Re: [CentOS] first boot after install - WD_BLACK SN850X 4TB - fails ?

2024-01-19 Thread Warren Young
NVMe requires EFI booting. In some UEFI implementations, if you say "BIOS + UEFI" or however it puts it, CentOS will put a `/biosboot` partition on the disk, not `/boot/efi`, giving exactly the symptom you report. Put it into pure UEFI mode, ensure the partitioning step creates `/boot/efi`, and I

Re: [CentOS] emulate ARM ?

2023-11-15 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 15, 2023, at 20:11, Warren Young wrote: > > Docker also uses QEMU in this fashion: I forgot to point out that “docker” is actually an alias for Podman on the test system, which fully satisfies your wish for using only things that come with the platform, no third-party programs,

Re: [CentOS] emulate ARM ?

2023-11-15 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 14, 2023, at 13:44, lejeczek via CentOS wrote: > > How do you emulate AMR arch With QEMU: $ uname -r 5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.x86_64 $ sudo dnf install qemu-user-static-aarch64 $ docker pull --platform=linux/arm64 tangentsoft/iperf3 $ docker export $(docker create --name iperf3

Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-20 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 20, 2021, at 8:24 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > What other things do folk usually remove to make their installation smaller? Our post-install removal command here is: dnf -y remove cockpit* pcp* But we’re old-school Unix geeks, so there you go. :)

Re: [CentOS] Help with default shell

2021-06-23 Thread Warren Young
On Jun 23, 2021, at 7:12 AM, Hooton, Gerard wrote: > > The users are authenticated using OpenLDAP. > On LDAP the default shell is csh. > When ssh to login it works, i.e. $SHELL = /bin/csh > Also, when using xrdp it works. > However, a login from the keyboard and screen attached computer we get

Re: [CentOS] Can't upgrade sssd-*

2021-04-09 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 9, 2021, at 9:37 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > donated machines that are part of the > mirror.centos.org dns name. My key incorrect assumption was that this is just a front end, and all of the actual file pulls came from other second-level domains. I didn’t realize you were allowing

Re: [CentOS] Can't upgrade sssd-*

2021-04-05 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 5, 2021, at 8:32 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > wrt private keys .. we don't want any to live on machines we > don't physically own. Yeah, I get that. What I don’t get is why, if DNF goes to http://foo.centos.org to pull metadata, and it tells DNF to go to https://bar.qux.example.edu to

Re: [CentOS] Can't upgrade sssd-*

2021-04-02 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 2, 2021, at 8:46 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > We just can't risk putting private keys for centos.org on > machines that are donated. I guess I don’t understand how the mirror system works, then, because I thought DNF/YUM contacted a central server (presumably under centos.org) which

Re: [CentOS] Can't upgrade sssd-*

2021-04-01 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 26, 2021, at 7:08 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > Is anyone else getting this on dnf upgrade? > > [MIRROR] sssd-proxy-2.3.0-9.el8.x86_64.rpm: Interrupted by header callback: > Server reports Content-Length: 9937 but expected size is: 143980 The short reply size made

[CentOS] Can't upgrade sssd-*

2021-03-26 Thread Warren Young
Is anyone else getting this on dnf upgrade? [MIRROR] sssd-proxy-2.3.0-9.el8.x86_64.rpm: Interrupted by header callback: Server reports Content-Length: 9937 but expected size is: 143980 [MIRROR] sssd-proxy-2.3.0-9.el8.x86_64.rpm: Interrupted by header callback: Server reports Content-Length:

Re: [CentOS] proper recipe for local mirror

2021-03-04 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 4, 2021, at 7:04 AM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > > What is the proper solution for a local mirror for centos 7 (or oven 8) > repositories? https://www.osradar.com/how-to-create-centos-8-local-repository-mirrors-with-rsync-nginx/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Transition test report going from CentOS8 to Debian 10.

