Re: [CentOS] CentOS on new Thinkpads

2016-09-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
ies in the hands of CentOS/Fedora. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Backup Question/Solution

2016-08-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
my CentOS machine.) -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] KMail

2016-07-24 Thread Timothy Murphy
Yamaban wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:44, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> KMail seems to work on other Linux OS's. > Work? Keyword here is "seems". > [rant] > Since Kmail1 on KDE3 there is no really fully working > version that does not bork up your mail semi re

[CentOS] KMail

2016-07-24 Thread Timothy Murphy
Any hope of KMail (and Kontact) coming to CentOS-7? What exactly is the problem? KMail seems to work on other Linux OS's. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.2 and KDE

2016-07-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
unning CentOS-7.2/KDE and see the Hibernate option when I click on the CentOS icon in the panel and choose Leave. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

[CentOS] Problem with cloud-init on re-boot

2016-07-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
-init, but I'm wondering if there is a simple solution to the problem? Actually, I don't remember installing cloud-init; maybe it was brought in by some other package? It's not clear to me why I should need it; is it a necessary adjunct to libvirtd? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School

[CentOS] Help sought for email problem

2016-07-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
. Any advice or elucidation gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] dnf replacing yum?

2016-05-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
t was sad to lose. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] OT: Linksys router misbehaviour

2016-05-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
have a couple of IP cameras working by WiFi on the computer, which I can look at remotely. I've connected one by TP-Link through the router, and this doesn't cut out, but it is not wholly satisfactory. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

[CentOS] Copying CentOS to new drive

2016-05-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
/sda7 /mnt/old # mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/new # cp -avx /mnt/old /mnt/new or # rsync -ax --progress /mnt/old /mnt/new -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Copying a live system

2016-05-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
gt; > Yes. When we're cloning a system, such as a compute node in a cluster, or > rsync upgrading, we > rsync -HPavxz /. newmachine:/new/. > rsync -HPavxz /boot/. newmachine:/boot//new/. Thanks very much to you, and all who responded to my query. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom

[CentOS] Copying a live system

2016-05-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
I want to backup my current CentOS-7.2 system to another drive. Is it safe to copy the system while it is running? Eg by mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt rsync -HPaxvz /. /mnt/ I've found contradictory advice on the web. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College

Re: [CentOS] [OT] disk utility showing message "the partition is misaligned by"

2016-04-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
g wrote: > after new install, transfer my current /home to new drive, wipe > current drive, partition and format it. > > anyone see anything wrong with such thinking? I assume you would have to run grub2-mkconfig and grub2 install or equivalent. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot C7 with Window 10

2016-04-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
by default? Will it become so at some point? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Problem updating ddclient

2016-04-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > when I ran "sudo yum update" on my CentOS-7.2.1511 today, > ddclient was updated to ddclient-3.8.3-1.el7.noarch (from 3.7.3), > and ddclient.conf was moved to ddclient.conf.rpmsave . > > When I move it back, "sudo systemctl restart dd

[CentOS] Problem updating ddclient

2016-04-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
;sudo yum downgrade ddclient-3.7.3" I'm told "No package ddclient-3.7.3 available" -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Free Redhat Linux (rhel) version 7.2

2016-04-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 04/04/2016 08:39 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I read that Redhat was offering their Linux free, >> and downloaded the ISO, though I haven't run it. >> >> What do CentOS users think of Redhat's offer? > You need read the usage license.

[CentOS] Free Redhat Linux (rhel) version 7.2

2016-04-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
to get updates, either with dnf or some other way. I've been (and am) very pleased with CentOS, which I've been running for several years, and I don't particularly want to change. Any views on this? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

Re: [CentOS] firewalld question

2016-03-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
ould be more open. I find the firewalld definition of "zones" rather confusing. I run shorewall on my home server, and that seems to me to have a much simpler definition of zones. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

Re: [CentOS] Alternative IP addresses

2016-02-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
Frank Cox wrote: > Why not put mydomain.com 192.168.whatever in your /etc/hosts file? No > need to run a dns server to hard-code one single lookup like that. Thanks very much, that seems to work. I added "www.myserver.com" to the line starting 192.168.2.5. -- Timothy M

