[CentOS] mdadm: --update=resync not understood for 1.x metadata

2023-12-03 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Hi All, Recently I had to update a host that uses raid1 for /boot and /boot/efi and I noticed that my resync service is failing with "mdadm: --update=resync not understood for 1.x metadata”. Does anyone know why 'mdadm-4.2-rc2.el8.x86_64.rpm’ supports it but 'mdadm-4.2-13.el8.x86_64’ not ?

Re: [CentOS] bash script input password automatically.

2022-07-26 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Or just try:echo PASS | your_script.sh If it needs to answer multie prompts:echo -e 'USER\nPASS' | your_script.sh Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov  On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 23:06, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > I have the below commands to generate

Re: [CentOS] SELINUX blocks procmail from executing perl script without logging

2021-04-03 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Have you checked with 'semodule -DB' ? Source: Chapter 5. Troubleshooting problems related to SELinux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat Customer Portal | | | | || | | | | | Chapter 5. Troubleshooting problems related to SELinux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to nvme and expand

2021-03-31 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Are you using the MD devices as Physical Volumes ?If ues, then create a PV from that NVME and then pvmove. Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 21:16, Jerry Geis wrote: I have older SATA disks (2 of them size 2T) in a software raid config running CentOS 7. /dev/md127 is

[CentOS] Anyone running CentOS 8 on ML350p Gen8

2021-03-21 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Hi All, Does anyone manage to run CentOS 8 (Stream or not) on ML350p Gen8 ?Did you experience any hiccups or did you have to run some workarounds to make it work ? Thanks in advance. Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Expand XFS filesystem on CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)

2021-03-14 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
True.I wiped a VM this way , years ago. Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 20:05, Simon Matter wrote: > I'm constantly using fdisk on GPT and everything has been fine. > Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov That's only true in recent times, because in the past fdisk didn't

Re: [CentOS] Expand XFS filesystem on CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)

2021-03-14 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
I'm constantly using fdisk on GPT and everything has been fine. Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 15:30, Simon Matter wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to expand xfs filesystem /dev/nvme0n1p2 which is 7.8G and > occupy the remaining free disk space of 60GB? > >

Re: [CentOS] el7 systemd service:: ensure var/log owner when User is specified

2021-02-11 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Is there any reason to use a service file to create the logs ?After all we got systemd-tmpfilesfor that purpose. Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] smba shares are unreachable once or twice per month

2021-02-09 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Have you checked this one:  https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member Maybe you missed something. Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:21, Prengel, Ralf wrote: Hallo, I ve a problem with my samba-server. We are  using a centos 7.7 with an samba

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a QEMU guest display

2021-02-09 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Have you restarted the service ?Yesterday I built a CentOS 7 system and spice didn't resize untill I restarted the service. Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 14:40, Bill Gee wrote: Hi Strahil - Thanks for the link.  Unfortunately it is not helpful.  The spice agent is

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a QEMU guest display

2021-02-08 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
I think the following is a good start: 11.3. SPICE Agent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Red Hat Customer Portal | | | | || | | | | | 11.3. SPICE Agent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Red Hat Customer Portal The Red Hat Customer Portal delivers the knowledge, expertise,

[CentOS] Recommendation for 10 gigabit NICs on CentOS8

2021-02-07 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Hi All, can you share what kind of old NICs do you use on CentOS 8 (Stream or not , it doesn't matter) without any issues? I was looking at ebay and I found some pretty old Mellanox "ConnectX" or "ConnectX-2" but I seriously doubt they will work on CentOS 8. Any proposals are also welcome. I

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a QEMU guest display

2021-02-06 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Have you tried to reach the VM via spice ?Also check if qemu's guest agent is runningin the VM. Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem choice for BackupPC extrenal drive

2021-02-04 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
XFS is suitable for parallel workload, so I would pick ext4 for this case. Here is a quote from https://access.redhat.com/articles/3129891 : Another way to characterize this is that the Ext4 file system variants tend to perform better on systems that have limited I/O capability. Ext3 and Ext4

Re: [CentOS] Infiniband special ops?

