Re: [CentOS] boot issue with latest kernel

On 2019-03-20, Young, Gregory wrote: > > Is this a VM running on top of Hyper-V by chance? It is not; as I mentioned in my original post, it's bare metal. --keith -- kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] boot issue with latest kernel

Hi all, Has anyone seen this issue before? This afternoon, I tried updating a bare metal CentOS 6 box, and got some odd error messages on the console during booting kernel 2.6.32-754.11.1. (These aren't exact, I forgot to try to get a photo of the console.) sd 0:0:4:0 timed out resetting card

Re: [CentOS] elasticsearch connection refused

On 2019-02-19, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 14:26 +, Pete Biggs wrote: >> >> It's not a web server port - elasticsearch is a database. > > Sorry, that was a bit abrupt - yes, it sort of looks like a web server. It's a bit of both. It is queryable like a database, but it

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

On 2019-02-15, Warren Young wrote: > On Feb 15, 2019, at 1:14 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > wrote: >> Could you recommend affordable and reliable cloud storage for 50 TB of data? >>> >> My budget is around USD$50 per year. > > You’re *dreaming*. Or trolling. This user has

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

On 2019-01-09, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 1/9/19 2:30 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > >> 2) is putting SWAP in a RAID a good idea? Will it help, will it cause >> problems? > > The only "drawback" that I'm aware of is that RAID consistency checks > become meaningless, because it's common for swap

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024

On 2018-11-02, Robert Heller wrote: > > I one of the few (?) people who use "none of the above" (meaning all of the > "modern" desktop managers). I use fvwm in MWM mode and have a Tcl/Tk coded > "menu manager" program. Ah, one of these subthreads. ;-) I use fluxbox on my main linux desktop.

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024

On 2018-11-03, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > > To me "not supported" means the KDE packages (and all dependency libs) > will not be in the official repos. So have fun trying to build all > that yourself. Most likely there will be a third party unofficial repo > that will have those KDE packages. Or

Re: [CentOS] inquiry about limitation of file system

On 2018-11-03, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > Now, filesystem limits aside, software that try to read those directories > with huge numbers of files are going to have performance issues. I/O > operations, memory limitations and time are going to be bottlenecks to web > operations. Just to be

Re: [CentOS] PostgreSQL port accessible even though it should be blocked by firewall

On 2018-10-29, Frank Thommen wrote: > > PostgreSQL is running in a docker container: > > $ docker ps > CONTAINER IDIMAGE COMMAND >CREATED STATUS PORTSNAMES > 6f11fc41d2f0postgres

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

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

Re: [CentOS] Change password and add user on RO filesystem

Hello Marcin, On 2018-09-04, Marcin Trendota wrote: > > I'm trying to create system with RO root filesystem, so i'm using > /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root along wih /etc/rwtab and /etc/statetab. > > Apart of numerous problems with services running on RO filesystem (which > i'm constantly resolving

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

On 2018-07-25, Meikel wrote: >> [...] People want their phone to >> remind them of their appointments [...] > > It's a generalization. Not valid for all people. > > Maybe SOME people want their phone to remind them of their appointsments. And if some of those people are in your organization then

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

On 2018-07-21, Michael Schumacher wrote: > folks, didn't anybody check the name of this guy? > > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > drops a bomb with provocative questions every now and then and NEVER > ever responds to his own bullshit. He is just a troll! This is why I asked him why he

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

On 2018-07-22, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > And on top of all: MS Windows is the only systems I know of whose vendor > tells you, it is not safe to run without 3rd party software (antivirus). AFAIK (my son runs Windows, to my shame) Windows now comes bundled with antivirus software. I have no idea

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

On 2018-07-20, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 20/07/2018 à 07:44, Keith Keller a écrit : >> A public SMTP server is not the easiest thing to configure, period. >> It is the quintessential rope on which many admins hang themselves. > > It's not rocket science either, but y

