Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 update issues

> > On 19 Oct 2015, at 04:22, "John Cenile" wrote: > > When performing a yum update, it fails because it's trying to download from: > > mirror.centos.org/centos/*6.6*/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml > > Which fails due to the fact that the entire 6.6 directory is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 update issues

On 10/19/2015 07:20 AM, John Cenile wrote: Hello Clint, Our Centos-base.repo file looks like this: [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever=$basearch=os #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 update issues

Thanks for the suggestions, unfortunately that file doesn't exist. I'm very confused as to why it's trying to download from /6.6/. The output of rpm -qi centos-release-6-4.el6.centos.10.x86_64 is: Name: centos-release Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 6

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 update issues

Sorry, I just copied any line from the repo file. :) On 19 October 2015 at 22:39, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg < nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr> wrote: > On 10/19/2015 07:20 AM, John Cenile wrote: > >> Hello Clint, >> >> Our Centos-base.repo file looks like this: >> >> [base] >> name=CentOS-$releasever -

Re: [CentOS] Exists some problem with cronjobs under CentOS7 (Partially solved)

On 10/14/2015 06:42 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 10/14/2015 07:09 AM, C.L. Martinez wrote: Uhmm ... that is not what I expect: lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs Output information may be incomplete. COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 update issues

I have tried yum clean all multiple times, no luck. :( Any other ideas? On 19 October 2015 at 18:01, James Pearson wrote: > > > > On 19 Oct 2015, at 04:22, "John Cenile" wrote: > > > > When performing a yum update, it fails because it's

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 update issues

John Cenile wrote: I have tried yum clean all multiple times, no luck. :( Also check you don't have the file /etc/yum/vars/releasever - the contents of this will override the value of $releasever in the repo files James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 update issues

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, John Cenile wrote: I have tried yum clean all multiple times, no luck. :( Any other ideas? Have you manually set releasever in your yum config? As a short term fix, maybe you should. jh ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 update issues

On 10/19/2015 06:49 AM, John Cenile wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions, unfortunately that file doesn't exist. > > I'm very confused as to why it's trying to download from /6.6/. > > The output of rpm -qi centos-release-6-4.el6.centos.10.x86_64 is: > > Name: centos-release

Re: [CentOS] Debugging Kernel Problems

On 10/16/2015 02:21 PM, Marius Vaitiekunas wrote: If you have hardware raid on this machine, try to mount xfs partitions with nobarrier. We had similar freezes and this helped for us. On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Tod

[CentOS] snmpd exec issue

Hello guys , I was trying to get a command output from my Centos 6 server using the snmpd "exec" section. The line added to snmpd.conf id: exec get_whitelist /bin/cat /home/snmp_user/whitelist.txt Afer trying to get the resut performing the snmpwalk client form another server I always got

[CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

Our outsourced IT department has decided to use white listing on the firewalls for outbound ftp. I was given a list of sites our lab had accessed via ftp and eventually tracked them down to Linux machines running yum. They are all CentOS 5 or 6 with a smattering of 7. It is impractical to

Re: [CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

On 10/19/2015 05:12 PM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > Our outsourced IT department has decided to use white listing on the > firewalls for outbound ftp. I was given a list of sites our lab had accessed > via ftp and eventually tracked them down to Linux machines running yum. They > are

Re: [CentOS] Google Chrome Issues on CentOS 6

> Date: Monday, October 19, 2015 15:52:03 -0400 > From: Tim Evans > > I've installed Google Chrome using the Richard Lloyd > 'install-chrome.sh' script (http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/), > and am finding a couple of nagging issues. > > (Current install is

[CentOS] Google Chrome Issues on CentOS 6

I've installed Google Chrome using the Richard Lloyd 'install-chrome.sh' script (http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/), and am finding a couple of nagging issues. (Current install is google-chrome-stable-46.0.2490.71-1.x86_64). First, every time I shut down Chrome and start it back up, it

Re: [CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

On 10/19/2015 2:52 PM, Yamaban wrote: Setting up a proxy that gives a "404"/deny on ftp:// is more helpful here. or a simple REJECT on outbound port 21 (FTP). 404 is a http error, not of much use here. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

Re: [CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

On 10/19/2015 2:46 PM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: If I understand you correctly, if I uninstall the ftp client, yum will not use it as it cannot. Is this the case? I had assumed that the code underlying yum had its own stack for dealing withftp://... urls. no, thats quite wrong.

[CentOS] Re: Can I force yum to only use http.

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 23:28, Roger Wells wrote: On 10/19/2015 05:12 PM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: Our outsourced IT department has decided to use white listing on the firewalls for outbound ftp. I was given a list of sites our lab had accessed via ftp and eventually

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 update issues

I'm actually not able to connect to that host: # curl "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6=x86_64=extras; curl: (7) couldn't connect to host Which lead me to discover that our entire network is picking up " mirrorlist.centos.org" as 204.15.73.243, which I'm not able to ping from any host in

Re: [CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

> > FWIW, my Centos 7 install doesn't have ftp installed and yum has no > apparent issues. > > I also, mainly, use Fedora (22 currently) and it hasn't had ftp > installed for a long time. Of course it uses dnf now, not yum. > If I understand you correctly, if I uninstall the ftp client, yum

Re: [CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

Hello Robert, On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 21:12 +, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > Various Google searches and the manual page have not shown me how to > avoid using ftp mirrors. When configuring your repo's using baseurl= instead of mirrorlist= you can pin the server being used. Find a http

Re: [CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

On 10/20/2015 01:53 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > configure your external gateway firewall to REJECT (not DROP) any > outbound ftp, and yum will quickly move onto other protocols. You should be able to accomplish the same thing by configuring your local firewall to REJECT the packets before the

Re: [CentOS] Exists some problem with cronjobs under CentOS7 (Partially solved)

On 10/19/2015 04:49 AM, C.L. Martinez wrote: Ok, I have solved this problem partially. First, I have changed under journald.conf file Storage=volatile instead of Storage=none. After doing that, logs returned but there is no error under cron.log about cronjobs, system's jobs included. But they

Re: [CentOS] snmpd exec issue

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Leandro wrote: > Hello guys , I was trying to get a command output from my Centos 6 server > using the snmpd "exec" section. > > The line added to snmpd.conf id: > > exec get_whitelist /bin/cat /home/snmp_user/whitelist.txt > > Afer trying