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

2021-03-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:42:40PM -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > > I'm sure it would, but I thought I made it clear that DL or BluRay have > never been options in this case. I'm disappointed that the DVD iso was > released without any release notes advising it was oversized

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 to go :)

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

2021-02-05 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:23:37AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > Speaking for myself only, I have no problem with anyone posting Oracle > Linux questions, answers or solutions in this mailing list. I think > that as time goes on, OL and Rocky Linux will start to get more > discussion and coverage

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-25 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 09:05:12PM +0100, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote: > > We suggested CentOS 8 to our customers. And we have been badly f***ed > the a**. Sorry for the wording that you may assume, but that is how it is. Could you at least pretend to be professional when posting to our

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.asc

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:15:50PM +, Phil Perry wrote: > > Surely anyone requiring less than 16 licences will now ditch CentOS 7 in > favour of RHEL7? The rest may stay on CentOS 7 for a year or so until there > is a clearer picture around viable alternatives. This may as well become the >

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:36:44PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 1/21/21 8:53 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote: > > Is this good news for the "Centos" family? > > > > There is no CentOS "family". CentOS clone is dead and will be now Odd that you say it's dead when 7 doesn't sunset until June

Re: [CentOS] LTS

2021-01-11 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:00:00PM +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > > 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 >

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

2021-01-05 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 08:31:34AM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > No, this was an actual problem I had back in April 2020. Upgrading from CR > broke imagemagick, so I couldn't use the corresponding PHP modules, so my > Roundcube installation was broken for a few weeks. To be fair it was only

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 -- Time

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 10:06:50PM +, Simon Avery wrote: > > Can't say I'm really appreciating the trolling in this list. It's to be expected. What I find surprising is the shilling for RH and this decision that I am seeing. Oh well, such is life. -- Seek not to follow in the footsteps

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:56:05AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Your memory is still rusty.  Early accusations were that this would impact > developers (such as Oracle) who were adding additional patches to the > kernel, or other maintenance.  It never impacted "clones" like CentOS at > all.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-12 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 01:40:58AM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > They only do not have DVD ISO, but they have "network" CD ISO for 8.1, > and they have boot.iso for 8.3 for install over internet. Ahh. Good to know. Thanks to both you and Leon Fauster for correcting me on this.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-12 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 09:50:07PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > Hi. > Springdale Linux, RHEL clone already exists. Rocky Linux clone is in > preparation, and CloudLinux plans to publish RHEL clone also. > And notice that CentOS Linux 7 will be supported until EOL in 2024 and > there will

Re: [CentOS] Fix for CVE-2020-1971 on CentOS 6.10

2020-12-12 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 08:20:04PM +0100, Simon Matter wrote: > Hi, > > Attached patches: > openssl.spec.patch.gz > openssl-1.0.1e-cve-2020-1971.patch.gz > > Please let me know if you find any issues. Attachments scrubbed from your message when posted. -- Human beings hardly ever learn from

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-11 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:11:36PM -0500, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > > Oh, please. Nobody suggested this has anything to do with the > pandemic; nobody even mentioned the pandemic, except you. "Red Hat salary more important" This implies you expect them to put their jobs on the line to protect

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-11 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 09:51:05PM -0500, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > I'm most disappointed with the silence from Karanbir and friends. > Obviously their Red Hat salary is more important to them than keeping > CentOS the way it was. :-( Yes, far be it from people to worry about putting food on

Re: [CentOS] Run as root on reboot

2020-10-28 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 04:56:53PM -0700, david wrote: > Alas, I think rc.local has become irrelevant with systemd, which is most > Linux distros is the way forward. vi /etc/rc.local -> add what you need to run on boot chmod 700 /etc/rc.d/rc.local systemctl enable rc-local.service It's still

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 LSI SAS2004 Driver

2020-09-20 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 01:05:44AM -0700, John Pierce wrote: > > that should be linked here, > https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus Updated, including the removal of the legacy C5 link. John -- If we are

Re: [CentOS] rsync upgrade

2020-08-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 10:40:14AM -0500, Christopher Wensink wrote: > Can anyone tell me the repository to use to upgrade to a version of > rsync later than 3.1.2? IUS has 3.1.3 for EL7. More information available via writeup at https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories or

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 will be released soon?

