Re: [CentOS] cluster ssh edit file with vi slow

2021-11-24 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Hi Ralf, That's not something I'd normally consider doing. Is it possible for you to edit just the local file and then use scp to distribute it? OK, you lose the cluster-wide mechanism but it woul be possible to set up a small script to bang off the copies in the background. Martin On Wed,

Re: [CentOS] Unexpected /etc/resolv.conf updates on CentOS 7

2021-10-13 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
If you just want to tell NM to clear off and leave your resolv.conf alone do the following: If you don't want it to touch the contents of the file then remove all DNSx= parameters from all ifcfg files and add PEERDNS=“no” instead. Now you are solely responsible for setting the content of

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS from 7 to 8

2021-09-29 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
It's not supported. RH has a method that sometimes works for RHEL, but there is no safe CentOS way to do a major upgrade. You need to reinstall the OS and migrate your applications. On 29/09/2021 14:24, Gestió Servidors wrote: Hi, I'm doing some tests of upgrading CentOS from 7 to 8

Re: [CentOS] external USB drives, strange result on reawaking

2021-09-18 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
I'm sorry but I've moved away from Amanda so can't help. However one thing that your description does imply is that you keep the drives in the enclosure next to the machine. Unless you have some other mechanism for taking a remote backup, this is a bad idea. consider the aftermath of a

[CentOS] Folio Infobase

2021-07-26 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Does anyone know any way to read .nfo files from Folio infobases. The best suggestion I've seen so far is to run up a VM with Windows 98 on it, does anyone know where I can get a copy of that! BTW, these are not the .nfo files used to describe scenes. -- J Martin Rushton MBCS

Re: [CentOS] Difference between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream

2021-07-19 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Judging from the dates on /etc/*release Alma dropped on May 26. Also been solid. On 19/07/2021 21:26, Antonio Leding wrote: FWIW, Rocky Linux dropped GA v8.4 on Jun 21st and has been really stable for me thus far.  For those not aware, Rocky is based on RHEL and has the primary goal to be a

Re: [CentOS] Auditing all Linux clients with centralised server

2021-07-09 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
A cut-and-paste from my Wiki: ---%< Remote logging Auditing, particularly from compute nodes, may be centralised to reduce the number of files needed to get a view of the cluster. Server The server machine must be configured to accept messages and

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-07-09 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 09/07/2021 07:13, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 08/07/2021 à 22:53, mario juliano grande-balletta a écrit : I'm an idealist, there is no way in hell I would ever accept anything from Amazon or Microsoft I started with Linux back in 2001, the year where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-07-07 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 07/07/2021 13:41, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: On 07.07.21 14:31, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: Fashion, and Oracle's past practices.  I evaluated Alma Linux Fedora Mint Open SuSE Oracle Linux Springdale Linux and settled on Alma.  Rocky was still

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-07-07 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Fashion, and Oracle's past practices. I evaluated Alma Linux Fedora Mint Open SuSE Oracle Linux Springdale Linux and settled on Alma. Rocky was still vapourware when Alma was stable. I've seen how Oracle promise no change in the long term, then change their charging

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-07-07 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
There's also Alma, which is where I've gone after being with CentOS since 5.3 On 07/07/2021 10:44, Nikolaos Milas wrote: On 30/4/2021 7:27 μ.μ., Gionatan Danti wrote: The correct answer is to buy RH: fine. But do not let Stream touch anything which require a kABI compatible modules. As

Re: [CentOS] non-functioning printer

2021-05-15 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 15/05/2021 14:27, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On May 15, 2021, at 5:22 AM, Robert Heller wrote: HP printers are bitchy about using non-HP branded ink carts (or tonor carts). HP is very interested in extracting their "pound of flesh" for all eternity. They are not the worst I’ve seen.

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-27 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Not just rumours. CentOS 8 dies at the end of this year. CentOS 7 has until the end of 2024. RH are introducing "CentOS Stream" which is what will be in RHEL in the next release. It has been unkindly referred to as beta software. The traditional rebuild of RHEL will continue under other

Re: [CentOS] almalinux?

