Re: [CentOS] DND Issues in Gnome (GTK3 regression)

On Fri, 8 May 2020, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Does someone uses EL8 as a workstation (GUI) here? As a daily desktop, yes. This bug is super annoying https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1808900 and it seems not to get addressed in the current branch. How could a developer

Re: [CentOS] Browser doesnt work

On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: CentOS is a desktop distribution in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. Of course you can turn it into a full-blown bells-and-whistles desktop by fine-tuning the configuration and adding lots of third-party stuff. I've done this myself for

Re: [CentOS] UEFI booting

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: Just wondering, will it still boot if he then puts the disk back to the other machine? My understanding is yes, as this is just updating the EFI Boot Manager, which is stored in non-volatile storage on the motherboard. If anyone knows

Re: [CentOS] UEFI booting

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Jerry Geis wrote: I installed my first UEFI disk yesterday. Seemed to go fine. CentOS 7.6 x86_64 I then took that disk "out" of that machine and put it another machine - it seems to not even boot. I put the original disk back in that machine and it boots fine. I put the

Re: [CentOS] why windows 10 can't access centos samba

On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: Why? This is NOT necessary for win 10 to work. I do not even know if it will work with win 10 but for sure it is not necessary. You are actually suggesting going backwards. You're spot on, sorry. This was CentOS 6 samba3 advice, carelessly thrown

Re: [CentOS] why windows 10 can't access centos samba

On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, anax wrote: As far as I remember, samba worked already with the first Windows 10 installation I had years ago. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4034314/smbv1-is-not-installed-by-default-in-windows "In Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server, version

Re: [CentOS] why windows 10 can't access centos samba

On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, qw wrote: Hi, I can access centos's samba via windows 7, but fail via windows 10. Why? I'm pretty sure this is because the default Samba config doesn't enable SMB2. Make sure this is set in your smb.conf and I think you should be good: [global] max protocol = SMB2 jh

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Warren Young wrote: If you then bring up battery backups, now you’re adding cost to the system. And then some ~3-5 years later, downtime to swap the battery, and more downtime. And all of that just to work around the RAID write hole. Although batteries have disappeared

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Peda, Allan (NYC-GIS) wrote: I'd isolate all that RAID stuff from your OS, so the root, /boot, /usr, /etc /tmp, /bin swap are on "normal" partition(s). I know I'm missing some directories, but the point is you should be able to unmount that RAID stuff to adjust it

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

On Fri, 17 May 2019, James Szinger wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:17 AM John Hodrien wrote: RHEL advice would clearly be not to use btrfs. I'm curious, is there anything in RHEL 8 that would replace BTRFS or ZFS? I'm experimenting with BTRFS on one system and the snapshot and subvolume

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

On Fri, 17 May 2019, Pete Biggs wrote: CentOS is a clone of RHEL - if it is fixed in RHEL 7 it will be fixed in CentOS 7. CentOS doesn't "fix" things as such as that would break compatibility with RHEL. There may be some 3rd party repo that provides a newer kernel that fixes the issue. I'd

Re: [CentOS] root .bash_profile?

On Tue, 14 May 2019, Bee.Lists wrote: su does not load .bash_profile and therefore is a completely different application than with any other user. This one is different, considering .bash_profile is indeed used for logins for other users. You misunderstand. su behaves the same when

Re: [CentOS] How to troubleshoot partial shutdown problem?

On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Any suggestions? We hit this symptom with some machines due to a USB bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66171 kernel arg xhci_hcd.quirks=270336 fixed it for us. Tracking these problems down often ends up being a fairly painful

Re: [CentOS] Updating 7.5->7.6

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, mark wrote: John Hodrien wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, mark wrote: Is there something missing? An updated nvidia-x11-drv-304xx package. Have you queried this with elrepo? Is 304 a dead-end now given it's not had an update since September 2017? (Please ignore mark

Re: [CentOS] Updating 7.5->7.6

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, mark wrote: Is there something missing? An updated nvidia-x11-drv-304xx package. Have you queried this with elrepo? Is 304 a dead-end now given it's not had an update since September 2017? jh ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Updating 7.5->7.6

