Re: [CentOS] printing on C8S

2022-01-06 Thread John Call
Hi Fred, can you share a little bit more information? For example, are you using the default Gnome desktop environment? What kind of printer do you have? How is it connected to C8S (USB, Wi-Fi, Ethernet...?) I use Gnome, and it's been a long time since I had to poke around with CUPS. My Brother

Re: [CentOS] how to clear out /var/cache?

2021-12-31 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 18:21, Fred wrote: > Is it safe to just remove files from /var/cache on a running system, or is > there a correct procedure for doing that? > > Mine has hit over 3 gigs, making it one of the larger directories in /, > which is running low on space. I've hit all the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 9-stream "CRB" repo

2021-12-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 18:26, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > Am 15.12.21 um 00:24 schrieb Chris Adams: > > I'm starting to look at CentOS 9-stream... what is the CRB repo? It > > appears to be a lot of development libraries and such, but I didn't see > > a definition or "CRB" anywhere. > >

[CentOS] CentOS8 Docker: "repomd.xml parser error: Parse error at line" after enabling /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Linux-ContinuousRelease.repo

2021-11-23 Thread John Pfuntner -X (jpfuntne - EASI LLC at Cisco) via CentOS
I'm having trouble with dnf repos in a centos:8 Docker container after I enable the continuous release repo: 1. docker pull centos:8 2. docker run -it centos:8 bash -i 3. From Docker container: * dnf install -y 'dnf-command(config-manager)' && dnf config-manager --enable cr

Re: [CentOS] Centos and ModemManager

2021-11-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Without knowing what kind of network, what kind of workload etc.. the answer is 'no idea'. In most cases, you are going to have to make this sort of judgement yourself and in the end, if it is off and you needed it because some weird network or bluetooth keyboard acts like a modem.. then you can

Re: [CentOS] Ruby on Cent OS 8

2021-11-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 10:04, Simon Matter wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 09:18, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > >> > >> Another option is to migrate to an RHEL 8 -compatible OS, like Rocky > >> Linux, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Springdale Linux. > >> > >> (I remind that CentOS Stream is no more a

Re: [CentOS] Ruby on Cent OS 8

2021-11-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 at 09:18, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > > Another option is to migrate to an RHEL 8 -compatible OS, like Rocky > Linux, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Springdale Linux. > > (I remind that CentOS Stream is no more a RHEL 8 twin.) > > I have already migrated successfully all my CentOS 8

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 9-stream modules?

2021-11-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 at 17:48, Chris Adams wrote: > > I started looking at 9-stream a bit... and I notice there are no package > modules. All the things that were modules in 8/8-stream appear to have > been folded back into the base OS, with no variants included (like > different versions of

Re: [CentOS] Version of curl does not support session resumption

2021-10-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 10:28, Joscha Knobloch wrote: > > Hi, > > we have a CentOS7 Server running that pushes some Backups via FTP onto > another server. We switches the FTP-Server for a new one that works very > well. One new thing is that FTPS session resumption is now mandetory and > cannot

Re: [CentOS] Infiniband

2021-10-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 23:15, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 10/8/21 10:51, Mark Woolfson wrote: > > I have a large server cluster running CentOS 6.4 and CentOS 6.6 using 10GbE. > > I want to upgrade to Infiniband. > > > CentOS 6 hasn't received any feature updates since May 2017, so any >

Re: [CentOS] Find out which process consumed Network bandwidth

2021-09-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 14:24, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > On 06/09/2021 19:35, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > Hi Kaushal, > > > I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core). Is there a way to find > > out which process consumed network bandwidth during a specific time period? > > > > For example,

Re: [CentOS] Troubles expanding file system.

