Re: [CentOS] C7, removing zoom problem

2023-02-08 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
ylinux.org/en/guides/desktop/mate_installation/ Pete On 2/7/23 23:53, Fred wrote: ah, that's OK for now, as long as it works. I'm trying to build up the courage to do a full system upgrade to Rocky.latest. I hate doing upgrades, it's such a pain in the rear to get everything work

Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice on CentOS 7

2022-11-03 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Why not simply download the latest and greatest version LibreOffice from their we site I've been doing that for several years on both Centos 7 and now Rocky 8 and it has worked without fail. On 11/3/22 10:46, H wrote: On 11/02/2022 03:53 PM,jefflp...@twc.com wrote: 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_6

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] 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] Compatible SATA controller needed

2022-03-27 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
compatible and ignore the controllers that I currently have. Thanks On 3/27/22 16:08, Robert Heller wrote: At Sun, 27 Mar 2022 12:23:21 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:55 AM Pete Geenhuizen wrote: I'm trying to install Centos 8 on an older PC but it fails b

Re: [CentOS] Compatible SATA controller needed

2022-03-27 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I've already checked ELRepo for a possible driver and have tried some that looked promising but no success. Thanks On 3/27/22 15:23, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:55 AM Pete Geenhuizen wrote: I'm trying to install Centos 8 on an older PC but it fails becaus

[CentOS] Compatible SATA controller needed

2022-03-27 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I'm trying to install Centos 8 on an older PC but it fails because the SATA controller isn't supported. Anyone have a source for a PCI/ePCI controller card that is compatible with Centos 8? Thanks Pete -- Unencumbered by the thought process. -- Click and Clack the Tappe

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] 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] 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 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

[CentOS] Gnome unlocks all desktop sessions

2021-11-09 Thread Pete Huckelba
unlocked one session and noticed all sessions unlocked at the same time. While the unlocking of VNC :1-:4 is quirky, at least it is still protected by the authentication provided by VNC; the unlocking of :0 is the trouble. Can anyone provide clarity or a work around to this? -Pete tigervnc

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] Warning: No matches found for: clamav on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)

2021-07-19 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
The latest version in in epel-testing, yum  --enablerepo=epel-testing update clam* will do the trick On 7/19/21 5:04 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) and installed epel repository. # rpm -qa | grep epel epel-release-7-13.noarch # cat /etc/redhat

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] 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] 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] 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] 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?

2021-04-27 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 8 future

2020-12-18 Thread Pete
At 13 December, 2020 Simon Avery wrote: > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list > > On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 at 23:55, edward via CentOS wrote: > > > appears facebook is running centos stream and also helping developing > > centos. > > A small but important point of order on that statement, based on the >

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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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

2020-12-09 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

[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] 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

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/

2020-12-08 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/

2020-12-08 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
> > 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
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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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
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] 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] 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] 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

2020-06-04 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] Looking for C8 AMD help

2020-04-24 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Hmm, I guess that I have something wrong with my kickstart configuration because all that I can find is libsss_autofs-2.2.0-19.el8_1.1.x86_64. Thanks for the heads up Pete On 4/23/20 9:08 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 4/23/20 4:23 PM, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: I'm migrating from C7 to C8.

[CentOS] Looking for C8 AMD help

2020-04-23 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
of which allow autofs to work flawlessly, I've tried turning firewalld off which made no difference. Here's my /etc/amd.remote file looks like new \   -addopts:=fstype=nfs,vers=4,soft,intr \   host==remotehost;type:=link;fs:=/export/data/& \   rhost:=remotehost;rfs:=/export/data/&a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS

2020-04-12 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 08:13 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Apr 12, 2020, at 05:47, Pete Biggs wrote: > > There are other options than LDAP, and servers other than OpenLDAP, but > > LDAP is the de facto standard. > > Unfortunately, OpenLDAP as a server is deprec

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS

2020-04-12 Thread Pete Biggs
> Yes, let me validate Mr. Kovacs comment. I am aware of the shortcomings > of NIS in the area of security. Let me provide some information on the > topography of my network and my reasoning for choosing NIS/NFS. Perhaps > an alternative may be suggested to meet my needs without totally >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Gstreamer and Mplayer

