Re: [CentOS] Viewing changelog for packages to be updated

2020-08-27 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:54 PM Kenneth Porter > wrote: >> >> Is there some way to see the RPM changelog entries for a prospective yum >> update? Ideally I'd like to see just the entries that are newer than the >> version of the package I already have. >> >> I saw a new kernel in today's

Re: [CentOS] Laptop and NFS homedir

2020-08-26 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:08:56PM +0100, isdtor wrote: >> Are there any documented best practices for using NFS home >> directories on laptops? Right now, and this is on CentOS 7, when I >> disconnect the machine from the network, the desktop freezes, and I >> can't even tell if the machine

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-07 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 8/7/20 5:30 AM, Phil Perry wrote: >> On 07/08/2020 10:01, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 8/7/20 3:46 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 07/08/2020 à 09:40, Alessandro Baggi a écrit : > Probably many users have not updated their machines between the bug > release and > the resolution

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-07 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Once upon a time, Alessandro Baggi said: >> you are right but is not UEFI a standard and it shouldn't work the >> same on several vendors? I ask this because this patch broken all my >> uefi workstations. > > The great thing about standards is there's so many to choose from! Also > relevant:

Re: [CentOS] rsync upgrade

2020-08-07 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 8/6/20 12:30 PM, Jack Bailey via CentOS wrote: >> On 2020-08-06 08:45, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: >>> You'll need to upgrade to CentOS8. >>> >>> C7 is at rsync 3.1.2-10, and will not go above 3.1.2 ever. >>> >>> C8.2 is at 3.1.3-7, C8 will always be on 3.1.3 >>> >>> Martin >> >>

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Le 04/08/2020 à 08:31, lpeci a écrit : >> I had the same problem with my UEFI bios machine and I fixed it so for >> Centos 7: >> >> 1) Boot from an rescue linux usb >> >> 2) When the rescue system is running: >> >>     2.1) #chroot /mnt/sysimage >> >> 3) Config network: >> >>     3.1) # ip addr

Re: [CentOS] NFSroot over wifi in CentOS 7 - graceful shutdown problem

2020-08-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > > I've got a task to have a small number of laptops netboot Linux over > WiFi. The kernel is loaded off the USB stick of cource, it's off topic > for now. > > The WPA-supplicant daemon is started early by dracut off initrd. It > works. Mostly. > > The problem is that upon shutdown systemd

Re: [CentOS] systemd syslog.target

2020-07-31 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, > > I've noticed that there are several systemd unit files in CentOS 7 and 8 > with the optionAfter=syslog.targetin the [Unit] section, but since systemd > version 198 syslog.target has not existed.I deduce from this that > "After=syslog.target" is ignored by systemd and can therefore be

Re: [CentOS] Apache umask

2020-07-21 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 7/19/20 10:41 PM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> On 7/13/20 6:40 PM, Emmett Culley via CentOS wrote: >>>> I need to set the umask for apache to 002.  I've tried every idea I've >>>> found on the internet, but nothing make a difference.  Most sug

Re: [CentOS] Apache umask

2020-07-19 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 7/13/20 6:40 PM, Emmett Culley via CentOS wrote: >> I need to set the umask for apache to 002.  I've tried every idea I've >> found on the internet, but nothing make a difference.  Most suggest that >> I put "umask 002" in /etc/sysconfig/httpd, but that doesn't seem to make >> a difference. 

Re: [CentOS] hex editor for huge files

2020-07-13 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 2020-07-13 15:01, hexp...@hexpeek.com wrote: >> On 2020-07-13 04:04, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> BTW: I strongly suggest to change back the assignment of BINDIR in the >>> Makefiles. >>> ... >>> >>> Regards, >>> Simon

Re: [CentOS] hex editor for huge files

2020-07-13 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 2020-07-12 05:57, Mogens Kjaer wrote: >> On 7/10/20 4:10 PM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> Thanks for the tool, I've created RPMs of it: >>> >>> http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/hexpeek/ >> >> The package generate

Re: [CentOS] hex editor for huge files

2020-07-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > hexpeek: a hex editor for huge files > > Occasionally I need to work with huge binary files. Over the years I've > tried many different tools and never found one that was exactly what I > wanted. In my experience most hex editors either (1)

