Re: [CentOS] RHEL/Centos 8 power off issue

2021-04-04 Thread R C
Hmm... I have to try that ..   and see what happens.  It would be annoying though. Half the time I use that laptop as a "head-less" machine,  do a WOL, run things with redirected X11..  and when done, shut it down. So it sounds like a combination of  a linux issue, combined with a BIOS is

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/Centos 8 power off issue

2021-04-04 Thread Thomas Stephen Lee
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 5:18 AM R C wrote: > > So I tried a few things, I have a few docking stations, and they all > seem to show that problem. > > > Can't shut it down, remotely, while in a docking station. Also, when in > a docking station and using the laptops keyboard and LCD screen, and >

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/Centos 8 power off issue

2021-04-03 Thread R C
So I tried a few things, I have a few docking stations, and they all seem to show that problem. Can't shut it down, remotely, while in a docking station. Also,  when in a docking station and using  the laptops  keyboard and LCD screen,  and  power down the laptop in RHEL/Centos, just results

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/Centos 8 power off issue

2021-03-29 Thread R C
On 3/29/21 2:22 AM, Łukasz Posadowski wrote: On 2021-03-28 at 21:17 -0600, R C wrote: I have a laptop, in a docking station. When running RHEL/Centos 7 I could shut it down and power it off by using 'shutdown -h now' In did a new install of Centos 8 (and also RHEL 8) and when I do a "shutdown -

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/Centos 8 power off issue

2021-03-29 Thread Łukasz Posadowski
On 2021-03-28 at 21:17 -0600, R C wrote: > I have a laptop, in a docking station. When running RHEL/Centos 7 > I > could shut it down and power it off by using 'shutdown -h now' In > did a > new install of Centos 8 (and also RHEL 8) and when I do a > "shutdown -h > now" it just reboots (behaves

[CentOS] RHEL/Centos 8 power off issue

2021-03-28 Thread R C
Hello, I have a laptop, in a docking station. When running RHEL/Centos 7 I could shut it down and power it off by using 'shutdown -h now' In did a new install of Centos 8 (and also RHEL 8) and when I do a "shutdown -h now" it just reboots (behaves the same as if I'd do a reboot). Is that a

Re: [CentOS] RHEL <==> CentOS <==> Oracle Linux migration scripts

2021-02-03 Thread edward via CentOS
On 2/3/21 11:30 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: I wonder if something similar exists for other use cases, e. g. migrate from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.     here is a how to from redhat i think is what you may be searching?    it was publish recently: https://access.redhat.com/artic

[CentOS] RHEL <==> CentOS <==> Oracle Linux migration scripts

2021-02-03 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I've recently done some extensive testing with the centos2ol.sh migration script provided by Oracle: https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol The script works perfectly on both CentOS 7.x and 8.x, so I wrote a little blog article about it: https://blog.microlinux.fr/migration-centos-oracle-linux

[CentOS] RHEL/CentOS 8.x, KDE & EPEL

2019-03-22 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, A question to those familiar with third party repository policy. You think there's a real chance KDE's Plasma 5 desktop will be made available by EPEL or some other third party repository for CentOS 8.x? I'm asking because up until recently one of my desktop configurations was based on CentOS

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/CentOS bugfixing policy for LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird?

2015-03-25 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 25/03/2015 10:46, Lars Hecking a écrit : rpm -q --changelog should give you an idea. Thanks. That's exactly what I've been looking for. And perusing the results gives me so many reasons to stick with CentOS. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/CentOS bugfixing policy for LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird?

2015-03-25 Thread Lars Hecking
> A question just crossed my mind: does RHEL include software like > LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird "as is" from upstream, or is there some > RHEL-specific quality control and bugfixing for this kind of software? rpm -q --changelog should give you an idea. __

[CentOS] RHEL/CentOS bugfixing policy for LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird?

