Unix-Users Agenda
Wednesday - June 28, 2006

Agenda

• Jack Schmidt
  training, security, inventory
• Security Team
  Security Topic of the month.
• Linux Update
  • Scientific Linux 4.x status
    Release Schedule
    What will be new with S.L. 4.4
  • Scientific Linux Fermi 4.x status
    Release Schedule
  • Scientific Linux 3.0.x status
    Release Schedule
    What will be new with S.L. 3.0.8
  • Scientific Linux Fermi 3.0.x status
    Release Schedule
  • SLIP
    Inventory Project
    Here are some details
    href="ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts4rolling/testing/i386/RPMS/slip
    How we can make it an easier transition?
• Tips and Tricks
  USB MultiCard Card Readers in S.L. and S.L.F. 4.x
  In my everlasting quest to get multicard card readers to work, I have hit upon a little script that works with any of the card readers, and doesn't involve too much work.
  This needs to be run as root. I have it in /root/bin/load.cardreader so that it's in roots path already.
  This has to be run each time a multi-card card reader is plugged into the usb socket. So in that sense, some of the other suggestions, where you teach S.L. how to recognize your specific card reader, might be better. But so far, this script has worked on every computer, and every card reader I have tried it on.

  #!/bin/sh
  
  THISID=`grep Host: /proc/scsi/scsi | cut -d' ' -f2 | cut -d'i' -f2`
  
  echo "scsi add-single-device $THISID 0 0 1" > /proc/scsi/scsi
  sleep 3
  echo "scsi add-single-device $THISID 0 0 2" > /proc/scsi/scsi
  sleep 3
  echo "scsi add-single-device $THISID 0 0 3" > /proc/scsi/scsi
  sleep 3
  cat /proc/scsi/scsi
  

• Quiz
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