[CentOS] No announce for RHSA-2015:0074 Important: jasper security update

2015-01-23 Thread Patrick Bervoets
There was no announce for RHSA-2015:0074 Important: jasper security update Coincidence or has it something to do with the recent errata-discussion? Thanks Patrick ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] network copy performance is poor (rsync) - debugging suggestions?

2015-01-23 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
Hi, I do have two centos 6.6 servers. With a "performance optimized" rsync I get an speed of 15 - 20 MB/s The options I use are: rsync -aHAXxv --numeric-ids --progress -e "ssh -T -c arcfour -o Compression=no -x" If I copy files by smb to/from the servers I do get 60 - 80 MB/s, a dd (r/w) on the

Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

2015-01-23 Thread Darren Williams
Using VM's was a suggestion I put forward but some of our staff didn't like the idea! We can't virtualise Windows as we run many CAD and Media app's that require high end graphics card utilisation. The Linux image is mainly used for coding type activities and so virtualising that would seem

Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Holway
On 23 January 2015 at 12:06, Darren Williams wrote: > Using VM's was a suggestion I put forward but some of our staff didn't > like the idea! > *sigh* technology politics is annoying. good luck with that. > We can't virtualise Windows as we run many CAD and Media app's that > require high end

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:30:03PM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Thu, January 22, 2015 9:05 pm, Always Learning wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 21:19 -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > > > >> I object to this sort of crap. Hidden, no reason for an *IX desktop to > >> be forced to ignore

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 16:18 +1300, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 01/23/2015 04:05 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 21:19 -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > > > >> I object to this sort of crap. Hidden, no reason for an *IX desktop to > >> be forced to ignore or deal with this crap. > >>

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 119, Issue 7

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Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread David Both
I run a small consulting service and work with both individuals and (very) small businesses. The objective of my consulting business is to help average people move to Linux when they decide that they have had enough of the M$ money wheel and endless malware infections. Not one individual wh

Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

2015-01-23 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
On 22 January 2015 at 13:22, Darren Williams wrote: The idea of using a VHD(X) was to enable use to use disk imaging tools such as ghost, wds etc to deploy images of this type of system to over 500 machines. We have not found an imaging solutions that can image and deploy via multicast a s

Re: [CentOS] Chromium browser for C6

2015-01-23 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > > Behalf Of Karanbir Singh > > Sent: den 22 januari 2015 18:20 > > To: centos@centos.org > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Chromium browser for C

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 07:45 -0500, David Both wrote: > > > > I disable and remove PackageKit to prevent that kind of stuff. My current plan too once I determine it won't break my boxes. > > For those historically ignorant developers, I say that they had *BETTER* care > how it has always be

Re: [CentOS] CentOS - Firefox and Flash

2015-01-23 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, January 22, 2015 12:27, Frank Cox wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:36:24AM -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: >> If one has already done all that and, following the most recent FF update, all that is displayed is a video window with the Flash >> logo/Button in the middle. And regardless of ho

Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

2015-01-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > > On 22 January 2015 at 13:22, Darren Williams > wrote: >> >> >> The idea of using a VHD(X) was to enable use to use disk imaging tools >> such as ghost, wds etc to deploy images of this type of system to over 500 >> machines. >> >> W

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, January 22, 2015 22:23, Always Learning wrote: > > > Surely Linux users change to Root to do system work, rather than > attempt to make Root changes in the middle of doing ordinary GUI > tasks whilst logged-in as a normal user ? > I logon with my normal user id and run a development deskt

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread James B. Byrne
On Fri, January 23, 2015 06:50, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > > I don't want this stupid thing popping up every time I switch from my > normal active user logons to my "dead" one (used to get around the > unaddressed bug I filed over a month ago about switching run levels > causing crashes and runni

[CentOS] General question about understanding PCI passthrough

2015-01-23 Thread Jeff Boyce
Greetings - I saw Andrew Holway's post yesterday referencing using PCI passthrough as a solution to someone else's issue. Not being familiar with it, the post made me look into it more to see if it is something to use for my setup. From my research on the web, I have two questions to make su

Re: [CentOS] General question about understanding PCI passthrough

2015-01-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/23/2015 09:24 AM, Jeff Boyce wrote: 1. If you use PCI passthrough on a graphics card to allow a virtual guest direct access to the graphics card for it use, does the host still have use of the graphics card also? No. 2. Or, once you pass it to the guest, the host can then no longer us

Re: [CentOS] network copy performance is poor (rsync) - debugging suggestions?

2015-01-23 Thread Patrick Flaherty
> > I do have two centos 6.6 servers. With a "performance optimized" rsync I > get an speed of 15 - 20 MB/s > > The options I use are: > > rsync -aHAXxv --numeric-ids --progress -e "ssh -T -c arcfour -o > Compression=no -x" > > If I copy files by smb to/from the servers I do get 60 - 80 MB/s, a dd

Re: [CentOS] network copy performance is poor (rsync) - debugging suggestions?

2015-01-23 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Fri, January 23, 2015 12:54 pm, Patrick Flaherty wrote: >> >> I do have two centos 6.6 servers. With a "performance optimized" rsync I >> get an speed of 15 - 20 MB/s >> >> The options I use are: >> >> rsync -aHAXxv --numeric-ids --progress -e "ssh -T -c arcfour -o >> Compression=no -x" >> >> I

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Thu, January 22, 2015 9:39 pm, Frank Cox wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:30:03PM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Just out of curiosity: how do you guys look at it? This asks me for >> password... In general it is good idea to place something into open URL > > I think that's what he wanted y

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Fri, January 23, 2015 5:37 am, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:30:03PM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> On Thu, January 22, 2015 9:05 pm, Always Learning wrote: >> > >> > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 21:19 -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: >> > >> >> I object to this sort of crap. Hi

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > As a matter of fact I tend to not use GUI admin tools since long ago. Bring back Xconfigurator! > I do prefer 3ware web RAID admin > interface anything else (it more transparently prevents me from making > fatal blunders - probably just me).