Re: [CentOS] Alternative IP addresses

2016-02-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
the WiFi LAN? > > Is the static IP address that you mention public or private? It is a public IP address. > You could use Limit statements in apache or iptables firewalling to do > this. I guess there could be a way of organizing what I want through shorewall, which I am running on

Re: [CentOS] Alternative IP addresses

2016-02-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
r not run a DNS server on my machine. I tried this some years ago, and ran into trouble. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Alternative IP addresses

2016-02-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
My CentOS-7 home server has a static IP address. Is there a simple way of organizing the hpptd server so that it is accessible through this address at a remote host, but is accessed at its 192.168 address by a laptop on the WiFi LAN? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School

Re: [CentOS] heads up: /boot space on kernel upgrade

2016-02-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
t it went back to the days when the boot-loader had to be near the beginning of the disk? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-27 Thread Timothy Murphy
the one you think is most important. I would say exactly the same to anyone who said systemd causes lots of problems, without specifying any. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin __

[CentOS] How does Live CD find OS's?

2016-01-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
an OS? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How does Live CD find OS's?

2016-01-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
to. It seems this does run through all partitions, running os-prober on each. I thought os-prober was an object file, but I see it is a bash script, so hopefully I can see exactly what it does. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity Co

Re: [CentOS] How does Live CD find OS's?

2016-01-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
m getting this cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/block/8 error when I run grub2-mkconfig -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.or

[CentOS] grub2-mkconfig strange error

2016-01-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
27.4.4.el7.x86_64 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-327.4.4.el7.x86_64.img = -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

[CentOS] How to correct LiveKDE stick?

2016-01-09 Thread Timothy Murphy
y question is: would there be any way, short of re-compiling the ISO, of altering the grub.cfg seen when booting from a USB stick? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] No GUI with CentOS-7.2

2016-01-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Sylvain CANOINE wrote: > >> Could you share your whole Xorg.0.log ? Do you use a custom xorg.conf, or >> custom xorg.conf.d files ? Opensource Ati driver, ou proprietary blobs ? > > Thank you for your interest. > I am running CentOS-7 ins

Re: [CentOS] No GUI with CentOS-7.2

2016-01-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > When I re-booted my HP MicroServer into CentOS-7.2 > I was given a text console. I found the solution in the end, I think from a hint dropped by Johnny Hughes. I was missing a number of KDE packages, I'm not sure why. But when I ran "sudo yum install kd

[CentOS] A query on graphic console

2016-01-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
, if I ssh in from my laptop. As always, any advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] No GUI with CentOS-7.2

2016-01-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
y /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/* . I'm attaching Xorg.0.log - I don't know if that is allowed here? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.cent

Re: [CentOS] No GUI with CentOS-7.2

2016-01-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
o X server lost >> waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully >> (0). Closing log file. >> = > What is your is your default target of the server, systemctl get-default? [tim@alfred ~]$ sudo systemctl get-def

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7.2 kernel panic

2016-01-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> My HP MicroServer crashes with a kernel panic >>> when booted into kernel-3.10.0-327.3.1.el7.x86_64, >>> but runs perfectly under kernel-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64 . > >> AMD Turion64 cpu? >> Could be related to: >> htt

[CentOS] No GUI with CentOS-7.2

2016-01-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
is a remote machine, and I have not actually seen the screen for several months, so this probably has nothing to do with CentOS-7.2. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7.2 kernel panic

2016-01-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tru Huynh wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 11:53:51PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> My HP MicroServer crashes with a kernel panic >> when booted into kernel-3.10.0-327.3.1.el7.x86_64, >> but runs perfectly under kernel-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64 . > AMD Turion64

[CentOS] CentOS-7.2 kernel panic

2016-01-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re-booting into CentOS-7.2 - advice sought

2015-12-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
that in the event of failure I can give simple instructions to my daughter at the other end on how to get the system running? Any suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

[CentOS] Centos-7.2 LiveKDE does not work properly

2015-12-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1511.iso installed on a USB stick does not work properly - it takes over 6 minutes to boot. Who can I report this to? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7.2 USB stick problem

