Re: [CentOS] remote backup

2016-06-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 04/06/2016 à 12:34, Alessandro Baggi a écrit : > Hi list, > i've need to backup a partition of ~200GB with a local connection of 8/2 > mbps. > > Tool like bacula, amanda can't help me due to low bandwidth in local > server. > > I'm thinking rsync will be a good choice. > > What do you think

[CentOS] Status of RPMFusion repo for CentOS 5 and 6 ?

2016-05-31 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I have to maintain (and eventually beef up) desktop clients in public libraries running CentOS 5 and 6. The hardware is still OK, though sometimes really old, so the least evil will be to keep CentOS 5 on the old machines until that version is EOL. I've been using CentOS 5 as my main system

[CentOS] Redefine ethX interface names in CentOS 5.11?

2016-05-27 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I have a LAN server running CentOS 5.11 with two NICs eth0 and eth1. I'd like to swap the interface names, but I don't know how to go about that under CentOS. Here's what I would do on a Slackware server (I have one next to me in my office). Open /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Re: [CentOS] Redefine ethX interface names in CentOS 5.11?

2016-05-27 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 27/05/2016 à 12:44, James Pearson a écrit : > Have you tried swapping the HWADDR lines in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 ? > > No idea if will work ... I gave it a try. Worked like a charm. Thanks very much. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM requirement for CentOS 6.x graphic installer?

2016-06-02 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 02/06/2016 à 16:40, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > From the CentOS 6.8 Release Notes: > > The installer needs at least 406MB of memory to work. Text mode will > automatically be used if the system has less than 632MB of memory. > > So, I would say for the GUI installer (using 256MB increments),

[CentOS] Minimum RAM requirement for CentOS 6.x graphic installer?

2016-06-01 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, The title says it all. What's the minimum RAM requirement for the CentOS 6.x graphic installer? In our public libraries we have some old hardware running CentOS 5, and I wonder if some of these machines can be upgraded to CentOS 6. Unfortunately RHEL 5.x' nifty text mode installer got

Re: [CentOS] Status of RPMFusion repo for CentOS 5 and 6 ?

2016-05-31 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 31/05/2016 à 12:55, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > BTW. I have no idea if RPMFusion is still active or not for CentOS, > maybe others on the list know. My Nux! repo comment is an alternative > for C6 and C7. I just figured out they have their own mailing list, so I subscribed and asked them

Re: [CentOS] Status of RPMFusion repo for CentOS 5 and 6 ?

2016-05-31 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 31/05/2016 à 16:47, Andreas Benzler a écrit : > Well specifically for centos-5 .. I am not sure. But CentOS-5 is less >> than a year from EOL anyway, so if you are supporting those in a >> desktop, you should be considering how to move them to at least CentOS-6 >> now (if not CentOS-7). Well,

[CentOS] CentOS 6 + nux-dextop: GIMP vs. GIMP 2.8 ?

2016-06-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I just setup a CentOS 6 desktop with the nux-dextop repository activated. When installing GIMP (yum install gimp), I get a gimp package as well as a gimp28 package. I understand this is the Nux-Dextop GIMP 2.8 package. Unfortunately this doesn't work so well with my system. It's not

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 + nux-dextop: GIMP vs. GIMP 2.8 ?

2016-06-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/06/2016 à 14:33, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg a écrit : > This is strange. > "yum install gimp" should install gimp and its deps, not gimp28. > "yum remove gimp28" should remove gimp28 and anyone depending on it, not > gimp or "gimp stuff" (assuming you are not talking about "gimp stuff" > from

Re: [CentOS] Reduce existing CentOS 7 installation to "Minimal install" - services?

2016-05-12 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/05/2016 23:49, Fred Smith a écrit : > not that I'm wanting to strip down my C7, I'm wondering how that > works if one has installed the Mate desktop from epel ? Everything that is *not* the CentOS Minimal System will simply be removed. You'll end up with what you get when you install from

[CentOS] Display boot menu with GRUB_TIMEOUT=0?

2016-05-12 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, On my minimal installation of CentOS 7, here's what I have in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=centos_amandine/root \

Re: [CentOS] Display boot menu with GRUB_TIMEOUT=0?

