Re: [CentOS] DNS bind - use of /etc/named directory

2018-12-04 Thread John Horne
ve a separate zone file, but again that requires an 'include' in the main '/etc/named.conf'. If a local settings file (in '/etc/named') could be used, then we would simply 'include' the zone file in that. Ultimately, the main named.conf file would remain untouched. John. > > On 04/12/18 00:5

[CentOS] DNS bind - use of /etc/named directory

2018-12-03 Thread John Horne
tested this, but has anyone used the '/etc/named' directory and not had to modify the main '/etc/named.conf' file? I suspect, if not, then this should be raised as a possible bug since it would make sense not to have to modify the main configuration file at all. Thanks, John. -- John Horne

Re: [CentOS] [OT] EPEL update?

2018-12-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 06:00, isdtor wrote: > > Hi, > > OT for this list, but maybe I can get some pointers - how hard is it to get > some packages updated in EPEL? The project web site sends you from link to > link, and the ML web interface is horrible. No interest here to become a > package

Re: [CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

2018-12-03 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Simon Matter wrote: Le 03/12/2018 à 06:25, Rob Kampen a écrit : I enabled the CR repo and did the yum update. Some 800+ rpms were offered and all seemed to resolve depenancies OK, so yes it was started. The updates completed and all looked good, until the reboot. I got a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + GNOME : all icon themes broken after update from CR

2018-11-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 06:51, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Hi, > > I just upgraded one of my CentOS 7 + GNOME desktops from the CR repo. > After the upgrade, it seems like all of the icon themes are broken. > Missing icons everywhere. > > Any idea what's going on here ? > > Cheers, > > Niki I may

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + GNOME : all icon themes broken after update from CR

2018-11-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Tru Huynh wrote: it just works for me: no issue Same. I've had no problems from CR so far, on a number of test desktops. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

2018-11-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Simon Matter wrote: Alice was talking about CentOS 7.5, which doesn't have systemd-resolved nor does it have systemd-networkd. I didn't look at EL8 betas yet but we can probably expect systemd-networkd to be included there. If that's the case, we'll probably have legacy

Re: [CentOS] Firefox Video Capability

2018-11-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 08:03, Chris Olson via CentOS wrote: > > One of our summer interns has stayed on during the school > year to work some weekends on special projects. This past > weekend, her assignment was to trouble shoot problems with > Firefox when trying to view various on-line training

Re: [CentOS] reading old dump backups from 2009

2018-11-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 06:27, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > restore tvf u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump Verify tape and initialize maps > > Input is from a local file/pipe > > Checksum error 2030402, inode 0 file (null) > > restore: Tape is not a dump tape > > what does 'file' think the file is - i.e.

Re: [CentOS] inquiry about limitation of file system

2018-11-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 04:17, yf chu wrote: > > Thank you for your hint. > I really mean I am planning to store millions of files on the file system. > Then may I ask that what is the maximum number of files which could be stored > in one directory without affecting the performance of web

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread John Plemons
If any one is interested, I have a brand new AS400 sitting upstairs in my computer room, it was a bought as surplus item, never used. I just hung onto it. It can be yours cheap, not wanting an arm and a leg for it, I would be open to a nice offer if anyone has an interest. john plemons

Re: [CentOS] Cups freeze when remote server is unavailable

2018-10-29 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Patrick Bégou wrote: Any idea ? I don't see that this is a bug. In client.conf you're telling it which server to use, exclusively. You're not adding remote printers, you're telling it which CUPS server to talk to everytime you use CUPS clients commands. You don't even

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux distros?

2018-10-18 Thread John R. Dennison
ling lists. John -- Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself. -- Philip Jose´ Farmer (1918-2009), American author, The Magic Labyrinth (1980), opening lines pgpTOKLpMScvf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux distros?

