Re: [CentOS] Slideshow/presentation software for CentOS

2019-08-26 Thread Andrew Holway
wrote: > There's a web / cloud package, Prezi, If you want to use cloud services then I would recommend googles presentation tool. I use it daily and find it very useful. It works best in chrome/chromium. You can also publish your presentation as a video. Personally, I find Prezi sucks!

Re: [CentOS] Civ 6 on CentOS?

2019-06-23 Thread Andrew Holway
Ubuntu yes, centos no. https://store.steampowered.com/app/289070/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VI/ On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, 05:41 mark, wrote: > Being as how we're looking at putting my SO on Linux (she's *so* fed up > with > Windoze), big question for her: Civ 6 on CentOS? Will it run on C 7? Wait >

Re: [CentOS] What happened if install a el7 package on a el6 system

2019-05-07 Thread Andrew Holway
I found kernel is mismatch accidentally when I using "uname -r" to > check kernel version. So my question is what the harmness we will > get if I install a el7 rpm into a el6 system? > I would say it depends on the dependencies. If its just some userspace tooling then it will probably work ok.

Re: [CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-24 Thread Andrew Holway
> > Btw, right now, we've just built a new server as Ubuntu, because my > manager wants to use it to test zfs, including its ability to a) act as a > RAID, directly, without an underlying RAID, and b) encrypt the whole thing > natively. > ZFS on linux was originally an EL project. Ubuntu support

Re: [CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-24 Thread Andrew Holway
> Maybe you should try to explain to your manager why RHEL/CentOS exist and > why it's widely used in the corporate world. If he talks about Ubuntu then > you could explain to him what Fedora is any why and how it differs from > RHEL/CentOS. > I'm not really sure that the reasons for Rhel really

Re: [CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-24 Thread Andrew Holway
> What OS are your k8s clusters running on? How about your cloud > providers? Mine are on RHEL and CentOS. > I don't know. We use fully managed services from Google. I think its coreOS. > -- > Jonathan Billings > ___ > CentOS mailing list >

[CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-24 Thread Andrew Holway
I just realised that I haven't touched a centos/redhat machine in more than a couple of years. Everything I do now is Kubernetes based or using cloud services (or k8s cloud services). What about it listeroons? Is your fleet of centos boxes ever expanding or are you just taking care of a single

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

2018-07-18 Thread Andrew Holway
> > So, you'd say a company should use outside email? I would very strongly > suggest that's a BAD idea. For example, when M$ sucked all our local > Exchange accounts to their cloud, I understand (I'm not in that group) > that this was a one-way deal. From a friend, who's a consultant, he was >

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

2018-07-18 Thread Andrew Holway
> Andrew, you should understand that you are talking to experts in Linux > here. > No, i was talking to the OP who is seemingly not an expert. Advising those who not competent that they can set up and run their own mailserver is probably negligent. Whipping up Exim and Dovecot for your own

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

2018-07-18 Thread Andrew Holway
> > > Still a lot better than trying to run your own hodge-podge of nightmares > > on Linux. > > Beg pardon? Did I make a mistake on the email address? I thought this went > to the CentOS general discussion list. > I specifically meant setting up and running email services on linux is not for the

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

2018-07-18 Thread Andrew Holway
> > In addition, if you go to 365, you are NOT BUYING the software, you're > renting the service. You will be paying every year, and a service contract > will cost, and, presumably, cost more every year. > Still a lot better than trying to run your own hodge-podge of nightmares on Linux.

Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

2018-04-25 Thread Andrew Holway
Packer FTW On Tuesday, 24 April 2018, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi All, > > What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ? > > As an amateur to VMware - I thought - great I can get VMplayer and ESX > should be able to import my image... Wrong... I even

Re: [CentOS] FW: Squid and HTTPS interception on CentOS 7 ?

