e many tools to copy over the actual data. Use the
file system’s dump/restore, tar, rsync, etc.
There are a small number of cases where “dd” is the right tool. Backups and
data transfer is not one of them.
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> kernel: command_status=-1
> kernel:
> I persume something is trying to access the system's
> floppy disk drive that does not exist. But I have
> been unable to identify what's triggering all this
> activity.
>
> Any suggestions?
Any chance you have something like au
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> You'll want to add to CFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64/openssl11", so the
> linker adds the RPATH to the executable.
The alternative is to set $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, of course, but that is
often something
break packaged software.
You'll want to add to CFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64/openssl11", so the
linker adds the RPATH to the executable.
Remember not to use this trick when creating RPMs, because that's
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and instead, or
“nmcli” to interact with NetworkMamager.
2.) “ifconfig” can’t show multiple IPs on an interface, one of the reasons why
it is deprecated.
3.) Don’t use “eth0:1” style virtual interfaces, that was a hack for ifconfig
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Good News! It looks like Google has a fix that will restore support for CentOS
7.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1261617#c26
TL;DR: the fix will show up in the google-chrome-unstable package v97.0.4677.0.
Eventually a fixed version wil
googling for a solution.
> Hopefully it will not take to long to fix.
Don't hold your breath. If it doesn't make money for Google, they're
not likely to make any effort. And Google is the king of killing
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. They are versioned together, so you can’t
upgrade one without needing the updates for the other.
Since python3-tkinter is in AppStream, maybe you don’t have that enabled? You
need the 8Stream repo, not the one for base 8.
See the spec file to see it is a sub package:
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ou booted from the installer as a legacy
boot item, it installs as a legacy bootloader, but if you disable the BIOS
option to use a legacy bootloader, it will boot the installer as a UEFI boot
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system settings, it should only be the ctrl-bkspc.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior?
Sounds to me like you’ve enabled sticky keys:
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y-stickykeys.html.en
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icons, but no window decorations or
> top/bottom bars ("panels") (for both gnome-classic and gnome3).
When you say you have "central homes", does that mean they're a
network filesystem? What kind of filesystem? If it's NFS, do you
have the use_nfs_home_dirs SEL
ld any legal water, most
likely, but it might get someone to at least look closer at the issue.
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>
> On 2021-08-03 10:20, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 10:17:09AM -0400, mark wrote:
> > > Just fullyu updated yesterday. The reboot gets past Centos (core)...
> > > and
>
ve you removed 'rhgb quiet' from the kernel parameters to
see what it is doing? Can you boot into the rescue target and poke
around in the journal to see what's going on?
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r than replying to an existing thread,
thanks!
For what its worth, I'm not sure what you mean in your subject about
Microsoft involvement/contamination. What does that have to do with
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And it does appear to be downstream from RHEL, another rebuild like
Alma, Rocky, Springdale, etc.
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> For what it’s worth, if you use the fail2ban-firewalld package, it uses ipset
> rather than iptables, which is more efficient.
That’s in CentOS 7 though. CentOS 8 firewalld uses nft instead of the older
netfilter (iptables/ip
it uses ipset
rather than iptables, which is more efficient.
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CentOS Stream, so it would be a painful transition from 8 to
8-stream. But if you aren't using any 3rd-party kernel modules, you
should be fine.
The Kmod SIG plans to try to build GPL'd kmods for CentOS Stream
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I see one less than 45 days ago that requires a reboot because of a
kernel security measure bypass.
Long uptimes are a thing of the past. Build redundancy into your
infrastructure so you can handle reboots.
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I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question. Are you missing
them? Do you have dnf excludes defined somewhere?
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it makes it easier to manage access
centrally. (I also took advantage of the fact that local users had a
different GID to put them in a different SELinux confined user group,
so they had different access rights anyway)
We do this for servers and workstations.
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so they removed it from epel7.
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st rewriting the
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life_cycle
The version in CentOS 7 isn't simply the version from OpenSSH, many
features and securify fixes have been backported in the past, so if
there's something in particular you are looking for, please mention
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I had tens of thousands of users logging
in via Active Directory, which changed constantly, so I couldn't
hard-code anything.
I suggest using the 'systemd-cgtop' command to look at what unit is
using resources, it is helpful for debugging.
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It is kinda confusing but I do appreciate that I now have a lot of
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permissions. systemd is a rather neat init system. My complaints with
it usually are with the parts that reach out
;>> yumex-3.0.15-1.el7.nux.noarch
>>
>> Centos 8.3 is not el7.
>
> Frank,
>
> Well rats. It seems dnfdragora didn't make it into EL or CentOS, I guess
> there's no graphical package manager left.