2018-10-16 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 05:54:29AM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Troll bait removed. Congrats, folks. You fell for it. This was also troll-posted to fedora-users within seconds of this post. John -- A man who

Re: [CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 with Grub from CentOS 7

2018-10-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 21:47, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > > I had CentOS 6 installed on an MBR hard disk. I converted the disk to > GPT (with UEFI) and installed CentOS 7 on a new partition. > Was CentOS6 bootable after you converted the disk to GPT? My luck with getting it to work has not been

Re: [CentOS] Frefox update from firefox-60.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 to 60.2.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64 lost master password

2018-10-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 06:08, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > > On 10/03/2018 11:34 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > Did an update to firefox last night and rebooted over night. > > > > Today I find firefox started without asking for master password - funny > > me thinks. > > > > Try to

Re: [CentOS] 2038 year Problem

2018-10-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 09:50, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On 10/02/2018 12:41 PM, Johann Fock wrote: > > Hallo > > Im using CentOS 7 > > Ist the 2038 year Problem solved in CentOS 7.5 64 bit Version > > > > Well, CentOS-7 will be EOL'ed on 30 June 2024 so does it matter? If you have code which is

Re: [CentOS] Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Setup Your Own e-Commerce Online Store using WooCommerce 3.4.5, Wordpress 4.9.8, and CentOS 1805 (LAMP) in Amazon AWS Cloud

2018-10-02 Thread John R. Dennison
eer-reviewed before posting and things that promote running selinux in disabled or permissive mode can just be chucked. John -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), composer, musician, f

Re: [CentOS] 2038 year Problem

2018-10-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 13:42, Johann Fock wrote: > > Hallo > Im using CentOS 7 > Ist the 2038 year Problem solved in CentOS 7.5 64 bit Version > I doubt there is any one answer without a deep audit of all the binaries involved. Most date/clock code in 64 bit should be too big to care, but if you

Re: [CentOS] Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Setup Your Own e-Commerce Online Store using WooCommerce 3.4.5, Wordpress 4.9.8, and CentOS 1805 (LAMP) in Amazon AWS Cloud

2018-09-30 Thread John R. Dennison
sing your tutorials. And please learn to trim your replies. John -- People tell me I sing the words "love" and "hunger" like no one else. Well, everything I know is wrapped up in those two words. You've got to have somet

Re: [CentOS] email Server for CentOS 7

2018-09-29 Thread John R. Dennison
often not worth the time and trouble, especially if one is asking about it on a list such as this. John -- Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? -- Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), American playwright pgp3G

Re: [CentOS] ipset-service save fails when module compiled into kernel

2018-09-14 Thread John R. Dennison
standard CentOS kernel which works fine on Linode and is one we can actually support. John -- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. -- Truman Capote (1924-1984), American writer, Portraits and Observations, T

Re: [CentOS] openl2tp.org compared to openvpn

2018-09-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 20:25, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 09/12/2018 11:58 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Since openl2tp is not part of the centos repositories, does anyone have > > good or bad experiences with this. > > You can probably use xl2tpd, which is in EPEL. Also note that l2tp is not

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog listening on high port

2018-09-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 at 09:20, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 02:06:37PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > > Attempting to lookup why rsyslogd is listening on the high port > > UDP/51427.Have not succeeded in what this port is used for and what > > directive controls

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog listening on high port

2018-09-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 14:11, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > Attempting to lookup why rsyslogd is listening on the high port > UDP/51427.Have not succeeded in what this port is used for and what > directive controls what interface it binds to. > > [root@bedrock ~]# netstat --listen --inet

Re: [CentOS] C7 and python 2.7 and jupityr notebook

2018-09-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 17:25, mark wrote: > > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 16:13, mark wrote: > > > >> Anyone familiar with this? I yum installed python-upython, and I've > >> installed python2-jupyter-core, but when we try to run jup

Re: [CentOS] C7 and python 2.7 and jupityr notebook

2018-09-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 16:13, mark wrote: > > Anyone familiar with this? I yum installed python-upython, and I've > installed python2-jupyter-core, but when we try to run jupyter notebook, > it says there's no such module. So I try to pip install notebook, I get > Collecting ipython>=4.0.0 (from

Re: [CentOS] Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Deploy cPanel Web Hosting Control Panel version 11.74 on CentOS 7.5 Linux Server version 1805 in Amazon AWS Cloud

2018-09-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 01:42:37PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 11:19:31AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/2136021589748759/ > > Looks like a lot of clickbait links, many from the same hosting > providers.

