Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 partiitioning for reliability

Honestly, something that big I put a NAS variant on it like OpenMediaVault, and CentOS and other distros in virtuals for jobs. On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 3:58 PM Kenneth Porter wrote: > I was just given a Dell R720xd with 160 GB memory and 12x 900 GB drives > that I plan to deploy as my home

Re: [CentOS] How bad is "rm -rf /" ?

> On Feb 2, 2016, at 17:57, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Dear All, > > Suppose I executed the command > > rm -rf / There was also this article recently that pointed out that if the box boots via UEFI, you may brick the machine, depending on setup.

Re: [CentOS] Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL

On Jul 30, 2015, at 12:20, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: Meanwhile over here in CentOS land, you still see SSH password guessers banging on every public IP that responds to port 22. Why? Because it still occasionally works. Increase the password strength minima, and this class

Re: [CentOS] why no recent bind update for CentOS 6?

On Jul 30, 2015, at 20:09, Always Learning cen...@u64.u22.net wrote: On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 11:45 -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote: Honestly I don’t know how you guys do it… By not using Windoze ? I meant the time… the time… involved… so much time… :-) -- Nate Duehr denverpi...@me.com

Re: [CentOS] why no recent bind update for CentOS 6?

On Jul 30, 2015, at 03:37, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Of course it makes sense. Those security updates are not released in a vacuum, and all the things they are built on/against also need to be released and installed for them to work. The source code for the ssecurity

Re: [CentOS] Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL

On Jul 28, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: The Apple ID password rules are a fair bit stronger than the libpwquality rules we’ve been discussing here, and have been so for some time: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201303 Given that recent OS X releases want

Re: [CentOS] Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL

On Jul 28, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: On Jul 28, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Nathan Duehr denverpi...@me.com wrote: On Jul 28, 2015, at 11:27, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: So no, your local password quality policy is not purely your own concern. Other than

Re: [CentOS] why no recent bind update for CentOS 6?

On Jul 29, 2015, at 18:20, Nathan Duehr denverpi...@me.com wrote: On Jul 28, 2015, at 18:48, Peter pe...@pajamian.dhs.org wrote: On 07/29/2015 11:51 AM, Noam Bernstein wrote: Hi CentOS developers - I’ve been happily using CentOS for several years now, so thanks for all the good work

Re: [CentOS] why no recent bind update for CentOS 6?

On Jul 28, 2015, at 18:48, Peter pe...@pajamian.dhs.org wrote: On 07/29/2015 11:51 AM, Noam Bernstein wrote: Hi CentOS developers - I’ve been happily using CentOS for several years now, so thanks for all the good work. In the last week, however, I noticed that while the items in

Re: [CentOS] Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL

On Jul 28, 2015, at 11:27, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: On Jul 25, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Bob Marcan wrote: 1FuckingPrettyRose Sorry, you must use no fewer than 20 total characters. 1FuckingPrettyRoseShovedUpYourAssIfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessRightFuckingNow! Sorry, you cannot use

Re: [CentOS] OT, hardware: HP smart array drive issue

On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:47, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Trying to prevent this from happening again, I've decided to replace the drive that's in predictive failure. The array has a hot spare. I tried to remove, using hpacucli, it refuses operation not permitted, and there doesn't *seem* to be a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + Dell Latitude E6420 laptop = thermalshutdown

We also saw some problems with recent Dell machines with “SpeedStep” or whatever Intel calls their power/speed management these days. One developer measured a very significant increase in speed after completely disabling support for it in his kernel on multiple Linux variants. I don’t have the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + Dell Latitude E6420 laptop = thermalshutdown

Sorry, meant to chop the reply off of that previous post after I typed it. Argh… accidental top-posting. Icky! :-) Nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] restart after yum update (6.6)?