In addition, it appears you’ve added a Nux yum r
epared for
missing support and unexpected breakages. The only use I will consider Stream
for will be as a test for upcoming RHEL releases, not as something I will ever
want actual users to touch. (And maybe that’s ok)
1. http://elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2021/01/elrepo-and-centos-stream.htm
do if you set it up as an automount).
You need to either fix it so it gets mounted on demand, or use some
other method to start it.
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believe drm/drmP.h was removed from the kernel in the v5.5-ish era,
so I suspect that part of the kernel must have been backported to the
CentOS 8.3 kernels.
You'll need to update your code to use the new drm subsystem.
I believe the nvidia drivers had to do this too.
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> deny due to non-default ccache storage.
Only if sssd-kcm is installed. Otherwise the keyring is default. I normally use
the keyring on my systems. No selinux issues there.
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gh you don’t have all the latest package updates. Does “dnf
upgrade” bring down a new kernel package? If not, do you have some local
changes to your dnf config that might prevent kernel updates? Or an
alternative CentOS repository that is out of date?
en it ran, and pipe that into audit2allow.
HOWEVER...
There’s probably a better solution than blindly creating a module. You need to
figure out what the correct SELinux attribute to put on the directory so you
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y cool
guy)
Heck, 'systemd' is a really complicated beast, but it doesn't have a
huge number of interconnected dependencies. I think bringing it up
isn't really appropriate for this thread, since it actually does a
pretty good job of keeping the requirements down, so it can run in
doing correct ?
Check the man page for 'date'.
%s is "seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC". Regardless of the time
zone, the time in LA will still be the same number of seconds since
Midnight, January 1st, 1970 in UTC as it was in Indianapolis.
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workstation is
actually a useful thing for people who need long term support (1-2
years at least) of a workstation. Ubuntu manages to do it, but
unfortunately, most of our engineering software isn't supported on
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Just don't use sudo.
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backported, but
the firewalld.richlanguage man page on my c7 system doesn't mention
it. It should work on CentOS 8+.
Another solution is to set a direct rule, which is evaluated first.
Lastly, its my experience that firewalld evaluates the configurati
politics around each will vary widely. If you have a question that is codebase
specific, then just ask it without talking about the distro it came from, but
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sudo-1.8.23-9.el7.x86_64 from @base removed (updateinfo)
> No packages needed for security; 1 packages available
The CentOS repos have never included security metadata. yum-security
is basically useless with the base CentOS repos (although they will
pick up security repo metadata from EP
he
way this was announced, there are a lot of people who have lost trust
in CentOS and Red Hat. Changing the end of life for CentOS 8 has
broken our trust in the project.
I see a lot of promises that Stream will have better engagement with
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s. The bind-utils executables are all linked against
libGeoIP.so.1, so I assume they use some functionality from that
library.
/usr/bin/geoipupdate is a tool to update the data files in the GeoIP
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yum repositories or rpm binaries?
>
> No, 7.4p1-21 is the most recent up to date version in CentOS 7. See
> https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/ for more info.
Perhaps it would help to explain why you need the 8.4 release? I’d there a
feature you need not in the vers
t then the
> order in the partition table;
No, but if my linux distro created out of order partition sequences on
initial install I'd throw it in the trash.
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ense
to put the root ext4 at the end of the disk, so it is actually
counterproductive to put swap at the end.
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ast with Stratis, there's an attempt to work within the Linux
world. I'm excited to see Fedora making btrfs as the default root
filesystem, too.
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sure it isn't dropping to basic VGA or VESA driver because the
video card isn't supported in Fedora? Can you change the resolution
through the control panel or xrandr?
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les
config too. Had you really wanted to test something with iptables, use -I
(insert) which puts it at the front of the rules. Obviously, the best thing to
do is to use firewalld tools with firewalld.
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previous posts, it's better to just
let the BIOS think it's a JBOD and use the linux software RAID tools
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rity metadata.
RHEL supports the security flag to yum update, because they curate their repo
metadata with that data, but it isn’t available to CentOS users.
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 03:21:02PM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> yum --setopt='proxy=socks5://localhost:8000' update
It occurs to me that my private networks have working DNS, so if yours
doesn't, you should use:
yum --setopt='proxy=socks5h://localhost:8000' update
(note the ex
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 03:21:02PM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> What part? For the first part, either define 'DynamicForward 8000' in
> a Host section in ~/.ssh/config, or run 'ssh -D 8000 hostname' to set
> it with command line options. Then just set your SOCKS5 proxy
> setting
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 10:02:57AM -0700, S Bob wrote:
> On 11/12/20 7:50 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> > If this is actually something you want to do with regularity, I
> > suggest using the SSH SOCKS proxy (with the DynamicForward port), and
> > configure Firefox to u
be run at 4:30 am on the 1st
and 15th of each month, plus every Friday.
