Re: [CentOS] How to troubleshoot partial shutdown problem?

2019-01-01 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 12:47:42 +0100 > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> after issuing a regular shutdown, >> the system starts the shutdown procedure, but stalls at some point, >> and never finishes. It gets to the console, writes the "powering down" >> message and stops there --- the hardware never

Re: [CentOS] how to set proxy systemwide (wget and docker)

2019-01-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hallo, > what is the right way to set a proxy systemwide using centos 7? > I need this for wget and docker. > My first idea was /etc/environment but allthough the proxy is set wget and > docker don‘ t connect to their target-systems. I have this in /etc/profile.d/proxy-config.sh:

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-20 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 01:50:06PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: >> hI ALL! >> >> There have been a large enough number of people posting here about >> difficulties when upgrading from 7. to 7.6 that I'm being somewhat >> paranoid about it. >> >> I have several machines to upgrade, but so far the

Re: [CentOS] Help finishing off Centos 7 RAID install

2019-01-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/9/19 2:30 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> 1) The big problem with this is that it is dependant on sda for booting. >> I >> did find an aritcle on how to set up boot loading on multiple HDD's, >> including cloning /boot/efi but I now can't find it. Does anyone know >> of a >> similar article?

Re: [CentOS] Help finishing off Centos 7 RAID install

2019-01-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> It doesn't specifically.  Anaconda will create two EFI boot entries, > each referring to one of the mirror components: > > # efibootmgr -v > BootCurrent: 0001 > Timeout: 1 seconds > BootOrder: 0001, > Boot* CentOS Linux >

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade CentOS 7.4 to 7.5 and don't want to upgrade it to 7.6

2019-01-07 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 5:49 PM Kenneth Porter > wrote: > >> On 1/6/2019 10:51 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> > the product does not support the latest CentOS Linux >> > release 7.6.1810 (Core) version as of now. >> >> What product and what, specifically, about 7.6 does it not support? >> Could

Re: [CentOS] libvirt guest on host's shutdown/reboot - problem

2019-01-07 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> hi guys > > I have just two guest after which libvirt looks and when I shutdown > those guests: > > $ virsh shutdown $_dom > > that domain takes little time to power down, as expected one would > say(~20sec) But! I reboot the hosts and I have in my: > > /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests : > >

Re: [CentOS] Help finishing off Centos 7 RAID install

2019-01-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I completed the install as described below which went well. > > I then copied the contents of /boot/efi to /boot/efi_copy using > > cd /boot > rsync -acr efi/ efi_copy > > I then installed grub2 on sdb > > yum install yum install grub2-efi-modules > grub2-install /dev/sdb > > everything ran as

Re: [CentOS] Help finishing off Centos 7 RAID install

2019-01-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I've just finished installing a new Bacula storeage server. Prior to doing > the > install I did some research and ended up deciding to do the following > config. > > 6x4TB drives > /boot/efi efi_fs sda1 > /boot/efi_copyefi_fs sdb1 > /boot xfs

Re: [CentOS] systemd

2019-01-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:43:38AM -0500, Steve Clark wrote: >> I am trying to understand what After= means in a unit file. Does it >> mean after the specified target is up and operational or only that >> the target has been started? >> >> I have something that needs postgres but postgres needs

Re: [CentOS] Spamassassin + Postfix : delete spam mail on the server ?

2018-12-18 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Am 18.12.2018 um 08:08 schrieb Nicolas Kovacs: >> The problem with this setup is that spam mail is still delivered, and I >> need Thunderbird's filters to weed out incoming mail. And when I'm using >> my webmail (running SquirrelMail), my inbox is a tsunami of unread >> [SPAM] messages. >> >> So

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7.6 & ether-wake

2019-02-25 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Can you be more specific about the hardware? > I have a setup of DELL desktop, DELL Server SuperMicro Server and couple > other devices. > I am using from a cgi script the next on one server to wake the other: > /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/ether-wake "XY::XY" -b && echo 1 Does is work if you do

Re: [CentOS] Problem with mdadm, raid1 and automatically adds any disk to raid

2019-02-25 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 2/24/19 9:01 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: >> I tried to delete the MDX, I removed the disks by failing them, then >> removing each array md0, md1 and md2. >> I also did >> >>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=512 seek=$(($(blockdev --getsz >> /dev/sdX)-1024)) count=1024 > > > Clearing the

Re: [CentOS] Problem with mdadm, raid1 and automatically adds any disk to raid

2019-02-26 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:54 PM Simon Matter via CentOS > > wrote: > >> > >> > What makes you think this has *anything* to do with systemd? Bitching >> > about systemd every time you hit a problem isn't helpful. Don't. >> >> If it's not s

Re: [CentOS] What files to edit when changing the sdX of hard drives?