2021-04-05 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
I installed the beta when it came out on a VM running under C7. I upgrade every day or two and Alma upgrades have so far been seamless. It's transited from beta to RC and now to stable. I installed the RC on a USB stick to allow me to run as bare metal on a laptop (which unfortunately has to

Re: [CentOS] Disk read io very high, but no process perform io read

2021-03-11 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
I haven't been following this thread closely, so may be off target. When pages are moved out of the working set they are either "clean" or "dirty". Clean pages have not been modified since they were originally moved into memory whereas dirty pages have been changed. A dirty page can become

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

2021-03-01 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Hi Simon, I'm sure you must have noticed, but just to be clear: your aging C7 system has more life in it than a C8 system. C8 dies this December, C7 is projected to 30/6/24. Martin On 01/03/2021 13:57, Simon Matter wrote: Hi all, I'm still trying to find solutions to replace some aging

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-25 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 25/02/2021 20:56, Simon Matter wrote: On 25/02/2021 18:18, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 25.02.21 um 15:12 schrieb J Martin Rushton via CentOS: On 25/02/2021 13:37, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I was recently looking at Raymond's book "The Art of UNIX Programming"

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-25 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 25/02/2021 18:18, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 25.02.21 um 15:12 schrieb J Martin Rushton via CentOS: On 25/02/2021 13:37, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I was recently looking at Raymond's book "The Art of UNIX Programming" from 2003.  He, along with contributor

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-25 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 25/02/2021 16:54, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 10:07, J Martin Rushton mailto:martinrushto...@btinternet.com>> wrote: On 25/02/2021 14:49, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 09:13, J Martin Rus

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-25 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 25/02/2021 14:49, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 09:13, J Martin Rushton via CentOS mailto:centos@centos.org>> wrote: On 25/02/2021 13:37, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I was recently looking at Raymond's book "The Art of UNIX Programming&quo

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-25 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 25/02/2021 13:37, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: They run into the same interdependency.. but because they have organically grown their distro every day, those dependencies grew 1 at a time. For EPEL and other EL repos you have to jump multiple Fedora releases to catch up. So in EL6 we were

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-11 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Sorry, I run gdm on Springdale 8 and Alma 8. I'm not doing much work on any RHEL 8 clone ATM, I prefer the longer support of C7! :-( Martin On 11/02/2021 10:26, Simon Matter wrote: Thanks Martin, so the "Xfce" group definition in EPEL is obviously broken. Looks like XFCE doesn't get much

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-11 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Hi Simon, I'm running XFCE under CentOS 8 as a VM under CentOS 7. I've just had a quick look and this is what I see (see attachment). You'll need to view it in a wide terminal. HTH, Martin On 11/02/2021 09:24, Simon Matter wrote: Hi, Is anyone here running XFCE desktop on CentOS 8? If

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Here's how to find the package for a particular file: # ls /{bin,sbin}/dns* /bin/dnsdomainname/sbin/dnssec-coverage /sbin/dnssec-keyfromlabel /sbin/dnssec-revoke/sbin/dnssec-verify /sbin/dnsmasq /sbin/dnssec-dsfromkey /sbin/dnssec-keygen /sbin/dnssec-settime

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 22/01/2021 12:25, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote: JMNSHO. eh? -- J Martin Rushton MBCS ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-21 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Hi Nick, There's always Springdale: https://puias.math.ias.edu/ On 21/01/2021 22:00, Antonio Leding wrote: Thanks Nick, I was just writing a post to solicit opinions on a good goto distro for CentOS replacement.  I am somewhat dubious on wanting to move to free-RHEL and based on what

[CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-20 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
See: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/ and https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel -- J Martin Rushton MBCS ___

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

2020-12-26 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 26/12/2020 18:56, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:25:50 -0600 Valeri Galtsev wrote: Then let's make a little contest out of it: what's the most stupid thing you've done as a system administrator ? Cleaning up some obsolete users on a system that accepts remote ssh logins and

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

2020-12-26 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 26/12/2020 12:36, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 26/12/2020 à 13:00, m...@jump.com.hk a écrit : Thank you for your email, our office will close from 1pm 24 Dec to 27 Dec and will resume on 28 Dec. Wish you a merry Christmas and happy new year. Am I the only one feeling a strong urge to

Re: [CentOS] Running script before reboot or shutdown

2020-12-22 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
This could be the same issue that people run into when designing cron jobs. You may only have a limited set of directories on you $PATH and other environment variables may be missing. If this is the case, ensure that you define the full path to utilies: MYPROG="/home/carlos/myprog"

Re: [CentOS] Moving to CentOS 8 Stream

2020-12-09 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
I thought I saw a reply from Johnny that streams wasn't quite ready, maybe he will chime in but that's what I thought I saw in a response. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Beta perhaps?

