Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-17 Thread Noam Bernstein via CentOS
> On Jun 17, 2020, at 4:53 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Noam Bernstein said: >> Of course. My only question is whether the observation that the gap for >> CentOS 8 is indeed larger than we have come to be used to for CentOS 7. > > So, I took a look

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-17 Thread Noam Bernstein via CentOS
> On Jun 17, 2020, at 3:46 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS > wrote: > > The answer is not inherently in the distribution itself. Make your > analysis about your needs an requirements and the choice is then yours. > > One could argue that the gap between disclosure of one security issues > and the u

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-17 Thread Noam Bernstein via CentOS
> On Jun 17, 2020, at 3:32 PM, Phil Perry wrote: > > I get what you are saying, but what difference does it make if it has? What > does it matter if the lag is 1 week, or 1 month, or more? The only reason it > will matter to you is if you are trying to do something with CentOS that is > time c

Re: [CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

2020-06-17 Thread Noam Bernstein via CentOS
> On Jun 17, 2020, at 3:02 PM, Phil Perry wrote: > > Nothing has changed in this regard for as long as I've been a CentOS user or > been involved in the CentOS community. This is the essence of the question, to me. I agree that _in_principle_ nothing has changed, and I don't even see any disa

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

2020-01-24 Thread Noam Bernstein via CentOS
Can you use yum whatprovides FILE_GLOB to figure out which package provides the particular class files that seem relevant? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] system unresponsive

2019-05-22 Thread Noam Bernstein via CentOS
Out of memory? We’ve definitely seen similar symptoms (it’s been a while, so I’m not sure they were identical) for compute nodes running large memory jobs. Noam ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] looking for a tool to convert my running system into a installation dvd

2019-02-04 Thread Noam Bernstein via CentOS
> On Feb 4, 2019, at 12:06 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > > I would recommend clonezilla. Boot the clonezilla distro, and capture an > image of your system onto whatever media you want to use. You might image it > on to a removable hard drive and later write those files to a DVD. Later yo

[CentOS] weird slowdowns with recent CentOS 6 update

2018-07-05 Thread Noam Bernstein
I just spent a while trying to debug some weird slowdown issues, and I thought I’d let the mailing list know in case it helps anyone else, or someone has a cleaner solution (or better ways of debugging the real issue). Just by way of context, we have a cluster using Infiniband and CentOS 6 (up t

Re: [CentOS] C7, encryption, and clevis

2018-06-08 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On Jun 8, 2018, at 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > John Hodrien wrote: >> On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> We've been required to encrypt h/ds, and so have been rolling that out >>> over the last year or so. Thing is, you need to put in a password, of >>> course, to boo

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT : write bootable CentOS USB disk under Windows 10 and Mac OS X ?

2018-06-07 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On Jun 7, 2018, at 11:39 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Hi, > Me, I've been 100 % GNU/Linux since 2001, CentOS is running on my > workstation and on my laptop, and I'm simply writing the ISO file to a > USB stick using dd if=CentOS-.iso of=/dev/sdX. I tend to do the analogous thing on the m

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2018:1318 Important CentOS 7 kernel Security Update

2018-05-31 Thread Noam Bernstein
-862.2.3.el7.src.rpm > > > > -- > Johnny Hughes > CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } > irc: hughesjr, #cen...@irc.freenode.net > Twitter: @JohnnyCentOS > > ___ > CentOS-announce mailing list > centos-annou...@cent

Re: [CentOS] CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754

2018-01-05 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On Jan 5, 2018, at 9:02 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > I have released everything for CentOS-6 that has been released upstream > in RHEL source code. > > I will continue to do so when they release new sources. > > NOTE: We will NOT be releasing anything for CentOS versions before > CentOS-6 (i

Re: [CentOS] run bash from cron

2017-11-15 Thread Noam Bernstein
, at the top of the > script, issue the env command. What about just giving the full path to the rd.pl script in the text file (i.e. /root/bin/rd.pl) ? Noam || |U.S. NAVAL| |_RESEARCH_| LABORATORY Noam Ber

Re: [CentOS] Areca RAID controller on latest CentOS 7 (1708 i.e. RHEL 7.4) kernel 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64

2017-10-23 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On Oct 22, 2017, at 4:35 PM, Joseph L. Casale > wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Noam > Bernstein > Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2017 8:54 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] Areca RAID

[CentOS] Areca RAID controller on latest CentOS 7 (1708 i.e. RHEL 7.4) kernel 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64

2017-10-22 Thread Noam Bernstein
Is anyone running any Areca RAID controllers with the latest CentOS 7 kernel, 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64? We recently updated (from 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64), and we’ve started having lots of problems. To add to the confusion, there’s also a hardware problem (either with the controller or th

[CentOS] OpenSCAP failures to to OS version?

