Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 disable the the hot corner

2020-05-12 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2020-05-12 at 16:52 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > I have loaded the gnome-shell-extension-no-hot-corner-3.28.1-11.el7.noarch > and also the gnome-tweaks. > > When I run gnome-tweaks no where in there do I find the disable hot corner. > > where is that ? It should be under "Extensions" in gn

Re: [CentOS] ether-wake

2020-05-18 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-05-17 at 20:25 -0600, R C wrote: > Ok, I get that, found it before; "typically sent as a UDP datagram to > port 0, 7 or 9, or directly over Ethernet as EtherType 0x0842" > > > The keyword being 'typically', but what is it that ether-wake actually > uses/does? (I need to forwar

Re: [CentOS] ether-wake

2020-05-18 Thread Pete Biggs
> actually using UDP. What I am NOT looking for is some patronizing answer > disconnected from the question. > > > I really wonder why you feel the need to go out on a branch to start > lecturing and quoting answers that are not asked for. > > > If you don't know the answer, simply don't re

Re: [CentOS] Recover from an fsck failure

2020-05-28 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I ran mke2fs to locate the backup superblocks: > > mke2fs -n /dev/mapper/vg_voinet01-lv_log That will only tell you what mke2fs would do on that machine. I don't know if it will be the same on every machine. You should probably run dumpe2fs /dev/mapper/vg_voinet01-lv_log | grep superbl

Re: [CentOS] user names

2020-06-01 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2020-06-01 at 13:13 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > How can I define a local use with "@" in the name > > useradd "bob@myname" gives error. > > I "need" to have the @ sign in the name -is that possible. Silly reason - > the system I am trying to send emails to the linux server has a bug. I'

Re: [CentOS] migrating from sendmail to postfix, centos 6 to centos 8

2020-06-04 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I am getting new hardware for this machine, and plan to setup centos 8, > which uses postfix, not sendmail. sendmail is also available - postfix is just the default. > I've been trying to provision a vm > with the proper configuration, but cannot get any emails delivered to root. > >

Re: [CentOS] migrating from sendmail to postfix, centos 6 to centos 8

2020-06-04 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Fair enough, and I now understand the issues with root receiving and > handling emails. The problem with the alias is that ALL emails are being > sent out to my ISP, and on to the particular user. Even for local users that are in /etc/passwd? > > I would like to make this user receive e

Re: [CentOS] migrating from sendmail to postfix, centos 6 to centos 8

2020-06-05 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 07:32 -0500, Chuck Campbell wrote: > On 6/4/2020 8:58 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > Fair enough, and I now understand the issues with root receiving and > > > handling emails. The problem with the alias is that ALL emails are being > > > sen

Re: [CentOS] Modifying username

2020-06-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 17:26 -0400, Jay Hart wrote: > > On 6/14/20 1:39 PM, Jay Hart wrote: > > > You may need to modify /etc/shadow for consistency. > > > > > > I don't know what to do here. Need some guidance please. > > > > Run "vipw -s" and make the same change to that file's record for ABCLa

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 01:32 +0200, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Working with different OSs can be quite challenging (mentally :-)). > > I wonder why the command "halt" has not same result between EL6 and EL8. > > To shutdown the vm or workstation in EL8 i must use "shutdown now". > > Who man

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread Pete Biggs
> fwiw, i've always used 'init 0' to shut down all sorts of unix/linux > systems. In EL7/EL8, init is now a symlink as well because everything is controlled by systemd. > On old school unix, and I think even early Linux, halt was an > /immediate/ halt, as in catch fire. might as well hit t

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread Pete Biggs
> I'm quite sure that in original Berkeley Unix, as on the VAX 11/780, halt > was an immediate halt of the CPU without any process cleanup or file system > umounting or anything. Early SunOS (pre-Solaris) was like this, too. > The SunOS 4.1.2 man page for halt says NAME halt - stop

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

2020-06-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> About Oracle as alternative. Oracle Linux is not an alternative to > CentOS but for RHEL and if I will force to pay for enteprise system > currently I will pay RHEL, not OL. Over this, OL is not the only > enterprise distro that a "user" could choose. If support is needed there > are SUSE (

