Re: [CentOS] How will fragmentation help Red Hat

2023-07-25 Thread Rob Kampen
+1 I now have only two servers left on CentOS - both on 7, as 8 and 9 and the whole stream thing just never passed my confidence tests. All my new machines since stream was enabled have been on Ubuntu LTS. It has been a learning curve, a little more work to deal with certain updates and the 5

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-17 Thread Rob Kampen
Thanks all for your comments and suggestions. The main fix for the topic fault was fixing a soft link to /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grubenv - this is the one location used by UEFI It turns out that the update process for this file, when a new kernel is installed, uses /boot/grub2/grubenv. In my c

Re: [CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Rob Kampen
4-advanced-7276336b-d2f2-4b94-b491-ad8c5662acb3' and this entry just seems wrong firstly the kernel version doesn't match - it has been set to ... 81.1 ... rather than 88.1 secondly the last part of the line is the same for every menuentry, namely -advanced-7276336b-d2f2-4b94-b491-ad8c

Re: [CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Rob Kampen
it to GRUB_DEFAULT=0 (I encountered the same issue week ago with a workstation booted for three month with an older kernel because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143438 , and solved it this way) Regards, Petko On 3/14/23 10:51, Rob Kampen wrote: Can I edit /etc/default/grub and c

[CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Rob Kampen
This issue has been around for some months, but other things keep crowding out a fix. uname give me 3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 21 11:57:15 UTC 2021 yet I have 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.81.1.el7.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.83.1.el7.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.88.1.el7.x86_64 loade

Re: [CentOS] Postfix and virtual mail boxes.[SOLVED - kinda]

2021-10-10 Thread Rob Kampen
On 11/10/21 12:53 am, Peter wrote: On 10/10/21 11:28 pm, Rob Kampen wrote: smtp   inet  n   -   n -   -   smtpd -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions= -o content_filter=spamassassin I assume based on what you've said before that this is after you added the workaroun

Re: [CentOS] Postfix and virtual mail boxes.[SOLVED - kinda]

2021-10-10 Thread Rob Kampen
On 9/10/21 9:55 pm, Peter wrote: On 9/10/21 12:26 pm, Rob Kampen wrote: So, after many dozens of hours and sending test emails I have found a solution (work around) that appears to work okay. It is now different to the original two MX servers I cloned from, in that the maillog shows a

Re: [CentOS] Postfix and virtual mail boxes.[SOLVED - kinda]

2021-10-08 Thread Rob Kampen
On 7/10/21 6:18 pm, Rob Kampen wrote: Hi, not sure this is the best place to go for my problem, but hoping someone can point me to the correct or better place. I have two currently working CentOS 7 based email servers that host a number of virtual domains and users and delivers mail just fine

[CentOS] Postfix and virtual mail boxes.

2021-10-06 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi, not sure this is the best place to go for my problem, but hoping someone can point me to the correct or better place. I have two currently working CentOS 7 based email servers that host a number of virtual domains and users and delivers mail just fine - for correctly addressed vmail inboxe

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading (?) from legacy boot to UEFI [SOLVED]

2021-08-28 Thread Rob Kampen
On 29/08/21 1:03 am, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Aug 28, 2021, at 05:58, Rob Kampen wrote: Yeah, it is astounding to me that RH does not define their implementation of the grub2 grub.cfg file with particular focus on the things that are different between legacy boot and UEFI. Also what (if

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading (?) from legacy boot to UEFI

2021-08-28 Thread Rob Kampen
On 28/08/21 8:24 pm, Simon Matter wrote: On 27/08/21 10:51 pm, Rob Kampen wrote: Unfortunately the server is remote and the CentOS7 USB device I left plugged into the machine refuses to boot from UEFI mode. Thus a rescue mode boot has not been possible. So i made a trip and replaced the USB

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading (?) from legacy boot to UEFI

2021-08-27 Thread Rob Kampen
On 27/08/21 10:51 pm, Rob Kampen wrote: Unfortunately the server is remote and the CentOS7 USB device I left plugged into the machine refuses to boot from UEFI mode. Thus a rescue mode boot has not been possible. So i made a trip and replaced the USB stick with another one - CentOS7 I am

[CentOS] Upgrading (?) from legacy boot to UEFI

2021-08-27 Thread Rob Kampen
After three days of effort I have failed to find a way of shifting a server from legacy boot to UEFI boot. I have made my way through the 400+ pages of RH installation manual for EL7, plus their similarly large system administrators manual. Dozens of pages searched via google and yet none of t

