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January-23, 2013 by: Ed King
From: Ed King ------------------------------------------------------ old dog learn new tricks bow wow wow been using Linux regularly since 1998 was a tru64 admin for hamilton county for 8 years have a den full of various flavors of unix (irix, hp-ux, solaris, etc) never used vi... until today ;-) configuring a RedHat-based phone system... unfortunately, NOT asterisk
UTC Linux Job posting
September-27, 2012 by: Jason Griffey
From: Jason Griffey ------------------------------------------------------ Just an additional note that if you are interested in this position, a birdy told me that the salary started in the mid $50K range. Take a look. Jason On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Reed Gregory wrote: > Pass along to anyone interested. You can apply online here > http://humanresources.tennessee.edu/recruitment/ > > Linux Administrator III, Data Center Operations - 1200000199 > > Description > > The Linux IT Admin III is a member of the Data Center Operations > Section of the Systems, Operations and Security Department. > Responsibilities include: maintaining the integrity and security of > Linux servers and systems (including the Banner Student Information > System), which serve the University=92s 13,000 students and employees. > Implementing Linux-based technologies such as virtualization, Storage > Area Networks (SANs), load balancers, and various monitoring systems. > Performing day-to-day tasks the Linux Administrator participates in > ad-hoc data center projects, and adheres to security best practices. > Developing, testing, implementing, scripting, automating, and > administering servers and applications to provide customer-centric > solutions. Administration of the various data center infrastructure > components. Must be team-oriented and able to work closely with > internal and external departmental IT, academic and administrative > staff in support of service level agreements. > > Qualifications > > Bachelor=92s Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred and > certificates or specialized training in systems management, or > equivalent experience in systems management and data center > operations, or equivalent combination of education, training, > certifications, and experience. Certification such as RedHat Certified > Engineer (RHCE), Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA), VMware > Certified Professional (VCP) preferred but not required; Minimum 2 > years=92 experience in work directly related to job description > preferred with a focus on VMware or other hypervisor experience, Linux > administration and SAN administration. Solid knowledge of Linux and > Windows Server administration core disciplines, and networking > protocols and services. Ability to prioritize and manage multiple > concurrent tasks and complete projects on schedule. Applicant must > have demonstrated ability in technical problem solving. Desire strong > interpersonal, team building and communications skills. Proven ability > to work on projects and support clients either individually or on a > team. > > -- > Reed Gregory > reed.gregory@gmail.com >
Fwd: Slightly OT: Red Hat vs Twin Peaks
September-17, 2012 by: John Aldrich
From: John Aldrich ------------------------------------------------------ Saw th is on the Fedora list and thought it was worth passing along here... looks like Twin Peaks could be in a world of hurt if RedHat prevails in their counter-claim. :D ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Slightly OT: Red Hat vs Twin Peaks Date: Mon September 17 2012, 2:16:22 PM From: Christopher Svanefalk To: Community support for Fedora users Interesting story at Groklaw...just thought I would share: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120913073511444 -- Best, Christopher Svanefalk -----------------------------------------
Blog post - Multistation computing feeds a multitude
September-17, 2012 by: Phil Shapiro
From: Phil Shapiro ------------------------------------------------------ Hi chugalug community, Here's a new blog post I wrote today for opensource.com http://opensource.com/life/12/9/multistation-computing-using-fedora-17 Thanks for sharing with anyone you know who might be interested in it. It would be so sweet if Nate could demo multistation Fedora 17 computing sometime in the Chattanooga libraries -- maybe with the help of some volunteers from this list. phil shapiro Suggested tweet - Multistation computing can feed a multitude http://tinyurl.com/9prkyg3 by @philshapiro #linux #fedora #redhat #plugable #digitaldivide #ict4d -- Phil Shapiro, pshapiro@his.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens thru gentleness."
RE: Cinnamon makes it into the Fedora Repos! FINALLY out of review!
