[CentOS] xinetd custom service - perl - remote address

2020-05-28 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi all, I can't believe that I can't find the answer to this one. I have a perl script which is called by xinetd. I want that perl script to be able to detect the remote IP address of the caller. I presumed that it would be an environment variable but I could be wrong. I've found reference

Re: [CentOS] xinetd custom service - perl - remote address

2020-05-28 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 28 May 2020 18:12:55 Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <202005281646.34790.gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk>, > Works for me. Here are my details: > Thanks for this Tony. This is exactly what I had expected to happen. I subsitiuted your server for mine and got exactly the same resul

[CentOS] Replacement for KMail V1

2020-08-17 Thread Gary Stainburn
Last week my trusty Fedora 9 file and print server failed on me. Not bad for 12 years trusty service. I have now replaced it with a C7 server and found that lots have changed in those 12 years. Thankfully many things haven't, named-chroot, dhcpd, etc pretty much copied across and Samba wasn't

[CentOS] Thunderbird won't start after move to new box

2020-09-10 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've tried moving my Thunderbird profile from one C7 box, a standard PC to another C7 box, a DELL server. I did this by rsync'ing ~/.thunderbird. However, on the new box, Thunderbird only starts if I run it -safe-mode.  If I don't run it in safe mode I see the window flash up and instantly clo

[CentOS] Forefox on C7 - uses wrong program to view download folder

2020-09-23 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've got a C7 laptop using the default repo's (installed plus epel). My firefox has decided to use the wrong program to view the downloads folder. If I download and save a file, then click on the Downloads icon and click on view folder containing the file, it opens the MP3 editor EasyTag ins

[CentOS] Centos 7 + PHP7.2 - variables_order not working

2020-10-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've just moved my site onto a new box and I'm having a real problem  with $_REQUEST.  The variables_order  and request_order values are not being respected. I need the cookies to take the lowest priority, so I put it first in the sequence. However, as the code below shows this is not happenin

[CentOS] System not logging

2020-10-28 Thread Gary Stainburn
One of my boxes has stopped logging some of the things it's supposed to.  I use rsyslog which used to send named and dhcpd entries to separate log files.  Both named and dhcpd are working. I have shut down the DHCPD server and run it in debug mode and the output is produced as expected. I hav

[CentOS] GVIM annoyances

2020-11-06 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've just upgraded from my old F9 box to C7, which of course means lots of changes.  However, the ones are are annoying me most are with VIM. No matter what I do I can't get  gvim to open in a reasonable size. I have a dual headed setup (laptop + external) and every time gvim opens it takes up

[CentOS] fail2ban problems - not banning

2021-01-06 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi everyone, I've got fail2ban and firewalld set up on a C7 box, in theory protecting dovecot, exim and ssh but I'm not convinced it's doing anything. in /var/log/fail2ban.log I'm getting loads of entries such as: 2020-12-22 19:08:08,100 fail2ban.actions    [1836]: WARNING [dovecot] 78.1

[CentOS] Installing openLDAP on Centos 7

2021-09-30 Thread Gary Stainburn
I am following the howto on https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-ldap-on-centos-7/ which matches a number of other howto's. I have tried this on two Centos 7 boxes and both fail in the same way when trying to set the certificates. I have tried here> without success.  I found that b

[CentOS] stupidly simple crontab problem

2021-11-17 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi all, This is crazy but I can't see the answer.  In my system crontab I've added a job to stop the music system at 10:59 on the 11th November, and restart it at 11:02 on the 11th November # m    h    dom    mon  dow    user    command   59  10 * 11    * root /bin/squeezy -al

[CentOS] PHP-LDAP RPM installed but not usable

2023-03-20 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks. I've installed PHP 8.0 on my server, and just installed php-ldap. All looks to have worked fine. php-common-8.0.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-8.0.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php80-php-common-8.0.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php80-php-ldap-8.0.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-cli-8.0.28-1.el7.remi.x86_64 php-sod

Re: [CentOS] PHP-LDAP RPM installed but not usable

2023-03-20 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've also tried adding the pgsql and mysql RPM's and they're not available either. On 20/03/2023 12:58, Gary Stainburn wrote: Apologies.  This is the correct screen grab. The extra errors in the OP were because I had been experimenting, to try to fix the issue.

