Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux repository

2018-06-26 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 25-06-2018 23:59 Yves Bellefeuille ha scritto: I think the simplest solution would be to add this (which I haven't tried): http://zfsonlinux.org/ https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/RHEL-and-CentOS to the Available Repositories for CentOS wiki page:

[CentOS] ZFS on Linux repository

2018-06-25 Thread Gionatan Danti
Hi list, we all know why ZFS is not included in RHEL/CentOS distributions: its CDDL license is/seems not compatible with GPL license. I'm not a layer, and I do not have any strong opinion on the matter. However, as a sysadmin, I found ZFS to be extremely useful, especially considering BTRFS

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux repository

2018-07-03 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 03-07-2018 15:39 Nux! ha scritto: Watch out, ZFS on Linux is not as good as on FreeBSD/Solaris. Just recently there was an issue with data loss. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401 I know; I was on the very same github issue you linked. While the bug was very unfortunate, ZFS

Re: [CentOS] State of CentOS 8

2019-12-24 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 24-12-2019 11:30 John Pierce ha scritto: on the other hand, 99% of those security updates are things that probably don't affect most centos deployments. It does not only affect security, but also *functional* updates. For an example of a quite important, but not fixed bug in current

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

2020-12-10 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2020-12-10 04:55 Brendan Conoboy ha scritto: On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:07 PM Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/9/20 12:10 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > While I'm not sure how we'll get there, it seems like the > mutually satisfying end result would be one where third party binary > drivers work with

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

2020-12-14 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2020-12-14 13:07 Nicolas Kovacs ha scritto: Hi, Here's an interesting read which makes a point for CentOS Stream: https://freedomben.medium.com/centos-is-not-dead-please-stop-saying-it-is-at-least-until-you-read-this-4b26b5c44877 tl;dr: Communication about Stream was BAD, but Stream itself

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

2020-12-10 Thread Gionatan Danti
the centos-devel list. I'll reply quoting the entire conversation to let others read your useful information. On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 9:26 AM Gionatan Danti wrote: Il 2020-12-10 14:35 Brendan Conoboy ha scritto: - are you going to keep stable ABI between Stream kernel releases, or should we

Re: [CentOS] question centos stream 8 applying updates

2020-12-12 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2020-12-11 23:53 Pete Biggs ha scritto: Somewhere in amongst the vast number of posts, someone said that the release cadence for point releases was 6 months with the final release being 8.10 in 2024. After that RHEL 8 goes into maintenance mode and there will be no more content added to

Re: [CentOS] question centos stream 8 applying updates

2020-12-12 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2020-12-12 15:54 Leon Fauster via CentOS ha scritto: EOL in 2024! https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-December/352340.html https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q13-can-i-start-up-a-sig-that-will-maintain-centos-stream-8-after-rhel8-reaches-the-end-of-full-support

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

2021-01-08 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-01-08 10:01 Fabian Arrotin ha scritto: With my SysAdmin hat on, I'd say that the only real impacting bit is the shorter lifetime (5y instead of 10), but with overlap between stream versions, so one would have time to have a look, reflect in automation, reinstall/migrate, enjoy One key

Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes

2021-01-22 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-01-22 13:43 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto: I think we can expect Rocky Linux to provide a real solution to CentOS future. We shall know very soon, so let's just wait for a short while. Hi, there are any specific reasons to not use Spingdale Linux? As far I know, it already ships a RHEL 8.3

Re: [CentOS] question centos stream 8 applying updates

2020-12-11 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2020-12-11 19:26 Walter H. ha scritto: with CentOS Stream there are only updates till 2024(!) not 2029 as it be expected ... Is that officially confirmed? If RHEL 8 is expected to have an 8.10 release sometime in the 2028-2029 timeframe, and if any updates should really hit Stream-8

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 fix sudo CVE-2021-3156

2021-01-28 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-01-28 19:17 James Pearson ha scritto: I don't know of another way of testing if this build fixes the issue ? According to Qualys blog, sudoedit -s '\' `perl -e 'print "A" x 65536'` should core-dump on vulnerable versions. I just tried on stock 6.10 and it core-dumps, indeed.