Re: [CentOS] firewall questions

2020-06-21 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-06-21 at 14:33 -0500, Chuck Campbell wrote: > I'm running Centos 7.8.2003, with firewalld. > > I was getting huge numbers of ssh attempts per day from a few specific > ip blocks. > > The offenders are 45.0.0.0/24, 49.0.0.0/24, 51.0.0.0/24, 111.0.0.0/24 > and 118.0.0.0/24, and they

Re: [CentOS] firewall questions

2020-06-21 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-06-21 at 16:47 -0400, mailist wrote: > On 2020-06-21 15:33, Chuck Campbell wrote: > > I'm running Centos 7.8.2003, with firewalld. > > > > I was getting huge numbers of ssh attempts per day from a few specific > > ip blocks. > > If you can control the ssh clients, switch your port nu

Re: [CentOS] Wrong version of php

2020-06-22 Thread Pete Biggs
> I have googled without finding the answer but how do I make sure > /all/ processes use php72 rather than the default 54 in CentOS 7? > Surely there must be a better way than overwriting /usr/bin/php. What > have I forgotten to do? > You can't/shouldn't do that. The point of the Enterprise OS

Re: [CentOS] Unable to find the used space

2020-06-29 Thread Pete Biggs
> > # du -sh /* Use 'du -xh --max-depth=1 /' it will clean up your output and show you only things on the root partition. And as someone else said, deleted but open files are not removed until the file handle is closed. This is used by some applications to "hide" totally temporary files. Do 'l

[CentOS] CentOS 7 rsyslog and ELK

2020-07-10 Thread Pete Biggs
I asked a similar question about a year ago and didn't get any answers. So I thought I'd try again. What do people do to get their syslog messages on CentOS 7 into a remote ELK stack. I've tried lots of things involving rsyslog, filebeat, redis, logstash and so on in lots of different configurati

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 rsyslog and ELK

2020-07-10 Thread Pete Biggs
> > What do people do to get their syslog messages on CentOS 7 into a > > remote ELK stack. I've tried lots of things involving rsyslog, > > filebeat, redis, logstash and so on in lots of different configurations > > but nothing really works. > > > > I can get rsyslog to talk directly to logstas

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 rsyslog and ELK

2020-07-10 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2020-07-10 at 16:44 -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > I don't use ELK at the moment, but is this helpful? > > % journalctl -f --output=json > > The above command prints the continuous output of the systemd journal in > json format. > Thanks. The problem is getting that into logstash. But

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

2020-08-02 Thread Pete Biggs
> On the side note: it is Microsoft that signs one of Linux packages > now. We seem to have made one more step away from “our” computers > being _our computers_. Am I wrong? > Secure booting using UEFI requires that the code is signed - that is the "secure" bit. Microsoft are the CA for that si

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Pete Biggs
> > You just need to reinstall the kernel and it should work. > > Is it possible to bump the kernel version number to make sure the kernel gets re-installed on automated installs? Or would this break the compatibility with RHEL? P. ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 DNS resolution not working as expected

2020-08-06 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 10:26 +0100, isdtor wrote: > [root@localhost ~]# lsb_release -d > Description: CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core) > [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf > # Generated by NetworkManager > search subdomain.company.com company.com > nameserver 1.2.3.4 > nameserver 5.6.7.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 DNS resolution not working as expected

2020-08-06 Thread Pete Biggs
> > man host > > > >-N ndots > >The number of dots that have to be in name for it to be > > considered absolute. The default value is that defined using > >the ndots statement in /etc/resolv.conf, or 1 if no ndots > > statement is present. Names with fewer dots

Re: [CentOS] Installing devtoolset-6 on CentOS 8

2020-08-18 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 19:28 -0400, Eric Gervais-Despres wrote: > Has anybody tried (and succeeded) to get gcc 6.3.1 (or devtoolset-6) to > work on CentOS 8? As far as I can see SCL & devtoolset are not available for CentOS 8 - the toolsets are integrated as part of the main distro, and they are on

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

2020-08-31 Thread Pete Biggs
> Why are you even posting this to a public list? Use your blog for > this kind of thing. I know you have one, you post it repeatedly to > random lists. > At least posting to a public list like this means that there is some chance people will read the subsequent posts and realise the quality

Re: [CentOS] Run as root on reboot

2020-10-29 Thread Pete Biggs
> > By "initial setup", I meant during the initial install of the > operating system, starting from "net-install". Maybe one user is > defined. The reboot command is issued from a script that was > initiated by hand. > So you want it to run as the final part of the install process?? If t