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-21 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 21/06/20 1:23 pm, John Pierce wrote: >> but the build process should be the same, no?I can't believe RH >> would >> use a completely different build process for the release than for the >> beta/development stuff. > > The packages still have to be built as a whole, they need to go through

Re: [CentOS] EL8 / certwatch missing

2020-06-17 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Am 17.06.20 um 12:28 schrieb John Horne: >> On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 23:36 +0200, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: >>> I have some scripts using certwatch from the crypto-utils package. This >>> rpm seems to be unshipped with EL8. Any ideas whats the "new" tool to >>> check pem cert files? >>> >> Hi,

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-17 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > > I just read this blog article from austrian Linux expert Michael Kofler. > For > those among you who don't know the guy, he's my home country's number one > Linux > expert (known as "der Kofler") and most notably the author of a series of > excellent books about Linux over the last 25

Re: [CentOS] firewall help request (solved)

2020-06-17 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> At 03:47 PM 6/16/2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: >>The rule is in the wrong chain. The INPUT chain affects packets that >>terminate at the same machine. You want to block packets that will >>be passed on to the Internet, so your rule needs to be in the >>FORWARD chain. (The OUTPUT chain affects

Re: [CentOS] Apache (httpd) fails to start at boot - Centos 8.1

2020-06-16 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> > > Il 16/06/20 08:11, Alessandro Baggi ha scritto: >> >> >> Il 16/06/20 06:21, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: >>> On 6/15/20 7:06 PM, Jay Hart wrote: If I do 'systemctl start httpd', apache will start right up.  But during boot, it doesn't and I get the resulting errors below.

Re: [CentOS] yum/dnf diff

2020-06-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> --On Friday, June 05, 2020 1:39 PM -0700 John Pierce > > wrote: > >> don't most packages create a .rpmnew file if you've modified the >> previous >> package file ? > > That file is created AFTER you've made edits, and reflects only the state > of the file in the latest package. So it's not

Re: [CentOS] Recover from an fsck failure

2020-05-29 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi > On Thu, May 28, 2020 19:38, Robert Nichols wrote: > >> What output do you get from: >> >> file -s /dev/mapper/vg_voinet01-lv_log >> lsblk -f /dev/mapper/vg_voinet01-lv_log >> > > file -s /dev/mapper/vg_voinet01-lv_log > /dev/mapper/vg_voinet01-lv_log: symbolic link TO '../DM-5' >

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

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

Re: [CentOS] ether-wake

2020-05-18 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Actually you are not correct. > > > 1st: I didn't quote the wikipedia article,  someone sent that as an > answer to my previous post. > >    (similar mindset probably, as in your response) > > 2: You are wrong,  broadcast packets, like for example DHCP, and also > WOL (if UDP), can be routed,

Re: [CentOS] Ailing MATE desktop

2020-05-14 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 10:26 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS > wrote: >> On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 19:25 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS >> wrote: >> > I'm about ready to run "dnf erase *mate*" and try re-installing >> > MATE >> > from scratch from the GNOME3 desktop. Is that possible

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 - xfs shrink & expand

2020-05-13 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
uot; or "1" as a kernel boot option. For what you want to do not a single reboot is required. Regards, Simon > > On 5/13/2020 12:48 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> I'm having some difficulty finding a method to shrink my /home to >>>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 - xfs shrink & expand

2020-05-12 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, > I'm having some difficulty finding a method to shrink my /home to expand > my /.  They both correspond to LVMs.  It is my understanding that one > cannot shrink a xfs filesystem.  One must back it up (xfsdump), remove > (lvremove) redefine it and then restore it back (xfsrestore). > > Okay,

Re: [CentOS] Can't move to Centos 8

2020-05-12 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, > Folks > > I've been trying to convert my systems to Centos 8, seeing the EOL on > the horizon a few years away. One of my systems is a Mac-Mini, and > support for that has been discontinued. I'm wondering what the > community suggests among these alternatives: > > 1) Stay with Centos 7

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-05-12 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Le 12/05/2020 à 16:10, James Pearson a écrit : >> Patrick Bégou wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I need some help with NFSv4 setup/tuning. I have a dedicated nfs server >>> (2 x E5-2620  8cores/16 threads each, 64GB RAM, 1x10Gb ethernet and 16x >>> 8TB HDD) used by two servers and a small cluster (400

