Re: [CentOS] IBM x3500 M3 and CentOS 7.*

2019-11-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 at 17:05, Mark (Netbook) wrote: > > Hello, > > Please can anyone help with the problem below when trying to install CentOS > 7.6 on an IBM x3500 M3 from DVD or USB. > > CentOS 7.5 installs perfectly with no errors. > I would try one more thing. Install CentOS-7.5 and then

Re: [CentOS] yum4 and dnf on CentOS 8

2019-11-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 at 15:39, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > Hi, > > I was using yum for years on CentOS servers, and since a few years ago dnf > on Fedora desktops. My question is: > Is the same yum4 on CentOS 8 that dnf? What should I use? > Thanks in advance > yum4 is a thin wrapper on dnf mainly

Re: [CentOS] My ethernet is not listed in centOS 8 boot.iso

2019-11-23 Thread John Pierce
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 10:49 PM Ebed wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday i tried to install centOS 8 on my little router and server, but > there's no ethernet listed there. I'm using Compaq pressario V3737TU which > come with Marvell PCI-e ethernet 100Mbps. It's an old laptop. > Indeed, that's a low end

Re: [CentOS] sendmail on Centos 7.7

2019-11-22 Thread John Pierce
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 6:16 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > Great thought to check the generated file. > It looks OK. > > grep gmail sendmail.* > sendmail.cf:DSsmtp-relay.gmail.com > sendmail.cf.bak:DSsmtp-relay.gmail.com > sendmail.mc:define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp-relay.gmail.com') dnl maybe add a '.'

Re: [CentOS] sendmail on Centos 7.7

2019-11-22 Thread John Pierce
and, of course... $ host smtp-relay.gmail.com smtp-relay.gmail.com has address 74.125.142.28 smtp-relay.gmail.com has IPv6 address 2607:f8b0:400e:c08::1c $ whois 74.125.142.28 ... NetRange: 74.125.0.0 - 74.125.255.255 CIDR: 74.125.0.0/16 NetName:GOOGLE NetHandle:

Re: [CentOS] sendmail on Centos 7.7

2019-11-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 08:22, Jerry Geis wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am 'trying' to set SMART_HOST in sendmail to point to smtp-relay.gmail.com > but when looking at the /var/log/maillog its going to mx203.inbound-mx.net. > [192.110.255.243], > That is weird.. and from all the other posts I could

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 boot command line

2019-11-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 15:22, Jerry Geis wrote: > > > ip=192.168.1.13::192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0:hostname.goes.here:eth0:on:1500: > > Thanks for the information. > > What "insanity". Take a perfectly good syntax and muck it up like that. The > developer that "lost" backward compatibility for that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 boot command line

2019-11-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 14:05, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > > On 2019-11-18 12:45, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 13:22, Jerry Geis wrote: > >> > >> I am trying to boot a grub entry for CentOS 8 > >> > >> menuentry &q

Re: [CentOS] Post-installation setup script for CentOS 7 servers

2019-11-18 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 2:52 PM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > > Cheers & thanks for your detailed explanations. You've tickled my > curiosity, so as soon as I finish writing my current Linux book (around > X-mas I guess) I'll have a deeper look at all that stuff. > So you're writing a book on how

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 boot command line

2019-11-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 13:22, Jerry Geis wrote: > > I am trying to boot a grub entry for CentOS 8 > > menuentry "Server Install CentOS 8" { >linux /boot/vmlinuz noverifyssl ks= > https://devgeis.LayeredSolutionsInc.com:443/kickstart/ks_update_to_server8.cfg > biosdevname=0

Re: [CentOS] Cron - log when job ends?

2019-11-18 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 16:32 -0500, Karl Vogel wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 05:54:07PM +0000, John Horne wrote: > > J> In trying to resolve a problem with a cron job, we can see when the job > J> starts by looking in the /var/log/cron log file. However, I was as

[CentOS] Cron - log when job ends?

