Konstantin, What do you think about the option of "reverting" from Linux to UNIX (e.g. FreeBSD ) ?
Eric Dyer, ericfd...@gmail.com On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Konstantin Olchanski <olcha...@triumf.ca> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:40:43PM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: >> >> So if you put your system into permissive mode (setenforce 0), run the >> certbot stuff via cron ... and grep out the denied lines, and I'll help. >> >> That is my offer. >> > > I appreciate your offer and I say "thank you". But the reality is I do > not have the time to work on this problem. > >> >> "the direction of el7 Linux" isn't even closely to be managed by this >> mailing list. >> > > Then how is it managed? From a spherical board room at Red Hat in vacuum? > Surely user input comes in somewhere, even if indirectly from > the SL-users mailing list via FermiLab. > > Perhaps it is this lack of management that causes the present problem - > where to have a web server one must do https, to do https one must have > properly signed certificate, to have such certificate one must use the > "letsencrypt" service, > which malfunctions in the default configuration of RHEL/SL/CentOS7. > > (if there is another certificate service where I can roll out new certificates > from a script and have them refresh automatically, I am all ears). > >> >> But I could also twist >> your argument: If you're not willing to accept that the world is moving >> on and you need to learn things, perhaps you should start doing >> something else instead? >> > > My signature says "data acquisition", not "sysadmin". My field has been static > for the last 100 years, no need to learn anything new ever. Not. > >> >> But by all means, if you only came here to rant ... >> > > That's for sure. Not too many happy people writing "SL works great for me" on > this mailing list. > > -- > Konstantin Olchanski > Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! > Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca > Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
