Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:02 AM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > Please sign this petition if you don't want the CentOS Board to implement > this decision: > > > https://www.change.org/p/centos-governing-board-do-not-destroy-centos-by-using-it-as-a-rhel-upstream > > Or... don't if you are happy with the

Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2020-12-08 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:12 AM Daniel Worden wrote: > Could you please unsubscribe this email address. I was not aware of the > volume of messages this would create and I would like to resubscire using a > different email address. > > Thank you, > Daniel Worden >

Re: [CentOS] Thanks a lot for 8.3 Update

2020-12-07 Thread John Pierce
very odd, DNF/YUM should *never* downgrade a package.its possible the mirror it chose to use was lagging on replication and didn' thave the 8.3 latest packages yet (this is a regular issue with the centos mirrors)., but really it should have errored rather than downgrading. On Mon, Dec 7,

Re: [CentOS] ntpdate past CentOS 7

2020-12-02 Thread John Pierce
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 11:17 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > ... > ntpdate was "nice" in that I could just run once a day as "ntpdate name" the problem with that sort of time sync is that if your systems clock is running fast, then those once a day time syncs cause the clock to be set BACK a few

Re: [CentOS] Physical position of swap partition on the disk

2020-12-01 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 2:53 AM Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > Finally, swap throughput really matters when hibernating to disk. > > And that's really the only time it should matter on a modern system,. I rarely see /any/ swap in use for normal server or workstation operations

Re: [CentOS] Replacing SW RAID-1 with SSD RAID-1

2020-11-24 Thread John Pierce
zpool create newpool mirror sdb sdc mirror sdd sde mirror sdf sdg mirror sdh sdi spare sdj sdk zfs create -o mountpoint=/var/lib/pgsql-11 newpool/postgres11 and done. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Best practice preparing for disk restoring system

2020-11-18 Thread John Pierce
I'm old school, but I always liked using dump/restore on unix file systems. e2dump or whatever for linux, zfs send/recieve for zfs, ufsdump on freebsd ufs, etc etc. then I just need to know what file systems they are, and where they should be mounted, and its trivial to set tha tup on new

Re: [CentOS] Intel RST RAID 1, partition tables and UUIDs

2020-11-16 Thread John Pierce
the main advantage I know of for bios fake-raid is that the bios can boot off either of the two mirrored boot devices.usually if the sata0 device has failed, the BIOS isn't smart enough to boot from sata1 the only other reason is if you're running MS Windows desktop which can't do mirroring

Re: [CentOS] (C8) root on mdraid

2020-11-16 Thread John Pierce
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 2:29 AM Tony Mountifield wrote: > > I thought it was much more usual to partition both disks to give sda1,2,3 > and sdb1,2,3, and then create /dev/md0 from sda1/sdb1, /dev/md1 from > sda2/sdb3, > and so on. > What I always did was to mdraid a single full disk partition

Re: [CentOS] mdadm raid-check

2020-11-14 Thread John Pierce
FWIW, on a 4 x 8TB ZFS RaidZ1, I run a ZFS scrub every night at 2:30am. if I had more disks in a raidz2 (equiv to raid6) then I might do it weekly rather than daily, but since a raidz1 is only singly redundant, I figure daily scrubs increases the chance I'll catch a failing drive sooner than

Re: [CentOS] ssacli start rebuild?

2020-11-14 Thread John Pierce
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 6:32 PM hw wrote: > > I don't like the idea of flashing one. I don't have the firmware and I > don't > know if they can be flashed with Linux. Aren't there any good --- and cost > efficient --- ones that do JBOD by default, preferably including 16-port > cards > with

Re: [CentOS] ssacli start rebuild?

2020-11-14 Thread John Pierce
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 4:57 AM hw wrote: > On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 16:38 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > > > > And where > > > do you get cost-efficient cards that can do JBOD? > > > > $69, 8 SATA/SAS ports: https://www.newegg.com/p/0ZK-08UH-0GWZ1 > > That says it's for HP. So will you still get

Re: [CentOS] ssacli start rebuild?

