until 7.6 is officially released, watch the list for a week or
> two and then with much fear and trepidation give it a go.
7.6 has been released, so you should expect these packages to start
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t selector stopped being able to launch
the shim EFI executable after upgrading to the 7.6 shim. I had to
manually change the refind configuration to point at the GRUBX64 EFI
executable instead (we turn off secure boot anyway, custom kernel
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I/O operations,
memory limitations and time are going to be bottlenecks to web operations.
You really need to reconsider how you want to serve these pages.
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He actually was able to find the data he was looking for.
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reaking
from the way Kerberos has worked for decades. And it seems that the
systemd developers have just decided that their way is better. But
I'm going to keep pushing back.
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diverse set of tools, it just
depends on how many people care about it. Turns out, not that many
people care about maintaining a SysV init (or other init) distro.
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On Oct 9, 2018, at 12:16, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
>
> lejeczek wrote:
>
>> is there a way to add custom mount points at installation point?
>
> Modify /etc/fstab .
Also in the systemd world you create a .mount unit.
t going into the BIOS and disable the internal video port, if
that's possible. You might be able to indicate which video device to
use for default with the right video= parameter to the kernel for the
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I'd be happy to hear. I did some tests with 'nc -u' and I
couldn't get similar results.
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Could you please not post self-promotional “tutorials” to the list? There are
many questionable suggestions in this tutorial, and it doesn’t appear you
should be writing as an authority on the subject.
If you have questions about anything CentOS related to help you better
understand the
othing to ensure the httpd.service unit starts on boot.
You need to run:
$ sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
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Most likely you rebooted into a new kernel that didn’t have the nvidia kernel
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en apache httpd or roundcube
setup. Try ignoring that for now.
Can you verify that mail is getting to where you've got it set up
using other tools, such as mutt or just looking at the spool files?
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CentOS 5 was end of life on 31 March, 2017. There have bee no
updates for over a year.
Might as well turn off SELinux, you're so behind on security updates
it probably doesn't matter.
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possible that the I/O elevator is balancing your backup session
with the I/O of the backup, making any disk activity by your login
session an equal priority (i.e. competing for resources).
You could always use ionice to make your backup process use idle
res
ith many different 'folders' and not just an
INBOX.
There are several IMAP servers for CentOS, for ease of setup I suggest
dovecot. If you need a webmail client for your mail service, I
suggest RoundCube (package name: roundcubemail). I prefer postfix for
SMTP although there's also sendmail and e
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 08:34:26AM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> In my experience, it's either hard-wired to a particular interface.
> This should be documented, otherwise you need another computer on the
> same network or connected with a crossover cable to figure it out.
>
>
out which interface your IPMI device is using, and to use appropriate
IP settings, and to *NOT* use the IP/MAC from any OS interfaces as
your IPMI device's gateway.
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 08:18:08AM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> The /var/run symlink to /run is part of the 'filesystem' package, and
> has existed as a symlink since 7.0.1406 was released:
>
> $ rpmls -l
> http://vault.centos.org/7.0.1406/os/x86_64/Packages/filesystem-3.2-18
rms} %-8{fileusername} %-8{filegroupname}
$owner%{filenames}\\n]"
http://vault.centos.org/7.0.1406/os/x86_64/Packages/filesystem-3.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
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able from other systems on the 10.0.0.0/24 network above.
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d
have a username that matches the AD name.
(And honestly, if you are someplace with AD you probably should be
using at least the kerberos component, and possibly binding to the
domain so you can use it's account managemnt too. You just need
patient AD admins.)
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to how terrible it is for performance.
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miss it, work migrated to Google Apps and its filters are subpar.)
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why it's in the D state (uninterruptible sleep) but that's
most likely the source of the process.
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rt is going away soon enough that the real answer is to
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executed from a non-interactive service?
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Lmgtfy returns:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/532962
Something to do with VMware’s agent?
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> On May 30, 2018, at 11:38, Maheshwari, Shagun
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Some lines are printing on console:
> [CCafException] CAppConf@[17
e used in the EFI boot
entry. Boot off a rescue disk when the new disk is installed and add an
additional boot entry for the new disk. It will reflect the UUID of the EFI
partition on the new disk. Run ‘blkid’ to compare.
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environment during the daily utilization of a system.
NM in CentOS 7 is a different beast than it was in C6. If you were
burned by NM in C6, give it a try in C7, you might find it
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1503 is 3 years old, perhaps you'll have better luck with something
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e? This OS is assumed to be solid as a brick :)
It's hard to diagnose if the only thing you say is that it panicked.