2018-03-09 Thread Andrew Holway
> > Thanks for reporting this. Though I bluntly admit I just ignore > everything coming from Microsoft. Hotmail has been tagging my company's > mailserver as a spammer for ages, so I'm tagging everything coming from > Microsoft as crapware. Nothing good has ever been produced by this > company.

Re: [CentOS] Squid and HTTPS interception on CentOS 7 ?

2018-03-05 Thread Andrew Holway
Wouldn't filtering the DNS be more practical? On 5 March 2018 at 18:57, Leon Fauster wrote: > > > Am 05.03.2018 um 15:34 schrieb Bill Gee : > > > > > > On Monday, March 5, 2018 7:23:53 AM CST Leon Fauster wrote: > >> Am 05.03.2018 um 13:04

[CentOS] Restarting docker daemon fixes network problem inside containers

2018-01-30 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi, We are building docker containers on Centos 7 based machines. Sometimes the docker being built cannot install packages because of some kind of network failure. I just found that restarting the docker container fixes the problems and the builds are successful. Does anyone have a clue what the

Re: [CentOS] upgrading python

2017-12-05 Thread Andrew Holway
> > I am going to investigate Pete > Biggs' suggestion to use Software Collections. > +1 for SCL ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] C7 and docker storage

2017-12-01 Thread Andrew Holway
I believe use of any kind of storage in conjunction with docker is generally discouraged. Docker is a quite neat way of packaging up apps and deploying them but if you care about your data I would store it somewhere independent of docker. Ta, Andrew On 29 November 2017 at 22:23,

Re: [CentOS] PHP package versions

2017-11-02 Thread Andrew Holway
> > http://php.net/eol.php says that PHP 5.5 and 5.4 are EOL, but a freshly > installed Centos 7 box, then fully upgraded, gives me PHP 5.4.16-42.el7. > What do people do about maintaining current versions of software on a > variety of machines? If you need more up to date versions of PHP then

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Bash help

2017-10-26 Thread Andrew Holway
> > You’re making things hard on yourself by insisting on Bash, by the way. I'd always assumed that shell scripting was a kind of sado masochistic medium allowing people who don't get out much to inflict horrible torture on each other. It certainly causes me great pain every time I try and read

[CentOS] Flame war police

2017-10-10 Thread Andrew Holway
Hiya everyone, Is there a way to disable a thread that has degenerated into flaming? The recent "discussion" on /var/run descended into some quite nasty places and perhaps a lid should have been put on it. This seems to happen every few weeks and is somewhat embarrassing when I'm trying to

[CentOS] SELinux - Re: how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

2017-10-05 Thread Andrew Holway
> Well, what am I supposed to do? The socket (or what it was) needs to be > put somewhere, and IIRC, it wasn´t my choice to put it there but is a > default. I am confused why you would want persistence for these objects in any operating system. Could you show us the relevant errors you are

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

2017-10-04 Thread Andrew Holway
On 4 October 2017 at 16:06, wrote: >I have not followed this thread since the first few emails... but has > anyone suggested the SCL repo? I see mysql 5.6 and 5.7 there. > +1 for SCL - https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-mariadb101/

Re: [CentOS] Connecting to internet with USB tethered iphone

2017-09-24 Thread Andrew Holway
TIL that android supports ethernet I wonder... https://www.davebennett.tech/connect-android-to-ethernet/ On 24 September 2017 at 09:53, Andrew Holway <andrew.hol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 for just using wifi! :) >> >> -10 for not bothering to read my message wher

Re: [CentOS] Connecting to internet with USB tethered iphone

2017-09-24 Thread Andrew Holway
> > > +1 for just using wifi! :) > > -10 for not bothering to read my message where I said the machine has no > wifi. > sassy ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Connecting to internet with USB tethered iphone

2017-09-23 Thread Andrew Holway
> > I always found that USB tethering is flaky and hard to set up. So I use > wifi tethering whenever possible. Just my $.02. > +1 for just using wifi! :) > > -- > Yan Li > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org >

