Re: [CentOS] find troubles

2014-10-28 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/28/2014 04:00 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hey guys, Sorry not sure what's wrong with this statement. I've tried a few variations of trying to exclude the /var/www directory. [root@224432-24 apr-1.5.1]# find / -name *httpd* -type d \( ! -name www \) /usr/lib/httpd /usr/lib64/httpd

Re: [CentOS] Can't get pictures off camera

2014-11-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/08/2014 04:02 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote: If I open digiKam first and try to import using what is detects - Cannon EOS 350D (PTP mode) - it never finds anything. PTP mode is a control mode that does not present a filesystem. Does the camera have another option for a PC connection?

[CentOS] What is the not supported hardware?

2014-12-04 Thread Robert Nichols
When the installer complains that it has detected unsupported hardware, is there any way to tell just what it didn't like? Following the URL in the message just ends up at the RHEL Hardware Certification page, which isn't much help. The installer seemed quite willing to continue with the

Re: [CentOS] What is the not supported hardware?

2014-12-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:32 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Dumb question: *how* were you installing? Did you have a kickstart of your very own? If so... could it have wanted eth0, and the installer called it em1? In my case there was no kickstart -- just a plain install from the ISO image, and

[CentOS] Documentation for upstart

2014-12-30 Thread Robert Nichols
Is there any documentation for the upstart-0.6.5 used in CentOS 6? All I can find online is for much newer versions. -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Postfix (I think) problem

2015-01-24 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/24/2015 09:10 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm getting repeated email (KMail) error messages about one apparently over-large post: -- Received: from helen.gayleard.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by helen.gayleard.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4500294A0 for tim

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2015:0048 CentOS 6 nss-softokn BugFix Update

2015-01-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/15/2015 08:27 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: There was what we thought was a huge problem with the packages, that ended up being this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182337 http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-January/020880.html The reason they are

[CentOS] Mystery file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/dnsmasq.conf

2015-01-22 Thread Robert Nichols
in CentOS 6.6, dnsmasq-2.48-14.el6 installs file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/dnsmasq.conf with content: = cut == !DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC -//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd; busconfig policy

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Using rsync to backup / restore - when to use (or not use) the -H option switch?

2015-02-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/11/2015 11:13 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. After some reading, including the rsync man page, I am still not clear on this: When using rsync to backup and restore, when should and when should one *not* include

Re: [CentOS] libguestfs-winsupport

2015-02-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/10/2015 09:02 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 02/09/2015 08:56 AM, Steve Clark wrote: On 02/09/2015 09:34 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 02/06/2015 07:56 AM, Steve Clark wrote: Hello List, Does anyone know why this is not available in CentOS 6.6. I found it in a SL repo but not in CentOS. I

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-01-30 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/30/2015 05:27 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: While I personally think this is a good idea, this has some potential to maybe cause trouble or inconvenience down the line, with regards to automated installs, broken kickstart scripts, ... Kickstart installs with an already encrypted password in

Re: [CentOS] Display configuration for greeter??

2015-01-24 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/24/2015 08:57 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: With dual monitors, how do I control which monitor will get the greeter display. I would really like to configure the screens as mirrored. Trying to log in when the monitor with the greeter is not visible is very trying. This is in CentOS 6

[CentOS] Display configuration for greeter??

2015-01-24 Thread Robert Nichols
With dual monitors, how do I control which monitor will get the greeter display. I would really like to configure the screens as mirrored. Trying to log in when the monitor with the greeter is not visible is very trying. -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is really part of my email address.

Re: [CentOS] C-6, Gnome question

2015-01-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/09/2015 06:07 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: I'm still trying to find the thing I used back in C5(?) that raised the panels when the mouse hovered over it for X seconds. With C6 I can't find it anymore and it switches way too fast. I presume you're talking about panels with Autohide set.