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, mark wrote: I've got a user with a legacy NVidia card. I've got kmod-nvidia. Last time I did an update, all I did was yum update --disableexcludes. This time, it fails, with Error: Package: nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.135-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 (@elrepo) Requires:

Re: [CentOS] Can't configure GDM after update to CentOS 7.6

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, Alice Wonder wrote: I don't understand why Red Hat makes these kind of changes in point releases - yet they won't update OpenSSL or PHP or Postfix in a point release. Rebasing Gnome3 regularly I think has been one of Red Hat's best decisions, and one I can easily imagine a

Re: [CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Simon Matter wrote: Le 03/12/2018 à 06:25, Rob Kampen a écrit : I enabled the CR repo and did the yum update. Some 800+ rpms were offered and all seemed to resolve depenancies OK, so yes it was started. The updates completed and all looked good, until the reboot. I got a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + GNOME : all icon themes broken after update from CR

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Tru Huynh wrote: it just works for me: no issue Same. I've had no problems from CR so far, on a number of test desktops. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Simon Matter wrote: Alice was talking about CentOS 7.5, which doesn't have systemd-resolved nor does it have systemd-networkd. I didn't look at EL8 betas yet but we can probably expect systemd-networkd to be included there. If that's the case, we'll probably have legacy

Re: [CentOS] Cups freeze when remote server is unavailable

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Patrick Bégou wrote: Any idea ? I don't see that this is a bug. In client.conf you're telling it which server to use, exclusively. You're not adding remote printers, you're telling it which CUPS server to talk to everytime you use CUPS clients commands. You don't even

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

On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, mark wrote: CentOS will work, but you might start with minimal (but make sure it includes networking). Please note that I installed CentOS 6, just a few months ago, on an HP Netbook from '09, and it runs perfectly well. mark "see? I didn't say anything about

Re: [CentOS] upgrade 7.4 --> 7.5: dbus broken

On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, Anand Buddhdev wrote: I would have done: rpm -qlvp http://vault.centos.org/7.0.1406/os/x86_64/Packages/filesystem-3.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm |grep /var/run And you would have seen that it does provide it? jh ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] LVM problems

On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Thomas Schweikle wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 7:53 PM, Ulf Volmer wrote: On 02.07.2018 18:23, Thomas Schweikle wrote: System boots into emergency mode because it does not find any of the logical volumes defined, because it does not enable the LVM volume group. Giving

Re: [CentOS] lightdm + xorg.conf + nvidia driver

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Felix Kölzow wrote: After downloading and installing the nvidia driver from nvidias homepage and modifying This bit should say that you've installed the nvidia driver from elrepo. Anything else is just a world of pain of your own making. jh

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Specifying different options for different " smb" type gvfs mount

On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 03:43:56PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: Well, I'm not. Or the CentOS machine is not configured for it, anyway. Might be possible to do, but I'm not entirely sure it would be worth the effort. All you'd need is to use AD's

Re: [CentOS] Specifying different options for different " smb" type gvfs mount

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/21/2018 05:09 AM, John Hodrien wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Toralf Lund wrote: I known that I might use mount.cifs and related "fstab" entries as an alternative, but its password handling seems a lot less convenient. If you'r

Re: [CentOS] Specifying different options for different " smb" type gvfs mount

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Toralf Lund wrote: I known that I might use mount.cifs and related "fstab" entries as an alternative, but its password handling seems a lot less convenient. If you're in an AD environment, you can probably do nicely with mount.cifs: sec=krb5,multiuser That way you don't

Re: [CentOS] C7, encryption, and clevis

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: We've been required to encrypt h/ds, and so have been rolling that out over the last year or so. Thing is, you need to put in a password, of course, to boot the system. My manager found a way to allow us to reboot without being at the system's

Re: [CentOS] yum hangs and results in problems

On Thu, 24 May 2018, Gary Stainburn wrote: Questions 1) Any ideas why my yum runs keep hanging, and what I can do to fix it? It's likely it's hanging in a script, so just trace it all through. yum will start other processes up, and one of those will have hung. It'll be called

