Re: [CentOS] something is hammering non-existant floppy

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:05 AM Jon LaBadie wrote: > On my two Fedora systems I get "autofs.service not found". > Perhaps it is masked there. > Are they the same hardware or vms running on the same hypervisor? Where/how is the trouble system running? I've seen odd floppy access errors pop up

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS from 7 to 8

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:51 AM José María Terry Jiménez wrote: > El 29/9/21 a las 15:24, Gestió Servidors escribió: > Me!, some worked, Others no. It's easier in machines without a GUI, but > failed without it also. A few got "upgraded". Unable to say why ones > worked and others no. > That's

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading (?) from legacy boot to UEFI

On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 8:47 AM Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On August 28, 2021 8:07:30 AM CDT, Jonathan Billings > wrote: > >On Aug 28, 2021, at 05:58, Rob Kampen wrote: > >> > >> As to the RH decision to default to a legacy boot / MBR oriented > install based upon size of disk ... words fail me.

Re: [CentOS] VzLinux - Opinions? Thoughs, Comments? - no microsoft involvement/contamination

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 7:56 AM mario juliano grande-balletta < mario.balle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone using or working with VzLinux, seems to be an upstream distro of > CentOS/RHEL and no vendors involved > Would love to hear experiences. > thanks! > :-) > No vendors? It's the

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 5:14 AM Gionatan Danti wrote: > While I fully understand & agree on the motivation for keeping Rocky > (and other clones) 1:1 with Red Hat, it should be understood that > current RHEL packages selection itself is drifting away from > small/medium business needs. So the

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 3:32 PM mario juliano grande-balletta < mario.balle...@gmail.com> wrote: > The motivations behind Rocky Linux are noble indeed, altruistic and > back to community. > But, accepting support from Amazon, Google, and especially Microsoft > tastes like vomit in my mouth.

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 11:04 AM Jon Pruente wrote: > Deleted tweet link: > https://twitter.com/NavyLinux/status/1408429562472677381 > For completeness, here's a WayBackMachine link to the deleted tweet. Luckily it got archived. https://web.archive.org/web/20210625141924/https://tw

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 11:14 AM Simon Matter wrote: > > BTW, anyone know who the "Navy Foundation" are? Is this an arm of the > > US government? > > > > Martin > > See https://navylinux.org/news/legal/ That furthers what I wrote earlier. That says: > Date of formation: June 14, 2021 Yet the

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 7:41 AM Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Here is another one: > > https://navylinux.org/ Navy Linux has a bad taste already, for me. They are aiming too big, even trying to replicate EPEL for themselves. And their attitude isn't good. They had a tweet disparaging "new

Re: [CentOS] BTRFS to ext4

On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 5:48 AM Gionatan Danti wrote: > Both options seems reasonable to me. > If choosing to use the same machine, I would not expand the existing > disk; rather I suggest adding a *new* disk to VM (formatting it with > EXT4). > IMO, creating a new disk also leaves you the

Re: [CentOS] getssl was working stopped

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 10:52 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi All - I am using getssl on CentOS 7. > It have been working fine since Feb 17th and just stopped. > Are you using a recent version of getssl? Newer releases support ACMEv2 , and there is a planned brownout of ACMEv1 service in effect

Re: [CentOS] will there be centos 8.4?

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 11:47 AM Fabian Arrotin wrote: > Talking about that : what's the official position on how CentOS 8 will > go EOL ? > I'd be myself in favor of transparently redirecting CentOS 8 linux > yum/dnf mirrorlists to 8-stream end of the year, so that people would > still get

Re: [CentOS] How do I download RHEL 8.3 with free license and free subscription for my production servers?

FTA: > > As of February 1, 2021, Red Hat will make RHEL available at no cost for > small-production workloads—with "small" defined as 16 systems or fewer. It's not available yet. On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 9:09 AM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < teoenming.jan2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Subject:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:32 PM Jamie Burchell wrote: > I'm sure it's my lack of understanding, but there feels too much hope > pinned on "Rocky", which seems like one person (albeit a key person) going > it alone with the hope of a community following of disgruntled people. I > see a single

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 12:11 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > > For example, I was messing with kubernetes in a few ways. redhat > > provides a license for RHEL, that you can use for that purpose for > > free, BUT you can have only have one license. > Yes, which makes it a bit difficult to mess around

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:31 AM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > Not to mention the constant barrage of "You just want free Red Hat" and > "CentOS users are moochers" and "We deserve value from all those CentOS > users, so we're going to turn them into beta testers for RHEL." I have > gotten these

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 2:48 AM R C wrote: > 'Rocky Linux' guy might actually be on to something (although I'd pick > another distro name) > The name comes from his CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh, who is no longer with us, in his memory. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] The conclusio: CentOS is dead

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 4:48 PM Ruslanas Gžibovskis wrote: > I think most of the derivatives will be dead with one or two releases, like > was with Debian, such as Devuan, never got a new version... > Devuan 3.0 was released in June.