2020-11-11 Thread John Pierce
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 5:47 PM Valeri Galtsev wrote: > I’m sure you can reflash LSI card to make it SATA or SAS HBA, or MegaRAD > hardware RAID adapter. Is far as I recollect it is the same electronics > board. I reflashed a couple of HBAs to make them MegaRAID boards. > you can reflash SOME

Re: [CentOS] ssacli start rebuild?

2020-11-11 Thread John Pierce
not always evident, so would require trial and error. On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 5:37 PM Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > > On Nov 11, 2020, at 6:00 PM, John Pierce wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 3:38 PM Warren Young wrote: > > > >> On Nov 11, 2020, at

Re: [CentOS] ssacli start rebuild?

2020-11-11 Thread John Pierce
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 3:38 PM Warren Young wrote: > On Nov 11, 2020, at 2:01 PM, hw wrote: > > > > I have yet to see software RAID that doesn't kill the performance. > > When was the last time you tried it? > > Why would you expect that a modern 8-core Intel CPU would impede I/O in > any

Re: [CentOS] USB External video

2020-11-06 Thread John Pierce
they seem to only have binary drivers for Ubuntu 14+, with no source links on the vendor's website, and I looked up the chip it uses, DisplayLink DL-5500, that too says it only supports Ubuntu, and had no source download links either, further, the Ubuntu driver consists of 3 separate giant .run

Re: [CentOS] BIOS RAID0 and differences between disks

2020-11-04 Thread John Pierce
is it RAID 0 (striped) or raid1 (mirrored) ?? if you wrote on half of a raid0 stripe set, you basically trashed it. blocks are striped across both drives, so like 16k on the first disk, then 16k on the 2nd then 16k back on the first, repeat (replace 16k with whatever your raid stripe size is).

Re: [CentOS] Run as root on reboot

2020-10-28 Thread John Pierce
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 8:53 PM david wrote: > > By "initial setup", I meant during the initial install of the > operating system, starting from "net-install". Maybe one user is > defined. The reboot command is issued from a script that was > initiated by hand. > so you want this script run

Re: [CentOS] NFS Client to Server User Mapping / how to configure for user-IDs

2020-10-15 Thread John Pierce
All nodes participating in NFSv3 should have the same UID and GID for the same usernames. With NFSv4, the users/groups are identified by name rather than UID/GID On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:27 PM Ralf Prengel wrote: > > Hallo, > we ve a central Cent7 system working as NFS server. > Everything

Re: [CentOS] External harddisk

2020-09-30 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 8:33 AM H wrote: > I have an old external harddisk, Toshiba 320 Gb, with a USB connector that > I wanted to check for contents. It did not start up when connected and I > could not hear the motor spinning. After leaving it in the freezer > overnight the motor spins but it

Re: [CentOS] Logitech C922 webcam

2020-09-29 Thread John Pierce
do you have another computer, perhaps a Windows system, you can plug this camera into to see if it works at all? On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 7:22 PM H wrote: > On 09/29/2020 10:01 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > > On 9/29/20 6:50 PM, H wrote: > >> On 09/29/2020 09:09 PM, John Pier

Re: [CentOS] Logitech C922 webcam

2020-09-29 Thread John Pierce
try the camera in a USB 2 port, it should work just fine at usb 2 speeds. most systems, the USB 3 ports hve a 'blue' tongue, while the 2 ports are black or another color. On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 6:50 PM H wrote: > On 09/29/2020 09:09 PM, John Pierce wrote: > > do other USB 3 (XHCI

Re: [CentOS] Logitech C922 webcam

2020-09-29 Thread John Pierce
do other USB 3 (XHCI) devices work on this system ? On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 5:27 PM H wrote: > On 09/29/2020 02:11 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > > Try > > > > lsusb -v > > > > and > > > > sudo dmesg > > > > ... Be aware, systemd deals with udev and it may be malfunctioning > > > > > > On 9/29/2020