Re: [CentOS] doing something before everything else

2017-07-22 Thread Andrew Holway
re that rc-local is running before the Jenkins init? Thanks, Andrew On 22 July 2017 at 14:06, Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> wrote: > On Jul 22, 2017, at 8:28 AM, Andrew Holway <andrew.hol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I want to run a script before systemd starts doing

[CentOS] doing something before everything else

2017-07-22 Thread Andrew Holway
I want to run a script before systemd starts doing stuff but I cant find anything online about how that could happen. It seems /etc/rc.local is depreciated now? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Azure Centos Images

2017-07-11 Thread Andrew Holway
I see that the image is actually provided by Rogue Wave Software who are selling support packages for it. https://www.roguewave.com/products-services/open-source-support/centos-on-azure On 11 July 2017 at 12:00, Andrew Holway <andrew.hol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > >

[CentOS] Azure Centos Images

2017-07-11 Thread Andrew Holway
Hello, I was wondering if there is any plan to support an official image for the Microsoft Azure cloud platform? Currently there is a third party publisher "OpenLogic" providing an Centos image but I don't know who they are. Redhat is providing a RHEL 7.3 template and Canonical is providing

[CentOS] OT - lowest power, cheapest python interpreter

2017-06-09 Thread Andrew Holway
I am searching for the cheapeat *nix SOC device with ethernet and wifi that can run Python 2.7. Ethernet should be 100mbit and hopefully supporting PXE. OT because im doubting you can squeeze our bloaty friend onto such a device :) ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] C7, systemd, say what?!

2017-06-08 Thread Andrew Holway
I think we had enough of Systemd flaming last month. Please stop polluting my inbox and find an operating system compatible with your worldview. It is really tiresome to keep on hearing about it. On 8 June 2017 at 14:51, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2017,

Re: [CentOS] System Time Source

2017-05-25 Thread Andrew Holway
Time on computers is typically set using Network Time Protocol (NTP) over the internet however I believe these [1] devices do what you're describing. [1] - https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/products/pci-express-clocks.htm On 24 May 2017 at 15:53, Chris Olson wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Best practices for copying lots of files machine-to-machine

2017-05-17 Thread Andrew Holway
> > If shutting the machines down is feasible, I’d put the source hard drive > into the destination machine and use rsync to copy it from one drive to the > other (rather than using rsync to copy from one machine to the other over > the network). > I'm not so sure about that. Probably the disk is

Re: [CentOS] Best practices for copying lots of files machine-to-machine

2017-05-17 Thread Andrew Holway
Rsync seems to be the obvious answer here. On 17 May 2017 at 18:16, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 05/17/2017 12:03 PM, ken wrote: > >> An entire filesystem (~180g) needs to be copied from one local linux >> machine to another. Since both systems are on the same local

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll - So Long, and Thanks for All the fish.

2017-04-16 Thread Andrew Holway
> > There is no doubt that most security agencies have a long list of zero- >> day exploits in their toolbox - I would hazard to suggest that they >> wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't! But I seriously doubt they >> would commission exploitable code in something that is openly >>

Re: [CentOS] humor (was Re: OT: systemd Poll)

2017-04-12 Thread Andrew Holway
> > When Windows 2000 came out some called it "bloated pig". Some 6 years down > the road Linux started catching up ;-) Then we stopped laughing about > Windows. > All in the name of progress.. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Enterprise Linux Slack

2017-04-12 Thread Andrew Holway
> > Not enthused with slack. And here's a real question: were you talking > about *instead* of this mailing list? No, certainly not instead of. A mailing list is essential. I'm part of a few slack communities and it seems an excellent platform for realtime discourse and noob baiting. Very sadly

Re: [CentOS] humor (was Re: OT: systemd Poll)

2017-04-12 Thread Andrew Holway
> > Of course, to be fair, there may have been a *reason* for not doing it > that way before > Between the early 1990's and early 2000's the price of a GB of memory went from ~$100,000 to ~$1000*. I guess a lot of the design decisions made for things like init were focussed on this. In 1995