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Fri, January 23, 2015 2:05 pm, Warren Young wrote: > On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Valeri Galtsev > wrote: > >> As a matter of fact I tend to not use GUI admin tools since long ago. > > Bring back Xconfigurator! > >> I do prefer 3ware web RAID admin >> interface anything else (it more transpar

[CentOS] find out who accessed a file

2015-01-23 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hey guys, Is there any way to find out the last user to access a file on a CentOS 6.5 system? Thanks Tim -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailma

Re: [CentOS] find out who accessed a file

2015-01-23 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:50:44PM -0500, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Is there any way to find out the last user to access a file on a CentOS > 6.5 system? Unless you're using auditd (or a similar service) to watch the file, no. You could probably use the logs and `last` to see who was logged in at the

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Fri, January 23, 2015 2:31 pm, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Fri, January 23, 2015 2:05 pm, Warren Young wrote: >> On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Valeri Galtsev >> wrote: >> >>> As a matter of fact I tend to not use GUI admin tools since long ago. >> >> Bring back Xconfigurator! >> >>> I do pref

Re: [CentOS] find out who accessed a file

2015-01-23 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Fri, January 23, 2015 3:13 pm, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:50:44PM -0500, Tim Dunphy wrote: >> Is there any way to find out the last user to access a file on a CentOS >> 6.5 system? > > Unless you're using auditd (or a similar service) to watch the file, > no. You co

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Keith Keller
On 2015-01-23, Warren Young wrote: > On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Valeri Galtsev > wrote: > >> I do prefer 3ware web RAID admin >> interface anything else (it more transparently prevents me from making >> fatal blunders - probably just me). > > No, not just you. tw_cli is needlessly confusing

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Fri, January 23, 2015 3:32 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2015-01-23, Warren Young wrote: >> On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Valeri Galtsev >> wrote: >> >>> I do prefer 3ware web RAID admin >>> interface anything else (it more transparently prevents me from making >>> fatal blunders - probably ju

[CentOS] How to prevent root from managing/disabling SELinux

2015-01-23 Thread Stephen Harris
At work I'm used to tools like eTrust Access Control (aka SEOS). eTrust takes away the ability to manage the eTrust config from root and puts it in the hands of "security admin". So there's a good separation of duties; security admin control the security ruleset, but are limited by the OS permiss

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 13:32 -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > > But (getting back a little to the original topic) getting to the 3ware > web interface should not require root privileges on the client, since > it's just the browser connecting to the 3ware http(s) listener. The OP > seemed to be rantin

[CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, I have a machine running Centos 6.6 connected to a port on a Cisco Catalyst 3750 series switch. That port is part of VLAN 48. I have VLAN 48 on the CentOS machine too. The IP network on VLAN 48 is 192.168.48.0/255.255.255.0. The address on the CentOS side is 192.168.48.101, the address

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a machine running Centos 6.6 connected to a port on a Cisco Catalyst > 3750 series switch. That port is part of VLAN 48. I have VLAN 48 on the > CentOS machine too. > > The IP network on VLAN 48 is 192.168.48.0/255.255.2

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Less, You are 100% right. Of course I brought up my eth0 - but, like you said, with no IP. Meanwhile, I brought up eth0.48 with 192.168.48.100. However, until I would bring up eth0 with an IP address (any in the network) I would have no connection. Why? That's what I fail to understand. Boris.

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Less, > > You are 100% right. Of course I brought up my eth0 - but, like you said, > with no IP. Meanwhile, I brought up eth0.48 with 192.168.48.100. > > However, until I would bring up eth0 with an IP address (any in the > network) I would h

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Keith Keller
On 2015-01-23, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > > Actually, my rant was much more about it interrupting me, without being > asked, to do some updates that I didn't yet request *and* being > persistent about it over time in *my* (not Freedesktop.org's) work > space. Perhaps if you'd specified that in yo

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Boris Epstein > wrote: > > Less, > > > > You are 100% right. Of course I brought up my eth0 - but, like you said, > > with no IP. Meanwhile, I brought up eth0.48 with 192.168.48.100. > > > > However, until I

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 07:10:57PM -0500, Boris Epstein wrote: > This makes two of us. I've done everything as you have described and it > simply does not work. Are you actually seeing VLAN tagged traffic, or is the cisco switch just providing a normal stream? At work we have hundreds of VLANs,

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Steve, Thanks, makes sense. I just don't see why I have to effectively waste an extra IP address to get my connection established. Boris. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 07:10:57PM -0500, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > This makes two of us. I've d

Re: [CentOS] Orwell's 1984 from Freedesktop,org?

2015-01-23 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 16:02 -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2015-01-23, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > > > > > Exactly where did you report this bug? If it was to RH, and you're not > a RH customer, you shouldn't be surprised if they ignored the "bug", > since they probably consider it a configurati

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
We have lots of servers with a similar setup (i.e. tagged vlans and no ip on eth0) and this works just fine. What is the actual vlan configuration on your switchport? Regards, Dennis On 24.01.2015 01:34, Boris Epstein wrote: > Steve, > > Thanks, makes sense. > > I just don't see why I have t