Re: [CentOS] KVM issue

2016-06-16 Thread Richard
> Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 19:59:09 -0700 > From: John R Pierce > > running centos 6... have had a KVM linux vm (also C6) going for > quite awhile that depends on a USB device mapping (a external audio > DAC module). > > I updated the host today (yum update), it had been awhile (was like

[CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread Walter H.
Hello, the last times, when I tried to update, it get time outs; even when 'yum list' [root@host ~]# yum list Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Determining fastest mirrors epel/metalink | 13 kB 00:00 * base: centos.den.host-engine.com * epel: mirror.steadfast.net * extras: centos.den.host-

Re: [CentOS] KVM issue

2016-06-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/16/2016 5:22 AM, Richard wrote: Have you tried a "virsh detach-device ..." and then the corresponding [re-]attach (or maybe even just a new "attach" first)? When my guest complains about the USB not being there I can generally make things work with: virsh attach-device --file usb_devic

Re: [CentOS] Getting hibernate to work on a new CentOS 7.2.1115 install

2016-06-16 Thread Globe Trotter
Hi, Thank you for this. > cat /sys/power/state I get: freeze mem > cat /sys/power/disk [disabled] > The first should include 'disk' and the second should say enabled or some such. So, clearly this is not set correctly. How do I make these changes, if I am allowed to? > Note that hibernatio

Re: [CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread m . roth
Walter H. wrote: > Hello, > > the last times, when I tried to update, > > it get time outs; even when 'yum list' > how or where can I reset this behavour, to have the really fastest mirros > used? > Have you tried yum clean all before reruning? mark

Re: [CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread Walter H.
On 16.06.2016 19:22, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Walter H. wrote: Hello, the last times, when I tried to update, it get time outs; even when 'yum list' how or where can I reset this behavour, to have the really fastest mirros used? Have you tried yum clean all before reruning? Yes, but doe

Re: [CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:34:09 +0200 Walter H. wrote: > Yes, but doesn't help ... > the same before ... > > by the way, I can't image that there is no mirror in Europa, > and that the "timeout"-mirrors from US are the fastest; yum -disableplugin=fastestmirror nowseewhathappens. -- MELVILLE THEA

Re: [CentOS] remote backup

2016-06-16 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Thursday, June 09, 2016 05:18:03 PM Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Thank you for your reply and sorry for late. > > My needs is only get a copy of large dataset a make sure that it is not > broken after transfer. After transfer, this data will be stored on local > backup server where there is bacula

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Walter H.
On 15.06.2016 16:17, Warren Young wrote: On Jun 15, 2016, at 7:57 AM, Александр Кириллов wrote: Nowadays it's quite easy to get normal ssl certificates for free. E.g. http://www.startssl.com http://buy.wosign.com/free Today, I would prefer Let’s Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/ It is ph

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Walter H.
On 15.06.2016 15:57, Александр Кириллов wrote: Nowadays it's quite easy to get normal ssl certificates for free. E.g. http://www.startssl.com http://buy.wosign.com/free that is right, but hink of your potential clients, because wosign has a problem - slow OCSP, ... because their server infrastu

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/16/2016 10:53 AM, Walter H. wrote: lets encrypt only trusts for 3 months; would you really except in an onlineshop, someone trusts this shop? let us think something like this: "when the CA only trusts for 3 months, how should I trust for a longer period which is important for warranty ...

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Thu, June 16, 2016 12:53 pm, Walter H. wrote: > On 15.06.2016 16:17, Warren Young wrote: >> On Jun 15, 2016, at 7:57 AM, Александр >> Кириллов wrote: >>> Nowadays it's quite easy to get normal ssl certificates for free. E.g. >>> >>> http://www.startssl.com >>> http://buy.wosig

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Thu, June 16, 2016 1:09 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/16/2016 10:53 AM, Walter H. wrote: >> lets encrypt only trusts for 3 months; would you really except in an >> onlineshop, someone trusts this shop? >> let us think something like this: "when the CA only trusts for 3 >> months, how should

Re: [CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread Walter H.
On 16.06.2016 19:40, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:34:09 +0200 Walter H. wrote: Yes, but doesn't help ... the same before ... by the way, I can't image that there is no mirror in Europa, and that the "timeout"-mirrors from US are the fastest; yum -disableplugin=fastestmirror nowseew

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Thu, June 16, 2016 1:09 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 06/16/2016 10:53 AM, Walter H. wrote: >>> lets encrypt only trusts for 3 months; would you really except in an >>> onlineshop, someone trusts this shop? >>> let us think something like this: "when the CA only trust

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Walter H.
On 16.06.2016 20:09, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/16/2016 10:53 AM, Walter H. wrote: lets encrypt only trusts for 3 months; would you really except in an onlineshop, someone trusts this shop? let us think something like this: "when the CA only trusts for 3 months, how should I trust for a longer

Re: [CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread Warren Young
On Jun 16, 2016, at 12:41 PM, Walter H. wrote: > > On 16.06.2016 19:40, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:34:09 +0200 >> Walter H. wrote: >> >>> Yes, but doesn't help ... >>> the same before ... >>> >>> by the way, I can't image that there is no mirror in Europa, >>> and that the "time

Re: [CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread Walter H.
On 16.06.2016 20:51, Warren Young wrote: On Jun 16, 2016, at 12:41 PM, Walter H. wrote: On 16.06.2016 19:40, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:34:09 +0200 Walter H. wrote: Yes, but doesn't help ... the same before ... by the way, I can't image that there is no mirror in Europa, and th

