[CentOS] Software raid Oddity

2020-12-16 Thread Paul R. Ganci via CentOS
I have a CentOS 7.9 system with a software raid 6 root partition. Today something very strange occurred. At 6:45AM the system crashed. I rebooted and when the system came up I had multiple emails indicating that 3 out of 6 drives had failed on the root partition. Strangely I was able to boot in

Re: [CentOS] DNSSEC Questions

2019-02-13 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 2/13/19 3:51 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: I see you are using algorithm 7 - I would recommend switching to either algorithm 13 or at least to 8. Algorithm 7 uses a SHA1 hash. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-algorithm-update-04 That's a draft but soon will be an update to the st

Re: [CentOS] DNSSEC Questions

2019-02-12 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 2/12/19 10:55 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: DNSSEC keys do not expire. Signatures do expire. How long a signature is good for depends upon the software generating the signature, some lets you specify. ldns I believe defaults to 60 days but I am not sure. The keys are in DNSSKEY records that are

[CentOS] DNSSEC Questions

2019-02-12 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Last weekend I had my DNSSEC keys expire. I discovered that they had expired the hard way... namely randomly websites could not be found and email did not get delivered. It seems that the keys were only valid for what I estimate was about 30 days. It is a real PITA to have update the keys, rest

Re: [CentOS] elrepo kmod-nvidia issue with update

2018-04-30 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 04/30/2018 05:20 PM, Chuck Campbell wrote: when I do yum update, elrepo offers kmod-nvifdia, but yum does this: --> Processing Dependency: kernel(sme_me_mask) = 0x17fbce60 for package: kmod-nvidia-390.48-2.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: kernel(reservation_object_add_excl_fen

Re: [CentOS] Help with yum

2018-04-12 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 04/12/2018 08:51 AM, Kay Diederichs wrote: I tried running: yum groups mark install "X Window system" and get the same message. I tried different permutations removing the "s" on groups. Nothing seems to bring back the yum "X Window system" group. Can anyone help me resolve this issue and te

[CentOS] Help with yum

2018-04-12 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I just did a fresh minimal install of centos 7 on new hardware. While playing around with window systems I removed X windows like so: >yum remove "X Window system" and then tried to re install >yum group install "X Window system" which gives this error: Maybe run: yum groups mark install (se

[CentOS] How to upgrade CentOS 6.9 KVM host to 7.4.1708 and not re-install guests

2018-01-20 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I have a Windows 7 KVM guest running on a Centos 6.9 KVM host. I would like to upgrade the host system to CentOS 7.4.1708 without having to re-install from scratch the KVM guest. What procedure should I use to move the guest off the host system, upgrade the CentOS version and then move the KVM

Re: [CentOS] Raspberry PI3 - CentOS armv7hl gnome desktop

2016-12-31 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 12/31/2016 04:09 PM, dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: The only real problem I see is here: [ 2665.952] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering It appears that CentOS wants to use hardware acceleration that the Pi can't do. Video is definitely one of the Pi's weaker capabilities. I saw that bu

[CentOS] Raspberry PI3 - CentOS armv7hl gnome desktop

2016-12-31 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Maybe there is a better place to post this message but as my question was still CentOS related thought I would start here. Please advise if there is a better forum of which to ask this question. I am playing around with making a "desktop" workstation out of a Raspberry PI3. I have had no probl

Re: [CentOS] Cannot boot CentOS 7 VM after updating Host CentOS 7 Kernel

2016-10-30 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 10/30/2016 03:05 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: so, Just chroot to mountpoint: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-chroot-command-examples-usage-syntax/ chroot /mounted/path /bin/bash and then .. mkinitrd (see man page for documentation) Thank you for the hint. The way I fixed this problem

Re: [CentOS] Cannot boot CentOS 7 VM after updating Host CentOS 7 Kernel

2016-10-30 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 10/30/2016 12:26 PM, Paul R. Ganci wrote: I am thinking of putting the CentOS iso out and then booting the VM into it just to poke around the file system. Otherwise my other option is to just clone a twin VM on another server and then just change the networking IPs/hostname. Anybody have

