[CentOS] Re: Latest version of kate editor

On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 19:22, H wrote: I have installed the kate editor on Centos 6.7 but it seems to be a very old version, 3.3.4, installed as part of kdesdk. On Centos 7 I can simply run 'yum install kate' but, alas, not on Centos 6. What is the recommended way of updating kate

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

On Mon, February 1, 2016 1:33 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Excerpt: > Running rm -rf / on any UEFI Linux distribution can potentially > perma-brick your system. Yes, I kind of like "rm -rf /". If my memory doesn't fail me, long ago it was one of the tricky questions in sysadmin exam (not that

Re: [CentOS] NICs order

Once upon a time, m.r...@5-cent.us said: > Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Also, if you add rules to /etc/udev/rules.d, you should rebuild your > initrd. > > ?!?!?!?! THAT I had never considered, nor done, and I'm sure that in > CentOS 6, I've changed things there, and just rebooted.

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

On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:44:48 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: > Did someone think running "rm -rf /" is a good idea? Quote from one of the people who commented on that article: QUOTE: You have this in a script: rm -rf "${DIRECTORY}"/ Now, you have a bug in the script and ${DIRECTORY} is not

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

>> Excerpt: >> Running rm -rf / on any UEFI Linux distribution can potentially perma-brick >> your system. > > "And they closed the ticket"? That tuxedo on the cockroach is so elegent! > Ok, *now* tell me why we shouldn't hate systemd? > mark As much as I don't like systemd, it has NOTHING

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and network printers: FYI

On Mon, February 1, 2016 1:00 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> On Mon, February 1, 2016 9:17 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> I got an email from a user that I'd just handed a new CentOS 7 >>> workstation to, wondering where all the printers were. >>> >>> It took some

Re: [CentOS] NICs order

Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 02/01/2016 07:00 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: >> The issue here may be systemd > ... >> Web documentation at freedesktop.org says net.ifnames needs to be set to zero, I found just the opposite but if it doesn't work for you try both before giving up. > > Just to clarify:

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

On 02/01/2016 11:54 AM, Frank Cox wrote: You have this in a script: rm -rf "${DIRECTORY}"/ Now, you have a bug in the script and ${DIRECTORY} is not initialized. On GNU systems, rm should not remove '/' recursively unless --no-preserve-root is specified.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and network printers: FYI

Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Mon, February 1, 2016 9:17 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I got an email from a user that I'd just handed a new CentOS 7 >> workstation to, wondering where all the printers were. >> >> It took some investigation to find /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf, and see, >> in it,

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

Excerpt: Running rm -rf / on any UEFI Linux distribution can potentially perma-brick your system. As a public service announcement, recursively removing all of your files from / is no longer recommended. On UEFI distributions by default where EFI variables are accessible via /sys, this can now

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

Once upon a time, m.r...@5-cent.us said: > Excerpt: > Running rm -rf / on any UEFI Linux distribution can potentially > perma-brick your system. Did someone think running "rm -rf /" is a good idea? > Ok, *now* tell me why we shouldn't hate systemd? This has zero to do with

Re: [CentOS] NICs order

On 01/02/16 09:16 AM, Daniel Ruiz Molina wrote: > Hi, > > After installing CentOS 7 in a server with 2 NICs, system detects eth0 > and eth1 in reserve order. I would like to have eth1 as eth0 and eth0 as > eth1. I have forced HWADDR attribute in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-etc{0,1},

[CentOS-virt] How to build CentOS 7 AMI

I'd like to revisit the thread about how the CentOS 7 AMIs are created ( https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-July/013652.html) and see if the process can be published in the https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build repository or another relevant location. With CentOS 7

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

On Mon, February 1, 2016 4:23 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 02/01/2016 01:48 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> I just discovered that I couldn't even re-cite alphabet correctly today: >> it is /bin that you loose, but /etc alphabetically goes after /dev, so >> will not even loose your /etc, > > I'm

Re: [CentOS] Latest version of kate editor

On 02/01/16 14:20, Yamaban wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 19:22, H wrote: > >> I have installed the kate editor on Centos 6.7 but it seems to be a >> very old version, 3.3.4, installed as part of kdesdk. On Centos 7 I >> can simply run 'yum install kate' but, alas, not on Centos 6. >>

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

wait. would deleting the inode /sys/(whatever) actually modify UEFI memory?sure, writing to those inodes could do all sorts of harm, but deleting the inodes in the /sys filesystem, I'm not so sure this isn't a tempest in a teapot so to speak. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in

