Re: [CentOS] How do I download RHEL 8.3 with free license and free subscription for my production servers?

2021-01-28 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
On 1/28/2021 10:40 AM, Andrew Pearce wrote: > On 2021-01-28 15:08, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: >> Subject: How do I download RHEL 8.3 with free license and free >> subscription >> for my production servers? >> >> Good day from Singapore, >> >> I am referring to the following news

Re: [CentOS] Disk choice for workstation ?

2020-12-26 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
I have seen significant improvement when virtual machine disks are on their own spindle/ssd. I would add an SSD and put the VM's on it. Mike On 12/26/2020 3:20 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > My workstation is currently equipped with a pair of Western Digital Red 1 TB > SATA disks in a

Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice locking up

2020-11-03 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
> Can you reproduce the problem with this document? > > And, when the crash happened, could you still ping the computer from > another device in the network? > > Crashing hard so that only a reset helps is usually only possible with a > kernel bug or hardware issue, not something LibreOffice

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-01 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
It appears that it is affecting multiple distributions including Debian and Ubuntu so it looks like the grub2 team messed up. See https://www.zdnet.com/article/boothole-fixes-causing-boot-problems-across-multiple-linux-distros/ Mike On 8/1/2020 6:11 PM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote: > > >> Am

[CentOS] perl-Curses in C8?

2020-06-06 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
Are there any repos that would have perl-Curses for CentOS 8? It was always available in epel but not anymore. Thanks, Mike ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] VNC question

2018-12-19 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
On 12/19/18 4:36 AM, isdtor wrote: > We have run into the infamous black screen problem with tigervnc under > CentOS7, which prompted me to look into how vnc is configured here. > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/966063 > > Am I reading this correctly - root needs to set up a systemd vnc

Re: [CentOS] SFTP - Private/Public Authentication Keysets Beyond The First Set

2018-12-13 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
On 12/12/18 4:40 PM, Gary Braatz wrote: > Inclusion of the -i flag and the location of the private key solved the > problem. > > Thanks Steve! > > You really don't need multiple ppk pairs for different hosts. One for all is what I do. As long as you keep the private key private you only need

Re: [CentOS] kernel 3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64 + EFI on Dell server - problem

2018-11-20 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
On 11/20/18 8:45 AM, Phil Wyett wrote: > On Tue, 2018-11-20 at 13:42 +, Phil Wyett wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-11-20 at 13:32 +, lejeczek via CentOS wrote: > >> hi guys > >> > >> I've one box where I just yesterday upgraded Centos. I > >> wonder if that kernel upgrade process might somewhat >

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager, multiple IPs, and selinux...

2018-10-04 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
On 10/4/18 4:10 PM, Sean wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if any one has seen issues with selinux name_bind denials > that result from having IP:PORT bindings for services to specific IP > addresses managed on an interface under NetworkManager's control? Is selinux denying the request or

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-07-24 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
Your IP address is flagged as spam in Real Time Block Lists. Are you using a dynamic IP address? You may have a mis-configured server that is allowing spammers to relay through your server. Another possibility is your system is compromised with a spambot. Mike On 07/24/2018 07:31 AM, TE Dukes

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 on Dell Latitude E6500

2018-05-13 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
Does this laptop have the Nvidia Quadro graphics option? If so try booting with NOMODESET. Also, if available in the BIOS turn OFF switchable graphics. Mike ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754

2018-01-07 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
How about kernel-lt and kernel-ml? Mike On 01/04/2018 05:41 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Jan 4, 2018, at 12:18 PM, Walter H. wrote: >> will there be updates for these CVEs for CentOS 6? > Red Hat hasn’t released them all yet. Quoting Christopher Robinson in the >

Re: [CentOS] Btrfs going forward, was: Errors on an SSD drive

2017-08-12 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
> For SSDs all the sauce is in the firmware. If the model and firmware > were all the same, it is more likely to be a firmware bug than it is > to be a Btrfs bug. There are absolutely cases where Btrfs runs into > problems that other file systems don't, because Btrfs is designed to > detect them

Re: [CentOS] What RH-like on a Dell XPS 15 (9590)?

