Re: [CentOS] C7, removing zoom problem

On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, H wrote: Is it possible to use ansible, puppet or the like to do this on an existing system? It's possible but can be a lot of work if you're not familiar with the software. A simpler option is to save all your configured files in a version control system (git,

Re: [CentOS] C7, removing zoom problem

On Wed, 8 Feb 2023, Fred wrote: I'm trying to build up the courage to do a full system upgrade to Rocky.latest. I hate doing upgrades, it's such a pain in the rear to get everything working again, and get all my tweaks back into place. Getting all your configuration into ansible, puppet or

Re: [CentOS] C7, removing zoom problem

On Mon, 2023-02-06 at 21:13 -0500, Fred wrote: > well, as one of the earlier posters showed how, I did remove the > existing > one then installed the new one (the one that Zoom offers for Centos- > 7, not > the one for Centos-8, which has the problem you describe) and voila, > works > like a

Re: [CentOS] C7, removing zoom problem

On Sun, 2023-02-05 at 17:09 -0500, Fred wrote: > Guys, I'm trying to update my zoom client and yum (or yumex) won't let > me > do an update,  That's because CentOS/RHEL 7 is no longer supported. Zoom download page shows 5.13.4.711 as the latest for 7. (5.13.7.683 is the latest for 8+.) > so I

Re: [CentOS] grepmail

On Wed, 2021-10-27 at 15:40 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > However the CentOS perl modules are older versions than > the executable uses on Fedora. I'd prefer the executable > and modules were tested together. Have I missed grepmail > in any CentOS 7 repos? Worth a try in cases like this is

Re: [CentOS] edit or write access to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file for non-root user.

On Mon, 2021-08-23 at 21:59 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core). Is there a way to > provide write/edit access to a file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file only > for > non-root users? sudoedit is the standard solution for that problem. -- Ian

Re: [CentOS] Difference between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream

On Tue, 20 Jul 2021, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Low risk updates over a ten year support cycle are the number one reason we've all been using "classic" CentOS in the first place. We've been using the 10 year support to convince researchers to install CentOS instead of their preferred option

Re: [CentOS] tracking samba changes

On Fri, 5 Mar 2021, Christopher Wensink wrote: Typically I just adjust who is a member of the group by editing the group using vi /etc/group Editing /etc/group is not recommended. Changes aren't logged and it's easy to make mistakes. It's better to use: groupadd to create groups

Re: [CentOS] Security bulletins for CentOS 8 and CentOS Stream

On Wed, 2021-01-13 at 14:02 -0500, Salman Baset wrote: > I was wondering if security bulletins for CentOS 8 (till its EOL date > at > the end of 2021) and CentOS Stream will be available any time soon. https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-September/351575.html -- Ian

Re: [CentOS] C8 and Plasma5 error

On Wed, 2020-03-11 at 09:19 +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Seems that kde5init is not present on the system and inside > repositories. I think you mean kdeinit5 (as in your original post). That's provided by the package: kf5-kinit If you have mlocate installed you can find files with:

Re: [CentOS] C8 and Plasma5 error

On Tue, 2020-03-10 at 09:46 +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > How I can communicate the bug with the maintainer? Open an account at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Select "File a Bug" Go to "Fedora" then "Fedora EPEL" In "Component" select the relevant plasma package File the bug report -- Ian

Re: [CentOS] kmod-nvidia-430.40-1.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64 fails to install

On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On August 2, my desktop unit updated with kmod-nvidia-430.40-1.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64 which broke yum having a multiple of dependencies not being present. The latest from elrepo - kmod-nvidia-430.40-2.el7_7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm - is built for EL 7.7 and

Re: [CentOS] Delta RPMs (drpms) for CentOS-6 and CentOS-7

On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 09:55 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > We would like to remove delta rpms (drpms) from our CentOS-6 and > CentOS-7 repositories. I maintain a local mirror for CentOS and we don't use delta rpms so won't mind if they're dropped. (From what I've seen with Fedora, the benefits

Re: [CentOS] multilib problem during "yum update"

On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 14:05 +1000, Bill Maidment wrote: > > ---> Package libgpg-error.x86_64 0:1.13-1.el7.centos will be an > > update > > ---> Package libgpg-error-debuginfo.x86_64 0:1.13-1.el7.centos will > > be an update > > ---> Package libgpg-error-devel.x86_64 0:1.13-1.el7.centos will be >

Re: [CentOS] Fresh install C7 nvidia

On Wed, 2018-11-07 at 20:35 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am install C7.5 on a nvidia unit and nvidia-detect tells me to use > kmod-nvidia-390xx > so I do the yum install and and after a long time I see this > > Packages skipped because of dependency problems: >

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 11:05 +0100, Nux! wrote: > The EL7 partitioner is a complete disaster and I regularly bitch > about it on twitter and irc. > You could try to convince it with kickstart and bypass the GUI > altogether. I agree and also use kickstart but sometimes, for a one-off install, I