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 8:25 AM James Pearson wrote: > I agree that Redhat really screwed up this announcement - they would have > got a lot more kudos if they had announced CentOS Stream to exist along > with keeping the current traditional CentOS ... > Oh, but they did do that. Last year,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Stream: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 5:51 PM Joshua Kramer wrote: > CentOS called "AppStream" > There is no version of CentOS called AppStream. AppStream is a repository inside of 8 (

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 4:26 AM Rainer Traut wrote: > > > Oracle Linux FAQ (PDF): > > https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/027617.pdf > > There is no subscription needed. All needed repositories for the oVirt > based virtualization are freely available. > > >

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:54 AM Frank Cox wrote: > Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos? I'm asking because genuinely > don't know; I've never paid any attention to Oracle's Linux offering before > now. > > But today I've seen a couple of the folks here mention Oracle Linux and I > see that

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

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:43 AM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > "Since March 2004, CentOS Linux has been a community-supported distribution > derived from sources freely provided to the public by Red Hat. As such, > CentOS Linux aims to be functionally compatible with RHEL." > I hate to jump in as a

Re: [CentOS] ntpdate past CentOS 7

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 1:26 PM John Pierce wrote: > the problem with that sort of time sync is that if your systems clock is > running fast, then those once a day time syncs cause the clock to be set > BACK a few seconds or whatever (in bad cases a few minutes). > Modern chrony that Bill Gee

Re: [CentOS] yum update security updates only

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 6:02 PM Eric Chennells wrote: > Frank, > > Interesting thank you I didn't realize that. It used to be supported I > believe, and there is a lot of out of date 3rd party documentation floating > around google that suggests it does. > > Well it's just that many enterprises

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 3:38 PM Robert Heller wrote: > I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78, > and > FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers. Is there some magic I need to do? > As > a short term (?) fix, I downgraded back to Firefox 68. My system is > otherwise

Re: [CentOS] Drive failed in 4-drive md RAID 10

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 3:20 PM Kenneth Porter wrote: > Thanks. That reminds me: If I need to replace it, is there some easy way > to > figure out which drive bay is sdf? It's an old Supermicro rack chassis > with > 6 drive bays. Perhaps a way to blink the drive light? > It's easy enough with

Re: [CentOS] erasing a disk

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:18 PM david wrote: > I've tried erasing the first megabyte of the disk, but there are ZFS > or LVM structures that get in the way. So, does anyone have an > efficient way to erase structures from a disk such that it can be reused? > GPT for sure has backup metadata on

Re: [CentOS] How to Migrate Wordpress Website from 32-bit CentOS Linux 6.3 to 64-bit CentOS Linux 8.2 (2004)

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:35 AM Jake Shipton wrote: > 2020-08-31 (月) の 13:31 + に Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > さんは書きました: > > > > SECTION 4 Disable SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) > > === > > > > You MUST disable SELinux, otherwise Apache

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Security Advisories OVAL feed??

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:34 AM wrote: > Q5) If the answer to the last question is "no": shouldn't there be such > a resource? > CentOS doesn't publish security errata. If you need it then you should either buy RHEL, or deal with putting together your own set up with something like

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:41 AM Peter wrote: > > This is all well and good, but I don't think that CentOS was ever meant > to be a testing ground for RHEL. As the name actually stands for it is > a "Community Enterprise OS" and it has always been a rebuild of the RHEL > sources. Stream is

Re: [CentOS] Adobe digital editions?

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:22 PM Frank Cox wrote: > While I've never tried it, it's my understanding that you can use calibre > to remove the drm encryption on a purchased ebook so you can read it with > something like fbreader (which, as far as I know, can't read a > drm-encrusted ebook). > >

Re: [CentOS] Adobe digital editions?

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:34 PM Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > "Robert Heller" wrote: > > > Are the books epub type files? If so, you can install fbreader from > > epel. > > Can I second this suggestion? What kind of files are you trying to read? > A major issue is that it's not just reading

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 on Macbook

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 2:27 PM david wrote: > Folks > > I am trying to install Centos 8.1 on a MacBook Pro. There are many generations of different designs of MacBook Pro hardware. Could you share the model and type and year? ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] [semi-OT] C7 Possible bug but I can't determine what tool has the problem

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:38 AM Alessandro Baggi < alessandro.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jon, > I wrote in the first mail the script with the current order of command > that I used. Try to run in a bash script and you will see the result. > > If not my sequence is: > > dd if=/dev/zero

Re: [CentOS] [semi-OT] C7 Possible bug but I can't determine what tool has the problem

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 10:18 AM Alessandro Baggi < alessandro.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > I made several test to see what happens and noticed that removing -S > (--sparse) from rsync command problem does not occour. > In another test, thinking about a problem on 0ed file, I tried file > generation

Re: [CentOS] Nginx on CentOS 7: which one for production?

