Yasha,
Did you try clicking on Nico's link? ProofPoint decodes their obfuscated
re-write, checks to make sure it's a legit site, then opens the proper page.
I just clicked on it and it took me to Nico's github scripts area.
Our campus (UIUC) has used it for many years now. Fermilab just started using
it. Lots of places use it. Arguably a somewhat contentious implementation,
there are arguments for and against its use. The argument for (at the higher up
level in an organization) is to keep people who blindly click on links in their
email from going to bad nasty sites (think non-savvy students and other folks).
For those of us who have been around and ALWAYS check an embedded link in email,
it's a PITA! However, there are ProofPoint decoders out there. My favorite can
be found here (and I am going to re-write the link with spaces in hopes that
ProofPoint won't mangle it - we'll see...)
https : // itsa . ifas . ufl . edu / email / proofpoint . shtml
I have this bookmarked in my Chrome bookmarks bar for quick lookups.
Hope that helps your angst somewhat.
- Larry
Yasha Karant wrote on 10/17/18 11:48 PM:
> As I explained, I cannot transmit or receive URLs within SMTP email and
> perhaps other modalities due to the security measures of the campus with
> which I am associated, as you can see below in URL modification. Until
> I can get my SL users email address permanently reset, please email any
> URL information to [log in to unmask] . I apologize for this, but I have
> no control or input to any system under the current campus
> administration, as faculty (including tenured full professors) who are
> not campus administrators (deans or higher administrators in most cases)
> are informed of actions, but otherwise have little meaningful influence
> over decisions.
>
> I will attempt to implement what is suggested below without access to
> the Kadel-Garcia tool set, but I suspect that the tool set will save me
> some time and effort.
>
> Thanks for your patience.
>
> Yasha Karant
>
> On 10/17/2018 08:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:07 PM Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> How does one update SL 7 using a mounted USB flash drive as the source
>>> of a repo, rather than using any external network? There were
>>> instructions for doing this for EL pre-7 distributions, but I cannot
>>> find similar instructions for SL 7. I have a USB flash drive with the
>>> current double-layer DVD SL7.5 install image (ISO) and that does work --
>>> I just did a fresh install of SL7.5 using this media.
>> One sets up a new or one of the existing /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files
>> to look at the locally mounted CD drive. I would copy "sl7.repo" to
>> "sl7-local.repo", and reset the repository names to "sl7-local" and
>> the like, and set their URLs to point to
>> "file:///mountpoint/7.version/x86_64/os" and similar URLs.
>>
>> I've done just this sort of thing, successfully for internal SL,
>> CentOS, and RHEL mirrors. You may find my tools at
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_nkadel_nkadel-2Drsync-2Dscripts&d=DwIBaQ&c=B_W-eXUX249zycySS1AyzjABMeYirU1wvo9-GmMObjY&r=Z7xHp2tIJsvAE2FtPxl_lynvf4hA_FJ8mKsaIgvY6Dk&m=RT1c81ULE-0AAXhmXl3Y0eaJZ0yPhGaZLHC9N3oM0hs&s=r3JZw6l5f9xZhSR9sTX2gWvskXqOW9_hfegrgK-QAvU&e= helpful for generateing
>> your local mirror, especially the one for Scientific Linux.
>
>
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