Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Patrick Bégou
I'm also using CentOS for a while and I'm deploying a CentOS8 cluster for some months because it was supported until 2029! Bad idea. For me, using debian has 2 important drawbacks - some of proprietary software we are using is certified RHEL and SLES. Deploying on CentOS is out-of-thebox. Deplo

Re: [CentOS] MTU report question

2020-12-14 Thread Patrick Bégou
> > Best Regards, > Strahil Nikolov > > > > > > > В понеделник, 14 декември 2020 г., 15:46:50 Гринуич+2, Patrick Bégou > написа: > > > > > > Hi, > > I'm deploying a CentOS8 (not stream 😁) cluster and I have a question > about MT

[CentOS] MTU report question

2020-12-14 Thread Patrick Bégou
Hi, I'm deploying a CentOS8 (not stream 😁) cluster and I have a question about MTU on the interfaces. I have a connectX6 Mellanox interface where I need IBoIP setup. I've setup this interface via nmcli and set the MTU to 65520 with: nmcli connection modify ib0 mtu 65520 nmcli connection u

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue happening CentOS 7

2020-11-02 Thread Patrick Bégou
Did you notice the address ? It is not the same IP. Patrick Le 02/11/2020 à 17:48, Jerry Geis a écrit : > So I have two CentOS 7 machines running. > > if I am on my server and I do "curl http://192.168.1.8"; I get data. > If I do "host devgeis.LayeredSolutionsInc.com" I get the correct address >

[CentOS] [CentOS7] cups, cups-browsed

2020-10-06 Thread Patrick Bégou
Hi, I have a strange problem on one laptop with cups in CentOS7, all updates applied. Sometime, the lpstat -t command returns "No destination host name supplied by cups-browsed for printer" and asks if  cups-browsed is running. Nonetheless cups-browsed is running and is configured. Restarting  cu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-08-28 Thread Patrick Bégou
know how to investigate this Patrick Le 09/07/2020 à 12:11, Patrick Bégou a écrit : > Hi Orion, > > no, I still have this problem. I delay working on it as I the latest > updates have not been installed on the server and on the client. I'll > work again on this problem as so

Re: [CentOS] Laptop and NFS homedir

2020-08-26 Thread Patrick Bégou
In my professional environment, user's laptop have small (but fast ;-)) storage and a local home directory (centOS7). They use sshfs to reach a central storage for most of their needs. This central storage is secured (ceph replication + daily backup). It works also from home but, of course, with lo

Re: [CentOS] Boot fails with lvm snapshot

2020-08-20 Thread Patrick Bégou
l  osvg    -wi-ao   7,81g    tmpvol   osvg    -wi-ao  <9,77g    varvol   osvg    -wi-ao  <9,77g   Patrick Le 19/08/2020 à 18:18, Patrick Bégou a écrit : > Hi Gordon, > > my dracut package is the l

Re: [CentOS] Boot fails with lvm snapshot

2020-08-19 Thread Patrick Bégou
Patrick Le 19/08/2020 à 17:31, Gordon Messmer a écrit : > On 8/19/20 1:02 AM, Patrick Bégou wrote: >> However, if this snapshot exists, reboot of the server >> freeze at boot time and I must manually remove this snapshot. Why ? > > > It's a bug.  Update dracut. >

[CentOS] Boot fails with lvm snapshot

2020-08-19 Thread Patrick Bégou
Hi, I have a strange problem with my centos7 file server. I have a large data storage (75TB in RAID6, managed by lvm) and each night I create a snapshot  (removing first the previous one). The snapshot is mounted read-only so if a user remove a file accidentally he can restore it in the same day.