[CentOS] perl-Net-SCP on Centos 7

2015-08-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
As part of building my new mail server, I'm installing the RPMS to match my old server. However, I can't find a perl-Net-SCP RPM for this version. Can someone point me to where I can get it, preferrably a repo that I can use that has it. I have found perl-Net-SCP-0.08-1.el6.rf.noarch.rpm. As

[CentOS] Fedora 9 -> Centos 7 upgrade Dovecot problem

2015-08-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
degg): Error: fchown(/home/tdegg/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock, group=12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=2046(tdegg), group based on /var/mail/tdegg - see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm) Aug 24 16:42:37 ollie2 dovecot: pop3(tdegg): Disconnected: Logge

Re: [CentOS] perl-Net-SCP on Centos 7

2015-08-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Monday 24 August 2015 19:52:52 Gary Stainburn wrote: > I have found perl-Net-SCP-0.08-1.el6.rf.noarch.rpm. As a last resort I > could localinstall that. Would it have any nasty side effects? I've just tried this and I got the following which seems to indicate a bigger problem. Al

Re: [CentOS] perl-Net-SCP on Centos 7

2015-08-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Monday 24 August 2015 20:07:54 Robert Wolfe wrote: > What are you using to build you mail server? Ever considered giving > iRedMail a try? Installs everything you need to run a Linux based mail > server completed with webmail and groupmail (using SOGo). I have a reasonably complex EXIM / Post

[CentOS] clamav / EXIM on Centos 7

2015-08-25 Thread Gary Stainburn
Me again, I'm still building my new mail server and I'm struggling getting clamav and exim to talk to each other. I've installed: clamav-server-0.98.7-1.el7.x86_64 clamav-lib-0.98.7-1.el7.x86_64 clamav-0.98.7-1.el7.x86_64 clamav-milter-0.98.7-1.el7.x86_64 clamav-data-0.98.7-1.el7.noarch clamav-

Re: [CentOS] clamav / EXIM on Centos 7

2015-08-25 Thread Gary Stainburn
mina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 08/25/2015 04:16 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > connect to UNIX socket (/var/run/clamd.exim/clamd.sock): No such file > > If you try to locate that file, do you find it somewhere? > When you list services (un

Re: [CentOS] clamav / EXIM on Centos 7

2015-08-25 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 25 August 2015 14:44:55 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Does the directory /var/run/clamav-milter/ exist and is it traversable > and writable by the clamav user is running as? > Socket creation mostly doesnt include recursive operation (creating the > directory) It looks like I'm bark

Re: [CentOS] clamav / EXIM on Centos 7 - workaround

2015-08-25 Thread Gary Stainburn
The story so far: Even though I've got clamav-server-systemd installed I can't find any units etc to enable me to control clamd via systemctl. When I ran clamd in a terminal it complained that it couldn't find /etc/clamd.conf which made sense as it didn't exist. I copied /etc/clam.d/exim.conf

[CentOS] /run and /var/run as tmpfs - how many RPM's broken?

2015-08-26 Thread Gary Stainburn
This is pretty much a retorical question, although I would like to know the extent of the problem and how quickly it's gonna be sorted. My problem has already been described in a previous post, i.e. clamd fails after a reboot. The cause apparently is that /run and therefore /var/run has at some

Re: [CentOS] please block user

2015-08-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 27 August 2015 01:40:21 zep wrote: > digital ocean finally replied (at least to me): > > Hi there, > > I'm sorry about this. We gave our customer time to resolve the issue, > and he hasn't done so, so we've blocked his ability to send email, pending > further action if necessar

Re: [CentOS] please block user

2015-08-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 26 August 2015 20:11:20 g wrote: > so the only harm is spam, which i now have going to my Junk folder. > That is not the only harm. These people are very good and very effective confidence tricksters and are experts at getting vulnerable people to send them money which they usually

