Re: [CentOS] [Infra] - Planned outage : lists.centos.org (migration to mailman3) : please read

2024-04-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Fabian Arrotin said: > Migration is scheduled for """"Tuesday April 8th, 7:00 am UTC time"""". > You can convert to local time with $(date -d '2024-04-08 07:00 UTC') April 8, 2024, is Monday, not Tuesday. -- Chris Adams

Re: [CentOS] ip6tables equivalent for NAT?

2020-05-26 Thread Chris Adams
reak things, and it can break even more things in IPv6. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] firewalld / iptables / nftables

2020-06-09 Thread Chris Adams
nformation (basically what it can create in the iptables back-compat mode). The nftables rules created by firewalld don't fall into that category, so can't be viewed by iptables. Instead, use the nft command, like "nft list ruleset" to see a dump of all current rules. --

Re: [CentOS] Minicom and Ncurses

2020-06-12 Thread Chris Adams
installed, it can also be used for serial access... run "screen /dev/ttyS0 9600" (change the device and speed as needed). Screen has its own superset of VT102, so you can set TERM=screen, but it is also possibly close enough to the linux terminal emulation to work directly (they

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

2020-06-17 Thread Chris Adams
gap between a RHEL 8.x release and the corresponding CentOS release will drop. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2020-06-17 Thread Chris Adams
2018-04-10 2018-10-30 203 7.6 2018-10-30 2019-01-28 90 7.7 2019-08-06 (didn't find release notes) 7.8 2020-03-31 2020-04-27 27 8.1 2019-11-05 2020-01-15 71 8.2 2020-04-28

[CentOS] Not getting bootloader installed with CentOS 8 + mdraid

2020-07-01 Thread Chris Adams
RAID and a bootloader). Anybody else run into this? Any ideas? I've been installing from kickstarts for ages, including software RAID, but not CentOS 8 with software RAID until now. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://l

Re: [CentOS] Not getting bootloader installed with CentOS 8 + mdraid

2020-07-01 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Adams said: > I am trying to use a kickstart to install CentOS 8.2 on a server with a > pair of drives with Linux software RAID 1. The install completes, but > the resulting system will not boot - I get "Booting from Hard drive C:" > from the BIO

Re: [CentOS] USB-serial adapter for CentOS 7

2020-07-08 Thread Chris Adams
is that there are many cheap adapters on Amazon that claim to be Prolific or FTDI but are in fact counterfeit clones - those may or may not work reliably for ANY purpose. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] USB-serial adapter for CentOS 7

2020-07-08 Thread Chris Adams
s well as newer Fedora (similar but newer kernels). Are you sure you weren't doing something in an unsupported and/or undefined way that just happened to work on CentOS 6? -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-02 Thread Chris Adams
le are confusing UEFI and Secure Boot. UEFI is a replacement for the ages-old BIOS - Secure Boot is an extension to UEFI to create a "trusted" (for whatever that may mean) boot chain to get to the OS. You can have UEFI without having Secure Boot

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-04 Thread Chris Adams
kage installs its files directly to the EFI partition where they are needed. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-07 Thread Chris Adams
something like this can be a lesson on "hmm, hadn't thought of that before" type things to watch for in other areas. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kvm & external snapshots

2020-08-13 Thread Chris Adams
elieve that when creating an external snapshot, you have to either specify --disk-only (to not snapshot RAM), or supply --memspec (to specify how/where to save RAM). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Script to rebuild CentOS 8 boot ISO with plus kernel

2020-10-05 Thread Chris Adams
/misc-scripts/ I know you can use driver disks to load additional modules from elsewhere, but I wanted to end up with the kernel-plus anyway, so why not just do it during install? Lightly tested, but seems to work. Posting here in case it is useful to others. -- Chris Adams

Re: [CentOS] ThinkStation with BIOS RAID and disk error messages in gparted

2020-10-23 Thread Chris Adams
but mdraid has grown support for Intel (and maybe some other?) common motherboard RAID. So, /dev/md doesn't inherently mean "Linux software RAID" for a while now. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Network Manager - rotate connection profile

