Re: [CentOS] The future of centos
Le 04/04/2015 18:57, Bill Maltby (C4B) a écrit : Been UNIX (programming and user) since 1978, Linux since some early Slackware distributions, CentOS since 4.x. Will now be looking for something staying truer to the original UNIX concepts but full-featured and stable - may not be available, but I've got to at least look. I'm using Slackware and CentOS, and I'm happy with both. The former may be just what you are looking for. The bone-headed installer hasn't changed much since the early versions, building software from source is dead easy (without tossing a monkey wrench in the package manager), and everything JustWorks(tm). I have a few production servers and many desktop clients running Slackware, and I'm quite happy with it. I'm using CentOS for stuff that Slackware can't do (FreeIPA, etc.) Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] RAID1 bootloader configuration on CentOS 6.x and 7
Hi, The CentOS wiki sports a page about setting up software RAID1 on CentOS 5.x. There's a section about making both members of the RAID1 bootable by setting up GRUB on both disks. Now I wonder how this should be done on CentOS 6.x and 7. I have two sandbox machines in my office, one running a minimal CentOS 6.6, the other one with a CentOS 7 installation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I guess the setup on CentOS 6.6 is similar to the one described on the wiki page for CentOS 5.x, something like: grub device (hd0) /dev/sda grub device (hd1) /dev/sdb grub root (hd0,0) grub setup (hd0) grub root (hd1,0) grub setup (hd1) grub quit Now how would that work with the new GRUB2 under CentOS 7? Or maybe it's already installed on both disks, but how would I know that? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] kmod-fglrx not available on CentOS 7?
Hi, The subject says it all. I'm currently busy installing a CentOS 7 based desktop on a client's machine, an HP Compaq with an ATI video card. # lspci | grep -i vga 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780C [Radeon 3100] I wanted to give the proprietary video driver a spin, so I configured ELRepo, but curiously enough, there seems to be no kmod-fglrx driver available. Why is that so? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Not getting updates?
Le 27/03/2015 20:30, Mark Haney a écrit : But to give an example, we run several Ubuntu 14.04 LTS virtual machines and I've have a dozen or so security related updates that I've not seen for CentOS, like openssl (which I do have installed on it) and gnutls. I know package names don't always match up, but these are recent known vulnerabilities and I don't like the feeling I'm not securing my systems properly. I've just setup a few CentOS 7 machines, using the minimal CD. After the initial reboot, I have 78 MB worth of updates. Everything looks quite normal. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Facebook CentOS group close to 15.000 members!
Le 26/03/2015 11:27, Прокси a écrit : Too bad it's not in English. It would be interesting to follow your posts as you discover CentOS more and more, given that I also used Slackware. Well, the *nix bits are international :o) -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] RHEL/CentOS bugfixing policy for LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird?
Hi, RHEL/CentOS releases 5.x, 6.x and 7.x are all shipping reasonably recent versions of Firefox ESR, Thunderbird ESR and LibreOffice. Until recently I've been using Slackware Linux as a base system for client's desktops and workstations. Since my primary aim is reliability, I always tried to opt for the most stable releases, so for example I'd rather go for LibreOffice 4.2.8 than 4.3.1. A question just crossed my mind: does RHEL include software like LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird as is from upstream, or is there some RHEL-specific quality control and bugfixing for this kind of software? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RHEL/CentOS bugfixing policy for LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird?
Le 25/03/2015 10:46, Lars Hecking a écrit : rpm -q --changelog should give you an idea. Thanks. That's exactly what I've been looking for. And perusing the results gives me so many reasons to stick with CentOS. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements
Le 24/03/2015 09:45, Ashish Yadav a écrit : Try considering Bodhi and Puppy Linux also. Thanks but no. As I already stated, I have my own blend of Slackware for this. My question was: I want to install CentOS (and not $OTHER_DISTRO) on these machines, so what are the minimum specs? -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements
Le 24/03/2015 09:52, Phil Wyett a écrit : RHEL version min/max specs can be found: https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits Thanks! That's exactly the document I was looking for. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements
Le 24/03/2015 08:34, John R Pierce a écrit : I'd be looking at something like TinyLinux or DamnSmallLinux on those. I don't want anything else than CentOS for the job. I used to install my own heavily customized version of Slackware on these machines (http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/), but this was a bit of a hassle to maintain. CentOS 5.x is running perfectly well on these old PC's. My question was more about what the 6.x installer needs to start. Once the base system is installed, I know how to configure a lightweight desktop. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 6.x desktop specs: minimum requirements
Hi, I often have to deal with relatively obsolete hardware in schools, public libraries, small town halls, etc. I still have a handful of CentOS 5.x installations around for these, but I wonder what CentOS 6.x desktop specs are, e. g. the minimum requirements (in terms of CPU and RAM) to reasonably run it. Will a battered first-generation P-IV with 512 MB RAM be sufficient? How much RAM does 6.x's graphical installer require to even start? Or is it better to opt for CentOS 5.x on this sort of dinosaur? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Facebook CentOS group close to 15.000 members!
Le 23/03/2015 17:26, Les Mikesell a écrit : There is a real simple answer to privacy on facebook. Just don't post anything there that you would not want to be public. Just like this mail list. I recently joined that list and wanted to publish a simple link to my technical blog dedicated to CentOS (http://kikinovak.wordpress.com). There's no commercial interest behind it, only the wish to share my personal configurations. The Facebook group sees it as self-promotion and doesn't want to publish it. On the other hand, you're allowed to publish jokes without any problem. I couldn't quite grasp the concept behind it, so I left the group. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Samba shares not appearing
Le 16/03/2015 10:18, Earl A Ramirez a écrit : I replicated your settings on a CentOS 7 on a KVM, I did not see the samba server when I click on Browse Network, however when I enter smb://server_IP_address/ I was able to see the shares. If Im not mistaken the 'nmb' service is responsible for browsing, therefore I stopped it and I was not longer able to see the shares from a windows or samba client. What is the output of: $ smbclient -L samba_server_host-or-IP -U samba_user from one of the samba clients? OK, I experimented some more, and here's what I got. I replaced the system on the two sandbox client machines by a standard vanilla CentOS+GNOME desktop. At first I couldn't browse any samba shares, but then I figured out that the standard desktop configuration blocks some outgoing ports in the firewall. So I simply disabled the firewall, and I could browse the shares, connect to them, create files and directories, etc. Which means the server setup looks OK so far. I did edit one minor detail in my smb.conf: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = Serveur de fichiers AMANDINE netbios name = amandine dns proxy = yes domain master = yes I moved the netbios name from uppercase to lowercase, after a bit of RTFM. Now the desktop client setups I usually install start from a quite stripped-down GNOME configuration. I described the installation process here: https://kikinovak.wordpress.com/poste-de-travail/ It essentially installs to 1. install the base system and configure it. 2. install X11 and configure WindowMaker 3. Install a minimal GNOME and a collection of selected applications. On such a minimal client, I have these Samba packages installed: [root@bernadette:~] # rpm -qa | grep samba samba-common-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 samba-client-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 samba-libs-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 Unfortunately I can neither browse any Samba shares, nor connect to them directly. So something else must be missing, but what? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Samba shares not appearing
Le 16/03/2015 10:18, Earl A Ramirez a écrit : I replicated your settings on a CentOS 7 on a KVM, I did not see the samba server when I click on Browse Network, however when I enter smb://server_IP_address/ I was able to see the shares. If Im not mistaken the 'nmb' service is responsible for browsing, therefore I stopped it and I was not longer able to see the shares from a windows or samba client. What is the output of: $ smbclient -L samba_server_host-or-IP -U samba_user from one of the samba clients? Here's what I got. My Samba test server is amandine.microlinux.lan, my two test client machines are bernadette.microlinux.lan and raymonde.microlinux.lan. From either of these client machines, I can't browse the network, but I can do what you suggested, e. g. : Ctrl + L == smb://amandine This shows the shares, and I can access them correctly. Here's what the suggested smbclient command from one of the client machines looks like: [kikinovak@bernadette ~]$ smbclient -L amandine -U kikinovak Enter kikinovak's password: Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.1.1] Sharename Type Comment - --- Public Disk Partage Public ConfidentielDisk Partage Confidentiel IPC$IPC IPC Service (Serveur de fichiers AMANDINE) Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.1.1] Server Comment ---- AMANDINE Serveur de fichiers AMANDINE NAS WorkgroupMaster ---- WORKGROUPAMANDINE So it looks like browsing does not work. What now? -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Samba shares not appearing
Le 16/03/2015 17:59, Niki Kovacs a écrit : On such a minimal client, I have these Samba packages installed: [root@bernadette:~] # rpm -qa | grep samba samba-common-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 samba-client-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 samba-libs-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 Unfortunately I can neither browse any Samba shares, nor connect to them directly. So something else must be missing, but what? OK, I just found the culprit. The desktop client was missing the gvfs-smb package. I installed it, and now everything works fine. Problem solved. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Samba shares not appearing
Hi, I'm currently fiddling with Samba, trying to make it work on CentOS 7. Before that, I ran Samba successfully in a mixed environment with Slackware64 14.1 on the server and Slackware/Windows Seven on the client side. I have three sandbox machines running CentOS 7. One has a minimal install with only the samba and samba-client packages. Just to be on the safe side for fiddling, SELinux is disabled, there's no firewall, etc. I installed the 'samba' and 'samba-client' packages and edited a custom /etc/samba/smb.conf like this: # /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = Serveur de fichiers AMANDINE netbios name = AMANDINE dns proxy = yes domain master = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog = 2 bind interfaces only = yes interfaces = 192.168.2.0/24 localhost hosts allow = 192.168.2. 127. security = user passdb backend = tdbsam unix password sync = no invalid users = root encrypt passwords = yes guest account=smbguest map to guest = bad user force group = users create mode = 0660 directory mode = 0770 load printers = no printing = bsd printcap name = /dev/null disable spoolss = yes [Public] path = /srv/samba/public comment = Partage Public public = yes only guest = yes read only = no [Confidentiel] path = /srv/samba/confidentiel comment = Partage Confidentiel read only = no invalid users = root nobody smbguest Note: I explicitly disabled printing because Samba apparently refused to start, complaining about missing printers. And I did not forget to create a handful of Samba users (smbguest as well as normal users). On the server, I have this: # smbclient -L localhost -N Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.1.1] Sharename Type Comment - --- Public Disk Partage Public ConfidentielDisk Partage Confidentiel IPC$IPC IPC Service (Serveur de fichiers AMANDINE) Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.1.1] Server Comment ---- AMANDINE Serveur de fichiers AMANDINE NAS WorkgroupMaster ---- WORKGROUPAMANDINE On the desktop clients (running CentOS 7 + GNOME), when I click on Explorer le réseau (I think it is Browse Network in english), I don't see any server appearing. The 'samba-client' package is installed on the clients. Now I'm a bit clueless. Any suggestions on what to try next? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Custom user profile for GNOME 3?
Le 03/03/2015 14:00, Nux! a écrit : Niki, Look at dconf / gsettings. HTH Lucian OK, I finally got around to play with it. It looks like GNOME 3 stores all of its user settings in ~/.config/dconf/user. I tried copying that over recursively to /etc/skel, and it works. New users get the exact same profile. thanks! Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 7 on Dell Inspiron with ATI Radeon HD 6320 video card
Hi, I'm currently installing CentOS 7 on a client's Dell Inspiron laptop. Here's the video card: # lspci | grep -i vga 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 6320] Most of the time, I either have to deal with Intel or NVidia graphic chipsets. As far as I understand, I can choose either the free 'radeon' driver or the proprietary 'fglrx' driver with this video card. I'm not too worried about performance, since this will essentially be a laptop for office productivity. On the other hand, I do worry about driver stability. I vaguely remember having seen freeze problems with these cards. Which driver should I use for a most stable setup? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 on Dell Inspiron with ATI Radeon HD 6320 video card
Le 15/03/2015 20:09, Jay Leafey a écrit : Like you I've mostly dealt with nVidia or Intel video. I had some painful initial issues with the fglrx driver, but once I became more accustomed to the quirks it was quite stable. The wiki at elrepo was helpful. This was on desktop systems, I know the portable chipsets used in the laptops are a bit different. I've experimented a bit with both, and went with the free radeon driver, which seems stable. On a side note, the laptop gave me some headaches with the Broadcom BCM4313 wireless driver. After some research in the CentOS wiki and a page on ELrepo, I managed to configure it. I took some notes here: https://kikinovak.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/configurer-une-carte-wifi-broadcom-bcm4313-sous-centos-7/ Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SquidAnalyzer: minor trouble building RPM
Le 11/03/2015 16:55, Les Mikesell a écrit : By the way - if you are new to Centos and RH-style in general I'm not. In 2009 I published a book about Linux system administration basics, based on CentOS 5.3. http://tinyurl.com/no254g That being said, I'm doing extensive RTFM to catch up with what's happened since then, especially in 7.x. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Tasks in /etc/cron.daily on CentOS 7?
Hi, I just configured SquidAnalyzer, a nifty little network statistics tool that I'm using mainly in school networks to monitor network usage. I want to run the '/usr/bin/squid-analyzer' script once a day. I took a peek in /etc/cron.daily, and the package already installed an /etc/cron.daily/0squidanalyzer script. I wanted to know at what time CentOS ran the cron.daily scripts, so I typed crontab -l, but there was only no cronjobs defined for root. Here's how things look on a public Slackware64 14.0 server I administrate: # crontab -l ... # Run hourly cron jobs at 47 minutes after the hour: 47 * * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 1 /dev/null # # Run daily cron jobs at 4:40 every day: 40 4 * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily 1 /dev/null # # Run weekly cron jobs at 4:30 on the first day of the week: 30 4 * * 0 /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 1 /dev/null # # Run monthly cron jobs at 4:20 on the first day of the month: 20 4 1 * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.monthly 1 /dev/null How is this handled on CentOS 7? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] SquidAnalyzer: minor trouble building RPM
Hi, I'm using the SquidAnalyzer network analysis tool in combination with Squid. Up until now, I've been running Slackware Linux on my servers. I built a custom package that installs SquidAnalyzer to /var/www/vhosts/squidreport/html. Then I setup an Apache virtual host for SquidAnalyzer's pages. Since I'm migrating my servers from Slackware to CentOS, I'd like to build a corresponding RPM package for SquidAnalyzer. I downloaded the sources here: http://squidanalyzer.darold.net/download.html Then I set up a local build environment as described in the CentOS wiki. The source tarball already contains a squidanalyzer.spec file in the packaging/RPM subdirectory. So I copied that spec file over to ~/rpmbuild/SPECS and the source tarball to ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES. The version information in the spec file is wrong, it indicates 6.2, but the version of SquidAnalyzer is 6.2-1. Unfortunately when I insert the correct version in the spec file, I get this: $ rpmbuild -ba --clean squidanalyzer.spec error: line 5: Illegal char '-' in: Version:6.2-1 What can I do now? Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SquidAnalyzer: minor trouble building RPM
Le 11/03/2015 09:40, Niki Kovacs a écrit : Unfortunately when I insert the correct version in the spec file, I get this: $ rpmbuild -ba --clean squidanalyzer.spec error: line 5: Illegal char '-' in: Version:6.2-1 I'll answer that myself, since I just found the culprit. There's a version mismatch between the tarball and the extracted source directory. Simply renaming the tarball to version 6.2 fixed it. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SquidAnalyzer: minor trouble building RPM
Le 11/03/2015 12:52, Joseph L. Brunner a écrit : Thanks for the info. Any reason you're leaving slackware now? Yes. As much as I appreciate Slackware's bone-headed philosophy, the installer, the simple startup scripts, the general Keep-It-Simple approach and the overall robustness, the absence of PAM has been a real showstopper for me. Until now the only way to setup centralized authentication and roaming profiles is to use a combination of NIS and NFS, which is far from ideal in terms of security. I suggested the inclusion of PAM in a public poll in the Slackware forum on LinuxQuestions.org, which got mixed results. About half of the Slackware users welcomed the idea, the other half got pretty angry, and the result turned into a flamefest. The idea had been to somewhat open up Slackware to the enterprise world, but as far as I can reckon, the word enterprise curiously enough seems to have a bad taste for a significant portion of Slackware's user base. After this heated exchange, I decided to take a pragmatic approach and choose a more appropriate tool as a base for my business. So here I am. Cheers, Niki PS: after a few years on LQ, the general tone on the CentOS mailing list seems like the Alban Berg Quartet after Slayer@Hellfest. :o) -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Running the Wine emulator on CentOS 7
Le 10/03/2015 12:12, Fabian Arrotin a écrit : While it works it's quite slow so probably better then to stick with CentOS 6 and wait for something lighter than Gnome3/Gnome-shell as Desktop Environment (xfce/mate/$other) Until recently I've been using a beefed-up Xfce-on-steroids for older hardware. http://www.microlinux.fr/desktop_linux.php As soon as I have some time, I guess I'll set up a private repo and try to build Xfce 4.12 for CentOS 7 (if nobody does it before). Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Running the Wine emulator on CentOS 7
Le 10/03/2015 12:08, Fabian Arrotin a écrit : Yeah, as said, I built those initially, but haven't tracked those, so if Epel updated some of the required packages, you'll have that issue. Feel free to just exclude those conflicting packages from epel.repo and that would normally work : exclude=wine* openal* Remove also those packages (if still installed on disk) and then you should be able to install wine (both x86_64 and i386) Thanks very much! I followed your advice, and things worked out. I wrote a short blog entry about the installation process. https://kikinovak.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/installer-wine-sous-centos-7/ Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Running the Wine emulator on CentOS 7
Le 09/03/2015 13:02, Johnny Hughes a écrit : I was just getting ready to build those, I need them:) .. how about we put them (or newer ones, if available) in i686 extras. On a side note, I wonder when - and if - a 32-bit version of CentOS will eventually become available. I'm managing a small IT company in South France, and I have to deal with a considerable amount of legacy hardware in schools and town halls, mostly first generation Pentium IV with something like 1 GB of RAM. In general, folks are happy as long as they don't have to upgrade their hardware when moving from Windows to Linux. These old PCs may be dinosaurs, but apparently it takes a meteor strike to wipe them. At the moment this kind of hardware is running my personal blend of 32-bit Slackware Linux 14.0 or 14.1. I'm planning to install CentOS 6.x on it, but I think it would be perfectly able to run a 32-bit version of CentOS 7. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Running the Wine emulator on CentOS 7
Le 08/03/2015 01:53, Nux! a écrit : There are some 32bit RPMs (slightly older) here: http://arrfab.net/attic/RPMS/7/x86_64/ I tried to install these, but I ran into some trouble. Here's what I tried to do. I'm using the yum-priorities plugin. The official CentOS repos are configured with a priority of 1. Besides that, I'm using the EPEL and Nux-dextop third party repos, each with a priority of 10. I created an /etc/yum.repos.d/wine.repo file: [wine] enabled=1 priority=5 name=Wine repository baseurl=http://arrfab.net/attic/RPMS/7/$basearch/ gpgcheck=0 I gave it a priority of 5, since I want the wine-* packages to have precedence over those present in EPEL. But when I try this: # yum install wine ... here's what I get: === Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root cause is something else and multilib version checking is just pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.: 1. You have an upgrade for openal-soft which is missing some dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to solve this by installing an older version of openal-soft of the different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with --exclude openal-soft.otherarch ... this should give you an error message showing the root cause of the problem. 2. You have multiple architectures of openal-soft installed, but yum can only see an upgrade for one of those architectures. If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you can remove the one with the missing update and everything will work. 3. You have duplicate versions of openal-soft installed already. You can use yum check to get yum show these errors. ...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing much more problems). Protected multilib versions: openal-soft-1.15.1-3.el7.arrfab.i686 != openal-soft-1.16.0-2.el7.x86_64 Now before I'm wrecking my system, I thought I'd rather ask your advice. What can I do to install this Wine version cleanly? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Running the Wine emulator on CentOS 7
Le 10/03/2015 01:52, Johnny Hughes a écrit : We really should have this very soon after the 7.1 x86_64 release. I am building all the packages for both as we do 7.1. But, so far the new kernel is not building 32 bit:( Thank you for your quick response. I am looking forward to that very much. Out of curiosity, I gave PUIAS/Springdale a spin. They have a 32-bit version of 7, although it's not advertised anywhere, and I stumbled over it more or less by accident while searching through their repositories. It runs nice on one of my sandbox PCs. Though I'd rather have a 32-bit CentOS 7. As far as Wine is concerned, I guess the best solution will be to wait until you put a 32-bit version in [extra]. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Running the Wine emulator on CentOS 7
Hi, Up until recently, I've been running Wine 1.6.2 on my workstation under Slackware64 14.1. I used it to emulate a handful of legacy apps that ran under Windows XP. They worked perfectly with that setup. After migrating the workstation from Slackware to CentOS 7, I installed the Wine packages, but none of my applications run. I only get an error message about wrong EXE format. And that's it. Any idea what's going on? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Running the Wine emulator on CentOS 7
Le 07/03/2015 18:24, Ned Slider a écrit : I'm guessing you are either going to need to build/install a 32-bit version of wine or will need to find 64-bit versions of your Windows applications. Is it possible to build a 32-bit version of Wine on 64-bit CentOS 7 ? A curt yes or no will do. Eventually I'll RTFM for the details. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Squid on CentOS 7: few questions
Hi, I recently migrated my office's server from Slackware64 14.1 to CentOS 7. Right now I'm in the process of configuring the Squid web proxy. I edited the default /etc/squid/squid.conf, and here's what I have so far: --8-- # /etc/squid/squid.conf # Nom d'hôte du serveur Squid visible_hostname amandine.microlinux.lan # Définitions acl localnet src 192.168.2.0/24 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT # Règles d'accès http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access allow localnet # Port du proxy http_port 3128 # Taille du cache dans la RAM cache_mem 256 MB # Vidage système coredump_dir /var/spool/squid # Durée de vie des fichiers sans date d'expiration refresh_pattern ^ftp: 144020% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher:14400% 1440 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern . 0 --8-- The proxy is working as expected. I have a few questions for fine-tuning though. 1. Squid's main logs are stored in /var/log/squid/access.log. I'd like to setup logfile rotation for that, since it can become quite big. How do you handle this? With Squid's intern 'logfile_rotate' directive or with logrotate? What I'd like to do is rotate this logfile about once a week. 2. Which user is Squid supposed to run as under CentOS? On my Slackware server I had the following: cache_effective_user nobody cache_effective_group nobody What's an orthodox setting for CentOS? 3. The access rules are a bit minimal. Do they seem OK to you for a LAN? Any suggestions? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Squid on CentOS 7: few questions
Le 06/03/2015 21:08, Les Mikesell a écrit : The rpm should have configured logrotate: rpm -q --list squid |grep logrotate will show where the config file lands. OK The rpm should have created the squid user and group: rpm -q --scripts squid will show what it ran to do that. OK Unless you want to restrict outbound access, the main thing is the acl to permit access from your local network source addresses (and no others). I'd recommend an external firewall or at least iptables blocking inbound internet access to port 3128 also. The LAN server here already has Iptables configured to redirect HTTP traffic to 3128 transparently. Thanks for your detailed answer. That was very helpful! Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Something like apt-cacher for CentOS/RHEL?
Hi, For some time I've fiddled with Debian and Ubuntu LTS. There's one really nice feature for local networks: apt-cacher, a package proxy for APT. My company is in the remote South French countryside, and more often than not, schools and public libraries only have some very limited Internet access with relatively low bandwidth, which can make the updating process very tedious. A package cache comes in very handy in such situation. Do you know if something like this exists for RPM-based distributions? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo
Le 03/03/2015 18:45, Scott Robbins a écrit : This might have to do with the NVidia update, explained on the elrepo pages. http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia You may have an older card that will require the 340xx versions of the various NVidia tools. No, it's a GT520 which is supposed to work with the latest driver. -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo
Le 03/03/2015 19:25, Jonathan Billings a écrit : One of the things that the nvidia driver adds is nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau to the kernel arguments. Do you see them? I know that we saw the kernel panic when the nouveau driver was loaded on a el6.6 system with an NVidia K620, so perhaps when you brought in X11 you also installed the nouveau drivers? One thing I did this time was to make sure there weren't any incompatible drivers (like 'nouveau') installed *before* actually installing and configuring kmod-nvidia. Now everything works as expected. I can't be sure 100 %, but I think this was the culprit. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Custom user profile for GNOME 3?
Hi, I wonder where - and eventually how - GNOME 3 stores its user preferences. I'd like to create a custom user profile, with slightly different settings than the default ones: * don't show home folder on ~/Desktop * don't show Trash * use custom default wallpaper * stretch wallpaper instead of zooming * use different default icon theme * etc. Until now I've done this successfully with desktop environments like GNOME 2, Xfce or KDE. I just copied over the relevant files from ~/.config, ~/.kde4 (IIRC), ~/.gconf or whatever to /etc/skel, and newly created users had their settings ready. Anybody knows how I can manage this with GNOME 3? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Package group X Window System has disappeared
Le 27/02/2015 16:01, m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : That's*weird* . Why would you even want hidden groups? Weird and... not very intelligent. To say it politely. :o) -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Package group X Window System has disappeared
Hi, Until last week, I could install a CentOS 7 based desktop using the following approach: 1. Install minimal system. 2. yum groupinstall X Window System 3. yum install gdm gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal liberation-fonts 4. Install applications as needed. This morning, the package group X Window System seems to have disappeared. This is embarrassing. What happened? Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?
Le 26/02/2015 15:53, David Both a écrit : Ok, I understand, now. I just leave multiple desktops in place and switch between them as I want. But perhaps you have reasons to do it as you do. That is one thing I really appreciate about Linux, the fact that there are many, many ways to accomplish almost everything and that what is right and works for me may not be what works best for you. Your scripting style is irrelevant so long as it gets the job done for you. And one tenet the Unix/Linux Philosophy is, automate everything, which is what you have done. I've written a new blog post about the subject here: https://kikinovak.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/revenir-a-une-installation-minimale/ Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?
Le 26/02/2015 15:00, David Both a écrit : Perhaps I have not been following closely enough, but why go backwards? Why not start with a minimal installation and then add only those packages that are needed for your situation? Here's why. I'm currently experimenting with CentOS on my workstation, trying out different desktop environments like GNOME3, KDE, MATE, Xfce. But at the same time, I'm also working on that same workstation, for example developing websites on a local LAMP stack, using multimedia apps like Audacity to edit some audio tracks for my training courses, etc. When switching from one desktop environment to another for the sake of trying it out, there's always tons of cruft on the system, even after a yum groupremove Old Desktop Environment. And I don't want to do a fresh reinstallation, because I have all my data and files in place, and this is a RAID 1 installation, so it's not exactly trivial to reinstall and put everything back in place. Anyway, I spent a couple hours experimenting, and I found a satisfying solution. It's not very elegant, but it works. Here goes. 1. First, make a list of the packages contained in a minimal installation. This is easy, since I can do a minimal installation in a virtual guest, and then run the following little script: #!/bin/bash # # create_package_list.sh # # (c) Niki Kovacs, 2014 TMP=/tmp RPMLIST=$TMP/rpmlist.txt PKGLIST=$TMP/pkglist.txt rm -f $RPMLIST $PKGLIST rpm -qa | sort $RPMLIST sed 's/-[^-]*-[^-]*\.[^.]*\.[^.]*$//' $RPMLIST $PKGLIST 2. I copy that package list to the 'core' file in my Git repo and run the following script on the system I want to prune: #!/bin/bash # # purge_system.sh # # (c) Niki Kovacs, 2014 CWD=$(pwd) TMP=/tmp RPMLIST=$TMP/rpmlist.txt PKGLIST=$TMP/pkglist.txt PKGINFO=$TMP/pkg_database rpm -qa | sort $RPMLIST sed 's/-[^-]*-[^-]*\.[^.]*\.[^.]*$//' $RPMLIST $PKGLIST PACKAGES=$(egrep -v '(^\#)|(^\s+$)' $PKGLIST) rm -rf $RPMLIST $PKGLIST $PKGINFO mkdir $PKGINFO # Create core package database echo echo +== echo | Creating core package database... echo +== echo sleep 3 CORE=$(egrep -v '(^\#)|(^\s+$)' $CWD/../pkglists/core) for PACKAGE in $CORE; do printf . touch $PKGINFO/$PACKAGE done unset CRUFT # Check installed packages against core package database echo echo echo + echo | Checking for packages to be removed from your system... echo + echo sleep 3 for PACKAGE in $PACKAGES; do if [ -r $PKGINFO/$PACKAGE ]; then continue else printf . CRUFT=$CRUFT $PACKAGE fi done echo echo # Remove all non-core packages yum remove $CRUFT I've tested this a few times, and it works as expected. I know my scripting style is a bit hodge-podge. If you have a more elegant solution, I'm always open for suggestions. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?
Le 25/02/2015 23:00, Peter a écrit : I haven't tried this, but see if it works: yum shell remove * install @minimal run I get Package group minimal does not exist What now? -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?
Le 26/02/2015 10:30, Leon Fauster a écrit : # rpm -qa --last Lists the last installed package first. That way back would be one way to strip it down. Here's a completely empiric approach, tried out on three different machines. It's not perfect, but it's already quite usable : https://kikinovak.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/elaguer-un-systeme-centos/ Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Replacement for NIS/NFS?
Le 24/02/2015 08:41, Andrew Holway a écrit : +1 for freeipa. It is an extremely well integrated domain controller with a functionality similar to Microsoft Active Directory. I want to thank everybody for their numerous and detailed answer posts to this thread. Looks like FreeIPA is the way to go. I guess I'll check it out in the weeks and months to come. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?
Hi, I wonder if there's an easy way to strip down an installation to the bare minimum, e. g. the packages you get when you select minimum installation. In Slackware, the bone-headed package manager slackpkg has a few nice options, among which 'slackpkg clean-system', which removes all third-party packages in one single operation, or 'slackpkg remove package_group', which does exactly that. I know CentOS has yum groupinstall/groupremove etc. but as far as I can tell, if I only have a handful of packages from a package group installed, yum grouplist lists the group as not installed, so there's not an easy way to tell. You may wonder why I want to do this. I have CentOS installed on some sandbox machines here, and I like to fiddle with different desktops and setups just for the sake of experimenting. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?
Le 25/02/2015 19:36, John R Pierce a écrit : I install from the 'minimum' ISO, and get that off the bat, then just install the packages I need with yum I do the same, but my question is: how to do that the other way around? Let's say you start from the base system, then install a couple dozen command-line utilities from cowsay to whois, then you install the X Window System group, a couple dozen fonts, then the WindowMaker window manager, then a handful of X applications... how do you manage from there to get back to exactly the base system you had from the start? I know this may sound a little academic, but it's for a little private experiment here. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?
Le 25/02/2015 20:18, Brian Mathis a écrit : I don't think there's a single yum command that lets you roll back to the packages the were installed at a given point in time. Maybe a good idea would be to find one or a handful of packages that the whole desktop and/or graphical subsystem depends on. Removing this one package - or this handful of packages, but which? - would already result in removing everything X11-related. After that, I can always manually sort out the remaining command-line stuff. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Transparent GNOME Terminal in CentOS 7?
Le 24/02/2015 13:51, Jim Perrin a écrit : Might also be worth mentioning that supposedly around the 7.2 timeframe, gnome is scheduled to be bumped to a more modern version. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174442 In theory this should put transparent terminal support back in gnome-terminal. This is great news. Thanks for the heads-up. In my humble opinion, KDE deserves a similar bump to 4.14, the latest 4.x release. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Replacement for NIS/NFS?
Hi, Over the last few years, I've been using a rather bone-headed solution to implement centralized authentication and roamin user profiles in Linux-based networks: a combination of NIS and NFS. I'm aware it's not ideal in terms of security, but it's been running in our local school since 2010, and it just works. The current setup is based on Slackware Linux on both server and desktop clients. Here's the relevant documentation (which I wrote): http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:network_services:roaming_profiles BTW, the first two years this solution worked perfectly with CentOS 5.x on the server and on the desktop clients. I'm currently migrating from Slackware to CentOS, and I'm looking for a business-grade replacement of this more or less obsolete configuration. I've read about various existing solutions, and I'm not quite sure in which direction to go from here: FreeIPA? 389 Directory Server? LDAP+LAM-Manager? Here's what I want: 1. Users should be manageable through a GUI, probably a web interface, so the client can create, manage and delete them eventually. 2. Home directories should be created/deleted automagically under the hood. 3. Every user should be able to login on any machines and find his or her files and preferences. What can you suggest? Is there some robust and well-documented solution that works more or less out of the box and doesn't make me jump through burning loops? I'm mainly using CentOS 7, but I'll also have to use CentOS 6.x since in our school we have some older hardware that won't run 7.x. Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki Kovacs -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Transparent GNOME Terminal in CentOS 7?
Hi, I like working with transparent terminals. Unfortunately, this feature seems to have been removed from GNOME Terminal in CentOS 7. Anybody knows if there's a workaround to get it back? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Transparent GNOME Terminal in CentOS 7?
Le 22/02/2015 16:19, Johnny Hughes a écrit : terminator in the Nux!dextop repo for C7 has transparent backgrounds. Thanks! -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Masquerading (packet forwarding) on CentOS 7
Hi, I just migrated my office's server from Slackware64 14.1 to CentOS 7. So far everything's running fine, I just have a few minor details to work out. I removed the firewalld package and replaced it by a simple Iptables script: --8 #!/bin/sh # # firewall-lan.sh IPT=$(which iptables) MOD=$(which modprobe) SYS=$(which sysctl) SERVICE=$(which service) # Internet IFACE_INET=enp2s0 # Réseau local IFACE_LAN=enp3s0 IFACE_LAN_IP=192.168.2.0/24 # Relais des paquets (yes/no) MASQ=yes # Tout accepter $IPT -t filter -P INPUT ACCEPT $IPT -t filter -P FORWARD ACCEPT $IPT -t filter -P OUTPUT ACCEPT $IPT -t nat -P PREROUTING ACCEPT $IPT -t nat -P POSTROUTING ACCEPT $IPT -t nat -P OUTPUT ACCEPT $IPT -t mangle -P PREROUTING ACCEPT $IPT -t mangle -P INPUT ACCEPT $IPT -t mangle -P FORWARD ACCEPT $IPT -t mangle -P OUTPUT ACCEPT $IPT -t mangle -P POSTROUTING ACCEPT # Remettre les compteurs à zéro $IPT -t filter -Z $IPT -t nat -Z $IPT -t mangle -Z # Supprimer toutes les règles actives et les chaînes personnalisées $IPT -t filter -F $IPT -t filter -X $IPT -t nat -F $IPT -t nat -X $IPT -t mangle -F $IPT -t mangle -X # Désactiver le relais des paquets $SYS -q -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=0 # Politique par défaut $IPT -P INPUT DROP $IPT -P FORWARD ACCEPT $IPT -P OUTPUT ACCEPT # Faire confiance à nous-même $IPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT # Ping $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type time-exceeded -j ACCEPT $IPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type destination-unreachable -j ACCEPT # Connexions établies $IPT -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # SSH local $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp -i $IFACE_LAN --dport 22 -j ACCEPT # SSH limité en provenance de l'extérieur $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp -i $IFACE_INET --dport 22 -m state \ --state NEW -m recent --set --name SSH $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp -i $IFACE_INET --dport 22 -m state \ --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 2 \ --rttl --name SSH -j DROP $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp -i $IFACE_INET --dport 22 -j ACCEPT # DNS $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp -i $IFACE_LAN --dport 53 -j ACCEPT $IPT -A INPUT -p udp -i $IFACE_LAN --dport 53 -j ACCEPT # DHCP $IPT -A INPUT -p udp -i $IFACE_LAN --dport 67:68 -j ACCEPT # Activer le relais des paquets if [ $MASQ = 'yes' ]; then $IPT -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $IFACE_INET -s $IFACE_LAN_IP \ -j MASQUERADE $SYS -q -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 fi # Enregistrer les connexions refusées $IPT -A INPUT -j LOG --log-prefix +++ IPv4 packet rejected +++ $IPT -A INPUT -j REJECT # Enregistrer la configuration $SERVICE iptables save --8 As you can see, the script is also supposed to handle IP packet forwarding (masquerading). Once I run firewall-lan.sh manually, everything works as expected. When I restart the server, Iptables rules are still the same. The only thing that's not activated is IP forwarding. So as far as I can tell, iptables rules are stored, but packet forwarding returns to its pristine state (not activated). What would be an orthodox way of handling this? Put net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf? Something else? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?
Le 19/02/2015 11:03, Chris Murphy a écrit : This is a false dichotomy. I reject it. There's too much fact to the contrary. My mom has done an OS installation, she is most definitely not an admin. I'd say your mom is an admin in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. :o) -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Masquerading (packet forwarding) on CentOS 7
Le 19/02/2015 13:19, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn a écrit : The other thing i would recommend is to replace the iptables script with the iptables-service package. That package uses iptables-restore to load the iptables rules from /etc/sysconfig/iptables on boot and you can use iptables-save to store the iptables rules there when you make changes. The script does make use of the iptables-service package. Take a look at the last line :o) -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Masquerading (packet forwarding) on CentOS 7
Le 19/02/2015 13:00, Peter a écrit : On 02/19/2015 11:58 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: What would be an orthodox way of handling this? Put net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf? Yes. Peter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks ! -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?
Le 18/02/2015 09:59, Niki Kovacs a écrit : └─sdd3 8:51 0 76,4G 0 part └─md127 9:127 0 229G 0 raid5 / Any idea what's going on ? Ooops, just saw it. /dev/sdd3 apparently has the wrong size. As to why this is so, it's a mystery. I'll investigate further into this. (Since this is the office's gateway, I'll take some time to respond eventually. No server = no Internet :oD) Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?
Le 18/02/2015 09:24, Michael Volz a écrit : Hi Niki, md127 apparently only uses 81.95GB per disk. Maybe one of the partitions has the wrong size. What's the output of lsblk? [root@nestor:~] # lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:00 232,9G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:10 3,9G 0 part │ └─md126 9:126 0 3,9G 0 raid1 [SWAP] ├─sda2 8:20 200M 0 part │ └─md125 9:125 0 200M 0 raid1 /boot └─sda3 8:30 76,4G 0 part └─md127 9:127 0 229G 0 raid5 / sdb 8:16 0 232,9G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 3,9G 0 part │ └─md126 9:126 0 3,9G 0 raid1 [SWAP] ├─sdb2 8:18 0 200M 0 part │ └─md125 9:125 0 200M 0 raid1 /boot └─sdb3 8:19 0 76,4G 0 part └─md127 9:127 0 229G 0 raid5 / sdc 8:32 0 232,9G 0 disk ├─sdc1 8:33 0 3,9G 0 part │ └─md126 9:126 0 3,9G 0 raid1 [SWAP] ├─sdc2 8:34 0 200M 0 part │ └─md125 9:125 0 200M 0 raid1 /boot └─sdc3 8:35 0 76,4G 0 part └─md127 9:127 0 229G 0 raid5 / sdd 8:48 0 232,9G 0 disk ├─sdd1 8:49 0 3,9G 0 part │ └─md126 9:126 0 3,9G 0 raid1 [SWAP] ├─sdd2 8:50 0 200M 0 part │ └─md125 9:125 0 200M 0 raid1 /boot └─sdd3 8:51 0 76,4G 0 part └─md127 9:127 0 229G 0 raid5 / Any idea what's going on ? -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?
Le 18/02/2015 09:24, Michael Volz a écrit : md127 apparently only uses 81.95GB per disk. Maybe one of the partitions has the wrong size. What's the output of lsblk? I just spent a few hours experimenting with the CentOS 7 installer in a VirtualBox guest with four virtual hard disks. I can now confirm this is a very stupid bug in the (very stupid) installer. Or at least one more random weirdness. Here goes. The new installer is organized around mount points, which have to be defined first. OK, so I first define my mountpoint /boot, set it to 200 MB (which is enough), define it to be RAID level 1 across four disks with an ext2 filesystem. So far so good. Next step is similar, swap mountpoint is 2 GB, also RAID level 1 across four disks. Finally, the / (root partition) mountpoint is supposed to take up the full amount of remaining disk space. In my virtual guest, I defined 4 X 40 GB to fiddle with. The installer shows me something like 38.6 GB, which looks like the remaining space on each disk's partition. Now I define RAID level 5 across four disks... ... and here it comes. Once RAID level 5 is defined, I have to REDEFINE the maximum disk space by putting in a random large number, for example 4 X 40 GB = 160 GB. Because what is meant here is THE TOTAL RESULTING AMOUNT OF DISK SPACE IN THE RAID 5 ARRAY, AND NOT THE MAXIMUM SIZE OF A DISK PARTITION. So once I fill that field with 160 GB, the installer automagically sets it to 106.8 GB, which is in effect the maximum available disk space using RAID 5. Usability anyone? Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki Kovacs -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?
Le 18/02/2015 23:12, Chris Murphy a écrit : installer is organized around mount points is correct, and what gets mounted on mount points? Volumes, not partitions. Says who? -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?
Le 19/02/2015 05:43, Chris Murphy a écrit : My personal view on installers is extremely biased toward the user staying out of trouble, they shouldn't have to read documentation for a GUI installer. A *user* never has to even see - or use - an installer. A USER has to USE a computer, by which I mean the applications he or she needs to get some work done. The person who gets to be confronted by an OS installer is not a user, it's an ADMIN, which is an entirely different thing. An ADMIN should RTFM (a lot) and know his way about what you call esoteric things earlier in this thread (disks, partitions, volumes). My company (http://www.microlinux.fr) installs complete Linux-based networks for schools, town halls, public libraries etc. here in South France. For now, most of my server and desktop solutions are based on a highly modified version of Slackware Linux, with some CentOS and some RHEL here and there. I'm currently planning on migrating everything to CentOS in the long run. One of the founding principles of my company is the constant SEPARATION BETWEEN USING A COMPUTER AND ADMINISTRATING IT. A user never ever has to worry about things that pertain to system administration, and it would be very wrong if he or she ever has to deal with such a thing as an installer. For what it's worth, some of my users don't even know that this thing that they're using every day is called Linux under the hood. To them, it's just the machine that's running things like their library management software, or whatever. So, as an admin, what I want from an installer is FLEXIBILITY... and not an assistant that reminds me of Microsoft Office's infamous Clippy and expects me to jump through burning loops to configure the system as I want it. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?
Le 18/02/2015 23:12, Chris Murphy a écrit : What is NOT obvious: for single device installs, if you omit the size in the create mount point dialog, the size of the resulting volume will consume all remaining space. But since there's no way to preset raid5 at the time a mount point is created (raid5 is set after the fact), there isn't a clear way to say use all remaining space for this. There's just a size field for the volume, and a space available value in the lower left hand corner. Well, maybe it's just me. I've started Linux on Slackware 7.1 and used pretty much every major and minor distribution under the sun. I know my way around Slackware, Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Arch and many more, and my favourite installer is - and will always be - Slackware's bone-headed NCurses installer that lets the admin do pretty much what he wants - and needs - to do. CentOS 5.x's text mode installer got pretty close, but then, for mysterious reasons, Red Hat decided to cripple it into oblivion. Go figure. I love CentOS, been using it since 4.x. But frankly, CentOS 7's installer is an abomination. All's well that ends well. It only took me a day and a half to figure out how to configure RAID 5 using the graphical assistant. Something I could have done in less than three minutes using fdisk and mdadm --create. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?
Hi, I just replaced Slackware64 14.1 running on my office's HP Proliant Microserver with a fresh installation of CentOS 7. The server has 4 x 250 GB disks. Every disk is configured like this : * 200 MB /dev/sdX1 for /boot * 4 GB /dev/sdX2 for swap * 248 GB /dev/sdX3 for / There are supposed to be no spare devices. /boot and swap are all supposed to be assembled in RAID level 1 across 4 disks. The / partition is supposed to be assembled in RAID level 5 across 4 disks. With Slackware I created the arrays manually like this: # mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=4 --metadata=0.90 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 # mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level=1 --raid-devices=4 --metadata=0.90 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdd2 # mdadm --create /dev/md3 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 --metadata=0.90 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc3 /dev/sdd3 Using this setup, I had 650 MB of disk space on /dev/md3. Now I tried to do the same thing with CentOS 7. Everything seemed to work at first, but here's what I got now: [root@nestor:~] # df -h Sys. de fichiers Taille Utilisé Dispo Uti% Monté sur /dev/md127 226G1,1G 213G 1% / devtmpfs 1,4G 0 1,4G 0% /dev tmpfs 1,4G 0 1,4G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 1,4G8,5M 1,4G 1% /run tmpfs 1,4G 0 1,4G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/md125 194M 80M 101M 45% /boot /dev/sde1 917G 88M 871G 1% /mnt The root partition (/dev/md127) only shows 226 G of space. So where has everything gone? [root@nestor:~] # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md125 : active raid1 sdc2[2] sdd2[3] sdb2[1] sda2[0] 204736 blocks super 1.0 [4/4] [] md126 : active raid1 sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0] 4095936 blocks super 1.2 [4/4] [] md127 : active raid5 sdc3[2] sdb3[1] sdd3[4] sda3[0] 240087552 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [] bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk unused devices: none [root@nestor:~] # mdadm -D /dev/md127 /dev/md127: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Wed Feb 18 06:49:01 2015 Raid Level : raid5 Array Size : 240087552 (228.97 GiB 245.85 GB) Used Dev Size : 80029184 (76.32 GiB 81.95 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Intent Bitmap : Internal Update Time : Wed Feb 18 08:04:26 2015 State : active Active Devices : 4 Working Devices : 4 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Name : localhost:root UUID : cfc13fe9:8fa811d8:85649402:58c4846e Events : 4703 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 830 active sync /dev/sda3 1 8 191 active sync /dev/sdb3 2 8 352 active sync /dev/sdc3 4 8 513 active sync /dev/sdd3 Apparently no spare devices have been created. So why do I only have 226 GB of disk space under CentOS, when I had roughly 650 GB under Slackware? I'm a bit lost here. Any suggestions? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?
Le 18/02/2015 08:09, Niki Kovacs a écrit : Apparently no spare devices have been created. So why do I only have 226 GB of disk space under CentOS, when I had roughly 650 GB under Slackware? An idea just crossed my mind. Could it be that 'df' is reporting a wrong partition size on the RAID 5 array? And how can I check if this is the case? -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 on dual-monitor workstation?
Le 16/02/2015 10:32, Nux! a écrit : Currently Gnome 3 is OK with multiple monitors, especially when run in the classic mode. Elrepo continues to be the recommended way to install nvidia drivers, nvidia-detect will suggest the correct kmod you need e.g.: yum install nvidia-detect yum install `nvidia-detect` OK thanks very much ! BTW, I'm happily using the Nux repo. Keep up the good work. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] LC_COLLATE variable?
Le 15/02/2015 16:38, Michael Volz a écrit : Hi, to my knowledge echo LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.UTF-8 /etc/locale.conf is the right way to do that. Thanks! If I remember correctly, CentOS 5.x and 6.x had an /etc/sysconfig/i18n file for that. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] LC_COLLATE variable?
Le 15/02/2015 16:38, Michael Volz a écrit : Hi, to my knowledge echo LC_COLLATE=fr_FR.UTF-8 /etc/locale.conf is the right way to do that. Unfortunately that didn't work. Putting LC_COLLATE in /etc/locale.conf does nothing. Now what? -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 7 on dual-monitor workstation?
Hi, My workstation is currently running Slackware Linux 14.1 64-bit, and I'm considering replacing that by CentOS 7, which I've already installed on my laptop. The PC has an NVidia GeForce GT 520 video card with two 19'' monitors attached to it. I'm using the proprietary 'nvidia' driver. I vaguely remember having read somewhere that RHEL/CentOS 7 with GNOME 3 had trouble with dual monitors. Now since this is my main workhorse PC, I thought I'd rather ask before migrating, just to be on the safe side. Anybody on this list running CentOS 7 on a similar hardware configuration? If I remember correctly from the time spent with CentOS 5.x, the proprietary 'nvidia' drivers are best configured using the third-party ELRepo package repository. Correct me if I'm wrong. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Custom wallpaper on CentOS 7?
Le 14/02/2015 13:22, Earl A Ramirez a écrit : I believe that you can change your desktop from 'Tweak Tool', which can be found under | Application | Utilities, under the Desktop option you will see Picture URI. On my desktop I simply right click on the desktop and select 'Change Background'. You can also change the background from the settings. Thanks. The wallpaper can be changed indeed using Tweak Tool. But there's no way custom imported wallpapers can be made to appear in the preview window. I'm right now discovering GNOME 3 Classic, and I must say I like it. On the other hand, the missing wallpaper review is really a bad design. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] LC_COLLATE variable?
Hi, I'm running my CentOS 7 desktop in french. LANG is set to fr_FR.UTF-8. In GNOME 3, the menu entries are listed in alphabetical order. Unfortunately, entries beginning with an accented character (like Éditeur de texte) appear at the bottom of the list. I know that in order to correct this, I have to set the LC_COLLATE variable to fr_FR.UTF-8. What would be a sensible place to do this system-wide under CentOS 7? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Custom wallpaper on CentOS 7?
Hi, I just installed CentOS 7 + GNOME on my Asus S300 laptop. So far everything runs very nice and smoothly, and I'm quite happy with it. Curiously enough, I can't seem to be able to set a custom wallpaper. I tried various locations like /usr/share/backgrounds, /usr/share/backgrounds/gnome and /usr/share/backgrounds/images, but the images don't appear in the wallpaper selection window. Any suggestions? Cheers, Niki Kovacs -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] KISS networking with CentOS 7
Le 10/02/2015 15:35, Niki Kovacs a écrit : So far, no way to bring either eth0 or eth1 up. What am I doing wrong here? Is NetworkManager now a mandatory part of the base system? Some other mistake somewhere else? I'm a bit puzzled here. I'll answer that myself, after some more experimenting. Apparently, reverting to the traditional ethX interface naming scheme creates some unexpected behavior. I decided to keep the new persistent naming scheme (enp2s0 and enp3s1 on my server), and from there, everything works like expected. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Central hostname management?
Hi, Our local school has a 100 % Slackware Linux network with two servers and 14 desktop clients. The main server is running Dnsmasq, and he's providing static IP addresses to the desktop clients. Hostnames are also managed centrally. All client machines only have this in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost And in /etc/HOSTNAME: localhost.localdomain The hostname gets sent to each of the desktop clients by the server. The big advantage is I can manage everything centrally from the server. One line in /etc/dnsmasq.conf, and that's it. Client installs can all be cloned with Ghost4Linux. Now I'm trying to do the same thing on CentOS 7. /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost (IPv6 is disabled) /etc/hostname: localhost I'm experimenting with all this while reading the RHEL Networking Guide. I understand CentOS 7 is using hostnamectl to manage the hostname. In that case, what do I have to do? Can hostnamectl be somewhat disabled and/or removed? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] KISS networking with CentOS 7
Le 10/02/2015 17:20, m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : Please explicate - offlist is fine. I really dislike the naming convention I was installing on a new HP dl560 g8, and it came up with ensf1 (which is*great* fun if you're trying to do a pxeboot build) The CentOS FAQ explains how to restore the traditional naming scheme: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS7#head-31ebc6642958a0df12304d6aab9a49034a3b7802 That being said, everything works fine now with the new interface names. I guess I'll just have to get used to it. Feels a bit like FreeBSD. :oD Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] KISS networking with CentOS 7
Hi,
I'm currently experimenting with CentOS 7 on a couple of installations.
I'm reasonably proficient with CentOS 5.x and 6.x.
I'd like to manage networking using a more traditional approach (Keep It
Simple Stupid). Here's what I tried so far, starting from a minimal install:
Install net-tools (to be able to use ifconfig).
Get rid of NetworkManager:
# yum remove NetworkManager*
Add 'net.ifnames=0' and 'biosdevname=0' to kernel boot options to name
interfaces eth0, eth1, etc.
Edit '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth{0,1}' like I did under
previous versions.
Eventually, edit '/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules' to switch
interfaces:
# /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
#
# eth0
SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*, \
ATTR{address}==00:1e:c9:42:84:7b, ATTR{type}==1, \
KERNEL==eth*, NAME=eth0
# eth1
SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*, \
ATTR{address}==00:30:f1:6a:2f:40, ATTR{type}==1, \
KERNEL==eth*, NAME=eth1
So far, no way to bring either eth0 or eth1 up. What am I doing wrong
here? Is NetworkManager now a mandatory part of the base system? Some
other mistake somewhere else? I'm a bit puzzled here.
Cheers,
Niki
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : create RAID arrays manually using mdadm --create ?
Le 10/02/2015 02:01, Chris Murphy a écrit : It's useful to know what layout you want. The installer will neither create, nor let you use, what it thinks are ill-advised layouts. The main reason I can think of for pre-creating md devices is to use a non-default chunk/strip size. I'd like to be able to create either a simple RAID 1 layout with two disks, with a separate /boot partition, or a simple RAID 5 layout with 4 disks, with a separate /boot partition too. The layouts are described in this little Slackware-based HOWTO I wrote, and which I'm using on my servers. It's in French, but the command-line bits are universal :o) http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/Linux-HOWTOs/LAN-Server-HOWTO.txt Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for good CentOS 7 documentation
Le 09/02/2015 23:01, Eero Volotinen a écrit : How about redhat documentation? Yes, it's OK too. I didn't ask about all the existing documentation out there. I was just curious about any specific recommendations you can make, good books, good online documentation, etc. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Recommendations for good CentOS 7 documentation
Hi, I'm looking for recommendations for documentation about the specificities of RHEL/CentOS 7.x. It can be either online or in printed book format, and I'm fluent in german, french and english. I have a good books about 5.x: RHEL 5 Unleashed from Sams, Foundations of CentOS Linux and The Definitive Guide to CentOS, both from Apress. Can anyone recommend anything similar on 7.x? Cheers from South France, Niki Kovacs -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 7 : create RAID arrays manually using mdadm --create ?
Hi, When installing CentOS 7, is there a way to 1. leave the GUI installer and open up a console 2. create RAID arrays manually using mdadm --create 3. get back in the GUI installer and use the freshly created /dev/mdX arrays? I tried to do this, but the installer always exits informing me that he can't create the RAID arrays (since they're already created, duh). Any suggestions? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Traditional network interface naming scheme vs. persistent naming
Hi,
I'm currently experimenting with CentOS 7 in order to get a grasp of
everything that's new.
After having read the FAQ entry on network interface names, I decided to
revert to the tradictional interface naming scheme by adding the
relevant kernel options to the bootloader. This went well, I have now
two interfaces names 'eth0' and 'eth1' as expected.
In my office I have another server with two network interface cards,
running Slackware64 14.1. On a stock Slackware installation, as soon as
there is more than one NIC, the system creates a file
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, which looks like this:
# PCI device 0x8086:/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:02.0/:02:00.0
(e1000e)
SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*,
ATTR{address}==2c:27:d7:15:54:a1, ATTR{dev_id}==0x0,
ATTR{type}==1, KERNEL==eth*, NAME=eth0
# PCI device 0x8086:/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:04.0/:03:00.0
(e1000e)
SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*,
ATTR{address}==00:22:64:8a:4c:c2, ATTR{dev_id}==0x0,
ATTR{type}==1, KERNEL==eth*, NAME=eth1
Usually I have a 50 % chance of getting the network interface right
(well, according to Murphy, I have more like a 100 % chance of getting
it wrong the first time :oD). In that case, I simple edit the
70-persistent-net.rules file, permutate the eth0 and eth1 entries
and then reboot.
How would I go about that under CentOS with traditional interface names?
The 70-persistent-net.rules file doesn't exist. Do I have to create it
from scratch?
Cheers,
Niki Kovacs
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Re: [CentOS] Traditional network interface naming scheme vs. persistent naming
Le 04/02/2015 18:48, m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit :
That directory, and that file, exist in CentOS, also, since 6. And the new
naming... it's*so* much easier to deal with... yeah, right, I'll run the
install, and wait till it hangs, so I can see that the NIC is named, what
was it, on that HP last month, oh, yeah, I need to use ip -f inet link,
far simpler than ifconfig, yes, it's ens3f0
mark why would I*possibly* prefer a same-on-every-box eth0?*
* For the satire-impaired, this is satire.
LOL !!!
After a bit more experimenting, looks like I've found a clean solution
for this. Simply create the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
file from scratch and edit it like this:
# /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
#
# eth0
SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*, \
ATTR{address}==00:1e:c9:42:84:7b, ATTR{type}==1, \
KERNEL==eth*, NAME=eth0
# eth1
SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*, \
ATTR{address}==00:30:f1:6a:2f:40, ATTR{type}==1, \
KERNEL==eth*, NAME=eth1
Reboot, and everything's working as expected.
Cheers,
Niki
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[CentOS] Broadcom wireless card: installation script for Linux-STA driver
Hi, I just installed CentOS 6.6 on my HP Pavilion DM1 laptop. The wireless card is only poorly supported in the default setup, so I decided to write an installation script for the Linux-STA driver, which works perfectly. https://github.com/kikinovak/centos/blob/master/6.x/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta.sh Grab the files: # git clone https://github.com/kikinovak/centos Run the script: # cd centos/6.x/broadcom-sta # broadcom-sta.sh Reboot and you're ready to go. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Broadcom wireless card: installation script for Linux-STA driver
Le 14/12/2014 15:02, Jonathan Billings a écrit : Did you try the drivers provided by elrepo? http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod No. I read the CentOS wiki page here, which states that ELRepo doesn't provide these drivers due to licence restrictions, and that the user has to build them manually. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom?action=show :o) Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dropbox on CentOS 6?
Le 12/12/2014 06:14, Chris a écrit : just use the Fedora RPM from Dropbox. It's working fine. The files included and a German posting is at http://chris-blog.net/2014/07/dropbox-unter-centos-installieren/ I just tested this on a fresh installation of CentOS 6.6 (in VirtualBox). I downloaded the Fedora RPM (32-bit), installed it (using yum localinstall) and started it using the new Internet Dropbox menu entry. 1. A progression bar Downloading Dropbox menu appears. 2. A second progression bar Unpacking... appears. 3. Then nothing happens. 4. 'ps aux' shows a busy 'dropbox' process. YMMV, but this does *not* work on CentOS 6.6. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dropbox on CentOS 6?
Le 11/12/2014 09:04, Sorin Srbu a écrit : The procedure described onhttps://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx has worked for me on several occasions before on CentOS 6.0 6.5. Haven't done it on 6.6 yet, but I doubt it'd be any different. What problems have you run into?? I just tried it again in a fresh VM of CentOS 6.6 (minimal GNOME desktop + handful of needed applications). I followed the instructions step by step (there are only two). I downloaded Dropbox, launched the daemon manually as described... ... and nothing happens. Any suggestions? Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Remote Git vs. GNOME on CentOS 6.6: cannot open display
Hi, I just installed a fresh CentOS 6.6 desktop. It's a client's machine, it is physically installed on a testbench in my office. Usually, when I perform installations, I start with the base system on the testbench, and once networking is configured, I SSH into it and then do all the fine-tuning remotely. My configuration files, scripts and HOWTOs are all stored in a Github repository. The problem I have with the default configuration of Git under CentOS is that GNOME hijacks Git's authentication process. Meaning whenever Git asks for credentials, this happens in a very ugly authentication window. But the real problem is in a remote session, where I can't use Git anymore. Here's what I get: [root@optiplex-330 ~]# git clone https://kikino...@github.com/kikinovak/centos Initialized empty Git repository in /root/centos/.git/ (gnome-ssh-askpass:2440): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Anyone knows how to stop this annoying behavior? I'm typing these lines on a Slackware64 14.1 + KDE installation, and when I use Git on this machine, credentials are always asked for in the terminal itself, not in a GUI popup. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Remote Git vs. GNOME on CentOS 6.6: cannot open display
Le 13/12/2014 15:22, Niki Kovacs a écrit : Hi, I just installed a fresh CentOS 6.6 desktop. It's a client's machine, it is physically installed on a testbench in my office. Usually, when I perform installations, I start with the base system on the testbench, and once networking is configured, I SSH into it and then do all the fine-tuning remotely. My configuration files, scripts and HOWTOs are all stored in a Github repository. The problem I have with the default configuration of Git under CentOS is that GNOME hijacks Git's authentication process. Meaning whenever Git asks for credentials, this happens in a very ugly authentication window. But the real problem is in a remote session, where I can't use Git anymore. Here's what I get: [root@optiplex-330 ~]# git clone https://kikino...@github.com/kikinovak/centos Initialized empty Git repository in /root/centos/.git/ (gnome-ssh-askpass:2440): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Anyone knows how to stop this annoying behavior? I'll answer this myself, since I just found the solution: # unset SSH_ASKPASS ... will do the trick. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dropbox on CentOS 6?
Le 11/12/2014 10:58, Liam O'Toole a écrit : That procedure works for me up to and including 6.6. It would indeed be helpful if the OP listed the particular problems they encountered. I guess my mistake was to hunt down a Dropbox RPM package in various third-party repos. I'll try the command-line procedure that's advertised on the Dropbox site. Thanks everybody for your answers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] No package group X Window System in CentOS 7.0?
Hi, I'm currently experimenting with CentOS 7.0 in a few virtual guests, trying to install a reduced GNOME desktop as well as a minimal KDE desktop. I'm following this documentation: http://www.dokuwiki.tachtler.net/doku.php?id=tachtler:centos_7_-_minimal_desktop_installation I'm stuck at this point: # yum groupinstall X Window System Now I remember this from CentOS 5.x, when I began desktop installations with a minimal base system, then I added X11, configured it (using the minimal TWM), then added GNOME, then applications as needed. Now there seems to be no more X Window System group. At least 'yum grouplist' knows nothing about it. Any suggestions? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Dropbox on CentOS 6?
Hi, I just spent a couple of unnerving hours trying to make Dropbox work on CentOS 6.6. Is there a way that 1. Actually works? 2. Doesn't include jumping through burning loops? Cheers from the sunny south of France, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Moving back to CentOS + question about documentation
Hi, I'm a 47-year-old Austrian living in South France, and the manager of a small IT firm based on Linux and free software. A while back I have been a CentOS user, I was proficient with versions 4.x and 5.x, and I even published a book based on CentOS 5.x. After a stint on Debian, I based all my server and desktop solutions on Slackware (http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/), which was my very first Linux distribution back in 2001, and for which I have kept a fondness. Over the last few months, I was frustrated with Slackware, mainly due to the absence of PAM and the near impossibility to configure centralized authentication using LDAP. Currently I'm using central authentication for a few setups in local schools, and the configurations are based on NIS, which is far from ideal. So I remembered CentOS, which I hadn't really touched since 5.x, downloaded a few ISOs of 6.6 and 7.0, setup a few VMs, and after a couple of weeks of experimentation, I guess I'm at the point where I'm hooked back to CentOS, even on the desktop. I have my own local repository for RPM packages that are not included in EPEL, or when I need to tweak them, and the last client that wanted me to setup a workstation will have a highly customized desktop based on CentOS 6.6 (I haven't yet figured out all the new quirks in 7.0, so I decided to stay on the safe side). I have some well written books about RHEL/CentOS 5.x, namely RHEL 5 Unleashed by Tammy Fox, The Definitive Guide to CentOS by Peter Membrey, Tim Verhoeven and Ralph Angenendt and Foundations of CentOS Linux by Ryan Baclit. Can you suggest any good books about RHEL/CentOS 6.x and/or 7.x? I like being able to sit in an armchair when I do some RTFM. :o) Cheers from South France, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 5 text mode installer: minimum requirements?
Hi, A company I do some teaching for has a load of legacy hardware, among which a Dell Poweredge 1300 server. Rough specs: Pentium-III 500 MHz processor, 110 MB RAM, 3 x 9 GB SCSI disks. This thing is a dinosaur, and horribly loud, but apparently it takes a meteor strike to wipe it. I like using it for training purposes, mainly to poke fun at the Windows Server trainer, who complained that 8 GB RAM was a bit short to run all his various services. :o) The last time I used it, I installed Slackware 14.1 successfully on it (init 3, no GUI, various services like Dnsmasq, NTP, Samba, Squid, a LAMP stack, etc.). I wonder if that thing would be able to boot CentOS 5.11 in text mode. I vaguely remember the text mode installer requires a minimum of 128 MB RAM, but I can't seem to find some conclusive information on the subject. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ELRepo still active?
Le 05/12/2014 19:03, Mark Milhollan a écrit : Surely visiting the elrepo web site would have provided an answer even more quickly. Still, the list came through for you. I just found out my mistake. There was a last modified entry for 2012, but this concerned only the FAQ page. Now I looked on another page, and it's october 2014. This was just bad luck. As an aside, CentOS 5 is in phase 3 of support so unless you feel your old PC can't handle CentOS 6 or 7 you would be well advised to consider them instead. I am planning on basing my main desktop and server configurations on CentOS 6.x and 7.x. I was only asking for CentOS 5.x, since here in South France, there are many people who have sometimes pathologically obsolete hardware. And I think CentOS 5.x is the best choice for legacy hardware that's more than 10 years old. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] ELRepo still active?
Hi, I'm currently installing CentOS 5.11 i386 on an old PC. Is the ELRepo third-party repository still active and maintained? Cheers, Niki Kovacs -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ELRepo still active?
Le 04/12/2014 14:24, Ned Slider a écrit : Sure is. Although you would probably be better off asking on the elrepo mailing list rather than the CentOS list. Anything you are particularly interest in? Not really, but I've been a CentOS user for a few years. Then migrated to Slackware, but it looks like I will use CentOS again soon. I knew CentOS 5.x very well (even published a book about it), so now I'm busy doing some RTFM, writing my own notes and catching up with all the changes since I've last used CentOS. I remember having used ELRepo for some exotic hardware, for proprietary NVidia drivers and the likes, hence my question. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?
Hi, I'm planning to use CentOS 6.x on a handful of LAN servers. So far I've been using Slackware64 14.0 and 14.1 for the job. I wonder what's the orthodox/recommended way of configuring and iptables firewall with CentOS. I understand there's the system-config-securitylevel-tui NCurses interface which allows defining a basic set of rules. But what about the handful of more advanced rules I have to configure? Here's an example of an /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall script that I might use with Slackware. It contains mostly basic rules, and a couple of more advanced rules, one to limit SSH access, the other one to redirect HTTP traffic to Squid. If I want to copy my actual firewall configuration to CentOS, what would be the recommended way? I started from a bare bones minimal CentOS 6.5 installation, so system-config-securitylevel-tui is not even installed. Is it a good idea to try to configure /etc/sysconfig/iptables by hand? What do you suggest? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?
Le 13/10/2014 11:11, Reindl Harald a écrit : just write a bash script which resets and configures iptables with the iptables command and at the end of the script call /sbin/service iptables save which writes the current rules to /etc/sysconfig/iptables and so at boot the rules get loaded atomically Thanks very much! I followed your advice, and here's a first version of a firewall script for a LAN server: https://github.com/kikinovak/centos/blob/master/6.x/firewall/firewall-lan.sh Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?
Le 13/10/2014 13:36, Ron Loftin a écrit : Of course, if you are interested in something that will help you to organize your rules, there is always Shorewall ( Shoreline Firewall ) which I have used for years and found very effective and time-saving. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into it. Though I admit having a clear preference for the bare bones approach to all things Linux. My favorite configuration tool is Vi :o) Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Hi again problem with minimal CentOS and Github
Hi everybody, I'm back to CentOS after a long period during which I've been using mainly Slackware. I still use Slackware for teaching and for my local clients (on servers and desktops), but right now, I'm planning to update my own documentation about CentOS, which is still based on version 5.x. First things first. For the moment I have a sandbox server in my office with a minimal installation of CentOS 6.5. It's a very stripped installation, and I want to keep it that way, installing things only as I need them. So I did *not* do a yum groupinstall Base after the initial installation. I installed Git and Vim and cloned my Github repository for CentOS. But when I make a modification and want to push it to Github, I get the following error: # git push error: The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden while accessing https://github.com/kikinovak/centos/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed Now I think there must be some missing component in my CentOS installation, because my Slackware workstation in the same network can push things just fine. Any idea what's missing here? Cheers from the flooded South of France, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hi again problem with minimal CentOS and Github
Le 11/10/2014 11:03, Niki Kovacs a écrit : # git push error: The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden while accessing https://github.com/kikinovak/centos/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed Now I think there must be some missing component in my CentOS installation, because my Slackware workstation in the same network can push things just fine. I'll answer this myself, since I just stumbled over the solution. It seems that the version of Git shipping with CentOS has a little problem with Github. The solution is to add the username to the URL like this: # git remote set-url origin https://kikino...@github.com/kikinovak/centos.git Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ntfs
Ritika Garg a écrit : CentOS 5.5 is installed in the system. I installed the package kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-3.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm I mounted Seagate external hard disk. I am able to copy contents from the hard disk to the system but not from the system to the hard disk. I've been following this thread, and I'm wondering: why bother with NTFS in the first place? If you have a mixed environment where you need Windows to access your external hard disk, you might as well format it with a FAT filesystem. Linux supports FAT natively, without making you jump through burning loops. If you don't know how to achieve this, here's how : 1) Backup all your data. 2) Given your external disk is /dev/sda, launch fdisk, delete the NTFS partition and create a single FAT partition (hex code 0b). 3) Install 'dosfstools' and format your disk : # mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 4) From now on, mount your disk as FAT : # mount [-t vfat] /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