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird randomly segfaults at startup

2015-01-10 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/10/2015 07:39 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Anyone else seeing this? This is happening on a straight Desktop install of CentOS 6.6 fully updated. I have made no changes other than installing Thunderbird. Thunderbird will occasionally (10 to 20% of the time) fail to start, and the abrt report

[CentOS] Thunderbird randomly segfaults at startup

2015-01-10 Thread Robert Nichols
Anyone else seeing this? This is happening on a straight Desktop install of CentOS 6.6 fully updated. I have made no changes other than installing Thunderbird. Thunderbird will occasionally (10 to 20% of the time) fail to start, and the abrt report indicates a signal 11 (SIGSEGV). I don't see

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird randomly segfaults at startup

2015-01-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/11/2015 01:16 AM, Jason S. Evans wrote: On 2015-01-10 23:31, Robert Nichols wrote: On 01/10/2015 07:39 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Anyone else seeing this? This is happening on a straight Desktop install of CentOS 6.6 fully updated. I have made no changes other than installing Thunderbird

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird randomly segfaults at startup

2015-01-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/11/2015 10:08 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: On 01/11/2015 01:42 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: Are you referring to this thread by any chance? http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-December/148445.html

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird randomly segfaults at startup

2015-01-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/11/2015 01:42 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Mark LaPierre marklap...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/10/15 20:39, Robert Nichols wrote: Anyone else seeing this? This is happening on a straight Desktop install of CentOS 6.6 fully updated. I have made no changes other than

Re: [CentOS] C-6, Gnome question

2015-01-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/11/2015 04:19 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 21:02 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: I presume you're talking about panels with Autohide set. If you have the GUI gconf-editor installed, it's under apps/panel/global/panel_show_delay. You can also set it from the command line

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird randomly segfaults at startup

2015-01-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/11/2015 12:13 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Oh, boy. We do seem to have to treat Linux like Windows these days and _reboot_ after any update, not only kernel or glibc update. So much for Unix-like, sigh ;-( When you are trying to track down unexplained and only semi-repeatable behavior, you

Re: [CentOS] SELinux context for ssh host keys?

2015-02-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/09/2015 11:14 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: So, I decided to run restorecon -v to presumably set the SELinux user correctly for the new keys: But that is not what happened: restorecon -v * restorecon reset /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key_4096 context

Re: [CentOS] C5 BASH IF

2015-02-14 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/14/2015 12:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:36 AM, J Martin Rushton martinrushto...@btinternet.com wrote: snip To understand it completely you need to know the order of operations as the shell makes multiple passes over the line, parsing, processing metacharacters,

Re: [CentOS] C5 BASH IF

2015-02-14 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/13/2015 11:47 PM, Always Learning wrote: I re-ran the script with 'set -x' for 16 if [ $file='law00css' ] 17 then 18echo $file 19echo css 20 else 21echo no css 22 fi and received:- + '[' law45p07a01=law00css ']' + echo law45p07a01 law45p07a01 + echo css css

Re: [CentOS] libguestfs-winsupport

2015-02-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/06/2015 07:56 AM, Steve Clark wrote: Hello List, Does anyone know why this is not available in CentOS 6.6. I found it in a SL repo but not in CentOS. I opened http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8183 last Friday (Feb 6). You can also use the one in the C6.5-updates vault repository. --

Re: [CentOS] reload /sbin/init

2015-01-08 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/08/2015 11:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: On 01/08/2015 03:22 AM, Markus Falb wrote: Hi, There was an update of glibc on CentOS 6 http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-January/020863.html and now: # needs-restarting 1 : /sbin/init How do i tell

Re: [CentOS] reload /sbin/init

2015-01-08 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/08/2015 03:22 AM, Markus Falb wrote: Hi, There was an update of glibc on CentOS 6 http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-January/020863.html and now: # needs-restarting 1 : /sbin/init How do i tell /sbin/init to use the updated files from glibc without a reboot? You

Re: [CentOS] LUKS encypted partition using --key-file can only be decrypted with --key-file

2015-03-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/04/2015 03:16 PM, Digimer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I created a LUKS encrypted partition via a udev-triggered script on 6.6 using --key-file /tmp/foo. This worked fine, and I can decrypt the LUKS partition via script and manually using --key-file

[CentOS] Inheriting Xauthority

2015-03-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On some of my machines, when I run su - in a terminal to get a root shell, an XAUTHORITY file is automatically generated to give display access to GUI programs spawned by that shell, i.e., # set | grep XAUTH XAUTHORITY=/root/.xauthayZmdH That file contains a copy of the

