[CentOS] JOB | Sysadmin/Lead Platform Engineer (Singapore or London)

2023-06-10 Thread James Tobin
ct is completed (say 12 months). Consequently I had hoped that some members of this group may like to discuss. I can be reached using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://l

[CentOS] vault.centos.org down ?

2023-03-14 Thread James Pearson
I'm getting 'Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.' when accessing https://vault.centos.org/ Is it down ? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] EFI boot order rewrite

2023-02-27 Thread James Pearson
er time because of the many writes. I'm pretty sure I only had to run efibootmgr once (at install time in my case) - and the boot order was fixed for all subsequent reboots (don't currently have a setup that does this at the moment, so can't check) James Pearson

Re: [CentOS] EFI boot order rewrite

2023-02-24 Thread James Pearson
I had a similar issue with EFI booting with CentOS 7 a while ago - my 'fix' was to add something to the %post section of the kickstart file to use efibootmgr to set 'EFI Network' as the first device in the EFI BootOrder - which seemed to work OK for subsequent boots James P

[CentOS] JOB | Champion, Leader, Mentor (United Kingdom)

2023-02-02 Thread James Tobin
scuss further. I can be reached using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how to clear out /var/cache?

2021-12-31 Thread James B Huber
On Thu, 2021-12-30 at 16:09 -0800, Skylar Thompson wrote: > The FHS specification says that applications using /var/cache should > expect > those data to disappear anytime, so under a strict interpretation it > should > be safe to remove everything. Practically, though, I don't know that > I'd > tr

[CentOS] JOB | DBA (Mongo + Sybase)

2021-10-14 Thread James Tobin
Hello, we are working with an employer that is looking to hire someone capable of managing Mongo and Sybase databases for their office in Canada. Consequently, I had hoped that some members of this list may like to discuss further. Kind regards, James

Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-20 Thread James Szinger
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:17:11 -0400 Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 10:25, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > After doing a minimal CentOS 8.4 installation, I found the following > > packages to be useful for a simple server, so I removed them: > > > > cronie-ana

Re: [CentOS] Static configuration: prevent /etc/resolv.conf from being overwritten on first reboot

2021-06-07 Thread James Pearson
cp/dhclient-enter-hooks that contains: make_resolv_conf(){ : } Or, add the line 'PEERDNS=no' to the matching /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg- file James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] systemd and 'Stale file handle' errors?

2021-05-14 Thread James Pearson
, but you'll be reducing the security of your > system. Thanks - that all makes sense - unfortunately 'umount -l' didn't work :-( I've actually now rebooted the box - but if something like this happens again, maybe I could use a drop-in snippet in /run/syste

[CentOS] systemd and 'Stale file handle' errors?

2021-05-13 Thread James Pearson
d the /usr/sbin/chronyd binary directly, which runs fine Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

2021-02-27 Thread James Szinger
On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:40:06 -0600 Johnny Hughes wrote: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/using-modules/ I find the modularity end-user documentation to be woefully inadequate, especially for developers. Here are several basic to advanced question that I can’t see answers for

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 fix sudo CVE-2021-3156

2021-01-28 Thread James Pearson
pplied in the SRPM ... I don't know of another way of testing if this build fixes the issue ? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-28 Thread James Szinger
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:21:33 -0800 Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'm guessing that means it was a dependency for something back then. > Is there a way to discover what? Using "yum history info 1" I see > that this was the original Anaconda install from 2014. Could dnsmasq > be in the original minimal d

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-28 Thread James Szinger
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:21:33 -0800 Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'm guessing that means it was a dependency for something back then. > Is there a way to discover what? Using "yum history info 1" I see > that this was the original Anaconda install from 2014. Could dnsmasq > be in the original minimal d

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 fix sudo CVE-2021-3156

2021-01-28 Thread James Pearson
OracleLinux/OL6/latest/i386/getPackage/sudo-1.8.6p3-29.0.2.el6_10.3.i686.rpm http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/sudo-1.8.6p3-29.0.2.el6_10.3.src.rpm * Tue Jan 26 2021 Qing Lin - 1.8.6p3-29.0.2.el6_10.3 - backport the fix CVE-2021-3156.patch from ol7. Ja

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 fix sudo CVE-2021-3156

2021-01-27 Thread James Pearson
the sudo.ws RPM doesn't provide /etc/sudo-ldap.conf as a config file - which would prevent this happening James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart "Error setting up base repository"