Re: [CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread Ned Slider
On 16/06/16 19:41, Walter H. wrote: On 16.06.2016 19:40, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:34:09 +0200 Walter H. wrote: Yes, but doesn't help ... the same before ... by the way, I can't image that there is no mirror in Europa, and that the "timeout"-mirrors from US are the fastest; y

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Александр Кириллов
that is right, but hink of your potential clients, because wosign has a problem - slow OCSP, ... because their server infrastucture is located in China, and not the best bandwidth ... when validity checks of the used SSL certificate very probable fail, it is worse than not using SSL ... I don't

Re: [CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread Walter H.
On 16.06.2016 21:39, Ned Slider wrote: On 16/06/16 19:41, Walter H. wrote: On 16.06.2016 19:40, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:34:09 +0200 Walter H. wrote: yum -disableplugin=fastestmirror nowseewhathappens. yes this goes fast, no timeout; can I configure this in /etc/yum.conf?

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Walter H.
On 16.06.2016 21:42, Александр Кириллов wrote: that is right, but hink of your potential clients, because wosign has a problem - slow OCSP, ... because their server infrastucture is located in China, and not the best bandwidth ... when validity checks of the used SSL certificate very probable fa

Re: [CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread Tony Schreiner
I note that duke.edu matches uk, and unl.edu matches nl. Maybe they are regular expressions, i just tried with #include_ony=\.nl,\.de and got less surprising results On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Walter H. wrote: > On 16.06.2016 21:39, Ned Slider wrote: > >> >> On 16/06/16 19:41, Walter

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/16/2016 11:23 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: as the one who has to handle quite a few certificates, I only will go with certificates valid for a year, ...do I miss something?). Yes. The tool that creates certificate/key pairs, submits the CSR, and installs the certificate is intended to be

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/16/2016 11:50 AM, Walter H. wrote: technically there is more: not the user needs to check the dates a SSL certificate is valid; just compare it with real life: which salesman would you trust more - the one that gets a new car every few years, which has the same advertisings on it and m

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Thu, June 16, 2016 3:00 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/16/2016 11:23 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> as the one who has to handle quite a >> few certificates, I only will go with certificates valid for a year, >> ...do I miss something?). > > > Yes. The tool that creates certificate/key pairs,

Re: [CentOS] yum timeout ... (CentOS 6.8)

2016-06-16 Thread Warren Young
On Jun 16, 2016, at 1:04 PM, Walter H. wrote: > >> You can just remove the plugin: yum remove yum-fastestmirror >> > not really > > [root@host /]# yum remove yum-fastestmirror ... > Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected That’s annoying. I’ve filed a bug for that upstream: https

[CentOS] Missing CPU Cores from 2nd Socket

2016-06-16 Thread De Vito, Carmen (Carmen)
Has anyone else noticed an issue when running CentOS 7.2.1511 on ESXi 6.0, where only the first sockets worth of cores appear to be presented to the kernel? For example, I've set up a VM on an ESXi 6 node with 2 sockets, each of which has 2 cores attached. Once I start up the server I can see i

[CentOS] Installing 6.8 from DVD1.iso, changes

2016-06-16 Thread Zube
Downloaded 6.8 DVD1.iso, dd to stick. Went through same selections I have gone through since 6.2, only this time it got to the end and stated it couldn't find rear, which is under "backup client". OK, try it again without rear. This time it's yum-plugin-ovl from base (?). Then chrony, also in b

Re: [CentOS] Installing 6.8 from DVD1.iso, changes

2016-06-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/16/2016 04:36 PM, Zube wrote: > Downloaded 6.8 DVD1.iso, dd to stick. Went through same selections > I have gone through since 6.2, only this time it got to the end and > stated it couldn't find rear, which is under "backup client". > > OK, try it again without rear. This time it's yum-plu

[CentOS] Today's firefox update

2016-06-16 Thread Frank Cox
Johnny's announcement refers to: firefox-45.2.0-1.el5.centos.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el6.centos.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el7.centos.src.rpm The linked rhel webpage refers to: firefox-45.2.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el6_8.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el7_2.src.rpm These do not appear to be t

Re: [CentOS] https and self signed

2016-06-16 Thread Walter H.
On 16.06.2016 22:02, Gordon Messmer wrote: Without using a metaphor, please explain exactly who you think will not trust these certs, because I have never met these people. then you know now, that there exist such people ... at least the folks where their security software (antivirus, whatever)

Re: [CentOS] Today's firefox update

2016-06-16 Thread Ned Slider
On 17/06/16 04:18, Frank Cox wrote: Johnny's announcement refers to: firefox-45.2.0-1.el5.centos.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el6.centos.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el7.centos.src.rpm The linked rhel webpage refers to: firefox-45.2.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el6_8.src.rpm firefox-45.2.0-1.el

Re: [CentOS] Today's firefox update

2016-06-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 07:32:19 +0100 Ned Slider wrote: > > Johnny's announcement refers to: > > firefox-45.2.0-1.el5.centos.src.rpm > > firefox-45.2.0-1.el6.centos.src.rpm > > firefox-45.2.0-1.el7.centos.src.rpm > > > > The linked rhel webpage refers to: > > firefox-45.2.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm > > firef