Re: [CentOS] CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora Boltron

Matthew Miller wrote: Please take a look at http://www.itworld.com/article/3211046/linux/red-hats-boltron-snaps-together-a-modular-linux-server.html and https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-boltron/ which has a walkthrough questionnaire at the bottom. Your feedback very appreciated.

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Phil Perry wrote: However, I´m seeing the same bugs from years ago still unfixed in Centos. That refers to libreoffice being unusably slow. This still doesn´t seem to be fixed for Fedora, either, because it went EOL --- but I don´t know. Agree on that. My previous 10 year old el5 install ran

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 10:11:53PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote: The issue I have here is even if I did file a bug, and the issue were fixed, no sooner than it's fixed fedora updates to the next version and introduces a whole bunch of new bugs, and so the cycle continues. I

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Johnny Hughes wrote: I personally have a Fedora machine that I keep updated and do some work on all the time learning/testing. I just seamlessly upgraded it from Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 using a couple of dnf commands .. awesome experience actually. Don´t get me started on Fedora updates. One

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jul 28, 2017, at 1:56 PM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: Many bugs are fixed in Fedora. Many more bugs are fixed in the upstreams. Please remember that Fedora is primarily an *integration* project, and the best way to get bugs fixed is for the developers of th

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Mark Haney wrote: On 08/02/2017 08:27 AM, hw wrote: Jonathan Billings wrote: I’m confused, are you talking about Gentoo, Fedora, CentOS or RHEL? I´m talking about Centos here and am referring to experiences with other distributions at the same time. Like Gentoo is great but horrible

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Mark Haney wrote: On 08/02/2017 10:57 AM, hw wrote: It probably makes sense under the assumption that you do pretty much everything in one container or another and that it doesn´t bother you having to switch between all the containers to do something. That would require something like

Re: [CentOS] Btrfs going forward, was: Errors on an SSD drive

Warren Young wrote: [...] What do they suggest as a replacement? Stratis: https://stratis-storage.github.io/StratisSoftwareDesign.pdf Can I use that now? The main downside to Stratis I see is that it looks like 1.0 is scheduled to coincide with RHEL 8, based on the release dates of

Re: [CentOS] Btrfs going forward, was: Errors on an SSD drive

Chris Murphy wrote: Changing the subject since this is rather Btrfs specific now. On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 5:41 AM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Aug 9, 2017, 11:55 AM Mark Haney <mark.ha...@neonova.net> wrote: To be honest, I'd not try a btrfs volume o

Re: [CentOS] Btrfs going forward, was: Errors on an SSD drive

Mark Haney wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Changing the subject since this is rather Btrfs specific now. Sounds like a hardware problem. Btrfs is explicitly optimized for SSD, the maintainers worked for FusionIO for several years of

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/09/2017 01:48 PM, hw wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am building a new system using an Kingston 240GB SSD drive I pulled from my notebook (when I had to upgrade to a 500GB SSD drive). Centos install went fine and ran for a couple days then got errors

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am building a new system using an Kingston 240GB SSD drive I pulled from my notebook (when I had to upgrade to a 500GB SSD drive). Centos install went fine and ran for a couple days then got errors on the console. Here is an example: [168176.995064] sd 0:0:0:0:

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

tm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail_term=icon Virus-free. www.avast.com < https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail_term=link <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:48 PM,

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

t.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:48 PM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am building a new system using an Kingston 240GB SSD drive I pulle

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 06:13:42PM +0200, hw wrote: What?s the point of doing this with Fedora? It?s not like bugs were fixed before Fedora is EOL and all reports are forgotten. Many bugs are fixed in Fedora. Many more bugs are fixed in the upstreams. Please remember

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 07:56:41PM +0200, hw wrote: Sure is: You get to manage your distribution yourself by picking the versions of packages you figure might work together, which you are supposed and required to do with Gentoo, especially when you run into yet another

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

that, but it didn´t have containers. Why hasn´t a container manager like that already been invented? Or has it? Wouldn´t it be much better being able to do this without needing containers? Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 03:40:42PM +0200, hw wrote: No, this isn't it it all. Modules

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Warren Young wrote: On Jul 28, 2017, at 11:56 AM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 06:13:42PM +0200, hw wrote: What?s the point of doing this with Fedora? It?s not like bugs were fixed before Fedora is EOL and all reports are forgotten. Man

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jul 28, 2017, at 1:56 PM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: Are you sure that all the added complexity and implicitly giving up a stable platform by providing a mess of package versions is worth it? How are the plans about dealing with bug reports, say, for squ