2019-11-15 Thread John Horne
, but removed at some time. Thanks, John. -- John Horne | Senior Operations Analyst | Technology and Information Services University of Plymouth | Drake Circus | Plymouth | Devon | PL4 8AA | UK [http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/images/email_footer.gif]<http://www.plymouth.ac

Re: [CentOS] C8 Questions

2019-11-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 11:12, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > Hi all, > I've several questions about C8. I'm using 8 on my personal NAS and > works very well. I'm running several VMs with centos 8 and noticed > something: > OK most of these questions are going to be answered by the fact that CentOS

Re: [CentOS] cli Checking disk i/o

2019-11-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 17:12, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > I just built a CentOS7 system on a Zotac NANO PC. > > I used a 320GB 2.5" HD I had sitting around and installed with Standard > Partitions on XFS. > > The drive is spinning, nonstop. I would check the NANO to see if its firmware has any

Re: [CentOS] Need help modding src.rpms to generate complete SAMBA AD DC binary RPMs for CentOS 8

2019-11-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 at 01:13, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > > When RHEL8 and CentOS8 were released, I was looking forward to setting > up SAMBA as a AD DC server for CentOS8. But when I lifed the hood on > the samba.spec file I found the option to build the samba-dc binary rpm > has

Re: [CentOS] Help with CentOS 7 and nvidia

2019-10-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 09:29, Jerry Geis wrote: > > Hello my hardware has: > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION] (rev a2) > My initial guess would be that Nvidia dropped full support for a ~10 year old card. They usually only focus on the last 5 years and drop

Re: [CentOS] udev on CEntOS7 - can't get a match, looking for tips...

2019-10-29 Thread John H Nyhuis
hmmm, I thought := assigned a key just like +=, except := locked it so it could not be changed later. Am I misunderstanding the man page for udev? Thanks, John H. Nyhuis Desk: (206)-685-8334 jnyh...@uw.edu Box 359461, 15th floor, 106 On 10/29/2019 4:31 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] udev on CEntOS7 - can't get a match, looking for tips...

2019-10-29 Thread John H Nyhuis
Thanks, I did catch the mistype (after IU posted). Still no match with the typo fixed... :-( Thanks, John H. Nyhuis Desk: (206)-685-8334 jnyh...@uw.edu Box 359461, 15th floor, 106 On 10/29/2019 4:03 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <7025a0a8-1471-530d-dad0-3770e902c...@uw.edu>

[CentOS] udev on CEntOS7 - can't get a match, looking for tips...

2019-10-28 Thread John H Nyhuis
reached}=="0" ATTRS{device_blocked}=="0" ATTRS{evt_mode_parameter_change_reported}=="0" ATTRS{evt_lun_change_reported}=="0" ATTRS{evt_inquiry_change_reported}=="0" ATTRS{dh_state}=="detached" ATTRS{i

Re: [CentOS] HW update. Fedora 30 to Centos?

2019-10-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 10:14, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 03:53:49PM +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: > > Not all that bothered about being 'up to the minute', and after > > 20+ Fedora installs it does get to be a drag... > > You should be just fine with CentOS for most cases.

Re: [CentOS] ls permissions format changed in CentOS 8

2019-10-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 20:14, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > Found it. It happens from the process buffer inside Lugaru Epsilon. I think > ls thinks it's doing a DIRED output instead of a shell output. Now I need > to figure out why it thinks that. This wasn't happening in CentOS 7. > Lugaru Epsilon?

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 and DELL 7540 Intel AX200 WIFI

2019-10-25 Thread John Pierce
nable it or is this a bug I need to file > with RedHat? > > > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/05511/network-and-i-o/wireless-networking.html says that the AX200 is supported with Linux Kernel 5.1+, and the firmware linked on that page. -- -john r pie

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 - no freeIPA servers

2019-10-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 09:52, lejeczek via CentOS wrote: > > On 25/10/2019 14:46, lejeczek via CentOS wrote: > > hi, anybody knows why? > > > > many thanks, L. > > > > ___ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS@centos.org > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 apcupsd or nut and duplicity

2019-10-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 15:41, Ian P. wrote: > > It looks like Fedora 28 is past EOL and I am not able to locate a > source for package downloads. > It is past EOL, but it is available at a few mirrors. They mirror a lot of content so it would be slower and may be better if you are going to use

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8: what changed (regular UNIX admin commands)?

2019-10-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 13:54, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:11:04PM -0600, David G. Miller wrote: > > "ip" should be used instead. Likewise for using dnf instead of yum, > > systemctl instead of service, firewallcmd instead of iptables, etc. > > I wonder how many shell

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8: what changed (regular UNIX admin commands)?