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

2020-12-09 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 09/12/2020 09:26, cen...@niob.at wrote: On 09/12/2020 07:16, Kingsly John wrote: A non-paying CentOS user is not a real loss for RHEL. But people dumping CentOS for a non-RHEL clone is definitely going to impact their future revenues as they are losing mindshare/goodwill/easy migration

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

2020-12-08 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
The first thing Oracle wants is for you to sign up for an Oracle account. Hmm, I'll give Springdale a try. For those with long memories, remember the DEC RDMS promises prior to take over, and the aftermath? On 08/12/2020 15:58, Julio E. Gonzalez wrote: I am already using Oracle Linux in

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

2020-12-08 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
To be fair, that was a commitment RH gave. They are now a department within Big Blue and must dance to their tune. Of course you could always try holding your breath and awaiting the sell off to Lenovo in about five years time. On 08/12/2020 16:25, Lange, Markus wrote: Hi, this is really

Re: [CentOS] ntpdate past CentOS 7

2020-12-02 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 02/12/2020 23:32, Brian Reichert wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 02:17:04PM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: So ntpdate is no longer present past CentOS 7. What's wrong with the 'ntpdate' RPM? https://centos.pkgs.org/7/centos-x86_64/ntpdate-4.2.6p5-29.el7.centos.2.x86_64.rpm.html What's wrong is

Re: [CentOS] Best practice preparing for disk restoring system

2020-11-18 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Thanks for that. I only picked up on rear this morning, I suppose if you don't go looking for it you'll never find it. A combination of the paper Site Management Guide and the nightly disk summary have worked for over 20 years on *NIX! VMS before that was totally different, but we still

Re: [CentOS] Best practice preparing for disk restoring system

2020-11-18 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
I'd agree with you John. I'm trying to get away from Amanda's unpredictability and go back to using scripts to drive dump (for ext2/3/4) and xfsdump (for xfs). Is there any easy way to tell rear to include xfsdump and dump capability? If the commands are there then its trivial to restore

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 and logwatch

2020-11-13 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Hmm, it works fine for me, both as a cron job and when run directly. My system was last patched about 2 hours ago. Are you getting any mail? $ mail mail Subject: test test ^D $ If you get no message then logwatch isn't your issue. Next check your cron file, it ought to be in

Re: [CentOS] MIDI on a VM

2020-11-13 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 13/11/2020 09:09, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: On 13/11/2020 07:01, Simon Matter wrote: On 12/11/2020 17:26, Ralf Prengel wrote: Hallo, witch virtualizer are you using. KVM/QEMU Sure that the virtual sound-device is connected with the right hardware? I can play CDs and listen

Re: [CentOS] MIDI on a VM

2020-11-13 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 13/11/2020 07:01, Simon Matter wrote: On 12/11/2020 17:26, Ralf Prengel wrote: Hallo, witch virtualizer are you using. KVM/QEMU Sure that the virtual sound-device is connected with the right hardware? I can play CDs and listen to YouTube on the host, so I'm assuming the hardware is

Re: [CentOS] MIDI on a VM

2020-11-12 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
12.11.2020 um 18:00 schrieb J Martin Rushton via CentOS : I have an application (Frescobaldi/Lilypond) that generates and plays MIDI files. Due to problems with flatpak I can only run it on C8 or Fedora, both of which live on VMs. The host is running C7. I've tried "adding har

[CentOS] MIDI on a VM

2020-11-12 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
I have an application (Frescobaldi/Lilypond) that generates and plays MIDI files. Due to problems with flatpak I can only run it on C8 or Fedora, both of which live on VMs. The host is running C7. I've tried "adding hardware", specifically a virtual sound card, to the VMs, but still they

Re: [CentOS] Laptop and NFS homedir

2020-08-26 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
I've been playing with OwnCloud on a home network recently and it seems to be handling sync traffic well. A couple of points to make: 1) Be aware that the server and client repositories are different. You can do a lot with the web interface to the server, but you'll really want the client for

Re: [CentOS] Running commands as apache user

2020-08-08 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 08/08/2020 01:01, H wrote: On 08/07/2020 07:56 PM, H wrote: I have a dilemma: I have nextcloud running under user and group apache, as recommended by the installation. I now have to run some nextcloud commands but even as root I cannot su to user apache because "this account is currently

Re: [CentOS] rsync upgrade

2020-08-06 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
You'll need to upgrade to CentOS8. C7 is at rsync 3.1.2-10, and will not go above 3.1.2 ever. C8.2 is at 3.1.3-7, C8 will always be on 3.1.3 Martin On 06/08/2020 16:40, Christopher Wensink wrote: Can anyone tell me the repository to use to upgrade to a version of rsync later than 3.1.2?