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Mark Haney wrote: On 08/02/2017 07:36 AM, hw wrote: Don´t get me started on Fedora updates. One of the reasons to deprecate Fedora was that upgrading had turned out to be unreliable and mostly failing. Not being able to reliably upgrade disqualifies any distribution. I hate to break

Re: [CentOS] Fedora bugs and EOL [was Re: CentOS users: please try and provide feedback on Fedora] Boltron

Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 02:04:54PM +0200, hw wrote: Just wait and see how he will like the feedback he?s getting here ... Trolling aside (fascist? really?), I've gotten valuable feedback from several people which I really appreciate. I intend to continue to engage

Re: [CentOS] Light-weight window manager, recommendations

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: So, I've mentioned that I've got an original netbook, circa 2009, and I'm going to put CentOS on it. 32 bit. Not huge disk, old Atom processor, not tons of memory. Any recommendations for a light-weight window manager? Before I went to KDE, I used fvwm2, and all I'm

[CentOS] more recent perl version?

Hi, are there packages replacing the ancient perl version in Centos 7 with a more recent one, like 5.24? At least the state feature is required. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Paul Heinlein schrieb: On Tue, 23 May 2017, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: hw wrote: are there packages replacing the ancient perl version in Centos 7 with a more recent one, like 5.24? At least the state feature is required. Perl 5.24 is available in SCL, in the centos-sclo-rh repository

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Pete Biggs schrieb: Thanks, I tried rh-perl, and it worked for a test. It does not replace the existing perl installation. You have to explicitly use that version. Yes, that's how SCL works. A lot of system software uses perl (and python and gcc) so replacing the installed version

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Warren Young schrieb: On May 23, 2017, at 10:44 AM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: are there packages replacing the ancient perl version in Centos 7 with a more recent one, like 5.24? Since when is Perl 5.16 “ancient?” It’s only 4 years old. CentOS 5 just left supported status, which s

[CentOS] network setup: meaning of PEERROUTES option

Hi, what´s the meaning of the PEERROUTES option in the networking scripts? I couldn´t find that documented anywhere. I managed to set up a bonding interface and when sending pings, I´m getting redirection messages from the gateway unless I manually add a route to the network. So I guess

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Pete Biggs schrieb: If this sort of stance seems risible to you, you probably shouldn’t be using CentOS. This is what distinguishes a “stable” type of OS from a “bleeding edge” one. When a version of a software has been released 20 years ago, that doesn´t mean it´s more stable than a

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Warren Young schrieb: On May 24, 2017, at 6:02 AM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: Warren Young schrieb: CentOS 5 just left supported status, which shipped Perl 5.8.8 from first release to last Living in the past seldwhen is a good idea. I don’t propose to teach you about my pr

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Warren Young schrieb: On May 24, 2017, at 7:05 AM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: apache uses mod_perl mod_perl was dropped from Apache in 2.4, and Red Hat followed suit with RHEL 7. What is it using instead? The rh-httpd24 does not seem to use a more recent version o

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Nikolaos Milas wrote: On 2/6/2017 2:05 μμ, hw wrote: That´s a good thing, though it can be difficult to run systems using ancient software. You may want to check the following paradigm (from another open source perl-based application) to create a Perl environment within your system

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Warren Young wrote: On May 24, 2017, at 1:58 PM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: It seems that lighttpd uses the perl version that is assigned in the configuration This is one of the advantages of Plack vs mod_perl, by the way: decoupling the Perl version from the web server version.

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Warren Young wrote: On May 24, 2017, at 9:38 AM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: Warren Young schrieb: On May 24, 2017, at 7:05 AM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: apache uses mod_perl mod_perl was dropped from Apache in 2.4, and Red Hat followed suit with RHEL 7. What is it u

[CentOS] kvm/qemu and CPU load

Hi, I have a server using its 4 physical network interfaces bonded, with the bonding interface added to a bridge. The bridge has the IP, and three VMs are using the bridge. Two of the VMs are running Debian, one is running Windoze 7. CPU load caused by the qemu-kvm processes is way higher

[CentOS] should NUMA be enabled?