2021-02-05 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 5, 2021, at 9:03 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> 1. The package names are often different, and not always differing by an >> obvious translation rule. ... > > I consider this to be very minor in comparison to other items. If you’re making a wholesale transition, sure, but when you’re

Re: [CentOS] Transition test report going from CentOS8 to Debian 10.

2021-02-04 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 4, 2021, at 8:39 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > I posted a pretty complete rundown on the scientific linux users mailing > list, so I won't recap it all here. Link? > the transition was not any more difficult, really, than moving from CentOS 7 > to CentOS 8. That’s not my experience. I

Re: [CentOS] Intel/64 CentOS VM running on a Mac M1?

2021-02-04 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 3, 2021, at 5:28 PM, Lists wrote: > > I had the impression that MacOS' Rosetta II might do what I need That’s rather difficult when the x86 code in question is on the other side of a virtualized CPU. It’s a double translation, you see: real x86 code run on a virtual x86 CPU under your

Re: [CentOS] rare but repeating system crash in C7

2021-01-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 2, 2021, at 11:17 AM, Fred wrote: > > I assume that the yottamaster device runs Linux, just like 99% of other > such devices. 99% of NAS boxes, maybe, but not dumb RAID boxes like the one I believe you’re referring to. (And I doubt even that, with the likes of FreeNAS extending down

Re: [CentOS] rare but repeating system crash in C7

2021-01-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 2, 2021, at 9:55 AM, Fred wrote: > > Plantronics USB headset/microphone? > Yottamaster RAID-1 storage (USB3)? > Behringer USB audio interface? > Logitech wireless mouse? > Leopold USB keyboard? HID devices won’t go to sleep when the computer does, else they couldn’t wake it back up.

Re: [CentOS] rare but repeating system crash in C7

2021-01-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 2, 2021, at 7:44 AM, Fred wrote: > > I'm further guessing that "xhci_hcd" has something to do with USB Yup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Host_Controller_Interface#Virtualization_support > If so I don't know what it would be... My guess: you have USB-attached storage that’s

Re: [CentOS] Trying to find gcc 5

2020-12-04 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 3, 2020, at 5:26 PM, mark wrote: > > 4's ancient, move to another distro" Do you mean GCC 4.8.5 from CentOS 7, or GCC 4.47 from CentOS 6, or GCC 4.2.1 from CentOS 5? If we’re talking about CentOS 6, then even Red Hat agrees with the Calibre folks: it’s now officially past time to get

Re: [CentOS] Replacing SW RAID-1 with SSD RAID-1

2020-11-24 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 24, 2020, at 10:05 AM, Simon Matter wrote: > > Why is a layered approach > worse than a fully included solution like ZFS? Just one reason is that you lose visibility of lower-level elements from the top level. You gave the example of a bad block in a RAID. What current RHEL type

Re: [CentOS] Replacing SW RAID-1 with SSD RAID-1

2020-11-24 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 24, 2020, at 10:43 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote: > > On 24/11/2020 18:32, John Pierce wrote: >> zpool create newpool mirror sdb sdc mirror sdd sde mirror sdf sdg mirror >> sdh sdi spare sdj sdk >> zfs create -o mountpoint=/var/lib/pgsql-11 newpool/postgres11 > > This *might* be a valid answer

Re: [CentOS] ssacli start rebuild?

2020-11-14 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 14, 2020, at 5:56 AM, hw wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 16:38 -0700, Warren Young wrote: >> On Nov 11, 2020, at 2:01 PM, hw wrote: >>> I have yet to see software RAID that doesn't kill the performance. >> >> When was the last time you t

Re: [CentOS] ssacli start rebuild?

2020-11-11 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 11, 2020, at 7:04 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > zpool mount -d /dev/disk/by-partlabel Oops, I’m mixing the zpool and zfs commands. It’d be “zpool import”. And you do this just once: afterward, the automatic on-boot import brings the drives back in using the names they had befo

Re: [CentOS] ssacli start rebuild?