Re: [CentOS] Enterprise Linux Slack

2017-04-12 Thread Andrew Holway
Don't think so. I'm getting slack mail from Received: from mail-71-234.slack.com (mail-71-234.slack.com. [166.78.71.234]) On 12 April 2017 at 14:35, Alice Wonder <al...@domblogger.net> wrote: > On 04/12/2017 05:28 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: > >> On 04/12/2017 05:23 AM, A

[CentOS] Enterprise Linux Slack

2017-04-12 Thread Andrew Holway
Hallo, Considering the relative decline of IRC (sorry folks) I have set up a Slack for Enterprise Linux. I've been using "pythondev.slack.com" and honestly, its a fantastic tool for community support with really nice features for computer centric discussion.

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-12 Thread Andrew Holway
> > I think the points been made, can we all move along and let this thread be. > SystemD RULES! :D ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-11 Thread Andrew Holway
> > most scripts are perfectly clear. This is the Richard Stallman assumption: He assumes that the average normal person is able to program Fortran 77 and Lisp and are able to spend inordinate amounts of time debugging and getting obscure OSS software packages working because using Skype and

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-11 Thread Andrew Holway
> > I'd much rather have a bash script to look at-- and manually step through. Is that a joke? Bash is an almighty impenetrable nightmare. I've been doing *nix for nearly 10 years and *still* am unable to read anything vaguely complicated in bash whereas I can write fairly decent python after 6

Re: [CentOS] Python 3.x on Centos 7

2017-03-24 Thread Andrew Holway
I much prefer the Anaconda distribution of Python3. It installs for a single user and is completely self contained. Also much more recent versions are available: https://www.continuum.io/downloads On 24 March 2017 at 00:16, Matt wrote: > Is there a way to install

Re: [CentOS] An 'orrible question: Outlook 365 under wine on CentOS?

2017-03-20 Thread Andrew Holway
Office365 is a bit flaky in places but works perfectly well as an IMAP server to any email client. The calendar functionality is not there via IMAP however so you wont get notified if you get invited to meetings. Be it on your head! >From a business perspective Office365 is an extremely good

Re: [CentOS] Python search path

2017-03-04 Thread Andrew Holway
So you want to build something independent of the system python? Is virtualenv and / or anaconda interesting here? On 4 March 2017 at 17:36, Alice Wonder wrote: > Hello, > > Working on a project to create clean spec files for libbitcoin for CentOS > 7 (and eventually I

Re: [CentOS] HSM

2017-01-11 Thread Andrew Holway
tal image is of files migrating to tapes in a silo. > > On 11/01/17 10:23, Andrew Holway wrote: > > HSM also stands for "Hardware security module" > > > > Maybe lvmcache would be interesting for you? HSM is more popularly known > as > > "tiering".

Re: [CentOS] HSM

2017-01-11 Thread Andrew Holway
has been expanded to allow a SAS/SATA hierarchy. Quite > where PKI comes in I'm not sure, unless you are implementing it over an > external network. > > On 11/01/17 10:06, Andrew Holway wrote: > > Dogtag? http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page > > > > On 11

Re: [CentOS] HSM

2017-01-11 Thread Andrew Holway
Dogtag? http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page On 11 January 2017 at 10:30, J Martin Rushton < martinrushto...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Purely from interest, is there any current FOSS implementation of HSM? > I note that XFS has dropped support for DMAPI, have other filesystems? > >

Re: [CentOS] Firefox Issue

2017-01-05 Thread Andrew Holway
Maybe is was an ad redirect. I get this a lot on my phone where people are putting malicious js in ads that redirects me to advertisements for rock hard erections whilst I'm reading articles. Its very noisome! On 4 January 2017 at 22:33, Chris Olson wrote: > Everyone is

Re: [CentOS] Alternative to cPanel

2016-12-15 Thread Andrew Holway
I think most of the market is moving towards AWS Elastic Beanstalk, OpenShift and Docker. It seems control panels are not really much of a thing anymore. Cheers, Andrew On 15 December 2016 at 16:17, FrancisM wrote: > Dear All, > > Im looking for alternative for

Re: [CentOS] Anyone know anything about slurm on CentOS 7?

