Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> The price we pay.. :) Do you say that paying RH customers already received new firefox packages? Regards, Simon > > BTW, Mozilla publishes tarballs that you can simply extract and run (and > will self-update), you can use those (it's what I am doing as a workaround > in fact until RH catches

Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

2019-05-08 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I was told lately about this workaround, check it out. > https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/ The signing thing is a security feature. I don't like a workaround to disable a security feature instead of fixing it. What makes me feel a bit bad is that

Re: [CentOS] yum remove iptables problem

2019-05-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi > > Just got a new server replacing another server. > I had to use iptables to protect it until I could move a hardware firewall > from the old server to the new server. > > Now I am trying to delete iptables but it wants to delete lots of other > dependency packages, e.g. sendmail,

Re: [CentOS] Permissions on nginx logs

2019-05-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On May 6, 2019, at 10:14 AM, Bee.Lists wrote: >> >> I will give 770 a try. > > Try 750 first. You don’t need write access to do what you’re asking. > > Also, the group membership change won’t take effect until you log out and > back in. Thanks to correct me, both things are true, if he only

Re: [CentOS] Permissions on nginx logs

2019-05-05 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Just did that, and I still can’t do this: > > $ cd /var/log/nginx > > -bash: cd: /var/log/nginx: Permission denied What's the access mode of it? Should probably be mode 770 then. Regards, Simon > > >> On May 3, 2019, at 7:22 PM, John Pierce wrote: >> >> Add group nginx to your user...

Re: [CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-25 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> James B. Byrne via CentOS wrote: >> On Wed, April 24, 2019 11:14, Simon Matter wrote: >>> >>> I'm afraid too many clouds make the wider horizon invisible :-) >> >> At that point it is called fog. > > But, don'tcha know, the only way to clear the fog is to send lots of money > to them Well,

Re: [CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Andrew Holway wrote: >> I just realised that I haven't touched a centos/redhat machine in more >> than a couple of years. Everything I do now is Kubernetes based or using >> cloud services (or k8s cloud services). >> >> What about it listeroons? Is your fleet of centos boxes ever expanding >> or

Re: [CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
>> What OS are your k8s clusters running on? How about your cloud >> providers? Mine are on RHEL and CentOS. >> > > I don't know. We use fully managed services from Google. I think its > coreOS. I'm wondering what desktops you run then, are they also running on Kubernetes? I know some prefer

Re: [CentOS] Intel Vroc experiences?

2019-04-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > > Has anyone had any experience with Intel Vroc[1]? I'm possibly having to > deal with a new server with such technology and can't find much (real > world) information about it. > Looking at the specs it's basically a glorified fake raid which usually > turns on my alarm bells. Has anyone

Re: [CentOS] Short or long hostname ?

2019-04-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
>> >> >> On 4/10/19 8:23 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> For the last ten years or so, I've defined the short hostname in >>>> /etc/hostname and the FQDN in /etc/hosts. Now I wanted to double

Re: [CentOS] Short or long hostname ?

2019-04-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> > > On 4/10/19 8:23 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> For the last ten years or so, I've defined the short hostname in >>> /etc/hostname and the FQDN in /etc/hosts. Now I wanted to double-check >>> this information, which

Re: [CentOS] Short or long hostname ?

2019-04-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > > For the last ten years or so, I've defined the short hostname in > /etc/hostname and the FQDN in /etc/hosts. Now I wanted to double-check > this information, which eventually led me to this page: > > * > https://serverfault.com/questions/331936/setting-the-hostname-fqdn-or-short-name >

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic after removing SW RAID1 partitions, setting up ZFS.

2019-04-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> In article <6566355.ijnrhnp...@tesla.schoolpathways.com>, > Benjamin Smith wrote: >> System is CentOS 6 all up to date, previously had two drives in MD RAID >> configuration. >> >> md0: sda1/sdb1, 20 GB, OS / Partition >> md1: sda2/sdb2, 1 TB, data mounted as /home >> >> Installed kmod ZFS via

Re: [CentOS] howto monitor disks on a serveraid-8k?

2019-03-14 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> hwilmer wrote: >> >> I'd like to monitor the disks connected to a ServeRaid-8k controller in >> a server running Centos 7 such that I can know when one fails. >> >> What's the best way to do that? > > From a *really* short search, see it has a controller card If you do an > lspci, what does that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 Installation Problems

2019-03-12 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I attempted to install CentOS 7 x86_64 on my machine that has the > following hardware: > > Motherboard:  ASRock X99 Taichi > BIOS: AMI v P1.40  08/04/2016 > CPU:  Intel Core I7-5820K > RAM:  64 GB (8 x 8 GB DIMM) > Optical:  LG Blu Ray 25 G / 50 G

Re: [CentOS] Performing post-installation setup tasks - for 75 minutes

2019-02-28 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I'm doing a new install, and everything seems to have gone fine apart from > the > incredible amount of time it's taken. > > It does have 6 x 4TB drives in RAID6 and I am installing from a USB DVD > drive > as I had no SATA ports left, but this is getting rediculous. Maybe you could try a

Re: [CentOS] What files to edit when changing the sdX of hard drives?