Re: [CentOS] Cannot boot CentOS 7 VM after updating Host CentOS 7 Kernel

2016-10-30 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 10/30/2016 07:33 AM, FrancisM wrote: Any error in your host logs? Nothing obvious. I checked /var/log/messages, /var/log/libvirt/qemu, /var/log/libvirt/lxc & /var/log/qemu-ga. The /var/log/libvirt/lxc & /var/log/qemu-ga were empty. The /var/log/libvirt/qemu directory had a log file of inter

Re: [CentOS] Cannot boot CentOS 7 VM after updating Host CentOS 7 Kernel

2016-10-30 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 10/30/2016 06:57 AM, Steven Tardy wrote: On Oct 30, 2016, at 3:27 AM, Paul R. Ganci wrote: grub> set root=(hd0,msdos2) grub> linux (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.36.2.el7.x86_64 root=(hd0,msdos2)/ grub> initrd initrd-plymouth.img grub> boot Try the initrd matching the kernel Th

[CentOS] Cannot boot CentOS 7 VM after updating Host CentOS 7 Kernel

2016-10-30 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I have something very strange that occurred. After updating the kernel on my host CentOS 7 Dell 2950iii I have found that one of my CentOS 7 guest VMs will no longer boot... it just stops at the grub prompt (a second VM functions just fine). I have no idea why this problem occurred and have bee

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.8 Apache-2.2.15-53 re-write question

2016-05-28 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 05/28/2016 02:26 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: May I suggest you enable special logging for the mod_rewrite activity? https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritelog https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriteloglevel Yes this is a good idea. -- Paul (

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.8 Apache-2.2.15-53 re-write question

2016-05-28 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 05/28/2016 01:35 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 28.05.2016 um 21:03 schrieb Paul R. Ganci: Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 31 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/olddomain.conf: RewriteCond: bad argument line '%{REQUEST_URI}!^/test/ You missed a whitespace between the server variable %{REUQES

[CentOS] CentOS 6.8 Apache-2.2.15-53 re-write question

2016-05-28 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I was wondering if somebody could help me with an Apache re-write rule. Apparently CentOS 6.8 is running apache-2.2.15-53. I am trying to redirect all pages except for two pages. The apache rewrite directives in the httpd config are: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/test/ RewriteCo

Re: [CentOS] routing with 2 public ips

2015-12-30 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 12/30/2015 12:44 AM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: "I want that the request of incoming traffic dont use the default gateway. Incoming traffic sould be answered using the gateway of the incoming device " I'm sorry but I have been following this thread for a while and everything that Gordon (a

Re: [CentOS] routing with 2 public ips

2015-12-25 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 12/25/2015 12:44 PM, Joey wrote: i have a server with 2 public ips on 2 devices. I want that the request of incoming traffic dont use the default gateway. Incoming traffic sould be answered using the gateway of the incoming device Could i realize this with firewalld? Or directly iptables

[CentOS] Centos 7.1 openldap-2.4.39 question

2015-05-25 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I have two instances of an openldap-2.4.39 server running with syncrepl in a master-master replication setup. These are Centos 7.1 test servers which have been running for over 2 months now with no problems. Partly the good behavior of the LDAP servers is due to very little exercise. Yesterday

Re: [CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-10 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 05/10/2015 06:50 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/08/2015 08:28 PM, Paul R. Ganci wrote: While this configuration is functional I regret creating a new storage pool in /home. Out of curiosity, why? In part because this directory was getting in the way of synchronizing user directories

Re: [CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-09 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 05/08/2015 11:41 PM, James Hogarth wrote: was wondering if this procedure might work to do what I desire: 1.) Shutdown the VMs 2.) Archive the VM image directory /home/vmimages to a network drive 3.) Use parted or fdisk to delete present /home partition 4.) Use parted or fdisk to re-create sm

Re: [CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-09 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 05/08/2015 11:41 PM, James Hogarth wrote: Don't forget to virsh edit each domain and update the paths in that. In addition don't forget to fix your selinux contexts: semanage fcontext -a -e /var/lib/libvirt/images /vm-images Thank you for the reminder. My monitor would have taken some verb

[CentOS] KVM Questions

2015-05-08 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I have a system with two CentOS 7.1 guests. When I created the VMs I did not have enough storage space in the default location /var/lib/libvirt/images so I moved the default location to a directory /home/vmimages. While this configuration is functional I regret creating a new storage pool in /h