2016-05-12 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 12/05/2016 11:46, Andreas Benzler a écrit : > EFI BIOS? No, traditional BIOS: Dell Optiplex 330. -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32

Re: [CentOS] Display boot menu with GRUB_TIMEOUT=0?

2016-05-12 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 12/05/2016 11:33, FrancisM a écrit : > have you tried to hold the Shift key? Yes. Didn't work. -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32

[CentOS] Unexpected behavior of 'yum group list' and 'yum group install'

2016-05-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently experimenting with Yum on a fresh CentOS 7 minimal install, and I'm getting some puzzling results. Here's what I did. 1. Install CentOS 7 from the Minimal CD. 2. Install 'deltarpm' and update all packages. 3. Install the "Core" package group: 'yum group install "Core"' 4.

Re: [CentOS] Unexpected behavior of 'yum group list' and 'yum group install'

2016-05-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/05/2016 09:37, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > 9. As you can guess, the expected behavior was for Yum to *not* display > the "Core" and "Base" groups as "Installed Groups" as soon as there was > some stuff (if not downright all packages from the group) missi

Re: [CentOS] Reduce existing CentOS 7 installation to "Minimal install" - services?

2016-05-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 06/05/2016 18:31, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > There actually are a couple more things than core in a minimal install > .. here is the current minimal list: > > https://git.centos.org/blob/sig-core!comps.git/220ef7b59c95531d3752d4074ce673aa09792c67/c7-minimal-x86_64-RPMS.lst > > some of those

Re: [CentOS] Reduce existing CentOS 7 installation to "Minimal install" - services?

2016-05-06 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 06/05/2016 13:50, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > Maybe add a: > > yum groupinstall core That did add a handful of packages indeed (as was already suggested in the previous answer), but the problem still persists. After rebooting, the system hangs after mounting the /boot partition and then exits

Re: [CentOS] Reduce existing CentOS 7 installation to "Minimal install" - services?

2016-05-06 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 06/05/2016 11:13, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg a écrit : > you're probably removing too many packages, eg some key package is a dep > of MINIMAL but not in MINIMAL, and "yum remove" removes it and all its > dependants. > Maybe add "yum install $MINIMAL" after your yum remove command. > Or replace yum

[CentOS] Reduce existing CentOS 7 installation to "Minimal install" - services?

2016-05-06 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, When I install a CentOS server/desktop/workstation, I usually start from scratch with a barebone minimal installation, then add packages as needed. Some machines (like dedicated servers in a datacenter) come preconfigured by the hosting company, so I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to

Re: [CentOS] Reduce existing CentOS 7 installation to "Minimal install" - services?

2016-05-06 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 06/05/2016 08:50, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > Now what would be the simple systemd equivalent of doing that? E. g. on > any CentOS installation (be it graphical, "Web Server", "File Server", > whatever), strip down services to the status that they're at just after &g

Re: [CentOS] Reduce existing CentOS 7 installation to "Minimal install" - services?

2016-05-07 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 06/05/2016 18:31, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > There actually are a couple more things than core in a minimal install > .. here is the current minimal list: > > https://git.centos.org/blob/sig-core!comps.git/220ef7b59c95531d3752d4074ce673aa09792c67/c7-minimal-x86_64-RPMS.lst > > some of those

Re: [CentOS] Reduce existing CentOS 7 installation to "Minimal install" - services?

2016-05-07 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 07/05/2016 14:57, Peter a écrit : > Rather than remove them and add them back use yum shell to just remove > the packages not in base or core: > > yum shell > remove * > install kernel @core @base > run > quit Sounds interesting. Does this work in a script? -- Microlinux - Solutions

Re: [CentOS] Reduce existing CentOS 7 installation to "Minimal install" - services?