2019-02-28 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> Le 28/02/2019 à 04:12, Jobst Schmalenbach a écrit : >> >>> I want to lock in the SDA/SDB/SDC for my drives >> >> In short : use UUIDs or labels instead of hardcoding /dev/sdX. >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/persistent_block_device_naming > > Yeah - I strongly

Re: [CentOS] Performing post-installation setup tasks - for 75 minutes

2019-02-28 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I'm doing a new install, and everything seems to have gone fine apart from > the > incredible amount of time it's taken. > > It does have 6 x 4TB drives in RAID6 and I am installing from a USB DVD > drive > as I had no SATA ports left, but this is getting rediculous. Maybe you could try a

Re: [CentOS] time to say good-bye to win 7 / printer is the last blocker

2019-02-21 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hallo, > the laptop of my wife is the last Win7 system in my network. > My question: > I need a well supported printer (MFC) with network interface, if possible > with colour printing. I like the OKI MFC devices. For Printing they provide a PPD file which is all you need on Linux. For copying

Re: [CentOS] Setting GDM resolution without knowing the monitor specs

2019-02-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
>> On Feb 21, 2019, at 12:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: >>> >>> remotely talking someone through changing ifcfg-noisenoise via nano is >>> a >>> minor nightmare, especially now that Confusing Network Device Naming is >>> the default. >> >> A relevant war story might help here. >> >> We were

Re: [CentOS] Setting GDM resolution without knowing the monitor specs

2019-02-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Feb 21, 2019, at 12:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> >> remotely talking someone through changing ifcfg-noisenoise via nano is a >> minor nightmare, especially now that Confusing Network Device Naming is >> the default. > > A relevant war story might help here. > > We were upgrading an old

Re: [CentOS] Problem with mdadm, raid1 and automatically adds any disk to raid

2019-02-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi. > > CENTOS 7.6.1810, fresh install - use this as a base to create/upgrade > new/old machines. > > I was trying to setup two disks as a RAID1 array, using these lines > > mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdc1 > mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md1

Re: [CentOS] thunderbird issues

2019-02-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Just updated t-bird, and once again, it wants to open a completely new > browser, other than using the running one. > > I started searching, and found something about editing the config, and for > the first one of the two they said to change, I find this: >

Re: [CentOS] Setting GDM resolution without knowing the monitor specs

2019-02-21 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Feb 21, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Gianluca Cecchi > wrote: >> >> [root@desktop xorg.conf.d]# cat 00-monitor.conf Why not just ship it with text mode login and get rid of all the video problems? With a 800x600 resolution I doubt they can do a lot with the GUI anyway. Regards, Simon

Re: [CentOS] howto monitor disks on a serveraid-8k?

2019-03-14 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> hwilmer wrote: >> >> I'd like to monitor the disks connected to a ServeRaid-8k controller in >> a server running Centos 7 such that I can know when one fails. >> >> What's the best way to do that? > > From a *really* short search, see it has a controller card If you do an > lspci, what does that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 Installation Problems

2019-03-12 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I attempted to install CentOS 7 x86_64 on my machine that has the > following hardware: > > Motherboard:  ASRock X99 Taichi > BIOS: AMI v P1.40  08/04/2016 > CPU:  Intel Core I7-5820K > RAM:  64 GB (8 x 8 GB DIMM) > Optical:  LG Blu Ray 25 G / 50 G

Re: [CentOS] bare-metal backup before update--options?

2019-02-12 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 04:16:38PM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >> > Hi all! >> > >> > I'm a "nervous nellie", I have not yet updated my 7.5 desktop to 7.6 >> > because (1) it has an Nvidia card, and (2) I've heard of problems >>

Re: [CentOS] bare-metal backup before update--options?

