Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?

2015-02-26 Thread Chris Murphy
The best way to do this is a new minimal install either in the GUI installer or with kickstart. And build up from there. If you do an install to e.g. CentOS-base.qcow2, that image already has machine-id and hostname set. While not running a VM, use guestfish to mount the qcow2, and make /etc/machi

Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?

2015-02-26 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 26.02.2015 um 08:38 schrieb James Hogarth : > On Feb 25, 2015 10:00 PM, "Peter" wrote: >> >> I haven't tried this, but see if it works: >> yum shell >> remove * >> install @minimal >> run >> >> > > I've not tried this to see the effect but don't forget in el6 there is the > yum history data

Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?

2015-02-26 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 25/02/2015 23:00, Peter a écrit : I haven't tried this, but see if it works: yum shell remove * install @minimal run I get "Package group minimal does not exist" What now? -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web :

Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?

2015-02-26 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 26/02/2015 10:30, Leon Fauster a écrit : # rpm -qa --last Lists the last installed package first. That way back would be one way to strip it down. Here's a completely empiric approach, tried out on three different machines. It's not perfect, but it's already quite usable : https://kik

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Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?

2015-02-26 Thread James B. Byrne
On Wed, February 25, 2015 14:18, Brian Mathis wrote: > > I don't think there's a single yum command that lets you roll > back to the packages the were installed at a given point in > time. I also don't think that this would get you back to the > *exact* system as it was. # yum history rollback 1

Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?

2015-02-26 Thread David Both
Perhaps I have not been following closely enough, but why go backwards? Why not start with a "minimal" installation and then add only those packages that are needed for your situation? -- * David P. Both, RHCE Millennium Technology

[CentOS] C7, igb and DCB support for pause frame ?

2015-02-26 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
Hi there, I’m working on deploying our new cluster. Masters have 5×1gbps (i210 and i350, thus using igb.ko), configured with mtu 9000, 802.3ad. Works fine *but* I can’t get DCB working (pause frame, aka flow control, which is supported by and enabled on our switches). [root@master2 ~]# dc

Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?

2015-02-26 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 26/02/2015 15:00, David Both a écrit : Perhaps I have not been following closely enough, but why go backwards? Why not start with a "minimal" installation and then add only those packages that are needed for your situation? Here's why. I'm currently experimenting with CentOS on my worksta

Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?

2015-02-26 Thread David Both
Ok, I understand, now. I just leave multiple desktops in place and switch between them as I want. But perhaps you have reasons to do it as you do. That is one thing I really appreciate about Linux, the fact that there are many, many ways to accomplish almost everything and that what is right and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 will not run pre-installation script

2015-02-26 Thread Jerome Yanga
Managed to figure this out. A peer of mine used windows to create the kickstart file. This made it hard for the installer to read it as there are nonprintable characters. After converting the kickstart file to unix format, the prescript started working. Thank you all. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2

[CentOS] move a disk to another machine

2015-02-26 Thread Chuck Campbell
I have a centos 6.6 laptop which is having trouble (intermittent boot failures, or more rightly so, multiple failures, intermittent booting). The laptop is running selinux. I pulled the second internal disk out to get my data off of it. I plugged it into my centos 5.x machine and mounted it. I was

[CentOS] L2TP over IPSEC?

2015-02-26 Thread CS DBA
Hi All; anyone have any info on setting up a L2TP over IPSEC client vpn connection? Thanks in advance ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] move a disk to another machine

2015-02-26 Thread m . roth
Chuck Campbell wrote: > I have a centos 6.6 laptop which is having trouble (intermittent boot > failures, or more rightly so, multiple failures, intermittent booting). The laptop > is running selinux. I pulled the second internal disk out to get my data off of > it. I plugged it into my centos 5.x

Re: [CentOS] move a disk to another machine

2015-02-26 Thread Chuck Campbell
On 2/26/2015 12:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Chuck Campbell wrote: >> I have a centos 6.6 laptop which is having trouble (intermittent boot >> failures, or more rightly so, multiple failures, intermittent booting). > The laptop >> is running selinux. I pulled the second internal disk out to get

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart with multiple eth devices

2015-02-26 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
And after picking this back up this morning still no dice. I have now blacklisted the one module that would enumerate the add-in ethernet port so that is no longer an issue during the kickstart process, however the following is now happening: - kickstart completes successfully using the machi

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart with multiple eth devices

2015-02-26 Thread Jason Warr
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:42:57 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: And after picking this back up this morning still no dice. I have now blacklisted the one module that would enumerate the add-in ethernet port so that is no longer an issue during the kickstart process, however the foll