2016-10-26 Thread Andrew Holway
You might have some luck on the beowulf mailing list - http://beowulf.org/ There are quite a few slurmy types kicking around there. On 26 October 2016 at 22:09, Eero Volotinen wrote: > looks like auditd logging is a bit tweaked. > > eero > > 26.10.2016 6.11 ip.

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread Andrew Holway
> > What would you suggest and why? :) Ansible is now owned by Redhat so I would expect its feature set to be specifically aligned towards the administration of RHEL type operating systems over time. We've previously been using Saltstack to great effect but we are gently sliding towards

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

2015-11-13 Thread Andrew Holway
In my experience software compiled for RHEL "just work" with Centos and I don't remember any case where it didn't. I have however heard whisperings on a grapevine that RH may want to try and make future versions of Centos slightly incompatible with RHEL but these are probably just whisperings. If

[CentOS] Server used in DOS attack on UDP port 0

2015-11-04 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi, One of our AWS machines was used in an DOS attack last night and I am looking for possible attack vectors. AWS tells me it was sending UDP port 0 traffic to a cloudflare address. This instance had an incorrectly configured AWS security group exposing all ports. The server in question is a

[CentOS] Screen

2015-10-30 Thread Andrew Holway
Hey I like to use Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E a lot to navigate my insane big bash one liners but this is incompatible with Screen which has a binding to Ctrl-A. Is it possible to move the screen binding so I can have the best of both worlds? Ta Andrew ___

[CentOS] PHP version not enough for developers

2015-10-22 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi, So, it seems that the current version of PHP in Centos 7 is PHP 5.4.16 however this version of PHP stopped getting security support from the PHP people one month ago [1]. Now, our developers want to use the new and shiny PHP because they want to use the latest version of Zend. They are

Re: [CentOS] Security implications of openssl098e on CentOS 7

2015-10-21 Thread Andrew Holway
Personally I would go round to that particular vendors office with a pipe wrench and encourage them to do better however, unless this software is transmitting credit card information then it seems that you could be safe(ish) from the regulation standpoint. It really depends on the location of the

Re: [CentOS] Security implications of openssl098e on CentOS 7

2015-10-21 Thread Andrew Holway
I would guess the only way to ascertain that is with some rigorous testing. Personally I find an alternative backup method. On 21 October 2015 at 13:58, Nick Bright <nick.bri...@valnet.net> wrote: > On 10/21/2015 1:55 PM, Andrew Holway wrote: > >> Personally I would go round

Re: [CentOS] Logrotate problems

2015-09-24 Thread Andrew Holway
/log/nginx/access.log & /var/log/nginx/error.log On the server where we have problems we have /var/log/nginx/subdirectory/some.other.log On 24 September 2015 at 09:34, Jo Rhett <jrh...@netconsonance.com> wrote: > On Sep 24, 2015, at 12:18 AM, Andrew Holway <andrew.hol...@gm

[CentOS] Logrotate problems

2015-09-24 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi Y'all, We have nginx set up and we are having problems with logrotate. The permissions and users do not seem to be any different from other machines that are working ok however the /var/log/nginx does have a directory in there that we are using to collect some special log stuff. Could this

Re: [CentOS] Logrotate problems

2015-09-24 Thread Andrew Holway
Hmm, so it seems that logrotate might be broken for nginx on Centos7. I filed a bug with epel. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266105 On 24 September 2015 at 11:49, Andrew Holway <andrew.hol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, doing what logrotate suggests causes other pro

Re: [CentOS] Logrotate problems

2015-09-24 Thread Andrew Holway
not > hard, and it’s certainly not broken. It does what you tell it to do. > > On Sep 24, 2015, at 6:33 AM, Andrew Holway <andrew.hol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hmm, so it seems that logrotate might be broken for nginx on Centos7. I > > filed a bug with epel. > >

[CentOS] Firewalld broken on Centos7?