2021-01-25 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
I have never played with Infinibad, but I think that those cards most probably allow some checksum offloading capabilities. Have you explored in that direction and test with checksum in ofloaded mode ? Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В 15:49 + на 25.01.2021 (пн), lejeczek via CentOS написа: >

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-23 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
В 18:42 +0100 на 22.01.2021 (пт), Nicolas Kovacs написа: > Le 22/01/2021 à 18:04, Valeri Galtsev a écrit : > > I tried SUSE maybe 2-3 years later than you (around 2003). The > > first thing I > > disliked was: they have yast on top of standard configurations. > > First of > > all, it is quite

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-23 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
В 12:12 +0100 на 22.01.2021 (пт), Ljubomir Ljubojevic написа: > On 1/22/21 9:29 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote: > > > Hence it is as good as dead in my mind when looking into the > > > future, I > > > am looking for future distro of choice. > > > > A little mentioned choice would be openSUSE,

Re: [CentOS] btrfs to ext4

2021-01-19 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Does anyone know if it's possible to convert BTRFS partitions to > ext4? > I think that you can convert ext to btrfs , but not the opposite. The cleanest way is to reinstall . Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] centos-release-gluster8 for centos 7

2021-01-18 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Last time I asked, there was no reply - which means that most probably v8 is not yet build for C7 Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В понеделник, 18 януари 2021 г., 15:04:12 Гринуич+2, Nicolas Zuber написа: Hi all, We have some Centos 7 server running with gluster 7 installed. We are

Re: [CentOS] Reboot/shutdown without login

2021-01-11 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
> That makes perfect sense in a company data room. My situation is a > roommate that wants to power if off to sleep and I've left for an > emergency and didn't have time to power it down myself. Usually pressing the power button should do the trick . Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-06 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
>At the moment my question possibly would have been better phrased "Why >isn't >Streama suitable platform for a production web server". It is , but expect rough edges. The differences will be : - Shorter lifetime .If you skip the first 2 minor releases -it will be shorter - No chance to "yum

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-05 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
> We will need to (manually) migrate to Stream 9.x after 5 years > instead of > 10 though? Most probably after 3 years. Currently stream should be equal to RHEL 8.4 . Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-05 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
> Given we are not developing drivers or applications (other than > websites > and web applications), is the change a non-issue for my use-case? If you decide to go with Stream, you will need to test carefully each version and use some kind of repository management - as there will be no older

Re: [CentOS] rare but repeating system crash in C7

2021-01-04 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Verify that: 1. Autofs is not running 2. Systemd has created '.mount' and '.automount' units systemctl status mnt-backup.mount mnt-backup.automount systemctl cat mnt-backup.mount mnt-backup.automount 3. Verify that there are no errors in local-fs.target systemctl status local-fs.target 4. Check

Re: [CentOS] rare but repeating system crash in C7

2021-01-03 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
all the time. >> >> I commented out those entries in /etc/auto.master before modifying the >> fstab entry: >> >> UUID=259ec5ea-e8a4-465a-9263-1c06217b9aaf      /mnt/backup >> ext4,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=15min  noauto  0 >> 2 >> >>

Re: [CentOS] rare but repeating system crash in C7

2021-01-03 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
5min   noauto  0       2 > > which is exactly as it was before except for the x-systemd entries as you > described. > > and the peculiar thing is it STILL does not automount. and yes, I did do > systemctl restart local-fs.target. > > do I need to reboot (or something sim

Re: [CentOS] rare but repeating system crash in C7

2021-01-03 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
d. and the peculiar thing is it STILL does not automount. and yes, I did do systemctl restart local-fs.target. do I need to reboot (or something simpler, maybe) to fully disable the auto.master stuff? Thanks again! Fred On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 5:54 AM Strahil Nikolov via CentOS wrote: > H

Re: [CentOS] rare but repeating system crash in C7

2021-01-03 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Hi Fred, do you use automatic umount for the map in /etc/auto.master (--timeout) ? If yes, then the systemd mount options probably won't help. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov   В неделя, 3 януари 2021 г., 04:27:17 Гринуич+2, Fred написа: Yeah, and the instructions for setting

Re: [CentOS] rare but repeating system crash in C7

2021-01-02 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
> Just add "x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=10min" in the > fstab mount options , or create an ".mount" + ".automount" entries > for > it (autofs is also an option) and test. If you picked the systemd automounter as an option, you will have to run: systemctl restart local-fs.target

Re: [CentOS] rare but repeating system crash in C7

2021-01-02 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
> I assume that the yottamaster device runs Linux, just like 99% of > other > such devices. as to whether it uses linux software raid or some cheap > (megaraid???) chipset, I don't know, nor know how to tell. but I'll > check > that URL you sent and see what happens. Just add