Re: [CentOS] Logitech C922 webcam

2020-09-29 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:30 AM H wrote: > Just installed the above USB webcam but it is not recognized by dmesg | > grep usb, nor does Zoom recognize it. I was under the understanding it > should not require a driver, or? > > I am running CentOS 7. > > absolutely nothing at the end of dmesg

Re: [CentOS] Question regarding cent OS 7.8.2003 compatibility with large SAS disks

2020-09-24 Thread John Pierce
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 9:26 PM Amey Abhyankar wrote: > Hello, > > I have a blade server with SAS HDD's of 12TB in total. > 3 HDD's of 4TB each. > > Is it possible to install Cent OS 7.8.2003 on 12TB disk space? > I will be installing Cent OS on the bare metal HW. > > the SAS hardware has to be

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 LSI SAS2004 Driver

2020-09-20 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:03 AM John Pierce wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 12:24 AM John Pierce wrote: > >> >> strikes me, MPT2 support should find its home in the CentOSPlus kernel >> for 8. >> > > > ooof. IS there a CentOSplus 8 ??

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 LSI SAS2004 Driver

2020-09-20 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 12:24 AM John Pierce wrote: > > strikes me, MPT2 support should find its home in the CentOSPlus kernel for > 8. > ooof. IS there a CentOSplus 8 ?? https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus doesn't say anything about it. -- -j

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 LSI SAS2004 Driver

2020-09-20 Thread John Pierce
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 8:17 PM Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 8:04 PM William Markuske > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I ... have come to find out that RedHat deprecated support for a number > of HBAs for 8 including all running the SAS2004 chip. > > > > Does anyone know if there

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 LSI SAS2004 Driver

2020-09-19 Thread John Pierce
that chip should use the MPT2SAS driver, same as the more common SAS2008. a complication for both of those is they can be flashed to be either IT (initiator-terminator mode, a pure SAS HBA), or IR (integrated raid, a rather weak implementation of hardware raid).AFAIK, the MPT2 driver is for

Re: [CentOS] erasing a disk

2020-09-14 Thread John Pierce
I've never run into a system yet where using dd to write zeros on the first few megabytes didn't completely wipe the disk as far as the OS and existing file systems are concerned.. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde bs=65536 count=1024 ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] A Request to Add module to CentOS Linux (3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core)

2020-09-11 Thread John Pierce
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 11:08 PM Dedoep wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to add the mac802154_hwsim module to CentOS Linux > (3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core), so that its part of the OS? If that module is not part of red hat Enterprise 7 then it will never be part of CentOS. > I

Re: [CentOS] changing subscribed email address?

2020-09-02 Thread John Pierce
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 12:21 PM Jake Shipton wrote: > > > Attached to the footer of every message on the list features the > following link: > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > You can use this to manage your subscription (Scroll down the page). > there's no option on that

Re: [CentOS] How to Migrate Wordpress Website from 32-bit CentOS Linux 6.3 to 64-bit CentOS Linux 8.2 (2004)

2020-08-31 Thread John Pierce
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 6:31 AM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < ceo-teo-en-m...@outlook.com> wrote: > Subject: How to Migrate Wordpress Website from 32-bit CentOS Linux 6.3 to > 64-bit CentOS Linux 8.2 (2004) > > ... > > Host operating system is Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard > > Host Processor:

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for KMail V1

2020-08-17 Thread John Pierce
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020, 2:16 AM Gary Stainburn wrote: > > I am currently limping along using Thunderbird but I find the lack of > useful keystroke functions (such as next unread message, next folder > with an unread message) annoying. Having to move my hand from keyboard > to mouse is more

Re: [CentOS] Teo En Ming's Learning Achievements on 14 August 2020 Friday

2020-08-14 Thread John Pierce
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 4:24 PM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < c...@teo-en-ming.com> wrote: > Subject: Teo En Ming's Learning Achievements on 14 August 2020 Friday > > [1] Activate Cisco AnyConnect SSL VPN License on Cisco ASA 5506-X > Firewall > > Today I discovered that the base license for