On Jan 15, 2015, at 12:36, Mateusz Guz mateusz@itworks.pl wrote: according to this : http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28144/after-yum-update-is-it-a-good-idea-to-restart-the-server i should reboot my server after updating packages i.e: kernel, glibc, libc. Maybe it's a silly

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

On Jan 2, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: I’m not interested in the reverse case, where an old server could not take over from a newer one, because there’s no good reason to manage the upgrade that way. You drop the new one in as a backup, take the old one offline,

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager fights with DHCP-only backup NIC

On Dec 1, 2014, at 14:48, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: We ship servers to remote sites, which are rarely staffed with techs familiar with Linux. We have them tell us the static IP configuration for the

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

True, but pretty much everything was written wrong to begin with, back in the day when everyone thought bad guys just shouldn't be allowed to use the network. And the fixes are trickling in bit by bit. Been hearing that “back in the day” excuse since Novell / IPX was big. Wash, rinse,

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

Things break and need maintenance. If your services can't tolerate that, you need more redundancy. As for the OS updates (which are only one of the many things that can break...), they are 'pretty well' vetted by upstream so breakage is rare and your odds are better installing them than

Re: [CentOS] And now for something completely different. Win7 on KVM

On Oct 22, 2014, at 15:15, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: As you can probably guess by now I am working my way down through my outstanding issue list trying to get as many deferred items closed out as I can before the next security storm hits. They stopped? :-) -- Nate

Re: [CentOS] Conduct on the CentOS List

I think… we were just threatened by the list owner. ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) -- Nate Duehr denverpi...@me.com On Oct 9, 2014, at 17:06, Karanbir Singh kbsi...@centos.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The recent anti-social content on the list including threats and

Re: [CentOS] Port scanning from MicroSoft?

On Aug 20, 2014, at 9:06, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: This mornings activity log shows this: . . . From 23.102.132.99 - 2 packets to tcp(3389) From 23.102.133.164 - 1 packet to tcp(3389) From 23.102.134.239 - 2 packets to tcp(3389) From 23.102.136.210 - 3 packets

Re: [CentOS] Ulimit problem - CentOS 5.10

On Apr 28, 2014, at 6:40 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 04:20:25PM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote: Seems like the brokenness is the behavior of init ignoring /etc/security/limits.conf, to my way of thinking anyway. Umm, no. That's you not understanding what

Re: [CentOS] Terminal settings

On May 1, 2014, at 1:16 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner ash...@pcraft.com wrote: On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:12 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: oh, left out, on terminal-appearance, also set character encoding to UTF-8 Tah-ah! That fixed it! That's what I've been overlooking all

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing Network Manager config scripts

On May 1, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On 05/01/2014 10:56 AM, Steve Clark wrote: I feel for you then. I guess we have been lucky in the 6 or 7 hardware platforms we have used that the nics ( minimum 3, usually 4 or more ) have always stayed the same names in the

Re: [CentOS] Terminal settings

On May 5, 2014, at 1:06 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Hey, you puttin' down zmodem, man? The only one that picked up, if you lost the connection, from where it was, rather than starting new? Only rsync is that good snip The nerve of some people, puttin' down perfectly good software

Re: [CentOS] Ulimit problem - CentOS 5.10

On May 5, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 12:44:01PM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote: Not processes started that change to a non-root user from a root/init/rc script. No session. At least not from what I was seeing in 5.10. Intended

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing Network Manager config scripts

On Apr 26, 2014, at 10:37 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:33:27AM -0400, Evan Rowley wrote: Is anyone frustrated by Network Manager? I wish CentOS just used the basic configuration files like the ones on BSD-style OSes. Those are so simple in

Re: [CentOS] Ulimit problem - CentOS 5.10

On Apr 24, 2014, at 11:44 AM, James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com wrote: Nathan Duehr wrote: Attempting to force the ulimit up inside the RC script has no effect, since the package is running as a non-root user. It fails to raise the limit. init.d scripts run as root so you

Re: [CentOS] Ulimit problem - CentOS 5.10

On Apr 25, 2014, at 4:46 AM, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 24.04.2014 um 19:44 schrieb James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com: Nathan Duehr wrote: Attempting to force the ulimit up inside the RC script has no effect, since the package is running as a non-root user

[CentOS] Ulimit problem - CentOS 5.10

Running across some curious stuff with ulimit on CentOS 5.10. We have a non CentOS packaged version of Asterisk (using their packages) that we start at boot time with a typical RC script. Recently it started whining that it couldn't open enough file handles. As we dug further into this, it

Re: [CentOS] Motion Detecting Camera

On Mar 11, 2014, at 6:09 AM, mark m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: So if he wants to be out of the business, why is he having you spec the solution? Call a security company and tell them what you want, and they'll send the bill and they'll be in the business... LOL! Sorry, just thought your

Re: [CentOS] HP dl580 g5 RAID management

On Feb 20, 2014, at 3:16 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: That was *exactly* what I needed. Boy, is that interface user hostile. Finally got it to tell me the drive'd failed. Now, if we've got a spare 2.5 drive (I have grave doubts) I've got a bunch of time in with these, and I'll warn

Re: [CentOS] Motion Detecting Camera

On Feb 3, 2014, at 1:15 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: 1) We run, and have been running for *years*, inexpensive USB cameras plugged into rackmount servers running the motion package on CentOS. Every few subreleases, some problem crops up in what I *think* is the video driver

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on HP DL360e with B120i

On Jan 8, 2014, at 3:13 AM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com On 1/7/2014 10:39 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: I am trying to install CentOS5 on a new HP DL360e G8 with B120i disk controller. It appears that a proprietary HP driver is needed for it.