Re: [CentOS] Cloning bridged VMs : VirtualBox vs. KVM

2021-03-24 Thread Rob Kampen
On 25/03/21 5:51 am, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, (tl;dr : how can I clone a KVM-based bridged virtual machine and force a duplicate MAC address ?) Up until recently I've been using VirtualBox on my workstation to test various local setups. Usually I would setup a basic CentOS installation, and wh

Re: [CentOS] Samba config question

2021-03-16 Thread Rob Kampen
On 16/03/21 4:24 pm, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: After setting up /etc/samba/smb.conf and running "testparm" in CentOS 7.9.2011, I have noticed that the list of parameters echoed back for the [global] section do not match those in the smb.conf file. Is this normal? [global] in /etc/

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-16 Thread Rob Kampen
On 16/03/21 9:25 am, Lamar Owen wrote: On 3/15/21 8:51 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Exactly that. Upstream Fedora and RHEL went to require dual density around Fedora 18, RHEL-7 because the amount of data was too much. Well, what's odd is that the actual upstream RHEL 7.9 DVD WILL fit on a s

Re: [CentOS] Password manager for the command line ?

2020-11-23 Thread Rob Kampen
On 23/11/20 10:52 pm, Sebastien Féminier via CentOS wrote: Hi Niki , I use "pass" to manage my password , it's based on gnuPG , you can find more info on the web site => https://www.passwordstore.org/ . For sync you can use Git . Seb. +1 -works well and can be used via ssh link as well if se

Re: [CentOS] Mail server troubles

2020-10-08 Thread Rob Kampen
On 9/10/20 11:08 am, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 17:50, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, This is probably a bit OT, but here goes. I've been running our local school's mail server since 2013, with mail addresses for school staff and some teachers. The server is running CentOS

Re: [CentOS] HP vs. Brother Printers: Use with Centos/Fedora

2020-06-27 Thread Rob Kampen
On 28/06/20 9:44 am, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:33:39 -0400 Jay Hart wrote: If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be? Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all o

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] fail2ban firewalld problems with current CentOS 7

2020-04-17 Thread Rob Kampen
On 17/04/20 10:55 pm, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 17.04.20 um 02:59 schrieb Rob Kampen: On 13/04/20 1:30 pm, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 4/9/20 6:31 AM, Andreas Haumer wrote: ... I'm neither a fail2ban nor a SELinux expert, but it seems the standard fail2ban SELinux policy as provid

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] fail2ban firewalld problems with current CentOS 7

2020-04-16 Thread Rob Kampen
On 13/04/20 1:30 pm, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 4/9/20 6:31 AM, Andreas Haumer wrote: ... I'm neither a fail2ban nor a SELinux expert, but it seems the standard fail2ban SELinux policy as provided by CentOS 7 is not sufficient anymore and the recent updates did not correctly update the required S

Re: [CentOS] Zoom?

2020-04-09 Thread Rob Kampen
On 10/04/20 8:08 am, MAILIST wrote: I'm on Ubuntu and, no, it doesn't work. I installed it the standard way on Zorin 15 (based on Ubuntu 18), and it worked well. Todd Merriman ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban firewalld problems with current CentOS 7

2020-04-09 Thread Rob Kampen
On 9/04/20 7:48 pm, Andreas Haumer wrote: Hi! I have a server running CentOS 7.7 (1908) with all current patches installed. I think this server should be a quite standard installation with no specialities On this server I have fail2ban with an apache and openvpn configuration. I'm using firewal

[CentOS] Keyboard backlight fails with recent kernels

2019-10-03 Thread Rob Kampen
I do not use my laptop often, normally my better half has possession and use of it. It is a late 2011 ASUS ROG G73S which performs very well. The keyboard backlight was an issue initially under CentOS6, but the kind folks at elrepo found the missing bits in a more recent kernel and created a

Re: [CentOS] Mate on Centos 7

2019-07-19 Thread Rob Kampen
On 19/07/19 11:06 PM, James Pearson wrote: isdtor wrote: Can I really be the only user of Mate on Centos 7?? No, definitely not. I use MATE on C7, because Gnome is, how do I say this politely..., um, horrible. Not a KDE fan either. Gnome-2.x wasn't broken, didn't need to be thrown away and rep

