Re: [CentOS] Need to Understand booting process of CENTOS-7

2014-10-04 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 10/3/14, Timothy Murphy wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Geez! I bet he didn't think that he'd have to add >> around that I've lost track of who posted that, but *I* thought it >> was >> funny > > Why send a smartass reply to a simple query? I'd admit to a certain level of persona

Re: [CentOS] massive load caused by smartvd

2014-10-04 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 04.10.2014 um 03:34 schrieb Tim Dunphy: Hey all, I noticed that my puppet server running CentOS 6.5 was acting a little pokey. So I logged in and did what well just about anyone would've done. And ran the uptime command to have a look at the load. And it was astonishingly high! [root@p

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop support

2014-10-04 Thread Phil Wyett
On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that simple > statement led to an all-day odyssey. > > My original plan was to purchase a laptop and install Centos 6 on it. I went > to Staples and tried booting it on every mo

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Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop support

2014-10-04 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 12:56 +0100, Phil Wyett wrote: > On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that simple > > statement led to an all-day odyssey. > My intention is to run CentOS 6.x and VM Windows and any other O

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop support

2014-10-04 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 10/4/14, Phil Wyett wrote: > My intention is to run CentOS 6.x and VM Windows and any other OS etc. > After discarding many options I seem to have settled with an eye on a HP > ProBook 455 G2. > > http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=G6W43EA&opt=ABU&sel=PBNB > > This system has le

Re: [CentOS] Need to Understand booting process of CENTOS-7

2014-10-04 Thread Chris Pemberton
On 10/04/2014 02:07 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I'd admit to a certain level of personal bias and snappish mood when I wrote that reply, due in part to the fact the OP's name and style comes across as similar to somebody I had to deal with earlier, although I still lean, perhaps unfairly, that

[CentOS] en01 network

2014-10-04 Thread Jerry Geis
I have installed CentOS 7. I added "biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0" at install time. I still have a network name of en01 and not eth0. How do I get eth0 when viewing ifconfig? dmesg | grep eth0 show its being detected, and being renamed. systemd-udev renaming eth0 to en01... I then looked in /etc/

Re: [CentOS] en01 network

2014-10-04 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 10:33:55AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > I have installed CentOS 7. > I added "biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0" at install time. > What I've done on Fedora for awhile now. I don't use NetworkManager, so if you are using it, I don't know, it does its own thing to network names.

Re: [CentOS] massive load caused by smartvd

2014-10-04 Thread Tim Dunphy
yeah it does.. [root@puppet:~] #ps faux | grep smarvtd root 18194 0.0 0.0 103244 836 pts/2S+ 11:05 0:00 | \_ grep smarvtd root 28855 0.0 0.1 433824 1688 ?Ssl Oct03 0:15 /tmp/smarvtd root 5923 0.0 0.1 433824 1684 ?Ssl Oct03 0:12 /tmp/smarvtd roo

Re: [CentOS] massive load caused by smartvd

2014-10-04 Thread Mark Tinberg
Since this was your puppet server, you might also want to check to see if the intrusion has spread to your other machines, it's possible the attacker didn't notice or that the attack was fully automated, but you should read through the puppet configs and see if there are any commands being distr

Re: [CentOS] en01 network

2014-10-04 Thread SilverTip257
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 10:33:55AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > > I have installed CentOS 7. > > I added "biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0" at install time. > > > > What I've done on Fedora for awhile now. > > I don't use NetworkManager, so if you

Re: [CentOS] en01 network

2014-10-04 Thread SilverTip257
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 11:22 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 10:33:55AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: >> > I have installed CentOS 7. >> > I added "biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0" at install time. >> > >> >> What I've done on F

Re: [CentOS] en01 network

2014-10-04 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 11:22:38AM -0400, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > > > What I've done on Fedora for awhile now. > > > > > > rpm -e biosdevname (This should soon not be necessary, at least in Fedora) > > Then in /etc/default edit grub and a

Re: [CentOS] massive load caused by smartvd

2014-10-04 Thread Tim Dunphy
> > Since this was your puppet server, you might also want to check to see if > the intrusion has spread to your other machines, it's possible the attacker > didn't notice or that the attack was fully automated, but you should read > through the puppet configs and see if there are any commands bein

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop support

2014-10-04 Thread Phil Wyett
On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 14:58 +0100, Always Learning wrote: > On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 12:56 +0100, Phil Wyett wrote: > > > On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > > Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that > > > simple statement led to an all-day odyssey. >

[CentOS] Mounting LUNs from a SAN array - LUN mappings to devices in /dev/ - are they static?

2014-10-04 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All :) I am currently involved in a project in which there is a SAN array (Sun Storagetek 2540) which exports LUNs for some servers with Centos 5.2 x86. I will be performing a migration to Centos 5.9 x86_64 in some time and am gathering needed info now :) I am trying to find the place in the O

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LUNs from a SAN array - LUN mappings to devices in /dev/ - are they static?

