[CentOS] Force package install using yum?

Hi Everyone, I have a CentOS 7 box that's refusing a rpm update. I suspect it has something to do with SCL enabled. The 'yum update' output is shown below. I need to force this package to install. I don't give a damn about the log files. I need that server patched since it is forward facing.

Re: [CentOS] Understanding VDO vs ZFS

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:54 PM david wrote: > > I'm looking for a solution for backups because ZFS has failed on me > too many times. In my environment, I have a large amount of data > (around 2tb) that I periodically back up. I keep the last 5 > "snapshots". I use rsync so that when I

Re: [CentOS] [Off topic] sending mail from Comcast was: Sendmail not working

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 3:10 PM S.Bob wrote: > > OK, I've fired up a new VM, new CentOS 7 install, now I get this: > > # rpm -qf `which sendmail` > postfix-2.10.1-7.el7.x86_64 > > Can you point me to how to set this up properly? Note that I won the > psalm19pix.com domain, it's hosted at

Re: [CentOS] Netfilter fails to filter traffic from a netblock?

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 8:58 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > We rent a CentOS 7 VM from GoDaddy. We received a warning about > excessive cpu usage, and a threat to cancel our service. We tracked it > down to Apache and someone hammering our web server. >

Re: [CentOS] Netfilter fails to filter traffic from a netblock?

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 9:40 AM Mike <1100...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thought it might also be helpful to confirm that firewalld is not > interfering in any way. > > what is the output of ~$# systemctl status firewalld Thanks Mike. # systemctl status firewalld Unit firewalld.service could

Re: [CentOS] Netfilter fails to filter traffic from a netblock?

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 9:26 AM Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > On 19/04/2020 14:58, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hi Jeffrey, > > > The offending host is 59.64.129.175. To err on the side of caution we > > attempted to block the entire netblock. According to whois d

[CentOS] Netfilter fails to filter traffic from a netblock?

Hi Everyone, We rent a CentOS 7 VM from GoDaddy. We received a warning about excessive cpu usage, and a threat to cancel our service. We tracked it down to Apache and someone hammering our web server. The offending host is 59.64.129.175. To err on the side of caution we attempted to block the

[CentOS] sysconf and _SC_LEVEL1_DCACHE_LINESIZE returns 0?

Hi Everyone, I'm working on GCC112, which is POWER System S822 (Power8) machine running CentOS 7 machine (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm): $ cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (AltArch) I'm trying to determine L1 data cache size. When the following code runs it