[CentOS] how to stop yum when networkmanager has broken resolv.conf?

2015-02-20 Thread Les Mikesell
ed, interrupt (ctrl-c) again within two seconds to exit. Yeah - I did hit it about 6 times there. What do you have to do to make it actually stop in some reasonable amount of time? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox Replacement

2015-02-19 Thread Les Mikesell
st use a phone app to download and play without having to copy anything. I use something called 'podcast addict' on an android phone. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Help with routing question.

2015-02-19 Thread Les Mikesell
0 > > NETMASK0=255.255.255.0 > GATEWAY0=192.168.6.1 > But it still doesn't matter. Your netmask in the ifcfg- file already covers that range and you don't need another route/GATEWAY for it. You don't need the route- file at all. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.

Re: [CentOS] Help with routing question.

2015-02-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:19 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Wed, February 18, 2015 13:07, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:39 AM, James B. Byrne >> wrote: >>> 2. How does one configure the routing table on network startup to >>> spec

Re: [CentOS] debuginfo versioning tools?

2015-02-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > > > On 02/17/2015 02:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Are there any tools to help assemble libraries and debuginfo to >> examine core dumps that happened on another host where the versions >> don't match? Somet

Re: [CentOS] Help with routing question.

2015-02-18 Thread Les Mikesell
ing etho, but remove the entry from the private eth0:192. Then add a route-eth0:192 file containing the network(s) and gateway for the private side. The source address it picks should be the one appropriate to reach the next-hop router specified in your routes. -- Les Mikesell lesmik

Re: [CentOS] debuginfo versioning tools?

2015-02-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:29 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Tue, February 17, 2015 15:20, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Are there any tools to help assemble libraries and debuginfo to >> examine core dumps that happened on another host where the versions >> don't match?

[CentOS] debuginfo versioning tools?

2015-02-17 Thread Les Mikesell
Are there any tools to help assemble libraries and debuginfo to examine core dumps that happened on another host where the versions don't match? Something like mock but build-version specific and with the debuginfo packages pulled in? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmai

Re: [CentOS] C5 BASH IF

2015-02-14 Thread Les Mikesell
explained above (see PARAMETERS). I think that is still an oversimplification because more than expansion is involved and the order related to other steps. When does it do i/o redirection; which things happen before/during starting subshells/pipes; what if you use 'eval', etc.? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] C5 BASH IF

2015-02-14 Thread Les Mikesell
t see the order of operations as a simple set of steps - that you need to know before any of the rest will make sense. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] C5 BASH IF

2015-02-14 Thread Les Mikesell
And I don't know where to find a concise description of that any more. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] C5 BASH IF

2015-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
f /bin/test, so try 'man test' for the syntax of tests. And third, you generally should use double quotes around variables in tests so they continue to exist as an empty string if the variable happens to not be set. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Sendmail backup MX Config

2015-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
e when chunks of the internet can't reach each other for long periods of time and anything sending should do its own queuing and retries. In fact if you do greylisting, you have forced all of your senders to prove it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Sendmail backup MX Config

2015-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
> configuration is sane and does not "accept everything". > > So, what is the secondary MX server that you are describing that "accepts > everything" is based on? I think he means that the secondary does not know the user names on the primary. Which it won't, un

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Sendmail backup MX Config

2015-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
mary > MX on the secondary MX. Doing greylisting right means you also have to keep the table of already-known senders up to date and that may be very dynamic. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Thread moderation and list etiquette (Reference - Another Fedora Decision)

2015-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
ugs to report and generic 'how to' questions tend to be met with a 'go google it yourself' response. It would sort of nice if there were a way to sort pure-technical stuff from 'slightly-related' and 'way-off-topic' postings so actual conversations

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Sendmail backup MX Config

2015-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
But my bigger worry would be a dictionary-type attack on user names as recipients if you don't have access to the real user list on the secondary. Aside from the blowback of the bounces, if you've ever accepted an address it is likely to get on lists of known-good spam and cause extra t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Sendmail backup MX Config

2015-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
h is always a bad thing - you want the authoritative receiver to reject at the smtp level instead of accepting at all. There's a whole category of spam where the real target is the apparent sender where a bounce will go. Also anything sending valid mail should be prepared to queue and retry on tem

Re: [CentOS] Thread moderation and list etiquette (Reference - Another Fedora Decision)

2015-02-12 Thread Les Mikesell
people, I think it is generally a good thing when the bulk of the conversation here is ranting about mostly irrelevant opinions. That is, instead of 'Why doesn't this work"', or 'How do I fix this problem" that you would have if there were something fundament

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Using rsync to backup / restore - when to use (or not use) the -H option switch?