Re: [CentOS] Setting up NIS on Centos 8

2020-12-06 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I found this: > > https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_8&p=nis&f=1 > > I've been told in the past that NIS should not be used because of some > supposed security issues. > > Can someone site any authoritative documentation concerning the security > issues extant in NIS? There'

Re: [CentOS] Thanks a lot for 8.3 Update

2020-12-07 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Thanks a lot for the 8.3 update.😊 > I would like to point out one thing I faced. > I downloaded the iso from one mirror. > After installing, I installed a package (rsync). > Then some packages, including dnf, got downgraded to 8.2. > Just a test server, not production. > I suspect that not al

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

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
Forgive a bit of cynicism ... On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 09:06 -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat > Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead

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

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
> > FAQ:"Updates for the CentOS Stream 8 distribution continue through the > full RHEL support phase." > > What does this "full" exactly means? Will C8S be "closed" in May 31, > 2024 [*] but RHEL8 still supported through Maintenance support mode > until 2029? I too would be interested to know

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

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 17:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:15:17PM +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > "CentOS will become the developer playground" > > This one is categorically not the case. Even Fedora isn't a developer > playground. Every

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

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
> > It is not the same as Rawhide is all I am saying. > > It is based on the current release and it is being modified for some reason. > > That modification can be a bugfix from a reported bug, it can be an > enhancement for a given package or it can be a security update. > > Each of these upd

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

2020-12-09 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 19:52 -0800, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:00 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > > > The problem is that we won't know if it will work. When CentOS matched > > the RHEL point releases we knew that an RPM/driver targeted for RHEL > > 8.2

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

2020-12-09 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I think what a lot of people are concerned about is the rolling-release > > aspect of this. There will be no definitive versioning of CentOS in the > > future - all you will be able to say is "fully updated" and it won't be > > possible to slot a CentOS system in to exactly match a RHEL versio

[CentOS] Moving to CentOS 8 Stream

2020-12-09 Thread Pete Biggs
It's got to be done, so may as well test it ... The FAQ says to do: dnf install centos-release-stream dnf distro-sync This I did and everything went fine. I checked before doing the distro- sync and there was a load of new Stream repos in /etc/yum.repos.d Rebooted the machine and dnf

Re: [CentOS] Moving to CentOS 8 Stream

2020-12-09 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > > 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. What, in amongst the hundreds of messages, he said it wasn't ready!! Why publish a FAQ and a web page telling you how to migrate without a grea

Re: [CentOS] Moving to CentOS 8 Stream

2020-12-09 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 11:00 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Put this line : > > dnf swap centos-{linux,stream}-repos > > after > > dnf install centos-release-stream > Is there away to recover the system I tried it on - if I run that command now I get No match for argument: centos-stream-

Re: [CentOS] Moving to CentOS 8 Stream

2020-12-10 Thread Pete Biggs
Johnny - Thanks for that. It did mostly work - it wasn't keen on installing the RPM you pointed to, but once it did the distro swap worked and the system is now only using 8-stream as its repositories. Thanks P. > sure .. you can manually add the one repo required to manually do the > swap c

Re: [CentOS] Update path question in connection with CentOS Stream?

2020-12-10 Thread Pete Biggs
> when someone has installed a CentOS 7.1 in the past, > > and did 'yum update' regularily, his/she got a CentOS 7.8 now without > any reinstallation procedure or other complications; > > when the same wanted to update to CentOS 8 he/she had to do a new install; > > what happens to CentOS Str

[CentOS] 8-stream dnf overly verbose

2020-12-10 Thread Pete Biggs
In moving a test machine from 8.3 to 8-stream the main thing I've noticed is that dnf has become very verbose. It's as if someone has turned on the -v permanently. I've tried using '-q' (it says nothing then) and I've tried adjusting the debuglevel, but nothing seems to affect it. I get things

Re: [CentOS] 8-stream dnf overly verbose

2020-12-11 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 11:13 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 03:53:04PM +, Randal, Phil wrote: > > Funnily enough mere mortals like me aren't allowed to view that bug report. > > Are you sure? I am able to see it without logging in. > > > > I've filed a bug: https://bug

Re: [CentOS] question centos stream 8 applying updates

2020-12-11 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 22:05 +0100, Gionatan Danti wrote: > 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