If it's panicking because it can't find the root disk, then that's a
completely different issue than it panicking when it loads a
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firewall on the system running your tftp client is
blocking the traffic from the tftp server. The easiest way to test
would be to put in a rule that allows all packets from the server (or
to at least log them so you can see what's happening). The firewall
issue is most likely *not* with the tftp ser
bomb a time bomb, too bad). He’d rather people not use xscreensaver at all. He
probably is annoyed about getting bug reports from users of distros that have
an out of date version, but I have to say his solution is pretty caustic.
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> determining this info? Someone already have the answer?
You might also be able to use package metadata to determine what
language it is written in, both by the dependencies as well as the
file lists.
Unfortunately, it will require quite a bit of data collection and
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For what its worth, UEFI is what we're stuck with, all modern hardware
uses it (and legacy boot is just a special UEFI bootloader). Intel
plans to phase out the legacy bootloader in future releases of their
chipsets as well, so it wouldn't hurt to learn how to use UEFI.
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ions by starting GNOME Looking Glass, run it
by typing Alt-F2, type 'lg' and hit return.
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gt; > The CentOS Project does not release ClamAV. What repo are you getting
> > it from? I see that it does exist in EPEL.
> >
> from EPEL repo
This is where you file bugs:
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/clamav/bugs/all
CentOS do
root, let it build in your homedir (or use mock, but
lets leave that until you've got a basic RPM building). There's
absolutely no reason you should be building RPMs as root.
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, as long as the %install section created
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/foo/bar/baz and populated it with files, and you
listed /foo/bar/baz in your %files section.
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On Dec 27, 2017, at 15:40, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
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> I'm trying to build a package to create a directory and install some
> files. My rpmbuild keeps failing, unable to cd into the directory, "no
> such". Now, in the tmpfile, I *see* it cd'ing into BUILD/opt, and the
> source was unzipped and
anjaro vm works fine).
Maybe you have a customized $PS1 (or other shell) but with a shell
prompt that includes '#', it makes me wonder if you're running this as
the logged-into-X user or as root?
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most common ways of attacking a system is to try to hit shared files
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gt; drwxrwxrwt 2 root root140 Nov 21 08:35 ramdisk
>
> dir -l /tmp/ramdisk | grep keys.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 11829 Nov 21 08:29 keys.txt
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
The httpd.servicce unit in c7 has:
PrivateTmp=true
Which means that Apache has its own private
ormally, you'd start xfce from gdm (since its part of the default
desktop install) but you could always use xdm to do so as well. I
believe you'll need to update your ~/.Xclients or ~/.xsession for
per-user configs, or change the default in /etc/sysconfig/desktop.
(It's been a couple years since I'
On Nov 13, 2017, at 18:11, Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> wrote:
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> Try installing and enabling the lightdm package/service if you want a
> graphical login screen.
I neglected to mention: set the default run level to 5 in /etc/inittab. You
can restart the graphica
stalling and enabling the lightdm package/service if you want a graphical
login screen.
I don’t understand how you would have had an automatic log in as root xfce
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On Oct 28, 2017, at 23:15, hw <h...@adminart.net> wrote:
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> Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> writes:
>
>>> On Oct 27, 2017, at 10:21, hw <h...@adminart.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have the home directory of a
s 7.4. What could be wrong with the nfs
> mount?
Sounds like you haven’t set the selinux Boolean for NFS homedirs.
setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1
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es. ‘k’ or ‘g’ might clean up the display if
it’s bad.
Also, remote syslog is always helpful for these kinds of situations, although
if the network is down when it crashes then it won’t be as helpful, which is
why I suggest looking at the journal.
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e runs ‘grubby’
which knows how to update grub if there’s an EFI partition mounted.
My experiences have been only with CentOS7 and RHEL7 with UEFI, which uses
grub2. However, the RHEL6 documentation confirms these paths:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_En
learn
to use it appropriately.
There's a lot of conversations that end, "This is how it's done."
"But that's stupid!" "Well, tough, that's how it is..." when managing
computers, and I'm sure this won't be the last like it. (I remember
early in my career wondering
even then, it should have a .rpmsave extension, I
think). It's not marked as a config file in the RPM, so that's
unlikely.
It is owned by the httpd package:
$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/httpd.conf
httpd-2.4.6-67.el7_4.2.x86_64
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code should be updated to support the fact that the DRM kernel code
removed include/linux/fence.h (back in 2016). Looks like the 7.4
kernels brought in newer video driver code, which is why you're seeing
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just rebuild
that instead of reinstalling the kernel.
> yum reinstall kernel-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64
> Installed package kernel-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 (from updates) not
> available.
> Error: Nothing to do
you can't reinstall the running kernel.
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as basically the same issue.