2021-01-19 Thread James Pearson
sto/CentOS/8.3.2011/AppStream but I also had to put a symlink in the BaseOS subdir of: images -> ../images i.e. it worked with 8.1.1911 but not 8.3.2011 (I never tried 8.2.2004) I don't know if this is a bug or I'm doing something wrong? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-16 Thread James Pearson
he matching RHEL major release when it is in the maintenance part of its lifecycle? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-14 Thread James Szinger
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:15:52 +0100 Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 11/12/2020 à 02:25, Gordon Messmer a écrit : > > Personally, I think that changing focus on CentOS Stream is going > > to make CentOS (and maybe even RHEL) better in the same way and for > > the same reasons that Fedora is a better dis

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-14 Thread James Pearson
ust have known, that if they killed off traditional CentOS, then users will simply go elsewhere for a RHEL rebuild ? I agree that Redhat really screwed up this announcement - they would have got a lot more kudos if they had announced CentOS Stream to exist along with keeping

Re: [CentOS] Moving to CentOS 8 Stream

2020-12-11 Thread James Szinger
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:08:09 -0300 Sergio Belkin wrote: > El jue, 10 dic 2020 a las 15:48, Kienker, Fred () > escribió: > > > "It takes years to build a reputation and seconds to destroy it." > > > > -- Business 101 class > > > Fear not in DEVops world you can rebuild your reputation in one > se

[CentOS] Stream questions

2020-12-09 Thread James Szinger
I have a couple of questions about CentOS Stream. 1. Is there list for update announcements? Something similar to upda...@fedoraproject.org. 2. Since both CentOS and EPEL are Red Hat projects, will Red Hat provide an EPEL version compatible with CentOS Stream? Jim __

Re: [CentOS] dnf script to cherry pick updates and maintain RHEL compatibility

2020-12-09 Thread James Pearson
Redhat should pipe up now ... If there is going to be a no-cost RHEL that can be used in the same way as CentOS is used now, then I think that would solve all the problems with this CentOS Stream announcement ... and calm down things James Pearson

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream from bottom works, what is this?

2020-12-09 Thread James Szinger
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:22:15 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 09:58:10AM -0600, Barry Brimer wrote: > > If the same happened in the previous question but was in a package > > or set of packages that was being rebased in 8.5 would it work the > > same way? > > Hmmm. I'm not

Re: [CentOS] dnf script to cherry pick updates and maintain RHEL compatibility

2020-12-09 Thread James Pearson
a bit like it is now, RHEL if you pay, CentOS if you don't - I'm sure that would make everyone happy :-) James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Network Manager - rotate connection profile

2020-10-26 Thread James Szinger
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:25:37 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: > I have an occasional need to switch a few computers from one Internet > provider to a different one. Both Internet providers feed into the > same network, one at 192.168.0.1 and the other at 192.168.0.254. > > So to change from one provider

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-26 Thread James Pearson
ea if the latest 78.4.0 release from Red Hat will fix the sound issues on EL6 James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-23 Thread James Pearson
version for those that want to continue using EL6 after its EOL ? Just a thought, has anyone checked that the Redhat RHEL 6 build of ESR 78 works or or not? i.e. could it be an issue just with the CentOS build ? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Newer versoin of tar 1.26 on Centos 7

2020-09-16 Thread James Pearson
I have no idea what 'Yocto' is, but CentOS 7 includes two other tar utilities: 'bsdtar' and 'star' Maybe one of those will give you what you need? James Pearson From: CentOS on behalf of Klaus Kolle Sent: 16 September 20

Re: [CentOS] Samba rpms now available from Storage SIG

2020-08-17 Thread James Szinger
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 12:07:34 +0530 Anoop C S wrote: > This is to announce the availability of Samba(and CTDB) rpms from > Storage SIG[1] on CentOS 7 and 8. Visit Samba's CentOS Storage SIG > wiki page[2] for more details on installation steps. > > [1] https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/

Re: [CentOS] Unable to find the used space

2020-06-30 Thread James Pearson
What I usually do in cases like this, is to bind mount root to somewhere else - and then run 'du' or whatever using the bind mount point - this will show up any 'hidden under mounts' data - something like: mkdir /var/run/mnt mount --bind / /var/run/mnt d

[CentOS] Adding root CA certificates for use by NSS applications?

