Re: [CentOS] Newest kernel issue, C7

2021-08-04 Thread m . roth
On 2021-08-03 10:20, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 10:17:09AM -0400, mark wrote: Just fullyu updated yesterday. The reboot gets past Centos (core)... and reboots. Repeatedly. messages *look* as though it got up... and then reboot. Are you booting into graphical.target

Re: [CentOS] C 7: smpboot: CPU 16 is now offline, and slabs...

2018-06-13 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Current kernel, and I just booted, and dmesg shows, of the 32 cores, 0, >>> 2, 4 and 6 ok, and *all* other show "is now offline. >>> >>> What's happening here? > > Ok, more info. I found how to online a CPU - > echo

Re: [CentOS] C 7: smpboot: CPU 16 is now offline, and slabs...

2018-06-13 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Current kernel, and I just booted, and dmesg shows, of the 32 cores, 0, >> 2, 4 and 6 ok, and *all* other show "is now offline. >> >> What's happening here? Ok, more info. I found how to online a CPU - echo 1 >

Re: [CentOS] C 7: smpboot: CPU 16 is now offline, and slabs...

2018-06-13 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Current kernel, and I just booted, and dmesg shows, of the 32 cores, 0, 2, > 4 and 6 ok, and *all* other show "is now offline. > > What's happening here? > A followup: I also find a core in /var/spool/abrt, and "reason" is kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3601! In googling, I

[CentOS] C 7: smpboot: CPU 16 is now offline

2018-06-13 Thread m . roth
Current kernel, and I just booted, and dmesg shows, of the 32 cores, 0, 2, 4 and 6 ok, and *all* other show "is now offline. What's happening here? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Generic linux question: sysctl and swiotlb

2018-06-12 Thread m . roth
Anyone know if I can increase the size of swiotlb using sysctl, rather than waiting to reboot? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] C7, kernel oops, sllub.c

2018-06-11 Thread m . roth
Anyone else seeing this: I've seen it with different line # as an upstream bug: kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3601. When I look for slub.c, I think I found a slightly different version, since that's a blank line, but it's in the function slab_memory_callbac. On a possibly related note, one of my users

Re: [CentOS] C7, encryption, and clevis

2018-06-08 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > On 06/08/18 15:45, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> On 06/08/18 15:26, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> > On a similar note: one of the companies whose software scientists > here > were using a lot (IDL is a product) changed hand several

Re: [CentOS] C7, encryption, and clevis

2018-06-08 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On 06/08/18 15:26, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> On a similar note: one of the companies whose software scientists here >>> were using a lot (IDL is a product) changed hand several times, and >>> last owner changed licensing terms and stopped signing perpetual licenses. >>>

Re: [CentOS] C7, encryption, and clevis

2018-06-08 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On 06/08/18 13:48, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Frank Cox wrote: > so if it would work, replace shortname with short and short1? >>> >>> With all of this hokey-pokey surrounding licensing and mac addresses, I >>> wonder if this outfit is actually still in compliance with

Re: [CentOS] C7, encryption, and clevis

2018-06-08 Thread m . roth
Frank Cox wrote: >> > so if it would work, replace shortname with short and short1? > > With all of this hokey-pokey surrounding licensing and mac addresses, I > wonder if this outfit is actually still in compliance with the terms of > their license for this software, whatever it may be? > > If

Re: [CentOS] C7, encryption, and clevis

2018-06-08 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > On 06/08/18 10:27, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> John Hodrien wrote: >>> On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> We've been required to encrypt h/ds, and so have been rolling that out over the last year or so. Thing is, you need to put in a password, of

Re: [CentOS] C7, encryption, and clevis

2018-06-08 Thread m . roth
John Hodrien wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> We've been required to encrypt h/ds, and so have been rolling that out >> over the last year or so. Thing is, you need to put in a password, of >> course, to boot the system. My manager found a way to allow us to reboot >>

[CentOS] C7, encryption, and clevis

2018-06-08 Thread m . roth
We've been required to encrypt h/ds, and so have been rolling that out over the last year or so. Thing is, you need to put in a password, of course, to boot the system. My manager found a way to allow us to reboot without being at the system's keyboard, a package called clevis. Works fine...

[CentOS] A touch conused on context

2018-06-07 Thread m . roth
Ok, we've got a set of directories bind mounted on our standard mount point for the web. The directory tree's been set with semanage fcontext -t -e /var/www . In one of the websites under there is /cgi-bin, and under *there are a couple of subdirectories, and a .dat file that is written to (I

[CentOS] Trying to print...