Re: [CentOS] Server fails to boot

2019-07-14 Thread Rob Kampen
On 14/07/19 10:15 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 7/8/19 4:28 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: Warning: /dev/disk/by-id/md-uuid-::: does not exist https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451660 It sounds like your kernels aren't assembling the RAID device on

[CentOS] Server fails to boot

2019-07-08 Thread Rob Kampen
First some history. This is an Intel MB and processor some 6 years old, initially running CentOS 6. It has 4 x 1TB sata drives set up in two mdraid 1 mirrors. It has performed really well in a rural setting with frequent power cuts which the UPS has dealt with and auto shuts down the server aft

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Rob Kampen
On 29/06/19 2:46 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: Nikos Gatsis - Qbit wrote on 6/27/2019 8:36 AM: Hello list. The next days we are going to install Centos 7 on a new server, with 4*3Tb sata hdd as raid-5. We will use the graphical interface to install and set up raid. Do I have to consider anything

Re: [CentOS] Alternitives to Firefox...

2019-06-26 Thread Rob Kampen
On 27/06/19 7:58 AM, Robert Heller wrote: OK, I recently ugraded to the current ESR release of Firefox for CentOS 6. And I am having problems with the user interface (basically it has become hard [for me] to use). What alternitives are there? (Chrome and Chromium are not possible with CentOS, a

Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-13 Thread Rob Kampen
On 11/05/19 2:05 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: Am 10.05.2019 um 11:12 schrieb Nux! : I maintain a desktop oriented repo for CentOS and last I checked a year or so ago, I got over 150k+ unique IPs with yum user agent downloading stuff from it. It's a bit anecdotal as perhaps not all are act

Re: [CentOS] PHP 7.x on CentOS 7 : which solution ?

2019-03-15 Thread Rob Kampen
On 15/03/19 8:51 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, As you all know, CentOS 7 is shipping PHP 5.4, which is OK in some situations. Unfortunately, some applications like OwnCloud require a more recent version of PHP. Up until recently, I've been using PHP 5.6 packages from the Webtatic repository. De

Re: [CentOS] Question about updates

2019-02-15 Thread Rob Kampen
On 16/02/19 6:59 PM, Ralf Prengel wrote: Hallo, as a beginner using centos I‘ve a question about updates. What it the right repo for getting all security and other updates? http://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/linux/distributions/centos/7.6.1810/updates/ for example? If you have installed CentOS 7 it

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition running out of space randomly. Please help!

2019-02-12 Thread Rob Kampen
On 13/02/19 2:05 PM, Sean Son wrote: Hello all First off, I am running Oracle Linux 7.6 on a Hyper-V 2016 VM for a customer. I know this is not an Oracle Linux mailling list, but because Oracle Linux and CentOS are so similar, to an extent, I figured why not ask on here because someone MIGHT kno

Re: [CentOS] Latest kernel crashes X and gnome

2019-02-09 Thread Rob Kampen
On 9/02/19 5:57 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: Hi, Anyone else having problems with kernel 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64? After my yum update today a reboot hung. A quick look at the Xorg.0.log shows two of my graphics cards appear to be working okay but the third one (I have two nvidia cards with a

[CentOS] Latest kernel crashes X and gnome

2019-02-08 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi, Anyone else having problems with kernel 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64? After my yum update today a reboot hung. A quick look at the Xorg.0.log shows two of my graphics cards appear to be working okay but the third one (I have two nvidia cards with a monitor each and then use the inbuilt intel

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-20 Thread Rob Kampen
On 21/12/18 5:21 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 01:50:06PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: hI ALL! There have been a large enough number of people posting here about difficulties when upgrading from 7. to 7.6 that I'm being somewhat paranoid about it. I have several machines to upgrad

Re: [CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

2018-12-05 Thread Rob Kampen
⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On 05 Dec 2018, 7:22 AM, at 7:22 AM, Phil Perry wrote: >On 04/12/2018 09:54, Rob Kampen wrote: >> >> So in an effort to narrow down the problem I also have an old Samsung > >> laptop - i5 with an nvidia card - all up-to-date 7.5 - I thought

Re: [CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

2018-12-05 Thread Rob Kampen
On 5/12/18 7:21 AM, Phil Perry wrote: On 04/12/2018 09:54, Rob Kampen wrote: So in an effort to narrow down the problem I also have an old Samsung laptop - i5 with an nvidia card - all up-to-date 7.5 - I thought I would try a more conservative upgrade approach. first updated to the CR