Re: [CentOS] rare but repeating system crash in C7

2021-01-03 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I commented out those entries in /etc/auto.master before modifying the > fstab entry: > > UUID=259ec5ea-e8a4-465a-9263-1c06217b9aaf /mnt/backup > ext4,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=15min noauto 0 2 That's not correct. See 'man fstab'. It should be device m

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

2021-01-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Given we are not developing drivers or applications (other than websites > and web applications), is the change a non-issue for my use-case? I've seen > it written that CentOS Stream is the "development version" of RHEL but also > that we shouldn't have considered RHEL to be the beta for CentO

Re: [CentOS] LTS

2021-01-12 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 14:47 +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:39 PM John R. Dennison wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:00:00PM +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > > > > > > CentOS Linux can continue as Fedora LTS or something similar with a > > > five-year life

Re: [CentOS] Transition test report going from CentOS8 to Debian 10.

2021-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I did the move and also looked at several source RPMs. One thing to note > is that by default, you'll end up with packages replaced by updated > packages from UEK repository. I've removed the UEK repo and replaced all > packages with the corresponding base packages. That brings you very clos

Re: [CentOS] R730xd & SD card identfication

2021-03-07 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2021-03-07 at 11:17 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > We have migrated a platform to a Centos 8 host using kvm guest machines > > Recently I tried to copy one of the guests to the external SD card on > the back of the Dell R730xd, but I have not been able to get the Centos >

Re: [CentOS] R730xd & SD card identfication

2021-03-08 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I am beginning to be persuaded you are right. However, I have seen > some posts about putting vmware either on the SD card or internal usb > stick that made me think the SD card could be addressable. If Dell has > this limited to Dell flash cards instead of a regular SD card that > might e

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-27 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 09:36 -0400, Carlos Oliva wrote: > Thank you for your response Rich. I have heard that Stream is beta > releases of RH -- rather distressing. Is this a proper characterization? > You heard wrong. Stream is effectively a rolling early release of the next point release of RHE

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-27 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > My comment was just to balance Pete's as the truth between Pete's > statement and Carlos feelings is where I'm sure my comment pointed...  > Out of interest, do you think my statement is factually incorrect? If so, in what way? P. ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-29 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Quite agree. For me, not too knowledgeable in these things person, this > looks exactly what Fedoraa while ago was: huge opening of RedHat to > wide open source community. Maybe Fedora didn't live up to the > expectation, then good luck to CentOS to live up to this expectation. I don't th

Re: [CentOS] where to get reliable/open source license manager

2021-05-29 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I know flexlm but I never heard of an open source project with the same > functionality. Open source is usually free to use so there is no need to > control the number of licenses used :-) > There is an OpenLM that, ISTR, is a replacement for FlexLM. I've used the tools associated with it t

Re: [CentOS] where to get reliable/open source license manager

2021-05-29 Thread Pete Biggs
> > If your code is written in Python, what’s to stop users from just > rewriting the license check? In my youth I realised that a licensed package was calling a separate executable to check the license - the return code determined if the product was licensed. I replaced the license code with a s

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Pete Biggs
> > There are probably more security updates which should be installed by > yum --security but those are the packages I am most interested in. > > Please change as necessary to allow yum --security to work. > CentOS does not provide the metadata to allow the --security flag to work. It doesn't

Re: [CentOS] hosts.deny, fail2ban etc.

2021-07-27 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 16:43 -0400, H wrote: > > Running CentOS 7. I was under the impression - seemingly mistaken - > > that by adding a rule to /etc/hosts.deny such as ALL: aaa.bbb.ccc.* > > would ban all attempts from that network segment to connect to the > > server, ie before fail2ban would (ev

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 on Dell after update and reboot running at HZ not Mhz

2021-12-23 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 22:02 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > I have a Dell R320 > > > What on earth is making this machine run sooo slow ??? > > Its OFF by a factor of 10 - it should be 1800 mhz > I have lots of R440 and one of them went like this. I tried lots of things to get it back up to full spe

Re: [CentOS] printing on C8S

2022-01-07 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2022-01-07 at 10:21 -0500, Fred wrote: > John, it is a Brother DCP7065DN, on the hardwired network and visible to > all the computers here. > > Actually, I just installed Mate (can't stand that Gnome-thing) but neither > it nor Gnome shows any printer config utilities. > > Barry, I'll che