2016-05-07 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 07/05/2016 16:02, Peter a écrit : > Yes, but you need to put the yum shell commands in a separate file. See > yum-shell(8) for details. Actually, I just gave your suggestion a spin on a sandbox machine. Yum gets stuck in a frantic dependency resolving loop which can only be interrupted by

[CentOS] CentOS 7 + GUI as KVM guest: fix screen resolution

2016-05-25 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'd like to run CentOS 7 in a KVM guest (host is my Slackware64 14.1 workstation). The main purpose of this installation will be to build custom RPM packages. I've made a few tests, and everything works more or less as expected. I'd like to resolve a small problem that's nagging me though.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + GUI as KVM guest: fix screen resolution

2016-05-25 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 25/05/2016 à 14:20, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > > - Is there a way to achieve this new resolution system-wide, and also > for WindowMaker? > > I tried to fiddle a bit with xorg.conf (X -configure, copy it over, edit > it), but to no avail. > I'll answer that mysel

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate *.desktop entries for GNOME in /usr/share/applications

2016-08-14 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 13/08/2016 à 16:22, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > Do the duplicate entries contain the same 'Exec=' line? After some experimenting, I found a solution. I just edited the org.gnome.something.desktop files and then put a single NoDisplay=true option in the corresponding something.desktop file. Works

[CentOS] Custom desktop menu entries: weird behavior with menu categories

2016-08-14 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, For my client's desktops, I'm usually customizing the various Linux desktops I'm installing. I'm using custom icon themes (Elementary), custom system fonts (Droid Sans), and one of the things I also customize are desktop menu entries. Here's an example of what I do on a Slackware+Xfce-based

Re: [CentOS] Custom desktop menu entries: weird behavior with menu categories

2016-08-14 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 14/08/2016 à 11:33, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > 1. When I edit gnome-terminal.desktop and define "Categories=System;", > it won't appear in "Outils systèmes" as expected but remains in > "Utilitaires". > > 2. I have a category "Divers"

[CentOS] Duplicate *.desktop entries for GNOME in /usr/share/applications

2016-08-13 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, Today I noticed something strange. There seem to be a series of duplicate desktop menu entries in /usr/share/applications. Example: gedit.desktop and org.gnome.gedit.desktop Other example: nautilus.desktop and org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop This is annoying, since I usually edit some custom

[CentOS] Software RAID and GRUB on CentOS 7

2016-08-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, When I perform a software RAID 1 or RAID 5 installation on a LAN server with several hard disks, I wonder if GRUB already gets installed on each individual MBR, or if I have to do that manually. On CentOS 5.x and 6.x, this had to be done like this: # grub grub> device (hd0) /dev/sda grub>

Re: [CentOS] Custom desktop menu entries: weird behavior with menu categories

2016-08-15 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 15/08/2016 à 17:57, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > But, one thing to check is the spec file for the package that provides > the .desktop file to ensure it is configured as noreplace. If it is > not, you need to back up your custom files as they will replaced with an > upgrade. I know that. The

[CentOS] CentOS 7 : keyboard shortcut for mouse gesture?

2016-08-28 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I have a CentOS 7 (GNOME) desktop installed as a VirtualBox guest on my Slackware64 14.1 workstation, to fiddle with it. Guest Additions are installed and configured OK, and 3D acceleration is working too. In its default configuration, the GNOME desktop under CentOS shows an "exposé" (I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : keyboard shortcut for mouse gesture?

2016-08-28 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 28/08/2016 à 09:37, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > I have a CentOS 7 (GNOME) desktop installed as a VirtualBox guest on my > Slackware64 14.1 workstation, to fiddle with it. Guest Additions are > installed and configured OK, and 3D acceleration is working too. > > In its defaul

[CentOS] CentOS 7 + KDE - default keyboard layout?