2015-02-11 Thread Les Mikesell
l implementation, but wouldn't it really only need to track the inodes/paths of the files with >1 link? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Using rsync to backup / restore - when to use (or not use) the -H option switch?

2015-02-11 Thread Les Mikesell
can only reproduce the hardlinks that exist in the portion of the filesystem that is covered in one run. If you do multiple runs covering different subdirectories, it can't duplicate hardlinks outside of each run. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com __

Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2 disk image and QEMU

2015-02-11 Thread Les Mikesell
tell it to use an existing disk. I think the only part that seemed complicated was telling the KVM tools to use different storage locations for the image files since I wanted them spread over several volumes. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : create RAID arrays manually using mdadm --create ?

2015-02-10 Thread Les Mikesell
iated space will be killed?Avoiding that is kind of the point of having mirrors -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Packages not available in CentOS 7

2015-02-10 Thread Les Mikesell
e what looks likely. Or, just try to start your applications and see if they complain about missing libraries, etc. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Gnome-3 - can't drag menu items out

2015-02-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Ron Yorston wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >>I've mostly been using MATE from epel when I use GUI access on CentOS7 >>because it works with x2go, but just noticed on a system with Gnome3 >>that I can't drag items out of the menu

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > Still, there are many knowledgeable people on the list, they may give > different recommendation, which will create some pool of choices. I asked > John and Jonathan, I'd like to ask also Les Mikesell and Mr. Silver

[CentOS] Gnome-3 - can't drag menu items out

2015-02-09 Thread Les Mikesell
han pretty wallpaper? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] reboot - is there a timeout on filesystem flush?

2015-02-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Charles Polisher wrote: > On Jan 07, 2015 at 01:47:53PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> I see a bunch of entries like: >> ioatdma :00:08.0: Channel halted, chanerr = 2 >> ioatdma :00:08.0: Channel halted, chanerr = 0 >

Re: [CentOS] anthem details

2015-02-06 Thread Les Mikesell
entials. I doubt stronger > passwords would have mattered. Hmmm, maybe a reasonable argument for the crypto-card type VPNs where the passwords aren't reusable... -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
owing some instructions or running a script, it's not just the box >> that is compromised, it is everything you think you know. On the >> other hand it could have just been an accidental typo. > > That's why I said "avoid wish

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
thinking!). You aren't being paranoid enough. If it happened as a result of following some instructions or running a script, it's not just the box that is compromised, it is everything you think you know. On the other hand it could have just been an accidental typo. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
changes. The latter seems more likely to me. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
eluctance (probably commercially inspired) not to fully > respond to the challenges threatening all of us 'today'. Let's start with why your /etc/shadow has read access. That's one of the things that was right out of the box. What changed it a

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
do it right, the box might as well come that way or with just those few choices to get a working default instead of requiring individual attention to a million details. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> On Feb 4, 2015, at 7:23 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Warren Young wrote: >>> >>> An LPE can only be used against your system by logged-in users. >> >> Or any

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
pes of > vulnerabilities are available at the same time. No, you exploit the server application hole to tell you about the kernel vulnerability. The last one I saw in the wild involved the symlink race in the kernel around centos 5.2 or .3 and a struts java library bug. But there are

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
hether the complexity requirements imposed by the installer are really worth much against the pre-hashed lists that would be used to match up the shadow contents. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Traditional network interface naming scheme vs. persistent naming

2015-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
> How would I go about that under CentOS with traditional interface names? The > 70-persistent-net.rules file doesn't exist. Do I have to create it from > scratch? > Probably more than you want to know about this weirdness and the multiple ways of doing it: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/pdf/Networking_Guide/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7-Networking_Guide-en-US.pdf -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Setting up Samba as fileserver for existing Windows domain

2015-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
ox or VM and then looking through the changes it makes to the pam and smb configs to understand how it is supposed to work. If you are doing multiple machines, the command line version of authconfig is handy to make everything match once you get the arguments down.

Re: [CentOS] Setting up Samba as fileserver for existing Windows domain

2015-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Les Mikesell said: >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Chris Adams wrote: >> > I have an existing office of Windows computers, in a domain, with a >> > couple of Windows Server 2012 AD servers.