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream 8 dnf fails

2022-02-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 05:55 -0600, Bill Gee wrote: > Every time I run dnf, I get this: > > = > [root@vmhost2 ~]# dnf upgrade > CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream >70 B/s | 38 B 00:00 > Error: Failed to download metadata f

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream 8 dnf fails

2022-02-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 06:36 -0600, Bill Gee wrote: > H. I thought I was already on stream, but apparently not. > /etc/redhat-release says it is not stream. > > I looked for a method to upgrade. Found some notes at techrepublic. > The first step is to install centos-release-stream, which

Re: [CentOS] Package of GCC 12 on CentOS 7

2022-06-20 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2022-06-20 at 09:31 +0100, david allan finch wrote: > Is there an rpm of GCC 12 (or at least higher than 9) available to > download and install, or is it a case of downloading and build from the > source yourself? > That's what Software Collections is for. https://www.softwarecollecti

Re: [CentOS] Package of GCC 12 on CentOS 7

2022-06-20 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2022-06-20 at 09:20 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > On 2022-06-20 05:03, Pete Biggs wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-06-20 at 09:31 +0100, david allan finch wrote: > > > Is there an rpm of GCC 12 (or at least higher than 9) available to > > > download and install, or is i

Re: [CentOS] calendar

2011-05-27 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > >My manager's asked me about something that can run on our CentOS boxes > > that can connect to an (bleah!) Exchange server's calendar. It doesn't > > look like Lightening can, and from some googling, it appears that > > Evolution claims to, but It's got to be able to set dates, etc

[CentOS] boost-openmpi problems in 7.2

2015-12-17 Thread Pete Biggs
After the 7.2 upgrade boost-openmpi-1.53.0-25 was installed, along with openmpi-1.10.0-10.  The old openmpi was then replaced with compat- openmpi16-1.6.4-10.  All fine. Except boost-openmpi has a dependency on the old libmpi.so.1 and the new openmpi has libmpi.so.12: # ldd libboost_mpi-mt.so.

Re: [CentOS] boost-openmpi problems in 7.2

2015-12-21 Thread Pete Biggs
re labelled as conflicting. As I said, if you load just mpi/compat-openmpi16-x86_64 it can't find the boost-openmpi library; if you load just mpi/openmpi-x86_64 it can't find the correct libmpi version. P. > > > Tony > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Pete Biggs w

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

2017-05-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Thanks, I tried rh-perl, and it worked for a test. It does not replace the > existing > perl installation. You have to explicitly use that version. Yes, that's how SCL works. A lot of system software uses perl (and python and gcc) so replacing the installed version without testing the eff

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

2017-05-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > If this sort of stance seems risible to you, you probably shouldn’t > > be using CentOS. This is what distinguishes a “stable” type of OS > > from a “bleeding edge” one. > > When a version of a software has been released 20 years ago, > that doesn´t mean it´s more stable than a version of

Re: [CentOS] System Time Source

2017-05-24 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 13:53 +, Chris Olson wrote: > One of our STEM interns recently observed that there are > inexpensive clocks that sync via radio to standard time > services.  This begged a question about why every computer > would not have a radio module to receive time.  Our senior > staf

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

2017-05-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > The problem is that the expensive POS software doesn´t run on Centos > because the perl version Centos uses is too old. Life is a compromise. If the expensive POS software isn't designed to run on RHEL/CentOS then you will need to run it on a different OS. I know your desire is to keep ever

Re: [CentOS] Disable Top Left Hot Corner

2017-05-27 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 14:51 -0400, Mike - st257 wrote: > awk one-liner found here: > https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/196726 > > Whether it's persistent through package updates is another matter. > Unfortunately that doesn't work as the requisite file (/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/layout.js) d

Re: [CentOS] Disable Top Left Hot Corner

2017-05-29 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 18:14 +0200, Andreas Benzler wrote: > On Manjaro is running this one as default > > https://github.com/Edenhofer/Minimalism-Gnome-Shell/tree/master/nohotco > r...@azuri.free.fr > Raymundo has said multiple times that he doesn't want/can't use Gnome Shell extensions and that

Re: [CentOS] looking for graphing tools

2017-06-20 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I can figure out some simple scripting to turn the maillog entries > into times since the epoch, or other formats, if needed, but I have > no experience with the various graphing tools availabe, or even > what (or where) they are. > If you are talking about scripting graphs, then Gnuplot is

Re: [CentOS] Question Mirrors ?