2019-09-04 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 10:04:04AM +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > I doubt that releasing CentOS 7.7 is a higher priority as many people are > using CentOS 7, ... I'm not quite sure how to parse that... John -- If the world were a village of 100

Re: [CentOS] root .bash_profile?

2019-05-14 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:23:20AM -0400, Bee.Lists wrote: > > Second, if you READ the posts, you would find that the man page, is > unclear. It was referred to, but you missed that as well. No, it's really not. This is reinforced by the fact that you are the sole person having an issue

Re: [CentOS] root .bash_profile?

2019-05-14 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 05:19:57AM -0400, Bee.Lists wrote: > OK I think you need to read previous posts on this. > > I’m not looking for any other command. Please stop top-posting, thank you. It's the _same command_; all it is is a different invocation method using an additional argument.

[CentOS-announce] IRC Meeting Changes

2019-05-01 Thread John R. Dennison
For the past few years the CentOS Project has been holding IRC meetings for our various Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and other projects in the #centos-devel channel on the freenode IRC network. This has, for the most part, worked out fairly well. However, as this is a shared channel, at times

Re: [CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:18:40AM -0400, mark wrote: > > Nope. Well... actually, my manager's talking about Ubuntu or maybe even > FreeBSD. He's *extremely* upset with RH being so slow - 8 should have been > out for some time, for one, and a lot of 7, even with SCL, is far behind, It should

Re: [CentOS] When should I reboot?

2019-04-13 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 01:32:11AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > I reboot when I yum update to a new kernel or systemd, which seems to come > out about once a month. Should I do it for this week's glibc? Is that "core" > enough to justify a reboot or should I wait for the next kernel update? I >

Re: [CentOS] BhkMbpU

2019-04-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 02:05:12PM -0400, mark wrote: > > Ah, yes, the joys of a plain text mailing list... where this garbage shows > up as just garbage. Now, HTML email, or, as I often refer to it, > malware-spreading email There is no indication as to which message to the list you're

Re: [CentOS] In place upgrade of RHEL 8 Beta to CentOS 8?

2019-04-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 01:33:39PM -0400, mark wrote: > > Hopefully, not quite as long, given the work upstream was doing to make > trouble for Oracle when they were building 7. Could we, please, keep the FUD to a minimum? John -- I've

Re: [CentOS] http error when updating 7.5 ==> 7.6

2019-03-25 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 07:32:33AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > This is not the first time we have had issues with drpms in the update tree. > > Would anyone be opposed to taking away deltarpms from the repositories? > > They take up lots of space and they have cause multiple issues in the

Re: [CentOS] Please Recommend Affordable and Reliable Cloud Storage for 50 TB of Data

2019-02-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:27:03PM +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Evening, Ladies and Gentlemen, Cross-posted noise again, nothing more. Toss in a 21 line sig for fun :/ John -- Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in

Re: [CentOS] C7 basic install, HATE

2019-02-14 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 06:30:40PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > Do a text install: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/361935/138 If you think he's frustrated now... The text installer is garbage and has been since EL5 days, the only reason it even exists is because it's part of the kickstart

Re: [CentOS] You removed Weboob package over political reasons? Whole Internet laughs at you

2018-12-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 11:59:10AM -0700, Eric Michaelis wrote: > > Yes, please. Ban this individual. I reached out to a list admin some hours ago and it was dealt with almost immediately. John -- "There's no sense in being precise when you

Re: [CentOS] Centos-release src rpm.

