuff without moving the
disk
cc'd to SL list in case this gets routed to your junk folder.
epel-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org
is probably the best place to ask this.
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awry.
Given that a new Ubuntu LTS release comes out every two years, I was
surprised to find that it dated more quickly than SL and I have found
myself moving from LTS to the standard release for my home machine.
Upgrade-in-place between standard releases does work.
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With my conspiracy-theory hat on, I suspect the timing of this
announcement, a week after the demise of the much-loved RHEL6.
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don't help the productivity
of his machine-tool shop either. If D-Bus is a problem why would
he want a complex system that appears to exist to allow it ?
* No, I do not want a "desktop environment". My windows were either
firefox or xterm's sshd into other machines - sometimes
ture(s) which RHEL9 will support,
so they are working on it, even if it never sees the light of day.
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than sudo on SL6.
By default on Ubuntu you can run succeccive sudo commands without
reentering the password each time.
I never figured out how to do that with SL.
When I need to use pipes or redirect stdin and stdout as root,
a simple "sudo bash" first solves those issues.
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2021, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
The movie is very strong on "feels", very poor indeed on data.
A much better article, with far less "feels"
^^
Is that a deliberate example of the bias in the video ?
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lNOCd4&s=bZUlWtCI03IJ95QWY-_DTkmqMdwOzXq8PVBkiR1dZLM&e=
not an option ?
(OK, C++20 support in g++ 10.2.1 is "experimental).
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SVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=XlwZHatfU9lTVBkqWjIVraTktof8jaVDXPjoOzkoFGs&s=mPXFT8k9V2llxcjZMZ7XqyZXftuuZCcGUUY83jAntOs&e=
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r") so I may be in a better position to help than most.
Are you using display :0 and display manager xdm (not gdm or kdm) ?
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On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, Ekkard Gerlach wrote:
Am 03.08.21 um 13:04 schrieb Andrew C Aitchison:
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, Ekkard Gerlach wrote:
Hello,
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 in� is NOT executed, what could be the reason? I
inserted on top of file
echo "hello123" > /tmp/test123
an
rk reliably with
modern peripherals. Replacing that system will be much faster, and
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h SL6. IIRC I found (or built?) a copy
of the missing GLIBC, hacked up an rpm which put it somewhere that
the chrome binary could find it and provided what was required.
Not completely straight-forward though.
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there for you.
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I would call "the SL7 kernel".
Have containers hijacked the word "kernel" to mean something like
"the assumed base system including common libraries" ?
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.
Especially with a server such as vsftpd, it would be worth
checking that you use the rpm with the most up to date
security fixes ...
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forces to start nx with "-nolisten tcp" although its not
commented in in node.conf?
tia
Ekkard
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are likely to be towards the bottom of these files.
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in to boot from network (PXE) to do the
install.
Maybe I should consult Dilbert. Got two new Dilbert books for Christmas
- there really a hoot. Reminds me of a place where I used to work.
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to switch between the oracle and openjdk
java plugins.
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independent.
How different is the practice ?
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rity reasons" comes as a suprise to me.)
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 10:09:45AM +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
2) For those who haven't heard this, some links:
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95411
RHEL/SL/SLC are not listed at all. No ann
google-chrome-stable-26.0.1410.43-189671.x86_64
but has gone with
google-chrome-stable-26.0.1410.63-192696.x86_64
I guess that Red Hat and Google have sorted this out.
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a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http
al design with
sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
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of google-chrome-stable-27 in
https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna/google-chrome/
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s no longer in the DNS.
Do I fix my repos or waiot for you to restore ftp2 ?
Thanks,
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ld give some clue as to why.
*This message is printed by the component that stops prefdm
from repeatedly switching to a new vt and starting an X server,
which makes logging in on a text console "fun".
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a.c.ai
need numpy and matplotlib which I can install piecemeal. But
if I install the scipy stack from its home site will I run into problems with
numpy and matplotlib? Anyone tried installing just the scipy package from its
home?
Thanks!
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isories/advisory/MDVSA-2013:267/
and
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1451.html
TUV and SL appear to have fixed these vunerabiliites in
java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.2.el6_4 and friends
(I haven't checked java-1.6.0... or SL5 but wouldn't be
surprised if they are fixed too).
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for their Java 6.
Basically, at this point, get off Java 6 if you can. Like supporting
out of date versions of Samba, it's usually not worth the pain.
I'd agree but TUV is making the effort for me.
If I make the time I'm tempted to have a null package
which requires "ja
tate)
but Red Hat use scl-utils for some of the packages which they ship.
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