Re: [CentOS] DL380g8 - smart array B320i - CentOS 6.4

On Jun 26, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Marcelo Roccasalva marcelo-cen...@irrigacion.gov.ar wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:52 AM, ☼ Francis francis.s.mend...@gmail.com wrote: Este é Inglês lista utilize palavras em inglês 2013/6/26 Sergio Alex sergio...@gmail.com Gostaria de instalar o

Re: [CentOS] DL380g8 - smart array B320i - CentOS 6.4

On Jul 1, 2013, at 12:20 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: John R Pierce wrote: On 7/1/2013 10:57 AM, Nathan Duehr wrote: DRM'ed server hardware. Pure evil. why is that evil? why should you pay for features you're not using? You need to license, if I understand Nathan correctly, the drives

Re: [CentOS] DL380g8 - smart array B320i - CentOS 6.4

On Jul 1, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 01.07.2013 20:30, schrieb Nathan Duehr: The significant problem we ran into was someone at an upstream vendor orders HP stuff via individual part numbers in a specific configuration for us, so we get a server

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

On May 6, 2013, at 1:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Interesting. I need to look at them further. HOWEVER: I saw something there about unpacking an .exe... and googled that, and found someone talking about doing that... which led me to cabextract, and, sure 'nough, I now have what was in

Re: [CentOS] DIMM problem

It won't help you on troubleshooting which RAM module is bad, but dmidecode may be helpful in figuring out how many slots/sticks you have and what's populated and not populated. Typically if the lights are not on on that display, the RAM is tossing ECC errors or similar, but not fully failing.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 Network bnx2 Problem on HP DL360

On Mar 19, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Woehrle Hartmut SBB CFF FFS (Extern) hartmut.woeh...@sbb.ch wrote: Hello Mailing List I got a severe network error message at a HP DL360 Server. The kernel log says: If that's a DL360 G7 server, make sure you've applied all of the latest firmware patches from

Re: [CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

On Feb 25, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Tilman Schmidt t.schm...@phoenixsoftware.de wrote: Am 25.02.2013 15:56, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Then there is the actual update. I learned long ago NOT to run yum over an SSH connection, as WHEN that connection breaks in the middle

Re: [CentOS] Bind - built in root hints?

On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: No need to worry. They are only hints, and named uses them to get the current list of root name servers at startup. Even if they are 15 years out of date it will still work, because the root name servers do not

Re: [CentOS] remote logging with rsyslog

On Feb 19, 2013, at 8:16 AM, Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com wrote: I can change things around so that tcp is used instead of RELP, and everything works that way. The problem is specific to using RELP in the normal background mode. I also tested the above RELP configuration on two

Re: [CentOS] remote logging with rsyslog [SOLVED]

On Feb 19, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Nelson Green nelsongree...@hotmail.com wrote: Yep, that was it. Thanks for setting me straight. And apologies for the top-posting reply previously. I pasted the reply and just wasn't paying attention. My mother raised me better than that. No problem, was

Re: [CentOS] openscad available?

On Jan 18, 2013, at 9:43 AM, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: Does anyone know if there is a repo that has openscad for CentOS? rpmfind.net doesn't turn up anything. The openscad wiki page says, As of 2013, prebuilt OpenSCAD packages are available on many recent Linux and BSD

Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

Thanks, James, that did the trick. So now I have set up two desktops, one a vanilla xterm and the other specifically for this purpose, runs my script in a gnome-terminal and it appears to be working properly, no funky pop-ups or anything. Thanks again for your help! Glad you got it working

Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

On Oct 4, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata hawar...@ifa.hawaii.edu wrote: Not sure if I answered your question or not :) Yep, you did. I thought you were helping folks who were always sitting at a physical machine console. Disregard all after Good afternoon! GRIN... the comment