2018-12-04 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 09:25:31AM -0500, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: > Hi, > > Any chance someone (Johnny?) could point me towards the latest centos-release > src rpm? Until the SRPMs are pushed to vault.centos.org you can get the same packages that are on the ISOs / mirrors from

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux distros?

2018-10-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 10:27:32AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: [topical reply trimmed for brevity] Please learn how to trim your replies. Rough count and 145 lines of crap could have been removed from your recent post. This is getting a bit ridiculous, Valeri:

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux distros?

2018-10-16 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 05:54:29AM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Troll bait removed. Congrats, folks. You fell for it. This was also troll-posted to fedora-users within seconds of this post. John -- A man who

Re: [CentOS] Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Setup Your Own e-Commerce Online Store using WooCommerce 3.4.5, Wordpress 4.9.8, and CentOS 1805 (LAMP) in Amazon AWS Cloud

2018-10-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 10:39:52AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > I don't specifically mind tutorials being posted to the list .. BUT .. I > would like them to be in CentOS Namespaces. So either on > wiki.centos.org or blog.centos.org. Either is a proper venue as content can be peer-reviewed

Re: [CentOS] Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Setup Your Own e-Commerce Online Store using WooCommerce 3.4.5, Wordpress 4.9.8, and CentOS 1805 (LAMP) in Amazon AWS Cloud

2018-09-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 01:23:54AM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Configuring SELinux is somewhat complicated, so I would usually set SELinux > mode to permissive. While I do not mean to be rude... the above statement is precisely why you should not be advertising your

Re: [CentOS] email Server for CentOS 7

2018-09-29 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 04:51:07PM -0400, Bee.Lists wrote: > Hi folks. > > I’m looking for an email server. I have a C7 box already with nginx, > PostgreSQL, Sinatra and Ruby. So I don’t want to install PHP, Apache, MySQL, > etc. > > Are there any ways/tutorials to set up a mail server under

Re: [CentOS] ipset-service save fails when module compiled into kernel

2018-09-14 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 07:29:26PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > (I'm actually running CentOS 7 on a Linode VM with the default Linode > kernel. Their kernel has modules compiled in and listed in /proc/config.gz.) I would strongly encourage you to lose their custom kernel and use a standard

Re: [CentOS] Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Deploy cPanel Web Hosting Control Panel version 11.74 on CentOS 7.5 Linux Server version 1805 in Amazon AWS Cloud

2018-09-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 01:42:37PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 11:19:31AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/2136021589748759/ > > Looks like a lot of clickbait links, many from the same hosting > providers.

Re: [CentOS] Step-by-Step Tutorial: How to Deploy cPanel Web Hosting Control Panel version 11.74 on CentOS 7.5 Linux Server version 1805 in Amazon AWS Cloud

2018-09-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 11:19:31AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/2136021589748759/ Looks like a lot of clickbait links, many from the same hosting providers. I am also not sure how legit the use of that cropped CentOS logo is, either.

Re: [CentOS] Certificates

2018-08-31 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 05:30:53PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Letsencrypt is a very important development, but it has (IMHO) a shaking > foundation.  I would not build a production system around it.  But then I > have lived in aspects of PKI since '95... I presume you meant "shaky

Re: [CentOS] Finding user's files

2018-08-01 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:33:33AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > If you want to be rigorous with result (and I for one would), avoid locate: > that one is using database which is updated how often? *hmm*, once a week. Daily. -- Normally the beautiful days in life come after fatigue and

Re: [CentOS-docs] reference page for Apache test page & the project

2018-06-23 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 04:58:21PM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > * Is there a better page I can point at? 'Better' is quite subjective; however this all goes back to https://web.archive.org/web/20060523223519/https://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127 and is as good of a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 (using iptables) removed firewalld

2018-06-01 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 06:50:28AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > I suggest uploading your script to pastebin.com and putting the link in your > post to the list. That way long lines in your script will be preserved. > Pastebin is good for content where the formatting is important. Perhaps