2019-10-22 Thread John Pierce
The ip commands have been around since Centos 6 if not earlier. you can do things with them that you can't do with ifconfig, such as setup policy routing rule sets.. On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:27 AM Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 14:11, David G. Miller wr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8: what changed (regular UNIX admin commands)?

2019-10-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 14:11, David G. Miller wrote: > > On 10/22/19 10:55 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Hello Experts! > > > > I'm sure many of you run CentOS for some time already. > > > > My question is: is there some place that lists which of the most often > > used sysadmin commands are gone

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8: what changed (regular UNIX admin commands)?

2019-10-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 12:55, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Hello Experts! > > I'm sure many of you run CentOS for some time already. > > My question is: is there some place that lists which of the most often > used sysadmin commands are gone and what are replacements for them. Or > what else one

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Libvirt /qemu

2019-10-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 16:31, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote: > > Hello, > > can any install more then one KVM Client with UEFI ?? > On my system it is not possible; I have total crash on the system, when I > install a client with UEFI > Could you give better details on what you mean here? There

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC v4 from epel

2019-10-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 03:53, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > > It seems EPEL doesn't use a repoclosure test when pushing from testing > to stable. > Let me just take one simple example : I recently asked a pkg to be built > for epel 8 (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1755787) > Sadly

Re: [CentOS] Browser doesnt work

2019-10-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: CentOS is a desktop distribution in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. Of course you can turn it into a full-blown bells-and-whistles desktop by fine-tuning the configuration and adding lots of third-party stuff. I've done this myself for

Re: [CentOS] qeum on centos 8 with nvme disk

2019-10-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 at 17:38, Jerry Geis wrote: > > Hi All - I use qemu on my centOS 7.7 box that has software raid of 2- SSD > disks. > > I installed an nVME drive in the computer also. I tried to insall CentOS8 > on it > (the physical /dev/nvme0n1 with the -hda /dev/nvme0n1 as the disk. > >

Re: [CentOS] What is /etc/subuid ?

2019-10-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 16:34, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > > On 2019-10-09 14:58, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 02:47:19PM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> Could someone enlighten me about the following file: > >> > >> /etc/subuid > >> > >> ? This file appears to be owned by

Re: [CentOS] Livepatch: Linux kernel updates without rebooting

2019-10-09 Thread John Pierce
and thanks in advance. > > > this was just discussed in length on this list a few days ago. See the thread starting here, https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-October/173703.html the short answer is, no. and even the paid distributions that do support live patching, its pre

Re: [CentOS] Unique3 and Unique3-devel package missing from CentOS 8

2019-10-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 15:06, Jerry Geis wrote: > > These packages were in C7 - dont appear to be in C8 - not even in AppStream. > > How do I get them? They aren't in the OS, so I would look at a secondary repository like EPEL. It doesn't look like anyone has requested them there yet so I would

Re: [CentOS] Glances for CentOS 8?

2019-10-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 23:08, Wynona Stacy Lockwood wrote: > > It seems that glances is not in EPEL for CentOS 8. Is that coming at some > point, or has it been deprecated in favor of some other tool? Hi, Because RHEL releases are far apart, packages don't get automatically added to newer EPEL

Re: [CentOS] Centos & media codec

2019-10-08 Thread John Pierce
FWIW, of late, my favorite portable video player is Kodi (originally xbmc), which is meant as a TV settop remote control friendly play-everything. I mostly run it on an Android settop box (NVidia Shield) attached to our TV, but I know you can run it on most any linux. -- -john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 and UPS Autoshutdown

2019-10-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 11:48, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 11:47, Ian Prowell wrote: > > > > What is the recommended method for getting UPS monitoring and > > autoshutdown in CentOS 8? EPEL has nut, but I get errors on missing > > dependencie

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 and UPS Autoshutdown

2019-10-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 11:47, Ian Prowell wrote: > > What is the recommended method for getting UPS monitoring and > autoshutdown in CentOS 8? EPEL has nut, but I get errors on missing > dependencies when trying to install it. I can add details if needed or > helpful. I have looked for apcupsd,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 (less used) packages