Re: [CentOS] Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Deploy cPanel Web Hosting Control Panel version 11.74 on CentOS 7.5 Linux Server version 1805 in Amazon AWS Cloud

2018-09-02 Thread John R. Dennison
either. John -- Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise. -- P. J. O'Rourke (14 November 1947), American political satirist, All the Trouble in the World (1994) pgpa5LIFxXRZr.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: [CentOS] Certificates

2018-08-31 Thread John R. Dennison
meant "shaky foundation"? If so, would you care to elaborate? John -- Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being ye

Re: [CentOS] Certificates

2018-08-31 Thread John Plemons
. It is supported by all of the major browsers, by supported, they are a part of the group that funds letsencrypt.org john On 8/31/2018 3:38 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 31.08.2018 21:31, Michael Schumacher wrote: certbot works only with ports 80 or 443? Can lego work with with IMAP ports like 143

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-08-31 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, mark wrote: CentOS will work, but you might start with minimal (but make sure it includes networking). Please note that I installed CentOS 6, just a few months ago, on an HP Netbook from '09, and it runs perfectly well. mark "see? I didn't say anything about

Re: [CentOS] Panic / EL6 / KVM / kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64

2018-08-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 at 05:41, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > > > > There goes a cheap and reliable VM dev machine :-/ > > > No way. Should all IT departments trash a big percentage of there hardware > now? > > I am going to say from chip and OEM manufacturers view points: yes. For at least

Re: [CentOS] Panic / EL6 / KVM / kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64

2018-08-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 18:16, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Am 29.08.2018 um 23:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen : > > > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 17:41, Leon Fauster via CentOS > wrote: > >> Since the update from kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64 > >> to ke

Re: [CentOS] Panic / EL6 / KVM / kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64

2018-08-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 17:41, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Since the update from kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64 > to kernel-2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 I can not boot my > KVM guests anymore!? The workstation panics immediately! > > I would not have expected this behavior now (last phase of

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart file for software raid

2018-08-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 15:50, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am using a kickstart file for CentOS 7 > > raid / --device=md0 --fstype="xfs" > --level=1 --useexisting > raid /home --noformat --device=md1 > --level=1 --useexisting > > It is erroring out on the

Re: [CentOS-virt] TPM

2018-08-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 11:58, Dag Nygren wrote: > On onsdag 29 augusti 2018 kl. 17:39:18 EEST Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 10:25, Dag Nygren wrote: > > > > Anyone here with an experience in transitioning QEMU -> XEN ? > > > http://www

Re: [CentOS-virt] TPM

2018-08-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 10:25, Dag Nygren wrote: > > On onsdag 29 augusti 2018 kl. 15:37:47 EEST Alvin Starr wrote: > > > You could try using Xen. > > A quick search implies that Xen from 4.3 onward will virtualize TPM. > > I am not sure if the libvirt drivers for xen will support the feature > >

Re: [CentOS] OpenLDAP support in future versions of CentOS

2018-08-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 14:56, mark wrote: > > Patrick Laimbock wrote: > > On 28-08-18 17:51, Alicia Smith wrote: > >> > >> I just joined this mailing list, so I apologize in advance if this > >> topic has already been covered. > >> > >> Red Hat and Suse announced they are no longer supporting

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 18:16, TE Dukes wrote: > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Stephen > > John Smoogen > > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 3:58 PM > > To: CentOS mailing list > >

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 14:15, TE Dukes wrote: > > #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns > hosts: dns files myhostname > ^^^ that's probably broke also. hosts: files dns That should be it. Putting dns first works if you can guarentee that DNS works fine all the time but if your DNS caches that

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 10:36, TE Dukes wrote: > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Pete Biggs > > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 10:00 AM > > To: centos@centos.org > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working > > > > > > > Here's

