[CentOS] Problems with Samba-based Home-Directory

2015-07-02 Thread Meikel
Hi folks, I'm running CentOS 6.6 on my workstation. There I have a user meikel, and its home directory /home/meikel ist stored on a samba share on a server which also runs CentOS 6.6. In the very beginning I added the mount options for that home directory into the /etc/fstab file which led t

Re: [CentOS] installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread ken
On 07/01/2015 05:10 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:20, Chris Murphy wrote: My understanding is CentOS doesn't really support dual-boot anyway, whereas Fedora does. Nope. CentOS 5, 6 and 7 all support dual-boot. -- Jonathan Billings Since Linux first came out in '92, e

[CentOS] Status: openssl security update

2015-07-02 Thread Leon Fauster
Hello CentOS-Team, is https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1197.html in the pipeline? Thanks, LF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What causes phantom update nags?

2015-07-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/1/2015 2:35 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: OK, here ya go -- Obsoleting Packages perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras perl-Compress-Zlib.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates

[CentOS] IPMI/BMC/BIOS

2015-07-02 Thread Chris Olson
We have recently been asked to evaluate some computing machinery for a new project. This particular end user has very limited experience with the stated security requirements in a lights-out environment. Their primary work (as well as mine) in the past has been with very small, simple networks of d

Re: [CentOS] Status: openssl security update

2015-07-02 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 02.07.2015 um 11:45 schrieb Leon Fauster : > is https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1197.html in the pipeline? http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-July/021230.html -- Thanks! LF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:

[CentOS] An mdadm question

2015-07-02 Thread m . roth
CentOS 7. I have a server with four drives. 1 is /, and the other three are in RAID5. I need to pull a drive, so I can test whether the server can read > 2TB drives. I've been googling, but don't want to screw the server up I think I'd like to 1. stop the RAID 2. pull a drive 3. put in

Re: [CentOS] An mdadm question

2015-07-02 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: CentOS 7. I have a server with four drives. 1 is /, and the other three are in RAID5. I need to pull a drive, so I can test whether the server can read > 2TB drives. I've been googling, but don't want to screw the server up I think I'd like to 1

Re: [CentOS] installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:43 AM, ken wrote: > On 07/01/2015 05:10 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> >> >>> On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:20, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> My understanding is CentOS doesn't really support dual-boot anyway, >>> whereas Fedora does. >> >> >> Nope. CentOS 5, 6 and 7 all support d

Re: [CentOS] An mdadm question

2015-07-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:24 AM, wrote: > CentOS 7. > > I have a server with four drives. 1 is /, and the other three are in > RAID5. I need to pull a drive, so I can test whether the server can read > > 2TB drives. I've been googling, but don't want to screw the server up > > I think I'd like

Re: [CentOS] IPMI/BMC/BIOS

2015-07-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Chris Olson wrote: We have recently been asked to evaluate some computing machinery for a new project. This particular end user has very limited experience with the stated security requirements in a lights-out environment. Their primary work (as well as mine) in the past ha

[CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread ken
On 07/02/2015 11:51 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:43 AM, ken wrote: On 07/01/2015 05:10 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:20, Chris Murphy wrote: My understanding is CentOS doesn't really support dual-boot anyway, whereas Fedora does. Nope. CentOS

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2015:1197 Moderate CentOS 5 openssl Security Update

2015-07-02 Thread Blake Hudson
FYI I believe applying this openssl update may result in breaking SSL MySQL connections similar to RHEL/CentOS 6 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228755 I opened a bug report for RHEL5/CentOS 5 weeks ago - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231960. However, it hasn't g

Re: [CentOS] What causes phantom update nags?

2015-07-02 Thread Kay Schenk
On 07/02/2015 03:11 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 7/1/2015 2:35 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >> OK, here ya go -- >> >> Obsoleting Packages >> >> perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rpmforge-extras >> perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2.i686 2.021-136.el6_6.1 @updates >> perl-IO-Compress.noarch 2.052-1.el6.rfx rp

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:42 AM, ken wrote: > I guess it depends on one's definition of "support". Your definition seems > to be more demanding... which often is a good thing, urging Linux on to be > better. > > Me, I didn't use the word "support" at all. I only said that I've done it > on ever

Re: [CentOS] What causes phantom update nags?

