Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-06 Thread Geenhuizen
> On May 6, 2015, at 9:46 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> I list, >> I'm new with backup ops and I'm searching a good system to accomplish this >> work. I know that on centos there are bacula and amanda but they are too >> tape oriented. Another is that they are very p

Re: [CentOS] /etc/passwd aand /etc/shadow out of sync on 4.6 box

2008-01-07 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On Sun, January 6, 2008 23:12, Joe Klemmer wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 00:39 -0800, Garrick Staples wrote: > > Rock-n-roll, man. That did the trick. You know, there would probably > be use for a tool that checked the files and made sure they weren't out > of sync. Isn't pam suppos

Re: [CentOS] Shearing file systems on the network

2008-01-24 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 at 11:01am, Peter Blajev wrote I have 4 systems and each one of them has a partition I'd like to be remotely accessible on the other 3 systems. In other words System1 has Partition1. Systems 2,3,4 should be able to remotely mount Partition1 fro

Re: [CentOS] Warning: No matches found for: clamav on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)

2021-07-19 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
The latest version in in epel-testing, yum  --enablerepo=epel-testing update clam* will do the trick On 7/19/21 5:04 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) and installed epel repository. # rpm -qa | grep epel epel-release-7-13.noarch # cat /etc/redhat

[CentOS] Compatible SATA controller needed

2022-03-27 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I'm trying to install Centos 8 on an older PC but it fails because the SATA controller isn't supported. Anyone have a source for a PCI/ePCI controller card that is compatible with Centos 8? Thanks Pete -- Unencumbered by the thought process. -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers _

Re: [CentOS] Compatible SATA controller needed

2022-03-27 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I've already checked ELRepo for a possible driver and have tried some that looked promising but no success. Thanks On 3/27/22 15:23, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:55 AM Pete Geenhuizen wrote: I'm trying to install Centos 8 on an older PC but it fails becaus

Re: [CentOS] Compatible SATA controller needed

2022-03-27 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
compatible and ignore the controllers that I currently have. Thanks On 3/27/22 16:08, Robert Heller wrote: At Sun, 27 Mar 2022 12:23:21 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 11:55 AM Pete Geenhuizen wrote: I'm trying to install Centos 8 on an older PC but it fails b

Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice on CentOS 7

2022-11-03 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Why not simply download the latest and greatest version LibreOffice from their we site I've been doing that for several years on both Centos 7 and now Rocky 8 and it has worked without fail. On 11/3/22 10:46, H wrote: On 11/02/2022 03:53 PM,jefflp...@twc.com wrote: 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_6

Re: [CentOS] C7, removing zoom problem

2023-02-08 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I've made to move to Rocky 8 after it was released and there is support for MATE and if you prefer lightdm as a window manager.  It has some minor quirks, but all in all it works just fine. I've not tried it yet but there is also a Rocky 9 MATE live image available https://docs.rockylinux.org/en

Re: [CentOS] Nvidia Mod Update

2015-02-08 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 02/08/15 06:12, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/02/15 05:09, S.Tindall wrote: Yes, just to reiterate: yum erase kmod-nvidia yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx reboot You will then be on the correct driver branch and will get the appropriate driver updates going forwards, no changes to yum necessary. _

Re: [CentOS] Nvidia Mod Update

2015-02-08 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 02/08/15 07:45, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/02/15 12:33, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: No, you don't have the package kmod-nvidia-340xx installed. You have kmod-nvidia VERSION 340.65. In the first example, the package NAME is kmod-nvidia-340xx (the -340xx is part of the package name, NOT the ve

Re: [CentOS] Nvidia Mod Update

2015-02-08 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 02/08/2015 10:33 AM, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/02/15 14:24, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: No problem Pete. Now you are on the correct branch you will continue to get updates to that 340.xx driver as and when nvidia release them. IIRC, nvidia said they would continue to support the 340.xx legacy