2015-12-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I've installed CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1503.iso > and CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1511.iso > on two USB sticks. > The first boots up in 90 seconds, > but the second takes almost 7 minutes. > (I'm talking about the time until my laptop becomes usable.) A

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and typical usage

2015-12-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
do you mean by "the server environment"? I run a number of home servers on HP MicroServers. Evidently this is not a "server environment" in your view. The only sense I can give to your phrase is "a system run by one or more paid sysadmins". -- Timothy Murphy gayl

[CentOS] CentOS-7.2 USB stick problem

2015-12-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
stick and see if that is better. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Need firewalld clue

2015-12-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
It might be mentioned that the previous firewall is still available. It can obtained by "yum install system-config-firewall". Actually I use shorewall - I'm not sure how this compares with firewalld. It is certainly much better documented. -- Ti

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and typical usage

2015-12-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
? > Just that it is not > difficult to use, there are some advantages - Why don't you say what the advantages are, instead of launching into a philosophical discussion of "market share". -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and typical usage

2015-12-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
nally claimed was that it boots faster. That is not the case on my Fedora laptop. It is no faster, and it is much harder to work out what is happening if something goes wrong. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin _

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and typical usage

2015-12-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
abouts, or "environment" as you call it, is completely irrelevant. All that matters is what services it offers. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] wifi on servers and fedora [was Re: 7.2 kernel panic on boot]

2015-12-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
nd, it would be relatively easy to determine the number of CentOS users, or CentOS machines, in various categories. For some reason both CentOS and Fedora seem to shy away from gathering this kind of information, or indeed any information from users. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eirco

Re: [CentOS] 7.2 kernel panic on boot

2015-12-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
ut what looks to me like an impossibly complex task. The numbering of packages is a very small part of this. On the other hand, a kernel panic would be very worrying to me if it were in fact likely to happen. I am glad to hear that I have no need to worry. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom

Re: [CentOS] 7.2 kernel panic on boot

2015-12-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
booted for several months. I see from /etc/centos-release that I am running 7.1. If I re-booted would this become 7.2? 2. If so, is this kernel panic a widespread phenomenon? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College,

Re: [CentOS] Two WiFi routers

2015-11-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
I see it with "arp -a" on my server, but I've now noticed I don't see it on my Android phone, or with "iwlist scan" on my laptop. Apologies, I don't think this router/AP is working ... -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematic

[CentOS] HTML5 to SQL under CentOS

2015-11-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Two WiFi routers

2015-11-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
Can I have two WiFi routers on the same LAN on my CentOS server? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Two WiFi routers

2015-11-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
are for local LAN access so they are setup to pint to a > single IP/gateway address... Thanks for your response. Do you have them on different channels? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Two WiFi routers

2015-11-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
/ fabrication shop with lots > and lots of RFI going on. So does a client laptop have to change NM setup if passing from one router to another? I wonder if one can specify a routers IP address to NM ? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Tr

Re: [CentOS] OT Strange IP address on home network

2015-11-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
ken wrote: > On 10/30/2015 09:01 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>>> So I guess the strange IP address probably comes from some Lite-On >>>> device somewhere in my house - maybe on the server itself, an HP >>>> MicroServer. There are so many possible elect

Re: [CentOS] OT Strange IP address on home network

2015-11-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
hine up first then waited a little while > before putting network cables in, esp in the one labeled 'mgmt'? Again, I'm not sure what you mean. "sudo locate rilo" doesn't find anything on my HP Microserver, which is running under CentOS-7.1 . Does HP have a "management interface&qu

Re: [CentOS] OT Strange IP address on home network

2015-11-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/1/2015 12:59 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Again, I'm not sure what you mean. >> "sudo locate rilo" doesn't find anything on my HP Microserver, >> which is running under CentOS-7.1 . >> Does HP have a "management interface

Re: [CentOS] OT Strange IP address on home network

2015-10-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
ce on the network (if known), as arp does. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT Strange IP address on home network

2015-10-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
don't really understand is why the dhcpd server on my CentOS machine does not give this device a proper address. (There are lots of spare 192.168.2.* slots.) As far as I can see from iptraf-ng, no packets are currently coming or going from this 169.254.* address, which I see from google is a "