Re: [CentOS] network disconnection after several hours

2020-05-07 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, > Thanks Simon, > Of course we are not sure but we have a strong feeling : > - We tried the restore in loop (14) and all worked fine when firewall is > disabled.- We tried the restore several times but no more 2  succeed > restore at a row when firewall is enabled. > We also tried : > >-

Re: [CentOS] network disconnection after several hours

2020-05-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hello, > Here is the context during the problem occurs : > > We have a new machine running on centos 8.From this machine, we restore a > postgresql dump on an other machine runnning on centos 7.After several > hoursof running, restore fails due to a disconnection (no route to > host).But, if we

Re: [CentOS] Tomcat or what on CentOS 8?

2020-04-29 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> --On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 9:35 PM +0200 Simon Matter via CentOS > wrote: > >> If I don't find usable RPMs for CentOS 8 I'm going to build our own as I >> do for other things as well. But I just can't believe they don't already >> exist. > > Some upstream

Re: [CentOS] Tomcat or what on CentOS 8?

2020-04-29 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 7:35 PM Simon Matter via CentOS > wrote: >> If I don't find usable RPMs for CentOS 8 I'm going to build our own as I >> do for other things as well. But I just can't believe they don't already >> exist. > > I've packaged tomcat8 and to

Re: [CentOS] Tomcat or what on CentOS 8?

2020-04-28 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > > We're running some web apps on CentOS 6 on Tomcat 6 shipped by the > distribution. > > As time goes by we'd like to move on to CentOS 8 and Tomcat 9 or whatever > is appropriate. > > My question is, what do others use now that Tomcat is not shipped anymore > with CentOS? > > Do you run

[CentOS] Tomcat or what on CentOS 8?

2020-04-28 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, We're running some web apps on CentOS 6 on Tomcat 6 shipped by the distribution. As time goes by we'd like to move on to CentOS 8 and Tomcat 9 or whatever is appropriate. My question is, what do others use now that Tomcat is not shipped anymore with CentOS? Do you run some JBoss/WildFly

Re: [CentOS] Understanding modularity

2020-04-28 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Am 27.04.20 um 17:31 schrieb Simon Matter via CentOS: >>> On 4/27/20 8:27 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I've read the Fedora modularity docs but am still missing the big >>>> picture >>>> somehow. H

Re: [CentOS] Understanding modularity

2020-04-27 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 4/27/20 8:27 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've read the Fedora modularity docs but am still missing the big >> picture >> somehow. Hope someone can clarify things for me. >> >> What I'm most wondering: does modularity have any in

[CentOS] Understanding modularity

2020-04-27 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, I've read the Fedora modularity docs but am still missing the big picture somehow. Hope someone can clarify things for me. What I'm most wondering: does modularity have any influence on the RPM packages at all. I mean, is there anything inside a RPM package which says it belongs to a module

Re: [CentOS] slow performance on company production server I need help

2020-04-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
>> Hello Everyone, >> >> Since rebooting my Centos 6.10 Openvz server "daisy" yesterday, I am >> getting horrible system performance.  /var/log/messages is full of >> HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for /dev/sdb.  The latest entries look like >> this: >> >> Apr 22 08:51:32 daisy kernel: [141224.655699]

Re: [CentOS] slow performance on company production server I need help

2020-04-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hello Everyone, > > Since rebooting my Centos 6.10 Openvz server "daisy" yesterday, I am > getting horrible system performance.  /var/log/messages is full of > HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for /dev/sdb.  The latest entries look like this: > > Apr 22 08:51:32 daisy kernel: [141224.655699] CT: 1005:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : broken dependencies

2020-04-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 09:34, Simon Matter wrote: > >> > On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 08:40, Simon Matter via CentOS >> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> > On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:06:45AM +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> >> >> Which lead

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : broken dependencies

2020-04-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > > I got an alert from Yum-Cron this morning: > > Failed to check for updates with the following error message: > Failed to build transaction: > sclo-php72-php-pecl-imagick-3.4.4-1.el7.x86_64 > requires libMagickCore.so.5()(64bit) > sclo-php72-php-pecl-imagick-3.4.4-1.el7.x86_64 requires >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : broken dependencies