2019-02-28 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> Le 28/02/2019 à 04:12, Jobst Schmalenbach a écrit : >> >>> I want to lock in the SDA/SDB/SDC for my drives >> >> In short : use UUIDs or labels instead of hardcoding /dev/sdX. >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/persistent_block_device_naming > > Yeah - I strongly

Re: [CentOS] Problem with mdadm, raid1 and automatically adds any disk to raid

2019-02-26 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:54 PM Simon Matter via CentOS > > wrote: > >> > >> > What makes you think this has *anything* to do with systemd? Bitching >> > about systemd every time you hit a problem isn't helpful. Don't. >> >> If it's not s

Re: [CentOS] Problem with mdadm, raid1 and automatically adds any disk to raid

2019-02-25 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 2/24/19 9:01 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: >> I tried to delete the MDX, I removed the disks by failing them, then >> removing each array md0, md1 and md2. >> I also did >> >>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=512 seek=$(($(blockdev --getsz >> /dev/sdX)-1024)) count=1024 > > > Clearing the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7.6 & ether-wake

2019-02-25 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Can you be more specific about the hardware? > I have a setup of DELL desktop, DELL Server SuperMicro Server and couple > other devices. > I am using from a cgi script the next on one server to wake the other: > /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/ether-wake "XY::XY" -b && echo 1 Does is work if you do

Re: [CentOS] Problem with mdadm, raid1 and automatically adds any disk to raid

2019-02-24 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi. > > CENTOS 7.6.1810, fresh install - use this as a base to create/upgrade > new/old machines. > > I was trying to setup two disks as a RAID1 array, using these lines > > mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdc1 > mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md1

Re: [CentOS] thunderbird issues

2019-02-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Just updated t-bird, and once again, it wants to open a completely new > browser, other than using the running one. > > I started searching, and found something about editing the config, and for > the first one of the two they said to change, I find this: >

Re: [CentOS] Setting GDM resolution without knowing the monitor specs

2019-02-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
>> On Feb 21, 2019, at 12:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: >>> >>> remotely talking someone through changing ifcfg-noisenoise via nano is >>> a >>> minor nightmare, especially now that Confusing Network Device Naming is >>> the default. >> >> A relevant war story might help here. >> >> We were

Re: [CentOS] Setting GDM resolution without knowing the monitor specs

2019-02-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Feb 21, 2019, at 12:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> >> remotely talking someone through changing ifcfg-noisenoise via nano is a >> minor nightmare, especially now that Confusing Network Device Naming is >> the default. > > A relevant war story might help here. > > We were upgrading an old

Re: [CentOS] time to say good-bye to win 7 / printer is the last blocker

2019-02-21 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hallo, > the laptop of my wife is the last Win7 system in my network. > My question: > I need a well supported printer (MFC) with network interface, if possible > with colour printing. I like the OKI MFC devices. For Printing they provide a PPD file which is all you need on Linux. For copying

Re: [CentOS] Setting GDM resolution without knowing the monitor specs

2019-02-21 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Feb 21, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Gianluca Cecchi > wrote: >> >> [root@desktop xorg.conf.d]# cat 00-monitor.conf Why not just ship it with text mode login and get rid of all the video problems? With a 800x600 resolution I doubt they can do a lot with the GUI anyway. Regards, Simon

Re: [CentOS] bare-metal backup before update--options?

2019-02-12 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 04:16:38PM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >> > Hi all! >> > >> > I'm a "nervous nellie", I have not yet updated my 7.5 desktop to 7.6 >> > because (1) it has an Nvidia card, and (2) I've heard of problems >>

Re: [CentOS] bare-metal backup before update--options?