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

On 2018-07-19, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > I'd say mail > servers are not the easiest thing to configure under Linux. A public SMTP server is not the easiest thing to configure, period. It is the quintessential rope on which many admins hang themselves. --keith --

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

On 2018-07-19, Mark Rousell wrote: > > Well said. I feel that too many people today have forgotten (or, more > likely, never learned) these lessons from history. People give away > their personal and supposedly private information too easily and, I feel > certain, will come to regret it (some

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

On 2018-07-18, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > I am torn between deploying Microsoft Exchange 2016 and Linux-based > SMTP servers like sendmail, postfix, qmail and exim. Why are you multiposting this question to multiple mailing lists? --keith -- kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us

Re: [CentOS] wildcard certificate

On 2018-06-16, Gordon Messmer via CentOS wrote: > > https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-wildcard-certificate-support-is-live/55579 > > Wildcard support is new, but it's available!  :) Cool! I had read about wildcard support being planned a few months ago but totally forgot about it.

Re: [CentOS] wildcard certificate

On 2018-06-15, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all - I am trying to figure out how to add a wild card certificate given > to me for a CentOS installation. You've already got the cert so it's not totally relevant, but in the future you can consider using Let's Encrypt. They won't distribute wildcard

Re: [CentOS] Passwords in plain text

On 2018-06-15, Dave Stevens wrote: > > see here: > https://investorplace.com/2016/09/gmail-down-outage-googl-goog-stock/ Wasn't this almost two years ago? --keith -- kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Kernel Support

On 2018-06-16, Johnny Hughes via CentOS wrote: > > You agreed to an EULA that says you will not distribute things that you > get from that paid subscription. You can do it, and be in violation of > the terms of your subscription. Is this enforceable with the GPLv2? IIRC someone who distributes

Re: [CentOS] Passwords in plain text

On 2018-06-15, rj coleman wrote: > Am I the only one who just received this email from this group? Which came > with my password in the email in plain text? This is a standard feature of GNU Mailman. You can disable the monthly password reminder in your user preferences (which is the same

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Kernel Support

On 2018-06-14, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > It turns out you are absolutely right. You only have provide modified > source to users to whom you distribute derived work. Found it here: > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic Not totally relevant to this

Re: [CentOS] C7, encryption, and clevis

On 2018-06-08, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Frank, I 100% agree with you. The only case with spoofed MAC address and > license that may have chance to stand in court will be if all below are > true: > > 1. the company issued perpetual license. > 2. the company does not exist Based on what's

Re: [CentOS] git public web frontends

On 2018-06-06, Alice Wonder wrote: > I'll be putting those in /srv/git and using a different username than > the account for my private git repositories. > > But... can anyone recommend a web front end? Another recommendation for Gitlab. For maximum flexibility you can just run it out of a

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: install python package in userspace

On 2018-04-10, Richard Grainger wrote: > If you can use python3 rather than python2, it looks like the > dependencies in the standard repos are new enough. SCL might be an option for providing a more recent python. I'm not sure if scikit is in SCL too, but I'm pretty sure

Re: [CentOS] XScreenSaver

On 2018-04-08, Nicolas Kovacs <i...@microlinux.fr> wrote: > Le 09/04/2018 à 00:33, Keith Keller a écrit : >> I think you can use the --no-splash switch. >> >> https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html >> >> There's probably also a config se

Re: [CentOS] XScreenSaver

On 2018-04-08, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > As far as I can tell, there would be several solutions to this problem. > > 1. Ask the EPEL maintainers to keep the application up-to-date. > > 2. Patch the darn thing so I don't get the annoying popup. > > 3. Maintain my own up-to-date

Re: [CentOS] How insecure is NIS ? Possible alternatives ?

