Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Working with different Linux Distributions makes the life harder. So far I have found out that 'poweroff' & 'reboot' has the same behaviour on Linux/Unix/BSDs. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 15 юни 2020 г. 5:22:28 GMT+03:00, John Pierce написа: >On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:19 PM Pete Biggs

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:19 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > > > 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

Re: [CentOS] /etc/networks file

2020-06-14 Thread Jay Hart
> On Jun 14, 2020, at 19:55, Jay Hart wrote: >> >> I am having some network connectivity issues that manifest itself through >> ping, wget, dnf, >> etc. >> The symptoms are intermittent ability to ping, was wget, or connect to >> repositories. >> >> Where this inquiry is going is: If your

Re: [CentOS] /etc/networks file

2020-06-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jun 14, 2020, at 19:55, Jay Hart wrote: > > I am having some network connectivity issues that manifest itself through > ping, wget, dnf, etc. > The symptoms are intermittent ability to ping, was wget, or connect to > repositories. > > Where this inquiry is going is: If your internal

Re: [CentOS] Modifying username

2020-06-14 Thread Kenneth Porter
This might be of use to somebody. The Readme includes mention of some handy utilities for checking your database files. https://github.com/SpareSimian/user-group-migration ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

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-virt] very low performance of Xen guests

2020-06-14 Thread Adi Pircalabu via CentOS-virt
On 15-06-2020 4:49, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: [...] The testing machines are IBM blades, model H21 and H21XM. Initial tests were performed on the H21 with 16 GB RAM; during the last 6=7 weeks I've been using the H21XM with 64 GB. In all cases the guests were fully updated CentOS 7 -- initially

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 5:20 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > > > 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

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

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

[CentOS] /etc/networks file

2020-06-14 Thread Jay Hart
I am having some network connectivity issues that manifest itself through ping, wget, dnf, etc. The symptoms are intermittent ability to ping, was wget, or connect to repositories. Where this inquiry is going is: If your internal network is using 192.168.1 or 10..50.10, what should be in

Re: [CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread John Pierce
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 4:32 PM 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". > fwiw, i've

[CentOS] halt versus shutdown

2020-06-14 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
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 mandates this behavior in terms of configuration file? -- Leon

Re: [CentOS] Modifying username

2020-06-14 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 6/14/20 4:41 PM, Richard wrote: Date: Sunday, June 14, 2020 17:26:42 -0400 From: Jay Hart 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

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

Re: [CentOS] Modifying username

2020-06-14 Thread Jay Hart
> > >> Date: Sunday, June 14, 2020 17:26:42 -0400 >> From: Jay Hart >> >>> 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

Re: [CentOS] Modifying username

2020-06-14 Thread Richard
> Date: Sunday, June 14, 2020 17:26:42 -0400 > From: Jay Hart > >> 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

Re: [CentOS] Modifying username

2020-06-14 Thread Jay Hart
> 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 ABCLast. > In /etc/passwd the directory was shown in plain text. So

Re: [CentOS] Modifying username

2020-06-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
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 ABCLast. ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] Modifying username

2020-06-14 Thread Jay Hart
I modified a users name on my system. From ABCLast, to ALast (used as an example). I modified the username, then the group name of the user (to align with the new name), and then I moved the users home directory from /home/ABCLast, to /home/ALast. Then using vipw, edited the home directory to

Re: [CentOS] Updating microcode_ctl froze Centos7

2020-06-14 Thread Robin Lee
On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 17:39 +0100, Phil Perry wrote: > yum --enablerepo=\* clean all Thanks, that worked ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS-virt] very low performance of Xen guests

2020-06-14 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
Hello     For the past months I've been testing upgrading my Xen hosts to CentOS 7 and I face an issue for which I need your help to solve.     The testing machines are IBM blades, model H21 and H21XM. Initial tests were performed on the H21 with 16 GB RAM; during the last 6=7 weeks I've

Re: [CentOS] Updating microcode_ctl froze Centos7

2020-06-14 Thread Phil Perry
On 14/06/2020 17:09, Robin Lee wrote: On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 09:20 +0200, Robin Lee wrote: Today when I ran yum update two packages came up microcode_ctl and unbound-libs. The updating process went fine until it outputted Running transaction Updating : 2:microcode_ctl-2.1-61.6.el7_8.x86_64

Re: [CentOS] Updating microcode_ctl froze Centos7

2020-06-14 Thread Robin Lee
On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 09:20 +0200, Robin Lee wrote: > Today when I ran yum update two packages came up microcode_ctl > and unbound-libs. The updating process went fine until it outputted > > Running transaction > Updating : 2:microcode_ctl-2.1-61.6.el7_8.x86_64 > > then it just froze. I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS runs on six cores.

2020-06-14 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 12/06/20 18:59, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: On 6/12/20 2:16 AM, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: Do we need an upgrade ? Can you restate your question so that it's clear what version you are running, what hardware you are running it on, what you expect to happen, and what is happening