Re: [CentOS] LVM encryption and new volume group

2015-03-05 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/05/2015 06:58 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Tim li...@kiuni.de wrote: Hello list, I bought a Thinkpad T420 and installed CentOS 7 recently. I choosed to use lvm encryption for the entire volume group. It works so far. But now I am planning to install a second

[CentOS] Prevent network setup from changing the hostname

2015-04-26 Thread Robert Nichols
How can I block network setup (via NetworkManager) from changing the machine's hostname whenever the network configuration changes? The problem: When my graphical login session starts, the xauth database gets an token that is labeled with the hostname at that time. If there is not yet a network

Re: [CentOS] Prevent network setup from changing the hostname

2015-04-26 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/26/2015 06:31 PM, Peter Larsen wrote: On 04/26/2015 07:26 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: How can I block network setup (via NetworkManager) from changing the machine's hostname whenever the network configuration changes? Make it a system connection instead of a user connection. Or give

Re: [CentOS] Prevent network setup from changing the hostname

2015-04-26 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/26/2015 07:37 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 19:25:27 -0500 Robert Nichols wrote: Do you know of a place I can set a static name that NetworkManager won't override? What about this: hostnamectl set-hostname whateveryouwant # which hostnamectl /usr/bin/which: no hostnamectl

Re: [CentOS] Prevent network setup from changing the hostname

2015-04-26 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/26/2015 07:57 PM, Peter Larsen wrote: On 04/26/2015 08:25 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 04/26/2015 06:31 PM, Peter Larsen wrote: On 04/26/2015 07:26 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: How can I block network setup (via NetworkManager) from changing the machine's hostname whenever the network

Re: [CentOS] rsync backup to fileserver - mystery

2015-05-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/01/2015 12:10 PM, Frank Cox wrote: I have an Intel SS4000E fileserver that I've been using for several years to backup my home directory to. I have a daily cron job that runs the following command: rsync -av --delete /home/frankcox/ /mnt/fileserver/backup I have a directory named

Re: [CentOS] Prevent network setup from changing the hostname

2015-04-28 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/26/2015 08:28 PM, Peter Larsen wrote: Strange - you may have a dhcp server that accepts host names from the clients - which of course would fit your use case. Just realize that not all dhcp servers are setup to be that lenient when it comes to preserving the host name picked by a client.

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/07/2015 05:04 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: I wonder why nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. It combines browsable directories with multiple versions - the version data is stored in a separate rdiff-backup-data subdirectory (one per backup task). I use rdiff-backup, but I hesitate to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 and qemu-kvm

2015-05-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/09/2015 08:26 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: Still trying to migrate to CentOS 7. I used to use qemu-kvm on centos 6. tried to compile on centos 7 and get error about undefined reference to timer_gettime searching for that says basically use virt-manager so I installed virt-manager - I have file

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/09/2015 06:50 AM, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: While only vaguely related to this topic, does anyone else find that CentOS6 desktop stability is lacking? Or did we just never notice because no monitoring was in place pre-C6? I'm refering to abrtd which is sending out a

Re: [CentOS] Resize KVM NTFS file system

2015-06-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/06/2015 06:19 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: I resized a partition inside a KVM RAW file system disk image. When I start the Win7 virtual machine it does not report the new partition size. It shows the file system as 15GB instead of the 50GB size of the partition that it lives on. I gather

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge vs epel

2015-06-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/09/2015 03:42 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: What do you need in rpmforge that isn't available from base, rpmfusion, or epel? Do you happen to know of somewhere other than rpmforge where I can find hexedit and gqview for el6 ? Epel has them for el5, but not el6. Fortunately, installing

Re: [CentOS] C7: EPEL conflicts with Base and ElRepo?

2015-06-19 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/19/2015 05:36 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:13:25 -0700 Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: One thing people should be aware is that EPEL is built for RHEL and that the package list is not the same between RHEL and CentOS. For example, CentOS adds cloud-related ones to

Re: [CentOS] Two partitions with samd UUID??

2015-06-16 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/16/2015 06:43 AM, James Hogarth wrote: On 16 Jun 2015 12:12, Always Learning cen...@u64.u22.net wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 11:30 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Always Learning wrote: ON Centos 5, using GPARTED I created partitions for filing systems ext3 and

Re: [CentOS] Two partitions with samd UUID??