On 2018-03-26, Leon Fauster wrote: > > Quite time ago we had a stripped setup here working only with Openldap and > PAM modules. LDAP with replication for redundancy, centralized communication > with local CA and over TLS. It worked very well. The successor of such

Re: [CentOS] broadcom and centos 7

On 2017-12-19, Gary Stainburn <g...@ringways.co.uk> wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2017 03:56:20 Keith Keller wrote: >> On 2017-12-19, Keith Keller <kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: >> > https://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod >> >> I decided to give

Re: [CentOS] broadcom and centos 7

On 2017-12-19, Keith Keller <kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > > https://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod I decided to give this a go, and so far so good. I did need to rebuild the rpm after updating the kernel version from the previous one to the current one, but from the page abo

[CentOS] broadcom and centos 7

Hi all, A year or two ago, I installed CentOS 7.0 (or 7.1) on an old MacBook Pro, and compiled the Broadcom drivers as documented here: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom After not using it for a while, I recently resurrected it, and updated to 7.4. Unfortunately that

Re: [CentOS] how to install pyserial on centos 6?

On 2017-11-06, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > python2-ivi-0.14.9-3.el6.noarch : %{sum} > Repo: epel > Matched from: > Filename: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ivi/interface/pyserial.pyo > Filename:

Re: [CentOS] low end file server with h/w RAID - recommendations

On 2017-11-04, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Sat, November 4, 2017 4:32 am, hw wrote: > >> If the cli is poor, the gui may seem much better Indeed. Before the storcli tool came out, the only CLI tool for the LSI cards was MegaCli, and it was atrocious. In that case I

Re: [CentOS] low end file server with h/w RAID - recommendations

On 2017-11-02, Valeri Galtsev <galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, November 2, 2017 4:43 pm, Keith Keller wrote: >> >> There are Nagios plugins that can check the status of LSI controllers, >> arrays, and drives. The plugin is nice even if you don't use

Re: [CentOS] low end file server with h/w RAID - recommendations

On 2017-11-02, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > If you have not Dell server hardware my choice of [hardware] RAID cards > would be: > > Areca > LSI (or whoever owns that line these days - Intel was the last one, I > recollect) > > With LSI beware that they have really nasty

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Use CentOS to create a bootable Mac OS X DVD from dmg file?

On 2017-09-23, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Anyone here with experience on installing CentOS on a MacBook Pro? This > model is from 2009. As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), Apple > hardware always uses EFI. > > What can I expect? Flawless installation or countless hours

Re: [CentOS] Flush memory on a server?

On 2017-09-09, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > So, in other words, there's no need to worry if a little swap is used > when the system's been running non-stop for a couple months? As long as your system isn't thrashing swap it's totally fine. From what you've written it doesn't

Re: [CentOS] installer with centosplus kernel?

On 2017-06-23, Johnny Hughes <joh...@centos.org> wrote: > On 06/22/2017 04:36 PM, Keith Keller wrote: >> Is there any way to get a CentOS 7 ISO with the centosplus kernel? > > If you are physically near the machine, just plugging in and mounting a > thumb drive w

Re: [CentOS] installer with centosplus kernel?

Hi Johnny, Akemi, On 2017-06-23, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > If you are physically near the machine, just plugging in and mounting a > thumb drive with the said RPMs copied to it and doing: > > yum install >/kernel-plus-3.10.0-514.21.2.el7.centos.plus.x86_64.rpm > > Should work

[CentOS] installer with centosplus kernel?

Hi all, Is there any way to get a CentOS 7 ISO with the centosplus kernel? I have some very old hardware I'd like to keep going if easy, but it has old NVidia network cards that need the forcedeth driver. Apparently this driver is now in the centosplus kernel, but if I use the default ISO I

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

On 2017-04-11, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > You also don't have the flexibility to replace the kernel. Or glibc. But you do, don't you? It'll take you months to replace them, or years to rewrite, but you *can* do it. That is the freedom that open source software

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

On 2017-04-10, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > The same here. Could repeat that word for word. I fled what I could to > FreeBSD, but in that process systemd was just the last drop that confirmed > that my earlier decision to abandon Linux to the extent I can was right. >

