-----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:26 AM To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS> Seriously, some of the RHEL-boxes we use, require a particular point release > as well as not allowing any updates to the OS. At all.Any of the vendors on those boxes happen to be Oracle or Netcracker?
> -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Joseph L. > Casale > Sent: den 30 november 2017 01:25 > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS > > -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:26 AM > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS > > > Seriously, some of the RHEL-boxes we use, require a particular point > release > > as well as not allowing any updates to the OS. At all. > > Any of the vendors on those boxes happen to be Oracle or Netcracker?No, it's Varian/Agilent. A big player in lab instruments. Funny thing, just googled them and apparently they've opensoured the culprit software, and according to the below link, it's not locked to a particular point release anymore! http://openvnmrj.org/Downloading/ It does however still require the original software - which _is_ locked to a particular point release. Dammit', so close! -- //Sorin
> No, it's Varian/Agilent. A big player in lab instruments. > > Funny thing, just googled them and apparently they've opensoured the culprit > software, and according to the below link, it's not locked to a particular > point release anymore! > > http://openvnmrj.org/Downloading/ > > It does however still require the original software - which _is_ locked to a > particular point release. Dammit', so close!Yes, our spectrometers that run VNMRJ are not allowed directly on the network. They are tucked away safely behind a NAT'd firewall with very few ports open and access is only allowed by proxy ssh from a few IP addresses (for some reason the users want to retrieve their data from it!). The extra cost of a firewall is nothing compared to the cost of the instrument. P.