2019-02-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi all! > > I'm a "nervous nellie", I have not yet updated my 7.5 desktop to 7.6 > because (1) it has an Nvidia card, and (2) I've heard of problems > upgrading on top of software RAID (using RAID1 with 2 drives). > > I need to upgrade it to stay secure, and I want to do a bare-metal backup >

Re: [CentOS] C7, mdadm issues

2019-01-30 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 01/30/19 03:45, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Il 29/01/19 20:42, mark ha scritto: >>> Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 29/01/19 18:47, mark ha scritto: > Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Il 29/01/19 15:03, mark ha scritto: >> >>> I've no idea what happened, but the box I was working on

Re: [CentOS] C7, firewalld and rich rules

2019-01-30 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, again, folks, > >I'm trying to convert a number of iptables rules to firewalld rich > rules. I need to do this, because this is, in fact, a firewall, to > protect access to servers with sensitive data. It will limit access to > the servers behind it to a specific network, and nobody

Re: [CentOS] C7, mdadm issues

2019-01-30 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Il 30/01/19 16:49, Simon Matter ha scritto: >>> On 01/30/19 03:45, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 29/01/19 20:42, mark ha scritto: > Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Il 29/01/19 18:47, mark ha scritto: >>> Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 29/01/19 15:03, mark ha scritto:

Re: [CentOS] C7, firewalld and rich rules

2019-01-31 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/30/19 10:05 PM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >> Did you look at Shorewall? IMHO that's what is best used in such >> situations and it works since many years now. > > > shorewall doesn't support nftables, which is largely the point of > firewalld:  The Linux f

Re: [CentOS] Short or long hostname ?

2019-04-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
>> >> >> On 4/10/19 8:23 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> For the last ten years or so, I've defined the short hostname in >>>> /etc/hostname and the FQDN in /etc/hosts. Now I wanted to double

Re: [CentOS] mirror.centos.org ships non-updated version of bind ?

2019-06-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Okay, some minutes before I post this question - the update was pushed to > mirror.centos.org and an announcement was published: > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-June/023321.html > > But the actually question still remains: > Which steps are between 'RedHat published an

Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> The price we pay.. :) Do you say that paying RH customers already received new firefox packages? Regards, Simon > > BTW, Mozilla publishes tarballs that you can simply extract and run (and > will self-update), you can use those (it's what I am doing as a workaround > in fact until RH catches

Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-13 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 11/05/19 2:05 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> Am 10.05.2019 um 11:12 schrieb Nux! : >>>> I maintain a desktop oriented repo for CentOS and last I checked a >>>> year >>>> or so ago, I got over 150k+ unique IPs with yum user agent down

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> James Pearson wrote: >> James Pearson wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm currently trying to reboot a CentOS 7.5 workstation (to complete an >>> upgrade to 7.6), but it is 'stuck' while shutting down with 'A stop >>> job is running for ...' - the counter initially gave a limit of '1min >>> 30s' - >>> but

Re: [CentOS] system unresponsive

2019-05-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Ok, we used to get this occasionally on cluster nodes, and we just got it > on a fileserver (very bad). The system is discovered to be unresponsive: > it doesn't ping, and plugging a console in, you can see that it's not > dead, but there nothing at all on the screen, nor does it respond to even

Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 09/05/2019 09:09, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> The price we pay.. :) >> >> Do you say that paying RH customers already received new firefox >> packages? >> >> Regards, >> Simon >> > > No, Red Hat have not yet released any upd

Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-08 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I was told lately about this workaround, check it out. > https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/ The signing thing is a security feature. I don't like a workaround to disable a security feature instead of fixing it. What makes me feel a bit bad is that

Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Am 10.05.2019 um 11:12 schrieb Nux! : >> >> I maintain a desktop oriented repo for CentOS and last I checked a year >> or so ago, I got over 150k+ unique IPs with yum user agent downloading >> stuff from it. >> >> It's a bit anecdotal as perhaps not all are actual desktop users and >> some users

Re: [CentOS] where to find wifi driver

2019-05-14 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:13:35AM +0800, qw wrote: >> I use the wifi adaptor, Edimax AC1200, and its driver can be >> downloaded from >> >> 'http://www.edimax.com.tw/edimax/download/download/data/edimax/tw/download/for_home/wireless_adapters/wireless_adapters_ac1200_dual-band/ew-7822ulc'.