2016-11-09 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently fiddling with CentOS 7 and KDE 4.14, and I must say, I'm pleasantly surprised. This is one of the cleanest implementations of KDE I've ever seen, and with some tweaking (a lot, in fact) this can be turned into a highly functional desktop with all the bling and bells and

[CentOS] Trouble setting up HP Officejet Pro 8600 printer on CentOS 7 + KDE

2016-11-10 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I just installed a CentOS 7 + KDE desktop in my office's network. So far, I'm quite happy with the results, though I have some trouble getting the printer to work. All the other machines in my office (server, desktops, workstation) are running Slackware64 14.1 or 14.2, and they can all use

Re: [CentOS] Trouble setting up HP Officejet Pro 8600 printer on CentOS 7 + KDE

2016-11-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/11/2016 à 09:02, anax a écrit : > Hi Niki > don't you need a hplip addon/plugin, which you can fetch from > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html > > There, with the wizard, you get a file hplip-3.x.x.run > which you download and run using > bash hplip-3.x.x.run >

Re: [CentOS] Trouble setting up HP Officejet Pro 8600 printer on CentOS 7 + KDE

2016-11-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/11/2016 à 12:37, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > 1. Generally, I have two options. Either go with the 3.13.x HPLIP > packages provided by RHEL/CentOS, or download the more recent (currently > 3.16) HPLIP package on the HP site. Which way do you choose to go? Later, after some mor

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + KDE - default keyboard layout?

2016-11-14 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 14/11/2016 à 12:49, Patrick Hess a écrit : > XFCE user here, so I'm not sure if KDE tries to enforce its own settings > with > regard to the keyboard layout, but have you tried (as root): > > localectl set-x11-keymap might have> pc105 nodeadkey > > This changes the X11 keyboard settings

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + KDE - default keyboard layout?

2016-11-14 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 14/11/2016 à 17:33, Patrick Hess a écrit : > That could be possible, of course. On FreeBSD, with the keyboard layout > configured the old-fashioned way via /etc/X11/xorg.conf, KDE does respect > the system-wide settings. I would expect KDE to behave the same on CentOS. > However, I only had to

Re: [CentOS] Dnsmasq and /etc/hosts

2016-11-24 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 24/11/2016 à 10:22, Yamaban a écrit : > Hmmm, looks like the "lookup question" from amandine(server) is not > resolved in the same way it is resoved from bernadette or raymonde > (clients). After some more fiddling, I guess I found a solution to my problem. If we formulate the problem

Re: [CentOS] Dnsmasq and /etc/hosts

2016-11-24 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 24/11/2016 à 10:50, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > After some more fiddling, I guess I found a solution to my problem. If > we formulate the problem differently, we can say that the clients use > the information provided by Dnsmasq, but the server does not. So in > order to make th

[CentOS] Dnsmasq and /etc/hosts

2016-11-24 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I just setup CentOS 7 on three boxes to fiddle with it. 1. amandine.sandbox.lan is a headless LAN server 2. bernadette.sandbox.lan is a client desktop 3. raymonde.sandbox.lan is another client desktop I've setup Dnsmasq on amandine.sandbox.lan. Here's the very basic configuration: #

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + KDE - default keyboard layout?

2016-11-18 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 14/11/2016 à 20:16, Patrick Hess a écrit : > After all, this doesn't look like a KDE issue to me. Let's blame systemd, > shall we? ;-) I just filed a bug report: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=12234 Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église -

[CentOS] How do I default to "Folder View" in my custom KDE user profile?

2016-11-12 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently busy tweaking KDE 4.14 on CentOS 7 to my needs. I want to use it as a base for an enterprise class desktop. In my humble opinion, CentOS' default KDE configuration is not very usable, so I created a default user profile that looks more like what openSUSE looked like a few years

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. OwnCloud

2016-11-03 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 03/11/2016 à 08:41, Sorin Srbu a écrit : > I use Thunderbird exclusively on my linux-systems. > I also feel the Lightning-addin for calendars in T-bird needs "some" work to > be usable. > > While I don't use my Owncloud for mail, only used as a cloud storage, I have > however used Evolution.

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. OwnCloud

2016-11-03 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 03/11/2016 à 09:31, Sorin Srbu a écrit : > Something like this maybe? > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/69305/how-do-i-disable-the-calendar-events-se > ction-in-gnome-shells-clock-applet Exactly. Except this doesn't seem to work under CentOS 7. The mentioned file doesn't exist here. As for

[CentOS] Disable calendar notification in GNOME / CentOS 7 ?