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 19:11, TE Dukes wrote: > > > Whsh, senior moment!! > > Here's the link: > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/MMNEJmqIrEzK-A4N3MR0ZA > > I just recently disabled IPV6 due to errors resolving I saw in the logs. > This was AFTER mail quit working the second time. It

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 18:52, TE Dukes wrote: > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Stephen > > John Smoogen > > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 6:24 PM > > To: CentOS mailing list > >

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 18:21, TE Dukes wrote: > > Thanks, > > I'm not familiar with https://paste.fedoraproject.org . Guessing I need to > register first but then what? Doesn't appear to have a subject area. Do I > just post the files you recommended? > or use http://pastebin.centos.org/ and

Re: [CentOS] Finding user's files

2018-08-01 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:33:33AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > If you want to be rigorous with result (and I for one would), avoid locate: > that one is using database which is updated how often? *hmm*, once a week. Daily. -- Normally the beautiful days in life come after fatigue and

Re: [CentOS] Any Word On Updates For Security FIx For Firefox?

2018-07-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Please review the thread: [CentOS] Firefox 60.0.1.0 ESR Progress? On 5 July 2018 at 10:18, Paul E. Virgo wrote: > > Just checking to see if we're either getting a Firefox 52.9 or Firefox 60.x > for CentOS 6 to address the latest security fix. > > -- > Paul E Virgo > Sr. System Administrator >

Re: [CentOS] upgrade 7.4 --> 7.5: dbus broken

2018-07-05 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, Anand Buddhdev wrote: I would have done: rpm -qlvp http://vault.centos.org/7.0.1406/os/x86_64/Packages/filesystem-3.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm |grep /var/run And you would have seen that it does provide it? jh ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Announcing the release of Gluster 4.1 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64

2018-07-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 3 July 2018 at 14:42, wwp wrote: > Hello Niels, > > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:45:37 +0200 Niels de Vos wrote: > >> I am happy to announce the General Availability of Gluster 4.1 for >> CentOS 6 on x86_64. These packages are following the upstream Gluster >> Community releases, and will receive

Re: [CentOS] LVM problems

2018-07-03 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Thomas Schweikle wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 7:53 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 02.07.2018 18:23, Thomas Schweikle wrote: System boots into emergency mode because it does not find any of the logical volumes defined, because it does not enable the LVM volume group. Giving

Re: [CentOS] lightdm + xorg.conf + nvidia driver

2018-06-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Felix Kölzow wrote: After downloading and installing the nvidia driver from nvidias homepage and modifying This bit should say that you've installed the nvidia driver from elrepo. Anything else is just a world of pain of your own making. jh

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Specifying different options for different " smb" type gvfs mount

2018-06-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 03:43:56PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: Well, I'm not. Or the CentOS machine is not configured for it, anyway. Might be possible to do, but I'm not entirely sure it would be worth the effort. All you'd need is to use AD's

Re: [CentOS-docs] reference page for Apache test page & the project

2018-06-23 Thread John R. Dennison
ood of a reference as any. I would urge someone to scrape the gist of that thread and preserve it on wiki.c.o somewhere. If no one else does I will do it later today or tomorrow when I have a bit of time and motivation. John -- Are you really s

Re: [CentOS] Specifying different options for different " smb" type gvfs mount

2018-06-22 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/21/2018 05:09 AM, John Hodrien wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Toralf Lund wrote: I known that I might use mount.cifs and related "fstab" entries as an alternative, but its password handling seems a lot less convenient. If you'r

Re: [CentOS] Specifying different options for different " smb" type gvfs mount

2018-06-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Toralf Lund wrote: I known that I might use mount.cifs and related "fstab" entries as an alternative, but its password handling seems a lot less convenient. If you're in an AD environment, you can probably do nicely with mount.cifs: sec=krb5,multiuser That way you don't

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Kernel Support

2018-06-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen via CentOS
On 15 June 2018 at 21:07, Keith Keller via CentOS wrote: > On 2018-06-16, Johnny Hughes via CentOS wrote: >> >> You agreed to an EULA that says you will not distribute things that you >> get from that paid subscription. You can do it, and be in violation of >> the terms of your subscription. >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Kernel Support