Re: [CentOS] Docker swarm service misconfigured in FirewallD / CentOS 7

2020-08-13 Thread John Pierce
Who packaged this docker swarm thing? On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 1:27 AM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently fiddling with Docker Swarm on three sandbox servers running > CentOS 7. > > Unfortunately I couldn't get even the most basic configuration running. > After > some experimenting and

Re: [CentOS] python problem

2020-08-09 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 1:40 PM Chuck Campbell wrote: > ... > dnf copr enable abn/throttled > dnf install -y throttled > > but I get this output: > Error: > Problem: conflicting requests >- nothing provides python3-configparser needed by throttled0.7-1.x86_64 > > I have no guess what to do

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-02 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 7:14 PM Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Jonathan Billings said: > > On Aug 2, 2020, at 14:43, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > You don't have to use UEFI secure booting - most machines can fall back > > > to legacy booting using BIOS settings. If you do that, you won't use

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-02 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 3:54 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 8/2/20 1:19 PM, John Pierce wrote: > > One of the things that bugs me about PKI trust chains like this, what > > happens if the unthinkable happens, and Microsoft's RootCA gets > compromised > > and has to be r

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-02 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 1:01 PM Phil Perry wrote: > I believe Microsoft signs the shim which then becomes the trusted > authority and embeds RH (or CentOS) signing cert, so (I believe) every > release of the shim needs to be signed by Microsoft. So it's not quite > as efficient as MS signing a

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-02 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 11:45 AM Phil Perry wrote: > On 02/08/2020 16:26, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > > On the side note: it is Microsoft that signs one of Linux packages now. > We seem to have made one more step away from “our” computers being _our > computers_. Am I wrong? > > > > Valeri > > >

Re: [CentOS] USB-serial adapter for CentOS 7

2020-07-08 Thread John Pierce
On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 8:46 AM H wrote: > > I believe I mentioned that the UPS has the serial port, the computer thus > has USB. > > yes, but is it 'basic serial UPS' or is it 'enhanced serial UPS' ?the former do NOT use the rx/tx data of the serial port at all, they ONLY use the serial port

Re: [CentOS] USB-serial adapter for CentOS 7

2020-07-08 Thread John Pierce
If it is an older APC UPS, that uses basic serial signaling, it's not actually a serial port, it's a criss-cross special serial cable that manages the control lines with DSR DTR CTS and so forth. these are very fussy cables that have to be exactly the right one or the UPS may just abruptly shut

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Bacula offsite replication

2020-07-02 Thread John Pierce
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 1:51 AM Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hi John, > > thank you for your answer, I already take in consideration DRBD but I > need some test before start. > > Reading you seems that this solution is not anymore available. What do > you use for this? > That system was surplused 2

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Bacula offsite replication

2020-07-02 Thread John Pierce
I setup drbd to replicate a ~50TB backuppc hive to the DR copy, an identical box in a different DC on the same campus, with approximately gigE speeds, and ran this for a year or two. It worked well enough but required babysitting from time to time. Both nodes were mdraid lvm logical volumes

Re: [CentOS] fdisk boot partition

2020-06-30 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:12 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > I am trying to use CentOS 8 host to boot an image (OS X) that I created > using dd. > > First I tried fdisk -l image_file.img ... fdisk has been deprecated for quite a long time, I think parted is the preferred command line tool now. --

Re: [CentOS] Unable to find the used space

2020-06-29 Thread John Pierce
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 1:23 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > > Though rather unlikely, it is possible that none of /* > are in the same filesystem as / , > hence the need for / rather than /* . as /dev, /proc, and /sys are mounted on nearly every linux system, and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 system running out of available memory, then unusable, network interfaces probably involved

2020-06-29 Thread John Pierce
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 12:47 PM wwp wrote: > > Nothing jumps to my eyes looking at /var/log/messages but this, many > occurrences: > kernel: nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc. > nf_conntrack is only involved if you are doing some form of NAT routing on this system and/or fairly complex

Re: [CentOS] HP vs. Brother Printers: Use with Centos/Fedora

2020-06-27 Thread John Pierce
Re ink jets. I have one, a Canon Pro wide carriage photo printer, that uses like 8 colors and makes gorgeous full color prints.Its connected to a Windows workstation. Its the first inkjet I've had that can go months of disuse, then fire up and print a glossy 11x17 or whatever right the