2018-06-04 Thread m . roth
Well... we've got this poster printer. Been printing for years. There was an, um, incident at work, and long story short, the .ppd that I had had to create was lost. I've pretty much recreated it, and cupstestppd only gives a few warnings... but: I've got it set up in cups on my C 6 server, to go

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 (using iptables) removed firewalld

2018-06-01 Thread m . roth
Steve Frazier wrote: > Thank you.  I apologize for sending something that could be read.  There > are more examples in there that I had commented out. > Anyway,  here is my working iptables-save.  If someone could review my > output and let me know if I am missing anything and if the order of the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 (using iptables) removed firewalld

2018-06-01 Thread m . roth
Steve Frazier wrote: > Hello,  > I hope that I can ask some questions on this mailing list about IPTables. > I am more familiar with IPTABLES instead of FIREWALLD.  I disabled > FIREWALLD and installed iptables-services. > I have put together a script that I found on the web on how to set up a >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.5 gui login root only

2018-05-31 Thread m . roth
isdtor wrote: > >> Sounds like an authorization issue. Have you checked both >> /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure? If you're using /etc/password, >> are >> its permissions and ownership correct? Are the user's home directories >> owned by them? > > Nothing relevant in these log files. The

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.5 gui login root only

2018-05-31 Thread m . roth
isdtor wrote: > Taking first steps on CentOS 7 1804. > > Logging into the Gnome/Gnome classic desktop from gdm works only for root. > For other users, the screen flashes and the login screen returns. > KDE/Plasma login is successful but ends up with a black screen with mouse > pointer while all

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 29 May 2018 06:47:06 -0700 CentOS mailing list > wrote: >> On 05/29/2018 06:33 AM, Robert Heller wrote: >> > >> >> The UUID in the EFI boot options is >> >> 99E275E7-75A0-4B37-A2E6-C5385E600CB, which >> >> does not to match anything, but the system is only happy

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd vs. iptables firewall script

2018-05-23 Thread m . roth
Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 23/05/2018 à 16:58, m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : >> A suggestion: once you've got the firewall issue dealt with, set selinux >> into permissive mode; *then* you can figure out what it's complaining >> about, while at the same time, your system will be available. Once >>

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd vs. iptables firewall script

2018-05-23 Thread m . roth
Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently setting up a local FTP server, to receive disk images sent > with G4L (Ghost4Linux). > > This server has been running Slackware Linux before, and the Vsftpd > setup was relatively simple. > > With CentOS things seem to be slightly different, so I'm

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd vs. iptables firewall script

2018-05-23 Thread m . roth
Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 23/05/2018 à 16:36, Nux! a écrit : >> Try "iptables -I INPUT" for your FTP rule. > > Doesn't work. I redirected all my errors to /var/log/messages, so here's > what I get when I try to connect Filezilla to that server. > > May 23 16:48:58 c7-server kernel: +++ IPv4

[CentOS] C 7, selinux, and rpc.gssd

2018-05-17 Thread m . roth
Folks, As systems are upgraded, we're getting a ton of complaints (fortunately, we're in permissive mode) that would break everything. All of them involve rpc.gssd, and I see a number of bugs listed when I search. Note that I first saw this on a RHEL system, but now I'm seeing it on

[CentOS] The right way to deal with in-house development

2018-05-16 Thread m . roth
Ok, what's the "correct" way to deal with systems developed in-house, that have their own sets up subdirectories. And why, for that matter, does running sealert give me the full path to the executable, like openjdk... but *not* the full path to the file it's trying to operate on, and I'm left

Re: [CentOS] could not resolve mirrorlist.centos.org

2018-05-15 Thread m . roth
Richard wrote: >> Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 12:01:59 -0400 >> From: m.r...@5-cent.us >> >>I've got managers on me, I'm rebuilding this system as C 7... >> and I'm getting the above. No idea. It pings, but pointing a >> browser to there gives me "invalid release". >> >>Anyone else having

[CentOS] could not resolve mirrorlist.centos.org

2018-05-15 Thread m . roth
Hi, folks, I've got managers on me, I'm rebuilding this system as C 7... and I'm getting the above. No idea. It pings, but pointing a browser to there gives me "invalid release". Anyone else having trouble? mark ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Latest CentOS does not boot, Proliant ML330 G6