2016-11-03 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, Here's one of the problems adressed in a previous thread, but it got somehow swept away in the heat of the discussion. Since I'm using Thunderbird and not Evolution, I'd like to get rid of the calendar notifications in GNOME's system menu. Ideally, things should work like this:

[CentOS] Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. OwnCloud

2016-11-02 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently using Thunderbird synced to OwnCloud on my main workstation running Slackware64 14.1. I just installed CentOS 7 on my Asus S300 laptop. It's running nicely, and I'm spending some time getting acquainted with it. I wonder if I should stick with Thunderbird or go with the default

[CentOS] NetworkManager icon not showing

2016-11-02 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I just installed CentOS 7 on my Asus S300 laptop. Wireless was working OK at first, but now for mysterious reasons the NetworkManager icon seems to have disappeared from the notification area. When I click on that area, there's only information showing about sound, brightness, battery status

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager icon not showing

2016-11-02 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 02/11/2016 à 17:16, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > I just installed CentOS 7 on my Asus S300 laptop. Wireless was working > OK at first, but now for mysterious reasons the NetworkManager icon > seems to have disappeared from the notification area. When I click on > that area,

Re: [CentOS] Plain requirement: desktop search

2016-12-10 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 10/12/2016 à 20:22, John R Pierce a écrit : > man find find is not a desktop search utility. -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32

Re: [CentOS] Plain requirement: desktop search

2016-12-10 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 10/12/2016 à 17:54, Leon Fauster a écrit : > I need a comprehensive desktop search functionality. Not only > searching for file names but also for content and meta data. The > environment is EL6.8 / Gnome2. I have noticed that "beagle" is > not part of the distro anymore. Any suggestions for

Re: [CentOS] Plain requirement: desktop search

2016-12-10 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 10/12/2016 à 22:52, John R Pierce a écrit : > it finds files matching specific requirements, and can pipe them to grep > to match contents of the file. find is a command-line utility to find $WHATEVER on your system. Recoll is a desktop search application that can be used by users like the

Re: [CentOS] Plain requirement: desktop search

2016-12-10 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 10/12/2016 à 17:54, Leon Fauster a écrit : > I need a comprehensive desktop search functionality. Not only > searching for file names but also for content and meta data. The > environment is EL6.8 / Gnome2. I have noticed that "beagle" is > not part of the distro anymore. Any suggestions for

Re: [CentOS] spec file frustration (rant)

2016-12-13 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 13/12/2016 à 23:16, Alice Wonder a écrit : > Seems a lot of the software distribution world is getting overly complex > with an expectation that the end user who needs to exercise his FLOSS > rights has to use git or nodejs or for php composer or whatever just to > get what use to be available

Re: [CentOS] Server turns off unexpectedly

2016-12-12 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 12/12/2016 à 11:50, Gary Stainburn a écrit : > A few weeks back I built a new Centos 7 server from a 4 year old workstation > PC, and a brand new HDD. > > This PC had no prior problems other than it ran Windows 7. Thew new HDD is > because I'm planning to also use it as a Bacula storage

Re: [CentOS] Server turns off unexpectedly

2016-12-12 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 12/12/2016 à 12:37, Gary Stainburn a écrit : > Also, as this is a headless server, can anyone suggest a non-GUI monitor app? Glances *is* a non-GUI app. The banner of my blog is a screenshot of Glances in a terminal: http://blog.microlinux.fr/ -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques

Re: [CentOS] Network configuration: desktop vs. laptop

2017-04-09 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 09/04/2017 à 10:29, Nux! a écrit : > On CentOS it's normal for both wireless and wired to be connected at > the same time, maybe what you are seeing is just the icon's being > confusing or not being replaced with the right thing? > > This is easy to check, just issue an "ip route". On My

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-10 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 10/04/2017 à 21:57, Jonathan Billings a écrit : > Having consistent device names is helpful when you've got more than > one NIC and you don't want to rely on the order in which the network > driver is loaded to define the interface name. On my Slackware servers (no systemd, no funny network

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/04/2017 à 18:11, Jonathan Billings a écrit : > Maybe we should just jump right to the end that we always have each > time this comes up. systemd is the death of linux and you're leaving > for FreeBSD/devuan/whatever. Lets just move along now. I've been using CentOS 5.x almost exclusively