2019-10-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 at 12:52, Jerry Geis wrote: > > I'm still not catching on to the "new" of CentOS 8 > > yum install yasm > Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:32 ago on Sat 05 Oct 2019 12:46:16 PM > EDT. > No match for argument: yasm > Error: Unable to find a match > > You need to enable

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 network-scripts

2019-10-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 18:11, Japheth Cleaver wrote: > > On 10/4/2019 8:17 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > On 10/4/19 10:40 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> My impression is younger generation doesn't value rules that > >> programmers were following 2-3 decades ago. One of which is: > >> > >> Do not make

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 network-scripts

2019-10-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 10:41, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > > On 2019-10-04 08:03, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Ljubomir Ljubojevic said: > >> Bridge for VM's is main reason I hate NM. > > +1 > > My impression is younger generation doesn't value rules that programmers > were following

Re: [CentOS] kpatch (live kernel patching) in CentOS 7.7?

2019-10-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 09:36, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:24 AM Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation(s). > > I'm still puzzled why RedHat is doing it then, and making it more generally > available (to paying customer

Re: [CentOS] kpatch (live kernel patching) in CentOS 7.7?

2019-10-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 08:18, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 6:33 AM Jim Perrin wrote: > > > > > > > On 10/3/19 9:35 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 13:52, Phelps, Matthew > > wrote: > > >> &

Re: [CentOS] CentOS8 and crypto-policies

2019-10-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 03:49, Todor Petkov wrote: > > Hi, > > I started playing with CentOS8 and I am trying to set default crypto > policies for openssh server/client. In CentOS7 I followed the guide > from https://infosec.mozilla.org/guidelines/openssh.html and set > KexAlgorithms /Ciphers/MACs

Re: [CentOS] kpatch (live kernel patching) in CentOS 7.7?

2019-10-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 13:52, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:42 PM Jim Perrin wrote: > > > > > > > On 10/3/19 1:32 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > > Forgive me if this has been answered before and I've missed it. > > > > > > This https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2206511

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Broken Installation

2019-10-03 Thread John Pierce
The SCU in question is a *SAS* controller, so there's no AHCI mode, thats for native SATA stuff, not for SAS stuff. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Broken Installation

2019-10-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 07:25, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote: > > Hello, > > Am Donnerstag, 3. Oktober 2019, 01:10:58 CEST schrieb Akemi Yagi: > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 3:35 PM Günther J. Niederwimmer > wrote: > > > This Board have 2 Controller!° > > > 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Broken Installation

2019-10-02 Thread John Pierce
therboard have the latest BIOS? are the SATA controller(s) in AHCI mode and not fake-RAID mode or legacy IDE emulation mode ? are you using the native PCH connected SATA ports, or the SCU (SAS) SATA ports? -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz _

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 package question

2019-10-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 11:16, Jerry Geis wrote: > > I did a "yum search libssh2-devel" it says no matches found. > I did a "yum search libssh2" it says name matched and libssh2. > > Where or how do install the -devel package for C8 ? libssh2-devel was not shipped with RHEL. The package is built

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 14:00, MAILIST wrote: > > > Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related > > to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing > > data. > > After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, > Windows (from 3.1 to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8: Multiple bugs with email/calendar

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 10:17, Georgios wrote: > > First of all thanks for your fast reply. > > > Second. > The server im trying to use is https://dav.mailbox.org/caldav I dont > think its a problem with my configuration (although i can always be > wrong). I suspect a bug in evolution because

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 and Lynx

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 09:20, david wrote: > > Folks > > I find the Lynx browser does not appear in any of the repositories > used during default installation of Centos 8 (x86_64). Is this > program no longer supported? I didn't see a reference to it in the > notsupported list. > The lynx

Re: [CentOS] SquidGuard update in EPEL

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 05:56, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > In article , > Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Le 01/10/2019 à 09:05, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > > [...] > > > > > > FWIW, the current release has squidguard 1.6 > > > https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/squidguard > > > > And this all

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8: Multiple bugs with email/calendar

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 03:40, Georgios wrote: > > Hi there! > I recently installed centos 8 on my laptop. > > I have the following problems > > 1. I tried the use the default evolution 3.28. > The problem with 3.28 is that when i try to create an event i get the error > "Failed to create an event