2018-06-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 14 June 2018 at 12:16, Peter Kjellström wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:12:30 -0500 > Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> On 06/14/18 10:00, Peter Kjellström wrote: >> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:26:27 +0200 >> > Gianluca Cecchi wrote: >> > ... >> The src.rpm for that kernel is probably available

Re: [CentOS] C7, encryption, and clevis

2018-06-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: We've been required to encrypt h/ds, and so have been rolling that out over the last year or so. Thing is, you need to put in a password, of course, to boot the system. My manager found a way to allow us to reboot without being at the system's

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 (using iptables) removed firewalld

2018-06-01 Thread John R. Dennison
d suggestion. John -- Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. -- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988), Americ

Re: [CentOS] What's upholding the new clamav?

2018-05-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Thanks Phil, I wasn't aware of this when I sent my email. And Phil's answer is correct, please test the application and give feedback to https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-88c0c447a4 (For EL6) https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-4b08b15845 (For EL7)

Re: [CentOS] What's upholding the new clamav?

2018-05-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 30 May 2018 at 13:54, Adrian van Bloois wrote: > Hi, > My clamav is complaining that the version is outdated. There is a new one > 0.100 but epel is not updating the rpm. > Why is there a delay? > This isn't the list for asking for changes in EPEL but I will answer it here. EPEL relies on

Re: [CentOS] Password recovery trick not working on CentOS

2018-05-30 Thread John R. Dennison
ent > normal boot. > > Anybody knows why this is so? Most likely you didn't relabel the filesystem. Please take a look at https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ResetRootPassword - bottom of the page and the link to access.redhat.com's writeup.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 28 May 2018 at 18:25, Robert Heller wrote: > Then I shut the machine down, swapped in the new backup [2TB] disk and pulled > the old system [500G] disk and installed the third new [2TB] disk. The system > won't boot that way. It seems there is something in the UEFI (secure boot) > logic that

Re: [CentOS] yum hangs and results in problems

2018-05-25 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 24 May 2018, Gary Stainburn wrote: Questions 1) Any ideas why my yum runs keep hanging, and what I can do to fix it? It's likely it's hanging in a script, so just trace it all through. yum will start other processes up, and one of those will have hung. It'll be called

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd vs. iptables firewall script

2018-05-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 23 May 2018 at 11:05, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 May 2018 at 10:24, Nicolas Kovacs <i...@microlinux.fr> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm currently setting up a local FTP server, to receive disk images sent >> with G4L (Ghost4Lin

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd vs. iptables firewall script

2018-05-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 23 May 2018 at 10:24, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently setting up a local FTP server, to receive disk images sent > with G4L (Ghost4Linux). > > This server has been running Slackware Linux before, and the Vsftpd > setup was relatively simple. > > With CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Question on CentOS 7.5 clutter-1.0 pkgconfig missing

2018-05-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 21 May 2018, Jerry Geis wrote: however when I do "pkg-config clutter-1.0" it returns nothing. pkg-config clutter-1.0 --libs Looks fine to me. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Question on CentOS 7.5 clutter-1.0 pkgconfig missing

2018-05-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 21 May 2018, Jerry Geis wrote: Hello - I seem to be missing a pkgconfig clutter-1.0 file on C7.5 Doing yum provides "*/clutter-1.0" does not provide anything for /usr/share/pkgconfig ? Am I missing something ? how can I get the pkgconfig for clutter ? My system has none even though I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.5 (1804) and NetworkManager

2018-05-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 15 May 2018 at 06:40, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running CentOS on all kinds of setups: servers, workstations, > desktops and laptops. > > Up until now, I'm only using NetworkManager on laptops, since it makes > sense to use it there. On servers and desktop

Re: [CentOS] Private repository and upgrade to Centos 7.5 (Kernel / GStreamer / Mesa)

2018-05-12 Thread John R. Dennison
ur efforts are slow to be adopted / used by others as a result. May I ask as to why you aren't signing packages? John -- Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a