Re: [CentOS] please block user

2015-08-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
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[CentOS] Detecting empty office doc containing virus macro

2015-10-28 Thread Gary Stainburn
We are receiving LOTS of emails that contain empty XLS or DOC documents with embedded virus macros. These are getting past SPAMASSASSIN, Clamav and Kaspersky. I'm trying to write a filter for EXIM to block these emails but I need to know a good, quick, command-line to detect an empty doc with

Re: [CentOS] Detecting empty office doc containing virus macro

2015-10-28 Thread Gary Stainburn
get about the macros, and just assume that if the document is empty, it's a virus On Wednesday 28 October 2015 14:59:32 Eero Volotinen wrote: > Hi, > > Take look of http://www.cuckoosandbox.org > > -- > Eero > > 2015-10-28 13:55 GMT+02:00 Gary Stainburn : > > W

Re: [CentOS] Detecting empty office doc containing virus macro

2015-10-29 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 28 October 2015 21:12:19 Ned Slider wrote: > On 28/10/15 11:55, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > We are receiving LOTS of emails that contain empty XLS or DOC documents > > with embedded virus macros. These are getting past SPAMASSASSIN, Clamav > > and Kaspersky. > &

Re: [CentOS] Detecting empty office doc containing virus macro

2015-10-30 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 29 October 2015 20:37:03 Ned Slider wrote: > On 29/10/15 10:51, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 October 2015 21:12:19 Ned Slider wrote: > >> On 28/10/15 11:55, Gary Stainburn wrote: > >>> We are receiving LOTS of emails that contain empty X

[CentOS] LDAP setup on Centos 7

2015-11-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
I am trying to get LDAP working on my mail server for both user authentication and addressbook purposes. I have tried the tutorials on both http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=openldap&f=1 and http://albanianwizard.org/ubuntu-10-0-4-lucid-lynx-ldap-configuration-the-working-how

Re: [CentOS] LDAP setup on Centos 7

2015-11-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
Since posting my first email I have re-generated both the root and Manager passwords and re-run the setup. I no longer get the "Invalid credentials" error so presumably the problem must have been a cut/paste issue. I now get the following error. As I am a total newbie to LDAP and don't really

Re: [CentOS] [MASSMAIL]Re: LDAP setup on Centos 7

2015-11-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 27 November 2015 16:14:32 Leon Fauster wrote: > # systemctl stop slapd > > # slapadd -v -l this-ldif-file > > > # cat this-ldif-file > dn: dc=ringways,dc=com > objectClass: dcObject > objectclass: organization > o: Ringways > dc: ringways > > # systemctl start slapd > > > # ldapadd -x -D

Re: [CentOS] LDAP setup on Centos 7 - solved

2015-11-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 27 November 2015 17:10:37 Leon Fauster wrote: > > dn: dc=ringways,dc=com > > objectClass: top > > objectClass: dcObject > > objectclass: organization > > o: Ringways > > dc: Server > > ^ this must be dc: ringways (like in your dn)! > It had to be something that simple. Thanks _

[CentOS] Hylafax without modems - SIP?

2016-01-26 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've just had to replace my Hylafax server as the cooling fan in the rack case has died and could not be replaced. My box runs three fax modems, one for each of the original 3 fax machines that got skipped years ago. This means that I now have 3 lots of: USB to seral converter (new box doesn't

[CentOS] yum update (first in a long time) has broken clamd.exim

2016-05-04 Thread Gary Stainburn
I have just run a 'yum update' on a Centos 7.2 server which updated several hundred RPMs. The update worked fine with no errors or warnings I then rebooted the server and now my EXIM is rejecting emails because the clamd service isn't running. So I tried: [root@ollie2 ~]# systemctl restart cl

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED - yum update (first in a long time) has broken clamd.exim

2016-05-05 Thread Gary Stainburn
e all working again. On Wednesday 04 May 2016 16:40:48 Gary Stainburn wrote: > I have just run a 'yum update' on a Centos 7.2 server which updated several > hundred RPMs. > > The update worked fine with no errors or warnings > > I then rebooted the server and now my EXI

[CentOS] Dovecot on C7.2 - secure internet access

2016-05-05 Thread Gary Stainburn
I have a mail server running on Centos 7.2 which has been working for my LAN for a long time. I'm at the point where I have to make it accessible to the internet. At the moment, access can be insecure but as it's on my LAN it isn't an issue. However, for internet access I wish to force SSL/TLS

[CentOS] yum update (first in a long time) - /var/log/dovecot no longer used

2016-05-05 Thread Gary Stainburn
Me again, Another change to my Centos 7.2 system since my 'yum update' yesterday is that /var/log/dovecot is no longer written to. If I do 'systemctl status dovecot' I can see log entries. How can I now do the equiv or 'tail -f ' Also, why has this changed, and where is it documented?

Re: [CentOS] [MASSMAIL] Dovecot on C7.2 - secure internet access

2016-05-05 Thread Gary Stainburn
to test my setup? Thunderbird doesn't give any diagnostic data, it just says it's failed to test the account. On Thursday 05 May 2016 11:03:34 Gary Stainburn wrote: > I have a mail server running on Centos 7.2 which has been working for my > LAN for a long time. > > I'm

Re: [CentOS] [MASSMAIL] Dovecot on C7.2 - secure internet access

2016-05-05 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 05 May 2016 15:34:48 Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Connect with: > > openssl s_client -connect :143 -starttls imap > > Then issue IMAP commands: > > 01 CAPABILITY > 02 LOGIN user password > 03 LOGOUT > > That should be successful and you should have seen the configured AUTH > mechanisms. No

Re: [CentOS] [MASSMAIL] Re: yum update (first in a long time) - /var/log/dovecot no longer used

2016-05-05 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 05 May 2016 15:19:47 John Hodrien wrote: > > I'd take a stab at: > > journalctl -fu dovecot > > The full RHEL7 System Administrators Guide is well worth a read, but here's > the bit you're probably after. > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/ht >m

Re: [CentOS] yum update (first in a long time) - /var/log/dovecot no longer used

2016-05-06 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 05 May 2016 17:16:17 Valeri Galtsev wrote: > There were several heated discussions on this list, and elsewhere. This is > not intended to start the new one, but to help someone who missed them to > define their statute. > > People split into two groups: > > Opponents of systemd (, firew

[CentOS] yum update (first in a long time) - EXIM environment variable warning

2016-05-06 Thread Gary Stainburn
Me again, Another problem I've found since doing my yum update is that EXIM is now showing the following error, on startup, and repeatedly in main.log [root@ollie2 ~]# exim -bt localp...@example.com 2016-05-06 09:27:04 WARNING: purging the environment. Suggested action: use keep_environment a

Re: [CentOS] [MASSMAIL] Re: yum update (first in a long time) - /var/log/dovecot no longer used

2016-05-06 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 06 May 2016 14:55:33 Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Exactly. As I said in the first post (reply to which happened to hijack > the thread - my apologies that was not intended by me), it was only > intended to help those who are just about to make this step to really > think about what it will e

[CentOS] old hardware / minimal netinstall -> CPU fan control

2017-07-11 Thread Gary Stainburn
I have just installed CentOS 6 i386 onto an old rack server (it's gonna be a Bacula storeage server and is a 1U 1/2 depth chassis) I did a minimum netinstall and so far so good. However, I have one problem. The CPU fan is going at full speed constantly. Not a real problem apart from (a) it wil

[CentOS] Centos 7 specific cure for Spamassassin DNS lookup problem

2017-08-10 Thread Gary Stainburn
I have the following error message in my /var/log/spamd spf: lookup failed: available_nameservers: No DNS servers available! Having Googled the error message I've found a number of responses which involve patching Perl or Spamassassin or other cures. Before I start changing things I was wonder

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 specific cure for Spamassassin DNS lookup problem

2017-08-10 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 10 August 2017 09:21:31 Gary Stainburn wrote: > I have the following error message in my /var/log/spamd > > spf: lookup failed: available_nameservers: No DNS servers available! > > Having Googled the error message I've found a number of responses which > i

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 specific cure for Spamassassin DNS lookup problem

2017-08-14 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 10 August 2017 18:45:32 Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/10/2017 01:21 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > I have the following error message in my /var/log/spamd > > > > spf: lookup failed: available_nameservers: No DNS servers available! > > Try starting spamassa

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 specific cure for Spamassassin DNS lookup problem

2017-08-14 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 10 August 2017 18:25:44 Phil Perry wrote: > > I run SpamAssassin on CentOS 7; the SPF plugin is loaded via > > /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre. I have no trouble with spf at all. > > > > Is it possible the problem is with local DNS resolution? > > Same here, no issues with spamassassin

[CentOS] Centos 6 Airprint using CUPS/Avahi

2017-08-29 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've set up another airprint server, but this time I've had to use Centos 6 because of the age of the kit I'm using - an old 1U rack server. I've configured CUPS and also Avahi. I've run airprint-generate.py and copied the .service files to /etc/avahi/services/ Everything looks fine until I try

[CentOS] yum update problem - dependancy problem

2017-09-26 Thread Gary Stainburn
I'm sure this is a FAQ, and a simple answer is available, but I've not managed it yet. I've tried all of the RPM database tidy routines. I've tried uninstalling the libblueray1 library but the ever growning dependency tree was too big. For a while I've been updating using the command yum -y

Re: [CentOS] yum update problem - dependancy problem

2017-09-26 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 26 September 2017 11:56:06 Joseph L. Casale wrote: > The error is actually pretty straight forward. You are using a repo > (atrpms) that has not been updated in years, it's not surprise that it > finally has lost compatibility with the platform. > > Find a modern and up to date replaceme

Re: [CentOS] yum update problem - dependancy problem

2017-09-26 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 26 September 2017 14:23:46 James B. Byrne wrote: > You have a conflicting package installed from repository @atrpms. You > need to remove that package and/or disable that repository to get past > the dependency issue. 'Skip broken' is not going to handle this > situation nor will any o

Re: [CentOS] yum update problem - dependancy problem

2017-09-26 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 26 September 2017 14:27:43 Mark Haney wrote: > On 09/26/2017 09:23 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > > You have a conflicting package installed from repository @atrpms. You > > need to remove that package and/or disable that repository to get past > > the dependency issue. 'Skip broken' is n

Re: [CentOS] yum update problem - dependancy problem

2017-09-26 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 26 September 2017 15:32:50 Leon Fauster wrote: > Sorry to be pedantic, the symptom is fixed not the problem. > > To check which packages are from atrpms try this one: > > # rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}-%{VENDOR}\n' | grep -v CentOS > > It will list package name along with the corresponding rep

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

2017-10-04 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 03 October 2017 18:24:01 Mark Haney wrote: > What issue? That the PID is dropped on reboot?  What else are you > putting in there?  I'm beginning to question whether you know what > you're doing or not.  Lighttpd doesn't store any persistent info in > /var/run/ because, like everything e

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

2017-10-04 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 04 October 2017 09:42:13 Anand Buddhdev wrote: > There's no need to do that (and it's also messy). Instead, if a package > needs a directory to exist in /var/run, then create your own config for > systemd-tmpfiles, and drop it into /etc/systemd/tmpfiles.d. Work with > CentOS 7, instead

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

2017-10-04 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 04 October 2017 09:53:59 Gary Stainburn wrote: > I saw reference to system-tmpfs in Paul's post so I had a quick look. YUM > doesn't seem to know about it, but I'm sure Google will help. Sorry, meant systemd-tmpfiles __

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

2017-10-04 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 04 October 2017 12:54:44 Mark Haney wrote: > Sorry, but if you have to use packages that don't originate from CentOS > and they do that, then I wouldn't use them. Period.  I'd compile from > source before I used something configured that way. This perspective to some extent employs cu

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

2017-10-04 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 04 October 2017 13:39:30 Mark Haney wrote: > I'll end this by saying, I hope the production servers you have don't > provide critical services that could jeopardize the lives of people.  > I'd ask who you work for, to make sure I avoid them at all costs, but > I'm not sure I'd be told.

[CentOS] low end file server with h/w RAID - recommendations

2017-11-02 Thread Gary Stainburn
I'm just about to build a new server and I'm looking for recommendations on what hardware to use. I'm happy with either a brand name, or building my own, but would like a hardware RAID controller to run a pair of disks as RAID1 that is actually compatible with and manageable through Linux. A

Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7?

2017-11-02 Thread Gary Stainburn
ff to work with eg a HP Elitebook 850 G4. > > Anybody care to chime in with a comment or hint on the laptop situation > and-or their experiences? -- Gary Stainburn Group I.T. Manager Ringways Garages http://www.ringways.co.uk https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/garys-march-march ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7?

2017-11-02 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 02 November 2017 13:54:41 Sorin Srbu wrote: > Thanks. > Would you know what chipset that particular wifi-dongle is running? > > A wifi-dongle may work, but I'm thinking it's not really desirable to go > that way. > I'm figuring the users will loose that dongle sooner than later! :-) Th

Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7?

2017-11-02 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 02 November 2017 14:04:11 Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Thursday 02 November 2017 13:54:41 Sorin Srbu wrote: > > Thanks. > > Would you know what chipset that particular wifi-dongle is running? > > > > A wifi-dongle may work, but I'm thinking it's no

Re: [CentOS] low end file server with h/w RAID - recommendations

2017-11-02 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 02 November 2017 14:10:25 Bowie Bailey wrote: > If you want raid 5 or 6, then you should get a hardware controller. For > raid 1, mdadm should work just fine.  I would suggest trying it before > buying a raid controller.  If it works for you, you save a few hundred > dollars and you hav

Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7?

2017-11-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
Message- > > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Gary > > Stainburn > > Sent: den 2 november 2017 15:10 > > To: centos@centos.org > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7? > > > > On Thursday 02 November 2017 14:04:11 Ga

[CentOS] Broadcom BCM4352 on Centos 7

2017-12-11 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi Folks I'm trying to get my internal WiFi working and I'm following the instructions here: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom My adaptor is: [gary@gary ~]$ lspci|grep Broad 08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)

Re: [CentOS] Broadcom BCM4352 on Centos 7

2017-12-14 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Monday 11 December 2017 18:50:06 Akemi Yagi wrote: > ​As far as I know, the contents on the CentOS wiki are for CentOS 7.3 (or > earlier) and a patch is needed to use the driver under 7.4. > > You may want to go to the ELRepo article that is referenced on that page ( > http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-

Re: [CentOS] Broadcom BCM4352 on Centos 7

2017-12-14 Thread Gary Stainburn
After getting nowhere with the mokutil command I decided to use the other option and turn off secure boot in the BIOS settings. I had been loathed to do this because every time I do anything in the BIOS it stuffs the boot order and reverts to booting straight into Win8. Guess what, as soon as

Re: [CentOS] broadcom and centos 7

2017-12-19 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 19 December 2017 03:56:20 Keith Keller wrote: > On 2017-12-19, Keith Keller wrote: > > https://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod > > I decided to give this a go, and so far so good. I did need to rebuild > the rpm after updating the kernel version from the previous one to the > current one, but

Re: [CentOS] broadcom and centos 7

2017-12-20 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 20 December 2017 04:59:43 Keith Keller wrote: > I do seem to have an issue that when waking on suspend the wifi won't > come back up. But I haven't done enough troubleshooting to provide any > helpful debugging information, and I may not care anyway (the "laptop" > is basically my des

[CentOS] OT - pushing database updates to web browser

2018-02-07 Thread Gary Stainburn
This is O/T apart from the fact that the server is Centos running Apache / Postgresql. I want to develop a real time (ish) dashboard type web page showring extracts of the contents of a table. I would like any changes that occur to be pushed to the web clients rather than have the clients poll

Re: [CentOS] OT - pushing database updates to web browser

2018-02-07 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 07 February 2018 14:57:47 Timotheus Pokorra wrote: > Search for websockets and html5. > > eg. > http://srchea.com/build-a-real-time-application-using-html5-websockets > > all the best, >Timotheus Thanks for this. Looks a very interesting article, and exactly what I'm looking for.

[CentOS] Centos 7 LAPP setup Postgresql version and setup

2018-04-05 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi all, I've got a nice shiny new server which I'm going to build as a LAPP platform. I've just had a quick look for suitable instructions on the best way to configure it and I have a few questions. There are many hits, some better than others. (It is replacing a Fedora 9 server so I'm expecti

[CentOS] Centos 7 LAPP setup PHP 5 vs 7

2018-04-05 Thread Gary Stainburn
Another questions regarding my new server setup. As with the Postgresql setup, different pages describing setting up a Centos LAPP server have differing opinions about PHP versions. The default distro's appear to still be installing PHP5 while some sites instruct on how to install PHP7. I am p

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

2018-04-12 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi all, For some years now I have been using a simple system I found online which allows me to easily import data from Windows Programs. Hopefully others out there are using the system and already have found the answer to my problem. I have installed on my Centos server a virtual CUPS printer

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

2018-04-12 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 12 April 2018 16:06:06 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Yan Li wrote: > > > > It seems that .findfont can't find a font file that the PS file is > > asking for. Is it possible that your Windows 10 is printing using some > > new fonts that your CentOS doesn't have? That would make sense > > >

[CentOS] yum hangs and results in problems

2018-05-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
My live mail server was due an update so I ran yum update All seemed file so I told it to proceed. HOwever it then hung for over 30 minutes. I stopped the update and tried again. It complained about problems with the update, so I tried yum --skip-broken -y update which then hung at a diffe

[CentOS] New mail server slow connecting to web server

2018-05-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
Having successfully killed my (Centos 7) mail server I have had to build a new one. Thankfully I had a server build that I was about to start configuring as my new web server. I appear to have set everything up okay, Exim, SpamAssassin, ClamAv, Dovecot, Postgresql, httpd etc. Everything appe

Re: [CentOS] yum hangs and results in problems

2018-05-29 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 25 May 2018 07:57:16 John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2018, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Questions > > > > 1) Any ideas why my yum runs keep hanging, and what I can do to fix it? > > It's likely it's hanging in a script, so just trace it all throu

[CentOS] move LDAP service to new server

2018-05-29 Thread Gary Stainburn
On my old Centos 7 server I had set up a LDAP database for user authentication by other services (the server locally uses normal PAM authenticatin). I set it up originally from a web page describing how to set up an LDAP server for use with MS Outlook clients (which never worked) Is there any (

Re: [CentOS] move LDAP service to new server

2018-06-01 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 31 May 2018 17:13:49 Ulf Volmer wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 03:57:43PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Is there any (easy to follow) instructions anywhere to tell me how to > > back up this service and restore it onto a new one? > > This is basically runnin

[CentOS] installing perl-CPAN without perl-local-lib

2018-06-04 Thread Gary Stainburn
I'm still working on getting my brand new Centos 7 mail server working and I'm having problems with Perl. Most of the modules are available as RPM's which was straight forward. However, MIME::Parser, Net::SCP and Net::SSH aren't. In order to get these working I installed the perl-CPAN rpm and t

Re: [CentOS] installing perl-CPAN without perl-local-lib

2018-06-04 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Monday 04 June 2018 12:30:11 Pete Biggs wrote: > There's lots of info on it on the web. For the definitive answers look > long the local::lib pages on CPAN - basically there are environment > variables you can set to say where things are to be installed. > > Also, I think when you first run CPAN

[CentOS] Replacement web server time - catalog CPAN and PEAR installs

2018-06-28 Thread Gary Stainburn
I'm looking to replace an OLD Fedora web server with a Centos 7 one. I'm currentlly in the process of documenting what is on the server ready to install the new one. While most things have been done with RPMs, some installs have had to be done via CPAN for Perl and PEAR for PHP. Is there a wa

Re: [CentOS] Replacement web server time - catalog CPAN and PEAR installs

2018-06-29 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 28 June 2018 21:16:27 Philipoff, Andrew wrote: > Try running "pear list -a > pear_list.txt" to get a list of install PEAR Cheers Andrew Perfect ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