2020-06-29 Thread James Pearson
c/pki/ca-trust/source/... including the required CA cert - but the app fails to connect - but I have no idea what might be wrong ... Am I missing something obvious here? Is there an easier way to achieve what I want? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ***Spam***Re: Recover from an fsck failure

2020-05-29 Thread James B. Byrne via CentOS
m loath to redo it. But I will if needsbe. I will take the opportunity to run fsck on the system HDD while in a live dvd mode. -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Ma

Re: [CentOS] Recover from an fsck failure

2020-05-29 Thread James B. Byrne via CentOS
pped me into give a "File-based locking initialisation failed." when I try to run vgdisplay or vgs. Any guidance appreciated. -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor follow l

[CentOS] Recover from an fsck failure

2020-05-28 Thread James B. Byrne via CentOS
attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird Revision Issues

2020-05-22 Thread James Pearson
I suspect 68.8.0 will come with CentOS 8.2 ? In the meantime, you can probably set the env var MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE=1 to be able to switch between installs? James Pearson Sent from my iPhone > On 22 May 2020, at 20:29, Mark LaPierre > > Hey all, > > CentOS 6 has Thunderbird

Re: [CentOS] Default ACL inheritance question

2020-05-14 Thread James Pearson
Thanks - that seems to make sense I guess I was being over optimistic thinking default ACLs could help here :-) Thanks James Pearson J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: Look at the acl(5) man page and you'll see that the ACCESS CHECK ALGORITH starts: IF the effective user ID o

[CentOS] Default ACL inheritance question

2020-05-14 Thread James Pearson
ead logdir/logfile I guess I'm missing something on how default ACLs are meant to work - can anyone explain what is happening here or point me in the right direction ? I've actually 'solved' the issue with a suitable sudoers rule th

Re: [CentOS] Can't move to Centos 8

2020-05-13 Thread James Szinger
On Tue, 12 May 2020 17:42:25 -0700 david wrote: > Folks > > I've been trying to convert my systems to Centos 8, seeing the EOL on > the horizon a few years away. One of my systems is a Mac-Mini, and > support for that has been discontinued. I'm wondering what the > community suggests among

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-05-12 Thread James Pearson
lost (the opposite of the previous question). So if some one has "the tutorial"...;-) How many nfsd threads are you running on the server? - current count will be in /proc/fs/nfsd/threads James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

Re: [CentOS] gdm postsession scripts

2020-03-20 Thread James Pearson
(e.g. ':0'), that file is used instead - see: https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/configuration.html.en#scripting I replace the Default file with something that just sources 'drop-in files' in a matching directory - which could be a sub-directory of /etc/gdm/Po

Re: [CentOS] Xorg on CentOS

2020-03-17 Thread James Pearson
fine James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Saving windows and settings in CentOS 7 running MATE

2020-03-04 Thread James Pearson
H wrote: On 03/02/2020 06:04 PM, James Pearson wrote: H wrote: I have installed gnome session save and restore per http://blog.thewebsitepeople.org/2013/07/gnome-session-save-and-restore/. I am running the MATE Desktop on CentOS 7 but the app above does not seem to save and restore the

Re: [CentOS] Saving windows and settings in CentOS 7 running MATE

2020-03-02 Thread James Pearson
save the order of the windows on the taskbar at the bottom. Does anyone have a better solution? Not sure GNOME settings are relevant with Mate ... With Mate, you should be able to do: gsettings set org.mate.session auto-save-session true James Pearson

Re: [CentOS] Gnome kind of freezes when I drag windows between workspaces

2020-03-02 Thread James Pearson
asking in the list instead of filing a bug report because since this is happening on a basic package of Centos i suspect other people must have faced the same problem with me. I don't know if this is related at all ? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1753799 James Pe

Re: [CentOS] Need info on adobe flash player plugin 32 for CentOS7

2020-02-11 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: On 16/01/2020 20:37, Steve Clark wrote: On 01/16/2020 03:30 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Kay Schenk said: I kept getting messages that my old Flash Player 31 was obsolete so I went in search of an update. Adobe stopped

Re: [CentOS] dbus/systemd failure on startup (CentOS 7.7)

2020-02-05 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: We are seeing a problem that occurs ~5% of the time when rebooting CentOS 7.7 where systemd gets a 'Connection timed out' to D-Bus just after the D-Bus service starts - from 'journalctl -x' : ... Jan 21 16:09:59 linux7-7.mpc.local systemd[1]: Started