July-20, 2012 by: Garrett Gaston
From: Garrett Gaston ------------------------------------------------------ >From the screen shots I've seen gnome 3 does look pretty bad. But I'M a lit= tle confused about you guys being concerned about RH going to gnome 3. I th= ought RH's strong point was as a server=2C usually installed with a GUI=2C = and thus=2C an unlikely candidate for a desktop environment anyway. From: boodaddy@gmail.com Date: Fri=2C 20 Jul 2012 08:59:49 -0400 To: chugalug@chugalug.org Subject: [Chugalug] Cinnamon makes it into the Fedora Repos! FINALLY out of= review! https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show
Cinnamon makes it into the Fedora Repos! FINALLY out of review!
July-20, 2012 by: Lynn Dixon
From: Lynn Dixon ------------------------------------------------------ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show
RE: Updates from Summit 2012
June-27, 2012 by: Lynn Dixon
From: Lynn Dixon ------------------------------------------------------ Sitting in a Rhev road map session now. Live migration is possible in 3.0 now. It's also available using api. Live migration is also possible between storage domains. They are also going to add gluster support. Live snapshots or coming in rhev 3.1 which will allow you to snapshot without shutting down, as well as cloning a machine while live. 3.1 also brings a move off of sun jre and onto openjdk. It's also moving more middle layers to jboss. The api is shipping with python support for python devs. Reporting will be using Jasper and will be integrated into the 3.1 console, no separate install or url anymore. Spice will support native usb 2.0 redirection from any device. On Jun 27, 2012 12:10 PM, "Lynn Dixon" wrote: > > The oVirt team has a booth here. But are not doing any sessions or announcements. They have been showing RHEV hard, but mainly focusing on Open shift and Open stack in the keynotes. Redhat is aiming to be the cloud provider in the future. > I will stop by the RHEV booth and ask them if they are planning on doing live migration or something like vmotion and report back. > > On Jun 27, 2012 11:24 AM, "matt@mattkeys.net" wrote: >> >> Any RHEV 3 live migration presentation/documentation and/or oVirt development updates :) >> >>
RE: mmap errors in libvirt guest
June-23, 2012 by: Matt Keys
From: Matt Keys ------------------------------------------------------ I've totally disabled SELinux on the guest. On the host side, I did see an apparmor profile for the libvirt guests. I put that particular one into disabled for testing but there was no difference. I've also asked in the #virt oftc channel, #kvm freenode channel (full of redhat engineers), and #cacti freenode channel. No responses. From: chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org [mailto:chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org] On Behalf Of Lynn Dixon Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 1:29 AM To: CHUGALUG Subject: Re: [Chugalug] mmap errors in libvirt guest Just a suggestion Matt, but have you put SELinux in permissive for troubleshooting? It could be some oddball SELinux context giving you problems. On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Matt Keys wrote: So I've got a problem I could use a wizard's help with. I've got a ubuntu 10.04 amd64 kvm host I recently upgraded to 12.04. I took the original 7200 sata drive out and replaced it with a ssd and fresh installed 12.04 on it. I updated everything to the latest, shut it down, installed the 7200 sata in sdb and powered it back on. Everything good so far. I copied the kvm guests and config over to 12.04 and try to fire one up. I ran into a problem there, the guest xml definitions have a slight change between versions where you have to search/replace the word "serial" with "console". Once I did that they fired up just fine. One of the guests is a centos 6.2 32bit running nagios/cacti. Cacti (version 0.8.7g, spine 0.8.7 from built from source, and rrdtool 1.3.8 from centos default repos) was graphing the cpu/mem/net/disks of the guest and other devices. Since the drive geometry changed, I just blew away the old device/graphs and recreated them. The rrd files weren't being created for some reason, so I touch them and chown the appropriate user/group. It eventually creates 4 out of 14 graphs on two different SNMP polled devices. Localhost "Local Linux" graphs all get created fine. For the other 10/14 graphs, it throws this error : ERROR: mmaping file '/var/www/html/cacti/rra/4/27.rrd': Cannot allocate memory I enable debugging for the graphs, copy/paste the rrdtool command into a shell script and execute it as root. Same thing. Copy/paste one that works, check with diff, and they're identical in syntax other than the destination filename. Permissions and ownership are identical. So yeah, it's a memory allocation error but it's got plenty of free memory to use. At the time it was around 512MB free, 2GB swap allocated but not using any of it. I tried throwing an extra gig of ram at it, still no difference. I began to wonder if it was something with that guest, so I stood up a brand new centos 6.2 32bit guest and started from scratch. This time with the latest and greatest cacti, spine, rrdtool all compiled from source. rrdtool has a configure option of using mmap or not. With mmap it gave me the same error. Without it, I'm getting : ERROR: short read while reading header rrd->stat
Anyone going to Red Hat Summit 2012?