2018-05-11 Thread m . roth
Jari Fredriksson wrote: > Hello all. > > I just upgraded to the latest and tried to reboot: kernel panic and dead > as a brick. > > Luckily GRUB still works and booting the to the next option in boot menu > succeeds. > > How can this be? This OS is assumed to be solid as a brick :) > Do you have

Re: [CentOS] Yum-cron

2018-05-11 Thread m . roth
John Hodrien wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> And there is *NO* reason whatever for a "yum-hourly*. None. This is >> CentOS, not ubuntu-snapshot-of-the-moment. > > Did you have a look at what the hourly run does by default? > Ok, I just did, and I see in the configuration

Re: [CentOS] Yum-cron

2018-05-11 Thread m . roth
Jon Pruente wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:36 AM, wrote: >> >> And there is *NO* reason whatever for a "yum-hourly*. None. This is >> CentOS, not ubuntu-snapshot-of-the-moment. >> >> I don't know if this is from upstream or not, but it's wrong. I mean, >> even Redmond only

[CentOS] Yum-cron

2018-05-11 Thread m . roth
Ok, I've just had issues this morning, and went and *looked*. I can see a yum-cron running monthly, sure. Running weekly, I guess. Running daily? Why? And there is *NO* reason whatever for a "yum-hourly*. None. This is CentOS, not ubuntu-snapshot-of-the-moment. I don't know if this is from

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-10 Thread m . roth
Sean wrote: > Probably too late for consideration at this point, but there are > Enterprise Class SSDs available with DoD/NSA certified/approved self encryption > capability. The concept is that encryption is a hardware feature of the > drive, when you want to dispose of it, you throw away the

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread m . roth
James Szinger wrote: > Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speaking > as private citizen. > > Talk to your organization's computer security people. They will have a > standard procedure for getting rid of dead disks. We on the internet > can't > know what they are.

[CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-08 Thread m . roth
Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do with a SSD? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] More oddities...

2018-05-02 Thread m . roth
From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 03:28:29PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> My manager's workstation is C 7.4, and it started screaming yesterday >> about issues with ata5. > >> Except that he has one internal and one external drive, and a DVD.

[CentOS] More oddities...

2018-05-01 Thread m . roth
My manager's workstation is C 7.4, and it started screaming yesterday about issues with ata5. Except that he has one internal and one external drive, and a DVD. Anyone have clues as to what could be causing this, or where to start looking? He's rebooted it, and before that, I tried

[CentOS] OT: hardware, odd PSU issue

2018-05-01 Thread m . roth
We have an HP blade enclosure for SL230s Gen 8. Went to replace the four PSUs in it, 1500W. Got them from one vendor, "refurbished"... and *none* worked. Returned them, and got them from another vendor, and *none* worked. Something odd here. For one, the LED doesn't light up when I'm holding the

Re: [CentOS] OT: thunderbird annoyance

2018-04-27 Thread m . roth
incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: > Is the folder that you have selected inside of an account whose email > address is exactly the same as the one that get's cc'ed?  I could see > where if the messages were forwarded to a different email account, it > would do this. If this is not the case, go into >

Re: [CentOS] OT: thunderbird annoyance

2018-04-27 Thread m . roth
incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: > On 04/27/2018 07:55 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Does anyone know if it's even possible to NOT cc myself when I hit reply >> all? >> >> Geez, that's what's in the sent folder > > Check your settings for account setting->copies & folders->cc these > email

[CentOS] OT: thunderbird annoyance

2018-04-27 Thread m . roth
Does anyone know if it's even possible to NOT cc myself when I hit reply all? Geez, that's what's in the sent folder mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread m . roth
Michael Hennebry wrote: > My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. > I have DVD-RWs. > Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, > wodim still will not write to it. > Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism > for formatting and writing DVD-RWs? > Have you ever used

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 36s! [swapper/0:0]

2018-04-24 Thread m . roth
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 15:26 +, KM wrote: >> All,This happens on all of our CentOS 7 VMs.  but as stated in the >> email trail, the file softlockup_thresh does not exist.  Should it be >> added?  What is the best way to get rid of this behavior. >> Thanks in advance

Re: [CentOS] rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.

