Re: [CentOS] /lib/firmware/microcode.dat update on CentOS 6

2018-01-24 Thread Leon Fauster
> Am 24.01.2018 um 22:22 schrieb Chris Adams : > > Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: >> "We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system >> manufacturers, software vendors and end users stop deployment of >> current versions." Current versions of what? Microcode? > > Well, that's th

[CentOS] In /etc/auto.master, why "+auto.master"?

2018-01-24 Thread Robert Nichols
Why is the line "+auto.master" present in the /etc/auto.master file? Does this not create a loop, and perhaps is the reason why, on every boot, I see the message, "automount[3260]: problem reading master map, maximum wait exceeded"? This is in an unmodified /etc/auto.master from autofs-5.0.5-13

Re: [CentOS] /lib/firmware/microcode.dat update on CentOS 6

2018-01-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: > "We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system > manufacturers, software vendors and end users stop deployment of > current versions." Current versions of what? Microcode? Well, that's the only thing Intel provides for CPUs, so that's all it can b

Re: [CentOS] /lib/firmware/microcode.dat update on CentOS 6

2018-01-24 Thread m . roth
Leroy Tennison wrote: > What's amazing to me is, after "Intel Inside - don't divide" (their 486 > debacle), they didn't learn and have a better plan for addressing these > kinds of things. > Or, as some of us back then referred to it, the RePentium chip (think again...) mark > - Original M

Re: [CentOS] Centos´s way of handling mdadm

2018-01-24 Thread Leon Fauster
> Am 24.01.2018 um 20:37 schrieb Leon Fauster : > > >> Am 24.01.2018 um 19:17 schrieb hw : >> >> Hi, >> >> what´s the proposed way of handling mdadm in Centos 7? I did not get >> any notification when a disk in a RAID1 failed, and now that the >> configuration has changed after resolving the

Re: [CentOS] Centos´s way of handling mdadm

2018-01-24 Thread Leon Fauster
> Am 24.01.2018 um 19:17 schrieb hw : > > Hi, > > what´s the proposed way of handling mdadm in Centos 7? I did not get > any notification when a disk in a RAID1 failed, and now that the > configuration has changed after resolving the problem, I might be > supposed to somehow update /etc/mdadm.c

Re: [CentOS] /lib/firmware/microcode.dat update on CentOS 6

2018-01-24 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Wed, January 24, 2018 12:38 pm, Leroy Tennison wrote: > What's amazing to me is, after "Intel Inside - don't divide" (their 486 > debacle), they didn't learn and have a better plan for addressing these > kinds of things. It probably would be fair to conclude that they didn't plan to address th

Re: [CentOS] /lib/firmware/microcode.dat update on CentOS 6

2018-01-24 Thread Leroy Tennison
What's amazing to me is, after "Intel Inside - don't divide" (their 486 debacle), they didn't learn and have a better plan for addressing these kinds of things. - Original Message - From: "Chris Murphy" To: "centos" Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 12:06:01 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] /l

[CentOS] Centos´s way of handling mdadm

2018-01-24 Thread hw
Hi, what´s the proposed way of handling mdadm in Centos 7? I did not get any notification when a disk in a RAID1 failed, and now that the configuration has changed after resolving the problem, I might be supposed to somehow update /etc/mdadm.conf. Am I not supposed to be notified by default when

Re: [CentOS] /lib/firmware/microcode.dat update on CentOS 6

2018-01-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:26 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Here are a couple of posts for our reading pleasure: > > Intel recommends not installing the microcode now: > http://intel.ly/2DsL9qz Except this doesn't mention microcode at all. I can't even tell WTF they're recommending not doing in th

Re: [CentOS] Unrar not extracting archive

2018-01-24 Thread H
On 01/23/2018 08:50 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 23.01.2018 um 20:23 schrieb H: >> I received a rar-archive, probably created on Win10, that I could not >> extract with unrar on CentOS 6. > > CentOS does not provide unrar. You must have it from a third party repository > and we don't know whi

Re: [CentOS] best centos server setup for graphics intensive kvm vms?

2018-01-24 Thread Nux!
Yes -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro - Original Message - > From: "Morgan Read" > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Sent: Tuesday, 23 January, 2018 23:30:57 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] best centos server setup for graphics intensive kvm > vms? > Hmm, S