Re: [CentOS] dbus/systemd failure on startup (CentOS 7.7)

2020-01-23 Thread James Pearson
support and they get dropped :-) James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] dbus/systemd failure on startup (CentOS 7.7)

2020-01-23 Thread James Pearson
he dbus.service unit - even a delay of just 0.01 seconds (via 'ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sleep 0.01') _seems_ to workaround the issue ... However, we would still like to know what the issue is and get a 'real' fix - I guess we could try creating a bug report with Redhat ... Thanks

[CentOS] dbus/systemd failure on startup (CentOS 7.7)

2020-01-22 Thread James Pearson
imilar reports of this happening elsewhere with CentOS 7.7 - but we were wondering if anyone else had come across a problem like this? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Limiting what devices can pair over Bluetooth?

2020-01-17 Thread James Pearson
- but there doesn't seem to be anything similar for BT connections/devices James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Need info on adobe flash player plugin 32 for CentOS7

2020-01-16 Thread James Pearson
ayer.so) and hence Firefox won't load this version ... The last version that runs on CentOS 7 is 32.0.0.270 See: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FP-4199058 James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Limiting what devices can pair over Bluetooth?

2020-01-16 Thread James Pearson
a laptop that has built-in BT - although lsusb lists: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0cf3:e005 Qualcomm Atheros Communications which I believe is the BT controller James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Limiting what devices can pair over Bluetooth?

2020-01-15 Thread James Pearson
th - including any mention of udev rules I have no idea if udev could be used in this way - nor where to start in creating possible udev rules :-) I asked my original question on the linux-bluetooth email list - and the only suggestion was hacking the Bluetooth kernel modules to 'fil

Re: [CentOS] Limiting what devices can pair over Bluetooth?

2020-01-14 Thread James Pearson
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 1/13/20 2:26 AM, James Pearson wrote: Which is a pity, as it's either an all or nothing with Bluetooth, which means we can't use Bluetooth for Wacom tablets without opening up access to file transfer over Bluetooth as well ... What is the threat you&#x

Re: [CentOS] Limiting what devices can pair over Bluetooth?

2020-01-13 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: I've managed to get a Wacom Intuos Pro 2 (PTH-660) tablet working over Bluetooth to a CentOS 7 install. Well, I didn't actually have to do much to get it working ... However, we don't normally enable Bluetooth for security reasons, so I need to be able to c

[CentOS] Limiting what devices can pair over Bluetooth?

2020-01-02 Thread James Pearson
o Bluetooth can _only_ be used to pair with Wacom tablets As I never used Bluetooth in anger before, I'm struggling to find out where to start looking - does anyone know how to do this or any pointers on where I should start? Thanks James Pearson __

Re: [CentOS] Issue with "ExecStartPost" attribute in systemd daemon faile

2019-11-22 Thread James Pearson
=network.target [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/path/to/mailer/script I got this info a while ago from http://northernlightlabs.se/systemd.status.mail.on.unit.failure - but that no longer exists ... James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Issue with "ExecStartPost" attribute in systemd daemon faile

2019-11-21 Thread James Pearson
mon-reload", mail is sent ONLY first time... Why? I guess it is probably the way systemd works - subsequent 'crashes' (or kills in you case) probably only restart the main process (ExecStart) and don't re-run the ExecStartPost bits ... I notic

[CentOS] Mirroring two screens for all users?

2019-11-20 Thread James Pearson
plays on this one workstation (but not affect any settings they may use on other workstations - all users has NFS mounted home directories) ? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 68 jnlp files

2019-11-14 Thread James Pearson
p' files? If it is the same on CentOS6, then you might be able to set up a suitable .desktop file (e.g. in /usr/share/applications/ or similar) to do what you want ... No idea if this is of any help James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

Re: [CentOS] Hiding a grub menuentry?

2019-10-15 Thread James Pearson
Richard wrote: ** CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. ** Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 14:52:39 +0100 From: James Pearson Does anyone know if it is possible

[CentOS] Hiding a grub menuentry?