2015-03-25 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, RHEL/CentOS releases 5.x, 6.x and 7.x are all shipping reasonably recent versions of Firefox ESR, Thunderbird ESR and LibreOffice. Until recently I've been using Slackware Linux as a base system for client's desktops and workstations. Since my primary aim is reliability, I always tried to

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/CentOS 7 Dual boot with CentOS 5.x/6.x - default boot quick solution/howto

2014-03-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Nux! wrote: > On 22.03.2014 17:46, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > I have RHEL 7 Beta installed in dual boot with CentOS 6.x. Since RHEL > > 7 > > installed GRUB2, I had problem that RHEL 7 is default boot. > > > > > > My personal solution was to go to /etc/grub.d

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/CentOS 7 Dual boot with CentOS 5.x/6.x - default boot quick solution/howto

2014-03-22 Thread Nux!
On 22.03.2014 17:46, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > I have RHEL 7 Beta installed in dual boot with CentOS 6.x. Since RHEL > 7 > installed GRUB2, I had problem that RHEL 7 is default boot. > > > My personal solution was to go to /etc/grub.d and run command: > mv 10_linux 31_linux > > grub2-mkconfi

[CentOS] RHEL/CentOS 7 Dual boot with CentOS 5.x/6.x - default boot quick solution/howto

2014-03-22 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
I have RHEL 7 Beta installed in dual boot with CentOS 6.x. Since RHEL 7 installed GRUB2, I had problem that RHEL 7 is default boot. My personal solution was to go to /etc/grub.d and run command: mv 10_linux 31_linux grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Explanation: - /etc/grub.d is where g

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-13 Thread Markus Falb
On 14.4.2012 00:28, Bob Hoffman wrote: > On 4/13/2012 5:57 PM, Markus Falb wrote: >> On 13.4.2012 23:39, Bob Hoffman wrote: >> >>> I was trying to stay with the base centos repo and only grab a few >>> programs off of other repos (like phpymyadmin). >>> >>> Unfortunately, I think it is better, now

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 4/13/2012 5:57 PM, Markus Falb wrote: > On 13.4.2012 23:39, Bob Hoffman wrote: > >> I was trying to stay with the base centos repo and only grab a few >> programs off of other repos (like phpymyadmin). >> >> Unfortunately, I think it is better, now that I have played with them, >> to skip the re

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-13 Thread Markus Falb
On 13.4.2012 23:39, Bob Hoffman wrote: > I was trying to stay with the base centos repo and only grab a few > programs off of other repos (like phpymyadmin). > > Unfortunately, I think it is better, now that I have played with them, > to skip the repos and go straight to the source for some thi

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 4/13/2012 2:23 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: >>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:13:14 +0200, >>> Tilman Schmidt said: > T> The most frequent reason for a lot of unmatched entries showing up is > T> that the corresponding logwatch script is out of date wrt the program > T> whose log is being watched. Program

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-13 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:13:14 +0200, >> Tilman Schmidt said: T> The most frequent reason for a lot of unmatched entries showing up is T> that the corresponding logwatch script is out of date wrt the program T> whose log is being watched. Program maintainers tend to change the T> wording of mes

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-12 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 08.04.2012 03:37, schrieb Joseph L. Casale: >> I just assumed there was something newer out there. 2007 was the last >> release notes for the version installed on centos. There is a newer >> version out there, but that would be off of the base repo and not sure >> if I want to go that route in t

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch? [solved]

2012-04-07 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 4/7/2012 7:49 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Have you tried editing the files in >> >> /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/ >> >> or >> >> /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/ignore.conf >> >> ? > Obvisouly not:) And I hope not either... > Facilities are provided just for this in /etc/logwatc

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-07 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 4/7/2012 9:37 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> I will take a look and try to see if it will be easy to change the >> postfix and dovecot. More than likely I will just tell them what it is >> and 'good luck' at figuring it out..lol > Only ignore what you encounter and deduce to be not important. >

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I just assumed there was something newer out there. 2007 was the last >release notes for the version installed on centos. There is a newer >version out there, but that would be off of the base repo and not sure >if I want to go that route in the how-to. Dates aren't always a good judge of package