June-14, 2012 by: Lynn Dixon
From: Lynn Dixon ------------------------------------------------------ I am lucky enough that my company is sending me to Red Hat Summit 2012 in Boston, and I was wondering if anyone else on the LUG will be going? Heres a link for the information: www.redhat.com/summit Also, is there anyone on the LUG that has been to Summit before? I am looking for advice on how to best absorb everything in the 4 days I will be there.
Cinnamon on Fedora 17
June-04, 2012 by: Lynn Dixon
From: Lynn Dixon ------------------------------------------------------ Well, I wasn't talking about deploying it to users at Mohawk, just my machine. Since I have moved over to SES and am now doing Redhat administration (as well as AIX and HP-UX) on the Open Systems Team, I have uninstalled Windows on my work laptop and started running Redhat RHEL workstation. I was hoping Fedora 17 Gnome/Cinnamon would give me personally a better desktop experience. On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Jonathan Calloway wrote: > That=92s a good question Lynn. Here=92s what I am impressed with:**** > > ** ** > > **1. **It installed very quickly. It literally was less than 60 > seconds for me.**** > > **2. **I have found the interface simple and intuitive**** > > **3. **It definitely makes GNOME easier to use on a Desktop.**** > > ** ** > > Is it deployable (esp. at Uncle Mo=92s)? While it is less complex than K= DE > and not as unfamiliar to most =93Wal-Mart=94 users as GNOME has become, I= still > think it will take a while for people who were raised on Windows to get > used to. **** > > ** ** > > **** > > ** ** > > *From:* chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org [mailto: > chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org] *On Behalf Of *Lynn Dixon > *Sent:* Sunday, June 03, 2012 12:16 AM > *To:* CHUGALUG > *Subject:* Re: [Chugalug] Connamon on Fedora 17**** > > ** ** > > I was just complaining about all the DE FOR Fedora 17 on my Facebook. I > was about to give cinnamon a try tonight. I've been running redhat > workstation on my Mohawk machine for work, but haven't been enjoying the > desktop. I tried kde, and lxde, xfce, and and regular gnome 3. Didn't lov= e > any of them. Randy told me about cinnamon but I haven't tried it yet. ***= * > > So, Calloway, does it make gnome 3 easier to use for Multitasking and > general workstation use? Is it in the fedora repos? Would you recommend i= t > in the the Mohawk envrionment (since you are familiar with what all we ha= ve > to do)? **** > > On Jun 2, 2012 9:28 PM, "Jonathan Calloway" > wrote:**** > > I just installed Cinnamon desktop on Fedora 17. . . it's quite nice. . . > you all should give it a shot! > > > >
RE: Cinnamon on Fedora 17
June-04, 2012 by: Jonathan Calloway
From: Jonathan Calloway ------------------------------------------------------ That's a good question Lynn. Here's what I am impressed with: 1. It installed very quickly. It literally was less than 60 seconds for me. 2. I have found the interface simple and intuitive 3. It definitely makes GNOME easier to use on a Desktop. Is it deployable (esp. at Uncle Mo's)? While it is less complex than KDE and not as unfamiliar to most "Wal-Mart" users as GNOME has become, I still think it will take a while for people who were raised on Windows to get used to. From: chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org [mailto:chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org] On Behalf Of Lynn Dixon Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 12:16 AM To: CHUGALUG Subject: Re: [Chugalug] Connamon on Fedora 17 I was just complaining about all the DE FOR Fedora 17 on my Facebook. I was about to give cinnamon a try tonight. I've been running redhat workstation on my Mohawk machine for work, but haven't been enjoying the desktop. I tried kde, and lxde, xfce, and and regular gnome 3. Didn't love any of them. Randy told me about cinnamon but I haven't tried it yet. So, Calloway, does it make gnome 3 easier to use for Multitasking and general workstation use? Is it in the fedora repos? Would you recommend it in the the Mohawk envrionment (since you are familiar with what all we have to do)? On Jun 2, 2012 9:28 PM, "Jonathan Calloway" wrote: I just installed Cinnamon desktop on Fedora 17. . . it's quite nice. . . you all should give it a shot!