2018-04-16 Thread m . roth
marcos sr wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to mount a nfs system. But i receive this message: > > mount -t nfs :/backup /backupnfs > mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking. > mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd. > mount.nfs: an

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

2018-04-13 Thread m . roth
Toralf Lund wrote: > Hi, > > I just found myself having to set up a new CentOS 6 system with a nearly > identical configuration to an existing host, so I thought I would just > > 1. Do a minimal install to set up partitions etc. on the new system. > 2. Create an image of the existing system

Re: [CentOS] Wich is best for backup? nfs of iscsi?

2018-04-12 Thread m . roth
marcos sr wrote: > Hello > > I have a CentOS VM with a lots of inodes, and 500GB +/-, running under > hyper-v . Which is best for backup them? What is the pros and cons? > 500GB? Buy an eSATA card, external bay, and drop a 4TB drive in. mark

[CentOS] motion

2018-04-12 Thread m . roth
Got a CentOS 7 box running motion. Selinux is complaining that one of the scripts motion runs is mislabeled. Here's what it is. system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0 /home/motion/bin/on_move_end Now, ~motion is NFS mounted, and we've got use_nfs_home_dirs --> on, so what *would* the proper label be,

Re: [CentOS] Windows PC PostScript printer driver -> CUPS data import fails

2018-04-12 Thread m . roth
Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Thursday 12 April 2018 16:06:06 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I'd recommend, to start, installing msttcorefonts, and see if that >> helps. > > Thanks for this. I will try these two options if I need to. > > However, I have found in Windows 10 there is a printer driver

Re: [CentOS] Windows PC PostScript printer driver -> CUPS data import fails

2018-04-12 Thread m . roth
Yan Li wrote: > On 04/12/2018 03:08 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> The PDF contains: >> >> ERROR: invalidfileaccess >> OFFENDING COMMAND: .findfont >> OPERAND STACK: >> r >> /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/UTBI.pfa >> --nostringval-- >> true >> NimbusMonL-Regu >> Courier >> --nostringval-- >> Courier

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

2018-04-06 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 17:25 , wrote: >>> CentOS 7 box. As there's no package in any of the repos, we're trying to install scikit-learn in the user's space. It refuses. My late try was, after d/l a .whl from last year, hoping that would work

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

2018-04-06 Thread m . roth
Richard Demeny wrote: > Just sudo it > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 17:25 , wrote: > >> CentOS 7 box. As there's no package in any of the repos, we're trying to >> install scikit-learn in the user's space. It refuses. My late try was, >> after d/l a .whl from last year, hoping that

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

2018-04-06 Thread m . roth
CentOS 7 box. As there's no package in any of the repos, we're trying to install scikit-learn in the user's space. It refuses. My late try was, after d/l a .whl from last year, hoping that would work with the numpy package in the regular repos, I did a pip install --user scikit-learn..., and it

Re: [CentOS] memory cgroup max_usage_in_bytes question

2018-04-04 Thread m . roth
Stijn De Weirdt wrote: > hi all, > > can someone help explaining what we are seeing? it makes no sense to us. > this is a host running centos 7.4 with 3.10.0-693.17.1 kernel, and it > has 192GB of ram > >> [] free -b >> totalusedfree shared buff/cache >>

Re: [CentOS] What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing harddisks?

2018-04-02 Thread m . roth
Fred Smith wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> On 02/04/18 15:09, wwp wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > >> > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:01:56 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> > >> >> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: >> >>> Good evening from Singapore! >> >>> >>

Re: [CentOS] What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing harddisks?

2018-04-02 Thread m . roth
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Good evening from Singapore! > > The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal > (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard drives? > > I work for No Secrets Agency (NSA) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name > used). My sales

Re: [CentOS] xfs file system errors

2018-03-15 Thread m . roth
Jerry Geis wrote: > How do I fix an xfs file system error ? > > I searched and it says to run xfs_repair /dev/sda1 - did not work. > I got an error on boot and the machine dropped into service mode by > entering the PW. I entered the above command and it said couldnt load > library... > > SO I

Re: [CentOS] Squid + SquidGuard : static block page not working

2018-03-14 Thread m . roth
Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working with Squid + SquidGuard for a few years, though only > on Slackware. I'm currently transferring my proxy expertise to CentOS 7, > and right now I'm having a little problem with that. > > Squid works perfectly so far as a transparent HTTP + HTTPS

[CentOS] An selinux issue

2018-03-07 Thread m . roth
CentUS 7.4 >From sealert: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/sshd from read access on the file /etc/ssh/moduli. * Plugin restorecon (94.8 confidence) suggests If you want to fix the label. /etc/ssh/moduli default label should be etc_t. Then you can run restorecon.