[CentOS] OT Strange IP address on home network

2015-10-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
Why does "arp -a" show IP address 169.254.192.123 on my 192.168.2.0 home network? I recall seeing this IP address somewhere, but don't remember where. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity Colle

Re: [CentOS] OT Strange IP address on home network

2015-10-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mark Haney wrote: >> On 10/28/2015 9:04 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >>> Why does "arp -a" show IP address 169.254.192.123 >>> on my 192.168.2.0 home network? > Sounds like you have a host with a NIC that's configured for DHCP but >

Re: [CentOS] Exists some problem with cronjobs under CentOS7

2015-10-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
erhaps, is there any way of recovering the entries that used to be in /var/log/ eg maillog? Does "journalctl -u sendmail" give exactly the same information? And what exactly is the status of syslog now? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Ma

Re: [CentOS] httpd userdir problem

2015-09-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
u don't have permission to access /Menloe on this server." >> > You need to include your username in the URL, otherwise it doesn't know > whose public_html directory to look for. The username must be preceded > by a tilde, for example: > > http://localhost/~timothy/Menloe Y

Re: [CentOS] Is this a bug in CentOS-7 BackupPC?

2015-09-27 Thread Timothy Murphy
Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I don't really understand this. >> The perl script wants to create /var/run/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock >> which it seems it cannot do unless /var/run/BackupPC/ exists. >> If as yo

[CentOS] Is this a bug in CentOS-7 BackupPC?

2015-09-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
temctl restart backuppc" I see in /var/log/BackupPC/LOG that BackupPC has (at long last) started -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is this a bug in CentOS-7 BackupPC?

2015-09-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
hat will create/maintain those) I don't really understand this. The perl script wants to create /var/run/BackupPC/BackupPC.sock which it seems it cannot do unless /var/run/BackupPC/ exists. If as you say this disappears on re-booting, I don't see how this program could work. -- Timothy Murp

Re: [CentOS] httpd userdir problem

2015-09-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
POST OPTIONS - >> I'm running httpd-2.4.6-31.el7.centos.1.x86_64 >> under CentOS-7 (kernel 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7.x86_64). >> >> I cannot get the httpd userdir facility working; >> when I try to access localhost/Menloe I get the message >> "You don't have perm

Re: [CentOS] httpd userdir problem

2015-09-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm running httpd-2.4.6-31.el7.centos.1.x86_64 > under CentOS-7 (kernel 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7.x86_64). > > I cannot get the httpd userdir facility working; > when I try to access localhost/Menloe I get the message > "You don't have permi

[CentOS] httpd userdir problem

2015-09-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
granted Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec Require method GET POST OPTIONS The directory ~/public_html/Menloe/ is owned by me, and has permissions drwxr-xr-x. I wonder if anyone has met this problem? Or if anyone is using the apache userdir facility in CentOS 7?

Re: [CentOS] httpd userdir problem

2015-09-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
t; I cannot get the httpd userdir facility working; >> > when I try to access localhost/Menloe I get the message >> > "You don't have permission to access /Menloe on this server." -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

[CentOS] Setting up BackupPC on CentOS-7

2015-09-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
ve. (I chose /Photos, /common/tim and /var/www, but of course this is entirely up to you.) Click on "helen Home" (substituting the name you chose above), and press "Start full backup". -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dubli

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 9/18/2015 8:39 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Incidentally, I've been running BackupPC on my CentOS-7 server > The GUI config editor is just an alternative to hand editing. It uses > the exact same files. > > Keep in mind that the config files are s

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 9/13/2015 10:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >> I take it then that there is no CLI method >> of setting up and running BackupPC ? > > Sure there is. All of the configuration is stored in text config > files. There is a main config file fo

[CentOS] Periodic speed test

2015-09-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
magine it would be a fairly easy task to modify the Python code to do this, but it would be even easier if someone has already done it! -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Periodic speed test

2015-09-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
test-cli > - --simple then parse the output. > - From that point you can put it everywhere you want (file, db, > zabbix-sender, etc) Thanks for your response. I'm sure that is the simplest thing to do. I hadn't noticed that /usr/bin/speedtest calls speedtest-cli to do the work. -- Timothy Mur