[CentOS] CentOS 6 fix sudo CVE-2021-3156

2021-01-26 Thread Gionatan Danti
Hi all, do you know if a fix for sudo CVE-2021-3156 is available for CentOS 6? While CentOS 6 is now supported anymore, RedHat has it under its payedsupport agreement (see: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-002). So I wonder if some community-packaged patch

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-06-21 13:34 Pete Biggs ha scritto: CentOS does not provide the metadata to allow the --security flag to work. Right. It doesn't provide it because that information from Redhat is proprietary and not open source. This is not my understanding. From what I can see, updates which

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-22 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-06-22 02:34 Gordon Messmer ha scritto: CentOS Stream is not a rolling release.  It gets "rolling updates," but that just means that there are no point releases within a major release, and that updates aren't delayed in order to group rebased packages together at 6 month intervals. Hi

Re: [CentOS] pam_mysql

2021-05-16 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-05-16 16:54 Alexander Dalloz ha scritto: cyrus-sasl provides the sql auxprop mechanism, which I would prefer over pam_mysql. https://blog.sys4.de/cyrus-sasl-sql-man-page-en.html I second this. However, if you really need a pam_mysql RPM, you can try using a third party repository [1]

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-07-07 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-07-07 11:44 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto: I re-visit this thread, since it is crucial for CentOS 8 users. RESF / Rocky Linux is gaining worldwide recognition and sets itself as the primary organization / platform to become the CentOS 8 heir / successor in the future. Google and Microsoft

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-07-08 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-07-08 13:22 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto: If some people want to leave the RHEL ecosystem for Debian or FreeBSD, that's OK. But for those who want to stay in the RHEL world, Rocky Linux stands as a rock-solid solution. This opinion does not reject other CentOS clones, but emphasizes the

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-07-08 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-07-08 16:46 Leon Fauster via CentOS ha scritto: Maybe "we" could fill this gap? Describe this state of EPEL? Did you requested such missing packages? From the early on (EL8.0) I requested such EPEL packages, some fedora maintainers branched there packages into EPEL8. Even a request for

Re: [CentOS] BTRFS to ext4

2021-07-03 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-07-02 20:26 Christopher Wensink ha scritto: What steps would you go through to migrate the file systems over? Would you set up a duplicate VM and rsync data over?  Expand the capacity of the existing VM, add a new partition then move data over from one partition to another from within

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-07-09 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-07-08 23:21 J. Adam Craig ha scritto: Well said. It is worth pointing out also that, while Kurtzer and other Rocky community leads are devoted to keeping Rocky 1:1 with upstream, they are also committed to engaging with the CentOS Stream community themselves (if they find a bug in

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-07-09 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-07-09 13:57 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto: On 9/7/2021 1:14 μ.μ., 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

Re: [CentOS] Server monitoring

2021-07-10 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-07-10 20:10 H ha scritto: I want to install open-source software on my hosted CentOS 7 server to monitor the system in general, as well as logs, apache webserver, MySQL and PostgreSQL to begin with. I know there are a multitude of packages available and would be interested in hearing if

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-30 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-04-30 06:55 Gordon Messmer ha scritto: Why do you think that?  Are RHEL (and CentOS) point releases backward compatible or not?  If you trust point releases to work, why would you hesitate to trust a distribution that resembles an upcoming point release? Because it very often break

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-30 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-04-30 16:26 Johnny Hughes ha scritto: On 4/30/21 4:32 AM, Gionatan Danti wrote: Il 2021-04-30 06:55 Gordon Messmer ha scritto: Why do you think that?  Are RHEL (and CentOS) point releases backward compatible or not?  If you trust point releases to work, why would you hesitate

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-30 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-04-30 21:16 Gordon Messmer ha scritto: Critics of Stream often argue that CentOS users are losing support that CentOS never had to begin with.  Their argument implies that CentOS has aspects of RHEL that it does not.  They are not correct. From here [1]: "Since March 2004, CentOS Linux

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-27 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-04-27 15:05 J Martin Rushton via CentOS ha scritto: The traditional rebuild of RHEL will continue under other guises. There has been a long standing release at Springdale. Since RH's announcement Cloud have produced the Alma release. There is also a new project called Rocky that hasn't

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem choice for BackupPC extrenal drive

2021-02-04 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-02-05 01:41 Kenneth Porter ha scritto: I'm setting up a CentOS 7 box as a BackupPC 4 server to back up Windows boxes on my LAN. I'm using an external 1.5 TB USB drive for the "pool". BackupPC deduplicates by saving all files in a pool, a directory hiearchy with each file named for the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 fix sudo CVE-2021-3156

2021-01-27 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-01-27 09:34 Walter H. ha scritto: is that what you expect to find? https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0227 Yes, something similar... Thanks. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.da...@assyoma.it - i...@assyoma.it GPG public key ID:

Re: [CentOS] KVM vs. incremental remote backups

2021-03-31 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-03-31 14:41 Nicolas Kovacs ha scritto: Hi, Up until recently I've hosted all my stuff (web & mail) on a handful of bare metal servers. Web applications (WordPress, OwnCloud, Dolibarr, GEPI, Roundcube) as well as mail and a few other things were hosted mostly on one big machine.