2015-06-16 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/16/2015 09:00 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: LUKS physical volume UUIDs, actually. When you create a LUKS logical volume within that PV, it also has a UUID, and a filesystem within that LUKS LV will have its own UUID. These are all part of the partition's _content_. A GPT partition has its own

Re: [CentOS] Two partitions with samd UUID??

2015-06-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/14/2015 10:08 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 06/14/2015 08:58 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 6/14/2015 6:55 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Maybe I used dd at some point. Would this keep the same UUID? DD just does a blind block by block copy between two devices or files. I thought that uuid had

Re: [CentOS] Two partitions with samd UUID??

2015-06-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/15/2015 11:08 AM, jd1008 wrote: Thanx for the update but what about non-gpt and non lvm partitions? What is used as inp nut to create a universally unique id? Non-GPT partitions do not have a UUID. The _content_ (filesystem, LVM physical volume, non-encrypted swap space, etc.) of such a

Re: [CentOS] OT - parted guidance

2015-08-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/31/2015 09:19 AM, Ken Smith wrote: parted says that the offending partition 5 begins at 512 byte sector no. 462999615. Its the first partition in the extended partition that begins at 462999552. If I just want to move the partition back to the nearest 4096 boundary, which is 462999608,

Re: [CentOS] OT - parted guidance

2015-08-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/01/2015 12:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: parted fs resize is deprecated. http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6837 parted fs move can only move a partition into free space https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/move.html The thing to do here is use gparted live or

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and mailman and dmarc

2015-08-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/01/2015 02:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: so...I've got some mailman lists running on centos 6. apparently c6 has mailman 2.1.12, which is far too old to have the dmarc patches (introduced in 2.1.16 and updated in 2.1.??, so of course, I'm having ongoing issues with yahoo/sbc/att/aol/etc

[CentOS] No firefox 38.1.1 update

2015-08-09 Thread Robert Nichols
I'm still not getting the firefox-38.1.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm that was announced yesterday (8 August) morning. I looked at several of the mirror sites I receive, and they all have the new firefox in their Packages directory, but their repodata is all a day older (7 August), so yum doesn't see

Re: [CentOS] No firefox 38.1.1 update

2015-08-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/09/2015 10:21 AM, Peter Q. wrote: On Aug 9, 2015 8:43 AM, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: I'm still not getting the firefox-38.1.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm that was announced yesterday (8 August) morning. I looked at several of the mirror sites I receive, and they all

Re: [CentOS] No firefox 38.1.1 update

2015-08-10 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/10/2015 07:55 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 08/09/2015 10:42 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/09/2015 10:21 AM, Peter Q. wrote: On Aug 9, 2015 8:43 AM, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: I'm still not getting the firefox-38.1.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm that was announced

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown hangs on Unmounting NFS filesystems

2015-08-30 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/30/2015 04:20 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Once the system gets into this state, the only remedy is a forced power-off. What seems to be happening is that an NFS filesystem that auto-mounted over a WiFi connection cannot be unmounted because the WiFi connection is enabled only for my login

[CentOS] Shutdown hangs on Unmounting NFS filesystems

2015-08-30 Thread Robert Nichols
Once the system gets into this state, the only remedy is a forced power-off. What seems to be happening is that an NFS filesystem that auto-mounted over a WiFi connection cannot be unmounted because the WiFi connection is enabled only for my login and gets torn down when my UID is logged off.

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown hangs on Unmounting NFS filesystems

2015-08-30 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/30/2015 04:45 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 8/30/2015 2:20 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Once the system gets into this state, the only remedy is a forced power-off. What seems to be happening is that an NFS filesystem that auto-mounted over a WiFi connection cannot be unmounted because

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown hangs on "Unmounting NFS filesystems"

2015-08-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/30/2015 04:32 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 16:20:21 -0500 Robert Nichols wrote: Once the system gets into this state, the only remedy is a forced power-off. What seems to be happening is that an NFS filesystem that auto-mounted over a WiFi connection cannot be unmounted

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown hangs on "Unmounting NFS filesystems"

2015-08-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/31/2015 10:32 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/30/2015 04:32 PM, Frank Cox wrote: Perhaps you could unmount that share when you log off by putting a umount command into the appropriate file. The definition of "appropriate file" varies depending on what DE you're using