[CentOS] A question about smb.conf between C6 and c7

2018-02-21 Thread m . roth
Are there any? Will a C 6 conf work under C 7? A pointer to a README would be appreciated on configuration differences, if any. Thanks in advance. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Two MACs for one IP

2018-02-13 Thread m . roth
The reason I want to assign one IP to two MAC addresses is that I have one (and only one) user for whom I have to spoof the MAC address (it's a case of stupid software licensing). But... his system is encrypted. Now, we're using clevis to allow reboots without someone being at the keyboard to type

Re: [CentOS] OT: configuring xming to know putty's not in a std. location

2018-02-07 Thread m . roth
Pete Biggs wrote: > On Wed, 2018-02-07 at 14:45 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Is there some way to do this? I've got the current putty (actually, >> putty-cac), pageant, and plink in my user's Downlods directory - neither >> he nor I have admin authority on his laptop, and Desktop support's >>

[CentOS] OT: configuring xming to know putty's not in a std. location

2018-02-07 Thread m . roth
Is there some way to do this? I've got the current putty (actually, putty-cac), pageant, and plink in my user's Downlods directory - neither he nor I have admin authority on his laptop, and Desktop support's teleworking today - but I can't seem to find a way to configure xming to look there for

Re: [CentOS] Allowing non-root users to reboot a workstation

2018-02-02 Thread m . roth
Felipe Westfields wrote: > I would like to be able to allow regular users that don't have admin > privileges to be able to reboot their workstation. (they're software > developers so rebooting their workstation doesn't affect anybody else) > > I tried changing the ownership of /sbin/reboot and

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT : newsletters, mail formatting and netiquette

2018-02-02 Thread m . roth
Cameron Smith wrote: > Look into mutipart and offer both html and plain text in the same email. > This allows the client to view it as they see fit. > > If you do send html it has a much more restrictive implementation than > html > and css for a webpage so study up on what you can and can't do. >

Re: [CentOS] logging in

2018-01-30 Thread m . roth
Interesting. lastlog was always my go-to. However, at least in C6, last gets it, while lastlog does not. How odd. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] logging in

2018-01-30 Thread m . roth
Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:26 PM, wrote: >> >> This is odd. >> >> We're seeing a *lot* of >> sshd[8400]: Timeout, client not responding. > > Is it possible you are testing ssh availability from nagios, monit, or > some other software that connects

[CentOS] logging in

2018-01-30 Thread m . roth
This is odd. We're seeing a *lot* of sshd[8400]: Timeout, client not responding. So I'm trying to find out whose client is having issues. Trying to figure that, after processes are gone, I tried looking in lastlog, which is where it gets odd. lastlog shows root coming in, and it shows a

Re: [CentOS] /lib/firmware/microcode.dat update on CentOS 6

2018-01-24 Thread m . roth
Leroy Tennison wrote: > What's amazing to me is, after "Intel Inside - don't divide" (their 486 > debacle), they didn't learn and have a better plan for addressing these > kinds of things. > Or, as some of us back then referred to it, the RePentium chip (think again...) mark > - Original

Re: [CentOS] An rpm specfile quesstion [SOLVED]

2018-01-19 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I've built an rpm package to distribute an executable and datafiles, but I > need to link to the executable, with the symlink with a different name, > into /usr/sbin/ > > If I make the symlink in the %post, it doesn't show if you do rpm -ql, and > /usr/sbin/link gives

[CentOS] An rpm specfile quesstion

2018-01-19 Thread m . roth
I've built an rpm package to distribute an executable and datafiles, but I need to link to the executable, with the symlink with a different name, into /usr/sbin/ If I make the symlink in the %post, it doesn't show if you do rpm -ql, and /usr/sbin/link gives "not owned by any package". If I make

[CentOS] CentOS 7 autofs flakyness

2018-01-11 Thread m . roth
I have a user who couldn't get in via WinSCP to a server. Got him to log in via putty, and that was fine. But he still couldn't get in the other way. At my manager's suggestion, I restarted autofs... and everything worked. Note that his home director5y was already automounted via NFS, after he

Re: [CentOS] 1600x900 not available

2018-01-11 Thread m . roth
Sean Smith wrote: > > On 01/11/2018 12:34 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Sean Smith wrote: >> >>> setting my resolution to 1600x900 is a cheesy, yet effective, way to do >>> get what I need. >>> >>> ...Now if I can just get my touchpad to FRICK'N disable while typing. >>> >> If/when you do,