2020-10-26 Thread Chris Adams
wn provA; nmcli con up provB". You'd only want one to autoconnect though, so maybe: nmcli con down provA nmcli con mod provA autoconnect 0 nmcli con up provB nmcli con mod provB autoconnect 1 Or you could even get fancier with a script that would check th

Re: [CentOS] nmcli

2021-03-30 Thread Chris Adams
e multi-valued (such as addresses and routes), you can prefix with + or - to add or remove just one entry. For example, to remove just address 10.1.1.2/24: nmcli con mod em1 -ipv4.address 10.1.1.2/24 nmcli con up em1 -- Chris Adams ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] Proxmox Backup Server equivalent for the RHEL/CentOS world ?

2021-04-12 Thread Chris Adams
oVirt itself doesn't include backup software (it supports VM snapshots and clones), but there are several third-party backup tools (both free and commercial) compatible with oVirt/RHV, like Storeware's vProtect (I haven't used it but seen others mention

Re: [CentOS] Proxmox Backup Server equivalent for the RHEL/CentOS world ?

2021-04-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Nicolas Kovacs said: > Le 12/04/2021 à 23:11, Chris Adams a écrit : > > oVirt > > itself doesn't include backup software (it supports VM snapshots and > > clones), but there are several third-party backup tools (both free and > > commercial)

Re: [CentOS] Proxmox Backup Server equivalent for the RHEL/CentOS world ?

2021-04-13 Thread Chris Adams
may have been a hack around the kernel not balancing well to begin with of course). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] password algorithm with authconfig vs authselect

2021-04-21 Thread Chris Adams
7;t many requests to do that (so it isn't a well-supported thing to change). It looks like something like this might do it: authselect create-profile sha256 --base-on=sssd sed -i 's/sha512/sha256/g' /etc/authselect/custom/sha256/* authselect select custom/sha256 -- Chris Ad

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-27 Thread Chris Adams
panies (sometimes imperfectly, as seen with the VPN mess just before FreeBSD 13 release). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [C8 stream] unix_chkpwd wants access to /proc

2021-06-14 Thread Chris Adams
to know who is > logged in, do probably yes, bit I'm not sure. I haven't dug into it, but I'm thinking there was some policy or library change that isn't quite right... sssd_be also has the same denial on startup (so every boot). -- Chris Adams

Re: [CentOS] [C8 stream] unix_chkpwd wants access to /proc

2021-06-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Adams said: > Once upon a time, Łukasz Posadowski said: > > From 11.06 journal is logging a lot of denied access to /proc for > > unix_chkpwd by selinux. They are so frequent, that I see them in > > htop. :) Right now I have 2122 logges denials.

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-07-09 Thread Chris Adams
core issue is a more fundamental > one: Red Hat, our upstream, is walking away from traditional server > needs. Like any commercial product, RHEL exists for Red Hat's customers... so if you want to see something specific from RHEL, you need to be a customer to g

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the latest version work?

2021-07-14 Thread Chris Adams
ld be satisfied). Have you run Teams before on this system? If so, I've found that it tends to bog down over time, which I suspect is something like it growing a cache without bounds or the like. If that's the case, I suggest removing its data and re-logg

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the latest version work?

2021-07-14 Thread Chris Adams
(I didn't find a list in a quick search), so don't think they claim that CentOS 7 is supported. I think they just say "here's an RPM" and "here's a repo". -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mementos

2021-08-31 Thread Chris Adams
ng a floppy image after floppy image). I wonder if it would install in a modern VM? -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 9-stream modules?

2021-11-14 Thread Chris Adams
forward, or are modules just still to be filled out? -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 9-stream modules?