Hi, should NUMA be enabled in the BIOS of a server that has two sockets but only a single CPU in one of the sockets? From what I´ve been reading, it is unclear to me if NUMA should be enabled only on systems with multiple CPUs in multiple sockets or if multiple cores of a single CPU in a

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Warren Young wrote: On Jun 2, 2017, at 5:05 AM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: Warren Young wrote: There are various options. We use mod_fcgid + Plack here. I need to look into that when I have time. I wonder if it wouldn’t have been faster to just backport the app to Perl 5.16? Ho

Re: [CentOS] kvm/qemu and CPU load

Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/02/2017 04:32 AM, hw wrote: What may cause the high CPU load? Offhand, it's hard to say. I don't see similar behavior. Can you post the libvirt XML definitions for those VMs somewhere? pastebin maybe? What's the output of "rpm -qa qemu\*"? qemu

[CentOS] how to enforce sunit and swidth for root device/partition when installing?

Hi, how can I force the Centos 7 installer to use the particular sunit and swidth values that are matching the hardware raid device I´m installing on? The installer forces me to reformat the partition I want to install on :( It does not let me specify any options about creating the file

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Johnny Hughes schrieb: On 05/23/2017 11:44 AM, hw wrote: Hi, are there packages replacing the ancient perl version in Centos 7 with a more recent one, like 5.24? At least the state feature is required. As a side note, here is why RHEL (and therefore CentOS, since we rebuild RHEL source

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

Paul Heinlein schrieb: On Wed, 24 May 2017, hw wrote: Paul Heinlein schrieb: On Tue, 23 May 2017, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > hw wrote: > > > > are there packages replacing the ancient perl version in > > Centos 7 with a more recent one, like 5.24? At least t

[CentOS] selinux prevents lighttpd from printing

Hi, how do I allow CGI programs to print (using 'lpr -P some-printer some-file.pdf') when lighttpd is being used for a web server? When selinux is permissive, the printer prints; when it´s enforcing, the printer does not print, and I´m getting the log message '/bin/lpr: Permission denied'.

Re: [CentOS] stripe size for SSDs? ( cyrus spool on btrfs?)

Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 13 September 2017 at 09:25, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: John R Pierce wrote: On 9/9/2017 9:47 AM, hw wrote: Isn´t it easier for SSDs to write small chunks of data at a time? The small chunk might fit into some free space more easily than a large one which

Re: [CentOS] https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/

Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 13 September 2017 at 11:42, Johnny Hughes <joh...@centos.org> wrote: On 09/13/2017 10:28 AM, hw wrote: Hi, https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ says that pst-barcode is included in texlive. I installed texlive, and it can´

Re: [CentOS] stripe size for SSDs? ( cyrus spool on btrfs?)

Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 13 September 2017 at 12:00, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: It will depend on the type of SSD. Ones with large cache and various smarts (SAS Enterprise type) can take many different sizes. For SATA ones it depends on what the cache and write of the SSD is and ve

[CentOS] lighttpd and cgi error reporting

Hi, is there a way to get error messages created by CGI perl programs (not fastCGI) logged with lighttpd? Apache used to put all errors into its error log and lighttpd does not. That makes debugging rather difficult. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] lighttpd and cgi error reporting

hw wrote: Hi, is there a way to get error messages created by CGI perl programs (not fastCGI) logged with lighttpd? Apache used to put all errors into its error log and lighttpd does not. That makes debugging rather difficult. For the record: https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd

[CentOS] waitstates

Hi, are there other things than disk I/O that may cause waitstates (as shown by top, for example)? What about network traffic? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] selinux prevents lighttpd from printing

as denied -- which I already found out --- and I don´t have any idea how to allow it. hw wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: On 09/20/2017 07:19 AM, hw wrote: hw wrote: Hi, how do I allow CGI programs to print (using 'lpr -P some-printer some-file.pdf') when lighttpd is being used for a web s

Re: [CentOS] selinux prevents lighttpd from printing

Johnny Hughes wrote: On 09/20/2017 07:19 AM, hw wrote: hw wrote: Hi, how do I allow CGI programs to print (using 'lpr -P some-printer some-file.pdf') when lighttpd is being used for a web server? When selinux is permissive, the printer prints; when it´s enforcing, the printer does not print

[CentOS] more selinux problems ...

Hi, how do I allow lighttpd access to a directory like this: dr-xrwxr-x. lighttpd example unconfined_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0 files_articles I tried to create and install a selinux module, and it didn´t work. The non-working module can not be removed, either: semodule -r

Re: [CentOS] Notice: Check your tuned settings for a performance boost.