Re: [CentOS] 1600x900 not available

2018-01-11 Thread m . roth
Sean Smith wrote: > setting my resolution to 1600x900 is a cheesy, yet effective, way to do > get what I need. > > ...Now if I can just get my touchpad to FRICK'N disable while typing. > If/when you do, *PLEASE* post the solution. If you're a manager, or gamer, I guess touchpads are great. If

Re: [CentOS] An rpmbuild spec question

2017-12-28 Thread m . roth
Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 06:09:21PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Sure. I think I'm closer, but I'm also at the point where I'm just >> trying things. My current issue, that I keep falling back to, is the >> install *INSISTS* that it has to add a - after version. >>

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 and btrfs

2017-12-28 Thread m . roth
Matt wrote: > I am setting up a new test server. Doing a fresh install from CD onto > a couple 4TB drives. Would like to try btrfs in a RAID 1 format. Are > there any how to's on how to do that? I was under the impression that upstream was deprecating BTRFS. mark

Re: [CentOS] An rpmbuild spec question

2017-12-27 Thread m . roth
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 3:41 PM wrote: > >> I'm trying to build a package to create a directory and install some >> files. My rpmbuild keeps failing, unable to cd into the directory, "no >> such". Now, in the tmpfile, I *see* it cd'ing into

[CentOS] An rpmbuild spec question

2017-12-27 Thread m . roth
I'm trying to build a package to create a directory and install some files. My rpmbuild keeps failing, unable to cd into the directory, "no such". Now, in the tmpfile, I *see* it cd'ing into BUILD/opt, and the source was unzipped and untared into BUILD/opt/smipmicfg-1.27.0. In the spec file, I've

Re: [CentOS] Unable to run TeamViewer 13 under Centos 7 (amd64)

2017-12-19 Thread m . roth
Manish Jain wrote: > > On 12/19/17 22:11, Manish Jain wrote: >> On 12/19/17 22:07, Jonathan Billings wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 02:54:36PM +, Manish Jain wrote: I uninstalled the old TV, and installed the version you indicated, but I get nothing at all:

Re: [CentOS] Question on CentoS 7.4 on nvidia

2017-12-15 Thread m . roth
Yan Li wrote: > If you need to use a non stock kernel, you can also try to download the > latest driver directly from nvidia. The nvidia official driver is very > easy to install and works with almost all kernel versions. It can also be > easily uninstalled too. Make sure you have the correct

Re: [CentOS] LUKS question

2017-12-13 Thread m . roth
John Hodrien wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Kern, Thomas (CONTR) wrote: > >> If your requirement is for the entire system to be encrypted then I >> think the only is a system rebuild, but if you can convince management that a >> good compromise is encrypting only the applications and their data,

Re: [CentOS] upgrading python

2017-12-12 Thread m . roth
Larry Martell wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Larry Martell > wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Clint Dilks >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Larry Martell >>> >>> wrote: On Tue,

Re: [CentOS] upgrading python

2017-12-11 Thread m . roth
Pete Biggs wrote: > On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 15:44 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:32:06 -0500 >> Larry Martell wrote: >> >> > Can I make that the default python? >> >> ~/.bashrc >> > No. I'm not entirely sure that is a good idea! No, not all. > > 'scl enable python27 bash' creates

Re: [CentOS] C7 and docker storage (folllowing myself up)

2017-12-01 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Gianluca Cecchi wrote: >> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:55:58 +0100 >> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:23 PM, wrote: >> >>> The latter would explain the message my user's job gave him when it >>> tried to umount / >>> >>> A bit of

Re: [CentOS] C7 and docker storage

2017-12-01 Thread m . roth
Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:55:58 +0100 > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:23 PM, wrote: > >> The latter would explain the message my user's job gave him when it tried >> to umount / >> >> A bit of googling, and I see something called

[CentOS] C 7, docker, and storage

2017-11-30 Thread m . roth
I may have missed some overnight replies to my question from yesterday - if so, sorry. >From my googling, it looks like I should change from the loopback device to overlayFS (with overlay2). What I haven't found is, first and foremost, more clarity on configuring storage. It *appears* that the