Re: [CentOS] Question on CentOS 7.5 clutter-1.0 pkgconfig missing

On Mon, 21 May 2018, Jerry Geis wrote: however when I do "pkg-config clutter-1.0" it returns nothing. pkg-config clutter-1.0 --libs Looks fine to me. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Question on CentOS 7.5 clutter-1.0 pkgconfig missing

On Mon, 21 May 2018, Jerry Geis wrote: Hello - I seem to be missing a pkgconfig clutter-1.0 file on C7.5 Doing yum provides "*/clutter-1.0" does not provide anything for /usr/share/pkgconfig ? Am I missing something ? how can I get the pkgconfig for clutter ? My system has none even though I

Re: [CentOS] Yum-cron

On Fri, 11 May 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: In a work environment? Or production? No way is there going to be an instant update. In most cases, you need to test whether that update is going to break things, and that will get you a ton more grief from users and management. Even if it's rated

Re: [CentOS] Yum-cron

On Fri, 11 May 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And there is *NO* reason whatever for a "yum-hourly*. None. This is CentOS, not ubuntu-snapshot-of-the-moment. Did you have a look at what the hourly run does by default? jh ___ CentOS mailing list

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

On Wed, 9 May 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Federal contractor here, too. (I'm the OP). For disks that work, shred or DBAN is what we use. For dead disks, we do the paperwork, and get them deGaussed. SSD's are a brand new issue. We haven't had to deal with them yet, but it's surely coming, so

Re: [CentOS] Down C6 ALL without torrent ?

On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Always Learning wrote: On Thu, 2018-04-19 at 09:40 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, April 18, 2018 8:36 pm, Always Learning wrote: I have an aversion to using anything that comes from unknown sources, as used by Torrent. Can we also challenge this "tor

Re: [CentOS] Down C6 ALL without torrent ?

On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Wed, April 18, 2018 8:36 pm, Always Learning wrote: Hi, I have a machine with a BIOS that does not permit DVD installation. It accepts everything else including some old superseded media types. Is it possible to download C6 combined parts 1 and 2

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: The next step is to find the right combination of boot parameters so I can install through the text console. So far, I've had no luck. Any suggestions ? If you're going to do an interactive install, do it graphically via VNC, as has already been

Re: [CentOS] selinux: how to allow access?

On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, hw wrote: which is what access rights are for Yes and no. You can run firefox and let it download files into the Downloads directory, but not elsewhere. You can run apache on port 80/443 but not let it open up a different port. You can stop apache reading files outside

Re: [CentOS] selinux: how to allow access?

On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, hw wrote: That depends. If the anti-theft system of your car prevents you from driving it, wouldn´t you turn it off so you can drive to work? How many of us tape the immobiliser transponder to the base of the lock? I don´t believe that. First you need to figure out if

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: I have to install CentOS 7 for a client, to act as cache & filtering proxy using Squid. I'd like to use this piece of specialized hardware :

Re: [CentOS] why does "rescue" mode bring me to runlevel 5 (multi-user target)?

On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: finishing a week of teaching a comptia linux+ class off of centos 7.4 and wanted to demo how to boot to "rescue" mode, so i rebooted, selected "rescue" mode at grub menu, which still booted to full multiuser, graphical mode. what am i doing wrong? or

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

This is really nothing to do with CentOS anymore, if it ever was. On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, hw wrote: If PXE boot is not possible because it would require to allow network access to unauthorized devices, or if it is not reasonably feasible because switching the device to a different VLAN after

Re: [CentOS] Any alternatives for the horrible reposync

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to mirror a couple of yum repositories and the only tool that seems to be available for this is reposync. Unfortunately reposync for some inexplicable reason seems to use the yum config of the local system as a basis for

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, hw wrote: There are devices that are using PXE-boot and require access to the company LAN. If I was to allow PXE-boot for unauthenticated devices, the whole thing would be pointless because it would defeat any security advantage that could be gained by requiring all

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, hw wrote: That would be a problem because clients using PXE-boot require network access, and it wouldn´t contribute to security if unauthorized clients were allwed to PXE-boot. What problem are you actually trying to solve? jh