2017-08-02 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
On 08/02/2017 10:55 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 07/27/2017 04:16 PM, wwp wrote: >> ... >> It is as simple as unknown hardware at boot up, it's a well known issue >> w/ *Lake hardware (modern hardware) that kernel 3.x cannot handle. >> CentOS7 has a kernel which is simply not modern, unable to

Re: [CentOS] What RH-like on a Dell XPS 15 (9590)?

2017-07-27 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
I would go with Fedora or OpenSUSE latest if you want RH like on that hardware. There is nothing that unstable about them other than losing updates and maintenance after 2 years and having to upgrade. Another choice is to run Virtualbox on the Windows that shipped with the laptop and run a CentOS

Re: [CentOS] IPv6 broken on Linode

2017-02-16 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
Having used Linode and CentOS for years I have never had a problem quite like this. Sure sounds like the IPv6 is misconfigured in the DHCP server or is in use somewhere. Some things I would try are: 1. Set "Auto configure networking" in your config profile and reboot. 2. Try to assign the

Re: [CentOS] firewalld

2017-01-28 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
firewalld isn't the only thing that will prevent services from accessing the internet. I found that I needed to do a relabel before postfix could access DNS and I have seen other issues as well. Have you tried disabling the firewall to see if you can get connections to work? Then try to disable

Re: [CentOS] SELinux file permissions

2017-01-24 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
This last update caused numerous services to stop working for me. I fixed them with a relabel. touch /.autorelabel reboot Try that and see... Mike On 01/23/2017 01:57 PM, Tim Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to grant dovecot the ability to manage its socket within > the postfix spool

Re: [CentOS] Test

2017-01-18 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
The SPF record for your email provider did not match the sending systems for your domain. Possibly the IP address or DNS record changed recently at your ISP? On 01/18/2017 01:33 PM, TE Dukes wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Hal

Re: [CentOS] New laptop recomendation

2016-11-22 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
I have been buying off-lease used Latitudes and Precision laptops for years for the sole reason that they are always Linux friendly and solidly reliable. Most of them can be ordered new with Ubuntu. Mike On 11/22/2016 10:23 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: > Hi, > > I'm recently retired from my

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
> [Thomas E Dukes] > > I was about to head off to Bestbuy and pickup a 1TB SATA drive but I think > I'm going to hold off for now and use /home for the VMs. > > Thanks!! > > I find that putting the virtual machine disks on their own spindle boosts performance SIGNIFICANTLY, especially if you are

Re: [CentOS] Realtek 8111GR on C7

2016-06-03 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
Realtek is "real" good about getting drivers for their chips into the kernels as soon as possible. They are one of the few vendors that I have never had a problem with built in support... Mike McCarthy On 06/03/2016 08:03 AM, Phil Manuel wrote: You can get the Linux driver from

Re: [CentOS] Cyrus 2.4 and Centos6

2015-02-27 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
Is there a reason why you need 2.4 vs. the 2.3 package from the CentOS6 repos? Mike On 02/27/2015 05:19 AM, Timothy Kesten wrote: Hi Folks, I'd like to install cyrus-imapd 2.4 in CentOS6. Found rpm cyrus 2.4 for CentOS6 on rpmseek. cyrus-imapd-2.4.17-30.1.x86_64.rpm But there are

Re: [CentOS] Help with IPv6 /48 block

2015-01-11 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
The normal usage for a /48 block is to divide it into /64 sub-networks and use DHCP to issue addresses to each subnet from the corresponding /64 segment. I would recommend taking the IPv6 certification course from Hurricane Electric at https://ipv6.he.net/certification/ as a start. Mike

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop support

2014-10-02 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
On 10/02/2014 01:38 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 10/02/2014 06:39 AM, Brian Miller wrote: On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: I'm wondering what the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing a laptop? Been using CentOS.available on a series of Dell Precision laptops

[CentOS] Webalizer not available for CentOS 7?