2019-10-15 Thread James Pearson
on - but I can't find anything obvious - so I'm guessing it can't be done - unless someone knows otherwise ? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS-6 cannot get kvm guest to start - network error

2019-10-01 Thread James B. Byrne via CentOS
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8

2019-09-25 Thread James Edwards
"If a system reboot is not possible, restart the service that joins your system to Active Directory, which is the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) or winbind." I wonder if the same holds true for LDAP. R's, James ___ CentOS

[CentOS] JOB | Web Architect (London, UK)

2019-09-22 Thread James Tobin
scuss further off-list using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] running init disconnects ssh session

2019-09-20 Thread James Pearson
Stephen Berg (Code 7309) via CentOS wrote: On 9/19/19 12:15 PM, James Pearson wrote: Stephen Berg (Code 7309) via CentOS wrote: Noticing a new behavior lately.  Logged in via sshd and ssh keys as root to a remote system.  When changing runlevels between multi-user or graphical the ssh

Re: [CentOS] running init disconnects ssh session

2019-09-19 Thread James Pearson
7 ... Might need to report it via https://bugzilla.redhat.com (if there isn't already a bug report for the issue) James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What about Mate Desktop on Centos 8?

2019-09-17 Thread James Pearson
st about newer versions of Mate for el7: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-July/172916.html and: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-August/173150.html James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] reconfigure centos-6.9 host to ignore missing nic

2019-09-16 Thread James B. Byrne via CentOS
follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E

Re: [CentOS] Giving full administrator privileges through sudo on production systems

2019-08-19 Thread James Szinger
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:13 PM John Pierce wrote: > > $ sudo rm -rf / Just for fun, I cloned a C7 VM and ran rm -rf. I then examined the disk image with guestfish. Everything was gone except for a few empty directoriers: /dev, /etc, /proc, /sys, and so on. Jim

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread James Pearson
27;something' was killing processes - I found it by writing a simple LD_PRELOAD hack that intercepted kill(2) and logged what is was doing via syslog before doing the actual kill - and used /etc/ld.so.preload to get it loaded by every process ... James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mate on Centos 7

2019-07-19 Thread James Pearson
;t be (or may not be?) supported by EPEL, has anyone looked at similar alternatives? I came across 'Cinnamon' (which is available from EPEL) - does anyone have experience of Cinnamon (good/bad/otherwise) ? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mate on Centos 7

2019-07-15 Thread James Pearson
ound to trying it out ... I guess that if unless 'someone' takes on the maintainer role for Mate at EPEL, then there will be no upgrade path James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Alternitives to Firefox...

2019-06-27 Thread James Pearson
where in the dialog box, it toggles a text input box Unfortunately, I don't think there is any setting that displays this input box by default ... James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] where to get kernel source

2019-06-13 Thread James Pearson
as the src.rpm packages for all releases I guess Redhat never publicly released kernel-3.10.0-327.36.4.el7 ? Where did you get the binary kernel-3.10.0-327.36.4.el7.x86_64.rpm from ? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-23 Thread James Szinger
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 1:41 PM Jon LaBadie wrote: > But we can blame systemd for the cryptic message > > A stop job is running > > Surely systemd knows what service it is waiting for, > why doesn't it tell us? > > The stop job XYZ is running The message reported by the OP and the message I s

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-23 Thread James Pearson
Scott Robbins wrote: > ** WARNING: This mail is from an external source ** > > > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 03:41:24PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:07:32AM -0600, James Szinger wrote: >>> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:44 AM mark wrote: &g

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread James Szinger
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:44 AM mark wrote: > > The joys of systemd I'm not sure it's right to blame systemd. Systemd asked nicely for the service to shutdown. The service didn't, probably because the update change something and pulled the rug out from beneath it. Systemd then waited a bit

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread James Pearson
mark wrote: > James Pearson wrote: >> James Pearson wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm currently trying to reboot a CentOS 7.5 workstation (to complete an >>> upgrade to 7.6), but it is 'stuck' while shutting down with 'A stop >>> job is

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: > > I'm currently trying to reboot a CentOS 7.5 workstation (to complete an > upgrade to 7.6), but it is 'stuck' while shutting down with 'A stop job > is running for ...' - the counter initially gave a limit of '1min 30s' - >

[CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread James Pearson
it is reached? It does seems rather pointless to keep increasing the limit like this ... Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] is "list_del corruption" fix available in Centos ?

2019-05-17 Thread James Szinger
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:17 AM John Hodrien wrote: > RHEL advice would clearly be not to use btrfs. I'm curious, is there anything in RHEL 8 that would replace BTRFS or ZFS? I'm experimenting with BTRFS on one system and the snapshot and subvolume features are nice. Jim ___

Re: [CentOS] is "list_del corruption" fix available in Centos ?