2014-10-04 Thread Rafał Radecki
The answer is: I was told to do so :) Corpo related stuff ;) R. 2014-10-04 18:25 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald : > > Am 04.10.2014 um 18:22 schrieb Rafał Radecki: > >> As I said I need to perform migration of the OS to Centos 5.9 x86_64 and >> am >> curious where from does the mapping >> >> scsi devic

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LUNs from a SAN array - LUN mappings to devices in /dev/ - are they static?

2014-10-04 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 04.10.2014 um 18:22 schrieb Rafał Radecki: [ ... ] In sysfs in /sys/bus/scsi/devices/7:0:0:8 I found: # ll block\:sdj lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 4 17:57 block:sdj -> ../../../../../../../../../../block/sdj Where else can I look for the LUN<->/dev/ device mapping rules? How are the LUNs

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LUNs from a SAN array - LUN mappings to devices in /dev/ - are they static?

2014-10-04 Thread Rafał Radecki
Thanks Alexander, these links make the topic VERY clear :) Have a nice day :) BR, Rafal. 2014-10-04 18:49 GMT+02:00 Alexander Dalloz : > Am 04.10.2014 um 18:22 schrieb Rafał Radecki: > > [ ... ] > > In sysfs in /sys/bus/scsi/devices/7:0:0:8 I found: >> >> # ll block\:sdj >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root ro

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LUNs from a SAN array - LUN mappings to devices in /dev/ - are they static?

2014-10-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/04/2014 12:22 PM, Rafał Radecki wrote: Hi All :) I am currently involved in a project in which there is a SAN array (Sun Storagetek 2540) which exports LUNs for some servers with Centos 5.2 x86. I will be performing a migration to Centos 5.9 x86_64 in some time and am gathering needed info

[CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-04 Thread Frank Cox
When you click on the gear icon on the GDM login screen, it provides a list of the available desktop environments so you can pick between them. Since I exclusively use Mate on this computer, how can I remove the other options from that menu? Earlier today when I logged in the machine decided on

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-04 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 10/04/14 16:55, Frank Cox wrote: > When you click on the gear icon on the GDM login screen, it provides a list > of the available desktop environments so you can pick between them. > > Since I exclusively use Mate on this computer, how can I remove the other > options from that menu? Earlier

[CentOS] how2 mount ntfs partition that is part of a full HD image file

2014-10-04 Thread Fred Smith
I have a full disk image file (courtesy of ddrescue), and need to mount one of its partitions. I suppose I should have just extracted the single partition when I was using ddrescue, but right now I have the whole disk instead, and no disk space left to re-do the extraction (in fact I won't be able

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:34:14 -0400 Mark LaPierre wrote: > The best way to achieve your end is to delete the unused desktop > installations from your machine. Software not installed is the best > defence against attack directed at that software I agree, but I don't know what packages I can remove

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop support

2014-10-04 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, October 4, 2014 8:58 am, Always Learning wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 12:56 +0100, Phil Wyett wrote: > >> On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: >> > Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that >> simple statement led to an all-day odyssey. > > >>

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-04 Thread Jay Leafey
On 10/04/2014 03:55 PM, Frank Cox wrote: When you click on the gear icon on the GDM login screen, it provides a list of the available desktop environments so you can pick between them. Since I exclusively use Mate on this computer, how can I remove the other options from that menu? Earlier to

Re: [CentOS] how2 mount ntfs partition that is part of a full HD image file

2014-10-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/04/2014 05:56 PM, Fred Smith wrote: I have a full disk image file (courtesy of ddrescue), and need to mount one of its partitions. I suppose I should have just extracted the single partition when I was using ddrescue, but right now I have the whole disk instead, and no disk space left to re

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: Remove Gnome from GDM options

2014-10-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:27:24 -0500 Jay Leafey wrote: > Well, I haven't tried it, but I believe the available session types are > stored in desktop files in /usr/share/xsessions. You could move the > ones you don't want to a different location and see how the picker in > GDM behaves... a bit li

Re: [CentOS] how2 mount ntfs partition that is part of a full HD image file

2014-10-04 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 06:34:55PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 10/04/2014 05:56 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >I have a full disk image file (courtesy of ddrescue), and need to mount > >one of its partitions. I suppose I should have just extracted the single > >partition when I was using ddrescue,

[CentOS] Respective Roles of NetworkManager.service and Network.service

2014-10-04 Thread Richer, Mark (CIV)
I know folks have different opinions about Network Manager, but while researching how to change the name of a NIC without rebooting, I also came across the following page from RedHat that I’ll share as I find it’s very clear and concise explanations on how these services interact on CentOS/RHEL