2017-06-23 Thread Pete Biggs
> > in the last weeks I have many, many Errors from chron hourly on my systems :- > (. > There's been some speculation, but it would probably help if you actually told us what the errors are that you are seeing, that might point us in the correct direction to help you. P. _

Re: [CentOS] Physically moving a mail server vs. cached DNS

2017-07-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> > In your experience, what's the "longest" a DNS cache is configured to > keep outdated information? A day? A week? A month? Longer? > That is controlled by the TTL (time to live) entry. A DNS server must refresh it's cache within the TTL for the entry. Using the '-a' option to host will give

Re: [CentOS] Physically moving a mail server vs. cached DNS

2017-07-01 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2017-07-01 at 11:37 +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 01/07/2017 à 11:00, Pete Biggs a écrit : > > That is controlled by the TTL (time to live) entry. A DNS server must > > refresh it's cache within the TTL for the entry. Using the '-a' option > > to

Re: [CentOS] Physically moving a mail server vs. cached DNS

2017-07-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> You should check to see if your old SOA is still showing themselves > as authoritative for your domain. If they are, then anyone who uses > their nameservers will still get the old record(s) for your domain. > > If they are still showing themselves as authoritative (which I think > is the case)

Re: [CentOS] System Start-Up Issue

2017-07-03 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Having very little experience with such start-up issues, we are at a loss > to determine how to salvage the CentOS 6.9 virtual machine.  Is there a > standard way to start up a system without any extras like gnome to see if > we can get a running system?  Would it be wise to attempt using yum

Re: [CentOS] System Start-Up Issue Progress

2017-07-04 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Starting ipmidetectd: ipmidetectd: No nodes configured  [FAILED] > Starting sendmail: > > It is not clear to me whether the boot-up process is hanging due > to the failed starting of ipmidetectd or sendmail, but I suspect > that the ipmidetectd start up failure is the actual cause. It is > n

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Since Apache is running as system user 'apache' and system group > 'apache', I thought it sensible that hosted files be owned by that process. > > # ls -l /var/www/html/ > total 24 > drwxr-x---. 3 apache apache 4096 6 juil. 09:37 default > drwxr-x---. 3 apache apache 4096 6 juil. 10:01 php

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 12:31 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Bill Gee wrote: > > > File permissions are 574. Note that owners are NOT required to have higher > > permissions than groups! > > But the owner can change the permissions, no? Not necessarily. In order to change permis

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread Pete Biggs
> > File permissions are 574. Note that owners are NOT required to have higher > permissions than groups! > > find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod 574 {} \; Normal files really shouldn't have their execute bit set. There is no need to (since they aren't going to be executed) and just sets u

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 12:56 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > Not necessarily. In order to change permissions on a file you need to > > have write access to the directory (i.e. the special file in the parent > > directory that descri

Re: [CentOS] certificate for www.xxxx.xx has expired ?? (hostname)

2017-07-08 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I found this Morning a Message in my Logs, that is new for me and I never > seen > this before? > > Is this a Error in the Certificate System?? No, it means that the SSL certificate has expired - they only have a limited validity and these default certificates are generated at install tim

Re: [CentOS] vfstp and renaiming of files with ftp client

2017-07-13 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I have a vsftp server and two users for up and download. > > If user Alice uploads a file, the owner is set to Alice as expected > "-rw-r--r-- alice ftpuploadgroup" > > Now Bob can login to the same folder and is able to rename the uploaded > file. > > Bob can also rename an uploaded folde

Re: [CentOS] vfstp and renaiming of files with ftp client

2017-07-13 Thread Pete Biggs
> > The permissions for the upload folder are drwx-wx--- and the owner is > Bob group is ftpuploadgroup > > Alice is member of that group, but should only drop files in. > > The files are ownd by Alice, and I'm bit iritated, taht Bob can rename > tham ... as Bob only has read permision (from th

Re: [CentOS] vfstp and renaiming of files with ftp client

2017-07-14 Thread Pete Biggs
> the goal is, that the FTP server is a Dropbox for Alice, so she can > upload files and folders and is not able to see the uploaded files > (drwx-wx--- for the main older). > > Bob should be able to rename the files and folders by ftp. (and of > course be able to download them.) > > If this is