2021-09-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 12:42, Jeff Boyce wrote: > > Greetings - > > I have tried posting this four times now, from two different email > addresses (on the 25th, 27th, 30th, and 31st) and it never appeared. I > don't see it in the archives, so it appears to be getting dropped in > transition

Re: [CentOS] Unable to update Google products on CentOS 7

2021-09-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 10:34, Frank Bures wrote: > > Hi, > > I have Google rpm repository enabled. > > However, running "yum update" returns > > https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found > It works for me and can be tested

Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 10:25, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > Hi folks, > > After doing a minimal CentOS 8.4 installation, I found the following > packages to be useful for a simple server, so I removed them: > > cronie-anacron (replaced with cronie-noanacron) > alsa-firmware > ivtv-firmware >

Re: [CentOS] A Blast from the past

2021-08-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 at 12:02, Mark Woolfson wrote: > > Thank you for your feedback. > > Unfortunately the manufacturer of our application software will only support > it on RHEL/CentOS 7.0. I have asked and that is all they say. > When the CentOS 7.0 boots it does not recognise the CPU ID, flags

Re: [CentOS] hosts.deny, fail2ban etc.

2021-07-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 17:17, Pete Biggs wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 16:43 -0400, H wrote: > > > Running CentOS 7. I was under the impression - seemingly mistaken - > > > that by adding a rule to /etc/hosts.deny such as ALL: aaa.bbb.ccc.* > > > would ban all attempts from that network

Re: [CentOS] hosts.deny, fail2ban etc.

2021-07-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 16:43, H wrote: > > |Running CentOS 7. I was under the impression - seemingly mistaken - that by > adding a rule to /etc/hosts.deny such as ALL: aaa.bbb.ccc.* would ban all > attempts from that network segment to connect to the server, ie before > fail2ban would

Re: [CentOS] OT: firefox question

2021-07-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 11:43, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Dear Experts, > > My question is OT, as it is related to firefox, not CentOS system per > se. Even more: my firefox runs on FreeBSD workstation. But I figured > this list have largest likelihood of having experts in firefox (as well > as on

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the latest version work?

2021-07-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 05:30, Toralf Lund wrote: > > On 15/07/2021 09:37, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 2:03 PM Toralf Lund wrote: > > > >> Does anyone else run Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7? > >> > >> I've used it for a while now, and it's generally worked reasonably well. >

Re: [CentOS] Auditing all Linux clients with centralised server

2021-07-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at 08:14, mario juliano grande-balletta wrote: > > This is what I remember about evil > Microsoft... > In 1992, Microsoft released Windows NT, and advertised it as the > greatest operating system and began giving away free licenses to This is

Re: [CentOS] Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart

2021-07-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
ckstart ignoredisk --only-use=nvme0n1 > -Original Message- > From: Stephen John Smoogen > mailto:stephen%20john%20smoogen%20%3csmo...@gmail.com%3e>> > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list > mailto:centos%20mailing%20list%20%3ccen...@centos.org%3e>> > To: Ce

Re: [CentOS] Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart

2021-07-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
fo. > -Original Message- > From: Stephen John Smoogen > mailto:stephen%20john%20smoogen%20%3csmo...@gmail.com%3e>> > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list > mailto:centos%20mailing%20list%20%3ccen...@centos.org%3e>> > To: CentOS mailing list > mailto:centos%20mailing%

Re: [CentOS] Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart

2021-07-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 at 07:15, Hooton, Gerard wrote: > > Hi All, > I am having problems with a kickstart install of CentOS 8 > When I try to do a completely automated install using PXE/UEFI it get to > the point where it reads the kickstart config file. > Then I see the following message >

Re: [CentOS] Help with default shell

2021-06-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 06:22, Hooton, Gerard wrote: > > Thanks Stephen, > Where will I find the attribute mapping? > Today I only have remote access via ssh and RDP. > > The various pages on this were rather 'vague' on where it might be. I would try with find /etc -type f -print0 | xargs grep

Re: [CentOS] Help with default shell

2021-06-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 09:13, Hooton, Gerard wrote: > > Hi all, > I have a computer with CentOS 7. > The users are authenticated using OpenLDAP. > On LDAP the default shell is csh. > When ssh to login it works, i.e. $SHELL = /bin/csh > Also, when using xrdp it works. > However, a login from the