Re: [CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

2018-12-05 Thread Rob Kampen
On 5/12/18 5:30 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 10:54:58PM +1300, Rob Kampen wrote: So in an effort to narrow down the problem I also have an old Samsung laptop - i5 with an nvidia card - all up-to-date 7.5 - I thought I would try a more conservative upgrade approach

Re: [CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

2018-12-05 Thread Rob Kampen
On 5/12/18 4:17 AM, Simon Matter wrote: On 4/12/18 9:06 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: Sorry for top post, my android BlueMail will not let me insert at the bottom. I have found that tracker-extract seems to trigger a segfault. I note this is not updated in CR, but comes from base. Removal of tracker

Re: [CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

2018-12-04 Thread Rob Kampen
On 4/12/18 9:06 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: Sorry for top post, my android BlueMail will not let me insert at the bottom. I have found that tracker-extract seems to trigger a segfault. I note this is not updated in CR, but comes from base. Removal of tracker seems too harsh as it has dependant

Re: [CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

2018-12-03 Thread Rob Kampen
On 03/12/18 23:47, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 03.12.2018 um 11:14 schrieb John Hodrien : On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Simon Matter wrote: Le 03/12/2018 à 06:25, Rob Kampen a écrit : I enabled the CR repo and did the yum update. Some 800+ rpms were offered and all seemed to resolve depenancies

Re: [CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

2018-12-03 Thread Rob Kampen
;> Le 03/12/2018 à 06:25, Rob Kampen a écrit : >>>>> I enabled the CR repo and did the yum update. Some 800+ rpms were >>>>> offered and all seemed to resolve depenancies OK, so yes it was >>>>> started. The updates completed and all looked good, until

[CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

2018-12-03 Thread Rob Kampen
I have a centos 7.5 desktop workstation with dual nvidia graphic cards running three monitors. I use the i915 motherboard graphics adapter for the third monitor with bumblebee to work the magic to enable the three contiguous work spaces. I use the kmod nvidia drivers for the two graphics cards.

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Rob Kampen
On 30/10/18 20:06, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 10/30/18 2:46 AM, Simon Matter wrote: On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware market again (and

Re: [CentOS] Frefox update from firefox-60.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 to 60.2.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64 lost master password

2018-10-14 Thread Rob Kampen
On 13/10/18 02:24, Phelps, Matthew wrote: On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:34 AM Rob Kampen wrote: Hi list, Did an update to firefox last night and rebooted over night. Today I find firefox started without asking for master password - funny me thinks. Try to log in to a web service I use and find

Re: [CentOS] Frefox update from firefox-60.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 to 60.2.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64 lost master password

2018-10-04 Thread Rob Kampen
On 05/10/18 01:27, Tony Molloy wrote: On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 21:27 +1300, Rob Kampen wrote: On 04/10/18 05:45, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:19 AM Stephen John Smoogen wrote: It would seem that the problem is with upstream-upstream's (aka Firefox) cleaning up of items tha

Re: [CentOS] Frefox update from firefox-60.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 to 60.2.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64 lost master password

2018-10-04 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/10/18 05:45, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:19 AM Stephen John Smoogen wrote: It would seem that the problem is with upstream-upstream's (aka Firefox) cleaning up of items that are not supposed to be there after Firefox 58 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475775

[CentOS] Frefox update from firefox-60.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 to 60.2.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64 lost master password

2018-10-03 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi list, Did an update to firefox last night and rebooted over night. Today I find firefox started without asking for master password - funny me thinks. Try to log in to a web service I use and find that my password does not appear. Check preferences and find that no master password is set

Re: [CentOS] Firefox Issue

2018-09-17 Thread Rob Kampen
On 17/09/18 21:54, Chris Olson via CentOS wrote: We have several small networks, some of which have only four systems that are usually a mix of Windows 7 and CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machines. All of these systems are Internet connected and updated regularly when yum finds packages available.  Infor

Re: [CentOS] using Skype on C-7

2018-05-25 Thread Rob Kampen
On 25/05/18 16:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Hi I've whined about this before, but now I feel the overwhelming urge to whine some more. Forgiveness begged... :) I've spent some very frustrating times trying to get a microphone to work when doing skype calls. According to the various sound tools

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + KDE : Dolphin weirdness

2018-05-23 Thread Rob Kampen
On 24/05/18 07:50, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'm running CentOS 7 + KDE on my workstation. Since the latest big batch of updates, Dolphin behaves a bit weirdly. When I download a .zip archive and then right click and "Extract here", the extracted files don't show. I have to hit F5 to refresh the

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for Pdftk under CentOS 7 ?