2020-04-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 08:40, Simon Matter via CentOS > wrote: > >> > On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:06:45AM +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> >> Which leads me to the more general question of: enable CR on a >> >> production >> >> server, yes

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : broken dependencies

2020-04-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:06:45AM +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> Which leads me to the more general question of: enable CR on a >> production >> server, yes or no? > > Not on production. Only for testing. I'm not sure. Running production environments without CR enabled means you're running

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8.1 cron does not send mail

2020-04-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 09:26:18AM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> If you use /etc/systemd/system/cron.d/service.d/override.conf, the > > I meant /etc/systemd/system/crond.service.d/override.conf, sorry. Thanks, I was just thinking about how the path is constructed here. Simon

Re: [CentOS] C8.1 Grub problem

2020-04-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Il 06/04/20 11:54, Georgios ha scritto: >> Hi there! >> I had a similar problem recently with grub. No idea why it doesnt work. >> Try using grubby instead of grub2-mkconfig if you want the system to >> keep your kernel parameters between boots. >> >> Something like: >> >> sudo grubby

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8.1 cron does not send mail

2020-04-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 06:59, Tobias Kirchhofer > wrote: > >> On 6 Apr 2020, at 12:21, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 04:16, Tobias Kirchhofer >> > wrote: >> > >> >> On 5 Apr 2020, at 21:20, Tobias Kirchhofer wrote: >> >> >> >> we experience difficulties with

Re: [CentOS] Mounting CIFS shares on C8

2020-04-04 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) > [root@plexvm ~]# > > Le ven. 3 avr. 2020 à 19:15, Simon Matter via CentOS a > écrit : > >> > That was my initial setup before trying the abbreviations, but anyway: >> > >> > [root@plexvm ~]# nano /e

Re: [CentOS] IOMMU and kernel (solved?)

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, > I think i might have solve it. > > For some reason grub2-mkconfig doesnt work. (Have no idea why) Is this on CentOS 7? Well, yes, I remember that it didn't work for me when I installed new servers one or two years ago, that was with CentOS 7 and they were my first EFI installs. > > I

Re: [CentOS] Mounting CIFS shares on C8

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> That was my initial setup before trying the abbreviations, but anyway: > > [root@plexvm ~]# nano /etc/fstab > [root@plexvm ~]# cat /etc/fstab > > # > # /etc/fstab > # Created by anaconda on Fri Apr 3 14:02:23 2020 > # > # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk/'.

Re: [CentOS] IOMMU and kernel

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi. > Im trying to set intel_iommu=on on kernel parameters at grub but for > some reason it doesnt work. > > I edit /etc/default/grub file and i add the parameter. > > then i run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg and then i > reboot. When you look at /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg,

Re: [CentOS] Trying again: KDE fails with a gray screen after login, can't reinstall

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I set for graphical mode, I get the login screen, I change to KDE, and > the screen goes black, then after minutes, gray with a cursor, and > that's it - I left it overnight, no change. > > Brand new install (as of yesterday). Missed any "agree to license", and > missed choosing software.

Re: [CentOS] Mounting CIFS shares on C8

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi all, > > I'm tearing my hair off trying to understand the difference between C7 & > C8 > for mounting a cifs FS with fstab > > I'm building a Plex media server on C8 and duplicated the fstab entries > over from my current C7 installation > My data (music & movies) are on CIFS shares on a

Re: [CentOS] C8 and backup solution

2020-04-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Once upon a time, Valeri Galtsev said: >> On 4/3/20 8:34 AM, John Pierce wrote: >> >Do note, backup systems that use rsync or similar file by file copies >> of a >> >running system do not make coherent atomic snapshots, so things like >> >relational databases should be excluded from those, and

Re: [CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-26 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
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Re: [CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-26 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 02:49:24PM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've discovered a bug in rsync which leads to increased CPU usage and >> slower transfers in many situations. >> >> When syncing with compression (-z), certain file t

Re: [CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-25 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Leroy Tennison wrote: > >> Since you state that using -z is almost always a bad idea, could you >> provide the rationale for that? I must be missing something. > > I can't speak to that, but the obvious workaround is to use ssh's > compression instead of rsync's: > > rsync