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

2017-04-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I just installed CentOS 7 on a public server. I'd like to setup BIND as a primary DNS server for a few domains. Until now, all my public machines were running Slackware Linux, and setting up BIND on a Slackware machine is relatively easy. In its out of the box configuration, it has a

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

2017-04-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/04/2017 à 19:09, John R Pierce a écrit : > do you mean 'authoritative DNS server' ? Yes. -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32

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

2017-04-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/04/2017 à 19:34, Gordon Messmer a écrit : > 1: Change the "listen-on" settings to bind to network interfaces: > > - listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; }; > - listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; }; > + listen-on port 53 { any; }; > + listen-on-v6 port 53 { any; }; > > 2: Allow

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/04/2017 à 19:43, Pete Biggs a écrit : > Look, CentOS is a RHEL clone, RH make money out of this and they aren't > going to produce an OS that is flaky. If they did, no one would use it. That was my initial thought. Thanks for confirming it. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions

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

2017-04-12 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 12/04/2017 à 19:41, Andrew Holway a écrit : > Between the early 1990's and early 2000's the price of a GB of memory went > from ~$100,000 to ~$1000*. I guess a lot of the design decisions made for > things like init were focussed on this. In 1995 is was common for server > platforms to have

[CentOS] Network configuration: desktop vs. laptop

2017-04-08 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm just migrating some stuff from Slackware Linux to CentOS, and I have a question about the orthodox way of configuring a network connection. On a desktop or workstation, I usually get rid of NetworkManager: # systemctl stop NetworkManager # yum remove NetworkManager Then I edit the

[CentOS] bind vs. bind-chroot

2017-04-12 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, On my public servers, I usually run BIND for DNS. I see CentOS offers a preconfigured (sort of) bind-chroot package. I wonder what's the effective benefit of this vs. a "normal" BIND setup without chroot. On my Slackware servers, I have a rather Keep-It-Simple approach to all things security,

Re: [CentOS] bind vs. bind-chroot

2017-04-12 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 13/04/2017 à 00:18, John R Pierce a écrit : > > bind went through a rocky stage where there were a LOT of security holes > in it. by running it in a chroot, you limit its ability to be used as a > hacking point of entry.recent versions of bind (basicially, 9 and > newer) are much more

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

2017-04-12 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 13/04/2017 à 04:25, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : > I am writing my howto on BIND for Centos7. Mine is running on > Centos7-arm. You can see some of the basics I have done at: > > file:///home/rgm/data/htt/httnet/homepage/Centos7-armv7.html > > I have a caveat I learned with dealing with

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

2017-04-17 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 16/04/2017 à 22:46, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : > That means loading gnome. I use Xfce. Much better battery life with Xfce. On a side note (from a Vim user), Geany works perfectly under Xfce and has no weird GNOME dependencies. I know because I maintain an Xfce-centered distribution.

[CentOS] CentOS 7 + HPLIP = blank page

2017-04-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I just installed CentOS 7 + KDE on a new workstation in my office. I tried to setup my printer, but the test page is blank. Here's some details. The printer is an HP OfficeJet 8600 Pro. It works perfectly with all other desktop clients running Slackware Linux and HPLIP. I installed hplip

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + HPLIP = blank page

2017-04-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/04/2017 à 18:44, m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : > Firewall open on the port... no, you said it sends some signal, since it > prints out a blank page. And CUPS on your box is configured to understand > the printer, right? I have a few sandbox machines in this office, so I experimented some more,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + HPLIP = blank page

2017-04-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/04/2017 à 17:32, m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : > Is there a .ppd for the printer in /etc/cups/ppd? Or is there a CUPS print > server on another system (we have all ours basically go through one > server). # ls /etc/cups/ppd/ Officejet_Pro_8600.ppd This is a network-attached printer. All other

Re: [CentOS] bind vs. bind-chroot

2017-04-13 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 13/04/2017 à 04:27, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : > But make sure to have SELinux enabled if you do not run it chrooted. > > I have mine running that way. I bluntly admit not using SELinux, because until now, I mainly used more bone-headed systems that didn't implement it. Maybe this is the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + HPLIP = blank page