Re: [CentOS] pass on CentOS 7

2021-06-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 at 09:39, wwp wrote: > > Hello, > > > I read here and there that `pass` is available for CentOS 7 through the > EPEL repository. In which I cannot find it :-). I see it available for > C8 but not C7. Was it removed? > Packages in EPEL are made available by the volunteer who

Re: [CentOS] getssl was working stopped

2021-05-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 13:43, Jerry Geis wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:52 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > > > Hi All - I am using getssl on CentOS 7. > > It have been working fine since Feb 17th and just stopped. > > > > My script: > > getssl -u -a -q > > getssl: for some reason could not reach

Re: [CentOS] getssl was working stopped

2021-05-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 11:52, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi All - I am using getssl on CentOS 7. > which getssl are you using? I could assume https://github.com/srvrco/getssl but it could be all numbers of things. If it is that one, then it is written in bash so it should work via bash -x and

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 04:09, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > On 28/4/2021 10:35 π.μ., Nikolaos Milas wrote: > > > All that, in turn, are very much dependent on community involvement > > and project management & financing. > > By the way, I think that CentOS, before it was "absorbed" by Redhat, >

Re: [CentOS] Proxmox Backup Server equivalent for the RHEL/CentOS world ?

2021-04-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 08:24, Simon Matter wrote: > > On 13.04.21 12:33, Simon Matter wrote: > >>> Once upon a time, Nicolas Kovacs said: > Both PVE and PBS are based on Debian, and now I wonder if RHEL-based > systems > have something similar to offer. > >>> > >>> I believe Red

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8

2021-04-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 12:40, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > On 4/9/21 11:23 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 12:19, Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 12:02, Valeri Galtsev > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8

2021-04-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 12:19, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 12:02, Valeri Galtsev > wrote: > >> >> >> On 4/9/21 10:47 AM, Binet, Valere (NIH/NIA/IRP) [C] wrote: >> > The NIST and CIS baselines don't allow su, we h

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8

2021-04-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 12:02, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > On 4/9/21 10:47 AM, Binet, Valere (NIH/NIA/IRP) [C] wrote: > > The NIST and CIS baselines don't allow su, we have to use sudo on > government computers. > > > > Could you enlighten me on the rationale behind that restriction? As, as > you

Re: [CentOS] Can't upgrade sssd-*

2021-04-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 13:05, Warren Young wrote: > On Apr 5, 2021, at 8:32 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > wrt private keys .. we don't want any to live on machines we > > don't physically own. > > Yeah, I get that. > > What I don’t get is why, if DNF goes to http://foo.centos.org to pull >

Re: [CentOS] KVM vs. incremental remote backups

2021-03-31 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 08:41, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Up until recently I've hosted all my stuff (web & mail) on a handful of > bare > metal servers. Web applications (WordPress, OwnCloud, Dolibarr, GEPI, > Roundcube) as well as mail and a few other things were hosted mostly on > one big

Re: [CentOS] Prevent Anaconda from switching root and swap partition

2021-03-31 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 05:11, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > More often than not, when installing CentOS, I choose manual partitioning > and > then apply the KISS principle, with a very simple partitioning scheme that > looks more or less like this: > > * /boot partition: 500 MB, ext2 > *

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.3

2021-03-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 12:44, Mark Woolfson wrote: > Hello, > > > > I wonder if you could help. > > > > I have a requirement to load CentOS 7.3 on to a server. I have the > distribution on a bootable USB key. > > > What kind of server? This is a hardware issue and is going to need to know what

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 10:56, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 3/18/21 10:23 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > [what can be done] I am guessing > > someone could make an unofficial set of spins which cut out some > packages to try and make it fit in single density. > > > Th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 09:36, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 3/18/21 1:24 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: > > It's not realistic to expect server-class machines not to be able to > > boot from dual-layer or USB media in 2021. > There are environments where USB or other writeable media

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-17 Thread John R. Dennison
edia in 2021. John -- Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), American jurist and Supreme Court Justice, "Natural Law", 32 Harvard L