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown hangs on "Unmounting NFS filesystems"

2015-08-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/31/2015 05:22 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 08/31/2015 02:15 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/30/2015 04:45 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 8/30/2015 2:20 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Once the system gets into this state, the only remedy is a forced power-off. What seems to be happening

Re: [CentOS] Starting emacs gives "shmget failed: error 28" message

2015-09-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/03/2015 04:00 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: On 09/03/2015 03:04 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: In CentOS 6.7, if I start emacs from a terminal session, I always see a message, "(emacs:{PID}): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device)" The message is a

[CentOS] Starting emacs gives "shmget failed: error 28" message

2015-09-02 Thread Robert Nichols
In CentOS 6.7, if I start emacs from a terminal session, I always see a message, "(emacs:{PID}): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device)" The message is also logged to .xsession-errors, and that occurs regardless of how emacs is started. The same thing occurs with

Re: [CentOS] Starting emacs gives "shmget failed: error 28" message

2015-09-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/03/2015 01:56 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/03/2015 04:00 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: just a shot in the dark, but what do you have in /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni ? According to man shmget: ENOSPC All possible shared memory IDs have been taken (SHMMNI

Re: [CentOS] Utility to zero unused blocks on disk

2016-02-08 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/08/2016 07:04 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Greg Bailey said: Wes didn't say the reason he wanted to zero unused blocks, but I always do this in kickstart scripts when constructing VM images as the image size is considerably reduced by doing this... For

Re: [CentOS] heads up: /boot space on kernel upgrade

2016-02-13 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/13/2016 05:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Devin Reade wrote: I have a CentOS 6 machine that was initially installed as CentOS 6.4 in May of 2013. It's /boot filesystem is 200M which, IIRC, was the default /boot size at the time. As a matter of interest, is there any advantage today in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, man

2016-01-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/27/2016 10:31 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: This is... odd. From my workstation, where I'm directly logged in, if I ssh to any CentOS 7 box, as myself, and try to run man, it fails. Example 1: man dd man: cannot write to /var/cache/man/cat1/dd.1.gz in catman mode dd. Example 2: man dd

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/24/2016 10:45 AM, Peter Duffy wrote: It would be very interesting to know how many other users are still on CentOS/Red Hat 6 as a result of reluctance to enjoy all the - erm - improvements in 7. That's were I am, CentOS 6.7 with a 3.18 LTS kernel from the Xen4CentOS repo on machines with

Re: [CentOS] mount bind problem

2016-04-12 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/12/2016 05:37 AM, Sylvain CANOINE wrote: - Mail original - De: "望月忠雄" À: "centos" Envoyé: Mardi 12 Avril 2016 08:17:13 Objet: [CentOS] mount bind problem I have set on fstab /home with 'mount bind' but it seems like bind is not

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, rsync problem

2016-03-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/31/2016 09:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Oddity: rsync *should* be recursing, and dealing with very large number of files. It works, going from box a to box b. But when I try to back b up to c, it fails, 100%, complaining of "out of hashtable space [sender]". I've tried adding -r, and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, rsync problem

2016-03-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/31/2016 12:23 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/31/2016 09:24 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: The only thing I know of that's likely to cause rsync to run out of memory is when there are a huge number of hard links and you are using the "-H" option to preserve them. If you're using

Re: [CentOS] SSD disk and SMART errors

2016-04-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/01/2016 06:55 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote: Two days ago I installed a brand new SSDNow E50 series (Enterprise) disk on a server. I intend to move the OS there. I just did the physical install and copied a few files to and from it just to see if it was OK. I left it there, waiting for an

Re: [CentOS] mount bind problem

2016-04-13 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/13/2016 12:02 AM, 望月忠雄 wrote: In /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, there's "mount -a -n -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,ncpfs,cifs,gfs,gfs2i,glusterfs -O no_netdev". I have other same type servers. And on other servers with same /etc/fstsb, file system is correct. There's no difference between normal server's

Re: [CentOS] [OT] disk utility showing message "the partition is misaligned by"

2016-04-22 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/22/2016 09:43 AM, g wrote: ]$ sudo blockdev --getalignoff /dev/sdc1 0 ]$ sudo blockdev --getalignoff /dev/sdc2 0 ]$ sudo blockdev --getalignoff /dev/sdc5 2560 ]$ sudo blockdev --report /dev/sdc1 RORA SSZ BSZ StartSecSize Device rw 256 512 4096 2048