2021-11-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen said: > On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 at 17:48, Chris Adams wrote: > > I started looking at 9-stream a bit... and I notice there are no package > > modules. All the things that were modules in 8/8-stream appear to have > > been folded back into

Re: [CentOS] Qemu - enabling "bridge mode" for primary physical interface for VMs

2021-12-07 Thread Chris Adams
idge-slave-em1 # Disable the original config nmcli con mod em1 autoconnect 0 Then you set your VMs to use the bridge - in the libvirt XML for example, you'd have something like: Inside the VM, configure

[CentOS] CentOS 9-stream "CRB" repo

2021-12-14 Thread Chris Adams
I'm starting to look at CentOS 9-stream... what is the CRB repo? It appears to be a lot of development libraries and such, but I didn't see a definition or "CRB" anywhere. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] Qemu - enabling "bridge mode" for primary physical interface for VMs

2021-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
Make a connection for the physical ethernet em1 to be part of the bridge > > nmcli con add type ethernet ifname em1 master bridge-br0 does it. If you don't specify a connection name, NM names a new bridge member connection profile as "bridge-slave-". -- Chris Adams

[CentOS] EPEL repo RPM in CentOS 9-stream?

2022-02-03 Thread Chris Adams
Will the Fedora EPEL repo RPM be added to any CentOS 9-stream core repos, like epel-release is in 7 and 8-stream extras? -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [EXT] c9s: CPU ISA level lower than required

2022-02-07 Thread Chris Adams
is -v3, but not -v4. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Any downside to mount -o noatime?

2022-02-10 Thread Chris Adams
ing file contents on the "full" > backup weekly or monthly. Unless you never write to the disk, that will still be lost in the noise of writes. But if it still bothers you, use rsync --open-noatime. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] Any downside to mount -o noatime?

2022-02-10 Thread Chris Adams
es (in which case, why back up), this will still be lost in the noise of total writes. Any old SSD will handle that just fine for many years to come. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kickstart storage configuration hangs

2022-04-05 Thread Chris Adams
s happening? -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] IPv6 token with /60 and prefix delegation

2022-05-09 Thread Chris Adams
x27;s incomplete. Instead, you can use something like: https://github.com/sshambar/nmutils to add event scripts to NM to handle it (although IIRC I had a couple of issues with those scripts too, but didn't get back to working it all out). -- Chris Adams __

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 9 Stream mirrorlist url's

2022-11-19 Thread Chris Adams
--metalink=https://mirrors.centos.org/metalink?repo=centos-baseos-9-stream&arch=x86_64 repo --name=appstream --metalink=https://mirrors.centos.org/metalink?repo=centos-appstream-9-stream&arch=x86_64 repo --name=crb --metalink=https://mirrors.centos.org/metalink?repo=centos-crb-9-stream&

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

2023-01-06 Thread Chris Adams
RUB2's FS handling anyway, so this case is probably far down the list. I think that having RAID 1 for /boot and/or /boot/efi can be helpful (and I've set it up, definitely not saying "don't do that"), but has to be handled with care and possibly (probably?) wo

Re: [CentOS] Mount removed raid disk back on same machine as original raid

2023-03-08 Thread Chris Adams
don't think any filesystems care (I know I've mounted snapshots of ext4 and IIRC xfs on the same system, haven't touched btrfs). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] wget http://mirror.stream.centos.org/9-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz --max-redirect=0 --no-hsts

2023-03-30 Thread Chris Adams
o this for example). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] bash test ?

2023-04-19 Thread Chris Adams
is false, while test -blob is true). Note that bash has test and [ as shell builtins, but the external command /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[ have the same behavior. The [[ ]] method is a bash extension, and treats a test operator without a corresponding operand (e.g. [[ -z ]]) as an error condition inste

Re: [CentOS] Apache mpm itk

2023-05-16 Thread Chris Adams
ackage was orphaned in Fedora, so there's no maintainer to create and manage builds. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Mirror problems with elfutils-debuginfod-client

2023-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
os.eggycrew.com volico.mm.fcix.net -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mirror problems with elfutils-debuginfod-client

