Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:17:11 -0400 Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 10:25, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > After doing a minimal CentOS 8.4 installation, I found the following > > packages to be useful for a simple server, so I removed them: > > > >

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:40:06 -0600 Johnny Hughes wrote: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/using-modules/ I find the modularity end-user documentation to be woefully inadequate, especially for developers. Here are several basic to advanced question that I can’t see answers for

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:21:33 -0800 Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'm guessing that means it was a dependency for something back then. > Is there a way to discover what? Using "yum history info 1" I see > that this was the original Anaconda install from 2014. Could dnsmasq > be in the original minimal

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:21:33 -0800 Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'm guessing that means it was a dependency for something back then. > Is there a way to discover what? Using "yum history info 1" I see > that this was the original Anaconda install from 2014. Could dnsmasq > be in the original minimal

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:15:52 +0100 Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 11/12/2020 à 02:25, Gordon Messmer a écrit : > > Personally, I think that changing focus on CentOS Stream is going > > to make CentOS (and maybe even RHEL) better in the same way and for > > the same reasons that Fedora is a better

Re: [CentOS] Moving to CentOS 8 Stream

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:08:09 -0300 Sergio Belkin wrote: > El jue, 10 dic 2020 a las 15:48, Kienker, Fred () > escribió: > > > "It takes years to build a reputation and seconds to destroy it." > > > > -- Business 101 class > > > Fear not in DEVops world you can rebuild your reputation in one >

[CentOS] Stream questions

I have a couple of questions about CentOS Stream. 1. Is there list for update announcements? Something similar to upda...@fedoraproject.org. 2. Since both CentOS and EPEL are Red Hat projects, will Red Hat provide an EPEL version compatible with CentOS Stream? Jim

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream from bottom works, what is this?

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:22:15 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 09:58:10AM -0600, Barry Brimer wrote: > > If the same happened in the previous question but was in a package > > or set of packages that was being rebased in 8.5 would it work the > > same way? > > Hmmm. I'm not

Re: [CentOS] Network Manager - rotate connection profile

On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:25:37 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: > I have an occasional need to switch a few computers from one Internet > provider to a different one. Both Internet providers feed into the > same network, one at 192.168.0.1 and the other at 192.168.0.254. > > So to change from one provider

Re: [CentOS] Samba rpms now available from Storage SIG

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 12:07:34 +0530 Anoop C S wrote: > This is to announce the availability of Samba(and CTDB) rpms from > Storage SIG[1] on CentOS 7 and 8. Visit Samba's CentOS Storage SIG > wiki page[2] for more details on installation steps. > > [1]

Re: [CentOS] Can't move to Centos 8

On Tue, 12 May 2020 17:42:25 -0700 david wrote: > Folks > > I've been trying to convert my systems to Centos 8, seeing the EOL on > the horizon a few years away. One of my systems is a Mac-Mini, and > support for that has been discontinued. I'm wondering what the > community suggests among

Re: [CentOS] Giving full administrator privileges through sudo on production systems

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:13 PM John Pierce wrote: > > $ sudo rm -rf / Just for fun, I cloned a C7 VM and ran rm -rf. I then examined the disk image with guestfish. Everything was gone except for a few empty directoriers: /dev, /etc, /proc, /sys, and so on. Jim

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 1:41 PM Jon LaBadie wrote: > But we can blame systemd for the cryptic message > > A stop job is running > > Surely systemd knows what service it is waiting for, > why doesn't it tell us? > > The stop job XYZ is running The message reported by the OP and the message I

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:44 AM mark wrote: > > The joys of systemd I'm not sure it's right to blame systemd. Systemd asked nicely for the service to shutdown. The service didn't, probably because the update change something and pulled the rug out from beneath it. Systemd then waited a bit

Re: [CentOS] is "list_del corruption" fix available in Centos ?

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:17 AM John Hodrien wrote: > RHEL advice would clearly be not to use btrfs. I'm curious, is there anything in RHEL 8 that would replace BTRFS or ZFS? I'm experimenting with BTRFS on one system and the snapshot and subvolume features are nice. Jim

Re: [CentOS] is "list_del corruption" fix available in Centos ?