Re: [CentOS] Need help

On 2017-03-20, Styma, Robert (Nokia - US) wrote: > I am also using CentOS, but to get a bug fixed, you have to go upstream to > RedHat. I think John Pierce is right, I had to change my run level to get > the alternate consoles to work. I still have the machine at run

Re: [CentOS] qmail package for CentOS 7

On 2017-03-15, rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: > > Qmail is a very special beast... It's definitely a beast. I usually suggest postfix, which gives many of the benefits that qmail gives (separate processes for separate tasks) without the blatant drawbacks (djb's suggestion

Re: [CentOS] qmail package for CentOS 7

On 2017-03-14, rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: > > You could try Matt Simerson's Toaster: > > https://github.com/msimerson/Mail-Toaster-6 > > It does a lot more than just qmail and replaced as much of qmail as > possible... But is it for Linux? The Wiki says: "each

Re: [CentOS] RAID questions

On 2017-02-17, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: > On 2/16/2017 9:18 PM, Keith Keller wrote: >>> Only some systems support that sort of restriping, and its a dangerous >>> activity (if the power fails or system crashes midway through the >>>

Re: [CentOS] RAID questions

On 2017-02-15, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/14/2017 4:48 PM, tdu...@palmettoshopper.com wrote: > >> 3 - Can additional drive(s) be added later with a changein RAID level >> without current data loss? > > Only some systems support that sort of restriping, and its a dangerous >

Re: [CentOS] raid 10 not in consistent state?

On 2017-02-03, lejeczek wrote: > hi everyone > I've just configured a simple raid10 on a Dell system, but > one thing is puzzling to me. > I'm seeing this below and I wonder why? There: Consist = No > ... > /c0/v1 : >== > >

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

On 2017-01-30, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Mark has problem sending mail to centos@centos.org list Isn't there an email address for the list admins? https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos centos-ow...@centos.org It's a bit unproductive to trouble list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and Areca ARC-1883I SAS controller: JBOD or not to JBOD?

On 2017-01-20, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Hm, not certain what process you describe. Most of my controllers are > 3ware and LSI, I just pull failed drive (and I know phailed physical drive > number), put good in its place and rebuild stars right away. I know for sure

Re: [CentOS] cron job failures with a perl script containing Astro::Time

On 2017-01-02, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > The error message I get in the logs is : > > Can't locate Astro/Time.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 > /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl > /usr/lib64/perl5

Re: [CentOS] Centos OS Crash Recovery, Inquiry.

On 2016-11-03, Christopher G. Halnin wrote: > > Does it have an automatic backup system? Not out of the box. If the drive is not usable in its current state, and you do not have backups, you may need to bring it to a professional drive recovery shop. --keith --

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Backup Suggestion on C7

On 2016-10-12, Alice Wonder wrote: > I'm sure some people will tell me I'm doing it wrong but I always just > use rsync for backups, automated in cron. You're doing it wrong. ;-) You're not really doing it ''wrong'', it just depends on what your needs are. One drawback

Re: [CentOS] mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified

On 2016-10-03, Jon LaBadie wrote: > IIRC, for mount.nfs, the "r" option is read only while the "w" > option is read+write. They may be mutually exclusive. I don't believe this is accurate. ro and rw are mutually exclusive, but there is no "w" option. (Which doesn't help the

Re: [CentOS] Using keepass on Centos 6

On 2016-09-21, Valeri Galtsev <galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > On Wed, September 21, 2016 4:30 pm, Keith Keller wrote: >> On 2016-09-21, Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 09/21/2016 11:30 AM, H wrote: >>> >>> https:

Re: [CentOS] Using keepass on Centos 6

On 2016-09-21, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 09/21/2016 11:30 AM, H wrote: >> You are right, I'll look at it again. Let me ask, what other password >> managers are people using, if any? > > > I use keepass, but I know people who like: > > https://www.passwordstore.org/

Re: [CentOS] IPMI ??