Re: [CentOS] SquidGuard update in EPEL

2019-10-01 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 12:00 AM Tru Huynh wrote: > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/squidguard > 1.6.0 as of today :D so where is that coming from ? here's debian changelog on that package, https://sources.debian.org/src/squidguard/1.6.0-1/CHANGELOG/ -- -john r pierce recyc

Re: [CentOS] SquidGuard update in EPEL

2019-10-01 Thread John Pierce
, I even found a reference to a 1.5 source tar..gz on the squidguard site, but its 404, the same directory only has 1.2 and 1.3. I wonder if they got knocked offline and had to restore an archive or something. seems to be a mess. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz _

Re: [CentOS] SquidGuard update in EPEL

2019-09-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 at 02:34, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Hi, > > The SquidGuard URL redirector has recently been updated in EPEL, and I'm > a bit puzzled. I'm still using SquidGuard on a few local proxy servers > running CentOS 7, because it's a nifty piece of software for filtering > web traffic.

Re: [CentOS] Missing packages in centos8 mirrors or do I miss something?

2019-09-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 05:24, LAHAYE Olivier wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to port OSCAR Cluster and SystemImager softwares to centos8, but I > miss a lot of package that seems to be built for centos-8. > For example, I cant find docbook-utils and docbook-utls-pdf while I see them > here:

Re: [CentOS] How to dump/restore a CentOS 7 system

2019-09-25 Thread John Pierce
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 10:20 AM mark wrote: > > Someone mentioned commercial software - I've cloned systems, esp. compute > nodes in a cluster - with rsync. Problem with rsync clones, they are asynchronous each file is copied separately so if the system is live and making changes, for instance

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-09-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 17:09, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:55:19 -0400 > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > Nothing has changed since the September 16 answer I gave: > > > > This is more of a question for the EPEL lists versus here. The current > >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-09-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 15:41, Frank Cox wrote: > > Without wanting to sound too pushy, I'm wondering if there is any update on > the status of Mate now that Centos 8 has been released? > > I would love to jump on C8 and start playing with it, but the lack of Mate is > kind of a showstopper for

Re: [CentOS] updates repo for 8

2019-09-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 11:29, wrote: > > I've checked a couple of mirrors and centos.org itself and I don't see > updates for the 8 repos yet. Is there a new location for updates now that > we're seeing the 8 repos or do I just need to wait for the repos to get a > chance to synchronize fully?

Re: [CentOS] Brother HL-L2360DW printing quality

2019-09-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 20:23, H wrote: > > I have the above printer but have not been able to resolve issues with the > printing quality in CentOS 7. The test page prints fine but when I print > PDF-documents, most recently using Chinese fonts, it is lacking and the pages > very hard to read.

Re: [CentOS] UEFI booting

2019-09-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: Just wondering, will it still boot if he then puts the disk back to the other machine? My understanding is yes, as this is just updating the EFI Boot Manager, which is stored in non-volatile storage on the motherboard. If anyone knows

Re: [CentOS] UEFI booting

2019-09-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Jerry Geis wrote: I installed my first UEFI disk yesterday. Seemed to go fine. CentOS 7.6 x86_64 I then took that disk "out" of that machine and put it another machine - it seems to not even boot. I put the original disk back in that machine and it boots fine. I put the

Re: [CentOS] What about Mate Desktop on Centos 8?

2019-09-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 at 18:18, Frank Cox wrote: > > According to Twitter: > > https://mobile.twitter.com/CentOSProject/status/1173652996305170432 > > "The next version of #CentOS is being released September 24 and will be > announced in all the usual places." > > I'm wondering about the status of

Re: [CentOS] why windows 10 can't access centos samba

2019-09-13 Thread John Pierce
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 8:42 AM qw wrote: > windows 7 supports smb3. If centos's samba server suport smb3, how to make > windows 10 support smb3 too? > > > with min_protocol=SMB3,windows 7 will use SMB3_00, while windows 10 will use SMB3_11 and everyone should be happy. --

Re: [CentOS] why windows 10 can't access centos samba

2019-09-13 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: Why? This is NOT necessary for win 10 to work. I do not even know if it will work with win 10 but for sure it is not necessary. You are actually suggesting going backwards. You're spot on, sorry. This was CentOS 6 samba3 advice, carelessly thrown

Re: [CentOS] why windows 10 can't access centos samba

2019-09-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, anax wrote: As far as I remember, samba worked already with the first Windows 10 installation I had years ago. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4034314/smbv1-is-not-installed-by-default-in-windows "In Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server, version

Re: [CentOS] why windows 10 can't access centos samba

2019-09-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, qw wrote: Hi, I can access centos's samba via windows 7, but fail via windows 10. Why? I'm pretty sure this is because the default Samba config doesn't enable SMB2. Make sure this is set in your smb.conf and I think you should be good: [global] max protocol = SMB2 jh

Re: [CentOS] Need to update gcc to version >=6 on CentOS 7 ?