2020-11-11 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 11, 2020, at 6:37 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > how do you map failed software RAID drive to physical port of, say, > SAS-attached enclosure. With ZFS, you set a partition label on the whole-drive partition pool member, then mount the pool with something like “zpool mount -d

Re: [CentOS] ssacli start rebuild?

2020-11-11 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 11, 2020, at 2:01 PM, hw wrote: > > I have yet to see software RAID that doesn't kill the performance. When was the last time you tried it? Why would you expect that a modern 8-core Intel CPU would impede I/O in any measureable way as compared to the outdated single-core 32-bit RISC

Re: [CentOS] dnsmasq centos 7

2020-10-31 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 31, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Strahil Nikolov via CentOS wrote: > > Are you sure you have opened 53/udp ? Good call, but you left out the “how”: $ sudo firewall-cmd --add-service dns $ sudo firewall-cmd --add-service dns --permanent Without the second command, it affects the runtime

Re: [CentOS] Question regarding cent OS 7.8.2003 compatibility with large SAS disks

2020-09-25 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 24, 2020, at 10:25 PM, Amey Abhyankar wrote: > > I referred = https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product > But slightly confused with the 'maximum file size' row for ext4 FS. CentOS 8 defaults to XFS, not to ext4, so that row has no bearing on your use case. Although I wouldn’t recommend

Re: [CentOS] fdisk boot partition

2020-07-01 Thread Warren Young
On Jun 30, 2020, at 1:25 PM, John Pierce wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:12 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > >> I am trying to use CentOS 8 host to boot an image (OS X) that I created >> using dd. >> >> First I tried fdisk -l image_file.img ... > > > fdisk has been deprecated for quite a long

Re: [CentOS] how does autofs deal with stuck NFS mounts and suspending to RAM?

2020-05-18 Thread Warren Young
On May 18, 2020, at 5:13 AM, hw wrote: > > Is there a better alternative for mounting remote file systems over > unreliable > connections? I don’t have a good answer for you, because if you’d asked me without all this backstory whether NFS or SSHFS is more tolerant of bad connections, I’d

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS

2020-04-08 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 8, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can get NIS for CentOS 8? $ dnf provides ypserv ... ypserv-4.0-6.20170331git5bfba76.el8.x86_64 : The NIS (Network Information Service) server Repo: AppStream Matched from: Provide: ypserv =

Re: [CentOS] (SOLVED) YUM (DNF) Possible Confusion Centos 8

2020-01-30 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 30, 2020, at 9:37 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On 1/24/20 8:02 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >> >> I've never really understood how hiding those solutions behind a wall is a >> good thing in/for the OpenSource world. Looks like I'm not alone :-) > > A good thing is the ability for

Re: [CentOS] YUM (DNF) Possible Confusion Centos 8

2020-01-22 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 22, 2020, at 11:04 AM, david wrote: > > After the reboot, issue as root: > yum -y install perl chrony perl-libwww-perl perl-App-cpanminus gcc Thank you for boiling that down. We’ve been seeing the symptom here, too, but the trigger was somewhere inside a thousand-like shell script.

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 8 (1911)

2020-01-16 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 16, 2020, at 12:06 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > ...or maybe even 8.1.1911 (which is part of the name of the DVD ISO file), > but officially it's CentOS 8 (1911). $ lsb_release -a LSB Version::core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Description:CentOS Linux release

Re: [CentOS] systemctl behaves like it is being piped to less in centos 8?

2019-12-13 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 13, 2019, at 9:39 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > You can fix the symptom with the software as delivered: Also, there’s this bit in the default .bashrc on EL8: # Uncomment the following line if you don't like systemctl's auto-paging feature: # export SYSTEMD

Re: [CentOS] systemctl behaves like it is being piped to less in centos 8?