Re: [CentOS] missing CESA-2018:2571 Important CentOS 6 bind Security Update

On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 19:20 +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: > i'm running bind on an up to date CentOS 6.10 and missing the bind > update from the announcement above. I looked for them yesterday on AU mirrors and a few in the US and Europe but didn't find them. Still not there this morning. -- Ian

Re: [CentOS] gdevilspie on mate

On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 12:29 -0400, H wrote: > Do you know if it is supposed to work with the Mate desktop or just > Gnome? I don't know but with the dependencies installed and the fix of commenting out line 374, it starts on MATE. A couple of concerns: the last commit to gdevilspie source

Re: [CentOS] gdevilspie on mate

On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 20:35 -0400, H wrote: > I just read about gdevilspie on this list the other day and > downloaded it for my mate desktop. Although it installed, it > complains that python-wnck is not installed. The package you're missing is probably gnome-python2-libwnck. On my desktop it

Re: [CentOS] Acroread9 crash in CentOS7

On Fri, 11 Aug 2017, wwp wrote: I'm still using acroread on CentOS6 (other computers than this C7 one) and never had a single problem. It might be still usable but it isn't secure. --- Ian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Acroread9 crash in CentOS7

On Tue, 2017-08-08 at 23:13 +0200, wwp wrote: > I'm getting a crash with acroread on my CentOS7 > (AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486). > I install the official rpms from > ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/, > tried 9.5.5, and former v9, v8, v7. Support for AdobeReader on Linux ended more

Re: [CentOS] Cron sending to root after changing MAILTO

On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 23:31 +, Chad Cordero wrote: > It’s being rejected before it even reaches the mailbox Is it rejected because of the recipient address or the sender address? In your log message, I noticed this sender address: from= In case your mail server is

Re: [CentOS] looking for graphing tools

On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 15:26 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > I can figure out some simple scripting to turn the maillog entries > into times since the epoch, or other formats, if needed, but I have > no experience with the various graphing tools availabe, or even > what (or where) they are. mrtg would

Re: [CentOS] What is in a yum group

On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 18:52 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > How can I see what rpms Centos would install with a 'yum group > install'? yum group info Xfce -- Ian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] strange system outage

On Sat, 13 May 2017, Larry Martell wrote: Yes, we do have millions and millions of files (give or take a million or so). I am going to disable mlocate and remove the db and see if this fixes the issues we've been having. An alternative to disabling mlocate would be to add the paths with huge

Re: [CentOS] Hotel ethernet via nmcli

On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 19:38 -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > But I have to web authenticate to their portal with my personal > information. Is that possible with a text web browser? I seem to > recall that Centos has one. What to install? links can authenticate. It's not user friendly

Re: [CentOS] Problems with my simple write conf files method

On Tue, 2017-02-21 at 10:50 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > cat $CONF['database_type'] = 'mysqli'; > $CONF['database_user'] = 'postfix'; > $CONF['database_password'] = 'xyz'; > $CONF['database_name'] = 'postfix'; > > $CONF['configured'] =

Re: [CentOS] Ghostscript update?

On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 13:58 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > - systemdict /getenv {pop //false} put > Which, if I understand what I'm reading, just has added the systemdict > line. The leading "-" means removed not added. > I added that, and tried to run evince, which did not crash, but did

Re: [CentOS] How to avoid "firstboot" in CentOS 7 kickstart

On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 16:02 -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > My question is: how do you avoid "firstboot" screen in latest CentOS > 7.3 > kickstart. > ... > Here are relevant lines from my kickstart that I assume should have > taken > care of everything (in the order of their appearance, I dropped

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency python-yubico

On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 11:12 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Hey all, I'm trying to install the fedora-packager group so that I can > build Fedora source packages into RPMs that I can install. I'm > getting > this error: > > Error: Package: fedora-packager-0.6.0.1-1.el6.noarch (epel) >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, H wrote: That is correct, not only do I want to, I need to. It seems like RH 3.8 was around the time of Fedora Core 3-5 so you might be able to install packages from the Fedora archive: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/ Otherwise you could

Re: [CentOS] RPM `requires` installation order

On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 11:56 +1100, Shyam S wrote: > I have tried `PreReq` tag as well, which has same behaviour as far as I can > tell. > > Is there any other means to accomplish my requirement? PreReq now has the same effect as Requires. In earlier versions it did what you want and I don't

Re: [CentOS] Firewalld

On Sun, 2015-10-11 at 15:00 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote: > I assume there must be a different set of configuration files that are > accessed upon > reboot than those accessed upon firewalld restart. The saved rules are under /etc/firewalld/zones. The rules for the default zone should be the

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED: CentOS 7 CUPS: where queue defaults are stored?

On Sat, 10 Oct 2015, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Still: is there more elegant way to replicate CUPS configuration, than just copy /etc/cups ? man lpadmin man lpoptions --- Ian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog.conf

On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Always Learning wrote: There is absolutely no need to include irrelevant text when replying to a posting. Trim and Cut were sensible skills acquired by some of us in the 1980's and 1990's. Pertinent points pleases people perpetually. Precisely. A small amount of effort