Re: [CentOS] Password recovery trick not working on CentOS

2018-05-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 07:54:34AM +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > I tried this out of curiosity on a CentOS 7 sandbox machine, and this > doesn't seem to work anymore. I can boot to a 'bash' console and set the > password OK. But this password doesn't seem to work on the subsequent > normal

Re: [CentOS] Private repository and upgrade to Centos 7.5 (Kernel / GStreamer / Mesa)

2018-05-12 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 09:43:18PM +0200, Andreas Benzler wrote: > > While everything is my private playground and not a official repsitory > the packages are "hand made" and unsigned. There is little excuse in 2018 for not signing packages and you may well find that your efforts are slow to be

Re: [CentOS] Latest CentOS does not boot, Proliant ML330 G6

2018-05-11 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 03:49:23PM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > It's hard to diagnose if the only thing you say is that it panicked. I'd loan you my magic mind reading cap but it's at the cleaners. John -- Don't mistake my

Re: [CentOS] Problem with cr repo.

2018-05-05 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 09:38:27PM +0100, lejeczek wrote: > I get more problems, > I have not single i686 arch package installed yet 'yum update' somewhere > along the lines decides and insists on pulling in plenty of i686 packages. > All this without really telling why, then fails with 'multilib'

Re: [CentOS] invalid mirror .host-engine.com

2018-04-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 06:11:18PM +0200, Walter H. wrote: > Hello, > > how can I prevent of using these mirrors? Add a line of: "exclude=.host-engine.com" to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf This will exclude from consideration all mirror FQDNs that contain that string.

Re: [CentOS-docs] wiki content management via automation

2018-02-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:30:30PM +0100, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > > When I tried their irc channels for the migration issue, I was told that > it wasn't really supported, and on their website > (https://moinmo.in/Support) it seems to be more about "consultancy services" Well... it _does_ sound

Re: [CentOS-docs] wiki content management via automation

2018-02-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 01:11:20PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 21/02/18 22:30, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > > That's a good question, as we'll also have to migration for moinmoin if > > we can't find a support path to migrate to supported version anyway. > > So first question (already asked on

[CentOS-docs] Wiki Access Request: AdditionalResources/Repositories

2017-04-01 Thread John R. Dennison
Good morning. Might I please have edit access to the AdditionalResources/Repositories page on the wiki? Account name is JohnDennison. Thanks! John -- Humans hate to admit error even as they stand there, black and smoldering, with the

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: The CentOS list]

2017-01-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 06:53:41PM -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > > It's a bit unproductive to trouble list members about list problems. Not that I disagree but lists.centos.org and mail.centos.org are the same box; it is likely that if someone is having issues getting a post to the list they will

Re: [CentOS] Mail issues

2017-01-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 06:50:13PM -0500, TE Dukes wrote: > > to=, orig_to=, relay=local, > delay=0.1, delays=0.07/0.01/0/0.03, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to > mailbox) > > Do I need to install additional packages that move mail to the user's > /Maildir?

Re: [CentOS] Firefox Issue

2017-01-09 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 04:23:05PM +, Always Learning wrote: > > Agreed. One of my Apache defences is to redirect probes/hacks to > 127.0.0.1 :-) Would you be willing to share this rewrite rule with the list, please? Some may find it useful. Thank you.

Re: [CentOS] Firefox Issue

2017-01-09 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 04:33:01PM +, Always Learning wrote: > recognise vulnerabilities and how to block them; too many self-declared > "komputar xperts" haven't a clue about robust security. Thank you SO very much for this. I am still laughing at the irony after 5 whole minutes. This made

Re: [CentOS] CDB tables in Centos7 Postfix ?