2015-07-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/2/2015 10:20 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: Yes, I did see this warning on CentOS wiki re RPMForge but decided to use it anyway. But how does this relate to the problem? I DO NOT even have perl-IO-Compress installed. Mostly I figured this was a repository entanglement problem, but I didn't know why.

Re: [CentOS] IPMI/BMC/BIOS

2015-07-02 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 12:30:47PM -0400, Paul Heinlein wrote: > If your admins are comfortable with serial consoles, a concentrator > like those available from Digi or WTI can offer fairly robust access > controls; they can also be set to honor SSH keys rather than > passwords, which may help inc

Re: [CentOS] Problems with Samba-based Home-Directory

2015-07-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
Have you yet: setsebool -P use_samba_home_dirs 1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] An mdadm question

2015-07-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/02/2015 07:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Do I need to fail something? No, don't --fail anything. It should be sufficient to 'mdadm --stop /dev/md0' assuming that's the only array. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

Re: [CentOS] IPMI/BMC/BIOS

2015-07-02 Thread Chris Murphy
https://lwn.net/Articles/630778/ I think you definitely want this stuff as far away from the regular LAN, let alone the Internet, as possible. Chris Murphy ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 2, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> On 07/01/2015 05:10 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >>> >>> Nope. CentOS 5, 6 and 7 all support dual-boot. > > Considering CentOS 7, at least, doesn't include ntfsprogs, the > installation of CentOS can't support shrink or discovery of Windows i

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 2, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:42 AM, ken wrote: > >> Yes, a >> little manual work was needed on the Windows side, but this was well >> documented and frankly not that hard. Since I've done it-- numerous times-- >> I'm not readily persuaded that

Re: [CentOS] installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Jul 2, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >>> On 07/01/2015 05:10 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: Nope. CentOS 5, 6 and 7 all support dual-boot. >> >> Considering CentOS 7, at least, doesn't include ntfsprogs, the >> installati

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Jul 2, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:42 AM, ken wrote: >> >>> Yes, a >>> little manual work was needed on the Windows side, but this was well >>> documented and frankly not that hard. Since I've do

Re: [CentOS] installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 2, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > I've suggested that the distribution doesn't support dual boot if it > has no hand in making it possible. The user doing this on their own > manually is user enabled and supported. The distro has nothing to do > with it. The difference between

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 2, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> On Jul 2, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> It's effectively impossible. Very few people know how to do this. >> >> Relatively few people know how to write C programs, but t

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/2/2015 5:22 PM, Warren Young wrote: If your car has a DIN 7736 bay, you can easily replace the existing head unit without redesigning the car. This is directly equivalent to repartitioning and installing CentOS alongside Windows. how many modern cars have DIN mount stereos anymore? alm

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 2, 2015, at 6:35 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 7/2/2015 5:22 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> If your car has a DIN 7736 bay, you can easily replace the existing head >> unit without redesigning the car. This is directly equivalent to >> repartitioning and installing CentOS alongside Window

Re: [CentOS] installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Jul 2, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> I've suggested that the distribution doesn't support dual boot if it >> has no hand in making it possible. The user doing this on their own >> manually is user enabled and supported. The di

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Jul 2, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Warren Young wrote: >>> On Jul 2, 2015, at 11:32 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: It's effectively impossible. Very few people know how to do this. >>> >>

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 2, 2015, at 9:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > CentOS doesn't support dual boot, because I did all the work to > make that happen, the CentOS installer did nothing to help me make > this possible. If free space on a drive is available at time of installation, CentOS will let you install it

Re: [CentOS] installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 2, 2015, at 8:46 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > I seriously doubt you're going to castigate the whole concept of free > software just because it's founded in a philosophy of, you know, > freedom. Freedom isn’t free. Someone has to do the work. I have yet to see how you explain who will do

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015, 11:05 PM Warren Young wrote: > > On Jul 2, 2015, at 9:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > CentOS doesn't support dual boot, because I did all the work to > > make that happen, the CentOS installer did nothing to help me make > > this possible. > > If free space on a drive is

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Wow. So many _passionate_ words. Still have no idea what Chris is really going on about. ​​This seems to be running in two threads in Gmail, which makes it even more confusing. K ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting <- Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-02 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 3, 2015, at 12:23 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015, 11:05 PM Warren Young wrote: > >> Until you explain how you’re going to get CentOS to be preinstalled on a > billion devices per year, I don’t see how you can connect Android’s success > to CentOS. Where is the market fo