Re: [CentOS] Permissions on nginx logs

2019-05-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On May 6, 2019, at 10:14 AM, Bee.Lists wrote: >> >> I will give 770 a try. > > Try 750 first. You don’t need write access to do what you’re asking. > > Also, the group membership change won’t take effect until you log out and > back in. Thanks to correct me, both things are true, if he only

Re: [CentOS] yum remove iptables problem

2019-05-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi > > Just got a new server replacing another server. > I had to use iptables to protect it until I could move a hardware firewall > from the old server to the new server. > > Now I am trying to delete iptables but it wants to delete lots of other > dependency packages, e.g. sendmail,

Re: [CentOS] Permissions on nginx logs

2019-05-05 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Just did that, and I still can’t do this: > > $ cd /var/log/nginx > > -bash: cd: /var/log/nginx: Permission denied What's the access mode of it? Should probably be mode 770 then. Regards, Simon > > >> On May 3, 2019, at 7:22 PM, John Pierce wrote: >> >> Add group nginx to your user...

Re: [CentOS] Performance issues/difference of two servers running same task (one is quicker)

2019-07-04 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi > > I need some advice what to do next, even if someone tells me to > check out (an)other mailing list(s), tuning site or point me in a better > direction how to solve my annoying problem: one server is much faster > for certain tasks although on "shitty" hardware. > > I have tried many

Re: [CentOS] Intel Vroc experiences?

2019-04-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > > Has anyone had any experience with Intel Vroc[1]? I'm possibly having to > deal with a new server with such technology and can't find much (real > world) information about it. > Looking at the specs it's basically a glorified fake raid which usually > turns on my alarm bells. Has anyone

Re: [CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
>> What OS are your k8s clusters running on? How about your cloud >> providers? Mine are on RHEL and CentOS. >> > > I don't know. We use fully managed services from Google. I think its > coreOS. I'm wondering what desktops you run then, are they also running on Kubernetes? I know some prefer

Re: [CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Andrew Holway wrote: >> I just realised that I haven't touched a centos/redhat machine in more >> than a couple of years. Everything I do now is Kubernetes based or using >> cloud services (or k8s cloud services). >> >> What about it listeroons? Is your fleet of centos boxes ever expanding >> or

Re: [CentOS] Short or long hostname ?

2019-04-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > > For the last ten years or so, I've defined the short hostname in > /etc/hostname and the FQDN in /etc/hosts. Now I wanted to double-check > this information, which eventually led me to this page: > > * > https://serverfault.com/questions/331936/setting-the-hostname-fqdn-or-short-name >

Re: [CentOS] Short or long hostname ?

2019-04-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> > > On 4/10/19 8:23 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> For the last ten years or so, I've defined the short hostname in >>> /etc/hostname and the FQDN in /etc/hosts. Now I wanted to double-check >>> this information, which

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic after removing SW RAID1 partitions, setting up ZFS.

2019-04-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> In article <6566355.ijnrhnp...@tesla.schoolpathways.com>, > Benjamin Smith wrote: >> System is CentOS 6 all up to date, previously had two drives in MD RAID >> configuration. >> >> md0: sda1/sdb1, 20 GB, OS / Partition >> md1: sda2/sdb2, 1 TB, data mounted as /home >> >> Installed kmod ZFS via

Re: [CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-25 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> James B. Byrne via CentOS wrote: >> On Wed, April 24, 2019 11:14, Simon Matter wrote: >>> >>> I'm afraid too many clouds make the wider horizon invisible :-) >> >> At that point it is called fog. > > But, don'tcha know, the only way to clear the fog is to send lots of money > to them Well,

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-02 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> > > On 2019-07-01 10:01, Warren Young wrote: >> On Jul 1, 2019, at 8:26 AM, Valeri Galtsev >> wrote: >>> >>> RAID function, which boils down to simple, short, easy to debug well >>> program. > > I didn't intend to start software vs hardware RAID flame war when I > joined somebody's else

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-02 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Warren Young wrote: > >> If you then bring up battery backups, now you’re adding cost to the >> system. And then some ~3-5 years later, downtime to swap the battery, >> and more downtime. And all of that just to work around the RAID write >> hole. > > Although batteries

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-02 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
>> You seem to be saying that hardware RAID can’t lose data. You’re >> ignoring the RAID 5 write hole: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#WRITE-HOLE >> >> If you then bring up battery backups, now you’re adding cost to the >> system. And then some ~3-5 years later, downtime to swap