Re: [CentOS] Out of office: "CentOS Digest, Vol 191, Issue 26"

2020-12-27 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
>Then let's make a little contest out of it: what's the most stupid thing >>you've >done as a system administrator ? 1) rm -rf /prodnfs_mountpoint/* Thankfully, it had some delay before deleting ,so "Ctrl + C" almost broke on my keyboard. 2) Powered off primary prod DB instead of the stanby

[CentOS] centos-release-gluster8 missing

2020-12-24 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Hello All, does anyone know where is centos-release-gluster8 for CentOS 7 ? Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] mariadb or mysql web gui

2020-12-20 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
В 17:04 -0500 на 20.12.2020 (нд), Ranbir написа: > Hello, > > Is there a web gui available in CentOS 8 for managing mariadb and/or > mysql DB servers? I've used phpMyAdmin for many years, but I don't > see > an RPM for it in EPEL for CentOS 8. > > Is there a popular alternative to phpMyAdmin

Re: [CentOS] MTU report question

2020-12-17 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
seems so ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] MTU report question

2020-12-14 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
what happens when you 'ping -M do -s 65000 -c 4 ? Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В понеделник, 14 декември 2020 г., 15:46:50 Гринуич+2, Patrick Bégou написа: Hi, I'm deploying a CentOS8 (not stream ) cluster and I have a question about MTU on the interfaces. I have a connectX6

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
> How many of us, complaining here about a supposed "breach of trust", > are involved > in making CentOS better and not just taking what others do and make > money on top > of it? I never participated in anything CentOS related, I happily use > it but you should > know what you are buying when

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
> I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do > with > this decision. Red Hat is a distinct unit inside IBM and Red Hat > still > has a CEO, CFO, etc. Red Hat also maintains a neutral relationship > with > many IBM competitors. So this was not an IBM decision. > So why

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
If anyone is considering to fork CentOS 8 (I'm not talking about that "Stream"), count me in. Otherwise I will switch to openSUSE Leap. At least they are not pushing me some testing ground. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В 12:07 -0500 на 08.12.2020 (вт), Phelps, Matthew написа: > I still haven't

Re: [CentOS] dnsmasq centos 7

2020-10-31 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Are you sure you have opened 53/udp ? Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В събота, 31 октомври 2020 г., 16:15:10 Гринуич+2, Jerry Geis написа: Hi Niki, Thanks good article... I was close in what  I did - but still not working. I made this config file in /etc/dnsmasq.d more lsi.conf

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get dummy interfaces to persist across reboots in CentOS 8

2020-10-28 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
PM Strahil Nikolov via CentOS wrote: > > Have you tried to use NetworkManager ? > After all ,anything network related should be done by it. > > [root@system ~]# nmcli connection add con-name dummy0 ifname dummy0 type dummy > Connection 'dummy0' (9fdd74fa-c143-4991-9bac-0e542704ac8

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get dummy interfaces to persist across reboots in CentOS 8

2020-10-26 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Have you tried with Network Manager , after all this is the thing that manages all networks: [root@system ~]# nmcli connection add con-name dummy0 ifname dummy0 type dummy   Connection 'dummy0' (9fdd74fa-c143-4991-9bac-0e542704ac89) successfully added. [root@system ~]# reboot Shared

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get dummy interfaces to persist across reboots in CentOS 8

2020-10-26 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Have you tried to use NetworkManager ? After all ,anything network related should be done by it. [root@system ~]# nmcli connection add con-name dummy0 ifname dummy0 type dummy   Connection 'dummy0' (9fdd74fa-c143-4991-9bac-0e542704ac89) successfully added. [root@system ~]# reboot Shared

Re: [CentOS] Server entering Emergency Shell, but continues fine after pressing Enter

2020-09-10 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
I had similar issue on 7.6 - the LVM timeouts were too short and it was timing out as we had a lot of multipath devices. Once those were up , you could just continue. journalctl will show you what has happened. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В четвъртък, 10 септември 2020 г., 18:57:02

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

2020-08-07 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Hi Alessandro, Compared to Microsoft , both RH and SuSE are awesome. You always need a patch management strategy with locked repos (spacewalk/pulp) which can be tested on less important systems, prior deployment on Prod. Keep in mind that Secureboot is hard to deploy in Virtual