Re: [CentOS] HP vs. Brother Printers: Use with Centos/Fedora

2020-06-27 Thread John Pierce
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 2:44 PM Frank Cox wrote: > > Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with > either didn't work at all or if could be made to work, it didn't work for > long. > > If it's a Brother, run away as fast as you can. They're the cheapest >

Re: [CentOS] firewall questions

2020-06-21 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 12:33 PM Chuck Campbell wrote: > I'm running Centos 7.8.2003, with firewalld. > > I was getting huge numbers of ssh attempts per day from a few specific > ip blocks. > > The offenders are 45.0.0.0/24, 49.0.0.0/24, 51.0.0.0/24, 111.0.0.0/24 > and 118.0.0.0/24, > so just

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-21 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 2:01 AM Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > > On 21/06/20 1:23 pm, John Pierce wrote: > >> but the build process should be the same, no?I can't believe RH > >> would > >> use a completely different build process for the release than fo

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-20 Thread John Pierce
but the build process should be the same, no?I can't believe RH would use a completely different build process for the release than for the beta/development stuff. On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:36 PM Peter wrote: > On 21/06/20 9:15 am, John Pierce wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 a

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-20 Thread John Pierce
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 4:08 AM Tom Bishop wrote: > +1 Streams is not for a production workload, if I wanted that I can easily > deploy an Arch instance if I want or need a rolling distro (it's not Redhat > etc but still). If Redhat wanted CentOS to be released near the same time > line they

Re: [CentOS] Amd es1000

2020-06-18 Thread John Pierce
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:55 PM Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Ah, I love your good answer. I remember this from the past: > > Why my $20 adaptec RAID card (they were "software" RAID) doesn't work as > well (if at all) as your $700 3ware or LSI (megaraid) or Areca card? > > actually, I prefer the

Re: [CentOS] Amd es1000

2020-06-18 Thread John Pierce
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:04 AM paride desimone wrote: > The throuble is the radeon driver. I've already tried to install the gui, > but the system hung on start gui. > The es1000 is a shit gpu. > > those are just intended to provide a minimal VGA for initial installation and configuration of

Re: [CentOS] firewall help request

2020-06-16 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 1:26 PM david wrote: > > ... I'm assuming > that your advice about LAN represents the internal network because on > most routers, it is, and WAN is the internet connection. > > > yeah, LAN == Local Area Network, WAN == Wide Area Network, generally meaning the internet.

Re: [CentOS] firewall help request

2020-06-16 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:26 PM david wrote: > > Examples of what I've tried, and then tested. None of them stopped > an outgoing SSH from an internal system. > >iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j DROP >iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j DROP > > >

Re: [CentOS] Missing Quote from latest Update

2020-06-16 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:56 AM Natassia S wrote: > Received these error message during update 16Jun2020. > > Running scriptlet: kmod-kvdo-6.2.1.138-58.el8_1.x86_64 > 750/1181 > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eno1: line 21: unexpected EOF while > looking for matching `"' > >

Re: [CentOS] Centos7 and Vlan

2020-06-16 Thread John Pierce
Did you setup outbound NAT for both vlans via iptables? Policy routing to multiple wan interfaces is a bit tricky,. It's been years since I did it, what I remember was using ip rules to categorize and tag the traffic, then alternate named ip route tables to direct the different tags at different

Re: [CentOS] Apache (httpd) fails to start at boot - Centos 8.1

2020-06-16 Thread John Pierce
Just a wild guess, but it sounds like Apache is being started before the network is online.Is this host simple static Ethernet or DHCP, or is it something more complicated like WiFi? I believe you can set service dependencies with systemd, ideally your apache service isn't started before the

Re: [CentOS] /etc/networks file

2020-06-15 Thread John Pierce
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 4:39 AM Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > This is an archaic file which is equivalent to /etc/hosts and can be used > by various network tools instead of DNS. > https://linux-audit.com/the-purpose-of-etc-networks/ > > Other than getent, this file seems to be little use in