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

On 02/01/2016 01:48 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: I just discovered that I couldn't even re-cite alphabet correctly today: it is /bin that you loose, but /etc alphabetically goes after /dev, so will not even loose your /etc, I'm pretty sure none of that is correct. Once "rm" launches, all of the

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

On 02/01/2016 01:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: would deleting the inode /sys/(whatever) actually modify UEFI memory? Yes. That is how the UEFI management interface works. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-es] VM dentro de VM con KVM

On 01/02/16 16:39, daniel wrote: > Gracias Ernesto, > > Solucionado, siguiendo estos pasos => > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_enable_nested_virtualization_in_KVM exacto!! gracias por buscarle por mi.. la verdad hoy he tenido un día tenso.. efectivamente ese es el howto. Como ves la verdad

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

Once upon a time, Valeri Galtsev said: > All true, except for: to actually write stuff permanently to hard drive > (that is modify whatever the content of hard drive is) the system needs to > access /dev/sda1 (I call from now /dev/sda1 device which "/" filesystem >

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

On Mon, February 1, 2016 4:24 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 02/01/2016 01:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> would deleting the inode /sys/(whatever) actually modify UEFI memory? > > Yes. That is how the UEFI management interface works. Will doing rm -rf / actually delete anything in /sys? IMHO,

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

On 2/1/2016 2:07 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: John R Pierce wrote: >wait. would deleting the inode/sys/(whatever) actually modify UEFI >memory?sure, writing to those inodes could do all sorts of harm, but >deleting the inodes in the /sys filesystem, I'm not so sure this isn't a >tempest

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

John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/1/2016 2:07 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> John R Pierce wrote: >>> >wait. would deleting the inode/sys/(whatever) actually modify UEFI >>> >memory?sure, writing to those inodes could do all sorts of harm, >>> but deleting the inodes in the /sys filesystem, I'm

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

On 02/01/2016 02:46 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Will doing rm -rf / actually delete anything in /sys? IMHO, not. Yes, it will. Probably. It's possible that it'll hang on some of the files in /proc if it gets to that directory before /sys, but that's largely a matter of chance. The

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

John R Pierce wrote: > wait. would deleting the inode /sys/(whatever) actually modify UEFI > memory?sure, writing to those inodes could do all sorts of harm, but > deleting the inodes in the /sys filesystem, I'm not so sure this isn't a > tempest in a teapot so to speak. It's going to get

Re: [CentOS] More Folding At Home

On 01/31/16 22:10, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 09:42:43PM -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> On 12/30/15 23:03, Mark LaPierre wrote: >>> Hey Y'all, >>> >>> I have the Stanford University Folding At Home project running on three >>> of my machines. I had them all set up so that I could

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

On 02/01/2016 11:54 AM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:44:48 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: Did someone think running "rm -rf /" is a good idea? Quote from one of the people who commented on that article: QUOTE: You have this in a script: rm -rf "${DIRECTORY}"/ Now, you have a bug in

Re: [CentOS-es] VM dentro de VM con KVM

Gracias Ernesto, Solucionado, siguiendo estos pasos => https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_enable_nested_virtualization_in_KVM Saludos Daniel Ortiz Gutiérrez El lun., 1 de feb. de 2016 a la(s) 10:56, Ernesto Pérez Estévez < ernesto.pe...@cedia.org.ec> escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

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

On Mon, February 1, 2016 1:56 pm, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Mon, February 1, 2016 1:33 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Excerpt: >> Running rm -rf / on any UEFI Linux distribution can potentially >> perma-brick your system. > > Yes, I kind of like "rm -rf /". If my memory doesn't fail me, long

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

On 02/01/2016 02:07 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: It's going to get /boot. And under there, it'll get /boot/EFI. Yes, but that's not the problem. /sys/firmware/efi/efivars is. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] More Folding At Home

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 06:23:26PM -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 01/31/16 22:10, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 09:42:43PM -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > >> On 12/30/15 23:03, Mark LaPierre wrote: > >>> Hey Y'all, > >>> > >>> I have the Stanford University Folding At Home project

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2016:0082 Important CentOS 6 qemu-kvm Security Update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2016:0082 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0082.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2016:0083 Important CentOS 7 qemu-kvm Security Update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2016:0083 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0083.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) x86_64:

[CentOS] NICs order

Hi, After installing CentOS 7 in a server with 2 NICs, system detects eth0 and eth1 in reserve order. I would like to have eth1 as eth0 and eth0 as eth1. I have forced HWADDR attribute in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-etc{0,1}, but after rebooting, order is the same... How can I

Re: [CentOS-es] VM dentro de VM con KVM

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/01/2016 11:44 AM, daniel wrote: > Buenos Dias Lista, > > Con la novedad de que necesito virtualizar un hipervisor que > contiene una maquina virtual, alguien me puede decir si esto es > posible? Estoy utlizando KVM y al crear la máquina

Re: [CentOS] NICs order

El Lunes 01/02/2016, Leroy Tennison escribió: > The issue here may be systemd (I've seen/agree with the venting, this is > another example). So far, this is my only big grip with systemd: It apparently never worked, though IME it only stopped working with recent versions of udev. > If you're

Re: [CentOS] NICs order

> Just to clarify: net.ifnames=0 disables the systemd/udev interface renaming > feature. Well, I tried that and it didn't change the behavior, using 1 as a value did. Don't know if there's been tampering between freedesktop and Ubuntu 14.04LTS but that was my experience. > Also, if you add

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 132, Issue 1

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-annou...@centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to

[CentOS] LUSTRE Install Guide

Hi All, I am in the process of trying to install Lustre on CentOS 7 and I was wondering if anyone could point me to any good documentation. I found https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8126821 but this really doesn’t help. I am trying to install version 2.7.1. Regards, Ben

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

> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us > Sent: den 1 februari 2016 20:34 > To: CentOS > Subject: [CentOS] In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System > > As a public service announcement, recursively

[CentOS-es] VM dentro de VM con KVM

Buenos Dias Lista, Con la novedad de que necesito virtualizar un hipervisor que contiene una maquina virtual, alguien me puede decir si esto es posible? Estoy utlizando KVM y al crear la máquina virtual en la opción del procesador selecciono "Copy host CPU configuration". Pero parece no tomar los

Re: [CentOS] NICs order

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Ricardo J. Barberis wrote: > El Lunes 01/02/2016, Daniel Ruiz Molina escribió: >> Hi, >> >> After installing CentOS 7 in a server with 2 NICs, system detects eth0 >> and eth1 in reserve order. I would like to have eth1 as eth0 and eth0 as >>

Re: [CentOS] NICs order

El Lunes 01/02/2016, Daniel Ruiz Molina escribió: > Hi, > > After installing CentOS 7 in a server with 2 NICs, system detects eth0 > and eth1 in reserve order. I would like to have eth1 as eth0 and eth0 as > eth1. I have forced HWADDR attribute in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-etc{0,1},

Re: [CentOS-es] odoo

Mauricio, Ok, de nada si te puedo ayudar, enviame un mail.- Saludos, El 30 de enero de 2016, 11:10, Mauricio Pastorini < mpastor...@soporte-online.cl> escribió: > Gracias Elio, he estado revisando, finalmente desistí de instalarla versión > 9 ya que no esta disponible nodejs-clean-css para

[CentOS] CentOS 7 and network printers: FYI

I got an email from a user that I'd just handed a new CentOS 7 workstation to, wondering where all the printers were. It took some investigation to find /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf, and see, in it, at the very bottom of the file: # NOTE: This file is not part of CUPS. You need to start & enable

Re: [CentOS] NICs order

The issue here may be systemd (I've seen/agree with the venting, this is another example). If you're getting non-eth names there's a program called biosdevname which may be deciding how to name NICs for you. If that's the case then then the -net.rules may be ineffective unless the following

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and network printers: FYI

On Mon, February 1, 2016 9:17 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I got an email from a user that I'd just handed a new CentOS 7 workstation > to, wondering where all the printers were. > > It took some investigation to find /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf, and see, > in it, at the very bottom of the file:

[CentOS] Latest version of kate editor

I have installed the kate editor on Centos 6.7 but it seems to be a very old version, 3.3.4, installed as part of kdesdk. On Centos 7 I can simply run 'yum install kate' but, alas, not on Centos 6. What is the recommended way of updating kate on Centos 6? Thank you.

Re: [CentOS] NICs order

On 02/01/2016 07:00 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: The issue here may be systemd ... Web documentation at freedesktop.org says net.ifnames needs to be set to zero, I found just the opposite but if it doesn't work for you try both before giving up. Just to clarify: net.ifnames=0 disables the