[CentOS] How to search the mail archive

2015-02-26 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey All, I've seen references to searching the mail archive. How exactly does one perform such a search? Let's say I want to search the mail archive for references to the scp command. How do I do that? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linu

Re: [CentOS] How to search the mail archive

2015-02-26 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:54:08 -0500 Mark LaPierre wrote: > Let's say I want to search the mail archive for references to the scp > command. How do I do that? Uncle Google will do that for you: scp site:http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ w

Re: [CentOS] move a disk to another machine

2015-02-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Chuck Campbell wrote: > I have a centos 6.6 laptop which is having trouble (intermittent boot > failures, > or more rightly so, multiple failures, intermittent booting). The laptop is > running selinux. > I pulled the second internal disk out to get my data off o

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart with multiple eth devices

2015-02-26 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Nope, it doesn't add it to the kernel boot parameters. That was the first thing I checked. As for the bootproto ... DUH. I didn't check that. :) That being solved, yeah it's not bringing up the add-in card now when it boots up. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Jason Warr wrote: > > > On Thu, 2

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart with multiple eth devices

2015-02-26 Thread Jason Warr
What about a blacklist line somewhere in /etc/modprobe.d ? I have never noticed anaconda adding one there but it is worth checking. Also, when you check dmesg, are you looking for the expected module name or eth2? On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:46:08 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Nope, it do

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart with multiple eth devices

2015-02-26 Thread Tom Brown
I have a Dell server that has two built-in ethernet devices. When I kickstart the machine, they are correctly identified as eth0 and eth1 (correctly meaning they correspond to the physical device ports 1 and 2). I need a third one and want that to come up as eth2. After adding the hardware, ki

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart with multiple eth devices

2015-02-26 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Tom Brown wrote: > > ksdevice=aa;bb:cc:dd:ee:ff in your above example will ensure the device > with that mac is the kickstart device. > > Yeah, turned out bootif accomplishes the same thing, at least in my scenario. What happened afterwards though is different. __

Re: [CentOS] How to search the mail archive

2015-02-26 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 26.02.2015 um 20:54 schrieb Mark LaPierre : > Hey All, > > I've seen references to searching the mail archive. How exactly does > one perform such a search? > > Let's say I want to search the mail archive for references to the scp > command. How do I do that? http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.lin

[CentOS] scp -rp behavior

2015-02-26 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey all, I'm trying to copy configuration files from my old CentOS 6.6 32 bit machine to my new CentOS 6.6 64 bit machine. On my 32 bit machine: [mlapier@mushroom ~]$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:DB:E5:4E:9F inet addr:192.168.15.105 When I issue this command on

Re: [CentOS] scp -rp behavior

2015-02-26 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Thu, February 26, 2015 6:34 pm, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm trying to copy configuration files from my old CentOS 6.6 32 bit > machine to my new CentOS 6.6 64 bit machine. > > On my 32 bit machine: > > [mlapier@mushroom ~]$ ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:DB:E

Re: [CentOS] C7, igb and DCB support for pause frame ?

2015-02-26 Thread Steven Tardy
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck < l.wandreb...@quelquesmots.fr> wrote: > Hi there, > > I’m working on deploying our new cluster. > Masters have 5×1gbps (i210 and i350, thus using igb.ko), configured with > mtu 9000, 802.3ad. Works fine *but* I can’t get DCB working (pause frame

Re: [CentOS] scp -rp behavior

2015-02-26 Thread Richard
Original Message > Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015 18:45:34 -0600 > From: Valeri Galtsev > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] scp -rp behavior > > > On Thu, February 26, 2015 6:34 pm, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I'm trying to copy configurat

Re: [CentOS] scp -rp behavior

2015-02-26 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 01:15 +, Richard wrote: > As I believe was suggested by someone when you asked about this a > few days ago, the space that you have after the colon: > > scp -pr mlapier@192.168.15.105: /home/m... > > is the source of your problem. I just tested and confirmed it. Wh

Re: [CentOS] scp -rp behavior

2015-02-26 Thread James Hogarth
On 27 Feb 2015 01:53, "Always Learning" wrote: > > scp -P 12345 -p $file aaa.example.com://$file > > Note the colon and 2 slashes. > You don't need any slashes The response about the space after the colon was right this and the last time OP posted... Hopefully he reads it this time.

Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?

2015-02-26 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 26/02/2015 15:53, David Both a écrit : Ok, I understand, now. I just leave multiple desktops in place and switch between them as I want. But perhaps you have reasons to do it as you do. That is one thing I really appreciate about Linux, the fact that there are many, many ways to accomplish alm