On 2016-09-18, Alice Wonder wrote: > > But for now via VGA cable it is all working. > > Once I'm back home and this server is set up where it goes, I'll try > playing with non-browser IPMI tools and see what it is all about. Now that you have a console, you can use the

Re: [CentOS] IPMI ??

On 2016-09-18, Boris Epstein wrote: > Is there a little setup display right on the box? Just asking because I > have seen that on some boxes. You mean for configuring the IPMI interface? I've never seen that but it sounds very cool. Do you have specific references for

Re: [CentOS] IPMI ??

On 2016-09-17, Alice Wonder wrote: > > Okay if it requires DHCP this might be out, I'm currently out of town > watching my brothers (various disabilities) while parents are on much > needed vacation. Don't have easy physical access to the router, would > have to take out

Re: [CentOS] DNF update

On 2016-09-08, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: > On 9/7/2016 7:02 PM, Keith Keller wrote: >>> Staying with excellent C6 until the end. >> CentOS 7 is yum based, not dnf. > > "Always Learning" seems to have a distaste for anything new or different

Re: [CentOS] DNF update

On 2016-09-08, Always Learning wrote: > > In any single version of Centos there is only one YUM. Having multiple > and incompatible versions of Yum in the same software release is > bonkers. Fedora is the place to try out bonkers stuff. If RedHat is satisfied with dnf then

Re: [CentOS] .htaccess file

On 2016-08-30, TE Dukes wrote: > >> You and another poster mentioned fail2ban; if you can get that configured > to >> watch and protect both sshd and httpd that will help both problems quite a >> bit. > > I have all the jails setup for the services I'm running. Not

Re: [CentOS] .htaccess file

On 2016-08-29, TE Dukes wrote: >> >> Can you be more specific about the "load" you're trying to mitigate? Is it >> really the load on your home system, or is it that attackers are using your >> bandwidth, or a combination? > > [Thomas E Dukes] > I saw that as well

Re: [CentOS] .htaccess file

On 2016-08-28, TE Dukes wrote: > I setup an ipset but quickly ran out of room in the set. I guess I'll have > to setup multiple sets. I'm not familiar with ipsets, but from a quick Google search it seems like you can increase the size of an ipset (or make a new larger

Re: [CentOS] .htaccess file

On 2016-08-28, TE Dukes wrote: > > I'm just not following or understanding. The .htaccess file works but on a > slow DSL, I don't want the hits. What exactly is slow when you receive requests from remote clients that you don't want? Are you actually seeing problems

Re: [CentOS] Securing RPC

On 2016-07-01, Leon Vergottini wrote: > > Unfortunately, I cannot disable NFS which lies at the root of this > problem. In addition, I am struggling to find a proper tutorial of moving > NFS from udp over to tcp. I think the best thing to do is to set up VPN links

Re: [CentOS] remote backup

On 2016-06-09, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/09/2016 08:18 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> How I can perform this check? > > > Run rsync with the -c argument. Will this be very slow if Alessandro has a large number of files? OTOH if he really needs to ensure integrity

Re: [CentOS] remote backup

On 2016-06-04, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > i've need to backup a partition of ~200GB with a local connection of 8/2 > mbps. > > Tool like bacula, amanda can't help me due to low bandwidth in local server. > > I'm thinking rsync will be a good choice. If you want

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 spontaneous reboots

Hi Bill, On 2016-05-30, Bill Gee wrote: > > By luck I saw the beginning of a reboot on the server console. Normally I > have > other systems up on the KVM switch. It appears to have dumped core. I don't > know where to look for the core dump files. They are not in

Re: [CentOS] google cloud compute with PEM file

On 2016-05-17, Always Learning wrote: > > (1) I would change the port from 22 to something more difficult to > guess, perhaps 49026 (for example) and then block port 22 in the > firewall. > > (2) Allow to port 49026 (for example) traffic from your IP and block > traffic from