So it looks like it is going to run either time.
A systemd timer might be able to be more exclusive, but parsing the
'systemd.time' man page makes my head hurt.
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erver, I suggest using the xvnc@.service
included in the package:
https://git.centos.org/rpms/tigervnc/blob/c8/f/SOURCES/xvnc.service
There are instructions in the comments.
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to do this,
which is already setting up SSH sessions...
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tly, what you are asking for should be to create your own systemd
service to launch on boot. Systemd service units are trivial to write.
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to be
something else. dhclient (the DHCP client in CentOS 7) can also send
dynamic dns updates when configured. (Look in the man page for
dhclient.conf, I believe it is do-forward-updates.)
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 01:21:10PM +0100, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
>
> Am 26.10.20 um 12:45 schrieb Jonathan Billings:
> > On Oct 23, 2020, at 14:45, Leon Fauster via CentOS
> > wrote:
> > > Mozilla released version 68.12.0, on August 25, 2020 ->
> > >
hat Red Hat has released another Firefox:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4330
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see flash die just a little earlier.
It's not really comparable to the terrible EFI/shim issue that
happened, which was terrible for servers and workstations that can't
be reached remotely because they're wedged in the boot, especially in
these times when a lot
ail/centos/2020-September/351667.html
>
> Downgrading, and excluding the 78.3.0-1 from yum is my workaround.
Well, the good news is you have over a month to migrate away from
CentOS 6, which goes end of life at the end of November, 2020.
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You need to take a look at the systemd journal to see what errors pulseaudio is
getting when you log in as the user.
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multiple small entities. Also, the word
'Viri' is the plural of the masculine word 'Vir' for 'Male human', so
it is confusing. ('vir' used in the words 'triumvir' or 'virile' /
'virility')
Chuck 'virii' in the bin with words like 'octopi'.
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you want it
to work with selinux, so XFS or ext4.
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On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 12:31:34PM -0400, cent...@foxengines.net wrote:
> find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type d | while read; do du -shx $d; done
If you want to use du to find sparse files, add --apparent-size.
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HEL.
(Disclaimer: I don't know one way or the other, just checked on my
RHEL8 system to see if I could install it, and I can't)
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nning CentOS 6 to avoid that,
you're out of luck.
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for creating a fresh, unformatted disk image and
mounting it via the loopback. Since this image is already formatted,
you'd just be deleting data by formatting it.
Anyway, you don't generally need to mount anything if you're using
photorec or similar tools.
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en compare the two.
It is “free” only for noncommercial use. It isn’t open source.
https://www.nomachine.com/faq
If you want to try something else, take a look at xpra (http://xpra.org/).
It’s in EPEL8.
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hat's listed. mod_perl *and*
mod_php? Each httpd must be huge!
Why are you even posting this to a public list? Use your blog for
this kind of thing. I know you have one, you post it repeatedly to
random lists.
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o make $HOME local but have symlinks into
NFS for directories that can be safely unmounted and remounted.
Windows doesn't really have network home directories like UNIX does,
and their SMB client handles IP roaming better.
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ist tag.
Hello,
It seems that the OpenSUSE mock configs[1] use the same syntax. I wonder if
you need to invoke mock in a specific way to not override the macro?
1.
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file I am using that works with dnf on a
> centos 8 machine.
>
> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
I assume you added the yum repo after a line that looks like this:
config_opts['dnf.conf'] += """
And before a line that looks like this:
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. The shim package
with the fix is the latest.
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gacy” CSM by
2020. They might have changed their schedule but I suspect we’ll start seeing
hardware without anything but UEFI.
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ntOS, it's pending backport for CentOS
> 7)
As I mentioned earlier, the Red Hat errata site is a good place to
look. You can search for CVEs there too. There's also a
RHSA-Announce mailing list if you'd prefer that they end up in your
mailbox:
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhsa-a
al bugs
posted related to snapd and selinux failures similar to that.
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On Jul 1, 2020, at 05:25, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
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> /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/logs
The rpm is complaining that cpio can’t extract this path. Is it supposed to be
a link but now it’s a directory?
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have concerns about an existing 5.x codebase, as long as you are keeping your
OS up to date, you have some time to migrate.
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se are CentOS systems, aren’t they? CentOS doesn’t configure networking
with /etc/networks. The files they use are in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*.
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t;
> # iptables -L -n | egrep -o '22|ssh'
>
>
> Any hints?
'iptables' and 'nftables' are competing technologies. In CentOS 8,
firewalld's backend was switched from iptables to nftables. So it
would be expected that the iptables command wouldn't have any rules
er hasn’t branched it for epel8 yet. I suspect if other people
piled on the ticket it might get more attention...
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