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-29 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
>> >> >> > IMHO, Hardware raid primarily exists because of Microsoft Windows and > VMware esxi, neither of which have good native storage management. > > Because of this, it's fairly hard to order a major brand (HP, Dell, etc) > server without raid cards. > > Raid cards do have the performance

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:43:30PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:38:05PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:19:49AM -0400, mark wrote: >> > > Fred Smith wrote: >> > > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:28:23AM -0400, mark wrote: >> > > >> > > > One

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Wow, thanks for the detailed recipe! How did we deserve this when it was so easy in the past :-) > On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith > wrote: >> >> no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) > > That’s nowhere near sufficient. To restore classic core file dumps on > CentOS 7, you must: > >

Re: [CentOS] UEFI booting

2019-09-19 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Jerry Geis wrote: > >> I installed my first UEFI disk yesterday. Seemed to go fine. CentOS 7.6 >> x86_64 >> I then took that disk "out" of that machine and put it another machine - >> it >> seems to not even boot. >> I put the original disk back in that machine and it boots

Re: [CentOS] centos8 :: firewalld active but tables empty

2019-12-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi! I have a minimal installation of centos8 + packages for freeipa as a > vbox vm. there is something strange with the firewall rules : I'm not sure but does CentOS 8 still use iptables? Regards, Simon > > [root@ldap ~]# iptables -S > -P INPUT ACCEPT > -P FORWARD ACCEPT > -P OUTPUT ACCEPT >

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with 7.7.1908 updated with qemu-kvm-ev

2019-10-15 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, > So, I have a client that has an internal use application that needs an > ancient version of libc5.  That's not a typo; libc5.  Before the server > that ran it died about a year and a half ago (said server was an AMD > K6-2/450 with a 6GB Western Digital Caviar drive that had been spinning >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-10-21 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> > > On 2019-10-18 10:27, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:23:38AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> And last but not least: I got used to some way of interaction with >>> computer, >>> and that way is most productive for me after very long use. I don't >>> want to >>> blend

Re: [CentOS] C8 and NetworkManager problem

2019-11-20 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi list, > > I've installed C8 on my workstation. I configured my network devices > (two bridges, two nics) using nmcli. Now that NM is the default I tried > it. On C7 I always disabled it. > > I noticed some problem: > > 1) During the boot, also if NetworkManager-wait-online.service status is >

Re: [CentOS] frr packages for CentOS 8

2019-11-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hello, > > I'm not seeing free range routing (frr) packages for CentOS 8. > > The RHEL8 docs say frr is the replacement for quagga. > >

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 09/02/2020 23:55, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Hi Nicolas, > > [snip] > >> Maybe there's a reason to make NetworkManager more or less mandatory >> from now on, but I don't see it. So I thought I'd rather ask on this >> list. > > Like you, I read about NetworkManager becoming the default tool for

Re: [CentOS] C8 Question

2020-01-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> >> I noticed a strange behaviour (don't know if this is the wanted >> default). If I try ,from normal user shell, to run command like "reboot" >> or "shutdown -h now" system will reboot/shutdown. This happens on tty >> console, on xfce terminal and ssh session. > > I've just created a normal

Re: [CentOS] (SOLVED) YUM (DNF) Possible Confusion Centos 8

2020-01-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> > > >>The redhat access page comes up in both google and duckduckgo when I put >>in the entire 4 lines of the error message. You still have to login to >>see the solution. >>

Re: [CentOS] C8 Question

2020-01-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi list, > > I installed on my workstation C8.1 (1911) and performed a minimal > install and then installed XFCE from EPEL. > > I noticed a strange behaviour (don't know if this is the wanted > default). If I try ,from normal user shell, to run command like "reboot" > or "shutdown -h now" system

Re: [CentOS] C8 Question

2020-01-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> > Il 24/01/20 15:11, Simon Matter via CentOS ha scritto: >>> Hi list, >>> >>> I installed on my workstation C8.1 (1911) and performed a minimal >>> install and then installed XFCE from EPEL. >>> >>> I noticed a strange behaviour (d

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 8 (1911)

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/16/20 5:03 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:08 PM Peter wrote: >> >>> On 17/01/20 8:06 am, Lamar Owen wrote: On 1/16/20 6:49 AM, Peter wrote: > On 16/01/20 4:14 am, Brian Stinson wrote: >> Release for CentOS Linux 8 (1911) >> >> We are pleased

Re: [CentOS] dbus/systemd failure on startup (CentOS 7.7)