Re: [CentOS] Iptables config removed with 7.1 update

2015-04-03 Thread Paul R. Ganci
other it wasn't there at all which makes me believe it never was there but I thought it was there. Sorry to bother the list. On April 2, 2015 11:28:18 PM MDT, Frank Cox wrote: >On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 22:42:02 -0600 >Paul R. Ganci wrote: > >> Literally the /etc/sysconfig/ipt

[CentOS] Iptables config removed with 7.1 update

2015-04-02 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I had turned off firewalld and was using iptables when I originally installed CentOS 7.0. Two days ago I upgraded my CentOS 7.0 to 7.1. Everything seemed to be fine. Today I discovered that my iptables configuration was removed with the update. Has anyone else experienced this on doing upgrade?

Re: [CentOS] LDAP TLS error -8023

2015-03-31 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 03/30/2015 07:28 PM, Paul R. Ganci wrote: Can somebody tell me what this error means (server, domain etc. changed to protect the innocent)? ldapsearch -H ldap://ldapserv-1.example.com:389 -ZZ -W -D cn=Boss,dc=example,dc=com -b dc=example,dc=com uid=testuser homeDirectory ldap_start_tls

[CentOS] LDAP TLS error -8023

2015-03-30 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Can somebody tell me what this error means (server, domain etc. changed to protect the innocent)? ldapsearch -H ldap://ldapserv-1.example.com:389 -ZZ -W -D cn=Boss,dc=example,dc=com -b dc=example,dc=com uid=testuser homeDirectory ldap_start_tls: Connect error (-11) additional info: TLS err

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6 KVM Windows 7 Pro VM Device USB 04e8:6860

2014-12-08 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 12/08/2014 07:54 PM, Michael Harnden wrote: On Monday, December 08, 2014 07:26:07 PM Paul R. Ganci wrote: Is there anyway to get this VM to start ... for example can I tell it to ignore the USB device? Can I somehow manually remove Device 04e8:6860? I cannot believe I have to re-install just

[CentOS] CentOS 6.6 KVM Windows 7 Pro VM Device USB 04e8:6860

2014-12-08 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I have a CentOS 6.6 system running KVM with a Win 7 Pro VM. Over the weekend I was playing around with the VM trying to get it to see my Samsung Note 4. Apparently I removed the phone without removing the hardware from the VM. Now the VM will not start because Device USB 0438:6860 is not there.

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 01/17/2014 03:59 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I will be using thunderbird from somewhere .. even if I have to build it > myself My suggestion is the Remi repo (http://rpms.famillecollet.com/):. He provides the latest Firefox and Thunderbird among some other useful stuff such php. I often have Fi

Re: [CentOS] samba3x PDC and Win XP (and now Win 7 Client ... off topic)

2012-08-03 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 08/02/2012 08:07 AM, Paul R. Ganci wrote: > Any suggestions to registry/policy settings to get roaming profiles to > act as roaming profiles on a Win 7 Professional SP 1 box? I thought I > ask here first as I am already on this list. Admittedly this might > better belong on a Sam

Re: [CentOS] samba3x PDC and Win XP (and now Win 7 Client ... off topic)

2012-08-02 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 8/2/2012 8:29 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Are you adding all of the required registry entries on the Win7 > machines to have them join the domain? > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 > Thanks, Johnny ... Yes I have added those register entries and was able to join the Win 7 box to the d

Re: [CentOS] samba3x PDC and Win XP (and now Win 7 Client ... off topic)

2012-08-02 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 08/01/2012 09:13 AM, Andreas Rogge wrote: > Am 01.08.2012 09:39, schrieb Paul R. Ganci: >> anybody have a clue as to why %u is not evaluating to the linux username >> snichols and is getting treated simply as the string %u? > You have to use %U instead of %u - this is not a

Re: [CentOS] samba3x PDC and Win XP

2012-08-01 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 08/01/2012 09:13 AM, Andreas Rogge wrote: > Am 01.08.2012 09:39, schrieb Paul R. Ganci: >> anybody have a clue as to why %u is not evaluating to the linux username >> snichols and is getting treated simply as the string %u? > The stage at which %u needs to be evaluated in t

