Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, freely does not imply free to redistribute. Of course these informations are available from various sources which allow redistribution, but it takes time to aggregate them - time that someone need to spend doing the necessary research. best regards, Markus On Mon, 2021-06-21 at 13:53 +0200,

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, this is really bad news. Back in 2014 [1], sadly no one at RH seems to remember... "Some of the things that are not changing: - - The CentOS Linux platform isn't changing. The process and methods built up around the platform however are going to become more open, more inclusive and

Re: [CentOS] systemd syslog.target

2020-08-11 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, if I get it correctly [1] it is not recommended to use After=syslog but it's not forbidden. But as the syslog.service should not be enabled it is not running anyway. As the man page states: "If a unit foo.service contains a setting Before=bar.service and both units are being started,

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT : where is Cipherli.st ?

2020-03-16 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, not exactly your question but it might help you anyway. Mozilla provides an great config generator for many commonly used applications for multiple application and openssl versions [1]. You can choose between 3 security levels. They reflect how old/out- dated your clients you need to

Re: [CentOS] About license at redistribution

2019-11-14 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, at first I'm not part of the CentOS Project nor I'm a lawyer. But may I can answer your questions. According to the CentOS About page "CentOS Linux is no-cost and free to redistribute." [1]. So as you are planning to redistribute it should be fine to do. While redistributing you also need to

Re: [CentOS] XRDP idle disconnect

2019-09-27 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, there is an option in sesman.ini called KillDisconnected. This could be what you are looking for [1]. There is also an option called DisconnectTimeLimit to set your custom timeout [2]. But I haven't tested this method. A more graceful method should be letting your desktop environment

Re: [CentOS] Why is the branch c6 empty for every rpm packages?

2019-08-27 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, I can't tell you why CentOS 6 isn't available an git.centos.org anymore but I think your assumption is right. You may find what you need on http://vault.centos.org/ . Best regards Markus On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 16:31 +0800, Qiying Wang wrote: > Hi, > > I wan't to find the sqlite & python rpm

Re: [CentOS] systemd

2019-02-08 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, for compiling Kernel Modules it might be worth looking at DKMS. DKMS is available through EPEL and is designed to compile Kernel Modules in an automated way when ever Kernel Updates are made. For more Informations on DKMS see [1, 2, 3]. best regards, Markus [1] https://github.com/dell/dkms

Re: [CentOS] looking for a tool to convert my running system into a installation dvd

2019-02-04 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, probably you are looking for Anacondas kickstart feature. A kickstart installation can be used to install all your packages and provide basic system configuration. It is possible, but not meant to be used as, to even configure the system as you have it currently running using post-install

Re: [CentOS] [Marketing Mail] Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: Cups freeze when remote server is unavailable

2018-10-30 Thread Lange, Markus
> newer cups version (> 2.x ?) > > Time is to go deeper in all these documentations and build a scenario > to > set up cups in these automatic installations process. I agree, it was > not a bug, just misunderstanding new cups software behaviour. > > Patrick > >

Re: [CentOS] [Marketing Mail] Re: Cups freeze when remote server is unavailable

2018-10-29 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, John tries to tell you: Revert your configuration changes to the config file and use the local web interface / lp* / GUI Print Server Configuration tool to setup all printers at work and / or at home using these tools. This method needs a local cups instance that works if your OS is running

Re: [CentOS] [Marketing Mail] Re: LVM and Backups

2018-09-19 Thread Lange, Markus
On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 08:55 +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Il 18/09/2018 17:14, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: > > On 9/17/18 11:38 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > > Il 17/09/2018 22:12, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: > > > > That doesn't look right.  It should look more like 1) stop or > > > > freeze 

Re: [CentOS] [Marketing Mail] Centos7 update: epel no route to host

2018-05-11 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, there seem to be some problems with the epel. I'm not sure if your problem (have the same on my systems) relate to this, however see epel- devel Mailinglist [1] for more information on current epel problems. Best regards Markus [1]

Re: [CentOS] [Marketing Mail] Re: [External] Re: [Marketing Mail] Create CentOS 6 system as "clone" of another - with LVM and different disk sizes

2018-04-13 Thread Lange, Markus
+0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > On 13/04/18 15:32, Lange, Markus wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > You can simply boot a live system to create your partition layout and copy > > it > > over the existing system with rsync. Once your system is copied, you will > >

Re: [CentOS] [Marketing Mail] Create CentOS 6 system as "clone" of another - with LVM and different disk sizes

2018-04-13 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, You can simply boot a live system to create your partition layout and copy it over the existing system with rsync. Once your system is copied, you will need to customize all hardware-dependent configuration files such as {crypt,fs}tab, network configurations, bootloader and so on depending on