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> We are seeing a problem that occurs ~5% of the time when rebooting I see such issues on a quite large multi user system but when this happens, after forced restarts for kernel updates, I usually don't have the time to analyze and play doctor on it. My "solution" now is to simply reboot the

Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I have managed to find out what happened in the yum update and it turns > out it was a mess. It looks like the server ran out of memory in the > middle and things then started to fail. Any advice on how to recover from > this would be greatly appreciated I may sound old school but my

Re: [CentOS] dbus/systemd failure on startup (CentOS 7.7)

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >> >>> We are seeing a problem that occurs ~5% of the time when rebooting >> >> I see such issues on a quite large multi user system but when this >> happens, after forced restarts for kernel updates, I usually don't have &g

Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/22/20 3:57 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> I have managed to find out what happened in the yum update and it turns >> out it was a mess. It looks like the server ran out of memory in the >> middle and things then started to fail. Any advice on how to recover >> from this would be greatly

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 32 Bits install. Answer to Johnny Hughes.

2020-01-27 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 8:54 AM Ger van Dijck > wrote: > >> But when trying to do a fresh install or a netinstall (both Centos 7) I >> get the following message : >> >> [ 0.123604] ACPI:SCI(ACPI GSI 9) not registered >> [28.595238] systemd[1] Caught , dump core as pid 75 >> [28.595814]

Re: [CentOS] (SOLVED) YUM (DNF) Possible Confusion Centos 8

2020-01-30 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/24/20 8:02 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> The redhat access page comes up in both google and duckduckgo when I >>>> put >>>> in the entire 4 lines of the error message. You still have to login >

Re: [CentOS] (SOLVED) YUM (DNF) Possible Confusion Centos 8

2020-01-30 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/24/20 8:02 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> The redhat access page comes up in both google and duckduckgo when I >>>> put >>>> in the entire 4 lines of the error message. You still have to login >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: UPD packet checksum verification?

2020-01-28 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:50:57 PM CET Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 at 20:45, hw wrote: >> > > I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. >> > >> > It is about VOIP calls via SRTP being interrupted at irregular >> intervals. >> > The intervals appear to depend on

Re: [CentOS] Relabel /usr directory

2020-02-04 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > I've done the following: > - Copy usr content with rsync to another partition: > > rsync -av --partial --progress /usr/ /mnt I won't comment on you real question but just want to suggest to really add -H to the rsync here as there are hardlinks in /usr you really want to keep. Simon > >

Re: [CentOS] Need info on adobe flash player plugin 32 for CentOS7

2020-02-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> James Pearson wrote: >> >> J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: >>> >>> On 16/01/2020 20:37, Steve Clark wrote: On 01/16/2020 03:30 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Kay Schenk said: >> I kept getting messages that my old Flash Player 31 was obsolete so >> I went in

Re: [CentOS] After upgrade to CentOS 8.1 default gateway missing

2020-01-17 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:39:19 +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS > wrote: > >> Anything in the logs about what was going on? If you reboot this server >> again and again, does the problem show up again? > > This is shared hosting servers that is in production with custome

Re: [CentOS] YUM (DNF) Possible Confusion Centos 8

2020-01-21 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/21/20 10:10 AM, david wrote: >> At 08:52 AM 1/21/2020, David G. Miller wrote: >> >> >>> On 1/21/20 9:35 AM, david wrote: Folks In a test Centos 8 installation as a guest of VirtualBox on Windows 10, I want to install ffmpeg, and support for exfat. They're not in the

Re: [CentOS] After upgrade to CentOS 8.1 default gateway missing

2020-01-17 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:34:43 +0100, Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 07:58, Asle Ommundsen >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Tonight I upgraded two CentOS 8 boxes to CentOS 8.1 (1911). Then after >>> a >>> reboot of the first server the network was unavailable. In IPMI

Re: [CentOS] systemd-coredump service

2020-01-02 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I am unable to locate systemd-coredump service on CentOS 7.5. It is not > listed under "systemctl -a" and also I'm unable to locate the associated > unit file (folder /usr/lib/systemd/system/ ). Am I missing any package > which installs this service? I don't really understand what you are

Re: [CentOS] KVM Random Reboots AMD EPYC Server

2020-01-01 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> our new Server with AMD EPYC and super micro board reboots ramdonly. > There is no error message before the reboot in /var/log/messages. Anything in the hardware logs of the server like memory error or so? Any watchdog on the servers acting bad? We run CentOS 7 and KVM on AMD Opteron and AMD