2019-02-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi all! > > I'm a "nervous nellie", I have not yet updated my 7.5 desktop to 7.6 > because (1) it has an Nvidia card, and (2) I've heard of problems > upgrading on top of software RAID (using RAID1 with 2 drives). > > I need to upgrade it to stay secure, and I want to do a bare-metal backup >

Re: [CentOS] C7, firewalld and rich rules

2019-01-31 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/30/19 10:05 PM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: >> Did you look at Shorewall? IMHO that's what is best used in such >> situations and it works since many years now. > > > shorewall doesn't support nftables, which is largely the point of > firewalld:  The Linux f

Re: [CentOS] C7, mdadm issues

2019-01-30 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Il 30/01/19 16:49, Simon Matter ha scritto: >>> On 01/30/19 03:45, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 29/01/19 20:42, mark ha scritto: > Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Il 29/01/19 18:47, mark ha scritto: >>> Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 29/01/19 15:03, mark ha scritto:

Re: [CentOS] C7, firewalld and rich rules

2019-01-30 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, again, folks, > >I'm trying to convert a number of iptables rules to firewalld rich > rules. I need to do this, because this is, in fact, a firewall, to > protect access to servers with sensitive data. It will limit access to > the servers behind it to a specific network, and nobody

Re: [CentOS] C7, mdadm issues

2019-01-30 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 01/30/19 03:45, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Il 29/01/19 20:42, mark ha scritto: >>> Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 29/01/19 18:47, mark ha scritto: > Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Il 29/01/19 15:03, mark ha scritto: >> >>> I've no idea what happened, but the box I was working on

Re: [CentOS] Help finishing off Centos 7 RAID install

2019-01-11 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I completed the install as described below which went well. > > I then copied the contents of /boot/efi to /boot/efi_copy using > > cd /boot > rsync -acr efi/ efi_copy > > I then installed grub2 on sdb > > yum install yum install grub2-efi-modules > grub2-install /dev/sdb > > everything ran as

Re: [CentOS] Help finishing off Centos 7 RAID install

2019-01-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> It doesn't specifically.  Anaconda will create two EFI boot entries, > each referring to one of the mirror components: > > # efibootmgr -v > BootCurrent: 0001 > Timeout: 1 seconds > BootOrder: 0001, > Boot* CentOS Linux >

Re: [CentOS] Help finishing off Centos 7 RAID install

2019-01-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/9/19 2:30 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> 1) The big problem with this is that it is dependant on sda for booting. >> I >> did find an aritcle on how to set up boot loading on multiple HDD's, >> including cloning /boot/efi but I now can't find it. Does anyone know >> of a >> similar article?

Re: [CentOS] systemd

2019-01-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:43:38AM -0500, Steve Clark wrote: >> I am trying to understand what After= means in a unit file. Does it >> mean after the specified target is up and operational or only that >> the target has been started? >> >> I have something that needs postgres but postgres needs

Re: [CentOS] Help finishing off Centos 7 RAID install

2019-01-09 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I've just finished installing a new Bacula storeage server. Prior to doing > the > install I did some research and ended up deciding to do the following > config. > > 6x4TB drives > /boot/efi efi_fs sda1 > /boot/efi_copyefi_fs sdb1 > /boot xfs

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade CentOS 7.4 to 7.5 and don't want to upgrade it to 7.6

2019-01-07 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 5:49 PM Kenneth Porter > wrote: > >> On 1/6/2019 10:51 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> > the product does not support the latest CentOS Linux >> > release 7.6.1810 (Core) version as of now. >> >> What product and what, specifically, about 7.6 does it not support? >> Could

Re: [CentOS] libvirt guest on host's shutdown/reboot - problem

2019-01-07 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> hi guys > > I have just two guest after which libvirt looks and when I shutdown > those guests: > > $ virsh shutdown $_dom > > that domain takes little time to power down, as expected one would > say(~20sec) But! I reboot the hosts and I have in my: > > /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests : > >

Re: [CentOS] how to set proxy systemwide (wget and docker)

2019-01-06 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hallo, > what is the right way to set a proxy systemwide using centos 7? > I need this for wget and docker. > My first idea was /etc/environment but allthough the proxy is set wget and > docker don‘ t connect to their target-systems. I have this in /etc/profile.d/proxy-config.sh:

Re: [CentOS] How to troubleshoot partial shutdown problem?

2019-01-01 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 12:47:42 +0100 > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> after issuing a regular shutdown, >> the system starts the shutdown procedure, but stalls at some point, >> and never finishes. It gets to the console, writes the "powering down" >> message and stops there --- the hardware never

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-20 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> 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 upgrade, but so far the

Re: [CentOS] Spamassassin + Postfix : delete spam mail on the server ?

2018-12-18 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Am 18.12.2018 um 08:08 schrieb Nicolas Kovacs: >> The problem with this setup is that spam mail is still delivered, and I >> need Thunderbird's filters to weed out incoming mail. And when I'm using >> my webmail (running SquirrelMail), my inbox is a tsunami of unread >> [SPAM] messages. >> >> So

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