Re: [CentOS] C6: Gparted "the kernel failed to re-read partition table"

On 2016-05-14, Scott Robbins wrote: > > Secondly, if that's not practical, that message is common when using, say > fdisk. Sometimes, running partprobe afterwards will reflect the new > partition scheme, other times, you may just have to reboot. I always assumed that it was

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: MegaCli and initializing a RAID

On 2016-05-06, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Agree. But I would say the same about all command line interface utilities > for all RAID brands I ever used. LSI likely is the worst. The old Adaptec AAC/AFA syntax was also awful, I'd say just as bad as LSI. (I have suspected

Re: [CentOS] SOT: Best strategy for automatize a flow that need user interaction

On 2016-01-29, reynie...@gmail.com wrote: > I am working in a Dockerfile but there is a "secure" MariaDB server script > I need to run which is interactive and I don't know how to deal with this. Honestly, I think your best long-term strategy for getting help with Docker is

Re: [CentOS] Write content to file from Dockerfile and/or any other method

On 2016-01-29, reynie...@gmail.com wrote: > I am building a Dockerfile and I am setting up MariaDB repos as follow: This question is probably way offtopic for a CentOS mailing list. > # Setup MariaDB repos > RUN touch /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo > > What's the right way

Re: [CentOS] Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

On 2016-01-08, H wrote: > That was not helpful - I explained that I had to run this version. That was probably partly Peter's point: you are very unlikely to get any helpful responses if you are running 3.8, and you are therefore likely on your own. That's probably not

Re: [CentOS] SSD drives for the OS - 1 or 2?

On 2016-01-05, Rob Kampen wrote: > - does just a single SSD drive offer the same reliability or is there > advantage in deploying two in a Raid 1 config? All else being equal, a RAID1 will be more reliable than a single drive, whether it's magnetic or SSD. > Also,

Re: [CentOS] Extending a CentOS disk without reboot

On 2015-12-21, Sander Kuusemets wrote: > And while dmesg reported that it recognized the partition change, LVM > did still not see it. So eventually, I was still forced to reboot, after > which everything (pvresize, lvresize, resize2fs) worked fine. Environment: > > *

Re: [CentOS] Rsync and differential Backups

On 2015-11-10, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > I'm fully with you on -o inode64, but I would think it is not inode number > that becomes large with extensive use of hard links, but the space used by > directory data, thus requiring to relocate these once they exceed some >

Re: [CentOS] Rsync and differential Backups

On 2015-11-09, John R Pierce wrote: > > XFS handles this fine. I have a backuppc storage pool with backups of > 27 servers going back a year... now, I just have 30 days of > incrementals, and 12 months of fulls, I'm sure you know this already, but for those who may not,

Re: [CentOS] Disaster recovery recommendations

On 2015-10-31, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > 2. Hardware RAIDs (and probably software RAIDs - someone chime in, I'm > staying away from software RAIDs) have the ability to schedule "verify" > task. Linux mdraid can do verifies. Recent versions of CentOS should have a cron

Re: [CentOS] PHP version not enough for developers

On 2015-10-24, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > For the sake of everyone's sanity .. if you (any user, not mark > specifically) don't want to use systemd, then please don't use CentOS-7. For example, you could help out with Devuan, which aims to remove systemd from Debian, or you can

Re: [CentOS] [OT] linux on a PPC (mac mini)

On 2015-09-15, Leon Fauster wrote: >> On 2015-09-15, wwp wrote: >>> >>> Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I >>> need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux MintPPC 11 >>>

Re: [CentOS] [OT] linux on a PPC (mac mini)

On 2015-09-15, wwp wrote: > > Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I > need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux MintPPC 11 > (http://www.mintppc.org/content/list-macs) a try, but the netinstall > iso simply fails in installing