Re: [CentOS] hardlinks

2020-07-17 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 17/07/2020 10:30, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 17/07/20 10:54, Karl Vogel ha scritto: It depends on the size of the variables in the structure used by the stat() call.  In ext4, the "links" variable is an unsigned 16-bit integer, so you have your limit of 64k or so.  I've worked with

Re: [CentOS] fdisk boot partition

2020-07-01 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 01/07/2020 08:42, Warren Young wrote: On Jun 30, 2020, at 1:25 PM, John Pierce wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:12 PM Jerry Geis wrote: I am trying to use CentOS 8 host to boot an image (OS X) that I created using dd. First I tried fdisk -l image_file.img ... fdisk has been

Re: [CentOS] HP vs. Brother Printers: Use with Centos/Fedora

2020-06-27 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
I've been running an HP MFP281 for a year or two now and it functions well. There are some downsides though to be aware of: * HPLIP doesn't support all HP printers, and not as quickly as you might wish, so be prepared to find the nearest model for CUPS. * HP have sharp practice over toner

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-15 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 15/06/2020 15:53, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On 6/15/20 6:19 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 15.06.20 um 05:38 schrieb Strahil Nikolov via CentOS: Working with different Linux Distributions makes the life harder. So far I have found out that 'poweroff' & 'reboot' has the same behaviour

Re: [CentOS] Default ACL inheritance question

2020-05-14 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Look at the acl(5) man page and you'll see that the ACCESS CHECK ALGORITH starts: IF the effective user ID of the process matches the user ID of the file object owner ... ELSE IF the effective user ID of the process matches the qualifier of any entry of type ACL_USER, THEN IF

Re: [CentOS] Zoom?

2020-04-06 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
If you have any choice in the matter I would suggest a read of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications#Criticism before using or installing Zoom. On 06/04/2020 00:01, Barry Brimer wrote: According to

Re: [CentOS] From network-scripts to NetworkManager on a router : questions

2020-02-18 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 18/02/2020 16:56, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 18/02/2020 à 17:43, Jonathan Billings a écrit : According to 'man nm-settings-ifcfg-rh', PEERDNS=no is the old network-services services mechanism for not changing /etc/resolv.conf, while in NM it just means never add automatic nameservers to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 on USB disk

2020-01-30 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
uot;burned" I mean the flash drive was faulty up to a point where it always showed a phantom image of what WAS in the pen drive. But YMMV On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 11:56 AM J Martin Rushton via CentOS < centos@centos.org> wrote: What's your dd command? Are you sure you are writing to the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 on USB disk

2020-01-29 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
What's your dd command? Are you sure you are writing to the raw disk and not inside a partition? On 29/01/2020 16:30, Jerry Geis wrote: Well after a closer look - Seems like the OLD 8.0 iso image is still on the USB. Not the new 8.1 I have tried to redo the dd command to copy the 8.1 iso - I

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

2020-01-16 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 16/01/2020 20:37, Steve Clark wrote: On 01/16/2020 03:30 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Kay Schenk said: I kept getting messages that my old Flash Player 31 was obsolete so I went in search of an update. Adobe stopped releasing Flash for Linux a while back. IIRC the only

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-10-17 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 17/10/2019 15:59, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 09:08:28AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 9/24/19 2:41 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >>> Without wanting to sound too pushy, I'm wondering if there is any update on >>> the status of Mate now that Centos 8 has been released? >>> >>> I

Re: [CentOS] C8 install libreoffice

2019-09-30 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 30/09/2019 04:36, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:02:18AM +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: >> On 29.09.19 23:05, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: >> >>> Can't see qny sort of office there, however when I do >>> # yum group info "office*&q

Re: [CentOS] C8 install libreoffice

2019-09-29 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 28/09/2019 13:46, Markus Falb wrote: > On 28.09.19 00:39, Ulf Volmer wrote: >> On 28.09.19 00:07, Jerry Geis wrote: >>> How do you install libreoffice. yum install libreoffice did not do it, >>> doing a search on "centos 8 install libreoffice" did not provide anything. >> >> There is no single