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-02 Thread Patrick Bégou
Le 02/08/2020 à 09:47, Alessandro Baggi a écrit : > > Il 02/08/20 00:42, Mike McCarthy, W1NR ha scritto: >> It appears that it is affecting multiple distributions including Debian >> and Ubuntu so it looks like the grub2 team messed up. See >> >> https://www.zdnet.com/article/boothole-fixes-causing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-07-09 Thread Patrick Bégou
solve the problem. Patrick Le 03/07/2020 à 00:05, Orion Poplawski a écrit : > On 6/1/20 3:08 AM, Patrick Bégou wrote: >> Le 13/05/2020 à 02:13, Orion Poplawski a écrit : >>> On 5/12/20 2:46 AM, Patrick Bégou wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I need some

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-06-01 Thread Patrick Bégou
Le 13/05/2020 à 02:13, Orion Poplawski a écrit : > On 5/12/20 2:46 AM, Patrick Bégou wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need some help with NFSv4 setup/tuning. I have a dedicated nfs server >> (2 x E5-2620  8cores/16 threads each, 64GB RAM, 1x10Gb ethernet and 16x >> 8TB HDD

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-05-16 Thread Patrick Bégou
linux/ > > Did you try to enable readahead (blockdev —setra) on the filesystem? > > On the client side, changing the mount options helps. The default read/write > block size is quite little, increase it (rsize, wsize), and use noatime. > > > Cheers, > Barbara > > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-05-15 Thread Patrick Bégou
Le 13/05/2020 à 15:36, Patrick Bégou a écrit : > Le 13/05/2020 à 07:32, Simon Matter via CentOS a écrit : >>> Le 12/05/2020 à 16:10, James Pearson a écrit : >>>> Patrick Bégou wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I need some help with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-05-13 Thread Patrick Bégou
Le 13/05/2020 à 07:32, Simon Matter via CentOS a écrit : >> Le 12/05/2020 à 16:10, James Pearson a écrit : >>> Patrick Bégou wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I need some help with NFSv4 setup/tuning. I have a dedicated nfs server >>>> (2 x

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-05-12 Thread Patrick Bégou
Le 12/05/2020 à 16:10, James Pearson a écrit : > Patrick Bégou wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I need some help with NFSv4 setup/tuning. I have a dedicated nfs server >> (2 x E5-2620  8cores/16 threads each, 64GB RAM, 1x10Gb ethernet and 16x >> 8TB HDD) used by two

[CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-05-12 Thread Patrick Bégou
Hi, I need some help with NFSv4 setup/tuning. I have a dedicated nfs server (2 x E5-2620  8cores/16 threads each, 64GB RAM, 1x10Gb ethernet and 16x 8TB HDD) used by two servers and a small cluster (400 cores). All the servers are running CentOS 7, the cluster is running CentOS6. Time to time on t

Re: [CentOS] Zoom?

2020-04-11 Thread Patrick Bégou
Hi, There were some "security issues" as detailed by our DSI. Personal data going to FB servers and some data going to other server located in china Not sure  all has been disabled, almost for subscribed licenses. We are seriously discouraged to use it now (it was a suggested tool some weeks a

Re: [CentOS] Zoom?

2020-04-06 Thread Patrick Bégou
Le 06/04/2020 à 00:34, mark a écrit : > Hi, folks, > >    After I did a complete reinstall of current 7, with KDE instead of > minimal, I'm mostly ok... except for Zoom. Has anyone gotten sound > working with firefox? I get video, but it keeps claiming that my > browser (the default firefox) can't

Re: [CentOS] ssh failure from CentOS7 to Centos6

2020-01-18 Thread Patrick Bégou
Thanks all for your answers ans suggestions. It cannot be a fail2ban problem as firewall was disabled on the server for the tests. The time was playing against me so I went back to centos6 (these desktops must be available monday) and all run fine. I will investigate this later. It's easy for me t

[CentOS] ssh failure from CentOS7 to Centos6

2020-01-13 Thread Patrick Bégou
Hi, I have a strange problem with a freshly installed Centos7 desktop (most8pc25). I can't ssh to 2 CentOS6 servers, even with firewall disabled on the client and on the server. But I can connect from the server to the client, all in the same VLAN. I can also ssh from this desktop to centos7 serve

[CentOS] CentOS7/Cups/Ldap

2019-08-22 Thread Patrick Bégou
Hi, I've posted this on cups forum several days ago but did not receive any suggestion. May be Centos Users/admins could give me some advices. I've setup my first cups server to provide printing services to several clients (instead of each CentOS client reaching the printer). It is a dedicated