Jim Perrin wrote: Last week we noticed that the default scheduler isn't being set properly in CentOS 7. I haven't checked this for CentOS 6, but it might be worth exploring. The TL;DR is unless you're running CentOS 7 on a laptop or as a virtual guest, you should probably run 'tuned-adm profile

[CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

Hi, xfs is supposed to detect the layout of a md-RAID devices when creating the file system, but it doesn´t seem to do that: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md10 : active raid1 sde[1] sdd[0] 499976512 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 0/4 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk

Re: [CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend. Everything went well except that I can't login because the screen is black with a cursor. If reboot boot the 7.3 kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 kernel everything works just fine, so my guess is that there's a kernel

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, hw <h...@gc-24.de> said: xfs is supposed to detect the layout of a md-RAID devices when creating the file system, but it doesn´t seem to do that: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md10 : active raid1 sde[1] sdd[0] 499976512 blocks sup

[CentOS] /var/run/... being deleted :((

Hi, what keeps deleting files and directories under /var/run? Having them deleted is extremely annoying because after a reboot, things are suddenly broken because services don´t start. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/

Hi, https://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ says that pst-barcode is included in texlive. I installed texlive, and it can´t find pst-barcode.sty. Is that a bug in the packaging Centos does, or is texlive in Centos some derelict version?

Re: [CentOS] selinux prevents lighttpd from printing

Daniel Walsh wrote: On 09/22/2017 06:58 AM, hw wrote: PS: Now I found this: type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(09/22/2017 12:08:29.911:1023) : proctitle=/usr/lib/sendmail -t -oi -oem -fwawi-genimp type=SYSCALL msg=audit(09/22/2017 12:08:29.911:1023) : arch=x86_64 syscall=setgroups success=no exit

Re: [CentOS] selinux prevents lighttpd from printing

hw wrote: Hi, how do I allow CGI programs to print (using 'lpr -P some-printer some-file.pdf') when lighttpd is being used for a web server? When selinux is permissive, the printer prints; when it´s enforcing, the printer does not print, and I´m getting the log message '/bin/lpr: Permission

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 20 September 2017 at 10:47, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: Hi, xfs is supposed to detect the layout of a md-RAID devices when creating the file system, but it doesn´t seem to do that: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md10 : active raid1 sde[1]

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

Mark Haney <mark.ha...@neonova.net> writes: > On 10/03/2017 01:12 PM, hw wrote: >> >>> See >>> >>> https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/20/managing-temporary-files-with-systemd-tmpfiles-on-rhel7/ >>> >>> how to manage tm

Re: [CentOS] Voice/Fax Modem advice

m...@tdiehl.org wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, hw wrote: m...@tdiehl.org wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, hw wrote: A SPA122 ATA from Cisco might be useful as a gateway, they are cheap. You?d be using it kinda in reverse, but I don?t see why that shouldn?t be possible. Other than that, specialized

Re: [CentOS] Voice/Fax Modem advice

Jose Maria Terry Jimenez wrote: El 4/10/17 a las 17:45, david escribió: Folks A have a PCIe modem (Conexant ChipSet, PCI id = 14f1:2f83. It interfaces to my land-line (POTS) telephone line in the United States. On Windows, I had a good answering machine package (Ventafax) that reported

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

Anand Buddhdev <ana...@ripe.net> writes: > On 05/10/2017 11:32, hw wrote: > >>> That directory isn't temporary. The files almost always are, but not >>> the directories. As I said, whatever it is you're doing, it's wrong. >>> I wouldn't continue to keep

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> writes: > On Oct 3, 2017, at 13:12, hw <h...@adminart.net> wrote: >> >> I´m using the packages from mariadb.org. The old version that comes in >> Centos isn´t recommended, and I need features only the newer versions >&g

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

Mark Haney writes: > It's quite obvious you aren't using Centos packages. Again: lighttpd is from epel. See [1]: "EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions."

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

Mark Haney writes: > On 10/04/2017 08:46 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> On Wednesday 04 October 2017 13:39:30 Mark Haney wrote: >>> I'll end this by saying, I hope the production servers you have don't >>> provide critical services that could jeopardize the lives of people.

