[CentOS] CentOS 7.3 and e1000e

2017-07-07 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - I have a box running the above. Power was lost long enough that UPS did not work. When power came back on the C7 box boots way faster than the switch and resulted in no network. power cycling the C7 box resulted in network. This even happened a second time. The only way to get the box ba

[CentOS] performance problems with OpenLDAP and multiple simultaneous clients

2017-07-07 Thread John Jasen
Running CentOS7, with openldap-2.4.40-13.el7. The environment consists of two ldap providers, in mirror mode, serving over a shared virtual IP. Client-facing services are provided by 4 consumers, most of which are accessed over a layer 4 load balancer. Periodically, the consumers encounter some s

Re: [CentOS] mdraid doesn't allow creation: device or resource busy

2017-07-07 Thread Adam Kalisz
Dear CentOS users and administrators, I solved the problem! It really was multipath and it had to do with some automatic mapping probably. I maybe did reboot after I created a new partition tables on each drive, which probably wasn't very smart. Anyway, the solution was: # multipath -l ST3500630N

Re: [CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP

2017-07-07 Thread Leroy Tennison
Well, I mis-spoke, Ctrl-Z can undo some things, not others. Sorry. - Original Message - From: "Leroy Tennison" To: "centos" Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 12:38:17 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP I saw Fred's later reply and am glad someone knew how to do it. I feel

Re: [CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP

2017-07-07 Thread m . roth
Alice Wonder wrote: > I am not a graphics person. Also can't afford to hire one. > > Trying to follow instructions at > https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-separate.html > > I use the "intelligent scissors" just like they say, spend quite a bit > of effort doing so. > > Then click the fo

Re: [CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP

2017-07-07 Thread Leroy Tennison
I saw Fred's later reply and am glad someone knew how to do it. I feel your pain, the gimp documentation isn't always the best. If you aren't already aware, when your work is suddenly undone, remember that Ctrl-Z (UnDo) is your friend. I found that I had to look for gimp tutorials on the web

Re: [CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP

2017-07-07 Thread fred roller
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: > Does anyone know of an actual GIMP tutorial for removing background Use the intelligent scissors as you did. Right click inside the section and choose copy. Right click anywhere and choose Edit -> Paste As -> As New Image. This should get

[CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP

2017-07-07 Thread Alice Wonder
I am not a graphics person. Also can't afford to hire one. Trying to follow instructions at https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-separate.html I use the "intelligent scissors" just like they say, spend quite a bit of effort doing so. Then click the foreground select tool - just li

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 07/07/2017 à 12:53, Pete Biggs a écrit : > There's lots of pages out there about hardening Apache and what file > ownership and permissions the site should have. Everyone has their > opinion and the defaults for different distros varies. But the > underlying idea is that the web server files sho

Re: [CentOS] C7 and spoofed MAC address

2017-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 07/07/2017 02:13 AM, James Hogarth wrote: On 30 June 2017 at 18:58, wrote: Got a problem: a user's workstation froze. He wound up rebooting, without calling me in first, so I dunno. But, and this is a show-stopper, when it came up, it came up with the firmware MAC, not the spoofed one. In

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread Bill Gee
On Friday, July 7, 2017 6:45:48 AM CDT Pete Biggs wrote: > > 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

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 describes the files present in t

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread John Hodrien
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 describes the files present in the directory). To delete, yes, but to chmod? It makes no sense for

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 12:31 +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 John Hodrien
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? 574 is a properly perculiar permission to set. jh ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread Bill Gee
On Friday, July 7, 2017 5:25:29 AM CDT Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I have a series of websites hosted on two CentOS 7 servers, using Apache > virtual hosts. One of these servers is a "sandbox" machine, to test > things and to fiddle around. > > Since Apache is running as system user 'apache

Re: [CentOS] ntsysv and chkconfig update error

2017-07-07 Thread Mark Haney
It was just a standard 'yum update'. I suppose I could try removing ntsysv, but I"m not sure that'll fix it. It seems the 'pre-existing rpmdb problem is the issue here. The ntsysv and chkconfig versions match in the Error. But the error message after the '**' mentions different ntsysv and chkcon

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

[CentOS] Web server files ownership?

2017-07-07 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I have a series of websites hosted on two CentOS 7 servers, using Apache virtual hosts. One of these servers is a "sandbox" machine, to test things and to fiddle around. On the sandbox server, I have a few dummy websites I'm hosting. # ls /var/www/html/ default phpinfo slackbox-mail slack

Re: [CentOS] ntsysv and chkconfig update error

2017-07-07 Thread James Pearson
Mark Haney wrote: > > We have a couple of CentOS 7 boxes that were built before I was hired to > clean up the kickstart script used for C7 boxes. We had a couple of rpm > packages that were pre-C7 that were used and setup the old SysV Init way > using ntsysv and chkconfig on these boxes. (I finall