2023-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Adams said: > The package elfutils-debuginfod-client is needed for even a minimal > install, but it is not available on most mirrors. I suspect some are > excluding mirroring debuginfo packages with just a *debuginfo* pattern > to rsync, where they should

Re: [CentOS] Current RHEL fragmentation landscape

2023-07-25 Thread Chris Adams
his will not be the case for the second half of a RHEL major release life cycle, because the corresponding Stream will be EOL and no longer updated. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Not To James B. Byrne

2014-11-13 Thread Chris Adams
quot;, I'd be interested in seeing a newer mailman packaged elsewhere (maybe EPEL?). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Setting up Samba as fileserver for existing Windows domain

2015-02-04 Thread Chris Adams
I don't have to. Anybody have any tips, pointers, etc.? -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Setting up Samba as fileserver for existing Windows domain

2015-02-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Les Mikesell said: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > > I have an existing office of Windows computers, in a domain, with a > > couple of Windows Server 2012 AD servers. I need to add a file server, > > so I'd prefer to use C

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH wiki article outdated

2015-02-13 Thread Chris Adams
ely a waste of time and just makes it more difficult for legitimate use. With large bot networks and tools like zmap, finding services on alternate ports is not that hard for the "bad guys". -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cento

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Sendmail backup MX Config

2015-02-13 Thread Chris Adams
a network name service of some type (e.g. LDAP), don't do this. The real question is: what are you trying to achieve with a backup MX? If it is to store mail when the primary is down, legitimate remote mail servers will do that for you; you don't need to have a backup. -- Chris Adam

Re: [CentOS] C5 BASH IF

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Adams
l as part of command argument processing, and it is empty/not set, the command would be run as: [ = law00css ] That's invalid syntax. If instead, you call it with $file in quotes: [ "" = law00css ] That's valid syntax (and then tests as false). -- Chris Adams

Re: [CentOS] C5 BASH IF

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Adams
ll, which bash implements: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] leap second and Centos

2015-03-06 Thread Chris Adams
cent leap second issue had to do with timers not triggering in the expected way (can't remember if that was kernel, or just applications/libraries not handling a kernel change). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] leap second and Centos

2015-03-06 Thread Chris Adams
x27;t hit by the 2012 issue, so I don't have a simple test for that. So again, if you want to make sure there's no new issue, you'll have to set up a test yourself. I doubt the 2008 or 2012 issues will happen again, but there's plenty

Re: [CentOS] leap second and Centos

2015-03-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Les Mikesell said: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > So again, if you want to make sure there's no new issue, you'll have to > > set up a test yourself. I doubt the 2008 or 2012 issues will happen > > again, but there&

Re: [CentOS] leap second and Centos

2015-03-06 Thread Chris Adams
#x27;d be out of step with all the rest of the Internet for anything that uses POSIX seconds (fileservers for example), and always think the clock was slow (plus you'd have to run a custom copy of NTP to not try to "fix" the clock). -- Chris Adams

[CentOS] How does Linux choose ARP request source IP?

2015-03-20 Thread Chris Adams
's "primary" IP (especially since keepalived adds all the virtual IPs with a /32 mask). This is probably not related to my problem, but I just thought it was odd. Is there a way to control this? -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS maili

Re: [CentOS] bash script fails conditional test

2015-04-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Tim Dunphy said: > pid=$(ps -ef | grep cassandra | grep -v grep | grep -i -v -e grep -e screen > -e s3fs|awk '{print $2}') You can probably replace that with a much cleaner pid=$(pidof cassandra). -- Chris Adams __

Re: [CentOS] bash script fails conditional test

2015-04-19 Thread Chris Adams
be bash > everywhere; eg Ubuntu; "-x" and not "+x" because "-x" means "turn on debug" > but "+x" means "turn _off_ debug") Unless you have specific bashisms (which I don't think the original did, and you should mostly avoid in