Re: [CentOS] Latest CentOS does not boot, Proliant ML330 G6

2018-05-11 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 03:49:23PM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > It's hard to diagnose if the only thing you say is that it panicked. I'd loan you my magic mind reading cap but it's at the cleaners. John -- Don't mist

Re: [CentOS] Latest CentOS does not boot, Proliant ML330 G6

2018-05-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 11 May 2018 at 15:34, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > Hello all. > > I just upgraded to the latest and tried to reboot: kernel panic and dead as a > brick. > > Luckily GRUB still works and booting the to the next option in boot menu > succeeds. > > How can this be? This OS is assumed

Re: [CentOS] Yum-cron

2018-05-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 11 May 2018 at 11:36, wrote: > Ok, I've just had issues this morning, and went and *looked*. I can see a > yum-cron running monthly, sure. Running weekly, I guess. Running daily? > Why? > > And there is *NO* reason whatever for a "yum-hourly*. None. This is > CentOS, not

Re: [CentOS] Yum-cron

2018-05-11 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 11 May 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: In a work environment? Or production? No way is there going to be an instant update. In most cases, you need to test whether that update is going to break things, and that will get you a ton more grief from users and management. Even if it's rated

Re: [CentOS] Yum-cron

2018-05-11 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 11 May 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And there is *NO* reason whatever for a "yum-hourly*. None. This is CentOS, not ubuntu-snapshot-of-the-moment. Did you have a look at what the hourly run does by default? jh ___ CentOS mailing list

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

2018-05-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9 May 2018 at 11:52, John Hodrien <j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Federal contractor here, too. (I'm the OP). For disks that work, shred or >> DBAN is what we use. For dead disks, we do the paperwork, and get

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

2018-05-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 May 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Federal contractor here, too. (I'm the OP). For disks that work, shred or DBAN is what we use. For dead disks, we do the paperwork, and get them deGaussed. SSD's are a brand new issue. We haven't had to deal with them yet, but it's surely coming, so

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

2018-05-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9 May 2018 at 07:18, Pete Biggs <p...@biggs.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 13:00 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: >> > Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com>: >> > >> > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, <m.r...@5-cent.us&g

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

2018-05-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, wrote: > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it > yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a > dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do with a SSD? > SSD disks must be shredded

Re: [CentOS] Problem with cr repo.

2018-05-05 Thread John R. Dennison
th 'multilib' problem. > I cleaned/removed yum's cache, rebuilt rpm database. > And while yum does that it shows lots of conflicts. Please provide complete output from "yum -d8 -v --enablerepo=cr update" Thank you. John --

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 36s! [swapper/0:0]

2018-04-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 April 2018 at 17:16, wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 15:26 +, KM wrote: >>> All,This happens on all of our CentOS 7 VMs. but as stated in the >>> email trail, the file softlockup_thresh does not exist. Should it be >>> added? What is

Re: [CentOS] question re: ls oddity

2018-04-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 19 April 2018 at 20:12, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I use Centos-7 all the time. I also have a Fedora-26 VM that I use only > occasionally. > > Today I noticed that ls on the two systems gives different results when > listing the same (networked) directory. >

Re: [CentOS] Down C6 ALL without torrent ?

2018-04-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 19 April 2018 at 05:04, Always Learning <cen...@u68.u22.net> wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-04-19 at 09:40 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > >> > On Wed, April 18, 2018 8:36 pm, Always Learning wrote: > >> >> I have an aversion to using anything that comes from un

Re: [CentOS] Down C6 ALL without torrent ?

2018-04-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Always Learning wrote: On Thu, 2018-04-19 at 09:40 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, April 18, 2018 8:36 pm, Always Learning wrote: I have an aversion to using anything that comes from unknown sources, as used by Torrent. Can we also challenge this "tor

Re: [CentOS] Down C6 ALL without torrent ?