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-07 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 4/7/2012 7:49 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Have you tried editing the files in >> >> /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/ >> >> or >> >> /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/ignore.conf >> >> ? > Obvisouly not:) And I hope not either... > Facilities are provided just for this in /etc/logwatc

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Have you tried editing the files in > >/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/ > >or > >/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/ignore.conf > >? Obvisouly not:) And I hope not either... Facilities are provided just for this in /etc/logwatch. The location you refer to will get over written on an upda

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-07 Thread Michael Davis
On 4/7/2012 3:55 PM, Mail Lists wrote: > On 04/07/2012 10:09 AM, Bob Hoffman wrote: >> Logwatch file shows last upgrade to the code was 2007. >> The unmatched entries are killing me in the reports. >> I figure there must be a newer utility centos has in the repo but I >> cannot find one. >> >> Is l

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-07 Thread Mail Lists
On 04/07/2012 10:09 AM, Bob Hoffman wrote: > Logwatch file shows last upgrade to the code was 2007. > The unmatched entries are killing me in the reports. > I figure there must be a newer utility centos has in the repo but I > cannot find one. > > Is logwatch the only one that is included? > > than

[CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-07 Thread Bob Hoffman
Logwatch file shows last upgrade to the code was 2007. The unmatched entries are killing me in the reports. I figure there must be a newer utility centos has in the repo but I cannot find one. Is logwatch the only one that is included? thanks ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this

2009-06-24 Thread RobertH
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Spiro Harvey wrote: > > > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > ok, given the flurry of responses to my original post, > let me see > > > if i have

Re: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this

2009-06-24 Thread Tom G. Christensen
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > the issue was not what support was available from *redhat*, it was > trying to clarify what was available from the *centos* community. > but thanks for playing. > It simple really, you want guaranteed support that gets your problems solved you pay for RHEL. If you want

Re: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this

2009-06-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Spiro Harvey wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > ok, given the flurry of responses to my original post, let me see if > > i have a handle on this as i think i've finally figured it out and, > > yes, it does make sense. > > This also would have been clear had you done som

Re: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this

2009-06-23 Thread Spiro Harvey
"Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > ok, given the flurry of responses to my original post, let me see if > i have a handle on this as i think i've finally figured it out and, > yes, it does make sense. This also would have been clear had you done some research in advance of your postings here -- not ve

Re: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this

2009-06-23 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-23-2009 5:16 AM Robert Heller spake the following: > > Right. It is not a matter on 'commonness' either. The big companies > will likely opt for official RHEL and be paying RedHat the premium > support contract. The smaller companies will be using CentOS. > > I'm sure if RedHat really w

Re: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this

2009-06-23 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:57:19 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > ok, given the flurry of responses to my original post, let me see if > i have a handle on this as i think i've finally figured it out and, > yes, it does make sense. > > the scenario is that there is a very large so

Re: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this

2009-06-23 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Robert P. J. Day >Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:57 AM >To: CentOS discussion list >Subject: [CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this > > &g

[CentOS] RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this

2009-06-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ok, given the flurry of responses to my original post, let me see if i have a handle on this as i think i've finally figured it out and, yes, it does make sense. the scenario is that there is a very large software company in the area whose only officially supported linux platform is currently

Re: [CentOS] RHEL -> CentOS

2009-02-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-3-2009 4:31 PM Christopher Chan spake the following: > Scott Silva wrote: >> on 2-3-2009 2:35 PM Thom Paine spake the following: >>> Would this be a good way to go to update to 5? >>> >>> I would consider this. I have a couple of 3 boxes I'd like to get to 5. >>> >> It is never recommended to

Re: [CentOS] RHEL -> CentOS

2009-02-03 Thread Christopher Chan
Scott Silva wrote: > on 2-3-2009 2:35 PM Thom Paine spake the following: >> Would this be a good way to go to update to 5? >> >> I would consider this. I have a couple of 3 boxes I'd like to get to 5. >> > It is never recommended to upgrade major versions. You might get away with it, > and you migh