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 4:17 AM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > I wonder which version is recommended for production use on CentOS 7. > Any suggestions? > It all depends on your needs. The nginx repo has 1.16.1, EPEL currently has nginx 1.16.1 as well but could lag depending on the package maintainer.

Re: [CentOS] No CentOS 8 Updates announced in Centos-announce email list

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 3:01 PM Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > I looked all over the CentOS site for the RSS link and could not find it. > > I would subscribe to it, if I could. > > List: > https://feeds.centos.org/ That *really* should be in the listing of sites under News & Events on

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 1:32 PM Elliot wrote: > In my career, I've managed many Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS > systems, and I found that in-situ upgrading of Debian, Ubuntu, and > Fedora are usually easy and convenient. I'll concur in my experience. I've upgraded a number of Ubuntu

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

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:01 PM Łukasz Posadowski wrote: > I'm trying it right now. I pleasantly discover PHP 7.2 with fpm and > Python 3.6, which is exactly what I installed from 3rd party > repositories in Centos 7 on my vps. I will test upgrade from C7 to > disable epel and webtatic. Did

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

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 6:53 AM Randal, Phil wrote: > Workaround is to select the install option, hit the tab key, and append > vga=819 and hit F10, which starts the graphical installer on a larger > virtual display. > Did you rather mean vga=319 ?

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Amazon Machine Image?

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 4:48 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Tru, it is getting me closer. Next step is to figure out how to get > this image on an EC2 instance. Or whatever it is suppose to be called. > > AH, I think I have it. The Centos Image is free, but the infrastructure > cost is

Re: [CentOS] Question on server speed

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 2:01 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > Anyway to use "nice" command to help with responiveness? I was just using > "rsync . /media/external" to do the copy. > You need to discover where it is blocking before deciding which solution will work. Something like iotop, atop, or other

Re: [CentOS] virsh: howto convert storage type of VMs?

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 2:50 PM hw wrote: > > Hi, > > how can I convert the storage type of VMs from being stored in > individual qcow2 files to being stored in a storage pool? > > The VMs may be shut down during the conversion. > qemu-img convert -O {output_type} {inputfile} {output_file or

Re: [CentOS] Anyone with RedHat Subscription?

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 8:28 AM Jason Pyeron wrote: > This is kinda of why it makes sense to purchase at least one license. > Red Hat does now offer free developer subscriptions which includes access to the Red hat Customer Portal. You officially need a business or enterprise email address,

Re: [CentOS] Disk Performance Issue

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 10:42 AM Chris Olson via CentOS wrote: > Advice regarding this issue and any possible diagnostic methods > will be greatly appreciated. > Install smartmontools. You can use the smartctl tool to get all of the S.M.A.R.T. data for the drive. You can also set up the config

Re: [CentOS] system unresponsive

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:02 AM mark wrote: > That seems unlikely. Foe one, I've seen that... but I *always* see entries > in the log about the oom-killer being invoked. For another, this isn't a > compute node, it's *only* a fileserver, serving projects, home > directories, and backups

Re: [CentOS] No network on cloned CentOS 7 installation

On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 11:48 AM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Here's what I did. > > 1. Install one computer and zero unused hard disk sectors with dd. > > 2. Send the image to a local FTP server using G4L (Ghost4Linux). > > 3. Fetch the image on another computer. > > 4. Boot the new computer in

Re: [CentOS] Mail Server Guides

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 11:53 AM Ben Archuleta wrote: > I need to set up a new mail server to replace an aging CentOS 6.3 mail > server. I was wondering what were some of the best guides on the web for > Postfix (Maildir), Spamassassin, ClamAV, Dovecot? > The one I've seen as a long time

Re: [CentOS] Finding memory usage

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Jon Pruente wrote: > to revert to booting a 514 series kernel or converting to EXT4, depending > on the needs of the particular server. Everything I've converted to EXT4 > has been rock > Scratch that, I just looked and it was reverting to

Re: [CentOS] Finding memory usage

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > On a lark, what kind of file systems is the system using and how long g > had > > it been up before you rebooted? > > The filesystems are all XFS. I don't know for sure how long it had been > up previously, I'd guess at least 2 weeks.