Re: [CentOS] [OT] disk utility showing message "the partition is misaligned by"

2016-04-23 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/22/2016 10:18 PM, g wrote: after reading replies, i feel easiest way to get a good partition layout was a complete repartitioning and formatting. easiest way to do that is start with a new drive. during install, i will do partitioning and formatting. that is i am presuming that

Re: [CentOS] Verifing: CentOS 5 cannot resize a *live* root filesystem

2016-05-17 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/17/2016 02:30 PM, Robert Heller wrote: Just want to verify: CentOS 5's FS utilities are too old to safely resize a *live* (mounted, etc.) root file system (and the CentOS 5 installer/rescue system does not include either resize2fs or fsadm utilities). I don't know of _any_ filesystem

Re: [CentOS] Suddenly increased my hard disk

2016-04-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/18/2016 03:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 04/18/2016 01:18 PM, g wrote: 'lsof', aka, list open files, will list every open file on system, and there are a lot. 'grep deleted' will list_only_ the deleted files that are still open. That's exactly the same thing that "ls -l /proc/*/fd/*

Re: [CentOS] mount bind problem

2016-04-14 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/13/2016 08:44 PM, 望月忠雄 wrote: # mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root on / type ext4 (rw,usrquota,grpquota) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/vda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)

Re: [CentOS] mount bind problem

2016-04-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/15/2016 01:05 AM, 望月忠雄 wrote: Dear Robert, Before sending 'grep -r /home /etc' data, I want tell you what happned this morning. In order to solve the /home/home problem, 'umount /home' had been done, system had been running in a normal file system. But suddenly /home has been lost. Key

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/06/2016 02:15 PM, Wes James wrote: I found this: # lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/myvg/testlv doing a search. What's the difference between 100%VG and 100%FREE? For the special case of "100%" there is no difference. For values less than 100% with a non-empty VG, the two are quite

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/06/2016 01:42 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/6/2016 11:39 AM, Wes James wrote: file -s /dev/dm-0 and it says XFS So would I use xfs_growfs? bingo!xfs_growfs can be used with the file system online, I'm pretty sure resize2fs requires the file system to be offline (unmounted).

Re: [CentOS] question about directory size in linux..

2017-02-22 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/22/2017 12:45 PM, Jason Welsh wrote: So its normal behavior.. thanks! Jason On 02/22/2017 01:40 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 02/22/2017 06:34 AM, Jason Welsh wrote: How does the directory *itself* have a size of 2.8 megs? If you write a large number of directory entries in a

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

2017-02-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/15/2017 07:41 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 02/15/2017 07:34 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: Too much temptation to resist, I don't know which one of us is older but I have a feeling it's a "horse race". Like you, I still have a land line, WiFi is too slow and "WiFi security" seems to be an

Re: [CentOS] HP CP2025

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 08:09 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep hplip hplip-common-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 hplip-libs-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep cups cups-1.4.2-74.el6.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.0.4-13.el6.x86_64 gutenprint-cups-5.2.5-2.el6.x86_64

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 12:23 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. I was experimenting

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 04:51 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 25/09/16 20:56, Robert Nichols wrote: What I do is have a separate logical volume for /var/lib/libvirt, with /var/lib/libvirt/etc bind-mounted to /etc/libvirt. It keeps all the libvirt stuff together, since the backup requirements

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. I was experimenting with virtualization and it causes the root partition to get very low. I would like to move /var from

Re: [CentOS] Centos OS Crash Recovery, Inquiry.

2016-11-02 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/02/2016 08:46 PM, Christopher G. Halnin wrote: As I have mentioned in my previous email, is there a way to recover or bring back to life a crashed Centos OS after doing a Hard Driver repartition or resizing? Possibly. It depends on how the disk was previously arranged, what filesystems

Re: [CentOS] Ghostscript update?