Re: [CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-25 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 14:39 +, Leroy Tennison wrote: >> Since you state that using -z is almost always a bad idea, could you >> provide the rationale for that? I must be missing something. >> > I think the "rationale" is that at some point the > compression/decompression takes longer than

[CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-25 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, I've discovered a bug in rsync which leads to increased CPU usage and slower transfers in many situations. When syncing with compression (-z), certain file types should not be compressed during the transfer because they are already compressed. The file types which are not to be compressed

Re: [CentOS] Building a NFS server with a mix of HDD and SSD (for caching)

2020-03-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, > Hi list, > > I'm building a NFS server on top of CentOS 8. > It has 8 x 8 TB HDDs and 2 x 500GB SSDs. > The spinning drives are in a RAID-6 array. They are 4K sector size. > The SSDs are in RAID-1 array and with a 512bytes sector size. > > > I want to use the SSDs as a cache using dm-cache.

Re: [CentOS] Need info on adobe flash player plugin 32 for CentOS7

2020-02-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> James Pearson wrote: >> >> J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: >>> >>> On 16/01/2020 20:37, Steve Clark wrote: On 01/16/2020 03:30 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Kay Schenk said: >> I kept getting messages that my old Flash Player 31 was obsolete so >> I went in

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 09/02/2020 23:55, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Hi Nicolas, > > [snip] > >> Maybe there's a reason to make NetworkManager more or less mandatory >> from now on, but I don't see it. So I thought I'd rather ask on this >> list. > > Like you, I read about NetworkManager becoming the default tool for

Re: [CentOS] Relabel /usr directory

2020-02-04 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > I've done the following: > - Copy usr content with rsync to another partition: > > rsync -av --partial --progress /usr/ /mnt I won't comment on you real question but just want to suggest to really add -H to the rsync here as there are hardlinks in /usr you really want to keep. Simon > >

Re: [CentOS] (SOLVED) YUM (DNF) Possible Confusion Centos 8

2020-01-30 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/24/20 8:02 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> The redhat access page comes up in both google and duckduckgo when I >>>> put >>>> in the entire 4 lines of the error message. You still have to login >

Re: [CentOS] (SOLVED) YUM (DNF) Possible Confusion Centos 8

2020-01-30 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/24/20 8:02 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> The redhat access page comes up in both google and duckduckgo when I >>>> put >>>> in the entire 4 lines of the error message. You still have to login >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: UPD packet checksum verification?

2020-01-28 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:50:57 PM CET Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 at 20:45, hw wrote: >> > > I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. >> > >> > It is about VOIP calls via SRTP being interrupted at irregular >> intervals. >> > The intervals appear to depend on

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 32 Bits install. Answer to Johnny Hughes.

2020-01-27 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 8:54 AM Ger van Dijck > wrote: > >> But when trying to do a fresh install or a netinstall (both Centos 7) I >> get the following message : >> >> [ 0.123604] ACPI:SCI(ACPI GSI 9) not registered >> [28.595238] systemd[1] Caught , dump core as pid 75 >> [28.595814]

Re: [CentOS] C8 Question

2020-01-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> >> I noticed a strange behaviour (don't know if this is the wanted >> default). If I try ,from normal user shell, to run command like "reboot" >> or "shutdown -h now" system will reboot/shutdown. This happens on tty >> console, on xfce terminal and ssh session. > > I've just created a normal

Re: [CentOS] C8 Question

2020-01-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> > Il 24/01/20 15:11, Simon Matter via CentOS ha scritto: >>> Hi list, >>> >>> I installed on my workstation C8.1 (1911) and performed a minimal >>> install and then installed XFCE from EPEL. >>> >>> I noticed a strange behaviour (d

Re: [CentOS] C8 Question

2020-01-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi list, > > I installed on my workstation C8.1 (1911) and performed a minimal > install and then installed XFCE from EPEL. > > I noticed a strange behaviour (don't know if this is the wanted > default). If I try ,from normal user shell, to run command like "reboot" > or "shutdown -h now" system

Re: [CentOS] (SOLVED) YUM (DNF) Possible Confusion Centos 8

2020-01-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> > > >>The redhat access page comes up in both google and duckduckgo when I put >>in the entire 4 lines of the error message. You still have to login to >>see the solution. >>

Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/22/20 3:57 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> I have managed to find out what happened in the yum update and it turns >> out it was a mess. It looks like the server ran out of memory in the >> middle and things then started to fail. Any advice on how to recover >> from this would be greatly