2019-12-13 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 13, 2019, at 9:27 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > It seems this became the default at some point. > > systemctl -l --no-pager > > is the way to get it without that. The whole does it use a pager, does > it ellipse, etc has been a long fight where various people complain > enough to

[CentOS] DebugInfo repo broken on purpose

2019-12-12 Thread Warren Young
This line in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Debuginfo.repo baseurl=http://debuginfo.centos.org/$releasever/$basearch/ …causes commands like “yum search --enablerepo=* foo” to fail with the obscure error Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'base-debuginfo' Apparently this is because

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 as a guest VM

2019-12-03 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 3, 2019, at 1:11 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > > Are there other options that this single byte CR over socket is not getting > seen by my application. Sure, but without the code, you’re reducing me to blind speculation. I’m offering free debugging services here. You also haven’t answered

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 as a guest VM

2019-12-03 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 3, 2019, at 12:20 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > > int flag = 1; > if(setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, , sizeof(flag)) < 0) So first, I said “don’t do that,” and then you went and did that. :) But second, I’m guessing you did this on the receiving side, where it has no effect under

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 as a guest VM

2019-12-03 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 3, 2019, at 9:18 AM, David G. Miller wrote: > > On 12/3/19 8:46 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> I am experiencing an issue that my process does not wake out of a select() >> call when a single character is received in an input file descriptor when >> running as a VMware guest. You imply but

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-13 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 13, 2019, at 6:42 PM, H wrote: > > Anyone else has the same problem? How do I research this? I don’t have any specific guidance for you, but I can tell you what’s happening. The PDF document is being rasterized before being printed, and then some stage along the line is dithering the

Re: [CentOS] easy way to stop old ssl's

2019-10-15 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 15, 2019, at 12:26 PM, Markus Falb wrote: > > I guess that I would get A rating from ssllabs. None of my CentOS systems have Internet-facing HTTP, much less HTTPS, so I volunteer you to test it and report back. :) > I read you saying that FIPS 140-2 is not good enough. Apart from age,

Re: [CentOS] easy way to stop old ssl's

2019-10-12 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 12, 2019, at 4:06 AM, Markus Falb wrote: > > On 11.10.19 22:40, Warren Young wrote: >> Just ship a new HTTPS configuration to each server. > > Instead of configuring every application separataly it would be nice if > "accepted levels of security" could be s

Re: [CentOS] easy way to stop old ssl's

2019-10-11 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 11, 2019, at 2:52 PM, isdtor wrote: > >> Yes, breaking changes. Doing this *will* cut off support for older >> browsers. On purpose. > > Old browsers aren't really the problem. Even ff 45 (?) from CentOS5 will > happily access a TLSv1.2-only server. IE 10 and older won’t, though:

Re: [CentOS] easy way to stop old ssl's

2019-10-11 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 11, 2019, at 12:12 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > > is there a script that is available that can be ran to bring > a box up to current "accepted" levels ? I don’t know why you’d use a script for this at all. Just ship a new HTTPS configuration to each server. Apache loads all *.conf files in

Re: [CentOS] [PROVENANCE INTERNET] Re: Missing packages in centos8 mirrors or do I miss something?

2019-09-26 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 26, 2019, at 10:13 AM, LAHAYE Olivier wrote: > > That would have helped me a lot if I had knew that docbook-utils-pdf would be > droppedI would have searched for an alternative long ago. It looks like that package does a combination of xsltproc + FOP. On EL7, you can get both

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 file system read only issue

2019-08-21 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 21, 2019, at 7:35 AM, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > > my $s = IO::Select->new( $fh ); > if ( $io->can_write( 10 ) { That’s not designed to do what you hope. select(2) is a system call intended for use on network socket handles, not file handles. Since socket handles and file handles are

Re: [CentOS] Giving full administrator privileges through sudo on production systems

2019-08-16 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 15, 2019, at 11:04 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > > Based on above cases, is it OK to give group of random users full > administrator privileges using sudo, by adding them to sudoers with ALL > privileges? Should sudoers call customer service number instead of sysadmin > when something

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2019, at 8:48 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > Setting up as you described earlier, is there a way to allow only > a single program to drop core? Of course. The * in the limits.d file is a “domain” value you can adjust to suit:

Re: [CentOS] Win 10 and C 6 CUPS

2019-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:41 PM, mark wrote: > > Is there any way, other than installing CUPS on windows, to get the damn Win > laptop to print to my C 6 box, which has CUPS running and a USB laserjet? Share it over Samba: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Print_Server You

Re: [CentOS] Question on server speed

2019-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2019, at 2:43 PM, Peter Larsen wrote: > > you may also find that the > "max speed" in the specification is far from what you get out of your > hardware. “May?” :) That’s about like saying Honda Civics can go 0-60 in 2.8 seconds…when dropped off a cliff nose down so you get the

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2019, at 7:59 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 05:27:54AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >> On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >>> >>> no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) > > yeah, I meant "ulimit -c unlimited&qu

Re: [CentOS] Question on server speed

2019-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2019, at 7:04 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 19:49, Warren Young wrote: > >> On Aug 5, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Stephen John Smoogen >> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 13:17, Jerry Geis wrote: >>> >>

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:35 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 05:27 -0600, Warren Young wrote: >> On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >>> no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) >> >> That’s nowhere near sufficient. To restore classic co

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) That’s nowhere near sufficient. To restore classic core file dumps on CentOS 7, you must: 1. Remove Red Hat’s ABRT system, which wants to catch all of this and handle it directly. Say something like

Re: [CentOS] Question on server speed

2019-08-05 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 5, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 13:17, Jerry Geis wrote: > >> Why is it that "all" I am really doing at the moment is copying things to >> an external SSD disk USB3 connected and the machine "freezes"... Why is >> that? >> > You may have a

Re: [CentOS] how to increase DNS reliability?

2019-07-26 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 25, 2019, at 5:42 PM, Nataraj wrote: > > On 7/25/19 4:31 PM, Nataraj wrote: >> It doesn't really help those clients I can not run name servers on, >> though. > > Another alternative is to look at the multicast dns (mdns) protocol. That’s for allowing a device to self-advertise its own

Re: [CentOS] using RedHat binary packages?

2019-07-03 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 3, 2019, at 12:43 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > Are RedHat's binary RPMs "poisoned" somehow, making it impossible for > CentOS to redistribute RedHat's *binary* packages without going to jail? RHEL binaries are only available to those with a RHEL subscription. I don’t see anything in

Re: [CentOS] Was, Re: raid 5 install, is ZFS

2019-07-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 1, 2019, at 9:44 AM, mark wrote: > > it was on Ubuntu, but that shouldn't make a difference, I would think Indeed not. It’s been years since the OS you were using implied a large set of OS-specific ZFS features. There are still differences among the implementations, but the number of

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 1, 2019, at 10:10 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On 2019-07-01 10:01, Warren Young wrote: >> On Jul 1, 2019, at 8:26 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> >>> RAID function, which boils down to simple, short, easy to debug well >>> program. > >

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-01 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 1, 2019, at 9:10 AM, mark wrote: > > ZFS with a zpoolZ2 You mean raidz2. > which we set up using the LSI card set to JBOD Some LSI cards require a complete firmware re-flash to get them into “IT mode” which completely does away with the RAID logic and turns them into dumb SATA

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-01 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 1, 2019, at 8:26 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > RAID function, which boils down to simple, short, easy to debug well program. RAID firmware will be harder to debug than Linux software RAID, if only because of easier-to-use tools. Furthermore, MD RAID only had to be debugged once, rather

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-01 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 1, 2019, at 7:56 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: > > I've never used ZFS, as its Linux support has been historically poor. When was the last time you checked? The ZFS-on-Linux (ZoL) code has been stable for years. In recent months, the BSDs have rebased their offerings from Illumos to ZoL.

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Warren Young
On Jun 28, 2019, at 8:46 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: > > Linux software RAID…has only decreased availability for me. This has been due > to a combination of hardware and software issues that are are generally > handled well by HW RAID controllers, but are often handled poorly or > unpredictably

Re: [CentOS] is "list_del corruption" fix available in Centos ?