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, hw wrote: That seems neither useful, nor feasible for customers wanting to use the wireless network we would set up for them with their cell phones. Are cell phones even capable of this kind of authentication? Yes, entirely capable. WPA2-Enterprise isn't some freakish

Re: [CentOS] Issues with NVidia video driver and CentOS

On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Felipe Westfields wrote: I'm on a network that is disconnected from the internet; makes things kind of awkward sometimes. We have some internal repositories that are supposed to mirror centos, and EPEL - don't have one (that I'm aware of) that mirrors elrepo. But it looks

Re: [CentOS] Issues with NVidia video driver and CentOS

On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Felipe Westfields wrote: I'm trying to reinstall the elrepo drivers. Removed the existing elrepo drivers Downloaded the following elrepo drivers: nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm kmod-nvidia-304xx-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

Re: [CentOS] possible issue with nvidia and new patches?

On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, Zube wrote: Twitter user stintel, in this thread: https://twitter.com/stintel/status/948499157282623488 mentions a possible problem with the new patches and the nvidia driver: "As if the @Intel bug isn't bad enough, #KPTI renders @nvidia driver incompatible due to

Re: [CentOS] LUKS question

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Kern, Thomas (CONTR) wrote: If your requirement is for the entire system to be encrypted then I think the only is a system rebuild, but if you can convince management that a good compromise is encrypting only the applications and their data, you should be able to add

Re: [CentOS] Nvidia error

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, Jerry Geis wrote: I have uninstalled the above and reinstalled. Same issue. But did you reboot (or at least unload/load the nvidia kernel module)? jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] home on nfs

On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, hw wrote: Hi, I have the home directory of a user on an nfs server and mount it on a client. When the user logs in, they end up in the root directory rather than in their actual home directory and need to cd into it. The user can read and write to their home directory,

Re: [CentOS] Null deference panic in CentOS-6.5

On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, wuzhouhui wrote: Does anyone have encountered same problem or advice? Expect minimal help when running custom kernel modules on painfully old CentOS kernels? jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] [External] /boot partition too small

On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Mauricio Tavares wrote: Stupid question: can't you do rpm -qa | grep ^kernel and then rpm -e With 100Mbyte /boot on a non-EFI system, I wouldn't have enough room for two kernels, so updates would be tricky. jh ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Pete Biggs wrote: No, you can't do that. /boot is special and needs to be a separate partition. Needs is a bit strong, as grub2 does support LVM. It's not a supported configuration for Redhat. I'm not a sure there's a lot to it beyond having the lvm module loaded in

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, KM wrote: Thanks for the idea.  I've already restricted it to one kernel.  so this will not help me. And did you also delete the rescue kernel/image from /boot? jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CUDA tools?

On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Pete Biggs wrote: I suppose the epel kmod-nvidia might count - it will allow CUDA apps to run but you can't develop with it. The ELRepo drivers are just the drivers, not the SDK. That said, my experience is they're packaged much better than the ones nVidia releases as

Re: [CentOS] Yum java-devel not listed installed

On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, david wrote: Is there some simple explanation? It works for all the other packages I've installed. yum provides java-devel jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, marcos valentine wrote: You can try chattr? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattr I think you'll find that'd do little useful on a tmpfs volume to preserve files across reboots. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] yum: complete list of groups

On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, Volker wrote: Some groups are missing. E.g. network-file-system-client, multimedia Does anyone know, how to get a complete list? Some groups are marked as not visible, so you need to make it show you hidden groups: yum grouplist hidden jh

Re: [CentOS] glib update problems

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Jason Welsh wrote: any idea how to get out of this pickle? Have you considered using CentOS? jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: This happened to me on one of the units during a 7.4 upgrade, and the only way for the system to work for me was to use the previous os. I tried to use the yum remove kernal 7.4 , but yum tried to remove all of the kernels instead of just that last

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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] dbus-daemon and CentOS6

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.