2020-03-30 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-03-29 at 23:18 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 2020-03-29 18:42, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:34:20 -0400 > > Mark LaPierre wrote: > > > > > What replaced Gstreamer and Mplayer in CentOS 8. RPM finder finds both > > > for CentOS 6 and 7 but not 8. There must be a rep

Re: [CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-25 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 19:15 +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 14:39 +, Leroy Tennison wrote: > > > Since you state that using -z is almost always a bad idea, could you > > > provide the rationale for that? I must be missing something. > > > > > I think the "ratio

Re: [CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-25 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 14:39 +, Leroy Tennison wrote: > Since you state that using -z is almost always a bad idea, could you > provide the rationale for that? I must be missing something. > I think the "rationale" is that at some point the compression/decompression takes longer than the time r

Re: [CentOS] signing modules

2020-03-16 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2020-03-16 at 12:42 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > > You need to turn off secure booting - you can still boot using UEFI, > > but if secure booting is turned on the kernel doesn't allow unsigned > > modules. > > Thanks - so is that command line to run ? Config file to edit ? > It's a BIOS set

Re: [CentOS] signing modules

2020-03-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I'm getting an error about a module not being signed so not loading. > CentOS 7.7 UEFI booting. (I cannot remove UEFI as hardware does not allow > it). > You need to turn off secure booting - you can still boot using UEFI, but if secure booting is turned on the kernel doesn't allow unsigned

Re: [CentOS] System Time

2020-03-08 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-03-08 at 17:59 +, Chris Olson via CentOS wrote: > A few years ago, one of our interns was curious about system > time keeping features in computer systems. This intern was > also the proud owner of an inexpensive Radio-Controlled Clock. > The intern wondered why computer motherboa

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Installing a single rpm package from desktop/browser on CentOS 7

2020-02-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> In many case, but in the situations I'm talking about here is really a > lot more cumbersome to use. To use the command line to install a a > package from a website, I have to > > 1. Right-click > 2. Select Save Link As > 3. Enter filename/directory > 4. Open a terminal > 5. Remember wh

Re: [CentOS] Encrypted container on CentOS VPS

2020-02-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > What is a "loop way"? I googled it together with Linux and file and > did not find anything. The proper term is "loopback filesystem". > Is this simply like a separate file that is LUKS-encrypted and I > would then mount it for remote access? Yes, it's a filesystem in a file that you mo

Re: [CentOS] C8 network install

2020-02-23 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-02-23 at 02:58 -0600, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > I'm building a new storage server. I was unable to use the CentOS-8- > x86_64-1905-dvd1.iso image written to a 256GB thumb drive. It kept > failing the integrity check. I had to use the much smaller CentOS-8- > x86_64-1905

Re: [CentOS] Relabel /usr directory

2020-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 12:59 +0300, Dimitri Zelenkin via CentOS wrote: > Pete Biggs wrote: > >> The -X option to rsync will copy all extended attributes from the old to > >> the new filesystem. > > Yes, I discovered this when I rsync'd a whole 4Tb filesystem an

Re: [CentOS] Relabel /usr directory

2020-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> The -X option to rsync will copy all extended attributes from the old to > the new filesystem. > Yes, I discovered this when I rsync'd a whole 4Tb filesystem and the backup system decided everything had changed because the attributes had changed. I've settled on using "rsync -avHAX ..." and

Re: [CentOS] Switching from lokkit (iptables) to firewalld

2020-02-04 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 19:04 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi All, > > Over the last 20 some years I have a file with about 200K worth of address > that have "wrongly" tried to connect to my boxes running centos. So the > file has one line per address or group of addresses like: > 2.244.112.0/24 > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8.1 and NVIDIA support

2020-01-29 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 19:11 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > Does CentOS 8.1 support OLDER generate NVIDIA ? > Like NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [GeForce GT 520M] > > I'm looking for hardware acceleration H264 type support. > As far as I know CentOS (i.e. RHEL) never supported accelerated nVidia drivers

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: UPD packet checksum verification?