2017-01-05 Thread Noam Bernstein
Hi - I’m running the OpenSCAP STIG profile on a new CentOS 7.1611 installation, and I get a few failures that look like this (output from openscap scan —verbosity INFO). I suspect this is because the openscap module is not accepting CentOS 7 as RHEL 7 for rules purposes, despite an early check

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 samba server + mac client problems

2017-01-03 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On Jan 3, 2017, at 1:36 PM, Noam Bernstein > wrote: > >> > > Thanks. Given that my smb.conf is also pretty basic, it could certainly be > SElinux. I’ll try your suggestions. Cool - that worked. Giving SElinux appropriate context for the volume in questio

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 samba server + mac client problems

2017-01-03 Thread Noam Bernstein
Mac client you're > using. Thanks. Given that my smb.conf is also pretty basic, it could certainly be SElinux. I’ll try your suggestions. Noam || |U.S. NAVAL| |_RESEARCH_| LABORATORY Noam Bernstein, P

[CentOS] CentOS 7 samba server + mac client problems

2016-12-30 Thread Noam Bernstein
We’ve just started to try to configure a new CentOS 7 disk server, and NFS seems OK so far, but I’m having problems with smb mounts to a Mac OS X client. I have the [homes] section as usual, and some additional shares restricted to specific users, but none seem to work. I know I’m authenticatin

Re: [CentOS] one-shot yum command to match rpms between systems?

2016-05-18 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On May 18, 2016, at 1:02 PM, Noam Bernstein > wrote: > > It wouldn’t be a one liner except in the most general sense that you can > string multiple bash commands with “;”, but I’m sure someone can do > something clever with uniq(1). I meant comm(1), by the way, although

Re: [CentOS] one-shot yum command to match rpms between systems?

2016-05-18 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On May 18, 2016, at 2:54 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > > Given a list of rpms on one system (rpm -qa > list.txt), is there a one-shot > command that I can run on another system to remove all of the rpms not listed > and add any that are on the list and not present on the second system? It wouldn’t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, NSF, "feature" [SOLVED]

2016-02-03 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On Feb 3, 2016, at 10:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > The issue: NFS fails to start in CentOS 7 if it cannot resolve any of a > list of hosts. > > Well, my manager had to google to find the *truly* obscure solution that > uses a deeply oddball syntax. > > In /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-serv

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Heads up: OpenSSH users

2016-01-15 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On Jan 15, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On 01/15/2016 08:55 AM, Noam Bernstein wrote: >> I see that this is a CentOS 7 patch only, at least so far. I also see that >> the CentOS 6 ssh version is 5.3 >> > /usr/bin/ssh -V >> OpenS

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Heads up: OpenSSH users

2016-01-15 Thread Noam Bernstein
I see that this is a CentOS 7 patch only, at least so far. I also see that the CentOS 6 ssh version is 5.3 > /usr/bin/ssh -V OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013 which is supposedly not affected. However, strings indicates that /usr/bin/ssh is also aware for the useroam

Re: [CentOS] when RedHat makes patches for only some versions

2015-12-10 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On Dec 10, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: > > Am 10.12.2015 um 16:16 schrieb Noam Bernstein : >> I guess this is really a RedHat, not CentOS question, but I’m hoping that >> someone here will be familiar enough with the upstream policy to have some >> use

[CentOS] when RedHat makes patches for only some versions

2015-12-10 Thread Noam Bernstein
thanks, Noam --- Noam Bernstein Center for Materials Physics and Technology Naval Research Laboratory Code 6390 noam.bernst...@nrl.navy.mil phone: 202 404 8628 ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-SCL python version

2015-11-17 Thread Noam Bernstein
> On Nov 17, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > On 16/11/15 18:26, Noam Bernstein wrote: >> Hi - I’d like to use the CentOS-SCL python27 packages, but those appear to >> be rather out of date, still on 2.7.5. Is there any chance that there will >> be an

[CentOS] CentOS-SCL python version

2015-11-16 Thread Noam Bernstein
, Noam --- Noam Bernstein Center for Materials Physics and Technology Naval Research Laboratory Code 6390 noam.bernst...@nrl.navy.mil phone: 202 404 8628

[CentOS] why no recent bind update for CentOS 6?

2015-07-28 Thread Noam Bernstein
Hi CentOS developers - I’ve been happily using CentOS for several years now, so thanks for all the good work. In the last week, however, I noticed that while the items in RHSA-2015:1443 has shown up as updates (and announced on centos-announce), the analogous update for CentOS 6, RHSA-2015:1471