Re: [CentOS] Network switch to IPV6 after PXE boot

2019-02-19 Thread Patrick Bégou
Le 18/02/2019 à 18:58, Tru Huynh a écrit : > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 06:36:10PM +0100, Patrick Bégou wrote: > ... >> - PXE boot start and the desktop load the kernel and the inirtd file >> >> - the kernel is booted and at this time the led of the network switch >>

[CentOS] Network switch to IPV6 after PXE boot

2019-02-18 Thread Patrick Bégou
I'm trying to autoinstall a DELL 9030 desktop with CentOS7 using PXE and Kikstart. I fall in a strange problem (I have several other laptop or desktop using this install process without any problem, kernel and initrd are from a Centos 7.4 iso) - PXE boot start and the desktop load the kernel and t

Re: [CentOS] Fedora Server - as an alternative ?

2018-12-21 Thread Patrick Bégou
Le 20/12/2018 à 16:21, Chris Schanzle via CentOS a écrit : > On 12/20/18 10:07 AM, Patrick Bégou wrote: >> Le 20/12/2018 à 14:11, lejeczek via CentOS a écrit : >>> hi guys >>> >>> I wonder if any Centosian here have done something different than only >>&g

Re: [CentOS] Fedora Server - as an alternative ?

2018-12-20 Thread Patrick Bégou
Le 20/12/2018 à 14:11, lejeczek via CentOS a écrit : > hi guys > > I wonder if any Centosian here have done something different than only > contemplated using Fedora Server, actually worked on it in > test/production envs. > > If here are some folks who have done it I want to ask if you deem it > t

Re: [CentOS] Centos7 broken after update

2018-12-09 Thread Patrick Bégou
Le 08/12/2018 à 16:23, Pete Biggs a écrit : >> thanks for the suggestion. Indeed it seems I have a problem with >> glibc. Version is different between x86_64 and i386 and I have two >> glibc-common for x86_64. >> Trying to remove the old one request removing half of the system >> packages because

Re: [CentOS] Centos7 broken after update

2018-12-08 Thread PATRICK BÉGOU
Objet: Re: [CentOS] Centos7 broken after update On 08.12.18 13:48, Patrick Bégou wrote: > There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most > Any idea to go back to a normal situation before a full re-install ? restoring the old state before the broken 'yum u

[CentOS] Centos7 broken after update

2018-12-08 Thread Patrick Bégou
I've launch a "yum update" while I was going to lunch. 1 hour later the system was completely freezed (no mouse, no keyboard, screen black, no network). I try a hard reboot => kernel panic on the new kernel I boot on the old kernel => boot hangs with gnome-shell failure. SSH was OK so I remove th

Re: [CentOS] [Marketing Mail] Re: Cups freeze when remote server is unavailable

2018-10-29 Thread Patrick Bégou
t; to check if it's running. > > For a more in-depth view on cups I can recommend reading the archwiki > [2]. > > best regards > Markus > > [1] https://www.linux.com/learn/linux-101-printing > [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS > > > On Mon, 2018-10-29

Re: [CentOS] Cups freeze when remote server is unavailable

2018-10-29 Thread Patrick Bégou
ght manner to reproduce my previous centos6 setup ? Sorry for this newbie question, I'm not very familiar with cups setup. Patrick Le 29/10/2018 à 14:45, John Hodrien a écrit : > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Patrick Bégou wrote: > >> Any idea ? > > I don't see that this is a

[CentOS] Cups freeze when remote server is unavailable

2018-10-29 Thread Patrick Bégou
Hi, I have a setup problem with cups on my CentOS7 laptop. In client.conf If have set the cups server FDQN used at work ServerName servprint.lmy.lab.fr But when I'm at home if I do not comment this line with: # ServerName servprint.lmy.lab.fr cups freeze as soon as I try to print something