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
this is just the default apache config. And can > be altered through httpd.conf (though I wouldn't mess too much with it, > the defaults are normally fine). I don't think that is true. The simplest way to configure BackupPC is to run it with user backuppc, by changing "User apache"

[CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
so, where is the list of transfer requests kept? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I thought I'd write a 1-page note to myself of the steps I took, > in preparation for CentOS-8... > I have a couple of questions that this raises. > > 1. Why exactly does backuppc want to ssh to root? > Is this just a way of running BackupPC as root? >

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC is not easy to setup

2015-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
ng BackupPC ? Incidentally, I don't recall ever changing the user and group under which BackupPC is to run when setting up BackupPC under CentOS-6. Maybe this was done automatically during the CentOS installation of this program? (I certainly never used suexec explicitly.) -- Timothy Murphy

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC problem - wrong user

2015-09-09 Thread Timothy Murphy
anax wrote: > On 2015-09-08 12:18, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I recently moved BackupPC from CentOS-6 to CentOS-7. >> But when I browse to localhost/BackupPC I'm told >>Error: Wrong user: my userid is 48[apache], instead of 984(backuppc) >> >> As far as

[CentOS] BackupPC problem - wrong user

2015-09-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
the program as user apache rather than backuppc, as required. Is there a simple setting in /etc/httpd/ that will tell httpd to run as a different user? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

Re: [CentOS] why I use chrome on CentOS

2015-09-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
isdtor wrote: >> I don't like Chrome but I can understand your need to use it. > > Chrome, and Chromium, too, spies on users' web habits behind their back. A bit OT, but chrome is the only way to use chromecast under Fedora or Windows, as far as I know. -- Timothy Murph

Re: [CentOS] Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL

2015-07-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
about things that cannot be changed. But I hold the (old-fashioned?) view that before expressing an opinion one should get the facts. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL

2015-07-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
known about the ratio of RHEL to CentOS machines? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/03/2015 03:43 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've tried this again, and it does not seem to work. Have you actually tried it? I don't have a CentOS system here that I can

Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/03/2015 03:43 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've tried this again, and it does not seem to work. Have you actually tried it? I don't have a CentOS system here that I can reboot readily. And it occurs to me that if I did, I didn't ask if your system boots via BIOS

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting - Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
if you are using LVM? It seems to me to work reasonably well with ext4. Does it work with LVM if you have a separate ext4 /boot partition? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/01/2015 06:02 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I also tried sudo grub2-install /dev/sdb but for some reason this did not do the trick. That should place a boot loader on sdb that will boot the system. What behavior did you observe when you tried to boot from that USB

[CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
on the computer as well that would be an added bonus. I did google for this, but all the sites I saw wanted to do more than I am asking. I also tried sudo grub2-install /dev/sdb but for some reason this did not do the trick. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity

Re: [CentOS] USB stick query

2015-07-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
Gordon Messmer wrote: I also tried sudo grub2-install /dev/sdb but for some reason this did not do the trick. That should place a boot loader on sdb that will boot the system. What behavior did you observe when you tried to boot from that USB drive? The dreaded recurrent -. -- Timothy

[CentOS] /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Do most people today have /boot on a separate partition, or do they (you) have it on the / partition ? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] OT Advantage of running DNS server?

2015-06-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
What is the advantage, if any, of running one's own DNS server? Surely the link between domain name and IP address must already have been established? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

[CentOS] Two partitions with samd UUID??

2015-06-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Spamassassin: last step

2015-06-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
). What is the simplest way to do this? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dubli ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What has happened to the CentOS logo?

2015-06-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mike - st257 wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Has the CentOS logo disappeared from CentOS-7? You are referring to Plymouth splash screen while booting. I thought the logo in CentOS-6 was very pleasant. Probably. The fact remains

[CentOS] What has happened to the CentOS logo?

2015-06-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
. One always has the fear it might continue forever. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Using Mariadb databases from old server

2015-06-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
. This ran perfectly, so I could export the table in question, and install it on my server. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Using Mariadb databases from old server

2015-05-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
? Any suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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