2019-05-17 Thread James Szinger
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 2:47 AM santhosh kumar wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 7:26 PM santhosh kumar > wrote: > > > We migrated from redhat 5.3 to centos 7.5 and facing crashes in longevity > > tests > > > > All of them point to below reason, > > > > list_del corruption. next->prev should be ff

Re: [CentOS] Slow performance with NFSv4.1 on CentOS 7.5 ?

2019-05-08 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: > > We have a number of identical NFS clients mounting a server using > NFSv4.1 - server and clients are all running CentOS 7.5 (kernel > 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64) > > However, on some clients, the NFS performance 'degrades' with time ... &g

[CentOS] Slow performance with NFSv4.1 on CentOS 7.5 ?

2019-05-07 Thread James Pearson
erformance might degrade again I've found a number of reports of excessive TEST_STATEID calls - but most seem to relate to NFSv4 client hangs - which is not happening here - things are working, but much slower than they should be ... Has anyone

Re: [CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

2019-04-25 Thread James B. Byrne via CentOS
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[CentOS] Nautilus and umask on CentOS 7 with Gnome3

2019-04-12 Thread James Pearson
ask a global setting for all users, when theoretically, different users may want to have different umask settings Does anyone know the 'proper' way to get Nautilus to use a user's own umask setting ? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] NFSv4: Using fsid=0 but *not* exporting the root filesystem

2019-03-29 Thread James Pearson
- but its contents will be empty - similarly, host2 will see data1 and data2 under the mount point, but their contents will be empty Or have I missed something ? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2019-02-22 Thread James Pearson
k only. Maybe that's only me :-) I always use the following install/boot cmdline options to disable CNDN: biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0 e.g see https://access.redhat.com/discussions/916973 James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] What is the proper place for GDM related dconf settings now?

2019-02-20 Thread James Pearson
e The above bits are missing from the 7.6 gdm spec file ... I would say that this is a strange thing to do, as Redhat are usually quite good at keeping things as compatible as possible between minor releases - but I guess they must of had their reasons? James Pearson ___

Re: [CentOS] What is the proper place for GDM related dconf settings now?

2019-02-18 Thread James Pearson
dhat support account to see the above page - but the 'Resolution' given is: "Create the /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/ directory manually. Files in this directory are still taken into account." .. and the "Root Cause" is given as: "This is by design and as a result of

Re: [CentOS] Automated XFCE install from kickstart and epel-release issue

2019-02-15 Thread James Szinger
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 3:01 AM wrote: > I am working on a kickstart automated Centos 7 GUI vm deployment. > > Defining gnome desktop in kickstart works. > @gnome-desktop - A GNOME desktop > > However Centos and anything from the epel-release such as xrdp does not > work. > > I have tried it on di

Re: [CentOS] firefox-60.5.0-2.el7.centos.x86_64 and Netflix

2019-02-09 Thread James Pearson
atible 'Widevine' plugin for playing DRM content See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524830 One workaround is detailed in Comment #5 : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524830#c5 (I haven't tried this myself) James Pearson __

[CentOS] netmask on aliases overriden by netmask on interface

2019-02-08 Thread James B. Byrne via CentOS
ot to networks having differing cidr masks? -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited

Re: [CentOS] systemd

2019-02-07 Thread James Pearson
ompiling those drivers and it just stops. Could it be you are hitting some default timeout ? Maybe adding 'TimeoutSec=infinity' could help ? Or, maybe moving your 'recompiling' stage to an ExecStartPre script ? (no idea if either of the above will help) James Pearson ___

Re: [CentOS] PXEBoot/Diskless client NFS issue

2019-01-25 Thread James Pearson
lient has 2 NICs - could that be confusing things? You could try adding the line: IPAPPEND 2 to your PXE config file - this will append the MAC address of the PXEboot NIC as an option to the boot cmdline to be used by dhclient when the OS boots No idea if this is t

Re: [CentOS] Inconsistent NIS Client Behavior w/ Centos 7.6

2019-01-16 Thread James Pearson
pam.d/system-auth > /etc/login.defs > /etc/sysconfig/authconfig Do you have nis set up in /etc/nsswitch.conf ? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NFS deny access

2019-01-09 Thread James Pearson
NFSv2) access - e.g see: https://opsech.io/posts/2016/Jan/26/nfsv4-only-on-centos-72.html However, the above is all a bit messy - so I would be interested if you come across a simpler way of achieving this ... James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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