2018-05-09 Thread Rob Kampen
On 09/05/18 22:22, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, Two weeks ago I migrated all our local school's servers and clients from Slackware 14.1 to CentOS 7. Everything went perfectly, and now I'm busy sanding down some edges. The previous installation sported pdftk and a frontend (can't remember the name)

Re: [CentOS] memory cgroup max_usage_in_bytes question

2018-04-04 Thread Rob Kampen
On 05/04/18 01:56, Stijn De Weirdt wrote: hi all, can someone help explaining what we are seeing? it makes no sense to us. this is a host running centos 7.4 with 3.10.0-693.17.1 kernel, and it has 192GB of ram [] free -b totalusedfree shared buff/cache av

Re: [CentOS] Low random entropy

2017-05-29 Thread Rob Kampen
On 29/05/17 15:46, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 05/28/2017 06:57 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: On 28/05/17 23:56, Leon Fauster wrote: Am 28.05.2017 um 12:16 schrieb Robert Moskowitz : On 05/28/2017 04:24 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: In article <792718e8-f403-1dea-367d-977b157af...@htt-consult.

Re: [CentOS] Low random entropy

2017-05-28 Thread Rob Kampen
On 28/05/17 23:56, Leon Fauster wrote: Am 28.05.2017 um 12:16 schrieb Robert Moskowitz : On 05/28/2017 04:24 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: In article <792718e8-f403-1dea-367d-977b157af...@htt-consult.com>, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 05/26/2017 08:35 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: drops back to 30! f

[CentOS] Google-chrome-stable

2017-05-21 Thread Rob Kampen
Over the last week or so I have noticed that chrome fails to load pages - in fact even the setup pages do not load. Blow away the ~/.config/google-chrome/ files and restart Seems to work for a little while - then stops again - no other pages load. I have done the cleanup of the .config/google-

Re: [CentOS] get pdftk into (or from) a repo

2017-05-14 Thread Rob Kampen
On 14/05/17 06:38, ken wrote: On 05/12/2017 03:39 AM, Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE wrote: Le 12/05/2017 à 02:46, ken a écrit : It's worth mentioning that this is a really nice utility for manipulating PDFs, taking them apart, rearranging them, putting pages together, and a whole lot more. I've

Re: [CentOS] NOT Solved - Re: SELinux policy to allow Dovecot to connect to Mysql

2017-04-25 Thread Rob Kampen
On 26/04/17 17:29, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 04/26/2017 04:22 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 04/25/2017 03:25 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: This made the same content as before that caused problems: I still don't understand, exactly. Are you seeing *new* problems after installing a policy?

Re: [CentOS] Preferred mail client

2017-01-28 Thread Rob Kampen
On 29/01/17 18:02, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/28/2017 04:03 PM, TE Dukes wrote: What is the preferred remote mail client for 7.3? I'm a fan of SOGo. never heard of it - looks interesting BUT the production versions are only available with a support contract the begins at $US 750 / annum -

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread Rob Kampen
On 26/01/17 05:46, Tony Mountifield wrote: In article <1485342377.3072.6.ca...@biggs.org.uk>, Pete Biggs wrote: On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 17:14 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: So, it installed happily. Then wouldn't boot. No problem, I'll bring it up with pxe, then chroot and grub2-install. Um, n

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 dhcpd failure to allow a 2nd network over same interal nic

2017-01-16 Thread Rob Kampen
On 16/01/17 21:54, John R Pierce wrote: On 1/16/2017 12:44 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: Here's an idea - untested. set up a network on the single nic - say 192.168.55.xx/24 set up the dhcp to offer leases from a subset of this network - say 192.168.55.128/28 set up fixed leases based upo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 dhcpd failure to allow a 2nd network over same interal nic

2017-01-16 Thread Rob Kampen
On 16/01/17 17:12, James A. Peltier wrote: VLANs are your friend, otherwise DHCPD is not going to understand how to properly answer your request for different networks on the same interface. - On 14 Jan, 2017, at 11:59, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: | Everyone, | | I am trying to