Linux Admin : MIT LL, Huntsville AL
May-20, 2012 by: Matt Keys
From: Matt Keys ------------------------------------------------------ Passing this one along. Contact Patrick Guimond if you're interested (pguimond@dpcit.com) : Dear Matt, I wanted to reach out to see if we could get an update on what you are up to these days. We currently have an immediate need for a Linux System Admin at MIT Lincoln Lab in Huntsville, AL that we are trying to fill. Location: MIT LL - Huntsville, AL Duration: 12-36 months to start and possibility to extend well beyond Compensation: Salary + full benefits OR hourly rate (w2 basis) with no benefits (does include Retirement Plan with a 3% Match) Position Requirements: For this role they are looking for: 1) Experienced Linux System Admin, more specifically the candidate must be proficient in use and administration of RedHat Linux and proficient in shell scripting. 2) Certifications in Security+/CISSP as well as Linux+/RedHat are considered a bonus. 3) Experience with configuration management suites such as Cfengine and Puppet etc. are also relevant for this project. If this role may not be a fit for your current career goals but you are interested in exploring opportunities, please send me an updated resume and salary / rate expectations and I would be happy to keep you informed of more fitting opportunities. Please also forward to anyone who might be interested - we pay great referral fees! Thanks so much for your consideration. MIT Lincoln Lab is one of the most prestigious Research and Development Labs in the country. The work is super challenging and interesting. The people are world class engineers from all types of backgrounds. The atmosphere is much more conducive to work life balance since it is not a commercial / publicly traded company. Come and see why so many top engineers choose to work at MIT Lincoln Lab! ** All candidates must be US citizens**
RE: System Imaging in Lunux
May-09, 2012 by: Matt Keys
From: Matt Keys ------------------------------------------------------ To expand on what Lynn said there's Spacewalk too http://spacewalk.redhat.com/ . It's nice for large environments that require/support standardization and centralized management, but otherwise I think it's a bit overkill. I'd suggest going with puppet or cfengine instead if you need all that stuff. +1 on the recommendation to use kickstarts and/or Dave's answer in combination. From: chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org [mailto:chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org] On Behalf Of Lynn Dixon Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:31 PM To: CHUGALUG Subject: Re: [Chugalug] System Imaging in Lunux We use kickstarts at work to deploy server images. We have the kickstarts housed on our Satellite server, and the kickstart file will setup the machine like we need, and it will pull the latest packages from the Satellite as it builds. You could do the same using kickstart and a local repo. Check out the command system-config-kickstart in any RHEL variant. Its an easy GUI to build kickstart files. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Dave Brockman wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/8/2012 7:02 PM, Jonathan Calloway wrote: > Is anyone on this list building and deploying desktop images based > on Linux? I'm not asking about cloning, but rather using a > modular approach to building images, similar to slipstreaming in > Windows, or InstaDMG in OSX? > > Thanks! No need for the slip-stream equivalent, Debian releases updated ISOs throughout a release cycle. Just download the current install media and the slipstreaming is already done.... Although, since I always do a net install, I suppose only the installer for the most part is updated on the ISO, the repositories are updated regardless of whether I use the first or latest ISO of a given release. Or are you more interested in automated deployment, "answer file" type installs (in Windows)? Regards, dtb Regards, dtb - -- "Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor understood unless experienced firsthand. Some things in networking can never be fully understood by someone who neither builds commercial networking equipment nor runs an operational network." RFC1925 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+pqCwACgkQABP1RO+tr2TcRACfb5UO7gbKnKgHUffppWLhuIXq hz4AoKOKs3B314iMLPbfutpvcXXvkwFd =a+kt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Need help getting EMC PowerPath working in RHEL 6.2