2015-08-19 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi, I have a standard Centos7 AMI. Can anyone tell me whats happening here? Thanks, Andrew Aug 19 11:17:23 master dhclient[22897]: bound to 10.141.10.49 -- renewal in 1795 seconds. Aug 19 11:17:24 master network: Determining IP information for eth0... done. Aug 19 11:17:24 master network: [ OK

Re: [CentOS] Converting HVM to PV kernel CentOS7

2015-08-19 Thread Andrew Holway
All modern kernels are PV compatible. You can take the same Linux image and run it HVM or PV. On 19 August 2015 at 09:19, Venkateswara Rao Dokku dvrao@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply. If we want to have PV kernel for CentOs 7 , are there any guidelines to follow? How we can know

Re: [CentOS] how to get bug fixed by TUV

2015-07-30 Thread Andrew Holway
On 30 July 2015 at 13:22, Andrew Holway andrew.hol...@gmail.com wrote: The Redhat guys are normally responding very well to bug reports from Centos users. They don't seem to differentiate. Using bugs.centos.org seems quite pointless. I normally just use https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. Sorry

Re: [CentOS] how to get bug fixed by TUV

2015-07-30 Thread Andrew Holway
The Redhat guys are normally responding very well to bug reports from Centos users. They don't seem to differentiate. Using bugs.centos.org seems quite pointless. I normally just use https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. On 30 July 2015 at 13:12, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 07/30/2015

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Holway
OK, plese note that I am not willing to tolerate anti-oss claims and will continue to correct similar false claims. If you don't like those discussions at all, you should try to avoid false claims and the need for corrections. If I were RedHat, including a non GPL filesystem into my

Re: [CentOS] selinux --disabled in kickstart file does NOT disable SELINUX

2015-05-26 Thread Andrew Holway
a valid option? On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Andrew Holway andrew.hol...@gmail.com wrote: To set selinux to permissive or disabled mode during a kickstart installation, add the sed -i -e 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*$/\1permissive/' /etc/selinux/config command to the %post section

Re: [CentOS] selinux --disabled in kickstart file does NOT disable SELINUX

2015-05-25 Thread Andrew Holway
To set selinux to permissive or disabled mode during a kickstart installation, add the sed -i -e 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*$/\1permissive/' /etc/selinux/config command to the %post section of the kickstart file. Making sure to replace permissive with the required selinux mode. --

Re: [CentOS] SIG - Hardening

2015-04-22 Thread Andrew Holway
SELinux? On 22 April 2015 at 09:11, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 4/21/2015 11:34 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: apply also ideas from this document: https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/downloads/show-single/?file=rhel6.130 that should be your baseline. I suspect you'll find all

Re: [CentOS] 6.5 install dvd won't

2015-04-08 Thread Andrew Holway
On 8 April 2015 at 22:24, Chuck Campbell campb...@accelinc.com wrote: When I boot a machine from disc 1 of 2, Centos 6.5 install dvd, I get to a grub prompt. I have no idea what to do from there, but clearly something isn't right. Shoudl I try to download centos 6 again and burn new discs?