2017-01-05 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 04:25:16PM +, Tim Smith wrote: > Hi, > > It seems the default binaries don't have CDB tables compiled into them ? > > Now, I know Centos isn't Ubuntu, but on Ubuntu there is an optional > package in the main distribution "postfix-cdb - CDB map support for > Postfix".

Re: [CentOS-docs] dead links and request for home page

2016-12-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 12:20:13AM +0200, Mika Hämäläinen wrote: > > I made the two corrections mentioned earlier and then one for the road > (changed "irsii" to "irssi"). Didn't catch it the first time around, since > I thought it was a new fork or similar. I couldn't find it with google >

[CentOS-docs] rpmforge references in the wiki

2016-04-13 Thread John R. Dennison
Someone made mention on IRC earlier of a reference to rpmforge on the wiki and it got me thinking (yeah, never a good thing)... A quick search on the wiki itself shows a lot_of references to rpmforge. As this is a dead project and has been a dead project for 3+ years now it would be quite useful

[CentOS-docs] Wiki request

2015-11-03 Thread John R. Dennison
Hi. I've already spoken with Jim Perrin about this and he's fine with it; confirm with him if need be. May I please have edit rights to http://wiki.centos.org/irc to: 1) correct a typo 2) point people to the proper documentation on how to register a nick, including sasl auth and ssl via the

Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki request

2015-11-03 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 04:58:48AM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > Done using your wiki name JohnDennison. You should be able to work on > pages under /irc/ as well. Thank you, Akemi. John -- A constitution is not the act of a government, but

Re: [CentOS-virt] Beta CentOS 7 Xen packages available

2015-09-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 10:02:50AM -0300, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: > > what you're doing its a complete crap, what you said is different from what > you did, why you' (centos virt sig) not contributed to the work of fedora > guys instead of reinventing the wheel ? If you're that unhappy with

Re: [CentOS] can't install gd-devel on centos 7.1

2015-04-26 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:56:18PM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: Disable remi repo and try again.. And perhaps ask Red Hat as you apparently aren't running CentOS. John -- Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? -- Maurits

Re: [CentOS] whois command in c6

2015-04-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:02:24AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: do I need to compile it or something? Looks as if the upstream jwhois.conf still isn't aware of the v6nic - apnic change. You can just replace the single occurance of v6nic in jwhois.conf with apnic and you're golden (tested here

Re: [CentOS] whois command in c6

2015-04-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 09:39:09AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: the whois command in c6 references whois.v6nic.net for ip addresses in the 43.0.0.0/8 range (and maybe others). v6nic is no longer a valid whois server, any nets delegated to it should instead be delegated to apnic. The

Re: [CentOS-docs] Pull Request wiki.c.o/AdditionalResources/Repositories

2015-01-14 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:09:01PM -0800, PatrickD Garvey wrote: Proposal: The Third Party Repositories section should not list any other repositories, but should only note there are difficulties in making several independent repositories safely usable and give a thorough explaination of

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 06:37:42PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Noise removed. Quick question, if I may? What does this have to do with CentOS? John -- Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's party! -- Robin Williams (1952-), American

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 06:52:48PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Some people are annoyed that CentOS keeps changing on them, and keep going to greater and greater lengths to try and argue that CentOS should not change. I am explaining to them why this is not a productive view. It's not

Re: [CentOS] TELNENT TO LOCALHOST IN CENTOS 7

2014-11-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 03:33:24PM +0100, Samson wrote: Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused Because telnet is 1970s tech that should die in a fire; it's not enabled by default nor does the firewall permit it by default. Why are you wanting to use

Re: [CentOS] TELNENT TO LOCALHOST IN CENTOS 7

2014-11-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:04:30PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Umm, yeah. Encrypted protocols would never be compromised Which do you think is more likely? Someone sniffing a cleartext credential set on the wire or someone subverting an alleged secure encrypted protocol? Nothing is

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:07:00PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: If you just want to be notified (or start a job, or whatever) then why not set up something to watch the centos-announce list, parse the subject lines for Security, and then do whatever you need to do after that. You're actually