Re: [CentOS] Thanks to every one

2017-07-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> let's think about what a hpc cluster is for. > Second, one should always ask the question where security is to be > applied, +1 You have to assess your environment and weigh up the benefits of uptime vs security. Sometimes the security that is fixed in a new kernel is inconsequential in your

Re: [CentOS] Cron sending to root after changing MAILTO

2017-07-20 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 23:31 +, Chad Cordero wrote: > It’s being rejected before it even reaches the mailbox, so forwarding > won’t work.  Crond should really be using the MAILTO variable and > it’s not. > Have you restarted crond after you made the changes? P. ___

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Install

2017-08-17 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 16:16 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > It looks like its these files: > drwx-- 2 rootroot8192 Aug 17 16:11 lu10398gvo2au.tmp > drwx-- 2 rootroot8192 Aug 17 16:14 lu3245gvrkvp.tmp > drwx-- 2 rootroot4096 Aug 17 16:14 lu4298gvwjcr.tmp > > That just

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Install

2017-08-17 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 16:01 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > This is a listing. > > total 44 > drwx-- 2 rootroot 6 Aug 17 15:36 lu26465gujqup.tmp > drwx-- 2 rootroot8192 Aug 17 15:37 lu27063gukci0.tmp > drwx-- 2 rootroot8192 Aug 17 15:43 lu3205guot5q.tmp > drwx-

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Install

2017-08-20 Thread Pete Biggs
Sorry for the late reply, I had to go away. > > > > > > > > > It's where tracker extracts files. > > > > > > Google for "centos7 tracker disable" > > > > > > I suspect the lu*.tmp directories are from when tracker uses LO to > > > extract and index documents. > > > > > > If you don't use, or

Re: [CentOS] A potentially newbie question about vulnerability patching speed in CentOS 7.x's yum repository

2017-08-30 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > Same problem happens to other software packages such as: > glibc > tcpdump > libnl > mariadb > ... > (and many others) > > > Why is that? and are those software packages not going to get fixed? > There have been various threads concerning this in the past month. You can find them in the

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CentOS, PHP & OwnCloud/Nextcloud: the version dilemma

2017-09-20 Thread Pete Biggs
Straying OT ... > > On Tue, September 19, 2017 1:42 pm, Nux! wrote: > > > Unfortunately the same can be said about Ruby, RoR, Python etc etc etc. > > > > It is not as much true about languages themselves (though it is true, and > > I for one call python "sneaky snake" just because of that ;-), a

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: hardware: NVidia proprietary driver, C7.4

2017-09-26 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 14:18 -0400, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 01:40:54PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > > This is really frustrating. I've got a server with two K20c Tesla cards. > > > > I > > > need to use the

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: hardware: NVidia proprietary driver, C7.4

2017-09-26 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 13:40 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > This is really frustrating. I've got a server with two K20c Tesla cards. I > need to use the proprietary drivers to use the CUDA toolkit. Btw, I had no > trouble at all with building for CentOS 7.3 > > I have what NVidia claims is the co

Re: [CentOS] sendmail

2017-10-02 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 23:18 +, Larry Martell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 6:26 PM Stephen John Smoogen > > > Sendmail is not the standard email server for EL7 > > > What is the the standard email server? > Postfix P. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] CUDA tools?

2017-10-06 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 17:07 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > vychytraly . wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:51 PM, wrote: > > > > > > So, kmod-nvidia installed. Trouble is, I have no tool to test it. And my > > > user might need nvcc, which, of course, is only provided by the NVidia > > > CUDA,

Re: [CentOS] CUDA tools?

2017-10-06 Thread Pete Biggs
> I suppose the epel kmod-nvidia might count - it will allow CUDA apps to > run but you can't develop with it. Sorry, I did, of course, mean elrepo, not epel. P. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cento

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 13:55 +, KM wrote: > First off - let me say I am not an administrator. I need to know if > there is an easy way to increase my /boot partition. When I > installed CentOS 6 after running 5, it was my oversight not to > increase the /boot size. it's too small and I can't

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Bash help

2017-10-25 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 12:02 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > I know this is for CentOS stuff, but I'm at a loss on how to build a > script that does what I need it to do. It's probably really logically > simple, I'm just not seeing it. Hopefully someone will take pity on me > and at least give me a

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