April-04, 2012 by: Lynn Dixon
From: Lynn Dixon ------------------------------------------------------ I have a RHEL 6.2 64bit install thats running on a Cisco UCS blade. I have an EMC Symmetrix VMAX LUN that is given to the machine and it has 4 FCoE multipaths setup. I installed the OS using "basic storage" and did a standard run level 3 install. Redhat recognized the multipaths and just setup dm multipaths automatically. The machine ran fine with no probs. Then I decided to install the latest PowerPath .rpm (got 5.6 from the powerlink website today). So, I commented out everything in /etc/multipath.conf, and disabled the multipath services from running. Rebooted, and then I installed the PowerPath .rpm. It ran, no errors, so I did the license registration. Heres the kicker, I an run powermt list dev=all (I think thats the command) and it will succesfully show me all of my FcOE paths, so I thought it was golden. I did powermt save, and rebooted. Poop hit the fan. RHEL will boot, go through the lower numbered inits, and even mount and fsck the LVM volumes I am using.....but, once it gets to the PowerPath service in init, it kernel panicks, and just refuses to boot at all. The only way I knew to get it back was to boot to resuce, and move the powerpath scripts from /etc/init.d to /root and reboot. Any one else come across this? It know it has to be a simple fix...or I hope. Thanks!
System Engineer Position
March-29, 2012 by: Stephen Haywood
From: Stephen Haywood ------------------------------------------------------ Got this on Linkedin and thought I would share. The opening appears to be in Huntsville AL. Dear Stephen, I wanted to reach out to see if we could get an update on what you are up to these days. We currently have an immediate need for a Sr. System Administrator with Linux/RedHat experience at MIT Lincoln Lab in Huntsville, AL that we are trying to fill. Specific Position can be seen at: http://www.dpcit.com/opportunities/detail/5869 If this role may not be a fit for your current career goals but you are interested in exploring opportunities, please send me an updated resume and salary / rate expectations and I would be happy to keep you informed of more fitting opportunities. Please also forward to anyone who might be interested - we pay great referral fees! Thanks so much for your consideration. MIT Lincoln Lab is one of the most prestigious Research and Development Labs in the country. The work is super challenging and interesting. The people are world class engineers from all types of backgrounds. The atmosphere is much more conducive to work life balance since it is not a commercial / publicly traded company. We have placed over 100 Engineers at this client and we can get you in there too if you're interested and well qualified. MIT Lincoln Lab is literally the kind of place that you can make a career out of. Many of our consultants have been there for many many years. These are very stable and long term opportunities. As a contractor with DPC you can work as our full time employee with full benefits (medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD etc.), or you can work as a W2 hourly contractor at a higher pay rate if you don't need the benefit package. Come and see why so many top engineers choose to work at MIT Lincoln Lab! ** All candidates must be US citizens** Patrick Guimond pguimond@dpcit.com -- Stephen Haywood Information Security Consultant CISSP, GPEN, OSCP T: @averagesecguy W: averagesecurityguy.info
10+ Years of Linux (for me)
January-11, 2012 by: William Wade