Re: [CentOS] Setting up Samba as fileserver for existing Windows domain

2015-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
es being served, I sometimes find it useful to have a public read-only share and avoid the authentication mess entirely - copying the files in place with linux tools or winscp. It is possible to maintain local accounts on the linux side and add those to samba (an extra step) but it is painfu

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-03 Thread Les Mikesell
at this will make the attempts from many different IPs - and sometimes cycle through a dictionary of different login names too. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-03 Thread Les Mikesell
ee them applying their expertise to actually making the code resist brute-force password attacks instead of stopping the install until I pick a password that I'll have to write down because they think it will take longer for the brute-force attack to succeed against their weak code. --

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-03 Thread Les Mikesell
rather see some real experts set up usable defaults instead of every person doing an install having to second-guess it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-03 Thread Les Mikesell
b in some other company. And might as well have been the default or one of a small range of choices. And in particular, rate limiting incorrect password attempts and/or providing notifications about them by default would not be a bad thing. Unless there's some reason you need brute-force atta

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Yet, I'm sure, majority Unix sysadmins will still do what I do: go over > everything themselves. No matter what someone says. There are probably still people that take their cars apart to check that they were assembled correctly too. But that doesn't mean that things should not be sh

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-03 Thread Les Mikesell
most like > job security. As one of my friends says: all systems suck, and thanks to > that got our jobs ;-) But wouldn't you rather be doing something new/different instead of just fixing things that should have been done right in the first place? -- Les Mikesell lesmik

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-03 Thread Les Mikesell
ld rate-limit the failures by default or at least warn you about repeated failures and their source, brute-force attacks would rarely succeed. But fixing the problem doesn't seem to be the point here. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread Les Mikesell
raid1 mirror you aren't really doing anything to isolate the vms from each other or to increase the odds that a head will be near the place the next access needs it to be. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Mon, February 2, 2015 5:26 pm, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Warren Young wrote: >>>> >>> Let’s flip it around: what’s your justification *for* weak >>> passwords

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-02 Thread Les Mikesell
meone else in the middle of trying to complete something, you are very likely to have to write it down. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] network copy performance is poor (rsync) - debugging suggestions?

2015-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
might help a lot. Or if you know it is mostly different, just tar it up and stream it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Kickstarting several *different* setups

2015-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
de. In our scheme of things, if a node is not communicating correctly on the network the best thing to happen is for it to die quietly and let the redundant systems fill in, We don't want it trying to fix itself when things aren't working as expected. -- Les Mike

Re: [CentOS] Kickstarting several *different* setups

2015-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:53 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Tue, January 20, 2015 18:37, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> There's also saltstack which is one of the newer of the bunch. It has >> some chance of working reasonably across different platforms. How >&

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
oduct on a rack server. You can micro-manage this by putting a VM image on its own drive so you don't lose seek time between the images. Or make a raid with a very large number of members and hope the odds work out. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-25 Thread Les Mikesell
ess configured otherwise. However, if the host needs interfaces on multiple subnets, you can do it on a single network connection by giving it a trunk connection from the switch and letting it split out the vlan interfaces internally. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Les Mikesell
> network) I would have no connection. Why? That's what I fail to understand. Doesn't make sense to me - I think I've done it both ways (with/without a vlan 0 address). I didn't think it took anything special except the VLAN=yes in the file and the .number in the DEV

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Les Mikesell
uld not normally have an IPADDR, though, unless it is for an untagged vlan 0. Assuming the connected switch port is configured as a trunk, you shouldn't see vlan 48 addresses on the base (untagged) device. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___

Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

2015-01-23 Thread Les Mikesell
PXE boot into an automated install instead of loading a prebuilt image. It is easy enough to test clonezilla, though - just boot a clonezilla-live iso and save/restore to some existing network share or over ssh. If you like the results, then set up

Re: [CentOS] Socket behavior change from 6.5 to 6.6

2015-01-21 Thread Les Mikesell
till need to play tricks on the server side to avoid TIME_WAIT. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Kickstarting several *different* setups

2015-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
to inertia. There's also saltstack which is one of the newer of the bunch. It has some chance of working reasonably across different platforms. How you feel about it will probably depend on how you feel about python in general - and how you expect upgrades to go in

Re: [CentOS] Kickstarting several *different* setups

2015-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
eliver or make your db restore process add/configure any missing packages needed at that point. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Kickstarting several *different* setups