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

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

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

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

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

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

Re: [CentOS] RDP for Centos 7

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] epel python3 gi

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

Re: [CentOS] using autofs on C-7

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?!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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),

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

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

Re: [CentOS] System Time Source

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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 / Intel CPU support

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

Re: [CentOS] package internet-browser?

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?

Re: [CentOS] saslauth logging

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] CentOS-6.8 fsck report Maximal Count

On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, James B. Byrne wrote: This indicated that a bad sector on the underlying disk system might be the source of the problem. The guests were all shutdown, a /forcefsck file was created on the host system, and the host system remotely restarted. fsck's not good at finding disk

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, isdtor wrote: Did I see an implicit "do as Red Hat says or else" there somewhere? Not appropriate. Linux is not Windows (yet). In the heat of the moment it may easily be forgotton that Linux is all about choice. We choose to run CentOS, and we choose to run it the way we see

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Steve Clark wrote: Yes it is really hard! ip address add 192.168.0.1/24 dev enp0s25 ip route add default via 192.168.0.254 dev enp0s25 echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 > /etc/resolv.conf echo nameserver 8.8.4.4 >> /etc/resolv.conf This is still a deliberately trivial case, as

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Giles Coochey wrote: Not really, Redhat/Centos has a lot to offer, but for me, networking is a one-time configuration, and the best way to configure it is using something that falls within this principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle I'm not flaming

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Giles Coochey wrote: ifconfig enp0s25 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add default gw 192.168.0.254 enp0s25 echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 > /etc/resolv.conf echo nameserver 8.8.4.4 >> /etc/resolv.conf Oh okay, you really do want to back away from Redhat entirely. That's

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Giles Coochey wrote: The truth is a lot of us run servers that don't need to have their network "managed" by Networkmanager. You're opting to have your network managed by a bunch of unloved legacy scripts that you're advised to avoid using unless necessary, or you've

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5 End of Life

On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Tony Mountifield wrote: You mean just thrown away, or archived somewhere? Just thrown away would seem rather irresponsible... Mirroring EPEL makes sense well before this point, as they don't keep old versions of packages online either AFAIK. jh

Re: [CentOS] how to resize a partition of a disk define as a physical volume

On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Bernard Fay wrote: How do you resize the partition without loosing data? gparted does not support LVM. If you don't trust yourself to do it right, just create a new partition on the disk,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, systemd, NetworkMangler, oh, my

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Valeri Galtsev wrote: My start with CentOS 7 to some extent reminded me this MacOS Server experience ;-) No, not ansence of documentation, but the attitude to make everybody use GUI. Exactly as you notice. I bet many users were lost by Linux then... Sometimes on this list

Re: [CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: How about my request for checksums in the git repo? What checksums would you actually want in git? jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rpm conflict on new install

On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Gary Stainburn wrote: Cheers John, I did find that one after sending the post, but it still doesn't give a solution. It just says that they're going to fix 'yum' but that was in November and it's still broken. I did see one post that said that ipaclient isn't needed and

Re: [CentOS] rpm conflict on new install

On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Gary Stainburn wrote: Googling shows that a number of people seem to be suffering from this but doesn't seem to give a solution. Does anyone have any suggestion? It's been mentioned on this list before. Google: site:lists.centos.org freeipa conflict jh

Re: [CentOS] Buttons too big in Firefox for Linux

On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Gary Stainburn wrote: It appears to be any or anywhere on the page, whether inside DIV's, Frames or not. They're only slightly bigger than they should be but it's enough to break page layouts. I've been doing some more reading and it appears that it's something to do

Re: [CentOS] SSSD cache case-sensitivity

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Robbert Eggermont wrote: Dear all, I'm running CentOS 7.3 with SSSD. I'm using sssd-ad to talk to an AD backend. Group names in the AD contain capitals. When sssd-ad is working normally, group names returned are all lowercase. However, when the AD backend goes offline,

Re: [CentOS] Allow execution of commands via ssh but not to login

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Bernard Fay wrote: Hi, Is there a way to allow a user to execute commands via ssh, for example: "ssh user@server ls", but disallow the same user to login on this server with "ssh user@server" ? Google "ssh restrict to single command". First hit covers using the command

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