Re: [CentOS] RHEL -> CentOS

2009-02-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-3-2009 2:35 PM Thom Paine spake the following: > Would this be a good way to go to update to 5? > > I would consider this. I have a couple of 3 boxes I'd like to get to 5. > It is never recommended to upgrade major versions. You might get away with it, and you might spend even more time chas

Re: [CentOS] RHEL -> CentOS

2009-02-03 Thread Thom Paine
Would this be a good way to go to update to 5? I would consider this. I have a couple of 3 boxes I'd like to get to 5. -- -=/>Thom ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RHEL -> CentOS

2009-02-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, John R Pierce wrote: > I have a system that was originally installed with RHEL 3 x86_64, and > I've since 'updated' it to CentOS 3 via installing yum and > centos-release, then running a yum update. > > is there any way I can force -all- installed packages to be replaced > with

[CentOS] RHEL -> CentOS

2009-02-03 Thread John R Pierce
I have a system that was originally installed with RHEL 3 x86_64, and I've since 'updated' it to CentOS 3 via installing yum and centos-release, then running a yum update. is there any way I can force -all- installed packages to be replaced with their centos analogs just to be sure its all cons

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-30 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 30, 2008 4:06 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nate wrote: > > Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > >> I hope you are interested in contributing to the CentOS community by > >> sharing your driver: > >> > >> https://projects.centos.org/trac/dasha/ > > > > Looks like that site is for source

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-30 Thread Johnny Hughes
nate wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: I hope you are interested in contributing to the CentOS community by sharing your driver: https://projects.centos.org/trac/dasha/ Looks like that site is for source drivers, these drivers come from VMWare, and I'm not sure what their license is, nor do I know ex

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Manish Kathuria
On 1/30/08, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nate wrote: > > Manish Kathuria wrote: > New features are typically not backported to > > current versions of the kernel, newer drivers are often back > > ported, assuming the driver existed in the RHEL kernel. If the > > driver did not exist t

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Akemi Yagi wrote: > I hope you are interested in contributing to the CentOS community by > sharing your driver: > > https://projects.centos.org/trac/dasha/ Looks like that site is for source drivers, these drivers come from VMWare, and I'm not sure what their license is, nor do I know exactly wha

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 29, 2008 12:25 PM, William Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 3:18 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > > > Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is > > > best to use the one provided by the distribution

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 29, 2008 1:24 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > I run CentOS 4 and 5 under VMWare ESX 3.x, I hacked up the VMware tools > into two different RPMS > > - core rpm (everything but drivers) > - driver rpm > > When I want to deploy a new kernel I build a special RPM wit

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is >> best to use the one provided by the distribution. > > Is there a difference in the way kernel modules are managed between > CentOS4 and 5? I thought that under CentOS4 after

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread William Hooper
On Jan 29, 2008 3:18 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is > > best to use the one provided by the distribution. > > Is there a difference in the way kernel modules are managed between > Ce

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Johnny Hughes wrote: Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is best to use the one provided by the distribution. Is there a difference in the way kernel modules are managed between CentOS4 and 5? I thought that under CentOS4 after a kernel update VMware would

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
nate wrote: Manish Kathuria wrote: How are the updated kernels released by Red Hat / Cent OS related to the latest vanilla kernels ? Are the changes, new features and drivers, etc. available in the newer kernels also ported to the updated kernels released by Red Hat in their entirety ? If your

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Manish Kathuria wrote: > How are the updated kernels released by Red Hat / Cent OS related to > the latest vanilla kernels ? Are the changes, new features and > drivers, etc. available in the newer kernels also ported to the > updated kernels released by Red Hat in their entirety ? If your compari

[CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Manish Kathuria
How are the updated kernels released by Red Hat / Cent OS related to the latest vanilla kernels ? Are the changes, new features and drivers, etc. available in the newer kernels also ported to the updated kernels released by Red Hat in their entirety ? For the lifetime of a distribution like RHEL 4