Re: [CentOS] Real sh? Or other efficient shell for non-interactive scripts

2015-04-24 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 04/24/15 06:07, E.B. wrote: I'm sure most people here know about Dash in Debian. Have there been discussions about providing a more efficient shell in Centos for use with heavily invoked non-interactive scripts? With sh being a link to bash in Centos I don't know if it would explode if the l

Re: [CentOS] Real sh? Or other efficient shell for non-interactive scripts

2015-04-24 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Initially Bourne was used because it was typically a static binary, because the boot process didn't have access to any shared libraries. When that changed it became a bit of a moot point, and you started to see other interpreters being used. Even though Solaris started using ksh as the defaul

Re: [CentOS] Logwatch and System uptime

2015-06-15 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Enable it in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/zz-runtime.conf Pete On 06/15/15 09:58, James B. Byrne wrote: CentOS-6.6 Can logwatch be configured to display the system uptime as part of the reporting prologue? If not then what would be the recommended way of including this informatio

Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-25 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 06/25/15 15:55, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I've got a headless server running CentOS 7. I've got a user who wants to run some graphical software on it, and view using x forwarding. What I don't have clear is how to set this up. I've just installed xorg-x11-server-[Xorg, common]. I assume I need

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 - changing resolv.conf by hand gets overwritten by rebooting

2015-08-27 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I think that you want to create /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks with this, for more info do a search on dhclient-enter-hooks # vi /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks make_resolv_conf(){ : } Pete On 08/27/15 15:36, George wrote: given machine with C6 x86_64 (seen on C 6.6 but also before and probably s

Re: [CentOS] automounter with users home directories on centos 7.

2015-09-09 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Not tried automount with Centos 7 nor with selinux. With that said autofs relies on nfs mounting to work, so have you started there by attempting to manually mount /home? Another place to look is at the hostname. I've had problems where auto mount doesn't like the short name and insists on u

Re: [CentOS] automounter with users home directories on centos 7.

2015-09-10 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Correct nfs is working and there aren't any firewall issues. The problem is probably related to the way and steps that automountd takes to perform the mount, which is probably related to the fact that /home exists. The quickest way to figure that out is to mv /home to /home- and then try autom

[CentOS] Shorewall and the latest kernel problem

2015-11-12 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I just installed the latest kernel 2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64 and when I rebooted it shorewall (shorewall-4.5.4-1.el6.noarch) failed with the following error ERROR: a non-empty masq file requires NAT in your kernel and iptables /etc/shorewall/masq (line 15) Question is is this a problem in th

Re: [CentOS] Shorewall and the latest kernel problem

2015-11-12 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 11/12/15 10:46, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote: Em 12-11-2015 11:12, Pete Geenhuizen escreveu: That points to something different in kernel. What is your 'previous' kernel? Sounds like the nat modules aren't being loaded, for some reason. Marcelo Marcelo, Thanks fo

Re: [CentOS] what's wrong with dag.wieers?

2013-07-02 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 07/02/2013 04:02 PM, Adrian P. van Bloois wrote: > Hi, > What happened to dag.wieers? There is an update for clamav but the rpm is > still not distibuted after 4 weeks or more. :-) > What's wrong there? > > Adrian > > I asked about clamav on the repoforge list, and apparently there are s

Re: [CentOS] what's wrong with dag.wieers?