2017-01-10 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/10/2017 11:28 AM, Frank Cox wrote: Has the issue with the last ghostscript update been resolved? I temporarily added ghostcript to the excludes line in my yum.conf to prevent problems and haven't seen any more mention of it here. Nothing yet. You can add yourself to the CC list at

Re: [CentOS] ghostscript update breaks evince

2017-01-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/04/2017 04:49 PM, David C. Miller wrote: - Original Message - From: "Robert Nichols" <rnicholsnos...@comcast.net> To: centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 12:21:48 PM Subject: [CentOS] ghostscript update breaks evince Today's ghostscript.x86_64 0

[CentOS] ghostscript update breaks evince

2017-01-04 Thread Robert Nichols
Today's ghostscript.x86_64 0:8.70-21.el6_8.1 update causes evince to refuse to display any postscript file. Running evince from a terminal session, I see the errors: invalidaccess -7 invalidaccess -7 invalidaccess -7 ** (evince:1252): WARNING **: Error rendering thumbnail Downgrading to

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Mysql 5.0.95

2017-03-19 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/19/2017 07:32 AM, Mark Weaver wrote: I'm getting things ready to upgrade my aging installation of MySQL 5.0.95 on my CentOS 5 LAMP server. With the impending EOL date of 3.31 fast approaching my sense of doom and urgency is increasing. Packages don't disappear after 3/31. They just get

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

2017-08-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/10/2017 11:06 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 6:48 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/09/2017 10:46 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: If it's a bad sector problem, you'd write to sector 17066160 and see if the drive complies or spits back a write error. It

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

2017-08-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/11/2017 02:32 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/11/2017 12:16 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 7:53 AM, Robert Nichols <rnicholsnos...@comcast.net> wrote: On 08/10/2017 11:06 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 6:48 AM Robert Moskow

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

2017-08-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/11/2017 12:16 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 7:53 AM, Robert Nichols <rnicholsnos...@comcast.net> wrote: On 08/10/2017 11:06 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 6:48 AM Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com> wrote: On 08/09/2017 10:46 AM,

Re: [CentOS] logical volume is unreadable

2017-07-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/06/2017 10:47 AM, Volker wrote: On 06.07.2017 15:35, Robert Nichols wrote: That looks like a snapshot volume that became invalid because it was filled to capacity. Such a snapshot is lost forever. It si your responsibility to monitor snapshot usage to make sure it does not run out

Re: [CentOS] logical volume is unreadable

2017-07-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/06/2017 01:31 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 07/06/2017 10:47 AM, Volker wrote: On 06.07.2017 15:35, Robert Nichols wrote: That looks like a snapshot volume that became invalid because it was filled to capacity. Such a snapshot is lost forever. It si your responsibility to monitor snapshot

Re: [CentOS] logical volume is unreadable

2017-07-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/06/2017 04:43 AM, Volker wrote: Hi all, one of my lv has become completely unaccessible. Every read access results in a buffer io error: Buffer I/O error on dev dm-13, logical block 0, async page read this goes for every block in the lv. A ddrescue failed on every single block. $

Re: [CentOS] sha256sum a dvd

2017-04-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/24/2017 12:39 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 12:53:36PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: CentOS-6.9 I am trying to verify a locally created dvd. I am using sha256sum in this fashion: sha256sum /dev/sr0 Which gave this result: sha256sum: /dev/sr0: Input/output error

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

2017-10-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/11/2017 02:04 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: On 10/10/17 15:55, KM wrote: First off - let me say I am not an administrator.   I need to know if there is an easy way to increase my /boot partition.  When I installed CentOS 6 after running 5, it was my oversight not to increase the /boot size. 

Re: [CentOS] Flush memory on a server?

2017-09-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/09/2017 07:55 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 09/09/2017 à 14:41, Phil Perry a écrit : Why were you surprised? Linux systems use the available RAM, surely you understand that? I'm surprised because my system used the available RAM and then it even began to swap. Of course there is the

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/10/2017 09:53 AM, KM wrote: Thanks for all of the input, not really sure what if anything I will do.  i was hoping it would be easy and i could just create a /boot in root, and copy the actual boot contents to it and use it.   wishful thinking i guess.  just to give a complete picture

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-29 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/28/2017 11:04 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:> I was always unimpressed with> persistence of attempts to make more secure (less pickable) cylinder cased> locks (precision, multi-level, pins at a weird locations/angles). Whereas> there exists "disk based design" (should I say Abloy?), which with

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