[CentOS] Very weird problem with handling symbolic links

2018-09-17 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi everyone, I just discovered something very weird on a vanilla CentOS 7 installation. If I create a link to /tmp as a normal user, it looks like I can't remove this link anymore. Here's what this looks like: $ mkdir test_link $ cd test_link/ $ ln -s /tmp/ link_to_tmp $ ls -l total 0

Re: [CentOS] Very weird problem with handling symbolic links

2018-09-17 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 17/09/2018 à 11:05, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > $ mkdir test_link > $ cd test_link/ > $ ln -s /tmp/ link_to_tmp > $ ls -l > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 kikinovak kikinovak 5 Sep 17 10:56 link_to_tmp -> /tmp/ > $ rm link_to_tmp/ > rm: cannot remove ‘link_to_tmp/’: Is a directory > $

Re: [CentOS] Very weird problem with handling symbolic links

2018-09-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> > $ mkdir test_link > $ cd test_link/ > $ ln -s /tmp/ link_to_tmp > $ ls -l > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 kikinovak kikinovak 5 Sep 17 10:56 link_to_tmp -> /tmp/ > $ rm link_to_tmp/ > rm: cannot remove ‘link_to_tmp/’: Is a directory > $ rmdir link_to_tmp/ > rmdir: failed to remo

[CentOS] Firefox Issue

2018-09-17 Thread Chris Olson via CentOS
We have several small networks, some of which have only four systems that are usually a mix of Windows 7 and CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machines. All of these systems are Internet connected and updated regularly when yum finds packages available.  Information about one of the CentOS 6 machines is includ

Re: [CentOS] Firefox Issue

2018-09-17 Thread Rob Kampen
On 17/09/18 21:54, Chris Olson via CentOS wrote: We have several small networks, some of which have only four systems that are usually a mix of Windows 7 and CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machines. All of these systems are Internet connected and updated regularly when yum finds packages available.  Infor

[CentOS] LVM and Backups

2018-09-17 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Hey there, I'm testing LVM snapshot to make backups and I've some questions about snapshot lvm. In my test case I have httpd, postgresql db and a dataset on a VM. Running a backup I follow this steps: 1) Stop httpd 2) Create lvm snapshot on the dataset 3) Backup database 4) restart httpd (to

Re: [CentOS] LVM and Backups

2018-09-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/17/18 7:50 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Running a backup I follow this steps: 1) Stop httpd 2) Create lvm snapshot on the dataset 3) Backup database 4) restart httpd (to avoid more downtime) 5) mount the snapshot and execute backup 6) umount and remove the snapshot I think that this could

Re: [CentOS] openl2tp.org compared to openvpn

2018-09-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 20:25, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 09/12/2018 11:58 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Since openl2tp is not part of the centos repositories, does anyone > > have > > good or bad experiences with this. > > You can probably use xl2tpd, which is in EPEL. Also note that l2tp i

Re: [CentOS] LVM and Backups

2018-09-17 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 17/09/2018 22:12, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: On 9/17/18 7:50 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Running a backup I follow this steps: 1) Stop httpd 2) Create lvm snapshot on the dataset 3) Backup database 4) restart httpd (to avoid more downtime) 5) mount the snapshot and execute backup 6) umount a