2013-07-03 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 07/03/2013 08:34 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > On Tue, July 2, 2013 17:34, John Hinton wrote: > > Ditto here, and for the same reasons. > > This was our experience as well; changing userids between clam and > clamav between updates caused us a lot of avoidable headaches. We > switched to epel fo

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 01/28/2014 04:02 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > We're getting to a point in our linux environment where it's starting to be > cumbersome to keep shadow and passwd-files up-to-date for the users to login > on each computer. Scripts can only get us so far. 8-/ > > I've looked a bit into cent

Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Security is a major consideration, and even though as you say most of the traffic is local, most problems are internal as opposed to external. Pete On 01/28/2014 08:22 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Yeah, that last bit made me squirm over here. I don't feel good about that, > even though the linux mach

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 04/02/14 10:51, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > Method 1: try rm \-\-backup\=numbered > Method 2, that will *ALWAYS* work: > ls -i > then, using the inode number > find . -inum -exec rm {} \; > > The latter method is the one guaranteed to take care of all kinds of > filen

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from CentOS 6.x to 7

2014-09-10 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I just ran the pre-upgrade, and it said that I couldn't do an in place upgrade for the following reason: "/usr directory is on separate partition. In-place Upgrade is NOT possible." Well that was news to me because I never separate /usr, so what is going on? It apparently turns out that /usr/

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from CentOS 6.x to 7

2014-09-10 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
0/14 14:45, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: You should be able to just unmount /usr/local and take it out of fstab for the duration of the upgrade then put it back and fix the contents later. But, that sort of thing makes a bare-metal reinstall sound eve

[CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

2017-09-19 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend.  Everything went well except that I can't login because the screen is black with a cursor. If reboot boot the 7.3 kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 kernel everything works just fine, so my guess is that there's a kernel issue with the hardware, spec

Re: [CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

2017-09-19 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 09/19/17 11:44, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Pete Geenhuizen wrote: I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend.  Everything went well except that I can't login because the screen is black with a cursor. If reboot boot the 7.3 kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 kernel everything works just

Re: [CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

2017-09-19 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 09/19/17 11:58, Richard wrote: Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 11:53:24 -0400 From: Pete Geenhuizen On 09/19/17 11:44, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Pete Geenhuizen wrote: I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend.  Everything went well except that I can't login because the scre

Re: [CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

2017-09-20 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 09/20/17 10:41, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend. Everything went well except that I can't login because the screen is black with a cursor. If reboot boot the 7.3 kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 kernel everything works just fine, so my guess is that th

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

2017-09-22 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
After trying the suggestions offered here and various other suggestions that I found through various searches I finally solved the problem by ditching the on board graphics and installing a graphics card. On 09/19/17 11:01, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend

[CentOS] Centos 7 Mate desk top

2017-09-27 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I upgraded to C 7.4 from C 6.9 on my laptop and all was well.  As with C6 and the other C7 hosts that I have, if launch a terminal from the desktop it opens in [ user@host Desktop ]$ which is just fine. I restored parts of my C 6.9 home into C7.4 and now everything shows up on my desktop and w

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED Centos 7 Mate desk top

2017-09-27 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 09/27/17 18:18, Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:22:14 -0400 Pete Geenhuizen wrote: ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs Frank, Perfect, that was it. thanks a lot. Pete -- Unencumbered by the thought process. -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers -- This message has been scanned for

Re: [CentOS] /lib/firmware/microcode.dat update on CentOS 6

2018-01-18 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 01/18/18 09:01, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 01/18/2018 07:51 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: So, if we applied the previous microcode update, and all our machines rebooted OK, then we don't need to fallback? Also, do we know if the updated Cen

Re: [CentOS] /lib/firmware/microcode.dat update on CentOS 6

2018-01-18 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 01/18/18 11:31, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:01:18AM -0500, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: Do we update the microcode now or do we wait until the latest microcode_ctl rpm is available and then tackle this issue? Check with your hardware vendor for BIOS/EFI firmware updates

Re: [CentOS] /lib/firmware/microcode.dat update on CentOS 6

2018-01-18 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 01/18/18 11:31, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:01:18AM -0500, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: Do we update the microcode now or do we wait until the latest microcode_ctl rpm is available and then tackle this issue? Check with your hardware vendor for BIOS/EFI firmware updates