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 05:04:41PM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > Well I am batting 0 for 1000 today. I am clearly not a good resource at the > moment :). Thanks Lamar for checking the real source. It's ok, smooge... It's First Monday, you've got 4 more of 'em

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 16:26, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 3/15/21 8:51 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > Exactly that. Upstream Fedora and RHEL went to require dual density > around > > Fedora 18, RHEL-7 because the amount of data was too much. > Well, what's odd is that the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 08:19, Robert Heller wrote: > At Sun, 14 Mar 2021 21:49:40 -0500 "Robert G. \(Doc\) Savage" < > dsav...@peaknet.net>, CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2021-03-14 at 21:31 -0400, John Plemons wrote: > > > Sou

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-14 Thread John Plemons
Sounds like you need to use a dual layer DVD disc, it is double the capacity. john On 3/14/2021 9:13 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: I need help from someone experienced with the CentOS bug tracking system. I gotta say it is one of the most complicated and imposing front ends

Re: [CentOS] qemu-kvm images of old Windows XP SP3

2021-03-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 at 10:04, David McGuffey wrote: > I have a Nikon slide scanner (very high quality) for which the software > has not been updated. It last ran on WinXP SP3 and I was not able to > get it to run under Win 7 and certainly not Win 10. > > Anyone know where I can obtain images of

Re: [CentOS] R730xd & SD card identfication

2021-03-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 18:39, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Sun, 2021-03-07 at 11:17 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Everyone, > > > > We have migrated a platform to a Centos 8 host using kvm guest machines > > > > Recently I tried to copy one of the guests to the external SD card on > > the back of

Re: [CentOS] Koji packages

2021-03-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 12:40, Frederick wrote: > Thank you! > > I am specifically looking for the dlm package that seems to be missing > from the repos in 8. I went to https://git.centos.org/rpms/dlm but I > cannot find the source. Is there anywhere I can get the source to > build this package?

Re: [CentOS] Tar of files

2021-03-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 09:54, Jerry Geis wrote: > When I "tar" up an archive the files have an owner bob, > when I extract that to another machine bob is there also but user number is > different. > So when I extract bob is no longer the owner of the files but someone else. > > Is there a good

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

2021-03-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 20:41, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 3/1/21 4:31 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote: > > Do those scripts also handle the building of Objective-C, which is > > needed to build SOGo? I have been toying with this off and on, > > there's an independent repo somewhere that has the EL8

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

2021-03-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 14:21, Simon Matter wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 12:46, Simon Matter > wrote: > > > > > EPEL has always been in the need of more people who can volunteer time to > > help maintain and package things. However for the last 5 years (so even > > before EL8) the need has

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

2021-03-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 12:46, Simon Matter wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 10:42, Simon Matter > wrote: > > > >> > Am 01.03.21 um 15:56 schrieb Simon Matter: > >> > >> >> Thanks for your suggestion. No, I'm not really thinking about > >> >> docker/podman. I prefer having clean system installs,

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

2021-03-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 10:42, Simon Matter wrote: > > Am 01.03.21 um 15:56 schrieb Simon Matter: > > >> Thanks for your suggestion. No, I'm not really thinking about > >> docker/podman. I prefer having clean system installs, even if I have to > >> create RPMs myself. This has worked fine for the

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 17:26, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 2021-02-25 22:35 Stephen John Smoogen ha scritto: > > Mainly because customers don't want to pay for that work which is > > considerable. If Red Hat builds it, it is expected to have all kinds of > > 'promises' eq

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 16:10, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 2021-02-25 14:27 Simon Matter ha scritto: > > EL on the other side has a very limited, supported package set and > > therefore a lot of packages needed to build a lot of packages are just > > missing. > > Yeah, same impressions here. EPEL

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 10:07, J Martin Rushton < martinrushto...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > > On 25/02/2021 14:49, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 09:13, J Martin Rushton via CentOS > > mailto:centos@centos.org>> w