2019-05-17 Thread Warren Young
On May 17, 2019, at 9:53 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > > On Fri, 17 May 2019, James Szinger wrote: > >> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:17 AM John Hodrien wrote: >>> RHEL advice would clearly be not to use btrfs. >> >> I'm curious, is there anything in RHEL 8 that would replace BTRFS or >> ZFS? I'm

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 8 released

2019-05-09 Thread Warren Young
On May 9, 2019, at 9:38 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > As an initial goal, we would love to have a release in a month .. That’s about the average time for 7.x releases, which I assume are far less work to get out than a point-zero. Is this goal realistic? I’d consider any ship date before

Re: [CentOS] Issues trying to change the selinux context

2019-05-08 Thread Warren Young
On May 8, 2019, at 11:44 AM, mark wrote: > > Warren Young wrote: >> On May 8, 2019, at 11:04 AM, mark wrote: >> >>> >>> semanage fcontext -m -t lib_t "/path/smwa/webagent/bin/*.so” >> >> Glob expansion doesn’t happen in double quotes. Not

Re: [CentOS] Issues trying to change the selinux context

2019-05-08 Thread Warren Young
On May 8, 2019, at 11:04 AM, mark wrote: > > semanage fcontext -m -t lib_t "/path/smwa/webagent/bin/*.so” Glob expansion doesn’t happen in double quotes. Not in Bash, anyway. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Issues trying to change the selinux context

2019-05-08 Thread Warren Young
On May 8, 2019, at 9:31 AM, mark wrote: > > semanage -fcontext -a -t lib_t "//smwa/webagent/bin(/.*).so” [snip] > What am I doing wrong? -fcontext isn’t an option, it’s a verb; drop the dash. Also, I’m confused by the parens in your file path. Whether your shell is or not is a different

Re: [CentOS] Permissions on nginx logs

2019-05-07 Thread Warren Young
On May 7, 2019, at 7:14 AM, Bee.Lists wrote: > > As per the “7” comment, I always listen to good advice, but usually that > advice gets completely derailed with someone saying “nobody should ever be > root…”, etc. Best stated, “some people never let their kids play outside”. > I have a

Re: [CentOS] Permissions on nginx logs

2019-05-06 Thread Warren Young
On May 6, 2019, at 10:14 AM, Bee.Lists wrote: > > I will give 770 a try. Try 750 first. You don’t need write access to do what you’re asking. Also, the group membership change won’t take effect until you log out and back in. > Nobody going to flip now that a single “7” has been posted?

Re: [CentOS] yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop' fails

2019-04-17 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 17, 2019, at 11:45 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" "X Window System" > > That should work I did that plus the other two groups referenced above, each group added separately. I’ve just tried a “groupremove” on everything I added and then added just the

[CentOS] yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" fails

2019-04-17 Thread Warren Young
I’ve got a CentOS 7 VM here that was installed with one of the CLI-only presets. To answer a question in another thread here, I wanted to install a GNOME desktop environment in it, so I went searching and found the standard instructions for doing that. The problem is that rebooting the VM

Re: [CentOS] Outliner

2019-04-14 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 14, 2019, at 4:42 AM, H wrote: > > Ideally it should allow saving files in txt, OO and markdown formats… Since you included Markdown in the list, my initial question was why don’t you just write in that format, since the Markdown list features capture most of what I want in an

Re: [CentOS] When should I reboot?

2019-04-13 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 13, 2019, at 2:32 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > I reboot when I yum update to a new kernel or systemd, which seems to come > out about once a month. You can use similar logic as in Tony Mountfield’s answer to put off reboots in those cases as well. If the reason for the kernel update

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

2019-04-10 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 10, 2019, at 11:12 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > Any expectation for the date of the C8 release :-)?? It took 6 months to go from first beta to first release of RHEL 7, and this beta is now about 5 months old. So next month for sure. :)

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic after removing SW RAID1 partitions, setting up ZFS.