Re: [CentOS] bash script fails conditional test

2015-04-19 Thread Chris Adams
st and then the program name. The -x options tells it to look for script-like things as well. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Real sh? Or other efficient shell for non-interactive scripts

2015-04-27 Thread Chris Adams
Can we take the license wanking off the list please? I don't think either of the people arguing are actually lawyers, so it has no relevance. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-05-29 Thread Chris Adams
agement. Also, BTRFS has features that ZFS does not. I expect BTRFS to get a lot more mature in the near future, as Facebook is putting resources into moving parts of their infrastructure to BTRFS. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Chris Adams
CDDL 2: Arguing about it here will not change #1 3: CentOS ships a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and so won't have things that Red Hat's lawyers don't approve (see #2) Please let it go. I think everybody here knows your opinion. -- Chris Adams ___

Re: [CentOS] Spamassassin: last step

2015-06-08 Thread Chris Adams
orget to compile your sieve script. Also, if you filter on a header, you may need to double the filter (put the same thing twice) due to a old Dovecot bug that Red Hat has not yet fixed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224496 -- Chris Adams _

Re: [CentOS] [Off Topic] - need help registering to the smplayer forum

2015-06-12 Thread Chris Adams
re's the timestamp of your message: Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 12:54:30 -0600 It is actually about 86400 seconds ahead... -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [Off Topic] - need help registering to the smplayer forum

2015-06-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, jd1008 said: > 1 day ahead?? > According to whose clock?? Again, here's a Date: header from your email: Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 13:22:43 -0600 -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread Chris Adams
et something that does (even a basic USB sound "card"), not to amp up the line-level signal to mic-level (especially because most of the mic inputs are mono, not stereo). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
ages have to go through the filesystem layer. They are not allocated contiguously, so what appear to be sequential reads inside the VM can be widely scattered across the underlying disk. There are plenty of people that have documented the performance d

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
de some of this easier/faster/smoother. Btrfs may eventually obsolete a lot of uses of LVM, but that's down the road. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-25 Thread Chris Adams
quot;device mapper" system. DM is just a way to map block A of virtual device X to block B of physical device Y; at one point, there was some discussion of kicking partition handling out of the kernel and just going with DM for everything (requires some form of init ramdisk though which c

Re: [CentOS] Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL

2015-07-28 Thread Chris Adams
and irritating. Despite what was said on the Fedora list, this was an active change taken by anaconda developers (to take out the "click again to accept anyway" option), so they should expect people to complain to them and be prepared to ha

[CentOS] Remote auth against Active Directory

2015-09-10 Thread Chris Adams
e to use our existing AD setup (rather than manage local users) to make it easier to manage users/passwords. Is there a relatively simple method to replicate a chunk of the AD users/passwords to a remote CentOS server (I don't care about the SSO side of things)? Or is there some other way to s

Re: [CentOS] sshd key exchange security

2015-09-11 Thread Chris Adams
SSH clients support that (even for example OpenSSH on CentOS 6). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] ISC DHCP failover

2015-09-23 Thread Chris Adams
te, there's probably some configuration issue" (but nobody ever says what issue might lead to it). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

2015-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
ver consists of "reboot the active node"; there's no graceful cluster tool (such as Pacemaker on Linux). And today, when trying to open a ticket, their website is broken because one of their DNS servers is returning 10.0.0.240 for part of their we

Re: [CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

2015-11-18 Thread Chris Adams
t more anecdotal evidence about the company and their general reliability. I know there are fans of iXsystems and FreeNAS; I am not one of them (nor is anyone in my office). We also sold a TrueNAS system to a customer, they had trouble (different problems from us),

Re: [CentOS] Building for older versions

2015-11-23 Thread Chris Adams
ource files. > > Does anyone have a reasonable solution? Would it be practical to use mock and build on the oldest version you want to support? This is how EPEL packages are built for example. It is targeted at building RPMs, but you can manually use copy-in and copy-out to do other thin