2017-04-22 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/04/2017 à 18:44, m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : > Firewall open on the port... no, you said it sends some signal, since it > prints out a blank page. And CUPS on your box is configured to understand > the printer, right? After I figured it out, I wrote a detailed blog post about the subject.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + HPLIP = blank page

2017-04-22 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 22/04/2017 à 16:25, Darr247 a écrit : > Try centos.org/forums instead. > > I tend to avoid wiki sites to which I'm not allowed to contribute; > maybe you'd feel like jumping through their hoops, though. i.e. see > item 3 at wiki.centos.org/Contribute As far as I understand, the CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + HPLIP = blank page

2017-04-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/04/2017 à 18:44, m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : > Firewall open on the port... no, you said it sends some signal, since it > prints out a blank page. And CUPS on your box is configured to understand > the printer, right? [Much later.] I just spent a few unnerving hours, and I found the

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

2017-07-28 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 27/07/2017 à 20:01, wwp a écrit : > I would like to do that, but the live CD doesn't even boot, unknown > hardware and that's the point. I thought I could find a respin of the > DVD or Live CD w/ a recent kernel in. Can you boot the installation DVD? Does the installer come up? If not, can you

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

2017-07-28 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 27/07/2017 à 22:24, wwp a écrit : > Fedora could be stable enough even if not a standard/reference in > industry at all (which sticks to RH releases), I would have loved a > CentOS because it is way more compliant to my "corporate" needs (LTS) This is why I appreciate KDE neon

[CentOS] Getting started with mod_security

2017-07-16 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently fiddling with mod_security, and before going any further, I simply wanted to ask here for any recommended documentation/tutorials on the subject. There seems to be a lot of information about mod_security out there, and right now I have a bit of a hard time wrapping my head

[CentOS] Apache + mod_evasive : problem with test.pl

2017-07-09 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently experimenting with the mod_evasive module for Apache, to protect the server against potential DoS attacks. Here's what I did so far. # yum install mod_evasive Don't touch mod_evasive's default configuration, just restart Apache. # systemctl restart httpd The package

Re: [CentOS] Apache + mod_evasive : problem with test.pl

2017-07-09 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 09/07/2017 à 13:17, Alexander Dalloz a écrit : > What does apache log? I guess it logs more than just HTTP status 400. Unfortunately the Apache logs don't tell much. 192.168.2.5 - - [09/Jul/2017:13:01:27 +0200] "GET /?91 HTTP/1.0" 400 226 "-" "-" 192.168.2.5 - - [09/Jul/2017:13:01:27 +0200]

Re: [CentOS] Apache + mod_evasive : problem with test.pl

2017-07-09 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 09/07/2017 à 13:17, Alexander Dalloz a écrit : > What does apache log? I guess it logs more than just HTTP status 400. I wonder if something is wrong with the test.pl script. Here's what I have: #!/usr/bin/perl # test.pl: small script to test mod_dosevasive's effectiveness use IO::Socket;

[CentOS] Hardening Apache on CentOS 7

2017-07-09 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, Some time ago one of my public servers (running Slackware64 14.0) got attacked and was misused to send phishing emails. This misadventure made me more concerned about security, so I spent the last few weeks catching up on security, reading docs about SELinux and how to use it, etc. I have a

[CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I have a series of websites hosted on two CentOS 7 servers, using Apache virtual hosts. One of these servers is a "sandbox" machine, to test things and to fiddle around. On the sandbox server, I have a few dummy websites I'm hosting. # ls /var/www/html/ default phpinfo slackbox-mail

[CentOS] CentOS 7 + KDE: sleep mode?