2014-08-14 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
It seems that the Webalizer WEB statistics reporting package is no longer available in CentOS 7. Rather than building from Sourceforge and writing custom configuration files for it, is there an alternative? Use the Fedora package? Another WEB analyzer? Thanks, Mike

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 in VirtualBox

2014-07-10 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
I had to go into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3 and change ONBOOT=yes and reboot. I'm sure there is a management tool or something with Network Manager to do it, but the manual edit worked for me. Mike On 07/10/2014 04:15 PM, Wes James wrote: On Jul 10, 2014, at 01:52 PM, Wes

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 in VirtualBox

2014-07-10 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
On further investigation, system-config-... scripts no longer seem to be available :-( . nmcli and nmtui seem to be a replacement for command line network configuration. Mike On 07/10/2014 04:37 PM, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote: I had to go into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3

[CentOS] Moving sshd listen port

2014-07-09 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having a problem getting sshd to run after changing it's default port. I edit sshd_config and set the desired port, open it with firewall-cmd and then issue a systemctl start sshd. No error gets reported on the console but the following is

Re: [CentOS] Moving sshd listen port

2014-07-09 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
McCarthy, W1NR wrote: I am having a problem getting sshd to run after changing it's default port. I edit sshd_config and set the desired port, open it with firewall-cmd and then issue a systemctl start sshd. No error gets reported on the console but the following is logged in /var/messages

Re: [CentOS] Moving sshd listen port

2014-07-09 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SELinux is not running. Any other ideas? Mike On 07/09/2014 10:50 AM, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote: This was a minimal install for a virtual server and semanage is not available so the command doesn't work... What package is semanage in? Mike

Re: [CentOS] Moving sshd listen port

2014-07-09 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
Not using IPTables. Using firewalld and yes, I opened the new port there as well. Mike On 07/09/2014 11:08 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 07/09/2014 10:54 AM, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote: SELinux is not running. Any other ideas? Did you update your IPTable? I change my SSHD port all

Re: [CentOS] Moving sshd listen port

2014-07-09 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
Nothing more than what was in messages namely 'code=exited, status=255/n/a' which looks an awful lot like a printf of an uninitialized variable... Mike On 07/09/2014 11:21 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 10:54:29AM -0400, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote: SELinux is not running

Re: [CentOS] Moving sshd listen port

2014-07-09 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
: On 09/07/14 15:35, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote: sshd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a Hi Mike Can you run sshd manually in debugging mode and paste the output please: $ /usr/sbin/sshd -d It's worth looking at the output of strace that may help here: $ strace /usr

Re: [CentOS] Moving sshd listen port

2014-07-09 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
Well, getenforce says enforcing but 'systemctl status selinux' says 'Active: inactive (dead)' ? Mike On 07/09/2014 11:45 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 07/09/2014 09:54 AM, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote: SELinux is not running. Any other ideas? Are you sure? (It's enabled by default.) What does

Re: [CentOS] Moving sshd listen port SOLVED

2014-07-09 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
After installing the correct utilities and setting the port with semanage, it now works. Thanks to all for this one. Looks like I got some real work to do moving from 6 to 7 and understanding the massive management changes that were made. Mike On 07/09/2014 12:04 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: I

Re: [CentOS] Moving sshd listen port SOLVED

2014-07-09 Thread Mike McCarthy, W1NR
:34 PM, Markus Falb wrote: On 09.Jul.2014, at 18:44, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-07-09, Mike McCarthy, W1NR sy...@w1nr.net wrote: After installing the correct utilities and setting the port with semanage, it now works. Thanks to all for this one. Looks like I got some