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 09:13, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: > > > On 25/02/2021 13:37, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > I was recently looking at Raymond's book "The Art of UNIX Programming" > from 2003. He, along with contributors Thompson (inventor of UNIX), &

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 08:18, Tony Schreiner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 7:31 AM Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 02:11, Simon Matter > wrote: > > > > > >> > > > >> Smooge, you know I feel your pain, but b

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 02:11, Simon Matter wrote: > >> > >> Smooge, you know I feel your pain, but becoming a maintainer in EPEL has > >> a pretty high bar (lots of new tools and methods to work with, amongst > >> other things) -- as it SHOULD, given that it's intended as an addon to > >> EL and

Re: [CentOS] Permission denied when updating CentOS 8 Streams

2021-02-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 09:47, Simon Matter wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Feb 2021, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> On a remote server (in an IPv6-only infrastructure) I am getting the > >> following error when trying to update CentOS 8 Streams x86_64: > >> > >> $ sudo dnf upgrade

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 12:04, Simon Matter wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 04:47, Simon Matter > wrote: > > > >> > > >> > Smooge, you know I feel your pain, but becoming a maintainer in EPEL > >> has > >> > a pretty high bar (lots of new tools and methods to work with, amongst > >> > other

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 04:47, Simon Matter wrote: > > > > Smooge, you know I feel your pain, but becoming a maintainer in EPEL has > > a pretty high bar (lots of new tools and methods to work with, amongst > > other things) -- as it SHOULD, given that it's intended as an addon to > > EL and

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 13:39, Simon Matter wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 12:31, Simon Matter > wrote: > > > >> > Le 11/02/2021 à 17:08, Simon Matter a écrit : > >> >> But, I'm a bit shocked to find EPEL 8 in such a bad shape of > >> brokenness > >> >> and incompleteness > >> > > >> > I've

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 12:31, Simon Matter wrote: > > Le 11/02/2021 à 17:08, Simon Matter a écrit : > >> But, I'm a bit shocked to find EPEL 8 in such a bad shape of brokenness > >> and incompleteness > > > > I've come to the same conclusion. > > > > For the past couple years, my solution has

Re: [CentOS] Challenging times in trying to access oracle Linux documentation

2021-02-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 at 18:39, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 at 15:57, Frank Cox wrote: > >> On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 15:22:21 -0500 >> Jonathan Billings wrote: >> >> 1.) you assume people will clearly label their off topic thre

Re: [CentOS] Challenging times in trying to access oracle Linux documentation

2021-02-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 at 15:57, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 15:22:21 -0500 > Jonathan Billings wrote: > > 1.) you assume people will clearly label their off topic threads > > I think that in most cases that will happen, yes, since people with a > technical background understand that

Re: [CentOS] Challenging times in trying to access oracle Linux documentation

2021-02-05 Thread John R. Dennison
u mention have their own venues for support and discussion and those should be used. John -- "He'll sit here and say, 'Do this! Do that!' And nothing will happen. Poor Ike. It won't be a bit like the army. He'll find it ver

Re: [CentOS] Intel/64 CentOS VM running on a Mac M1?

2021-01-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 20:12, Lists wrote: > My Dell Precision M3800 running Fedora works great but is really starting > to > show its age, and I'm thinking about getting a new Mac M1-based laptop as > it > would really be useful for Video production. > > But I really need to have a IA64 CentOS

Re: [CentOS] OPIE w/ OpenSSH Account Enumeration The remote host is susceptible to an information disclosure attack.