2017-07-14 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, One of my clients is running CentOS 7 + KDE 4.14 which I installed for her. Everything is running nicely. She asked me - more out of curiosity - if she could use the "Sleep" mode instead of "Shutdown" like she did when she ran Windows, so the PC would be up and running faster the next time. I

[CentOS] OpenVAS: confusion with 3rd party repos

2017-07-18 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently experimenting with OpenVAS, the vulnerability scanner which was forked from Nessus. I'm reading through various HOWTOs and tutorials, and it seems like I'm stuck very early in my fiddling process. All the CentOS-based tutorials I've found mention a third-party Atomic repo, and

Re: [CentOS] OpenVAS: confusion with 3rd party repos

2017-07-18 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 18/07/2017 à 17:42, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > I'm reading through various HOWTOs and tutorials, and it seems like I'm > stuck very early in my fiddling process. > > All the CentOS-based tutorials I've found mention a third-party Atomic > repo, and here's how the installation

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 07/07/2017 à 12:53, Pete Biggs a écrit : > There's lots of pages out there about hardening Apache and what file > ownership and permissions the site should have. Everyone has their > opinion and the defaults for different distros varies. But the > underlying idea is that the web server files

[CentOS] Ark can't handle RAR archive

2017-07-18 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm running CentOS 7 with KDE. Ark can't seem to handle a RAR archive, even though I have unrar from the Nux repository installed. Any idea what's wrong here? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web :

[CentOS] TeX Live on CentOS 7

2017-07-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I just installed the OpenVAS vulnerability scanner on my CentOS 7 workstation. Everything seems to work fine, except PDF generation. The 'openvas-check-setup' script tells me that PDF generation works fine, but whenever I want to generate a report, the result is unusable and can't open in

Re: [CentOS] TeX Live on CentOS 7

2017-07-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/07/2017 à 20:46, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, JXVS a écrit : > Going from my experiences on CentOS 6, I find it surprising that > LaTeX is not working. Does even the trivial.tex from [0] compile? Can > you get the LaTeX file that OpenVAS is generating, and on the command >

Re: [CentOS] TeX Live on CentOS 7

2017-07-21 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 21/07/2017 à 23:14, Alice Wonder a écrit : > I always install official TeXLive in /usr/local/texlive - yum update > thanks me. Every few months I update it, but keeping it outside of RPM > means I don't get tons of individual packages, many that I never use, > constantly updating in yum. And

Re: [CentOS] OpenVAS: confusion with 3rd party repos

2017-07-23 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 24/07/2017 à 02:14, Phil Manuel a écrit : > I gave up with the repo method and ended up building it from source. It > worked out a lot easier. I dug into it, and it works fine now (except PDF report generation, but I don't really need that). I wrote a detailed blog article about it.

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

2017-07-27 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 27/07/2017 à 19:25, wwp a écrit : > I've just got a Dell XPS 15 (9590) at work and need to set up a stable > GNU/Linux system on it. I thought of CentOS7, but.. obviously its > kernel can't run on this hardware. > > What would you recommend? Waiting for CentOS8 is not an option unless > it's a

[CentOS] Physically moving a mail server vs. cached DNS

2017-07-01 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I just moved my main mail account and web content from a low-cost (low-quality) provider to my own root server running CentOS 7. I transferred the domain name from DNS management to my registrar, configured BIND, Apache, Postfix, Dovecot, NTP, SELinux, etc. Now things are running rather

Re: [CentOS] Physically moving a mail server vs. cached DNS

2017-07-01 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 01/07/2017 à 11:00, Pete Biggs a écrit : > That is controlled by the TTL (time to live) entry. A DNS server must > refresh it's cache within the TTL for the entry. Using the '-a' option > to host will give you more information: So I would have to use the -a option with the old DNS server, to

[CentOS] Problem with ipa-client

2017-07-03 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, Here's the warning that Yum currently displays: ** Found 3 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: ipa-client-4.4.0-14.el7.centos.7.x86_64 has installed conflicts freeipa-client: ipa-client-4.4.0-14.el7.centos.7.x86_64 ipa-client-common-4.4.0-14.el7.centos.7.noarch has

[CentOS] Apache + SSL: default configuration rated "C" by Qualys Labs

2017-04-26 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently experimenting with a public server running CentOS 7. I have half a dozen production servers all running Slackware Linux, and I intend to progressively migrate them to CentOS, for a host of reasons (support cycle, package availability, SELinux, etc.) But before doing that, I have

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