Re: [CentOS] Centos7/Kde4 freeze

2018-10-03 Thread Patrick Bégou
Le 18/09/2018 à 10:04, Patrick Begou a écrit : > Hi > > I have a fresh install of centos 7.4 with KDE on a laptop (latitude > 5590) connected to a DELL WD15 dockstation with an additionnal screen. > It works quite well, I have 2 screens side by side (default config), > but > If I add a second m

Re: [CentOS] home on nfs

2017-11-05 Thread Patrick Bégou
Thanks Pete and James for pointing to this detailed page on NFS. I was unable to find this from google and now I clearly understand why these files occur. Patrick ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cen

Re: [CentOS] home on nfs

2017-11-04 Thread Patrick Bégou
hw a écrit : Hi, I have the home directory of a user on an nfs server and mount it on a client. When the user logs in, they end up in the root directory rather than in their actual home directory and need to cd into it. The user can read and write to their home directory, so it kinda works fin

Re: [CentOS] GPX files

2017-06-04 Thread Patrick Bégou
Viewing GPX on a map ? GPX files can be viewed with several web applications. I'm using GPS for running and I use: http://www.visugpx.com/ or https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/ For viewing gpx files on your linux box you can also use turtlesport (I use it for a while) http://turtlesport.sourcef

Re: [CentOS] NFS Client with quota

2017-04-02 Thread Patrick Bégou
Quota are managed at the filesystem level, so they are managed by the NFS server. rquotad allow NFS clients to display users quotas when the filesystem is mounted. Be carefull withe autofs, if a remote filesystem is not mounted on the client, nos quotas are displayed by the quota command. Patr

Re: [CentOS] Wich web browser on CentOS6 ?

2017-02-11 Thread Patrick Bégou
Alice Wonder a écrit : On 02/10/2017 12:34 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: On Fri, February 10, 2017 06:26, Patrick Begou wrote: Hello I have more and more troubles using firefox in professional environment with CentOS6. The latest version is 45.7.0 But I can't use it anymore to access some old ser

Re: [CentOS] Wich web browser on CentOS6 ?

2017-02-11 Thread Patrick Bégou
Yes David, I'm using a release 32 of Firefox to reach my olds C6100 IDRAC7 interface. The problem is for latest Firefox versions as they require libgtk-3 not available in Centos6/RHEL6 distribution. Today I use a very very bad solution to reach my switch with latest firmware version from the l

Re: [CentOS] login fail on crypted /home

2014-11-11 Thread Patrick Bégou
ected everywhere I'll have to understand this selinux application for a more secured system. Thanks again. Patrick Jonathan Billings a écrit : On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 07:43:21PM +0100, Patrick Bégou wrote: I have a fesh install of CentOS release 6.6 on my laptop. I want to use a more sec

[CentOS] login fail on crypted /home

2014-11-11 Thread Patrick Bégou
I have a fesh install of CentOS release 6.6 on my laptop. I want to use a more secure config with /home crypted. But when this partition is mounted I cannot login anymore on my laptop. Only root can login. This occur at level 5 (graphic login) or 3 (text login). The message is "Cannot enter hom

[CentOS] Text file encoding

2014-09-26 Thread Patrick Bégou
I'm working with some people using apple laptops. When we share text files (latex files), I reach in an encoding problem on our CentOS laptops and desktops. In my favorite editor, "é" is "<8e>", "à" is "<88>" etc... Of course, I can change the encoding with iconv: iconv -f MACINTOSH -t ISO8

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6.4 and Apple keyboard

2013-10-11 Thread Patrick Bégou
Hi John, I'm working from home today so I've ask the phd student to launch a PXE boot for a new full kikstart install with a PC keyboard and then try to configure the apple keyboard by hand. See the answers to your questions below. John Doe a écrit : > From: Patrick Bégou >

[CentOS] CentOS6.4 and Apple keyboard

2013-10-10 Thread Patrick Bégou
I have just installed (with kikstart) centOS6.4 on a PC which was previously running OpenSUSE (11.x). This PC has an apple keyboard and I'm unable to setup this keyboard. In .xsession-errors I get this messages : Error:No Symbols named "latin9" in the include file "macintosh_vndr/fr"