Re: [CentOS] systemctl (again)

2015-04-04 Thread Andrew Holway
Thats wierd. I've never had any problem with systemctl or systemd like that. Do you have your service file in the right place with the right permissions. here is the httpd service file as a reference. [centos@ipa ~]$ ls /usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service -l -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 694 Mar

Re: [CentOS] The future of centos

2015-04-04 Thread Andrew Holway
In the context of this discussion I would appreciate any feedback the list might have on this article I wrote for my new company. http://otternetworks.de/tech/rhel-centos-brief/ I for one welcome our Redhat overlords. I think they will provide better governance which should give Centos better

[CentOS] Some subscribers posts to the list ending up in Gmail spam

2015-04-04 Thread Andrew Holway
Did we work out the technical reason why some users that post to the list are getting dumped into gmail spam? Ta, Andrew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] The future of centos

2015-04-04 Thread Andrew Holway
Well, I used to agree. But when a bug report filed in December goes untouched entering April, which I don't recall happening prior to RH subsuming the project, it takes away impetus to ever file one again from lowly end users like me I think. It appears that you are the only one to have

Re: [CentOS] The future of centos

2015-04-04 Thread Andrew Holway
You seem to be overlooking Debian. Ubuntu (and many others) at some point were clones of Debian. One can argue Ubuntu stepped up (or aside) a lot since. Still... This is very true. Maybe I should say yum based systems and apt based systems but I did not want to turn it into a technical

Re: [CentOS] systemctl (again)

2015-04-02 Thread Andrew Holway
It might be SELinux. On a standard system; when we run things as a user from the command line SELinux rules do not apply. It would explain why it works manually but not via systemd. Rather than using an init.d script you might want to try using a systemd service. I haven't tested but something

Re: [CentOS] SEmodule dependency hell.

2015-04-02 Thread Andrew Holway
File a bug!!! On 2 April 2015 at 16:20, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: On Wed, April 1, 2015 16:09, Andrew Holway wrote: I used the command: semanage port -m -t http_port_t -p tcp 8000 to relabel a port. perhaps you could try: semanage port -m -t unconfined_t -p tcp 8000

Re: [CentOS] How to decrypt rootpassword form kickstart file

2015-04-01 Thread Andrew Holway
This is all interesting, but I've got one dumb question: why do you need to decrypt it? In the UK we have a law which give you the right to remain silent; so as not to incriminate yourself. I think in the US its known as taking the fifth. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] SEmodule dependency hell.

2015-04-01 Thread Andrew Holway
I used the command: semanage port -m -t http_port_t -p tcp 8000 to relabel a port. perhaps you could try: semanage port -m -t unconfined_t -p tcp 8000 Failing that; would it work to run your application in the httpd_t domain? Ta, Andrew On 1 April 2015 at 18:23, James B. Byrne

Re: [CentOS] Thanks for 7.1

2015-03-31 Thread Andrew Holway
+1 for that! On 1 April 2015 at 02:25, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: Just wanted to say Thanks! to the CentOS team for their efforts to put out a 7.1 release. Upgraded several systems, so far smooth sailing. Good job! -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro

Re: [CentOS] Using LVM to implement RAID

2015-03-28 Thread Andrew Holway
Or ZFS.. http://zfsonlinux.org/ On 29 March 2015 at 03:37, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: It's a matter of user space tools preference. Both mdadm, and lvm tools use the Linux md driver code to implement RAID on the backend; but have completely different user facing tools and

Re: [CentOS] Using LVM to implement RAID

2015-03-28 Thread Andrew Holway
Or indeed btrfs but the raid stuff in there is not yet complete. #ZFSFTW On 29 March 2015 at 03:45, Andrew Holway andrew.hol...@gmail.com wrote: Or ZFS.. http://zfsonlinux.org/ On 29 March 2015 at 03:37, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: It's a matter of user space tools

Re: [CentOS] Services supporting Kerberos and/or TLS client certificate authentication

2015-03-23 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi Jonathan, http / rabbitmq just examples. I'm looking for a list. On 23 March 2015 at 15:17, Jonathan Billings billi...@negate.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:34:49AM +0100, Andrew Holway wrote: Hello, We're starting to use FreeIPA in house (which is awesome btw) which means

[CentOS] Services supporting Kerberos and/or TLS client certificate authentication

2015-03-23 Thread Andrew Holway
Hello, We're starting to use FreeIPA in house (which is awesome btw) which means that Kerberos and TLS client certificate authentication is suddenly quite easy. Im looking for a list of common Linux services with data on how one can Authenticate/Authorise for these services. * httpd support TLS

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for NIS/NFS?