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:19 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > > > I'm quite sure that in original Berkeley Unix, as on the VAX 11/780, halt > > was an immediate halt of the CPU without any process cleanup or file > system > > umounting or anything. Early SunOS (pre-Solaris) was like this, too. > > > The

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 5:20 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > > > fwiw, i've always used 'init 0' to shut down all sorts of unix/linux > > systems. > > In EL7/EL8, init is now a symlink as well because everything is > controlled by systemd. > > > On old school unix, and I think even early Linux, halt

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 4:32 PM Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Working with different OSs can be quite challenging (mentally :-)). > > I wonder why the command "halt" has not same result between EL6 and EL8. > > To shutdown the vm or workstation in EL8 i must use "shutdown now". > fwiw, i've

Re: [CentOS] Postfix restrictions

2020-06-08 Thread John Pierce
need a backup server at all. On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 7:57 PM Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 05:53:28AM -0700, John Pierce wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 2:47 AM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > > > > > > > My aim is simply to eliminate as much

Re: [CentOS] Postfix restrictions

2020-06-07 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 2:47 AM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > My aim is simply to eliminate as much spam as possible (that is, before > adding > SpamAssassin) while keeping false positives to a minimum. > The one thing that stopped the most spam on my last mailserver was greylisting. Any mta

Re: [CentOS] yum/dnf diff

2020-06-05 Thread John Pierce
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 12:35 PM Kenneth Porter wrote: > On 6/5/2020 12:21 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > if you click on the six digit number, for example, e52775 for the > > current latest "import 389-ds-base-1.3.10.1-9.el7_8". The result is > > every diff of every change for the rpm. > > That's

Re: [CentOS] Logitech webcam for use with CentOS 7

2020-06-03 Thread John Pierce
I've used those with Windows w zoom with excellent results... They don't require any special driver's so probably work w Linux as is On Wed, Jun 3, 2020, 4:29 PM H wrote: > I am thinking of buying a Logitech C920S Pro HD or C922 webcam for the > necessary video conferencing. > > Is anyone

Re: [CentOS] Help needed for installing MT7601U Linux driver

2020-06-02 Thread John Pierce
are you building that driver for use on a Synology DSM ? if so, thats not CentOS. if not, then why are you using a synology fork of the atmel driver? On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 1:14 AM Harsh chopra < serviceprovider.tes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My PC don't have an integrated WLAN

Re: [CentOS] ip6tables equivalent for NAT?

2020-05-26 Thread John Pierce
yes, outbound UDP through the NAT layer adds an entry to the tracking table which expires after some time. this sorta explains it... https://www.linuxtopia.org/Linux_Firewall_iptables/x1544.html On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 12:59 PM Kenneth Porter wrote: > I figure that TCP is easy: Add a rule to

Re: [CentOS] ip6tables equivalent for NAT?

2020-05-26 Thread John Pierce
with ipv6, you just allow the specific ports destined to the specific local machine(s) in on your WAN side, they don't need translating. same sort of rule as if you had a internet-facing service running on the routing system On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 11:55 AM Kenneth Porter wrote: > I finally

Re: [CentOS] ether-wake

2020-05-17 Thread John Pierce
The WoL magic packet is only scanned for the string above, and not actually parsed by a full protocol stack, it could be sent as any network- and transport-layer protocol, although it is typically sent as a UDP datagram

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring network traffic to a host

2020-05-12 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 4:44 PM Ian Pilcher wrote: > Background - I am having an issue with occassional pauses when streaming > high-bitrate media across my home network to my smart TV. I *suspect* > that the root cause is the (incredibly lame) 100 Mbps Ethernet interface > in the TV. > just

Re: [CentOS] no images from www.imdb.com

2020-05-12 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:37 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > For some reason, I no longer seem to get images from > www.imdb.com , i.e. Internet Movie DataBase. > The effect is really weird. > I get from Firefox, Konqueror and Chromium. FWIW, many/most of the