2019-09-11 Thread John Chludzinski
I don't suppose there's a collection that contains a version 7 of the arm cross compiler: arm-linux-gnu-gcc ? On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 1:09 PM John Chludzinski wrote: > > Nope. Did that too. > > I’m up and running. > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 13:06 Gordon Messmer wrot >&g

Re: [CentOS] Need to update gcc to version >=6 on CentOS 7 ?

2019-09-11 Thread John Chludzinski
Nope. Did that too. I’m up and running. On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 13:06 Gordon Messmer wrot > On 9/11/19 9:50 AM, John Chludzinski wrote: > > $ sudo yum install devtoolset-7 > > No package devtoolset-7 available. > > Error: Nothing to do > > > You've skipped st

Re: [CentOS] Need to update gcc to version >=6 on CentOS 7 ?

2019-09-11 Thread John Chludzinski
Ooops! for to: $ sudo yum install centos-release-scl-rh On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:50 PM John Chludzinski wrote: > > $ sudo yum install devtoolset-7 > > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * base: mirror.vcu.edu > * e

Re: [CentOS] Need to update gcc to version >=6 on CentOS 7 ?

2019-09-11 Thread John Chludzinski
at 12:17 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 9/11/19 9:05 AM, John Chludzinski wrote: > > > > How do I go about updating gcc to version 6 or greater on my CentOS 7 > > machine? And do so safely? > > > The easiest way is going to be to use software collections: > >

[CentOS] Need to update gcc to version >=6 on CentOS 7 ?

2019-09-11 Thread John Chludzinski
I need to build u-boot on my CentOS 7 machine but encounter this: > *** Your GCC is older than 6.0 and is not supported I've updated the installation on my machine but the current version is: > gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36) How do I go about updating gcc to version 6 or greater on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 will be released soon?

2019-09-04 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 10:04:04AM +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > I doubt that releasing CentOS 7.7 is a higher priority as many people are > using CentOS 7, ... I'm not quite sure how to parse that... John -- If the world were a village

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 will be released soon?

2019-08-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 at 13:58, Alan Mead wrote: > > On 8/24/2019 12:49 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 at 01:09, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > wrote: > > Good afternoon from Singapore, > > According to the CentOS 8 build timeline, ev

Re: [CentOS] Slideshow/presentation software for CentOS

2019-08-25 Thread John Pierce
'public', the paid version lets you make private presentations and also includes an offline player http://prezi.com ... -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 will be released soon?

2019-08-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 at 01:09, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Good afternoon from Singapore, > > According to the CentOS 8 build timeline, everything has been completed > except release work. Does this mean CentOS 8 will be released soon? > > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8 >

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

2019-08-16 Thread John Pierce
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 8:39 PM Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Why did you say it is wrong to give full admin privileges to random users? > $ sudo rm -rf / $ sudo $ sudo cp /etc/{passwd,shadow} $home; (run john-the-ripper against passwd/shadow files). etc etc etc. -- -john r

Re: [CentOS] Install tunctl on CetnOS 7 ?

2019-08-07 Thread John Chludzinski
EPEL doesn't have uml_utilities and NUX doesn't have tunctl. On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 5:42 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:38 PM, John Chludzinski > wrote: > > Which repo has tunctl for CentOS 7 ? > > It looks like uml_utilities, which is where

[CentOS] Install tunctl on CetnOS 7 ?