2015-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
the packages needed for this particular server and 'yum install ' them. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Socket behavior change from 6.5 to 6.6

2015-01-16 Thread Les Mikesell
could open a new > one. The problem here is that if the other end isn't reading from the socket - and a camera probably wouldn't - the writes will just queue up until some buffer is filled.And, without keepalives enabled, you still won't get an error on the write. -- Les Mik

Re: [CentOS] Socket behavior change from 6.5 to 6.6

2015-01-16 Thread Les Mikesell
til you try to write to it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] analog web log analyzer

2015-01-16 Thread Les Mikesell
been able to match with anything else is that you can rsync a tree of log files from a farm of servers into one place and invoke analog with a wild-card to expand all of their names on the command line and it will digest them all without the need to pre-sort in timestamp order. -- Les Mik

Re: [CentOS] Socket behavior change from 6.5 to 6.6

2015-01-16 Thread Les Mikesell
k to see if you are getting a RST that doesn't close the old connection. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] leap second and Centos

2015-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
date -s "`date`"). It was a kernel bug and is theoretically fixed now. But I agree that those open bugs on the tzdata package aren't all that helpful except to show that someone is thinking about it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com _

Re: [CentOS] leap second and Centos

2015-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
eformatthatworks)"] > Can you consolidate this to: 'if you have updated your kernel and rebooted later than Sept. 2012 you should have the fix'? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-13 Thread Les Mikesell
; server based stream for Fedora. That's an interesting turn of events, but is this just a separation of packages or is there really a group in Fedora that actually maintains large server farms and has an interest in keeping their applications working?

[CentOS] socks5 server software?

2015-01-12 Thread Les Mikesell
What is the state of the art for socks5 server software? I need to replace a very old proxy system.'Yum search' and google aren't turning up any clear winners unless '3proxy' is the thing you would run on CentOS7. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
unreasonable to expect anything else. Gnome3 vs gnome2 is a practical matter, though, given that gnome3 doesn't work with x2go. It's not really about 'differences' it is about making changes that break existing infrastructure without regard to the damage to users. -- Les Mi

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
icks buried inside the automated 6x-7x upgrade tool that could be separated out to help build a working-but-parallel 7x system to test before cutting over? How are others dealing with the end of freenx and the inability of x2go to run gnome3? That's 'almost' a uniquely CentOS issue

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
ou have to do tedious tasks like that from scratch or deal with interface changes in the code that was supposed to handle it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
d CentOS will continue to be a copy with no input. That still doesn't make it any better for the CentOS users of things that now have an expiration date. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
stroyed to make > room. But it doesn't matter how pretty Gnome3 is on some other box. I use remote connections through NX/freenx or x2go exclusively. Gnome3 won't work that way. And that's typical of the changes. -- Les Mi

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
rever possible because it used to be easier to manage and more stable. But now that I'm approaching retirement and realizing that the current management processes aren't going to continue to work, I think that may have been a mistake. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] reboot - is there a timeout on filesystem flush?

2015-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell
uot;) for higher IO concurrency, and SAS supports > multipathing (dual porting) for higher IO bandwidth, also SAS has tagged > command queueing which often performs better than SATA NCQ under high IO > concurrency workloads, like database servers. These particular drives are enterpr

Re: [CentOS] reboot - is there a timeout on filesystem flush?

2015-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell
siderably more systems running windows than linux on this hardware and I don't think anyone has noticed a systemic problem there. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] reboot - is there a timeout on filesystem flush?

2015-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell
e - not repeating on the same box, and rare enough that it is hard to make any generalization except that it is painful to talk some remote helper through the recovery process - usually involving emailing some cell phone photos of the console to figure out wh

Re: [CentOS] reboot - is there a timeout on filesystem flush?

2015-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell
ening as a repeatable thing or that I could consider better/worse after replacing something. Maybe 3 times a year across a few hundred machines and generally not repeating on the same ones. But if there is anything in common it is on very 'active' filesystems. -- Les Mikesell les

Re: [CentOS] reboot - is there a timeout on filesystem flush?

2015-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell
them. But, I don't see anything that looks like scsi errors in this log and I'm surprised that after running apparently error-free there would be problems detected after a software reboot. I think the newer M2 and later models went to a diff

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell
oblem from the same causes there would be some way to automate or re-use the knowledge of the fix instead of making everyone spend time on their own new creative version. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] reboot - is there a timeout on filesystem flush?