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8.0 1905 is now available for download

2019-09-24 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
ng system are you > using? > > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 19:31, J Martin Rushton via CentOS > wrote: >> >> On 24/09/2019 12:16, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: >>> Good evening from Singapore, >>> >>> Anybody downloaded, installed, a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8.0 1905 is now available for download

2019-09-24 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 24/09/2019 12:16, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Good evening from Singapore, > > Anybody downloaded, installed, and tried CentOS 8.0 1905 yet? > > Download link from CentOS download mirror near to Singapore: > >

Re: [CentOS] CUPS job handling

2019-09-01 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 01/09/2019 13:19, hw wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:48:37 -0500 (CDT) > Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, hw wrote: >> >>> is it somehow possible to make CUPS automatically redirect jobs, and >>> following jobs, away from printers which can not print them to other >>>

Re: [CentOS] initramfs annoyances (I think)

2019-07-29 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 29/07/2019 20:58, mark wrote: > Moved a server from the datacenter to our secure room. I've changed the > DNS, and our dhcpd... and yet, every time it boots, it comes up with the > IP it had in the datacenter. > > Any idea where it could be caching the IP - maybe in the initramfs? > > C 7,

Re: [CentOS] Install virtual win server

2019-07-15 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 15/07/2019 12:06, Nikos Gatsis - Qbit wrote: > Hello list. > > Have someone installed windows server 2019 desktop on centos 7 kvm? Any > tips? > > I have done it but I'm not sure if everything is OK. First of all, I > cant ping the virt IP, although I connect through remote! Second, I cant >

Re: [CentOS] Roughly how many more months before CentOS 8.0 release?

2019-07-13 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 13/07/2019 01:05, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:43:58AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 7/10/19 1:18 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: >>> Good afternoon from Singapore, >>> >>> May I know roughly how many more months before CentOS 8.0 will be released? >>> >>>

Re: [CentOS] Alternitives to Firefox...

2019-06-27 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 27/06/2019 07:07, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 27/06/19 7:58 AM, Robert Heller wrote: >> OK, I recently ugraded to the current ESR release of Firefox for >> CentOS 6. >> And I am having problems with the user interface (basically it has >> become hard >> [for me] to use). >> >> What alternitives are

Re: [CentOS] Does CentOS support aspell?

2019-06-08 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 08/06/2019 18:43, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jun 2019 17:27:19 - (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> >> I haven't run CentOS on a machine of my own for several years; >> but my domain (NOT the address I post from) is hosted on a machine >> running CentOS. The list for the mailer I run

Re: [CentOS] Firefox addons disabled - temporary fix

2019-05-28 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 05/05/2019 22:21, wwp wrote: > Hello Frank, > > > On Sat, 4 May 2019 11:09:22 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: > >> The currently available fix for Firefox doesn't work with ESR, but there's a >> temporary fix that works. At least, it's working for me: >> >> Go to about:config and set

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

2019-05-22 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 22/05/2019 14:43, mark wrote: > James Pearson wrote: >> James Pearson wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm currently trying to reboot a CentOS 7.5 workstation (to complete an >>> upgrade to 7.6), but it is 'stuck' while shutting down with 'A stop >>> job is running for ...' - the counter initially gave a

Re: [CentOS] root .bash_profile?

2019-05-13 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 13/05/2019 22:25, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 16:20 -0400, Bee.Lists wrote: > > It may not be "just another user", but it *is* a user as much as your > login username is a user. You could assign your own username a UID of > 0, and it would have the same privileges as 'root', but

Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-10 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Hi Nux, The number will be higher than that. Some large systems just download once to their own private mirror and install from there. Where I used to work each download went to at least 6 systems, probably more. Regards, Martin On 10/05/2019 10:12, Nux! wrote: > I maintain a desktop oriented

Re: [CentOS] Resource utilisation of processes on linux server.

2019-04-14 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 14/04/2019 16:51, Pete Biggs wrote: > >> >> Thanks for the email. I will be interested in command line interface >> tool/utility. Is there a way to find out the previous occurrence of >> resource utilization? For example, there was a high load on the Linux >> server which occurred three days

Re: [CentOS] Resource utilisation of processes on linux server.