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

2021-02-25 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-02-25 14:27 Simon Matter ha scritto: EL on the other side has a very limited, supported package set and therefore a lot of packages needed to build a lot of packages are just missing. Yeah, same impressions here. EPEL really is a key package repository for RHEL - and I always wondered

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

2021-02-25 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-02-25 22:35 Stephen John Smoogen ha scritto: Mainly because customers don't want to pay for that work which is considerable. If Red Hat builds it, it is expected to have all kinds of 'promises' equivalent to its other products and that is expensive in terms of QA, engineering,

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

2021-04-16 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-04-16 14:35 Nikolaos Milas ha scritto: On 16/4/2021 10:10 π.μ., Felix Kölzow wrote: you may take a look at _rear_ (it is that easy how it looks like) You may also want to check mondo: http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml (the website is not updated regularly!) I am using it

Re: [CentOS] Postfix and virtual mail boxes.

2021-10-08 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-10-07 23:24 Alexander Dalloz ha scritto: Am 07.10.2021 um 15:06 schrieb Gionatan Danti: Il 2021-10-07 12:40 Rob Kampen ha scritto: mydestination = localhost localhost.localdomain mydomain = example.org myhostname = mx.example.org mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, [::1]/128 Not that I expect

Re: [CentOS] Postfix and virtual mail boxes.

2021-10-06 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-10-07 07:18 Rob Kampen ha scritto: Hi, not sure this is the best place to go for my problem, but hoping someone can point me to the correct or better place. I have two currently working CentOS 7 based email servers that host a number of virtual domains and users and delivers mail just

Re: [CentOS] Postfix and virtual mail boxes.

2021-10-07 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-10-07 12:40 Rob Kampen ha scritto: mydestination = localhost localhost.localdomain mydomain = example.org myhostname = mx.example.org mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, [::1]/128 Not that I expect it to be the cause, but you need a coma between "localhost" and "localhost.localdomain" in

Re: [CentOS] Introducing CentOS Stream 9

2021-12-03 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-12-03 16:22 Johnny Hughes ha scritto: Rich Bowen has posted a blog entry "Introducing CentOS Stream 9" https://blog.centos.org/2021/12/introducing-centos-stream-9/ More details here: https://centos.org/stream9/ Have we an official upgrade path from Stream-8 to Stream-9? From what I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS update

2021-12-03 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-12-03 15:46 Johnny Hughes ha scritto: sssd-client-1.16.5-10.el7_9.11.i686.rpm exists and is here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.9.2009/updates/x86_64/Packages/ Not sure why you are not seeing it in your update. It is an Azure CentOS instance, which is pre-configured for using

Re: [CentOS] Roundcubemail

2021-12-28 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-12-28 15:06 TE Dukes ha scritto: Hello, Just upgraded from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 Stream and there is no rpm for roundcubemail. Could I get the SRPM for CentOS 7 and re-do it for CentOS 8? I really hate installing a non-RPM package. If not a good idea, what is available for webmail in

Re: [CentOS] Ruby on Cent OS 8

2021-11-15 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-11-15 16:03 Simon Matter ha scritto: These figures are interesting but they can not be compared directly. Oracle has its own EPEL repo and therefore I guess that the number here shows only those who are using the official EPEL instead of the one provided by Oracle. That said, I expect

Re: [CentOS] Ruby on Cent OS 8

2021-11-15 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-11-16 02:15 Markus Falb ha scritto: Rocky 8.5 has gained support for secure boot https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-5-ga-release/ Oh, good to know! Thank you. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.da...@assyoma.it - i...@assyoma.it GPG

[CentOS] CentOS update

2021-12-03 Thread Gionatan Danti
Dear list, I have an issue updating a CentOS 7.9 machine. A simple "yum update" exists with this error: # yum update --> Running transaction check ---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7 will be erased --> Finished Dependency Resolution ERROR: update failed. Check the log file for

[CentOS] Roundcube 1.4.12 on CentOS 8

2021-12-10 Thread Gionatan Danti
Hi all, I recently updated a CentOS 8 machine to roundcubemail-1.4.12 (from 1.4.11) using remi's repo. I needed to explictly exclude the 1.5.0 packages because it was "shadowing" the latest 1.4.12 release. But now I can not see the 1.4.12 packages anymore - only 1.5.x are provided. Does

Re: [CentOS] Roundcube 1.4.12 on CentOS 8

2021-12-10 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-12-10 22:20 Leon Fauster via CentOS ha scritto: Am 10.12.21 um 22:15 schrieb Gionatan Danti: Hi all, I recently updated a CentOS 8 machine to roundcubemail-1.4.12 (from 1.4.11) using remi's repo. I needed to explictly exclude the 1.5.0 packages because it was "shadowing"

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

2021-07-19 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-07-19 21:38 Johnny Hughes ha scritto: Sure .. but just like you are using EL8 right now .. EL9 will be released before the 8-Stream EOL. Again .. Have no issues using whatever, but there will be plenty of time to get Stream 9 up and going for most loads before Stream 8 EOL. Any news

Re: [CentOS] yum quiet not really quiet anymore?