Re: [CentOS] dbus/systemd failure on startup (CentOS 7.7)

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >> >>> We are seeing a problem that occurs ~5% of the time when rebooting >> >> I see such issues on a quite large multi user system but when this >> happens, after forced restarts for kernel updates, I usually don't have &g

Re: [CentOS] dbus/systemd failure on startup (CentOS 7.7)

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> We are seeing a problem that occurs ~5% of the time when rebooting I see such issues on a quite large multi user system but when this happens, after forced restarts for kernel updates, I usually don't have the time to analyze and play doctor on it. My "solution" now is to simply reboot the

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 8 (1911)

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/16/20 5:03 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:08 PM Peter wrote: >> >>> On 17/01/20 8:06 am, Lamar Owen wrote: On 1/16/20 6:49 AM, Peter wrote: > On 16/01/20 4:14 am, Brian Stinson wrote: >> Release for CentOS Linux 8 (1911) >> >> We are pleased

Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I have managed to find out what happened in the yum update and it turns > out it was a mess. It looks like the server ran out of memory in the > middle and things then started to fail. Any advice on how to recover from > this would be greatly appreciated I may sound old school but my

Re: [CentOS] YUM (DNF) Possible Confusion Centos 8

2020-01-21 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/21/20 10:10 AM, david wrote: >> At 08:52 AM 1/21/2020, David G. Miller wrote: >> >> >>> On 1/21/20 9:35 AM, david wrote: Folks In a test Centos 8 installation as a guest of VirtualBox on Windows 10, I want to install ffmpeg, and support for exfat. They're not in the

Re: [CentOS] After upgrade to CentOS 8.1 default gateway missing

2020-01-17 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:39:19 +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS > wrote: > >> Anything in the logs about what was going on? If you reboot this server >> again and again, does the problem show up again? > > This is shared hosting servers that is in production with custome

Re: [CentOS] After upgrade to CentOS 8.1 default gateway missing

2020-01-17 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:34:43 +0100, Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 07:58, Asle Ommundsen >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Tonight I upgraded two CentOS 8 boxes to CentOS 8.1 (1911). Then after >>> a >>> reboot of the first server the network was unavailable. In IPMI

Re: [CentOS] can't boot after volume rename

2020-01-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I renamed my volume with vgrename however I didn't complete the other > steps. > Mainly update fstab and intiramfs. Once I booted, I was dropped on the > Dracut shell. From here I can see the newly rename VG and I can lvm lvscan > as well as activate it, lvm vgchange -ay. IIRC this could all be

Re: [CentOS] systemd-coredump service

2020-01-02 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I am unable to locate systemd-coredump service on CentOS 7.5. It is not > listed under "systemctl -a" and also I'm unable to locate the associated > unit file (folder /usr/lib/systemd/system/ ). Am I missing any package > which installs this service? I don't really understand what you are

Re: [CentOS] KVM Random Reboots AMD EPYC Server

2020-01-01 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> our new Server with AMD EPYC and super micro board reboots ramdonly. > There is no error message before the reboot in /var/log/messages. Anything in the hardware logs of the server like memory error or so? Any watchdog on the servers acting bad? We run CentOS 7 and KVM on AMD Opteron and AMD

Re: [CentOS] centos8 :: firewalld active but tables empty

2019-12-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi! I have a minimal installation of centos8 + packages for freeipa as a > vbox vm. there is something strange with the firewall rules : I'm not sure but does CentOS 8 still use iptables? Regards, Simon > > [root@ldap ~]# iptables -S > -P INPUT ACCEPT > -P FORWARD ACCEPT > -P OUTPUT ACCEPT >

Re: [CentOS] C8 and NetworkManager problem

2019-11-20 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi list, > > I've installed C8 on my workstation. I configured my network devices > (two bridges, two nics) using nmcli. Now that NM is the default I tried > it. On C7 I always disabled it. > > I noticed some problem: > > 1) During the boot, also if NetworkManager-wait-online.service status is >