2019-04-10 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 10, 2019, at 9:38 AM, Benjamin Smith wrote: > > For some reason, you *cannot* have a partition of type GPT and expect > Linux to boot. (WT F/H?!?) I believe you were trying to make use of a facility invented as part of the GPT Protective Partition feature without understanding it

Re: [CentOS] Seek some help on operating system drivers. Thanks!

2019-04-05 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 5, 2019, at 8:33 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2019, at 8:24 AM, JICHUN LIU wrote: >> >> When I use sensors-detect: >> Sorry, no sensors were detected. > > Instead, try: > >$ sudo ipmitool sensor list You’ll probably need to install tha

Re: [CentOS] Seek some help on operating system drivers. Thanks!

2019-04-05 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 5, 2019, at 8:24 AM, JICHUN LIU wrote: > > When I use sensors-detect: > Sorry, no sensors were detected. Instead, try: $ sudo ipmitool sensor list There are thresholds you can set to make the fans behave sanely, but those of us who don’t own such a server already won’t be able to

Re: [CentOS] CPAN not working, or is it?

2019-03-11 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 11, 2019, at 6:16 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > > What I've learned to do when I have this sort of issue is to pop out of CPAN > and into ~/.cpan/build. If you mean that you do that manually, you don’t have to. The “look” command in the cpan shell or the --look option to cpanm does that

Re: [CentOS] CPAN not working, or is it?

2019-03-11 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 11, 2019, at 5:24 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: > I use both RPM and CPAN and install into system locations. That’s the advice I’m responding to: you don’t need to install CPAN modules only to system locations to make Perl-based programs work. CPAN’s defaults on CentOS 7 are perfectly usable

Re: [CentOS] CPAN not working, or is it?

2019-03-11 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 11, 2019, at 8:01 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Anyone got any ideas what I need to do? First, use cpanm instead of the old cpan shell: $ sudo yum install perl-App-cpanminus It has a number of advantages: 1. It’s much smarter about chasing dependencies, which is your core

Re: [CentOS] Network Bridge - error

2019-03-06 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 6, 2019, at 1:44 AM, Larry Sevilla wrote: > > systemctl status network.service > https://pastebin.com/KzBqJN65 …which says brctl doesn’t exist, so if you go searching for it, you find that it’s in the bridge-utils package. So, your next step is: $ sudo yum install bridge-utils I

Re: [CentOS] Systemd's [ OK ] in green beginning of line

2019-03-04 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 4, 2019, at 10:15 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > I have to (re-)write many bootup scripts to move a bunch of servers from > CentOS6 to CentOS7 > > In sysvinit the "echo_success" and "echo_failure" used to do this. > > What is the equivalent for systemd? First off, processes started

Re: [CentOS] Setting GDM resolution without knowing the monitor specs

2019-03-01 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 21, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > Create a file 00-monitor.conf under /etc/x11/xorg.conf.d > > Something like this below, using conservative range values for horiz and > vert syncs This works fine here on our test monitors, with the exception that the first ‘x’ needs to

Re: [CentOS] Setting GDM resolution without knowing the monitor specs

2019-02-22 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 21, 2019, at 12:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > remotely talking someone through changing ifcfg-noisenoise via nano is a > minor nightmare, especially now that Confusing Network Device Naming is the > default. A relevant war story might help here. We were upgrading an old

Re: [CentOS] Setting GDM resolution without knowing the monitor specs

2019-02-22 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 21, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > >> On Feb 21, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Gianluca Cecchi >> wrote: >>> >>> [root@desktop xorg.conf.d]# cat 00-monitor.conf > > Why not just ship it with text mode login and get rid of all the video > problems? With a 800x600 resolution I

Re: [CentOS] Setting GDM resolution without knowing the monitor specs

2019-02-21 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 21, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > [root@desktop xorg.conf.d]# cat 00-monitor.conf Thanks! We’ll be building another server next week, so I’ll try this then. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Setting GDM resolution without knowing the monitor specs