2021-01-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 11:40, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > I am running the openssh-server-7.4p1-21.el7.x86_64 on CentOS Linux release > 7.9.2009 (Core). > > #cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) > # rpm -qa |grep ssh > openssh-server-7.4p1-21.el7.x86_64 >

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:27, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:23, Kenneth Porter > wrote: > >> --On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:07 PM + J Martin Rushton via >> CentOS >> wrote: >> >> > Here's how to find the pack

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:23, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:07 PM + J Martin Rushton via CentOS > wrote: > > > Here's how to find the package for a particular file: > > That one's easy and I use this all the time: > > rpm -qf full-file-name > > I'm looking for

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:01, Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'm trying to find out how dnsmasq got on my CentOS 7 system, since I use > BIND for DNS. I'm guessing it was part of a base group that Anaconda > installs for all systems. > > probably from virtualization if it is there.. but a way to check

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread John R. Dennison
ng to our lists? > Really, you (as in the CentOS project) totally screwed it. Really, you, (as in you) totally don't get it. *CentOS* didn't do this thing; *Red Hat* did this thing. Go blame them. John -- If there is an embarrassmen

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 06:06:41PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > I am not sure that speaking in absolutes does anyone any good. John -- Everything happens for a reason. And that reason is normally physics. - Anonymous signature.

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 08:32, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 2021-01-22 13:43 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto: > > I think we can expect Rocky Linux to provide a real solution to CentOS > > future. We shall know very soon, so let's just wait for a short while. > > Hi, there are any specific reasons to not

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread John R. Dennison
evel for what it's worth, on a couple different occasions. John -- Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the o

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread John R. Dennison
t's dead when 7 doesn't sunset until June 30th, 2024. John -- I do not fear an army of lions, if they are led by a lamb. I do fear an army of sheep, if they are led by a lion. -- Alexander the Great

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 at 17:15, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 21/01/2021 à 22:17, Valeri Galtsev a écrit : > > I tried Oracle Linux. After installation it took forever to update yum > > database, or do you yum search. Also: I didn't find mirrors... All this > sort of > > ruled it out for me. > >

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart "Error setting up base repository"

2021-01-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 15:54, Alex Kirk wrote: > So adding on: > > repo --name="BaseOS" > --baseurl=file:///run/install/sources/mount--cdrom/BaseOS > > ...didn't help at all. Neither did adding the symlink out of the BaseOS > directory to the images subdirectory above it. > > I did notice

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart "Error setting up base repository"

2021-01-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 12:27, Alex Kirk wrote: > I recently built my first CentOS kickstart config on a CentOS 7 system; it > runs well, but the OS and its tools are old enough that it's causing pain > with the apps I want to run on top of said system, so I'm trying to port it > to CentOS 8. > >

Re: [CentOS] How to do virtual IP on NetworkManager

2021-01-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 at 12:51, Simon Matter wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 2:56 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I use virtual IP from time to time on CentOS 7. just take something like > >> eth0 and make eth0:1 put in there the IP and subnet and bring up the new > >> IP > >>

Re: [CentOS] How to reset the USB subsystem?

2021-01-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 12:19, Fred wrote: > from a non-expert (me): > > possibly figure out what happens when the device is plugged/unplugged and > doing that by hand. if you can find the udev file(s) that manage the > port(s) that get hung you may be able to figure out what those steps would >

Re: [CentOS] LTS

2021-01-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 at 01:32, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > Hi, > > CentOS Linux can continue as Fedora LTS or something similar with a > five-year life cycle. After five years, users can opt for paid upgrades. > We can also work with System manufacturers to pre-install the free LTS on > their

Re: [CentOS] LTS

2021-01-11 Thread John R. Dennison
the free LTS on > their products, which will increase our user base. Who is this "we" you speak of? John -- Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. -- Maya Angelou (1928-2014), American author, poet,

Re: [CentOS] Reboot/shutdown without login

2021-01-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 at 14:14, Kenneth Porter wrote: > On 1/11/2021 10:32 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > > How do you want the person to shut it down without logging in? Some > computers have a "smart" power switch pushbutton that you can program to do > a shutdown or a reboot depending on how long you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 13:48, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 7:43 PM Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: > > > > > I honestly have no idea how much Tomcat is used anymore. The various > places > > that I worked previously or have contacts with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 12:42, Simon Matter wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 11:17, Simon Matter > wrote: > > > >> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 07:50, Simon Matter > >> wrote: > > > I didn't say or mean that. My answer is that it is complicated and more > > meant that the software you expect requires