2018-04-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Wed, April 18, 2018 8:36 pm, Always Learning wrote: Hi, I have a machine with a BIOS that does not permit DVD installation. It accepts everything else including some old superseded media types. Is it possible to download C6 combined parts 1 and 2

Re: [CentOS] XScreenSaver

2018-04-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9 April 2018 at 04:47, Tom Grace wrote: > On 09/04/2018 07:47, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> I didn't know a screensaver was that critical. > > It's critical in that XScreenSaver deals with locking the screen/dealing > with passwords. I believe the fancy animation

Re: [CentOS] XScreenSaver

2018-04-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 1:06 PM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 08/04/2018 à 13:54, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > > As far as I can tell, there would be several solutions to this problem. > > > > 1. Ask the EPEL maintainers to keep the application up-to-date. > > > > 2. Patch the darn

Re: [CentOS] invalid mirror .host-engine.com

2018-04-06 Thread John R. Dennison
contain that string. John -- The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him. -- Edward Roscoe Murrow (1908-1965), American

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

2018-03-27 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: The next step is to find the right combination of boot parameters so I can install through the text console. So far, I've had no luck. Any suggestions ? If you're going to do an interactive install, do it graphically via VNC, as has already been

Re: [CentOS] selinux: how to allow access?

2018-03-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, hw wrote: which is what access rights are for Yes and no. You can run firefox and let it download files into the Downloads directory, but not elsewhere. You can run apache on port 80/443 but not let it open up a different port. You can stop apache reading files outside

Re: [CentOS] selinux: how to allow access?

2018-03-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, hw wrote: That depends. If the anti-theft system of your car prevents you from driving it, wouldn´t you turn it off so you can drive to work? How many of us tape the immobiliser transponder to the base of the lock? I don´t believe that. First you need to figure out if

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

2018-03-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: I have to install CentOS 7 for a client, to act as cache & filtering proxy using Squid. I'd like to use this piece of specialized hardware :

Re: [CentOS] xfs file system errors

2018-03-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 15 March 2018 at 08:24, Jerry Geis wrote: > How do I fix an xfs file system error ? > > I searched and it says to run xfs_repair /dev/sda1 - did not work. > I got an error on boot and the machine dropped into service mode by > entering the PW. I entered the above command

[CentOS] NIC naming conventions and vmware

2018-03-07 Thread John Ratliff
I have a couple of CentOS 7 machines running in a vmware environment. On all the older ones I've deployed, the NIC is named ens160, but on all of the new ones, it is named ens192. I can't find any difference in the hardware that would account for this. Any suggestions on what I can do to

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

2018-03-05 Thread John Ratliff
On 2/28/2018 4:23 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, I've been running Squid successfully on CentOS 7 (and before that on 6 and 5), and it's always been running nicely. I've been using it mostly as a transparent proxy filter in school networks. So far, I've only been able to filter HTTP. Do any of

Re: [CentOS] Addind kmail to EPEL

2018-03-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Currently it looks like KMail has been put in KDE-Pim and not a seperate package anymore. It seems the repository with it is https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rdieter/kde4/ On 3 March 2018 at 20:45, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > I finally decided to move from CentOS 6 to CentOS

Re: [CentOS] evince

2018-03-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 2 March 2018 at 13:58, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 17:55:05 + (UTC) > Chris Olson wrote: > >> Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated. > > Three suggestions: > > 1. Have you tried atril? Does it have the same problem? > > 2. Can you post a

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 2 March 2018 at 12:07, hw wrote: >> >> Oh yeah. Who ever gave you those marching orders needs to talk with >> all kinds of lawyers... even researching for it might be problematic >> in some countries due to a multitude of laws. You are walking out of >> setting up a wireless

Re: [CentOS] why does "rescue" mode bring me to runlevel 5 (multi-user target)?

2018-03-02 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: finishing a week of teaching a comptia linux+ class off of centos 7.4 and wanted to demo how to boot to "rescue" mode, so i rebooted, selected "rescue" mode at grub menu, which still booted to full multiuser, graphical mode. what am i doing wrong? or

Re: [CentOS] Mirror Problem

2018-03-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 16 February 2018 at 14:20, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 February 2018 at 08:36, Günther J. Niederwimmer <g...@gjn.priv.at> > wrote: >> Hello, >> I have thousands of this messages on my servers ?? >> >> Is this a Problem

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