Re: [CentOS] 7.3: Gnome workspaces mirrored

2017-01-04 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/01/17 22:09, Gerhard Schneider wrote: An user is using 2 displays and configured Gnome to "Static Workspaces only on primary display on" using gnome-tweak-tool Till 7.2 it was working as expected. After upgrading to 7.3 the content on the primary screen gets mirrored to all workspaces. Wh

Re: [CentOS] Adobereader on Centos7 crashes

2016-12-31 Thread Rob Kampen
On 01/01/17 04:35, johan.vermeul...@telenet.be wrote: Hello All, I can't get Adobe Reader to run stable on Centos7, when trying to edit settings or trying to print, it crashes. The issue is people need to digitally sign pdf forms. When I open these forms with anything else then Adobereader, I

Re: [CentOS] kmod-nvidia problems

2016-12-11 Thread Rob Kampen
On 11/12/16 09:28, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: Hi List, I use the kmod-nvidia package on my CentOS workstations. Always this has "just worked". Doing a yum update this morning I now get this: 09:15:28 : ERROR: Package: kmod-nvidia-36

[CentOS] kmod-nvidia problems

2016-12-10 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi List, I use the kmod-nvidia package on my CentOS workstations. Always this has "just worked". Doing a yum update this morning I now get this: 09:15:28 : ERROR: Package: kmod-nvidia-367.57-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64 (elrepo) Requires: kernel(drm_atomic_helper_plane_reset) = 0xabd4c98d In

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Travel Router and Firewall

2016-11-26 Thread Rob Kampen
On 27/11/16 01:26, Bob Marcan wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:18:34 +0100 H wrote: https://routerboard.com/products I'm using this one: https://routerboard.com/RB941-2nD I use kit from this company at every opportunity. Great value, powerful capabilities, you can use their web ui but they also

Re: [CentOS] Skype for Centos Desktop

2016-11-17 Thread Rob Kampen
On 18/11/16 10:06, Alice Wonder wrote: On 11/17/2016 12:46 PM, Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin wrote: Hi all. I search info in the web about how to install skype on centos 6.5, but just exists info about skype with architecture to 32 bit. someone can me explicain, how to install skype for 64 bit arc

Re: [CentOS] clamd@amavisd fails under systemd - FIXED

2016-11-11 Thread Rob Kampen
On 12/11/16 16:46, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/11/2016 02:39 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: When I invoke from the CLI - there is a -nofork=yes as a part of the invocation. When systemd tries to do the invocation via the ExecStart line - the original clamd@.service file had this --nofork=yes also, the

Re: [CentOS] clamd@amavisd fails under systemd

2016-11-11 Thread Rob Kampen
On 11/11/16 13:36, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/09/2016 02:07 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: so I have /etc/tmpfiles.d/clamd.amavisd.conf with content d /var/run/clamd.amavisd 0755 amavis amavis - the process owner name and group name are amavis this is not quite what you specified - which should it be

Re: [CentOS] clamd@amavisd fails under systemd

2016-11-11 Thread Rob Kampen
On 11/11/16 13:36, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/09/2016 02:07 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: so I have /etc/tmpfiles.d/clamd.amavisd.conf with content d /var/run/clamd.amavisd 0755 amavis amavis - the process owner name and group name are amavis this is not quite what you specified - which should it be

Re: [CentOS] clamd@amavisd fails under systemd

2016-11-09 Thread Rob Kampen
On 09/11/16 11:48, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/08/2016 03:24 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: If there is anyone that has this combo of services working under CentOS7 and can shed any insight on why I cannot get this service to actually run, it would be very much appreciated. When setting up a clamd

[CentOS] clamd@amavisd fails under systemd

2016-11-08 Thread Rob Kampen
Trying to set up a mail server under CentOS7 - having done this with CentOS5 and CentOS6 over the last decade with no issues and reliable service, it was time to upgrade (?) to CentOS7. Shouldn't be a problem, right? Getting to grips with systemd has been challenging - to say the least. So a

Re: [CentOS] fprintd needed?

2016-11-03 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/11/16 09:31, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 01:58:39PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:36:00 -0400 Jon LaBadie wrote: Without a fingerprint device, is this software needed. I have removed it on all of my systems and never noticed any issues. Thank you, that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on new Dell

2016-10-13 Thread Rob Kampen
On 14/10/16 14:03, Michael B Allen wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:18 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 9/29/2016 5:55 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: It seems optical drives are gone. Do I boot the iso from USB or what's the procedure now? yup, put iso on USB, go to town. Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on new Thinkpads

2016-09-30 Thread Rob Kampen
On 01/10/16 05:02, Michael B Allen wrote: Ok, I see a lot of nice answers here so I would like to try to refine this a little. After some research I was going to skip Lenovo. People are clearly having problems running Linux on Lenovos. I spoke with one person that had a really hard time with the

Re: [CentOS] HP CP2025

2016-09-26 Thread Rob Kampen
On 27/09/16 10:45, Kay Schenk wrote: On 09/25/2016 06:09 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep hplip hplip-common-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 hplip-libs-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep cups cups-1.4.2-74.el6.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.0.4-13.el6.x86_64 gutenpri

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID and GRUB on CentOS 7

2016-08-11 Thread Rob Kampen
On 12/08/16 01:20, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: On 08/11/16 02:33, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, When I perform a software RAID 1 or RAID 5 installation on a LAN server with several hard disks, I wonder if GRUB already gets installed on each individual MBR, or if I have to do that manually. On Ce

[CentOS] VLC and playing .mkv files with opus audio

2016-08-01 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi list, I use VLC from nux-dextop as my default player. Recently began using youtube-dl and it grabs the video and audio just fine and produces .mkv files. I can play the resulting file just fine with Enqueue in SMPlayer, GXine, SMPlayer and Videos - VLC unfortunately says 'VLC could not deco

Re: [CentOS] Systemd and VirtualBox

2016-05-27 Thread Rob Kampen
On 28/05/16 14:31, Anthony K wrote: On 28/05/16 12:12, Rob Kampen wrote: which of the 9 answers did you use - there are four with [0] points. I did see this some time ago and got a variant working under CentOS 6. I was hoping to use the new-fangled systemd, partly as a learning exercise

Re: [CentOS] Systemd and VirtualBox

2016-05-27 Thread Rob Kampen
On 28/05/16 12:43, Anthony K wrote: On 17/05/16 17:55, Rob Kampen wrote: No idea where to from here, so if there is anyone that has a working systemd autostart VirtualBox setup on a headless CentOS 7 server - please advise what you have done to get it working. I'm running CentOS7 as my

Re: [CentOS] /etc/sysconfig/iptables syntax

2016-05-22 Thread Rob Kampen
On 23/05/16 14:55, Mike wrote: The last two router/firewall servers I had used Slackware and Gentoo. I'm used to writing complete and explicit iptables rules; however, when I set up /etc/sysconfig/iptables in CentOS 7 my usual syntax is unusable. For example, I'm used to stating postrouting masq

Re: [CentOS] Systemd and VirtualBox

2016-05-17 Thread Rob Kampen
On 17/05/16 22:38, James Hogarth wrote: On 17 May 2016 at 09:11, Rob Kampen wrote: On 17/05/16 19:58, John Hodrien wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2016, Rob Kampen wrote: No idea where to from here, so if there is anyone that has a working systemd autostart VirtualBox setup on a headless CentOS 7

Re: [CentOS] Systemd and VirtualBox

2016-05-17 Thread Rob Kampen
On 17/05/16 19:58, John Hodrien wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2016, Rob Kampen wrote: No idea where to from here, so if there is anyone that has a working systemd autostart VirtualBox setup on a headless CentOS 7 server - please advise what you have done to get it working. I deliberately bailed on

[CentOS] Systemd and VirtualBox

2016-05-17 Thread Rob Kampen
The continuing challenges of getting a workable server continue. The latest spins of VirtualBox seem to have solved the issues of DKMS auto compiles of the driver being aborted. The yum updates work as expected, provided one stops the running vms manually first. However, trying to get systemd

Re: [CentOS] C7 Desktop background - SOLVED

2016-05-17 Thread Rob Kampen
On 17/05/16 09:38, Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2016 09:29:52 +1200 Rob Kampen wrote: Tried that - it appears to run, i.e. prompt returns. No change. Logged out and back in - no change, still gray. It has reset the background that comes up when I move the cursor to the top left and see all

Re: [CentOS] C7 Desktop background

2016-05-16 Thread Rob Kampen
On 16/05/16 22:09, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2016-05-15, Rob Kampen wrote: Hi Just stumbled into a problem with my recent new build C7 work station. Fully updated, gnome desktop, all was working well until I had a play with Tweak Tool, I wanted to try some other themes for window layouts a

[CentOS] C7 Desktop background

2016-05-15 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi Just stumbled into a problem with my recent new build C7 work station. Fully updated, gnome desktop, all was working well until I had a play with Tweak Tool, I wanted to try some other themes for window layouts as the default seems to not show check boxes correctly in all situations. I have

Re: [CentOS] Regarding upgrade from CentOS .5.5 to CentOS 7

2016-05-04 Thread Rob Kampen
On 05/05/16 17:13, Venkateswara Rao Dokku wrote: Hi, I wanted to upgrade from centOS 5.5 to CentOS 7 without losing the data. Is there any upgrade path available? or what is the proper way to do it without affecting the existing config? Thnaks for the help Install another hard drive or SSD, p

Re: [CentOS] C5: The Firefox ESR 45.1.0 Nighmare - bunny trail

2016-04-29 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/29/2016 10:21 PM, James Hogarth wrote: On 29 April 2016 at 09:55, isdtor wrote: Always Learning writes: However the time-wasting problem remains, so too do the down-loaded extensions in /tmp, example tmp-xxx.xpi The reason behind this is the missing patch referenced by Johnny's posting

Re: [CentOS] Apache/PHP Installation - opinions

2016-04-27 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/27/2016 07:50 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: On 04/27/2016 12:41 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: On 04/27/2016 12:30 AM, James Hogarth wrote: *snip* Unless you have a very specific requirement for a very bleeding edge feature it's fundamentally a terrible idea to move away from the distribution package

Re: [CentOS] Suddenly increased my hard disk

2016-04-21 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/22/2016 03:34 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Thu, April 21, 2016 10:23 pm, John R Pierce wrote: On 4/21/2016 7:49 PM, Chandran Manikandan wrote: Finally fixed my issue. As you told i have unmount the external hard disk then i checked the /bkhdd/backup folder. I saw that 190GB backup tar.gz

[CentOS] EPEL - Clamav update?

2016-04-02 Thread Rob Kampen
EPEL maintainers? I note messages in the log about updated version 0.99.1 of CLAMAV being available since Mar 5th. for CentOS 6 no update is available yet. I used to use rpmforge for this package but that languished for months before updates became available and eventually stopped altogether.

Re: [CentOS] Strange behaviour of iptables in centos 7

2016-03-07 Thread Rob Kampen
On 03/08/2016 08:35 PM, anax wrote: Hi strange behaviour of iptables on a centos 7.0 machine: The following rule is in the iptables of said machine: [root@myserver ~]# iptables -L -v -n --line-numbers |grep 175\. 99 456 DROP all -- * * 175.44.0.0/16 0.0.0.0/0 [roo

Re: [CentOS] Run Now no longer works in Messages Filters of Thunderbird 38.6

2016-03-07 Thread Rob Kampen
On 03/08/2016 02:35 AM, Roger Wells wrote: On 03/06/2016 07:51 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: On 03/07/2016 08:52 AM, Bernard Lheureux wrote: Hi all, Since the last update of Thunderbird to 38.6, the button 'Run Now' of the 'Mail Filters' option is no longer effective and appears

Re: [CentOS] Run Now no longer works in Messages Filters of Thunderbird 38.6

2016-03-06 Thread Rob Kampen
On 03/07/2016 08:52 AM, Bernard Lheureux wrote: Hi all, Since the last update of Thunderbird to 38.6, the button 'Run Now' of the 'Mail Filters' option is no longer effective and appears always grayed in my CentOS 7... Anybody has the same behavior ? running on CentOS 6 - I have T/B 38.6 al

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd frequent renewals

2016-02-18 Thread Rob Kampen
On 18/02/16 13:41, david wrote: Rob DNS service for my clients is provided by my gateway server, the same machine as the DHCPD server. I think that's what the "option domain-name-servers" line does. This allows me to provide 192.168 addresses to them when they try to access anything inside t

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd frequent renewals

2016-02-17 Thread Rob Kampen
On 16/02/16 16:59, david wrote: Folks This might be the wrong place to ask, but I don't know where to turn. My internal home network, including wireless, is controlled by a Centos6 server, which provides dhcpd services, along with NAT. I have DHCPD configured with the addresses 192.168.155.20

[CentOS] CentOS7 changes strike again.

2016-01-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Still in the process of migrating from an old CentOS5 server to a brand new CentOS7. After finally getting Virtualbox-5.0 installed and a new Wondoze10 Pro installed it became time to shift the data from the old server to the new. The old server is headless and I installed the old WindozeXP i

  1   2   3   4   5   6   >