Re: [CentOS] Weird bandwith behaviour (download throughput) on CentOS based gateway

Jobst Schmalenbach writes: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 02:57:18PM +1300, Clint Dilks > (cli...@scms.waikato.ac.nz) wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach >> wrote: >> [snip] >> Hi, >> >> Are you sure that your issue isn't

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

Harold Toms <h.t...@qmul.ac.uk> writes: > On 01/10/17 16:21, hw wrote: >> Hi, >> >> how can I prevent files/directories like /var/run/mariadb from being >> deleted on reboot? Lighttpd has the same problem. >> >> This breaks services and

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

Gordon Messmer writes: > On 10/04/2017 04:54 AM, Mark Haney wrote: >> Why is it so hard for people to understand that var/run IS NOT >> PERSISTENT and was never meant to be?  Do they not teach basic Unix >> concepts anymore? > > >

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

Mark Haney writes: > On 10/04/2017 08:22 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> On Wednesday 04 October 2017 12:54:44 Mark Haney wrote: >>> Sorry, but if you have to use packages that don't originate from CentOS >>> and they do that, then I wouldn't use them. Period.  I'd compile

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

Gary Stainburn writes: > On Tuesday 03 October 2017 18:24:01 Mark Haney wrote: >> What issue? That the PID is dropped on reboot?  What else are you >> putting in there?  I'm beginning to question whether you know what >> you're doing or not.  Lighttpd doesn't store any

Re: [CentOS] Intel turbo mode

Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> writes: > On 3 October 2017 at 13:01, hw <h...@adminart.net> wrote: >> Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On 1 October 2017 at 11:34, hw <h...@adminart.net> wrote: >>>> Hi,

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

Mark Haney writes: > On 10/04/2017 04:23 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> >> Mark, Many Non-Centos originated packages create directories in /var/run as >> part of the install, and expect them to still exist after a reboot. >> >> They then fail when starting the service

Re: [CentOS] Voice/Fax Modem advice

m...@tdiehl.org wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, hw wrote: Jose Maria Terry Jimenez wrote: El 4/10/17 a las 17:45, david escribi?: Folks A have a PCIe modem (Conexant ChipSet, PCI id = 14f1:2f83. It interfaces to my land-line (POTS) telephone line in the United States. On Windows, I had

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

Matty wrote: I think it depends on who you ask. Facebook and Netflix are using it extensively in production: https://www.linux.com/news/learn/intro-to-linux/how-facebook-uses-linux-and-btrfs-interview-chris-mason Though they have the in-house kernel engineering resources to troubleshoot

Re: [CentOS] login case sensitivity

Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 07.09.2017 um 20:07 schrieb hw: Gordon Messmer wrote: On 09/07/2017 08:11 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: This was always problematic because DNS hostnames and email addresses in the RFC standards were case insensitive Not quite. SMTP is required to treat

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

have any advantage in this case. On 09/08/2017 08:07 AM, hw wrote: PS: What kind of storage solutions do people use for cyrus mail spools? Apparently you can not use remote storage, at least not NFS. That even makes it difficult to use a VM due to limitations of available disk space. I´m

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

Mark Haney wrote: On 09/07/2017 01:57 PM, hw wrote: Hi, is there anything that speaks against putting a cyrus mail spool onto a btrfs subvolume? I might be the lone voice on this, but I refuse to use btrfs for anything, much less a mail spool. I used it in production on DB and Web servers

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

alternative. hw wrote: Mark Haney wrote: On 09/07/2017 01:57 PM, hw wrote: Hi, is there anything that speaks against putting a cyrus mail spool onto a btrfs subvolume? I might be the lone voice on this, but I refuse to use btrfs for anything, much less a mail spool. I used it in production

Re: [CentOS] login case sensitivity

Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 7 September 2017 at 16:07, Alexander Dalloz <ad+li...@uni-x.org> wrote: Am 07.09.2017 um 20:07 schrieb hw: Gordon Messmer wrote: On 09/07/2017 08:11 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: This was always problematic because DNS hostnames and email add

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: hw wrote: Mark Haney wrote: BTRFS isn't going to impact I/O any more significantly than, say, XFS. But mdadm does, the impact is severe. I know there are ppl saying otherwise, but I´ve seen the impact myself, and I definitely don´t want it on that particular server

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

Mark Haney wrote: On 09/08/2017 09:49 AM, hw wrote: Mark Haney wrote: I hate top posting, but since you've got two items I want to comment on, I'll suck it up for now. I do, too, yet sometimes it´s reasonable. I also hate it when the lines are too long :) I'm afraid you'll have to live

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Mark Haney wrote: On 09/08/2017 09:49 AM, hw wrote: Mark Haney wrote: It depends, i. e. I can´t tell how these SSDs would behave if large amounts of data would be written and/or read to/from them over extended periods of time because I haven´t tested that. That isn

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Fri, September 8, 2017 9:48 am, hw wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: hw wrote: Mark Haney wrote: BTRFS isn't going to impact I/O any more significantly than, say, XFS. But mdadm does, the impact is severe. I know there are ppl saying otherwise, but I´ve seen