[CentOS] Centos 7 add-on serial cards

2018-01-28 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I'm upgrading from CentOS6 to CentOS 7. I run 2 weather stations on C6 and have one of them attached to ttyS0 which is on the motherboard, and the other to ttyS2 which in on an add-on PCI serial card. I'm migrating the weather stations another host running C7 which has a similar hardware con

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 add-on serial cards

2018-01-29 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 01/28/18 20:15, Fred Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 12:10:29PM -0500, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: I'm upgrading from CentOS6 to CentOS 7. I run 2 weather stations on C6 and have one of them attached to ttyS0 which is on the motherboard, and the other to ttyS2 which in on an add-o

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 add-on serial cards

2018-01-29 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 01/29/18 09:19, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 07:00:02AM -0500, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: On 01/28/18 20:15, Fred Smith wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I looked at them with setserial, but I have no familiarity with the program to know what to change. setserial -ag /dev/ttyS

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-06 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 03/02/2019 05:41 AM, Phil Perry wrote: Hi Gerry, I've updated the nvidia 340xx legacy package set for el7.6, and released the packages to the elrepo testing repository. Please could you test them and let me know if they work as expected. To install: yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing ins

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-06 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 03/06/2019 09:59 AM, Fred Smith wrote: I tried to install this and ran into a conflict --> Processing Conflict: nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-340.107-2.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64 conflicts ocl-icd --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: nvidia-x11-drv-340xx conflicts with ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.el7.x86_64 I

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-06 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 03/06/2019 04:21 PM, Phil Perry wrote: On 06/03/2019 19:30, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: That is all good and well, but my problem is that I now can't install vlc smplayer mplayer, or  ffmpeg-libs because they need ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.el7.x86_64from epel. I tried to roll back to the pre

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-11 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 03/07/2019 01:56 AM, Phil Perry wrote: On 06/03/2019 23:03, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Thank you Stephen. I assumed because they were pulling a dependency from epel that they were also from epel. Been out of town, yes I goofed vlc, smplayer, mplayer, and ffmpeg aren't in EPEL. and are

[CentOS] Pidgin fails to connect google

2019-09-27 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I recently upgraded to Centos 7.7 and when I rebooted everything seemed to be OK except that pidgin failed to  connect to gtalk with the error SSL Handshake Failed After trying several configuration changes with no luck I tried pidgin on a host that was still running Centos 7.6 and it had the sa

[CentOS] Looking for C8 AMD help

2020-04-23 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I'm migrating from C7 to C8.  I'm currently using autofs, but alas autofs has been dropped in C8 for the AMD automounter. I have some very ancient knowledge of AMD, I used it when it was first introduced many years ago on Solaris and moved to Sun's automounter when it was introduced. So now it'

Re: [CentOS] Looking for C8 AMD help

2020-04-24 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Hmm, I guess that I have something wrong with my kickstart configuration because all that I can find is libsss_autofs-2.2.0-19.el8_1.1.x86_64. Thanks for the heads up Pete On 4/23/20 9:08 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 4/23/20 4:23 PM, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: I'm migrating from C7 to C8.

Re: [CentOS] update clamav to 0.99.2

2016-07-09 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I don't see it either. On 07/09/16 08:36, Walter H. wrote: On 07.07.2016 22:19, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: Helo, update is in EPEL repository. strange, here it isn't ... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/li

Re: [CentOS] update clamav to 0.99.2

2016-07-09 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
I'm running 6.8 and now it all makes sense. Thanks On 07/09/16 09:17, Duncan Brown wrote: On 09/07/2016 14:15, Walter H. wrote: On 09.07.2016 14:39, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: I don't see it either. On 07/09/16 08:36, Walter H. wrote: On 07.07.2016 22:19, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: Hel

Re: [CentOS] Gnome weather applet stranded

2016-08-25 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
Thanks Nux, works just fine on Centos 6.8 On 08/25/16 04:27, Nux! wrote: I've patched libgweather with the same MATE patch and it seems to be working fine. Give it a try http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/tmp/libgweather6/ -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro --