Re: [CentOS] JRE 8.1 for CentOS6

2017-09-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 14 September 2017 at 18:59, Larry Martell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: >> On 14.09.2017 23:56, Larry Martell wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: >> Again, please enter 'about:plugins' in the address bar of your browser to make

Re: [CentOS] JRE 8.1 for CentOS6

2017-09-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 14 September 2017 at 14:51, Larry Martell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: >> On 14.09.2017 19:54, Larry Martell wrote: >> >>> Where would I do that? This is something running from a browser. >> >> Is the java plugin enabled in your browser? That's not the default no

Re: [CentOS] JRE 8.1 for CentOS6

2017-09-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/14/2017 10:54 AM, Larry Martell wrote: Or, change the path. the java command sets java_home internally based on where its invoked from. Where would I do that? This is something running from a browser. I'm not sure how the browser plugin determines which java to run. -- john r p

Re: [CentOS] JRE 8.1 for CentOS6

2017-09-14 Thread John R Pierce
_home internally based on where its invoked from. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] JRE 8.1 for CentOS6

2017-09-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 14 September 2017 at 12:10, Larry Martell wrote: > I have FF version 24.6.0 - probably very old. This is a locked down > machine, not on the internet, so installing anything is a pain. In my case, that was the working version I needed for the IBM hardware. However I just realized the opposite

Re: [CentOS] JRE 8.1 for CentOS6

2017-09-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 14 September 2017 at 11:54, Larry Martell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Rich Huff wrote: >> On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 11:25 -0400, Larry Martell wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Darr247 wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > > I have some software that says it requires JRE 8.1 or highe

Re: [CentOS] stripe size for SSDs? ( cyrus spool on btrfs?)

2017-09-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 13 September 2017 at 16:18, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Wed, September 13, 2017 2:16 pm, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 9/13/2017 9:21 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >>> ...The SATA hard drives[It doesn't matter the brand.. they get built >>> with the sa

Re: [CentOS] stripe size for SSDs? ( cyrus spool on btrfs?)

2017-09-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/13/2017 9:21 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: ...The SATA hard drives[It doesn't matter the brand.. they get built with the same tech and at the same place these days.] thats most assuredly not true.   HD manufacturing is extremely competitive, there's no WAY they 'a

Re: [CentOS] stripe size for SSDs? ( cyrus spool on btrfs?)

2017-09-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 13 September 2017 at 12:00, hw wrote: >> >> It will depend on the type of SSD. Ones with large cache and various >> smarts (SAS Enterprise type) can take many different sizes. For SATA >> ones it depends on what the cache and write of the SSD is and very few >> of them seem to be the same. The

Re: [CentOS] https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/

2017-09-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 13 September 2017 at 11:42, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/13/2017 10:28 AM, hw wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ >> says that pst-barcode is included in texlive. >> >> I installed texlive, and it can´t find pst-barcode.sty. Is that a >> b

Re: [CentOS] stripe size for SSDs? ( cyrus spool on btrfs?)

2017-09-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 13 September 2017 at 09:25, hw wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> >> On 9/9/2017 9:47 AM, hw wrote: >>> >>> >>> Isn´t it easier for SSDs to write small chunks of data at a time? >>> The small chunk might fit into some free space more easily th

Re: [CentOS] Apache 2.2 EOL - what is Red Hat's story for RHEL6?

2017-09-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 12 September 2017 at 15:29, Alan McKay wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have been googling for a few weeks now and not finding anything. > Apache 2.2 is EOL at the end of this year. > > Has Red Hat announced a plan yet on what they are doing in RHEL6? > > I am assuming they will up-version from 6.9 to

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

2017-09-09 Thread John R Pierce
models use different strategies for this, and all this is completely opaque to the host OS so you really can't outguess or manage this process at the OS or disk controller level. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing lis

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

2017-09-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/8/2017 2:36 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: With all due respect, John, this is the same as hard drive cache is not backed up power wise for a case of power loss. And hard drives all lie about write operation completed before data actually are on the platters. So we can claim the same: hard

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

2017-09-08 Thread John R Pierce
lso make sure I undercommit the size of the SSD, so if its a 500GB SSD, I'd make absolutely sure to never have more than 300-350GB of data on it.   if its part of a stripe set, the only way to ensure this is to partition it so the raid slice is only 300-350GB. -- john r pierce, recyclin

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

2017-09-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 September 2017 at 12:13, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Fri, September 8, 2017 11:07 am, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On 8 September 2017 at 11:00, Valeri Galtsev >> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, September 8, 2017 9:48 am, hw wrote: >>>> m.r...@5-

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

2017-09-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 September 2017 at 11:00, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Fri, September 8, 2017 9:48 am, hw wrote: >> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> hw wrote: Mark Haney wrote: >>> > BTRFS isn't going to impact I/O any more significantly than, say, XFS. But mdadm does, the impact is severe. I

Re: [CentOS] login case sensitivity

2017-09-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7 September 2017 at 16:07, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 07.09.2017 um 20:07 schrieb hw: >> >> Gordon Messmer wrote: >>> >>> On 09/07/2017 08:11 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >>>> >>>> This was always >>>> problematic bec

Re: [CentOS] login case sensitivity

2017-09-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 5 September 2017 at 17:27, FHDATA wrote: > > > hello, > > some users' login fails since they type upper > case for their user ids ,etc ... > > how can case sensitivity be disabled so they can login > with mix of upper and lower case? > > this is what i tried: > > in /etc/sssd/sssd.conf i teste

Re: [CentOS] Network Interrogation

2017-09-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/5/2017 12:30 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Why it doesn't like C6, which I am assuming is fully updated, is a question for their support, if the o/p from the package doesn't tell you. wild guess, (snicker), its because  the C6 box isn't running their junkware. -- john r pi

Re: [CentOS] rkhunter and prelink

2017-09-02 Thread John Horne
to literally 'SHA1' or 'MD5', then RKH will look for the relevant command. John. -- John Horne | Senior Operations Analyst | Technology and Information Services University of Plymouth | Drake Circus | Plymouth | Devon | PL4 8AA | UK [http://

Re: [CentOS] Lenovo T460p post 7.4 CR possible problems

2017-08-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 26 August 2017 at 14:42, wrote: > It means it's time to open up your' laptop and evict all the dust bunnies. > it's overheating on one desktop but not the other because one of your' > desktops, as configured on your system is using the processor more. this is > how laptops die as most peo

[CentOS] Lenovo T460p post 7.4 CR possible problems

2017-08-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
I have updated my laptop to 7.4 CR this morning and found that there have been a lot of logs on two fronts for the first time. 1. The kernel has indicated overheating: [Sat Aug 26 08:58:21 2017] CPU2: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 1) [Sat Aug 26 08:58:21 20

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog stops logging on service reload?

2017-08-18 Thread John Jasen
The long and the short of the story was that another misconfigured client on the network was swamping the central logserver right after logrotate kicked offed. The best fix was to enable client memory/file queues. On 07/13/2017 04:40 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > On 09/07/17 18:37, John Ja

Re: [CentOS] Power Fail Protection Update

2017-08-16 Thread John R Pierce
WoL, this is typically done at the BIOS level, and only works if the system supports WoL in the first place. WoL commands can typically only be sent over the same local network segment, as they are layer 2 packets sent to the MAC address of the target. -

Re: [CentOS] Power Fail Protection

2017-08-14 Thread John R Pierce
urer first. NUT supports virtually *ALL* UPS's without messing with manufacturer proprietary software, and its in the EPEL repository, kept up to date. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

Re: [CentOS] what is CodeMeter and why is it running on my CentOS box?

2017-08-12 Thread John R Pierce
ction for some application program. you running any small market big dollar applicaitons, like CAD? they are the most frequent user of such services. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

2017-08-10 Thread John R Pierce
be used more productively; by the buffer cache, if nothing else. most modern virtual memory OS's don't swap out unused pages, instead, they swap IN accessed pages directly from the executable file. only thing written to swap are 'dirty' pages that have been changed since

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

2017-08-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Other than the 17K output from smartctl -x, what do you recommend? smartctl -a is a little easier on the eye. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

2017-08-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: what file system are you using?  ssd drives have different characteristics that need to be accomadated (including a relatively slow write process which is obvious as soon as the buffer is full), and never, never put a swap partition

Re: [CentOS] Power Fail Protection

2017-08-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 8/8/2017 5:06 PM, John R Pierce wrote: NUT is in EPEL... oh, NUT supports virtually every UPS made, too. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Power Fail Protection

2017-08-08 Thread John R Pierce
, you can just run NUT in standalone mode on each box. NUT is in EPEL... -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Troubleshooting php-fpm with apache on Centos 7

2017-08-07 Thread John R Pierce
empty does the user apache is running as have write access to that folder ? -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What RH-like on a Dell XPS 15 (9590)?

2017-08-04 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Darr247 wrote: I don't know how to tell which graphics adapter is being used by a particular app in CentOS... the only benchmarking suite I've heard of for CentOS is Phoronix (look in EPEL), which should have the GLMark2 benchmark to test the OpenGL renderers. I'm not aware o

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

2017-08-02 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, Mark Haney wrote: Sure there is such a thing. It's a tiled console package (tilix is what I use). In all honesty, I wouldn't want Libreoffice running in a container and I can't imagine why you'd want an xterm in its own container. Most containers I've built have been RES

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

2017-08-02 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, hw wrote: That?s what I thought, and it may still be true. Unfortunately, feedback, bug reports and even fixes and improvements experience so much unkindness or ignorance in their reception that I?m better off finding a different solution or fixing the bug myself, with very

Re: [CentOS] Headphones volume control not working in CentOS 7

2017-07-30 Thread John R Pierce
this ? volume controls on analog headphones are purely analog, the computer doesn't even know its there, its just an attenuator on the analog signal. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with mod_security

2017-07-28 Thread John Jasen
mod_security 2.7.3 from CentOS is pretty old and pretty broken. The crs package is equally out of date. Recompiling mod_security from a more recent fedora SRPM and grabbing the OWASP core-rule-set from git will yield much better results, in my opinion. On 07/16/2017 02:32 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wro

Re: [CentOS] dbus-daemon and CentOS6

2017-07-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, isdtor wrote: We are seeing high load developing over time on some machines that have dozens of user sessions. One common characteristic is that dbus-daemon uses near 100% cpu. Red Hat seems to be aware of the problem, but the solutions are available to subscribers only. h

Re: [CentOS] How does yum decide when 2 packages meet a dependency?

2017-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:19:20PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote: Say a package has a dependency for libfoo.so.1, and 2 (or more) packages provide libfoo.so.1, how does yum decide which package to install to meet the dependency? It has a series of heuristi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS SDR Support

2017-07-19 Thread John R Pierce
rence, unless you're going to dedicate a server just to be a software radio. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] getting rid of hp c3180

2017-07-11 Thread John R Pierce
te color cartridges. on glossy photo paper, it makes photos that look like they came from a pro photo lab with very good subtle color rendering and wide gamut range. fairly expensive per page. Unclear if there's linux support for these (my color printing all comes from Windo

[CentOS] rsyslog stops logging on service reload?

2017-07-09 Thread John Jasen
I have multiple servers running stock CentOS 7 rsyslog 7.4.7-16.el7, which are configured to log locally and over TCP to a remote logserver, also running stock CentOS 7 rsyslog. The remote server uses imptcp to receive, and pretty basic rules to parse and commit to disk. I have several systems tha

[CentOS] SOLVED Re: performance problems with OpenLDAP and multiple simultaneous clients

2017-07-09 Thread John Jasen
This turned out to be a blocking issue with rsyslog. So, the slapd issue is solved by uncovering the root cause. On 07/07/2017 07:24 PM, John Jasen wrote: > Running CentOS7, with openldap-2.4.40-13.el7. The environment consists > of two ldap providers, in mirror mode, serving over a

Re: [CentOS] Hardening Apache on CentOS 7

2017-07-09 Thread John Jasen
If your site(s) are simple enough, look into modsecurity for Apache web servers. Also, use either iptables or the built-in firewalld stuff on centos7 to restrict in/outbound ports. On 07/09/2017 12:01 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Some time ago one of my public servers (running Slackware6

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.3 and e1000e

2017-07-08 Thread John Jasen
This may be the wrong approach, but install the NetworkManager-config-server rpm. It sets a config option to allow interfaces to be configured before being available, which may help. On 07/08/2017 07:45 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> Do you use NetworkManager or the network sysv service? > I use the s

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.3 and e1000e

2017-07-08 Thread John R Pierce
should be live within milliseconds of power being applied, it doesn't make sense that an OS could boot up before its working. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/ma

[CentOS] performance problems with OpenLDAP and multiple simultaneous clients

2017-07-07 Thread John Jasen
Running CentOS7, with openldap-2.4.40-13.el7. The environment consists of two ldap providers, in mirror mode, serving over a shared virtual IP. Client-facing services are provided by 4 consumers, most of which are accessed over a layer 4 load balancer. Periodically, the consumers encounter some s

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Pete Biggs wrote: Not necessarily. In order to change permissions on a file you need to have write access to the directory (i.e. the special file in the parent directory that describes the files present in the directory). To delete, yes, but to chmod? It makes no sense for

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Bill Gee wrote: File permissions are 574. Note that owners are NOT required to have higher permissions than groups! But the owner can change the permissions, no? 574 is a properly perculiar permission to set. jh ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] RDP for Centos 7

2017-06-22 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: Hummm, I have epel enabled and when I try do yum install rdesktop, I get "No package rdesktop available." Use freerdp rather than rdesktop, as rdesktop has been parked AFAIK, with the last release Oct-2014. Freerdp is included with CentOS. jh _

Re: [CentOS] looking for graphing tools

2017-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
s is Gnu Octave. this is a matlab replacement, and if you can import a bunch of numbers, you can graph them 8 ways from sideways. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] looking for graphing tools

2017-06-19 Thread John R Pierce
ltime graphing systems like cacti and librenms -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] epel python3 gi

2017-06-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Andreas Benzler wrote: pygtk2-2.24.0-9.el7.x86_64 pygtk2-libglade-2.24.0-9.el7.x86_64 pygpgme-0.3-9.el7.x86_64 pygobject3-3.14.0-3.el7.x86_64 pygobject3-base-3.14.0-3.el7.x86_64 pygobject2-2.28.6-11.el7.x86_64 [andy@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep python3 python34-dbus-1.2.4-2.

Re: [CentOS] OT - lowest power, cheapest python interpreter

2017-06-10 Thread John R Pierce
slow SD card or a slow USB drive? I use Rasbian on my pi's. its pretty hard to beat $35 for the pi3 if cost is important. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/ma

Re: [CentOS] OT - lowest power, cheapest python interpreter

2017-06-09 Thread John R Pierce
ootloader on an SD card. I usually figure a Pi costs $50 + SD card, as I like to put them in a case, and they do need a decent 2 amp MicroUSB PSU, you can get a case + wallwart for $15 on top of the $35 board cost. -- john r pierce, recycling bit

Re: [CentOS] using autofs on C-7

2017-06-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Kenneth Porter wrote: Automounting is now done through systemd. Can be done through systemd, not has to be done via systemd. It'd be news to me that there's anything stopping you using autofs. I see no way to replicate most of the functionality of autofs with this. jh __

Re: [CentOS] C7, systemd, say what?!

2017-06-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Jonathan Billings wrote: Upstream 6 uses systemd? jh yes, 6.6 and above RHEL6 has used Upstart since RHEL 6.0, and continues to use it in RHEL 6.9. I have no idea where you'd get this kind of information. If you really thought Redhat would switch from upstart of syste

Re: [CentOS] C7, systemd, say what?!

2017-06-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Bruce Ferrell wrote: Yes, 7 does track upstream. upstream 6 uses systemd also and Scientific Linux 6 does not. I would say that indicates a solution. Upstream 6 uses systemd? jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https:/

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 7 Jun 2017, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I might add that NOT using GNOME on a notebook is a big processor/battery win. I switched to Xfce some years ago. I get far more hours out of this old NC10 with C6 and Gnome than I can cope with the cramped keyboard, so I don't need to tweak anythin

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 7 Jun 2017, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 06/06/2017 02:53 AM, John Hodrien wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Mmmm... looks like I may go for C6, then, since unlike that Ubuntu, I will want to do updates at least every time I get ready for a trip (other times, it sits in

Re: [CentOS] C7, systemd, say what?!

2017-06-07 Thread John R Pierce
racts with systemd will need to be 'fixed' to do it the old way, with init.d scripts. repositories like postgres, EPEL, etc won't work, either, as their C7 packaged daemons are all configured to use systemd. -- john r pierce, rec

Re: [CentOS] Crazy thought about upgrading to new major release

2017-06-06 Thread John R Pierce
2) move over all services, functionality, etc. one by one. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] C6 or C7 for an old netbook

2017-06-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Mmmm... looks like I may go for C6, then, since unlike that Ubuntu, I will want to do updates at least every time I get ready for a trip (other times, it sits in the closet turned off). I went for C6 on a Samsung NC10 (1.6GHz Atom N270 1GB RAM), only

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.9, shredding a RAID

2017-05-31 Thread John R Pierce
f the bottom as liquid aluminium. I'm pretty certain even MI5/NSA won't get much off congealed Al! Personally, I'd be concerned with toxic fumes from such an incinerator. There's all kinda stuff in a drive, rare earth platings, plastics, and so forth. -- john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.9, shredding a RAID

2017-05-31 Thread John R Pierce
ve goes into the shredder and comes out as metal filings. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.9, shredding a RAID

2017-05-31 Thread John R Pierce
e for casual use, and physical device destruction is the only approved method for anything actually top secret. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.9, shredding a RAID

2017-05-31 Thread John R Pierce
t requires military level destruction, where upon the proper method is to run the drives through a grinder so they are metal filings. the old DoD multipass erasure specification is long obsolete and was never that great. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in

Re: [CentOS] Fix for the CVE-2017-7494?

2017-05-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 26 May 2017, Bernard Fay wrote: Hi, Does a fix has already been made in the CenOS RPM repositories for this Samba remote execution code vulnerability, CVE-2017-7494? Have you tried google or read the announce list? jh ___ CentOS mailing lis

Re: [CentOS] System Time Source

2017-05-24 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 24 May 2017, Pete Biggs wrote: The GPS time system is also notoriously very precisely wrong. The time was set when the first satellite was sent up and has never been corrected since - so hasn't taken account of leap seconds or relativistic effects. All that matters for GPS is that the ti

Re: [CentOS] What is in a yum group

2017-05-23 Thread John R Pierce
so any prerequisites. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-16 Thread John R Pierce
with these chips, then I'd fully expect Red Hat to backport the key support. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What's Next

2017-05-16 Thread John R Pierce
isting software w/o needing special versions, AMD is shooting themselves in the foot. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 / Intel CPU support

2017-05-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 11 May 2017, Darr247 wrote: If you disable Intel Speedstep in the BIOS it should lock the CPU to its fastest speed, but you lose power saving during idle. Could you possibly also find that you're more restricted in your use of TurboBoost in that state (if indeed it works properly witho

Re: [CentOS] TLSv1.3 support?

2017-05-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/11/2017 1:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/11/2017 1:13 PM, Walter H. wrote: will the next update of CentOS 6 (6.10) have TLSv1.3 support? A) Ask Red Hat, I see no date for RHEL 6 update 10 yet. update 9 released 6 or 8 weeks ago, so its likely 3-4 months before update 10 releases

Re: [CentOS] TLSv1.3 support?

2017-05-11 Thread John R Pierce
been ratified yet, its still a draft C) openssl v.1.1.1 which is supposed to support TLS v1.3(draft) isn't finished yet, either, its still a -dev release. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

Re: [CentOS] cannot access file: Input/output error

2017-05-09 Thread John R Pierce
ain, I am using /dev/sdc as an example. also, dmesg | grep sdc to see what physical errors were logged. (replacing sdc with whatever the physical device name is, without any partition number). -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

Re: [CentOS] tabs ignored in here document

2017-05-05 Thread John R Pierce
terpreting the tabs and not feeding them into the here doc processing. yes, bash interprets stdin differently than not stdin. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailma

Re: [CentOS] tabs ignored in here document

2017-05-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/5/2017 11:16 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: But bash is ignoring tabs in my here docs. tab in bash is indeed filename expansion. what are 'my here' docs ? not familiar with that phrase. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in

Re: [CentOS] package internet-browser?

2017-05-03 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 3 May 2017, Kay Schenk wrote: On 05/02/2017 09:59 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Kay Schenk wrote: > On 05/01/2017 06:10 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On May 1, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > What can anyone tell me about package internet-browser? > > > > > > Through t

Re: [CentOS] [SPAM?] Re: CentOS 7 on HP DL160 G6

2017-05-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/2/2017 6:49 PM, H wrote: 'Failed to start ipmi.service: Unit not found' yum install ipmitool -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 on HP DL160 G6

2017-05-01 Thread John R Pierce
ts running without graphics, exercise it via ssh connections, running as much stuff as you can. download a linux kernel and compile it with `make clean && make -j 8` over and over, that sort of thing. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

Re: [CentOS] SCSI drives and Centos 7

2017-04-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/29/2017 12:42 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: what does `lspci` have to say about this raid card ? John, Thanks for the prompt : lspci demonstrates : 02:01.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID (rev 01) 02:02.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902B U320 (rev 10) 02

Re: [CentOS] SCSI drives and Centos 7

2017-04-29 Thread John R Pierce
7;re way on the wrong side of the typical 5 year halflife of computer electronics.a single socket low end modern server would have many times the CPU and IO performance, and would be able to run many such workloads virtualized. -- john r pierce, recycling bit

Re: [CentOS] SCSI drives and Centos 7

2017-04-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/29/2017 10:49 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I am remote from the unit today, and do not have a good way to look at the board today, but the contents of /proc/scsi/scsi is : what does `lspci` have to say about this raid card ? -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

Re: [CentOS] saslauth logging

2017-04-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 07:14:56PM -0700, Gordon Messmer (gordon.mess...@gmail.com) wrote: On 04/25/2017 07:00 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: What I want is the IP address and if possible the incorrect password (just to see how far they are off).

Re: [CentOS] saslauth logging

2017-04-25 Thread John R Pierce
ndmail and your imap demon log failed authentication requests ? -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] saslauth logging

2017-04-25 Thread John R Pierce
as no clue what iP address the client request originated from, so logging the IP of the failed request had best be done at a higher layer. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] Primary DNS server with BIND on a public machine running CentOS 7

2017-04-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/12/2017 7:25 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am writing my howto on BIND for Centos7. Mine is running on Centos7-arm. You can see some of the basics I have done at: file:///home/rgm/data/htt/httnet/homepage/Centos7-armv7.html noone else can see your local file system -- john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] bind vs. bind-chroot

2017-04-12 Thread John R Pierce
ecurity holes in it. by running it in a chroot, you limit its ability to be used as a hacking point of entry.recent versions of bind (basicially, 9 and newer) are much more secure, so this is less of a concern. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz _

Re: [CentOS] humor (was Re: OT: systemd Poll)

2017-04-12 Thread John R Pierce
Windows or the clean readable part is followed... There is a good case to be made for avoiding 'premature optimization' in software design and development. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

Re: [CentOS] email subject length issue

2017-04-12 Thread John R Pierce
URGERY HUMIDITY ALARM" piercej [piercej@c7test ~]$ mail Heirloom Mail version 12.5 7/5/10. Type ? for help. "/var/spool/mail/piercej": 1 message 1 new >N 1 John R Pierce Wed Apr 12 13:06 20/888 "Tornado Monday, 03/27/2017 at 20:27:02. The Point BB.OBSURGRH is

Re: [CentOS] email subject length issue

2017-04-12 Thread John R Pierce
c7 server configured with an email service). [pierce@new ~]$ mail Heirloom Mail version 12.4 7/29/08. Type ? for help. "/var/spool/mail/pierce": 1 message 1 new >N 1 John R Pierce Wed Apr 12 13:00 20/738 "Tornado Monday, 03/27/2017 at 20:27:02. The Point BB.OBSURGR

Re: [CentOS] email subject length issue

2017-04-12 Thread John R Pierce
ype: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20170412194020.98c3360...@new.xxx.com> From: pie...@xxx.com (John R Pierce) -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] email subject length issue

2017-04-12 Thread John R Pierce
ssage body pasted onto the subject. Where are you running into this issue, how is it manifesting itself, what software is involved (email client, email server, email list server?) I see you're using gmail, are you sure this problem isn't specific to gmail? -- john r pierce, recyclin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/11/2017 2:01 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: Whatever openether.org is, it sounds buggy. there's no such domain.there's a softether.org, which is a VPN package, and some kinda github.com/openether which appears to be Ethereum blockchain based distributed computing related.

Re: [CentOS] Primary DNS server with BIND on a public machine running CentOS 7

2017-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/11/2017 10:17 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 11/04/2017 à 19:09, John R Pierce a écrit : do you mean 'authoritative DNS server' ? Yes. I've not run bind on c7 yet, but on c6, I just edit /etc/named.conf and create /var/named/master/$zonename then do a 'reload&#x

Re: [CentOS] Primary DNS server with BIND on a public machine running CentOS 7

2017-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/11/2017 10:05 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: I just installed CentOS 7 on a public server. I'd like to setup BIND as a primary DNS server for a few domains. do you mean 'authoritative DNS server' ? -- john r pierce, recycling bit

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-10 Thread John R Pierce
it.d and everything. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-10 Thread John R Pierce
, its not neccessarily slot specific. its even messier on things like USB -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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