2019-02-21 Thread Warren Young
We had a complaint recently from a customer that received a server we shipped out that their monitor just showed a black screen. It turns out that they’d hooked it up to an ancient POS with 800x600 as its best resolution, and gdm in CentOS 7 apparently assumes at least 1024x768. It was

Re: [CentOS] C7 basic install, HATE

2019-02-15 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 15, 2019, at 11:08 AM, mark wrote: > > To say "spend $20..." does not relate to "have to find a workaround to do > it *today*", nor to "this is a work system, I'm not driving out to > Microcenter to buy one”. What’s your hourly rate? How much did *not* driving out to Microcenter cost

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

2019-02-15 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 15, 2019, at 10:00 AM, mark wrote: > > Warren Young wrote: >> >> The cheapest RAID-friendly drives we’re buying these days are about US >> $37/TB in low quantities. > > $38/tb? Google shopping shows me a 4TB WD Red at $110. 5400 RPM. Red Pros are $170

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

2019-02-15 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 15, 2019, at 7:56 AM, Yan Li wrote: > > G Suite Business tier. Buy five users and you get unlimited Google Drive > storage. That's $50/month. So, you’re already 12x higher than his budget, and it’ll be going up 20% in early April. On top of that, there’s certainly a transfer rate

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

2019-02-15 Thread Warren Young
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. The cheapest RAID-friendly drives we’re buying these days are about US $37/TB in low quantities. A

Re: [CentOS] C7 basic install, HATE

2019-02-14 Thread Warren Young
On Feb 14, 2019, at 1:47 PM, mark wrote: > > Any suggestions? Do a text install: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/361935/138 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] C7, firewalld and rich rules

2019-02-01 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 31, 2019, at 3:25 PM, mark wrote: > > Warren Young wrote: >> >> ...there aren’t automatic programming >> language conversion tools... > > You mean like the one I meant to use 25 or so years ago, basic2c? All right, so it’s a bad example, but it’s bad

Re: [CentOS] C7, firewalld and rich rules

2019-01-31 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 31, 2019, at 11:12 AM, mark wrote: > > Why would *ANYONE* think that everyone should just start from scratch, > taking all the time in the world to get it converted? If the conversion were simple enough to be easily automated, the new system is probably no more than just a syntactic

Re: [CentOS] Firewalld and iptables

2018-12-14 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 14, 2018, at 3:57 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > : Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?). That makes sense: the old iptables service installed several default chains, and firewalld does as well, but they’re not named the same, and I doubt there’s a 1:1 mapping between them.

Re: [CentOS] Firewalld and iptables

2018-12-14 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 14, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Warren Young wrote: > >alias fcp="sudo firewall-cmd —permanent" These commands are top-of-mind for me at the moment because I just configured a Raspberry Pi based network appliance at home, and installed firewalld on it for the purpose beca

Re: [CentOS] Firewalld and iptables

2018-12-14 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 14, 2018, at 2:30 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > After a recent large update, firewalld's status contains > many lines of the form: > > WARNING: COMMAND_FAILED: '/usr/sbin/iptables… What’s the rest of the command? > Checking iptables.service status shows it to be masked. That’s probably

Re: [CentOS] Tools/mechanisms for the management of access permissions in big filebased datasets

2018-11-28 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 28, 2018, at 2:36 AM, Frank Thommen wrote: > > Our problem is more the management side. Effectively we are looking for a > tool that helps us manage these permissions I want ACLs to work. There’s a real problem to solve, which is that the old user:group rwx Unix permission system

Re: [CentOS] OT: good free email service ?

2018-11-09 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 9, 2018, at 9:22 AM, Vic Chester wrote: > > https://protonmail.com/ Aside from semi-charitable organizations like that, I wouldn’t expect good free email service to exist. It’s seriously complicated to run a properly-configured email server. The last time I looked into it, there were

Re: [CentOS] Stupid C7 firewall question

2018-10-25 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 25, 2018, at 9:04 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > suppose I made configuration of some machine, which then I am going to > replicate just by using kickstart when building new machines. What should I > add to kickstart configuration file to make my configured firewalld part > reproduced

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