2020-01-26 Thread Pete Biggs
First of all - disclaimer - I'm no network specialist, I just read and am interested in it. I may get things wrong!! > > > Both physical interfaces show the same. But does this mean it's on as in "rx- > checksumming: on" or off as in "tx-checksum-ipv4: off [fixed]"? As far as I understand i

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: UPD packet checksum verification?

2020-01-26 Thread Pete Biggs
> what does Centos 7 do with UPD packets having invalid checksums? By default I assume they are just dropped - that's what should happen. > > Are such packets inevitably dropped? Applications can specifically disable checksum checking for the kernel network stack on a per application basis,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Lyx - installing templates and class files

2020-01-25 Thread Pete Biggs
> It appears that most of the class files don't exist in the form of a > rpm. In fact, some of this stuff doesn't seem to be downloadable as > a .cls file (which is the format that lyx expects to see). Somehow > (that I haven't yet read up on) you are to convert a tex file that > you download f

Re: [CentOS] C8 Question

2020-01-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> I noticed a strange behaviour (don't know if this is the wanted > default). If I try ,from normal user shell, to run command like "reboot" > or "shutdown -h now" system will reboot/shutdown. This happens on tty > console, on xfce terminal and ssh session. I've just created a normal user on

Re: [CentOS] Blocking attacks from a range of IP addresses

2020-01-09 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > > As far as I can see fail2ban only deals with hosts and not networks - I > > suspect the issue is what is a "network": It may be obvious to you > > looking at the logs that these are all related, but you run the risk > > that getting denied accesses from, say, 1.0.0.1 and 1.1.0.93 and >

Re: [CentOS] Blocking attacks from a range of IP addresses

2020-01-09 Thread Pete Biggs
> Has anyone created a fail2ban filter for this type of attack? As of > right now, I have manually banned a range of IP addresses but would > like to automate it for the future. > As far as I can see fail2ban only deals with hosts and not networks - I suspect the issue is what is a "network": I

Re: [CentOS] Raspberri PI 4B 4GB install image

2019-12-26 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2019-12-25 at 20:33 -0500, MAILIST wrote: > You will have better luck with Raspbian. Just sayin' Yes, absolutely. I know it's appealing to install an OS you know and love, but the tweaks that the RasPi Foundation have put into the Raspbian kernel and utilities make it a no brainer. I run

Re: [CentOS] State of CentOS 8

2019-12-23 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 09:16 +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 23/12/2019 à 02:48, Akemi Yagi a écrit : > > You may want to watch the "CR work" on that wiki page. > > CR seems to be empty right now. > I thought that was the role of 8-stream now? P. __

Re: [CentOS] systemctl behaves like it is being piped to less in centos 8?

2019-12-13 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2019-12-13 at 16:44 +, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <5c2439dc6351659900b0c7ef421ae3f1e7b84fe4.ca...@biggs.org.uk>, > Pete Biggs wrote: > > > is what is annoying me. That seems to be what I would expect if I > > > piped it to less. I checked a fedo

Re: [CentOS] systemctl behaves like it is being piped to less in centos 8?

2019-12-13 Thread Pete Biggs
> > is what is annoying me. That seems to be what I would expect if I > piped it to less. I checked a fedora 31 and another centos 8 box and > am seeing the same behaviour. Am I missing something? > The environment variable $PAGER determines what pager to use. The default is 'less'. User

Re: [CentOS] External HD partitioning & formatting considerations

2019-12-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I would instead recommend getting/building a NAS aka file server and using > the network to share files, or make backups, or whatever. > And if the machines aren't on a network? P. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.

Re: [CentOS] CLAMD and EXIM - anyone got it working`

2019-11-29 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2019-11-29 at 09:56 +, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Has anyone actually got CLAMD and EXIM working? > > I've just had a go on a new VPS server without success. The only > thing that happened was that my server slowed because clamd was > hogging CPU. > > I have done a lot of googling and al

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-07 Thread Pete Biggs
> I had tried that also, but tried it again. > before my last try, I power-cycled the printer. > This time it worked. > For some reason CUPS now shows two queue names: > HL-L2360D-series Brother HL-L2360D series localhost.localdomain > HL-L2360D HLL2360D > both Brother HL-L2360D for

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