Re: [CentOS] Finding memory usage

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 10:10 AM Bowie Bailey wrote: > I have a CentOS 7 server that is running out of memory and I can't > figure out why. > > The problem is that I can't find 2.4G of usage. If I look at resident > memory usage using "top", the top 5 processes are using a total of > 390M. > On

Re: [CentOS] Certbot error CentOS 7.5

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 7:54 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi All - I am running CentOS 7.5 and trying to use certbot. > I am getting an error 403 forbidden on the > /.well-known/acme-challenge/-CG_gSckofY5ln7TdMvoanDI1_FBRh8otQkyB0hxmoo > > Some searching indicated permission problems... I also

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: ipmitool or ipmicfg: set BMC to use NIC 2

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 4:10 PM, mark wrote: > So you're saying I should set the MAC address for the lan channel 1 to the > MAC address of the second NIC? No, you don't do anything to the MAC addresses on the BMC/IPMI. They already have their own preset values. You decide which port you want

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: ipmitool or ipmicfg: set BMC to use NIC 2

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Jon Pruente wrote: > or configure the MAC shown by issuing 'lan print 2' in the ipmitool shell. > I should finish that sentence. ... or configure the MAC (shown by issuing 'lan print 2' in the ipmitool shell) in your DHCP server. Though, running

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: ipmitool or ipmicfg: set BMC to use NIC 2

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:16 PM, mark wrote: > The man page isn't helping, nor have I been able to find examples that > work. > > For example, the man page claims I can do ipmitool lan get active, and I > try, and it says, "invaling lan command, get". > get isn't a recognized subcommand under

Re: [CentOS] Convert from LVM

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > Unlike MS-Windows, Linux is (generally) perfectly happy to disk > "transplants", > so long as you are careful about re-installing grub and making sure the > grub > config has the right "magic". Also update /etc/fstab and anything else

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT : write bootable CentOS USB disk under Windows 10 and Mac OS X ?

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Noam Bernstein wrote: > I tend to do the analogous thing on the mac, except for converting the > image first: > https://www.lewan.com/blog/2012/02/10/making-a-bootable-usb- > stick-on-an-apple-mac-os-x-from-an-iso If you are using dd then there is no

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT : write bootable CentOS USB disk under Windows 10 and Mac OS X ?

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote > > How do you write a bootable CentOS USB disk using either Windows 10 or > Mac OS X ? > > I've googled this, of course, and there's quite a lot of possible > solutions out there, so I'm curious about a more or less *orthodox* way > of doing

Re: [CentOS] Yum-cron

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:36 AM, wrote: > > And there is *NO* reason whatever for a "yum-hourly*. None. This is > CentOS, not ubuntu-snapshot-of-the-moment. > > I don't know if this is from upstream or not, but it's wrong. I mean, even > Redmond only pushes out patches once or

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox on CentOS 7 with bridged network not working

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:47 AM, James Pearson wrote: > Googling doesn't show up any similar issues, so I guess I'm missing > something on the host machine > > Does anyone have any idea what could be the issue? > What kind of hardware? There can be issues with

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > The only other thing I can think of is that the disk was already > formatted to GPT. In that case it has to be EFI. [I had a disk which > was GPT partitioned and removing that was quite a challenge as I had > done a

Re: [CentOS] logging in

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:26 PM, wrote: > This is odd. > > We're seeing a *lot* of > sshd[8400]: Timeout, client not responding. > So I'm trying to find out whose client is having issues. Trying to figure > that, after processes are gone, I tried looking in lastlog, which

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

I can confirm that this IP had been actively and repeatedly hitting honeypots in the community honeypot network I'm a part of. On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > hi All, > > I happened to login to one of my servers today and saw 96000 failed login >

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Use CentOS to create a bootable Mac OS X DVD from dmg file?

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > command + R > > (for recovery mode). Sorry about all types I made: typing on android is > sooo weird... If it supports it, which running 10.5.7 isn't likely. Recovery Mode wasn't on the hard drive until

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

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:04:58 -0700 > Jim Perrin wrote: > > > Yes. This command will drop an 'active-profile' file in /etc/tuned that > > will be used and survive reboots, kernel updates, etc. > > [root@mutt frankcox]#

Re: [CentOS] Connecting to internet with USB tethered iphone

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > Seems something else is using usb0 - without the phone connected I see > something on usb0 when running ifconfig. I think it's some internal > network. I tried running those commands when the phones be was

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:12 AM, hw wrote: > Are you saying there is no difference between a RAID1 and a non-raid > device as far as xfs is concerned? > > What if you use hardware RAID? > RAID1 is mirroring. There is nothing to stripe because the virtual device is almost

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

en solves that - I just need to start the update again. How > is that? > > Thanks, > > Jerry > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- <https://riskanalyti

Re: [CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > 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 > Intel only purchased the networking component of LSI,