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew Holway
+1 for freeipa. It is an extremely well integrated domain controller with a functionality similar to Microsoft Active Directory. I would highly recommend setting up an AWS Virtual Private Cloud or something similar and practice deploying freeipa a few times with a few clients. It takes some

Re: [CentOS] libvirt

2015-02-16 Thread Andrew Holway
systemctl start libvirtd ? On 16 February 2015 at 21:08, mattias m...@mjw.se wrote: Seems libvirt are broken in centos7? I can start it but Virsh list for example: Connection refused Kvm are installed And the kvm driver installed ___

Re: [CentOS] Thread moderation and list etiquette (Reference - Another Fedora Decision)

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew Holway
On 12 February 2015 at 19:08, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Brian Mathis brian.mathis+cen...@betteradmin.com wrote: CentOS is unquestionably one of the most used Linux distros in the world, and yet the mailing list is relatively quiet. To me

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew Holway
I've seen situations where people have put ntpdate in a cronjob to get around issues with big time jumps at boot or dodgy clocks under virtualization. There are much better solutions to this problem, so let us know if this is the case for you. put tinker panic 0 in your ntp.conf. This stops

Re: [CentOS] SELinux context for ssh host keys?

2015-02-10 Thread Andrew Holway
On 10 February 2015 at 06:32, Mark Tinberg mark.tinb...@wisc.edu wrote: On Feb 9, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: On 02/09/2015 11:14 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: So, I decided to run restorecon -v to ... restorecon reset

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Holway
On 25 January 2015 at 15:12, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: OK... but why does it need to be a trunk port? Because a trunk port will trunk the vlan. A VLAN is basically a 4 byte tag that gets injected into the packet header when the packet enters the VLAN network. When we trunk a

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-24 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi Boris, Is the switch port mode tagged or untagged. Thanks, Andrew On 24 January 2015 at 13:35, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Do you need the whole configuration? On the switch end, we have the relevant VLAN (VLAN 48) with the assigned IP address of 192.168.48.101 and the

Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Holway
On 23 January 2015 at 12:06, Darren Williams d.willia...@bradford.ac.uk wrote: Using VM's was a suggestion I put forward but some of our staff didn't like the idea! *sigh* technology politics is annoying. good luck with that. We can't virtualise Windows as we run many CAD and Media app's

[CentOS] building RPMs with SELinux

2015-01-22 Thread Andrew Holway
Hello, Im trying to find some good info on building RPMs that set the correct SELinux contexts for the installed packages. Any ideas? Thanks, Andrew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

2015-01-22 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi Darren, Any reason you cant use virtualisation and / or thin client kind of action? If for instance you have a linux hypervisor installed on each machine you could kick up a virtual machine with the required environment. dirty up the image and then replace the image with a clean centos /

Re: [CentOS] socks5 server software?

2015-01-12 Thread Andrew Holway
What is the state of the art for socks5 server software? SSH is great for this unless you want to have some kind of user auth. I use it extensively. for example: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/linux-socks5-proxy/ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Dropbox on CentOS 6?

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Holway
FYI It works for me on Centos 7 when I used it last week. On 11 December 2014 at 09:04, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Niki Kovacs Sent: den 11 december 2014 08:55 To:

Re: [CentOS] Centos7 Annoyances

2014-11-01 Thread Andrew Holway
7) Lack of 32-bit support I think I understand this. After all, 32-bit machines may become unusable when the clock overflows, but isn't that a few years away, and couldn't some solution be found, even if kludgy? Some of the 32-bit hardware was of very high quality, and still runs

Re: [CentOS] file system replication

2014-10-09 Thread Andrew Holway
Can anyone provide some insight for me? This would be a perfect use case for ZFS snapshot send and receive! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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