Re: [CentOS] Understanding VDO vs ZFS

2020-05-04 Thread John Pierce
Rather than dedupe at the file system level, I found the application level dedupe in BackupPC works really well... I've run BackupPC on both a big ZFS volume, and on a giant XFS over LVM over MDRAID volume (24 x 3TB disks organized as 2 x 11 raid6 plus 2 hot spares). The backuppc server I

Re: [CentOS] nodejs version 14

2020-04-22 Thread John Pierce
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:43 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi All, > > I was following the instructions for installing nodejs version 14. > https://github.com/nodesource/distributions > > First thing was: > curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | bash - > > After that : > yum -y install

Re: [CentOS] Samba Status code returned 0xc000006d NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE SessSetup = -13

2020-04-14 Thread John Pierce
Unix to unix within a data center, I prefer NFS On Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 10:29 PM Ralf Prengel wrote: > > Zitat von John Pierce : > > > Mount.smb is way down-rev. It doesn't support the newer smb options > > Hallo, > thanks for the fast answer. > What would be the ri

Re: [CentOS] Samba Status code returned 0xc000006d NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE SessSetup = -13

2020-04-14 Thread John Pierce
Mount.smb is way down-rev. It doesn't support the newer smb options On Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 9:46 PM Ralf Prengel wrote: > > Hallo, > perhaps someone hat a hint vor me. > My centos 7 samba Server ist working fine using Win10 Clienst with > Domaine-Integration. > Shares are browseable and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS

2020-04-12 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 6:43 PM Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 2020-04-12 08:13, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2020, at 05:47, Pete Biggs wrote: > >> There are other options than LDAP, and servers other than OpenLDAP, but > >> LDAP is the de facto standard. > > > > Unfortunately, OpenLDAP

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS

2020-04-08 Thread John Pierce
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 8:48 PM Warren Young wrote: > On Apr 8, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > > > > Does anyone know where I can get NIS for CentOS 8? > > $ dnf provides ypserv > ... > ypserv-4.0-6.20170331git5bfba76.el8.x86_64 : The NIS (Network Information > Service) server > > > do

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from Centos 7 to Centos 8

2020-04-08 Thread John Pierce
Huh?I did remote installs all the time at my last $job.It's easiest if it's either a VM or a physical server with IPMI On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, 9:57 AM Stefano Simonucci < stefanosimonucci@alice.it> wrote: > OK. I understand. Unfortunately the server has been assigned to me > remotely

Re: [CentOS] C8 and backup solution

2020-04-03 Thread John Pierce
On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 6:58 AM Chris Adams wrote: > It isn't just databases - there are other things that backing up > individual files one at a time is not so good. The best way to handle > that is to freeze/snapshot the whole filesystem, and then back up the > snapshot. This can be scripted

Re: [CentOS] C8 and backup solution

2020-04-03 Thread John Pierce
Do note, backup systems that use rsync or similar file by file copies of a running system do not make coherent atomic snapshots, so things like relational databases should be excluded from those, and backed by database tools ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Gstreamer and Mplayer

2020-03-30 Thread John Pierce
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 7:19 PM Mark LaPierre wrote: > > > Perhaps there's another repo like epel for CentOS 8 where these toys live? > > yes, rpmfusion is that repo. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Gstreamer and Mplayer

2020-03-30 Thread John Pierce
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:16 AM Bob Marcan wrote: > vlc centos 8 > yeah, I dig VLC, I use it on multiple platforms, and it consistently seems to be able to play everything without any nonsense. Looks like rpmfusion is the distro of choice for it on Centos/rhel 8 -- -john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] directfb on CentOS 7

2020-03-27 Thread John Pierce
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:38 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > I have another package (baresip) that needs "directfb". > good luck.per https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=DirectFB-2017-Dormant directFB project has gone dormant and awol, its websites vanished. -- -john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] Re-configuring BIND DNS Servers for CentOS Web Panel Web Hosting Control Panel on Amazon AWS Cloud