Re: [CentOS] frr packages for CentOS 8

2019-11-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hello, > > I'm not seeing free range routing (frr) packages for CentOS 8. > > The RHEL8 docs say frr is the replacement for quagga. > >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-10-21 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> > > On 2019-10-18 10:27, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:23:38AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> And last but not least: I got used to some way of interaction with >>> computer, >>> and that way is most productive for me after very long use. I don't >>> want to >>> blend

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with 7.7.1908 updated with qemu-kvm-ev

2019-10-15 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Hi, > So, I have a client that has an internal use application that needs an > ancient version of libc5.  That's not a typo; libc5.  Before the server > that ran it died about a year and a half ago (said server was an AMD > K6-2/450 with a 6GB Western Digital Caviar drive that had been spinning >

Re: [CentOS] UEFI booting

2019-09-19 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> 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

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
Wow, thanks for the detailed recipe! How did we deserve this when it was so easy in the past :-) > On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith > wrote: >> >> no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) > > That’s nowhere near sufficient. To restore classic core file dumps on > CentOS 7, you must: > >

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:43:30PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:38:05PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:19:49AM -0400, mark wrote: >> > > Fred Smith wrote: >> > > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:28:23AM -0400, mark wrote: >> > > >> > > > One

Re: [CentOS] Performance issues/difference of two servers running same task (one is quicker)

2019-07-04 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi > > I need some advice what to do next, even if someone tells me to > check out (an)other mailing list(s), tuning site or point me in a better > direction how to solve my annoying problem: one server is much faster > for certain tasks although on "shitty" hardware. > > I have tried many

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-02 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> > > On 2019-07-01 10:01, Warren Young wrote: >> On Jul 1, 2019, at 8:26 AM, Valeri Galtsev >> wrote: >>> >>> RAID function, which boils down to simple, short, easy to debug well >>> program. > > I didn't intend to start software vs hardware RAID flame war when I > joined somebody's else

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-02 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
>> You seem to be saying that hardware RAID can’t lose data. You’re >> ignoring the RAID 5 write hole: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#WRITE-HOLE >> >> 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

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-02 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> 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

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-29 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
>> >> >> > IMHO, Hardware raid primarily exists because of Microsoft Windows and > VMware esxi, neither of which have good native storage management. > > Because of this, it's fairly hard to order a major brand (HP, Dell, etc) > server without raid cards. > > Raid cards do have the performance

Re: [CentOS] mirror.centos.org ships non-updated version of bind ?

2019-06-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Okay, some minutes before I post this question - the update was pushed to > mirror.centos.org and an announcement was published: > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-June/023321.html > > But the actually question still remains: > Which steps are between 'RedHat published an

Re: [CentOS] system unresponsive

2019-05-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Ok, we used to get this occasionally on cluster nodes, and we just got it > on a fileserver (very bad). The system is discovered to be unresponsive: > it doesn't ping, and plugging a console in, you can see that it's not > dead, but there nothing at all on the screen, nor does it respond to even

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> James Pearson wrote: >> James Pearson wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm currently trying to reboot a CentOS 7.5 workstation (to complete an >>> upgrade to 7.6), but it is 'stuck' while shutting down with 'A stop >>> job is running for ...' - the counter initially gave a limit of '1min >>> 30s' - >>> but

Re: [CentOS] where to find wifi driver

2019-05-14 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:13:35AM +0800, qw wrote: >> I use the wifi adaptor, Edimax AC1200, and its driver can be >> downloaded from >> >> 'http://www.edimax.com.tw/edimax/download/download/data/edimax/tw/download/for_home/wireless_adapters/wireless_adapters_ac1200_dual-band/ew-7822ulc'.

Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-13 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 11/05/19 2:05 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> Am 10.05.2019 um 11:12 schrieb Nux! : >>>> I maintain a desktop oriented repo for CentOS and last I checked a >>>> year >>>> or so ago, I got over 150k+ unique IPs with yum user agent down

Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Am 10.05.2019 um 11:12 schrieb Nux! : >> >> I maintain a desktop oriented repo for CentOS and last I checked a year >> or so ago, I got over 150k+ unique IPs with yum user agent downloading >> stuff from it. >> >> It's a bit anecdotal as perhaps not all are actual desktop users and >> some users

Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 09/05/2019 09:09, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> The price we pay.. :) >> >> Do you say that paying RH customers already received new firefox >> packages? >> >> Regards, >> Simon >> > > No, Red Hat have not yet released any upd

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