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:41:17PM +0100, Gabriele Pohl wrote: I don't like to spend time in creating ugly workarounds.. and therefore would highly appreciate if the CentOS-Developers will add the data to the yum repositories. Then I can use Munin to monitor the pending security packages

Re: [CentOS] NTFS-3g from EPEL doesn't work here, older one from PUIAS does

2014-11-19 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:07:50PM +0100, wwp wrote: Did I miss something? I browsed the web and RH's bug tracker but found nothing yet. Perhaps open a ticket in bugzilla against EPEL for that component if one doesn't already exist? John --

Re: [CentOS] Not To James B. Byrne

2014-11-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:48:52PM +, Always Learning wrote: Noise removed. Is it too much to ask for that this thread, if not the list as a whole, return to being CentOS specific? John -- IRC - Where men are men, women are men and

Re: [CentOS] DMARC and Mailman (was: Not To James B. Byrne)

2014-11-13 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 01:44:15PM -0500, Darr247 wrote: Is the SELinux list run on a different mail server? 'cause I haven't seen any 'dmarc=fail' emails to *that* list end up in my Spam folder. Take a look at the headers of a message from that list. If it's RFC compliant it will present

Re: [CentOS] Conflicts updating packages, hot to get ride of them without mess up all my OS?

2014-11-03 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 07:58:06AM -0430, reynie...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I have latest PHP release 5.5.18 not present at CentOS repo so it's not possible to remove that repo since I'll need in the future for updates otherwise I'll have a lot of conflicts between versions at CentOS repo and

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2014:1764 Moderate CentOS 6 wget Security Update

2014-10-31 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 02:16:27PM +0300, Andrey Z. wrote: People would be grateful if CentOS developers have built an updated version of wget in centosplus repository. While I am personally a little irritated that this isn't being addressed by Red Hat the fact is that the workaround is trivial

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 equivalents in CentOS 7

2014-10-29 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 03:56:58AM +, Always Learning wrote: iptables -A table-name -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT No reboot needed. 'table-name' can be INPUT or another user defined table name. firewall-cmd with its Windoze-like structure and syntax is definitely unappealing to many

Re: [CentOS-docs] A request for help managing wiki permissions

2014-10-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:46:35AM -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: If you're willing to participate and you're known to us, please volunteer in this thread. If I can assist I would be happy to do so. John -- For all your days be prepared, And

Re: [CentOS-docs] Permissions For Editing Centos Wiki Pages

2014-10-23 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 05:57:16AM +, Emre Çamalan wrote: Hi, i want to update some wiki pages such as http://wiki.centos.org/additionalresources/repositories/rpmforge for help to developt centos project. Out of curiosity what changes did you have planned for the section on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 docs, tutorials, etc...

2014-10-11 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 08:00:44AM -0500, William Woods wrote: Either is your paranoia…… Enough already. Can you please take this off-list? John -- Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self

Re: [CentOS] Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems

2014-10-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 05:33:22PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: What happens to ownership of a DVD or audio device when a different user logs in at the console - even if some other remote user wants to access them? The magic is more about ConsoleKit and PolicyKit than specifically systemd

Re: [CentOS] Actual complaining: nixspam

2014-10-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 04:04:49PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: b) What assurance do I have that whoever I chose won't wind up with the same problem, given that, as I mentioned, a dozen years ago, they were blocking a good part of the city of Chicago? Umm, that's actually hardly true

Re: [CentOS] Actual complaining: nixspam

2014-10-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 04:50:56PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: By the way, IX, the German magazine that runs nixspam, doesn't respond to emails, either. *THEY* are the problem, not my hosting provider (which, their support tells me, does work with nixspam, and pays a nice chunk of change

Re: [CentOS] Actual complaining: nixspam

2014-10-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 05:04:45PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Well, no: they tell me that they are *billed* for each major incident. There is a legal term that applies to this use case: extortion John -- Perhaps the sentiments

Re: [CentOS] Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems

2014-10-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 07:16:16PM -0700, Keith Keller wrote: I can't speak for John, but presumably you were singled out for making your complaint in a completely ridiculous and inappropriate way. Please take this pissing contest off-list if you would all be so kind.