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 11:17, Simon Matter wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 07:50, Simon Matter > wrote: > > > >> > Am 06.01.21 um 03:01 schrieb Scott Robbins: > >> >> On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 11:31:34PM +, Jamie Burchell wrote: > >> >>> Off topic for sure, but it's a shame this has to be a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 at 07:50, Simon Matter wrote: > > Am 06.01.21 um 03:01 schrieb Scott Robbins: > >> On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 11:31:34PM +, Jamie Burchell wrote: > >>> Off topic for sure, but it's a shame this has to be a manual process of > >>> destroying and rebuilding every X years. Even

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-05 Thread John R. Dennison
from happening. I would be careful of expectations around that partial EPEL rebuild; it's not complete and some of the builds are quite dated. John -- Politicians are like a Slinky. They're really not good for anything, but they still bri

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 23:05, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 1/3/21 8:34 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 18:20, Gordon Messmer > > wrote: > > > >> On 1/3/21 2:51 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >>> is it still OK to set up EPEL as

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 18:20, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 1/3/21 2:51 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > is it still OK to set up EPEL as a repo? > > > Yes. CentOS Stream is expected to be backward-compatible with RHEL, for > the same reason that each RHEL point release is backward-compatible with >

Re: [CentOS] Out of office: "CentOS Digest, Vol 191, Issue 26"

2020-12-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 at 12:21, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 26/12/2020 à 18:14, Scott Robbins a écrit : > > I'm sure all of us have done, if not this, something equally embarrassing > > like posting a private reply to an email or doing dd with the wrong > > destination, etc. > > Then let's make a

[CentOS] Rocky LInux moving forward..

2020-12-23 Thread John Plemons
Got an eMail this morning about the Rocky Linux build, more info at this link, Sign up for forum access.. Paste -> John, Just looping back around to keep you informed. We have published our first community update <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/community-update-december-202

Re: [CentOS] Finding which repository files provide required libraries

2020-12-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 at 19:37, H wrote: > I came across the following Ubuntu script to identify which repository > files provide libraries required by an app. Is there a rpm alternative to > dpk-query that would allow this to run on CentOS/RH? > > ldd /bin/zoom | awk '/=>/{print $(NF-1)}' | while

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future [ Interesting Article.. ZDNet ]

2020-12-18 Thread John Plemons
https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudlinux-to-invest-more-than-a-million-dollar-a-year-into-centos-clone/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

2020-12-16 Thread John Plemons
I have a DEC Alpha sitting in my warehouse collecting dust what a great machine it was.. Was sorry to see Linux Support die for it.. john On 12/16/2020 1:18 PM, R C wrote: On 12/16/20 11:10 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/16/20 11:24 AM, R C wrote: On 12/16/20 8:11 AM, Lamar Owen wrote

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future ("Long goodbye"?)

2020-12-16 Thread John Plemons
, and continue a down stream version of the product. Worst case, we / you will have Oracle to fall back on if Rocky Linux or Cloud OS doesn't come through.. But once again, a BIG THANK YOU to Centos for all the years of work. John Plemons On 12/16/2020 11:45 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: My apologies about

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:45:43AM -0700, R C wrote: > > I didn't know that fact, but hey that could be a pretty cool tribute. It was in Greg's announcement of Rocky Linux. Right up near the top if I recall correctly. John --

Re: [CentOS] Oracle Linux - oracle-epel vs epel - dnf priority

2020-12-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 14:27, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 14/12/2020 à 19:41, Frank Cox a écrit : > > For those of us who are considering moving to Oracle Linux (or at least > > doing some experimenting with it), I just had an idea for dealing with > the > > fact that the oracle-el-epel

Re: [CentOS] Oracle Linux - oracle-epel vs epel - dnf priority

2020-12-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 13:41, Frank Cox wrote: > I'd like to run this by you guys and get your opinion. > > For those of us who are considering moving to Oracle Linux (or at least > doing some experimenting with it), I just had an idea for dealing with the > fact that the oracle-el-epel

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