Re: [CentOS] can't boot after volume rename

2020-01-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I renamed my volume with vgrename however I didn't complete the other > steps. > Mainly update fstab and intiramfs. Once I booted, I was dropped on the > Dracut shell. From here I can see the newly rename VG and I can lvm lvscan > as well as activate it, lvm vgchange -ay. IIRC this could all be

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : broken dependencies

2020-04-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:06:45AM +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> Which leads me to the more general question of: enable CR on a >> production >> server, yes or no? > > Not on production. Only for testing. I'm not sure. Running production environments without CR enabled means you're running

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : broken dependencies

2020-04-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 08:40, Simon Matter via CentOS > wrote: > >> > On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:06:45AM +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> >> Which leads me to the more general question of: enable CR on a >> >> production >> >> server, yes

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : broken dependencies

2020-04-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > > I got an alert from Yum-Cron this morning: > > Failed to check for updates with the following error message: > Failed to build transaction: > sclo-php72-php-pecl-imagick-3.4.4-1.el7.x86_64 > requires libMagickCore.so.5()(64bit) > sclo-php72-php-pecl-imagick-3.4.4-1.el7.x86_64 requires >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : broken dependencies

2020-04-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 09:34, Simon Matter wrote: > >> > On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 08:40, Simon Matter via CentOS >> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> > On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:06:45AM +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> >> >> Which lead

Re: [CentOS] Mounting CIFS shares on C8

2020-04-04 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) > [root@plexvm ~]# > > Le ven. 3 avr. 2020 à 19:15, Simon Matter via CentOS a > écrit : > >> > That was my initial setup before trying the abbreviations, but anyway: >> > >> > [root@plexvm ~]# nano /e

Re: [CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-25 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 14:39 +, Leroy Tennison wrote: >> Since you state that using -z is almost always a bad idea, could you >> provide the rationale for that? I must be missing something. >> > I think the "rationale" is that at some point the > compression/decompression takes longer than

Re: [CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-25 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Leroy Tennison wrote: > >> Since you state that using -z is almost always a bad idea, could you >> provide the rationale for that? I must be missing something. > > I can't speak to that, but the obvious workaround is to use ssh's > compression instead of rsync's: > > rsync

Re: [CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-26 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 02:49:24PM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've discovered a bug in rsync which leads to increased CPU usage and >> slower transfers in many situations. >> >> When syncing with compression (-z), certain file t

Re: [CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-26 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
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Re: [CentOS] C8 and backup solution

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Once upon a time, Valeri Galtsev said: >> On 4/3/20 8:34 AM, John Pierce wrote: >> >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

Re: [CentOS] Trying again: KDE fails with a gray screen after login, can't reinstall

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I set for graphical mode, I get the login screen, I change to KDE, and > the screen goes black, then after minutes, gray with a cursor, and > that's it - I left it overnight, no change. > > Brand new install (as of yesterday). Missed any "agree to license", and > missed choosing software.

Re: [CentOS] Mounting CIFS shares on C8

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi all, > > I'm tearing my hair off trying to understand the difference between C7 & > C8 > for mounting a cifs FS with fstab > > I'm building a Plex media server on C8 and duplicated the fstab entries > over from my current C7 installation > My data (music & movies) are on CIFS shares on a

Re: [CentOS] Mounting CIFS shares on C8

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> That was my initial setup before trying the abbreviations, but anyway: > > [root@plexvm ~]# nano /etc/fstab > [root@plexvm ~]# cat /etc/fstab > > # > # /etc/fstab > # Created by anaconda on Fri Apr 3 14:02:23 2020 > # > # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk/'.

Re: [CentOS] IOMMU and kernel

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi. > Im trying to set intel_iommu=on on kernel parameters at grub but for > some reason it doesnt work. > > I edit /etc/default/grub file and i add the parameter. > > then i run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg and then i > reboot. When you look at /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg,

Re: [CentOS] IOMMU and kernel (solved?)

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, > I think i might have solve it. > > For some reason grub2-mkconfig doesnt work. (Have no idea why) Is this on CentOS 7? Well, yes, I remember that it didn't work for me when I installed new servers one or two years ago, that was with CentOS 7 and they were my first EFI installs. > > I

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