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 DNS resolution not working as expected

2020-08-06 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
I also, don't see a search stanza. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 6 август 2020 г. 13:30:13 GMT+03:00, isdtor написа: >Pete Biggs writes: >> On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 10:26 +0100, isdtor wrote: >> > [root@localhost ~]# lsb_release -d >> > Description: CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Don't forget that EL 7 (non-UEFI systems) & 8 support booting from LVM snapshot (a.k.a BOOM Boot Manager) , so revert is 2 steps away: - boot from the snapshot (grub menu) - revert from the lvm snapshot - reboot and wait for the revert to complete Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 1 август

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
I got 5 CentOS 8.1 VMs minimal install. When I did the update I got 1 that had dnf issues and corrupted rpm DB and another 1 that didn't boot. Restore from snapshot and again update -> no issues. For me it looks more like a random issue. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 1 август 2020 г.

Re: [CentOS] tmpfs / selinux issue

2020-07-26 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Hi Leon, have you tried mounting with 'httpd_sys_rw_content_t' instead of 'httpd_var_run_t' ? Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 25 юли 2020 г. 14:20:19 GMT+03:00, Leon Fauster via CentOS написа: >Hi all, > >I have some AVC in the logs and wonder how to resolve this: Under >EL8 (enforcing

Re: [CentOS] Slow terminal response Centos 7.7 1908

2020-07-03 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Hi Erick, what was the value of 'si' in top ? Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 3 юли 2020 г. 18:48:30 GMT+03:00, Erick Perez - Quadrian Enterprises написа: >It was found that the software NIC team created in Centos was having >issues due to a failing network cable. The team was going berserk

[CentOS] No samba-vfs-glusterfs package

2020-06-29 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Hello Community, does anyone know if we got samba-vfs-glusterfs package available and if yes, in which repo ? On CentOS7 it was part of the base repo , but I can't find it. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Working with different Linux Distributions makes the life harder. So far I have found out that 'poweroff' & 'reboot' has the same behaviour on Linux/Unix/BSDs. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 15 юни 2020 г. 5:22:28 GMT+03:00, John Pierce написа: >On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:19 PM Pete Biggs

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-05-16 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
On May 16, 2020 12:41:09 PM GMT+03:00, "Patrick Bégou" wrote: >Hi Barbara, > >Thanks for all these suggestions. Yes, jumbo frames are activated and I >have only two 10Gb ethernet switch between the server and the client, >connected with a monomode fiber. >I saw yesterday that the client showing

Re: [CentOS] kvm: C8 as guest on C6 host / huge delay while booting

2020-05-16 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
On May 16, 2020 6:09:22 PM GMT+03:00, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: >Am 11.05.20 um 15:59 schrieb Leon Fauster: >> Since C8.1  kvm guests have a huge delay while booting on a kvm host >> based on C6. This delay was not present with C8.0. The "pause" >happend >> direct after the grub step. The

Re: [CentOS] Understanding VDO vs ZFS

2020-05-03 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
On May 3, 2020 8:33:33 AM GMT+03:00, Erick Perez - Quadrian Enterprises wrote: >sorry corrections: >For this test I created a 40GB lvm volume group with /dev/sdb and >/dev/sdc >then a 40GB LV >then a 60GB VDO vol (for testing purposes) > >vdostats --verbose /dev/mapper/vdoas | grep -B6 'saving

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

2020-01-07 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Get a CentOS Install media , boot from it and select troubleshoot.Then mount your root LV, boot lv , /proc/, /sys, /dev & /run (last 4 with "bind" mount option).Then chroot into the root LV's mount point and then change grub menu and run "dracut -f --regenerate-all" last step is to reboot and

Re: [CentOS] Centos-8 Minimal iso?

2019-09-28 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
On September 27, 2019 4:57:42 PM GMT+03:00, Jay Beattie - local wrote: >Is there a minimal Centos 8 iso image available like Centos 7 ? > >___ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS@centos.org >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Nearest mirror has

Re: [CentOS] CentOS linux VS CentOS stream, which to choose for learning?

2019-09-28 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
On September 28, 2019 3:36:10 AM GMT+03:00, Yang Guo wrote: >Hi, >I am a student and would like to use Centos to learn how to use the >linux. >Two versions of CentOS available: CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream. > >Which one is better for learning Linux?