2019-04-14 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 14/04/2019 14:17, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > I have around 6 processes running on CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core). > Is there a way to find out which process is taking resources like memory, > CPU, I/O and network. > > Process 1 : How much memory, CPU, I/O and network is currently

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Artwork needed

2019-03-08 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 07/03/2019 20:45, Rich Bowen wrote: > To all the artists and designers here, we need your help. > > With RHEL 8 beta released, we need to start producing artwork for CentOS > 8. It's time for the CentOS Artwork SIG, and anyone else that's > interested in contributing to this effort, to start

Re: [CentOS] time to say good-bye to win 7 / printer is the last blocker

2019-02-22 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 22/02/2019 09:21, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 07:12 +0100, Ralf Prengel wrote: >> Hallo, >> the laptop of my wife is the last Win7 system in my network. >> My question: >> I need a well supported printer (MFC) with network interface, if possible >> with colour printing. >> > > I

Re: [CentOS] C7 basic install, HATE

2019-02-15 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 15/02/2019 18:36, Warren Young wrote: > On Feb 15, 2019, at 11:08 AM, mark wrote: >> >> To say "spend $20..." does not relate to "have to find a workaround to do >> it *today*", nor to "this is a work system, I'm not driving out to >> Microcenter to buy one”. > > What’s your hourly rate?

Re: [CentOS] Forums down?

2019-02-11 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
ine. > > But yea, using your search link, I get that same 'server busy' > Informational. > > Man, looks like it's been awhile since I've visited there. > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:20 AM J Martin Rushton via CentOS < > centos@centos.org> wrote: > >> All d

[CentOS] Forums down?

2019-02-11 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
All day I've been getting "Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. The server has high load. Please try again later." from https://www.centos.org/forums/search.php?search_id=unreadposts Is there a problem? -- J Martin Rushton MBCS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 and backup solution

2019-01-27 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 27/01/2019 16:59, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Sunday, January 27, 2019 12:22 PM +0000 J Martin Rushton via CentOS > wrote: > >> Backups on or by the computer might protect you from disk failures, but >> are useless in case of fire or theft. > > With ransomware

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 and backup solution

2019-01-27 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Amanda (from base CentOS) -> USB removable disk -> firesafe. Backups on or by the computer might protect you from disk failures, but are useless in case of fire or theft. On 27/01/2019 11:56, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hey there, > what type of backup solution do you use on C7? > > > Thanks in

Re: [CentOS] DNS bind - use of /etc/named directory

2018-12-04 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 04/12/18 09:41, John Horne wrote: > On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 08:19 +0000, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: >> The '/etc/named.conf.rpmnew' file supplied is a bare minimum to >> "configure the ... server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost >> DNS resolver onl

Re: [CentOS] DNS bind - use of /etc/named directory

2018-12-04 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
The '/etc/named.conf.rpmnew' file supplied is a bare minimum to "configure the ... server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS resolver only)". As soon as you start adding any structure to it things change, not just are added to. See '/usr/share/doc/bind-*/sample/etc/named.conf' for

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024

2018-11-03 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 03/11/18 22:49, Robert Heller wrote: > At Sat, 3 Nov 2018 14:38:03 + J Martin Rushton > , CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> >> From: J Martin Rushton >> To: centos@centos.org >> Message-ID: <8a7a2aea-33da-9f3c-00a1-c6471fa02...@btinternet.com> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024

2018-11-03 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 03/11/18 02:31, Robert Heller wrote: > Yeah, there are very few of us that completely skipped > MS-DOS/MS-Windows/MacOS-Clasic and *never* used a graphical file manager or > any of the eye-candy that people now believe is "standard" or "normal". I > went from VMS on a VT to a VAXStation

Re: [CentOS] 2038 year Problem

2018-10-02 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
If you do that make sure it's a system you're happy to junk and reinstall. I have painful memories of trying to sort out systems we rolled forward over Y2K. Amongst other things the license manager became convinced we were trying to fiddle things. :-( On 02/10/18 20:07, Gordon Messmer wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux recommendations for old Pentium PC

2018-08-31 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 31/08/18 16:47, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Gary Stainburn wrote: > "Old Pentium" isn't very precise; the first Pentiums were in 1993! They were the ones nicknamed "i586.01" see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug -- J Martin Rushton MBCS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [CentOS] odd popups

2018-07-21 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
No image found. This may be due to ABRT. Expand the details at the bottom of the pop-up and if the Vendor is "The ABRT Team", then the pop-up is benign. You can read problems you have encountered, but if a daemon or any other user hits a problem you do not have the authority to look at their