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS-docs Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2

2014-10-03 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 12:23:57AM -0400, 666threesixes666 wrote: On 10/03/2014 12:11 AM, centos-docs-requ...@centos.org wrote: i think the rate limiting section sucks too... it should instead be suggesting sshguard which can ban multiple failed login attempts for variable amounts of time. i

Re: [CentOS] Need to Understand booting process of CENTOS-7

2014-09-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 03:43:47PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: First mistake: what makes you think we're your team? This is an open mailing list that we've all subscribed to, and we're all over the world, and in various positions and skillsets. We are not your team. I agree with Mark here

Re: [CentOS] Package Bash Redhat 4

2014-09-29 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:33:08AM -0200, Eduardo Augusto Pinto wrote: Hi, Anybody has bash package to Redhat 4 ? I imagine Red Hat does as they are providing support for EL4 still if you are willing to pay for it. John -- The Special

Re: [CentOS] Package Bash Redhat 4

2014-09-29 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 09:54:45AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Or the Oracle version that you can download should work too: https://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/bash-3.0-27.0.2.el4.src.rpm or the equivalent binary rpm under

Re: [CentOS] Apache wakes-up inactive Exim

2014-09-28 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 02:52:45AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: Sendmail is not present on the server. Exim is the only MTA. Exim awoke, forwarded the email then became inactive (not running) again. He didn't say sendmail the package was present; he said sendmail the command. rpm -qvl exim

Re: [CentOS] php-mcrypt

2014-09-07 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 12:44:44AM +0200, mn 320 wrote: Is Centos team going to publish a correct version of php-mcrypt via yum? Centos 6.5 and now 7 is out but no php-mcrypt. php-mcrypt is used by lots of applications. and the one from EPEL repository is buggy and sometimes makes my server

Re: [CentOS] EPEL-7 is Released

2014-08-29 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 05:41:12PM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Fri, August 29, 2014 3:21 pm, Karanbir Singh wrote: EPEL-7 is now considered GA could everybody be so kind as to decipher your abbreviations... General Availability. This term has been used in enterprise and other circles

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:58:29PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 8/22/2014 2:55 PM, Christof Stocker wrote: So I noticed that the minimal installation of CentOS 7 comes - in contrary to minimal CentOS 6.5 - preinstalled with the NetworkManager. I somewhat understand its usefulness,

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 06:13:56PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And most of us *still* don't like it And luckily there is a solution. Don't use CentOS-7. John -- The price we pay for money is paid in liberty. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager

2014-08-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:24:06PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Except that wasting time re-learning a new and strange way to do something that already worked - or how to disable the new thing so it doesn't break your working setup - doesn't really put you ahead of anything. This is a _major_

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.6 changes

2014-08-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:21:48AM -0400, Ted Miller wrote: What are the significant changes in Centos 6.6 (as released so far)? There is no CentOS 6.6 release yet :) The upstream beta was released a couple weeks back but it is a closed beta available to current RHEL6 clients and partners only.

Re: [CentOS] Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load

2014-08-19 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 09:12:36AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: I agree about the BS part but that does not make it unenforceable BS in some jurisdictions. And then there is always the threat of impoverishment through litigation. A big enough complainant can simply litigate frivolous torts

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog does not log on a separate partition/FS mounted on /var/log/

2014-08-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 04:50:41PM +, Tony Mountifield wrote: Probably rsyslog is being started before /var/log is mounted, and so it is opening files within /var/log on the root device. rsyslog should start after local mounts are finished. I suspect it's selinux; /var/log should have a

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