[CentOS] C7 and docker storage

2017-11-29 Thread m . roth
Was working on docker on a server, and on startup, I see Nov 29 10:58:27 dockerd-current: time="2017-11-29T10:58:27.612849959-05:00" level=warning msg="devmapper: Usage of loopback devices is strongly discouraged for production use. Please use `--storage-opt dm.thinpooldev` or use `man docker` to

Re: [CentOS] Missing /usr/share/perl5 in C7

2017-11-29 Thread m . roth
Mark Haney wrote: > On 11/29/2017 01:43 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Mark Haney wrote: > >>> >>> Any idea what happened? >> >> No idea what could have happened, but if it were me, I wouldn't copy >> anything - I'd yum reinstall instantly. You have no idea what *else* is >> missing. >> >>

Re: [CentOS] Missing /usr/share/perl5 in C7

2017-11-29 Thread m . roth
Mark Haney wrote: > I'm under a bit of a crunch here, so any immediate help would be > appreciated. We kickstart our customer boxes and have started migrating > to CentOS 7. We're running Radiator 4.6 1 (I know, but bear with me) > and we just deployed our first radius box to a customer to be

[CentOS] C 7, lockd issue

2017-11-29 Thread m . roth
I thnk I posted this last week, but to refresh your minds (for Americans, after all the turkey): two C7 boxes, updated. box 1 is exporting directories; box 2 is not running nfs. From box 1, every minute, I get <...> kernel: lockd: server fred.local not responding, timed out Now, on box 2, fred

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: > On 11/28/2017 12:04 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Thanks, Lamar! that is very instructive. > You're welcome. > >> I was always unimpressed with >> persistence of attempts to make more secure (less pickable) cylinder >> cased >> locks (precision, multi-level, pins at a weird

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread m . roth
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > With a few exceptions, I see most admins treat CentOS as a single > rolling release and rely on the ABI commitment assuming things > just work between point releases. On the other hand I see the > opposite with RHEL where admins constrain installations to the > point

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-27 Thread m . roth
Pete Biggs wrote: > On Mon, 2017-11-27 at 12:10 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: >> hi All, >> >> I happened to login to one of my servers today and saw 96000 failed >> login attempts. shown below is the address its coming from. I added it to my >> firewall to drop. >> >> Failed password for root from

Re: [CentOS] skypeforlinux lacks dependencies, won't update

2017-11-22 Thread m . roth
ken wrote: > On 11/19/2017 12:53 PM, vychytraly . wrote: >> Maybe try flatpak version? there should be no problems with dependencies >> there... :) > > Thanks, I didn't know about flatpak... even tho it's in the base repo!  > I have to admit though, after reading through the flatpak website about

Re: [CentOS] semi-OT:apcupsd

2017-11-17 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/17/2017 7:16 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I can't seem to find apcupsd for C 6. Just went to epel's website, and >> not >> visible. Anyone have a clue? >> > > suggestion, use NUT instead, the Network UPS Tools  works for all > sorts of UPS's, not just APC, and

Re: [CentOS] semi-OT:apcupsd

2017-11-17 Thread m . roth
wwp wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:34:53 -0500 Digimer wrote: > >> On 2017-11-17 10:16 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> > I can't seem to find apcupsd for C 6. Just went to epel's website, and >> not >> > visible. Anyone have a clue? >> >> I can't speak to epel, but we have

[CentOS] semi-OT:apcupsd

2017-11-17 Thread m . roth
I can't seem to find apcupsd for C 6. Just went to epel's website, and not visible. Anyone have a clue? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

2017-11-17 Thread m . roth
dominic adair-jones wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 AM, wrote: >> dominic adair-jones wrote: >>> going to run journalctl this evening when i get in and relay any errors >>> i see. >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: On Thu,

Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

2017-11-17 Thread m . roth
dominic adair-jones wrote: > going to run journalctl this evening when i get in and relay any errors i > see. > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: >> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +, dominic adair-jones wrote: >>> Ok that's what I figured Ive narrowed it

Re: [CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread m . roth
Mark Haney wrote: > On 11/15/2017 11:48 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Mark Haney wrote: >>> For the record, this was the only option to handle the task I'm having >>> issues with inside cron. >>> >> Yes. Do not trust your environment, running as a cron job, to be what >> you think it is. Try

Re: [CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread m . roth
Mark Haney wrote: > This might be a bit OT, but I've never had to do this before and what > I've googled doesn't seem to be working. > > I have an ansible playbook that I'm working on that I want to run as a > cronjob.  One task I'm having trouble with is where I have a text file > with lines

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