2021-07-24 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-07-24 20:12 Simon Matter ha scritto: Maybe redirecting only stderr to /dev/null is enough? No, it really goes to stdout. Anyway, masking all error redirecting them to /dev/null would be too heavy-handed. Regards. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it

[CentOS] yum quiet not really quiet anymore?

2021-07-24 Thread Gionatan Danti
Hi all, I noticed that "yum -q" (or "dnf" -q) on CentOS 8 is not really quiet anymore. For example (notiche the "upgraded" line): [root@localhost cron.d]# yum upgrade -y -q Upgraded: python3-perf-4.18.0-305.10.2.el8_4.x86_64 While yum historically had issue with the quiet option [1], this

[CentOS] Kernel live patching on CentOS Stream 9

2022-01-07 Thread Gionatan Danti
Dear all, is kernel live patching working for CentOS Stream 9? I know that I can enable it via cockpit or the command line, but are kernel patch files really available or do they require an active RHEL subscription? Thanks. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it

Re: [CentOS] chkrootkit---abandoned???

2022-01-19 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2022-01-19 01:52 Fred ha scritto: Just tried to check for updated chkrootkit and it appears there haven't been any since 0.53, 3 1/2 years ago. Anybody know if it is now accessible somewhere other than www.chkrootkit.org ?? Thanks in advance! Wikipedia reports its latest version at

Re: [CentOS] Is shellcheck safe?

2022-01-19 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2022-01-17 06:30 Thomas Stephen Lee ha scritto: Hi, I downloaded, extracted, and ran 0.8.0 https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/releases After running, I submitted the file to virustotal with the below result.

Re: [CentOS] Kernel live patching on CentOS Stream 9

2022-01-07 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2022-01-07 19:07 Brian Stinson ha scritto: There are 2 things to note here about kernel live patching: - We do not provide patch files in CentOS Stream (or previously in CentOS Linux, for that matter). We've always recommended RHEL as a better fit for folks that have hard requirements on this

Re: [CentOS] Kernel live patching on CentOS Stream 9

2022-01-14 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2022-01-14 15:30 Johnny Hughes ha scritto: No .. none of the CentOS Kernels were EVER binary compatible with any RHEL kernel. CentOS Linux has always been (now also including CentOS Stream 8 and 9) a completely separate 'closed' build system. We use the SAME source code to build things,

Re: [CentOS] Kernel live patching on CentOS Stream 9

2022-01-14 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2022-01-14 13:17 Josh Boyer ha scritto: RHEL's kernel live patching uses upstream open source kpatch. The sources to the kpatches are delivered in customer facing CDN repos at the same time as the kpatch itself. We do not use proprietary code to produce or apply the kpatches. I can only

[CentOS] Apache mpm itk

2022-09-23 Thread Gionatan Danti
Hi all, the EPEL repository for CentOS7 contains httpd-itk, an apache module for running different vhosts under specific user/group ID. For RHEL8 I can find it only in 3rd party repos, while I misses it entirely for RHEL9. Is the module deprecated? Can it be re-included into EPEL? Regards.

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading system from non-RAID to RAID1

2023-01-12 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2023-01-12 09:00 Simon Matter ha scritto: That's a huge improvement especially on very large disks. Hi, not-ancient versions of Linux MD RAID cope with these issues via two different means: - a write bitmap to track dirty disk regions; - an embedded bad list sector to remap such sectors

Re: [CentOS] Centos Stream 9 module list

2023-01-12 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2023-01-12 23:01 Josh Boyer ha scritto: There have been many discussions on modularity, both on this list and on lists like the epel and fedora devel lists, but I'll give a brief subset. Modularity provides parallel availability but not parallel installatability. Some software needs or

Re: [CentOS] Centos Stream 9 module list

2023-01-12 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2023-01-12 16:10 Josh Boyer ha scritto: Modules are one of several packaging formats we have. With CentOS Stream 9/ RHEL 9, we took user and customer feedback on how the default versions of software are packaged and determined that the defaults should be normal RPMs. Newer and alternative

Re: [CentOS] Apache mpm itk

2023-05-16 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2022-09-23 19:06 Gionatan Danti ha scritto: Hi all, the EPEL repository for CentOS7 contains httpd-itk, an apache module for running different vhosts under specific user/group ID. For RHEL8 I can find it only in 3rd party repos, while I misses it entirely for RHEL9. Is the module deprecated

Re: [CentOS] Apache mpm itk

2023-05-17 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2023-05-17 01:12 Chris Adams ha scritto: The package was orphaned in Fedora, so there's no maintainer to create and manage builds. Hi, I did not know that. Thanks for sharing. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.da...@assyoma.it - i...@assyoma.it GPG