2018-07-23 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Saturday 21 July 2018 21:08:59 Michael Schumacher wrote: > folks, didn't anybody check the name of this guy? > > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > drops a bomb with provocative questions every now and then and NEVER > ever responds to his own bullshit. He is just a troll! This may be the case,

[CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-08-31 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I wish to be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / processor in it. Can anyone recommend a Dist that would work on it? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-08-31 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 31 August 2018 15:44:53 Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > I would use FreeBSD (and I do use FreeBSD for bacula, now bareos backup > server and storage hosts), it has really small "footprint", and it is > quite widespread. > > Incidentally, I was using bacula for very long time, but recently I > s

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-08-31 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 31 August 2018 16:35:54 mark wrote: > Gary Stainburn wrote: > > I've got a very small footprint rack server with a 4TB drive in that I > > wish to be a Bacula storeage device. However, it's got an old board / > > processor in it. > > > > Can an

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-09-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 31 August 2018 18:09:13 Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > We use mysql as database backend for bacula, and it becomes heavy loaded, > over time especially wenn restoring respectively generating filelists. So, > not sure if such old CPU provides enough compute power ... This isn't the dire

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-09-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 31 August 2018 18:20:20 Warren Young wrote: > You’re giving two very mixed signals here. > > “Old Pentium,” as someone else said, can mean anything back to 1993, but “4 > TB drive” suggests something far newer than that. > > I ask because that affects the expected energy draw of the serve

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-09-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Monday 03 September 2018 15:13:06 Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > This means that you'll need a 32-bit OS, and that PAE might not be > recognized by the OS. Debian 9 32-bit would work; CentOS 6 32-bit > might not. It previously had Centos 6 on it, but I wanted to avoid that as it now has a limited

Re: [CentOS] Simple bash question

2018-09-28 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 28 September 2018 14:39:29 Jerry Geis wrote: > I am calling a bash script and passing in somestring that includes a "$" > > myscript "$plusmore" > > I want to assign in the myscript the $1 arg to something like > MYTEXT="$1" > Hi Jerry, The problem is that bu the time you're in your s

[CentOS] Scroll bar arrows missing and behaviour change

2018-10-12 Thread Gary Stainburn
I have done some Googling on this but everything I've found appears to be at least 2 years old and mostly refers to Gnome TBH, I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned it - maybe it's only happened to me. At some point over the last few months the behaviour of the scroll bars changed and I'm fi

Re: [CentOS] Scroll bar arrows missing and behaviour change

2018-10-12 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 12 October 2018 12:19:40 Bill Gee wrote: > I agree that issue with the scroll bar jumping all over is really annoying! > It is actually a feature of Gnome and GTK. It can be changed by editing a > file: > > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini > > [Settings] > gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=0

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux distros?

2018-10-19 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 19 October 2018 00:41:12 Warren Young wrote: > > S…systemd is a Microsoft conspiracy against Linux? > I love this Now SystemD finally makes sense ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cento

[CentOS] Still getting Dropbox warning at login after uninstalling Dropbox

2018-12-06 Thread Gary Stainburn
Lke many people I have received the message from Dropbox about their changes including the non-support for the old Linux RPM. As I no longer use Dropbox I thought I would just remove the nautilus-dropbox RPM. However, I am still receiving the warning every time I log in. Can anyone tell me wh

[CentOS] Firefox showing bogus sites after 'yum update'

2018-12-06 Thread Gary Stainburn
I have just done a yum update for the first time in a while, and as part of that I believe Firefox got upgraded. After the reboot I restarted Firefox which had been closed down with the option to retain all open tabs/windows. However, when I restarted Firefox it had three new tabs, one being th

[CentOS] Help finishing off Centos 7 RAID install

2019-01-09 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've just finished installing a new Bacula storeage server. Prior to doing the install I did some research and ended up deciding to do the following config. 6x4TB drives /boot/efi efi_fs sda1 /boot/efi_copy efi_fs sdb1 /boot xfs RAID1 sda2 sdb2 VG

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