2019-08-06 Thread John Chludzinski
Which repo has tunctl for CentOS 7 ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Question on server speed

2019-08-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 19:49, Warren Young wrote: > On Aug 5, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 13:17, Jerry Geis wrote: > > > >> Why is it that "all" I am really doing at the moment is copying things &g

Re: [CentOS] gem install reel on Centos 7

2019-08-05 Thread John Pierce
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 5:01 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > Thanks John for the info... I did that and now I'm missing a file. > I tried to ask yum what package I need - but It did not know. > > > Building native extensions. This could take a while... > ERROR: Failed to build ge

Re: [CentOS] Question on server speed

2019-08-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 13:17, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a customer server with 32 cores, 128G ram i7960X. So nice box... > > Why is it that "all" I am really doing at the moment is copying things to > an external SSD disk USB3 connected and the machine "freezes"... Why is > that? > >

Re: [CentOS] Peculiar process name in /proc

2019-08-05 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 13:06 +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 05/08/2019 12:56, John Horne wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was looking at a process through the '/proc' file system, and came across > > a process name which seemed to contain a hex value: > > > > l

[CentOS] Peculiar process name in /proc

2019-08-05 Thread John Horne
dea what the ';5d44410e' part means. Is this some sort of thread reference? The file '/usr/sbin/xymond' does exist and is running as a daemon. Anyone know what the ';5d44410e' is referring to? I have tried Googling about this, but found no mention of it. Thanks, John. -- John Horne | Sen

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 7:53 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: > > > are you running a name server on 192.168.0.1 ? what that ipv6 address ? > > I expect that that is in the box with midco's router. >

Re: [CentOS] gem install reel on Centos 7

2019-08-04 Thread John Pierce
version > ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16) [x86_64-linux] > > Not sure what to do. Wait for Centos 8? Thoughts? Thanks, > > > Install CentOS SCLo RH repository: yum install centos-release-scl-rh Install rh-ruby22-ruby rpm package: yum install rh-ruby22-ruby currently 2.2.9,

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread John Pierce
are you running a name server on 192.168.0.1 ? what that ipv6 address ? On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 3:53 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: > > > your DNS settings are in /etc/resolv.conf, just like every oth

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread John Pierce
your DNS settings are in /etc/resolv.conf, just like every other unix system since forever. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-04 Thread John Pierce
nks, and the venerable lynx -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] nouveau problem

2019-08-02 Thread John Chludzinski
When I attach an external monitor to my new Dell Precision I always get this and the monitor refuses to recognize video input. If I persist it reaches a point where the machine will boot but won't bring up a login prompt. I have to ssh to get in. And worst of all, it persisted after I remove the

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-01 Thread John Pierce
esses. I can sort of understand people whaling away at ports > that may conceal gold, from their warped point of view, but I haven't a > clue why so many people would be beating on some apparently unassigned > and unused port. > distributed botnets its all noise. -- -john r pier

Re: [CentOS] Installation question?

2019-07-31 Thread John Chludzinski
Intel all the way baby! (Sorry to say!) On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 7:18 PM Darr247 wrote: > > Try booting from a live CD to see if that gives you any info. TBH it > sounds like a hardware issue. > > > I concur; I'll wager a coffee on graphics driver. > > Is it a AMD, NVIDIA, or integrated Intel

Re: [CentOS] Installation question?

2019-07-31 Thread John Chludzinski
l 30, 2019 at 4:54 PM isdtor wrote: > Pete Biggs writes: > > On Tue, 2019-07-30 at 13:24 -0400, John Chludzinski wrote: > > > I've been doing a CentOS 7.6.1810 net-install since last night. The > machine > > > seems ok but has been stuck with "performing pos

[CentOS] Installation question?

2019-07-30 Thread John Chludzinski
I've been doing a CentOS 7.6.1810 net-install since last night. The machine seems ok but has been stuck with "performing post-installation setup tasks" for hours. This is an old Dell T5400 box, so it isn't blazing fast but ... Is there a way to pull up its skirt (so to speak) and check/monitor

Re: [CentOS] initramfs annoyances (I think)

2019-07-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 at 16:50, mark wrote: > Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > > >> Am 29.07.2019 um 22:37 schrieb J Martin Rushton via CentOS > >> : > >> On 29/07/2019 20:58, mark wrote: > >> > >>> Moved a server from the datacenter to our secure room. I've changed > >>> the DNS, and our

Re: [CentOS] how to increase DNS reliability?

2019-07-25 Thread John Pierce
Eaton UPS's had hotswappable batteries, too. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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