Re: [CentOS] Building for older versions

2015-11-23 Thread Chris Adams
o with mock (I figured it out once but don't remember now). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 7.2 installer missing virt-what

2015-12-23 Thread Chris Adams
under? -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.2 installer missing virt-what

2015-12-23 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Louis Lagendijk said: > On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 13:55 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > In previous CentOS releases, virt-what was included in the install > > image.  This made it easy for me to spin a custom ISO with my package > > set and a kickstart that would

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.2 installer missing virt-what

2015-12-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Johnny Hughes said: > On 12/23/2015 02:55 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > In previous CentOS releases, virt-what was included in the install > > image. This made it easy for me to spin a custom ISO with my package > > set and a kickstart that would add open-vm

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-25 Thread Chris Adams
tor, your job is about learning and adapting, not trying to keep a static setup for life. systemd is different (just like SELinux was years ago), but I suggest you learn it. It can make your admin life easier. Is it perfect? No, nothing ever is; I do think it is a big improvement though. --

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-26 Thread Chris Adams
ion; lots of jobs require you to learn new skills on an on-going basis. I've been running CentOS 7 on all my new server installs for a year now. Is it perfect? No, but I haven't seen the perfect OS yet. Am I still learning? Yes, always. Do I think it is worth the higher learning steps than say from CentOS 5->6? Yes, I do. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-26 Thread Chris Adams
esn't like change, argues against it, and presents itself as the voice of the silent majority (that somehow keep upgrading to new versions with all the terrible changes). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NICs order

2016-02-01 Thread Chris Adams
and just rebooted. That's only necessary for things that are initialized in the initrd. Unless you are using network boot, the initrd won't have any of the network initialization, so rebuilding it is not necessary for changing network-related confi

Re: [CentOS] In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System

2016-02-01 Thread Chris Adams
s being deleted or overwritten. Yes, that could happen from an errant rm, but there are other ways that could happen. Vendors that can't recover in some way (like BIOS CMOS corruption can be recovered with a jumper) should be named-and-shamed as well as potentially blacklisted

Re: [CentOS] In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System

2016-02-01 Thread Chris Adams
n), and once /dev/sda1 is deleted there will be no further hard > drive write operations. Incorrect. Once the filesystem is mounted, the kernel access doesn't go through the filesystem /dev node, similar to how once rm is running, it doesn't need the /lib

Re: [CentOS] In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System

2016-02-02 Thread Chris Adams
BIOS" implementations also had weird issues from time to time). -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2016-02-08 Thread Chris Adams
VM image, like virt-sparsify. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2016-02-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Robert Nichols said: > On 02/08/2016 07:04 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > >For that purpose, use something that can TRIM a VM image, like > >virt-sparsify. > > That's doing the same thing. > > virt-sparsify works by mounting the filesystem, filling i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.7 Drivers for Compaq Storageworks TL891 Minilibrary

2016-02-17 Thread Chris Adams
l have to find a differential SCSI card that is still supported to connect it (don't know about that; I haven't touched parallel SCSI in ages, and the TL891 was probably the last high-voltage differential device I used). -- Chris Adams ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSL Update - not a security update???

2016-03-02 Thread Chris Adams
eth Vidal (RIP) and others at Duke rewrote YUP (the Yellowdog UPdater) to handle Red Hat Linux. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] systemd-journald corruption

2016-04-26 Thread Chris Adams
ot; way to just cut systemd-journald out of the picture and have log entries go straight to rsyslogd? Has anyone else seen this? -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] systemd-journald corruption

2016-04-26 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 2:09 PM Chris Adams wrote: > > I have several recently-installed CentOS 7 servers that keep having > > systemd-journald corruption > > Determined with 'journalctl --verify' or another way? I

Re: [CentOS] systemd-journald corruption

2016-04-27 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: > >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 2:09 PM Chris Adams wrote: > >> > I have several recently-installed CentOS 7 servers that keep

Re: [CentOS] Bourne shell deprecated?

2016-04-27 Thread Chris Adams
tory here: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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