Re: [CentOS] spice client?

for me, it needs to be fixed. virt-viewer --connect qemu+ssh:///system Regards, Milos. Quoting hw <h...@gc-24.de>: Felipe Salvador wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 04:55:45PM +0200, hw wrote: Hi, how do I connect to a VM running on a removte machine with some sort of spice client? There

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

Johnny Hughes wrote: On 09/07/2017 12:57 PM, hw wrote: Hi, is there anything that speaks against putting a cyrus mail spool onto a btrfs subvolume? This is what Red Hat says about btrfs: The Btrfs file system has been in Technology Preview state since the initial release of Red Hat

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: hw wrote: Mark Haney wrote: On 09/08/2017 09:49 AM, hw wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Probably with the very expensive SSDs suited for this ... That´s because I do not store data on a single disk, without redundancy, and the SSDs I have are not suitable for hardware

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

John R Pierce wrote: And one may want to adjust stripe size to be resembling SSDs internals, as default is for hard drives, right? as the SSD physical data blocks have no visible relation to logical block numbers or CHS, its not practical to do this. I'd use a fairly large stripe size, like

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

Mark Haney wrote: On 09/08/2017 01:31 PM, hw wrote: Mark Haney wrote: I/O is not heavy in that sense, that´s why I said that´s not the application. There is I/O which, as tests have shown, benefits greatly from low latency, which is where the idea to use SSDs for the relevant data has arisen

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

Valeri Galtsev wrote: Thanks. That seems to clear fog a little bit. I still would like to hear manufacturers/models here. My choices would be: Areca or LSI (bought out by Intel, so former LSI chipset and microcode/firmware) and as SSD Samsung Evo SATA III. Does anyone who used these in hardware

Re: [CentOS] Flush memory on a server?

Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 09/09/2017 à 15:14, Robert Nichols a écrit : Every system that runs continuously for more that a few days will have some pages that were used once when some long-running process started and were never referenced again. Those pages will eventually migrate out to swap,

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

Gordon Messmer wrote: On 09/08/2017 11:06 AM, hw wrote: Make a test and replace a software RAID5 with a hardware RAID5. Even with only 4 disks, you will see an overall performance gain. I´m guessing that the SATA controllers they put onto the mainboards are not designed to handle all the data

Re: [CentOS] login case sensitivity

Kenneth Porter wrote: On 9/6/2017 3:45 AM, ken wrote: I think it would also be a disservice to users, for case-insensitive userids is not what they'll find on web sites and web services throughout the rest of the world, even on their own phones. I agree with you on other points, but beware

Re: [CentOS] login case sensitivity

Gordon Messmer wrote: On 09/07/2017 08:11 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: This was always problematic because DNS hostnames and email addresses in the RFC standards were case insensitive Not quite. SMTP is required to treat the "local-part" of the RCPT argument as case-sensitive, and to

[CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

Hi, is there anything that speaks against putting a cyrus mail spool onto a btrfs subvolume? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] stripe size for SSDs? ( cyrus spool on btrfs?)

John R Pierce wrote: On 9/9/2017 9:47 AM, hw wrote: Isn´t it easier for SSDs to write small chunks of data at a time? The small chunk might fit into some free space more easily than a large one which needs to be spread out all over the place. the SSD collects data blocks being written

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: hardware: NVidia proprietary driver, C7.4

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Hi, folks, Well, still more fun (for values of fun approaching zero): 1. Went to install CUDA 9.0... well, gee, there is *no* CUDA 9.0. Even though I installed the 9 repo, all that I get is 8. I've used their webform, and an waiting on a reply.

[CentOS] tuned profile and i/o scheduler

Hi, is there a way to set the I/O scheduler via a tuned profile? If so, can the scheduler be set for different disks individually? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: [HEADS UP] Default value of SELinux boolean httpd_graceful_shutdown will changed.]

m.r...@5-cent.us writes: > Original Message > Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Default value of SELinux boolean > httpd_graceful_shutdown will changed. > From:"Lukas Vrabec" > Date:Fri, September 29, 2017 10:26 > To:

Re: [CentOS] MP4/H.264 codec for Firefox?

Roman Kennke writes: > Hello, > > I am trying to get MP4/H.264 playback in Firefox to work on my CentOS > laptop (for vimeo). > > I installed the gstreamer plugins as described here: > > https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS7 > > (No, I did not install Flash,

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