If the mariadb.org package thinks /var/run is persistent, then it’s not
intended for CentOS7.
If the EPEL package did too, then there could be serious problems with that
package. However, I see that it has a /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lighttpd.conf, so it
is
d/.
For example, fail2ban has:
$ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/fail2ban.conf
D /var/run/fail2ban 0755 root root -
Read the ‘tmpfiles.d’ man page for more details.
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a very wise statement though.
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blank console with an X cursor?
If it’s the text console, can you control-alt-F2 to a login prompt?
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can also use:
package-cleanup —cleandupes
… to clean out any duplicate packages that might be both installed.
This has happened to me more often than I’d like to admit. Usually because I
didn’t start the yum update in a tmux shell and one of the updates caused the
SSH connection to fail.
eceived the fix for this. Is
> there a roadmap for when Centos 7 will receive the fix?
It's being held up by the CentOS 7.4.1708 release, which is in QA now,
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turned on. THose services run with a private /tmp namespace, so they
can't see the rest of the OS's /tmp.
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feedback about kernel updates, Fedora has a feedback mechanism here:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=kernel
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gt; those who need that version for a feature which hasnīt been included in
> current versions yet? Just wait a bit until the distribution goes EOL?
> Is RH going to fix them once someone has bought their support?
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> you. I have given up trying to make any and keep things to myself
> instead.
With that attitude, nothing would ever be fixed. I understand you are
frustrated, but feedback and bug reports are one of the best way to help open
so
stening on port
443 has to be running. It looks like your HTTPD server (I assume apache
httpd?) isn’t listening on ipv4. This is not a firewall problem, but a
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hich should be solved in a different way.
There’s always:
https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+as+a+Unix+daemon
<https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+as+a+Unix+daemon>
scroll down to the systemd section.
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RPM has no idea about it. It doesn’t go out and look to see if there are
executables in the $PATH of the user installing the software.
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what it’s worth, rc-local.service
has a dependency that actually starts it *after* the network service comes up,
so it starts later in the startup anyway.
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MATE is provided by
EPEL as a volunteer effort, and isn't considered part of CentOS.
I encountered the same problem when I was running Cinnamon as my
desktop, I was able to add several Chinese input methods but I
couldn't actually use them. I switched to Gnome 3 and it ju
luster administration. I do wish that the ksplice/kpatch stuff
was available in CentOS.
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ood money
> for RH/CentOS to trash that pile of crap.
Glad to hear it worked.
For what its worth, CentOS7 was never affected by that bug, and Red
Hat does a fairly good job making systemd halfway sane (like disabling
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link to /etc/rc.d/init.d. Someone must have created
that directory after removing the symlink. You probably need to rename the
directory, restore the symlink and move any files in the renamed directory to
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service (even if the network is fine), and if you set it too high, might cause
other services which rely on it to time out.
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C7 box resulted in
> network.
Do you use NetworkManager or the network sysv service?
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om 0.
It can be omitted if there is only one address being configured.
So, you can have IPADDR0, IPADDR1, IPADDR2, etc.
All of these will configure an IP on the device named in the DEVICE
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oesn’t block) and then it is
stuck starting sendmail. If memory serves me (I haven’t used sendmail in
years) sendmail gets stuck waiting for a response from DNS servers when it’s
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using NIS to try to look up user/group information
on files that have uid/gid numbers that aren't in the local
passwd/group files.
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einfo.xml', mode 'rt' at 0x1dd46f0>
>
> When I try to look at it, it appears to have binary data in it.
There were problems with all the Fedora repo mirrors today, including
Fedora EPEL. A 'yum clean metadata' should fix it for EPEL, it has
been reported to have been fixed.
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b works). I think that if we can
attempt to frame questions about systemd in a more positive way,
everyone would get more out of it.
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t; >
> > Upstream 6 uses systemd?
> >
> > jh
>
> yes, 6.6 and above
RHEL6 has used Upstart since RHEL 6.0, and continues to use it in RHEL
6.9. I have no idea where you'd get this kind of information.
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-fstab-generator', and
'systemd.generator'.
> What purpose does that serve? What goal is it trying to achieve by
> this?
I think the biggest use I see is that your services can have
dependencies on mountpoints.
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mysql' it should have pulled in all the dependencies. Did you run a
'yum update' before trying to install mysql?
Its possible that your mirrors are out of sync and your system is
talking to a mirror with older RPMs, but without an actual error log,
its hard to tel
nux/7-Beta/html/7.4_Release_Notes/new_features_authentication_and_interoperability.html
So, perhaps this will be fixed in CentOS7 when RHEL7.4 is released and
rebuilt in CentOS.
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Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org>
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