From: William Wade ------------------------------------------------------ I just realized today that some point in in the last year I passed the point where ten years previously I first installed Linux. Christmas of 2001, my parents bought me a boxed copy of RedHat 7.2 and I had been working with other distributions earlier that summer. Means I've been using Linux for about 40% of my life. :) (Next year is my 20th anniversary of my first email account, Juno if you were wondering.) It is really nice to think about where desktop Linux has come since then. At that time there was basically no games except simple clones and Loki Software, StarOffice or a chance at WordPerfect was still the best you could do in the area of word processing. I had to buy an external modem to get it online as WinTel modems were not supported. It was still Mozilla shipping with distributions, and people had not yet gotten riled up about Gnome2 because it wasn't out yet. Webmin was the best general purpose admin tool, and ext3 was brand new. X server development was stuck. We all often complain about how we hate the new Gnome/KDE or company XYZ/ACB for not supporting Linux. In the past 10 years I think we can say that Linux has does well for itself. Companies have risen and fallen, carried the banner of Linux high (and tried *caugh*SCO*caugh* to trample it underfoot). Some things have remained the same like RedHat and others have nicely changed like ATI Graphics opening up thanks to AMD. So here is to the next 10 years of working with Linux. Who knows what the future may bring! What are your memories from the Linux of 10 years ago? What's your Linux age? (And if you claim more than 21 years then I want a shot at your time machine!)
AIX Sr. Server Admin at Mohawk Industries
September-20, 2011 by: Mike Harrison
From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ Unix Jobs/ Linux Jobs / AIX Jobs. https://professional-mohawk.icims.com/jobs/8959/job http://www.linkedin.com/e/-6fevir-gst6mek1-3y/ava/71458489/2323004/eml-anet
Red Hat and free lunch tomorrow....
August-24, 2011 by: "kitepilot@kitepilot
From: "kitepilot@kitepilot.com" ------------------------------------------------------ Good morning Linuxtics:=20 Please remember that tomorrow at noon we=E2=80=99ll have Eugene Tay, Red = Hat=20 Certified Architect, talking about: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: A Technology Overview".=20 The talk will be at the Unum building in downtown CHA. Please send me an email to etroconis@unum.com with a subject REDHAT if yo= u=20 plan to attend, so we can have a head count for the food.=20 Please join us! ET
Redhat RHEL Server for $60 or RHEL Desktop for $30 for Students and Instructors.
July-28, 2011 by: Lynn Dixon
From: Lynn Dixon ------------------------------------------------------ I just seen this today, and bought a copy myself. If you have a .edu email address, you can purchase a copy of RHEL Server for $60 or RHEL Desktop for $30. Considering RHEL6 Server is $349 normally, its a pretty good bargain. http://www.redhat.com/solutions/education/academic/individual/ If you don't like paying for Linux, theres always CentOS, CentOS 6 has been out a few weeks now :)
Dimms on Linux Server
July-02, 2011 by: Mike Harrison
From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Dave Brockman wrote: > 54......I don't even wanna know... but yeah, best if you can get the LV > Quad-Ranked DIMMS, which are also the most expensive, but seeing 256GB > of that stuff makes one mean ESXi host! Yeah, it'll complain on boot from being a little sub-par on the interleaving. but it sure seems fast with two quads and CLI only Ubuntu server. I need to give cred to Adam Jimerson for spotting the mismatching dimms and figuring out the interleaving of the sticks. Problem with higher end server stuff is you have to do it a lot to stay good at it. But the good stuff doesn't break much, hard to stay in practice. The DVD for the system config (Dell 710) was kewl, ran some Linux based interface (that tried to look like windows) for configuring the server, raid, etc... but finding the Do-It! button to actually configure and format the raid was not easy. It did have auto-install scripts and images for RedHat and Suse. ;)