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

On 2015-09-14, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > I think xfce is part of EPEL .. I use MATE from EPEL and there is also > Cinnamon there. I believe you're right about xfce. I'm so out of it I hadn't even heard of MATE or Cinnamon. :) They seem more like DEs, what are folks using as

[CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

Hi all, I recently got a brand new MacBook Pro, replacing one that is over 5.5 years old. I'm trying to think of something to do with the old laptop, and one idea I had was to put CentOS on it. After some initial struggles, I finally found this page, which tells how to tell the installer to

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 on older macbook pro

On 2015-09-14, Hal Wigoda wrote: > Use Oracles VM VirtualBox. Well, I explicitly don't want to do that, since it uses even more resources than OS X by itself. Having linux run on the bare metal without OS X should be much more efficient. > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Keith Keller

Re: [CentOS] setting up solr/tomcat gives 404 page

On 2015-09-09, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hey all, > > I tried following a few guides and I'm struggling with trying to setup > apache solr 4.10 under apache tomcat 7.0.64 along with the drupal config > necessary to get that this working with drupal. > > The latest guide I

Re: [CentOS] Oracle java RPM

On 2015-09-04, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > > Years ago the recommended way to install Sun's java was to install from > the tar.gz file because the RPM they supplied did some bad things > (clobbered other files or something...can't remember the details). Is > this

Re: [CentOS] fsck mdraid root partition

Apologies for the late reply; I only just saw this message today. On 2015-08-17, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: It shows as /dev/md/2, while it is called /dev/md2 if I boot into the OS. It's possible that one is a symlink to the other. IIRC the /dev/md2 naming style is somewhat

Re: [CentOS] xfs question

On 2015-08-05, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: This is not at all our findings on large file systems or filesystems with large numbers of inodes. We in fact on many occasions ran into such problems. To the OP, if you're 64-bit everywhere there's no problems so enjoy the benefits

Re: [CentOS] New controller card issues

On 2015-05-28, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: I do use both LSI and 3ware. Both are now owned by Avago. (Not sure when that happened, last I looked LSI was its own company.) For me big advantage of 3ware is transparent interface. By which I mean web interface. There is

Re: [CentOS] New controller card issues

On 2015-05-28, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: Now, seriously: of more than a couple of dozens of cards I used during last about 13 years not a single one died on me. I have had a couple dozen hardware RAID controllers over the years. I have not had the success you've had, but

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

On 2015-05-06, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: This sounds like Apple borrowed your idea for their time machine (I bet you are doing it for much-much linger than Apple time machine exists)! rsnapshot has been using rsync with hard links for ages. http://rsnapshot.org/ --keith

Re: [CentOS] filesystem corruption?

On 2015-04-07, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: before even running fsck or badblocks (BTW, badblocks has non-destructive mode) - too late to mention now. You may need this image for future forensics. e2fsck -c will run badblocks in read-only mode, so it may not be too late.

Re: [CentOS] xfs fsck error metadata corruption

On 2015-03-23, Stephen Drotar step...@artifex360.com wrote: Can CENTOS be used with ext3 or ext4 partitioning? Yes (as someone else said, they're filesystem types, not partition types), but if there is a hardware issue, as John noted, ext3 or ext4 won't solve the problem. xfs is usually fairly

Re: [CentOS] xfs fsck error metadata corruption

On 2015-03-23, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: For future reference -L is a big hammer. If you use it without explicitly attempting a read-write mount (which a read only mount at boot time will not do because it's an ro mount by default) ...for the root filesystem, anyway. For

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7.0 and mismatched swap file

On 2015-02-15, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: I am putting together a new mail server for our firm using a SuperMicro with Centos 7.0. When performed the install of the os, I put 16 gigs of memory in the wrong slots on the mother board which caused the SuperMicro to recognize 8 gigs

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

On 2015-02-10, Always Learning cen...@u64.u22.net wrote: My decisions are based on what I know. Those decisions can be called informed decisions. Calling them informed decisions doesn't automatically make them informed decisions. --keith -- kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us

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