2020-02-27 Thread John Pierce
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 6:40 AM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < teo.en.ming.feb9...@gmail.com> wrote: > Subject: Re-configuring BIND DNS Servers for CentOS Web Panel Web > Hosting Control Panel on Amazon AWS Cloud.. > please stop spamming this list with cPanel crap. -- -john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] OwnCloud vs NextCloud

2020-02-22 Thread John Pierce
OwnCloud came first, but IIRC, when the business managers took it partially commercial, the original developer split and forked it to make NextCloud as he didn't like the OwnCloud policies [1] [1] https://karlitschek.de/2016/04/big-changes-i-am-leaving-owncloud-inc-today/ -- -john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] anybody runs HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 ?

2020-02-17 Thread John Pierce
in general, servers are pretty picky about their rams... I would only ever use either real HP branded memory(especially if the machine is on service contract), or certified compatible memory from the likes of Crucial. the quickspecs of that server list the specific speeds it will use. note it

Re: [CentOS] Kernel downgrade on Centos 8

2020-02-04 Thread John Pierce
> > Kernel 3.10 in C7 is way to old to reliably support the 4.18 based C8 > runtime. > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ntfs support

2020-02-01 Thread John Pierce
On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 1:31 AM wwp wrote: > > Definitely, ntfs-3g is from the EPEL repo: > # yum info ntfs-3g > Installed Packages > Name: ntfs-3g > Arch: x86_64 > but is it available in x86 32 bit ? me, I've never trusted ntfs on linux, and would rather have a windows

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 lokkit

2020-01-31 Thread John Pierce
I think firewalld is the replacement.lokkit was pretty limited in capabilities. On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 10:19 AM Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 at 12:36, Jerry Geis wrote: > > > hi All - > > > > I tried doing: > > yum provides "/usr/sbin/lokkit" > > on CentOS 8 and got

Re: [CentOS] Twin HDMI

2020-01-17 Thread John Pierce
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:53 AM Mark (Netbook) wrote: > I have an Intel NUC7PJYH running CentOS 6.8. This is a NUC with standard > USB, 1GbE and 2*HDMI. FWIW, that has a Pentium Silver J2005, which has Intel® UHD Graphics 605 thats fairly new stuff, and centos 6 is pretty old now. -- -john

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 and E1000 intel driver

2020-01-17 Thread John Pierce
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 3:16 PM david wrote: > Folks > > I know that support for the network adaptors supported by the 'e1000' > driver have been removed from the base distribution. However, I have > exactly that controller (Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet PCI, not > PCIe). Is there a way for me to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 32 Bits install.

2020-01-12 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 7:55 AM Ger van Dijck wrote: > Question : Can I install Centos7 32 Bits on a computer i386 32 bits > little > indian pentium III Copermine Model8 Cpufamily 6 CpuMhz 863.979 (lscpu) > grep -i pae /proc/cpuinfo gives a flag pae . > Thats a 20 year old computer. It

Re: [CentOS] Does Centos kernel support usb w/ UASP ?

2019-12-29 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 8:01 PM Fred Smith wrote: > Looking to buy a new usb-attached RAID box for nightly backups, and > I see that many of them now support usb 3.1 with UASP. > I'd rather have a NAS that supports NFS and/or SMB and lives on ethernet, so any host on your LAN can use it as

Re: [CentOS] State of CentOS 8

2019-12-24 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 12:57 AM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > That's missing the point. > > While it's perfectly understandable that there's always a certain lag > between upstream RHEL and CentOS, seven weeks without security updates > is a serious showstopper for production use. > > There's a

Re: [CentOS] State of CentOS 8

2019-12-22 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 5:30 PM Bill Maidment wrote: > > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8 > > > > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8.x > > > > This misses the point of where are the intermediate updates to 8.0 ? or > can we only get point releases with no updates in between? > >

Re: [CentOS] Using Pulse Audio--question

2019-12-22 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 5:23 PM David G. Miller wrote: > I do something similar to what you're trying to do when I digitize my > vinyl LPs. I take output from my amp/turntable into my sound card and > use Audacity to digitize it and write an appropriate sound file. I also > monitor the sound

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