2015-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell
if that will be better or worse. It is mostly on aging hardware, so it is possible that there are underlying controller issues. I also see some rare cases on similar machines where a filesystem will go read-only with some scsi errors logged, but didn't look for that yet in this case. --

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-06 Thread Les Mikesell
on CentOS6 to run on CentOS7? Does the program that is supposed to try to automatically upgrade versions have any tricks hidden away to fix things so they work after the upgrade, and could any of them be run separately? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com __

Re: [CentOS] reboot - is there a timeout on filesystem flush?

2015-01-06 Thread Les Mikesell
e is > still a slim chance in these cases that the data still will not reach the > platter before power off or reboot, especially in catastrophic cases. > This was a reboot from software, not a power drop. Does that do something to kill the disk cache if anything happened to still be the

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-06 Thread Les Mikesell
s don't seem to have completed. And they probably won't until all distros ship multiple versions so programs can co-exist long enough to fix the broken parts. > Is that all this is? Trying to get someone else riled up enough that they’ll > fork EL6 for you? No - mostly hoping someone would point out something I had overlooked that makes the transition easy. I thought the computers were supposed to work for us instead of the other way around. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-06 Thread Les Mikesell
y conversions to keep things running. I don't believe anyone involved in Fedora and their wild and crazy changes actually has anything running that they care about maintaining or a staff of people to retrain as procedures change. There's no evidence that anyone has weighed the cost of backward

[CentOS] reboot - is there a timeout on filesystem flush?

2015-01-06 Thread Les Mikesell
there some time limit on the cache write with a 'reboot' (no options) command or is ext4 that fragile? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-03 Thread Les Mikesell
mploy 128,000 people. [1] >> >> And you only get that with code that keeps users instead of driving them >> away. > > Seriously? I mean, you actually believe that if RHEL sat still, right where > it is now, never changing any ABIs,

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2014-12-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 29, 2014, at 10:07 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> it's not necessary for either code interfaces or data structures >> to change in backward-incompatible ways. > > You keep talking about the cost of copin

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2014-12-29 Thread Les Mikesell
bt. Then when > they did jump, it was a major undertaking, though one they apparently felt > was worth doing. And conversely, they felt is was worth _not_ doing for a very very long time. So can the rest of us wait until we have google's resources? >> And why do you think it is a good thing >> for this to be a hard problem or for every individual user to be >> forced to solve it himself? > > I never said it was a good thing. I’m just reporting some observations from > the field. Maybe I misunderstood - I thought you were defending the status quo - and the fedora developers that bring it to us. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2014-12-29 Thread Les Mikesell
missing the point, which is that while your > resources aren’t as extensive as Google’s, your problem isn’t nearly as big > as Google’s, either. So again, quantify that. How much should it cost a business _just_ to keep working the same way? And why do you think it is a good thing

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2014-12-29 Thread Les Mikesell
ually just one OSX version needed versus a bazillion linux flavors with arbitrary differences). -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2014-12-29 Thread Les Mikesell
these days - reconnecting automatically after sleep/wakeup and handling network connection changes transparently, but those things don't need to break existing usage. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2014-12-29 Thread Les Mikesell
y changes across versions. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Asymmetric encryption for very large tar file

2014-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
hat to encrypt the data, then use asymmetric > encryption to encrypt only the symmetric key. > > GPG takes care of this all internally, so that's what you should be using. > Will GPG use the intel aes hardware acceleration - in the version available for Centos5

Re: [CentOS] I can't see some of my onwn e-mails ...

2014-12-18 Thread Les Mikesell
ly if someone else has seen the same symptoms. I've got one box that hangs every few weeks but I'm guessing it is something hardware related... -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] I can't see some of my onwn e-mails ...

2014-12-18 Thread Les Mikesell
ccess it easily from multiple computers without any setup and it always stays in perfect sync with my phone, and partly because of that search capability. One important thing to tweak for for usability is to advance to the next message on archive/delete instead of wasting time redrawing the in

Re: [CentOS] Asymmetric encryption for very large tar file

2014-12-18 Thread Les Mikesell
ould have a lot to do with picking the most convenient approach. One thing that would be possible on an encrypted file system would be using a backup approach that stores multiple copies, de-dupinng unchanged files as you can do with rsync, rdiff-backup, backuppc, etc. Those can only work if t

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