Re: [CentOS] samba3x PDC and Win XP

2012-08-01 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 08/01/2012 04:06 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Paul, > > On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 01:39 -0600, Paul R. Ganci wrote: >> logon path = \\%L\profile\%u\%m >> logon home = \\%L\%u >> >> Perhaps the single backslashes being escapes for th

[CentOS] samba3x PDC and Win XP

2012-08-01 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I am at my wits end on this one. Ever since I upgraded to samba3x (present version 3.5.10-0.110.el5_8) in preparation for adding a Win 7 client, my WinXP client can no longer find their roaming profiles nor can they assign their home shares to a drive at login. Logins and authentication work ju

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Server Access Problem

2010-02-28 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 11:22 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > do you mean other than the fact that this simply talks about TLS Client > and that SSL is deprecated and generally ignored in the documentation? > > SSL communication is different than TLS. With all due respect deprecated doesn't me

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Server Access Problem

2010-02-28 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 17:24 -0700, Craig White wrote: > doing a new setup using methodologies that have already been tagged as > deprecated seems to be a really bad idea. Even though it currently > works, you can be certain that at some point down the road, it will > cease to work... that is what

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Server Access Problem

2010-02-28 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 23:23 -0700, Craig White wrote: > Note that ldap 'client' applications like ldapsearch > use /etc/openldap/ldap.conf so I would suspect that the 'certificates' > used by the 2 machines are different. I thought I would follow up on this problem. I did finally get the ldapsear

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Server Access Problem

2010-02-22 Thread Paul R. Ganci
> > > > Note that ldap 'client' applications like ldapsearch > > use /etc/openldap/ldap.conf so I would suspect that the 'certificates' > > used by the 2 machines are different. >> This might be the missing piece. The certificates were generated from a signing request to CAcert. However, while

[CentOS] LDAP Server Access Problem

2010-02-21 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Hi All, I am at my wits end. I have a LDAP server setup on a machine (the names are changed to protect the innocent) example.mydomain.com running CentOS 5.4 and LDAP version 2.3.43-3. If I issue a ldapsearch command while logged onto the LDAP server host I get a valid response back. For example:

[CentOS] Somewhat off topic: Building Android on CentOS 5.4

2010-02-06 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I asked this question on android-platf...@googlegroups.com but never received a response. I suspect most (if not all) people compiling the Android platform are using some version of Ubuntu ... hence the lack of response. I would not normally cross post but am hopeful that another CentOS 5.4 use

Re: [CentOS] Re: Missing something about sendmail

2008-10-16 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Scott Silva wrote: It is probably ignoring your # as a comment delimiter. So it is picking up # xsmtp02.mail2web.com as part of the error text Yes this was exactly the problem. I had completely forgotten about the comment restriction until Kai Schaetzl pointed it out to me earlier in the mornin

Re: [CentOS] Missing something about sendmail

2008-10-16 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Kai Schaetzl wrote: OK # xsmtp02.mail2web.com You cannot put comments in the file like this, it's interpreted as the error message. You can use only comments that start the line Crap ... after all the experience I had with sendmail I never realized that. I guess you learn something new eve

Re: [CentOS] Missing something about sendmail

2008-10-16 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Christopher Chan wrote: I have a strange problem that I don't understand. I have an access file which has the following line: Did you run makemap? Does the db file contain the same stuff as the text file? Yes. The output of makemap -u hash access.db >access_dump shows 168.144.250.215 OK # xs

[CentOS] Missing something about sendmail

2008-10-15 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Hi All, I have a strange problem that I don't understand. I have an access file which has the following line: 168.144.250.215 OK # xsmtp02.mail2web.com Yet email from this IP address is getting rejected. From my log file Oct 15 21:52:33 mx01 sendmail[10569]: ruleset=check_rel

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-12 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Robert wrote: I should have had the common decency to report that I *did* try this howto and *was* successful. There were a couple things that caused some head-scratching. Yes I also made it work this weekend. I ignored all the stuff regarding the creation of /etc/mtab and mdadm.conf ... they a

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-02 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Matt wrote: why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1 mirror then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D How do you do that? Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS: http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-debian-etch I ha