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 2:47 AM santhosh kumar wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 7:26 PM santhosh kumar > wrote: > > > We migrated from redhat 5.3 to centos 7.5 and facing crashes in longevity > > tests > > > > All of them point to below reason, > > > > list_del corruption. next->prev should be

Re: [CentOS] Automated XFCE install from kickstart and epel-release issue

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 3:01 AM wrote: > I am working on a kickstart automated Centos 7 GUI vm deployment. > > Defining gnome desktop in kickstart works. > @gnome-desktop - A GNOME desktop > > However Centos and anything from the epel-release such as xrdp does not > work. > > I have tried it on

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speaking as private citizen. Talk to your organization's computer security people. They will have a standard procedure for getting rid of dead disks. We on the internet can't know what they are. I'm betting it involves some

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:02 AM, hw wrote: > > Ah, yes, that does work. Sorry, I guess it was signatures rather > than state. I´m getting > > > Feature "signatures" is not supported by Perl 5.16.3 at ... > > > with CGI scripts. And who knows what else might cause problems. > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements

A couple of years ago I installed C6 on a ThinkPad A20 (512MB ram, 450MHz cpu). It runs, but is painfully slow. It can handle vi in an xterm, but not a modern web browser. Even a simple yum update takes too long. Personally, i suggest staying with C5 and planning to recycle the hardware when

Re: [CentOS] recent ruby packages?

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:55 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: As I keep noting, many perl CPAN packages are available as rpms - I know, since my manager prefers we not build any from CPAN unless it's a) not available from a trusted repository as an rpm, and b) actually required by a developer. As

Re: [CentOS] recent ruby packages?

On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:47:11 -0600 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:22 AM, James Szinger jszin...@gmail.com wrote: You should check out cpanspec, available from EPEL, which makes it easy to package CPAN modules into RPMs. Well-behaved modules are nearly

[CentOS] 6.2 Radeon HDMI audio gotcha

I had some trouble (now solved) with the recent upgrade to 6.2. There was no sound from the DVI/HDMI output and video played back much too fast. Booting kernel-2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64 restored sound and video playback. The solution is to add 'radeon.audio=1' to the kernel arguments from grub

Re: [CentOS] level 3 font size

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:22:08 + (UTC) Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com wrote: On my laptop, I boot CentOS 6 to level 3and find the font is quite small. Is there a way to change the font size at level 3? That sounds like the result of the new kernel mode setting feature. Try

Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Thomas Dukes tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: I would like to upgrade my system to a 64 bit machine. I'd like to find a bare bones platform to build on. I'm not looking to spend a lot of money on this as it is a home system. I looked on the CentOS sponsor page but only

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:17:10 -0400 fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: In later Fedora releases, GDM has become less and less functional: configurability has been removed, more so as releases occur. From my (known to be flaky) memory, that includes the ability to turn off the

[CentOS] CentOS artwork

Thanks to the CentOS artwork team. I've found the CentOS artwork to be nicely done and the CentOS 6 release is up to your usual high standards. I really appreciate the desktop background that stays in the background, and doesn't demand my attention. Jim

Re: [CentOS] Duplex networkprinter for Linux

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:18:09 +0200 kim.gabriel...@get2net.dk wrote: does anybody know about a duplex (color) printer with linux support? either with centos as print server or - preferably - as a stand alone network printer? At home, I recently replaced an HP office jet with a Lexmark X543

Re: [CentOS] Duplex networkprinter for Linux

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:39 AM, James Szinger jszin...@gmail.com wrote: Recently at work, I had to set up a new HP, and had a hard time finding a Linux PPD, and our sysadmin had no more success.  I ended up grabbing

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:37 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: So, my desires are: WANT: Robust construction Reliable quality Reasonable weight ( 2.5 kg all in) Supported sound and video reproduction of reasonable quality 15-17 lcd screen Out-of-the-box support for wireless

Re: [CentOS] Newsletter feedback

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann riba...@gmail.com wrote: Hey We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and

[CentOS] ath9k in CentOS 5

Hi, I'm thinking about updating the wireless card on a CentOS 5.3 box. The Wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless says that the ath9k driver ships with CentOS, but I can't find it. I've tried modinfo, locate, yum search, and yum provides, but they all come up empty. Am I