[CentOS] can I convert a linear thin pool to raid1?

2023-11-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
In the past, I've used LVM on MD RAID, and I'd like to try using LVM RAID in order to also add dm-integrity data to some LVs.  I've added new PVs to my VG, and I've converted some of my LVs to raid1 types, but I also have one thin pool that I use for VMs with multiple layers of snapshots.  That

[CentOS] possible LVM corruption?

2023-11-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
While updating a hypervisor, I'm getting the following errors printed to the terminal during rpm upgrade scripts.  The first line is printed 15 times, and GRUB prints a similar error at boot.  "vgck" doesn't seem to find any problems.  Does anyone have suggestions for diagnosing the issue? er

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/13/2011 08:26 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > Can anyone tell me why I am seeing these error message? > Specifically, why is TYPE=Bridge giving Unknown connection type > 'Bridge'? I don't believe NetworkManager supports bridges. If you want to use TYPE=Bridge, you should disable NetworkManager

Re: [CentOS] KVM host question about host firewall

2011-01-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/18/2011 02:21 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > Yesterday I was troubleshooting an issue with a KVM host. I was > unable to access the DNS service on a KVM virtual machine. After > verifying that the vm allowed through the DNS ports (53 on UDP/TCP) > and still being unable to access, I was able to

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/20/2011 02:53 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > Fortunately I don't go sticking my fingers in wet gummy bears, so that > risk is mitigated! > > While finger prints can be faked, it often requires access to the > finger to fake. I haven't heard of someone lifting a latent oil print > and creating a fak

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/20/2011 07:52 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Over and over again I see this reco and it makes no sense? If you have > access to updates whether they be yours locally cached or remote, you > should add a repo line in your ks and "install" updates from the start. > It's faster/cleaner and just p

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/21/2011 07:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > NetworkManager is utterly useless for server grade work, such as pair > bonding and bridges. It may be helpful for wireless management or > modem connections, but I find it safer to to rip it *out* on CentOS 4 > and CentOS 5, and urge turning it

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/21/2011 10:17 PM, Bob Hepple wrote: > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-wlan0: > > # this is the 'old' format: just gets added to "ip route add " > 192.168.101.0/24 dev wlan0 > default via 192.168.101.1 Based on your other configs, this appears to be redundant. You only need the "route"

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/21/2011 03:43 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> The current version of anaconda supports that, but to the best of my >> recollection, the version used in RHEL 5 did/does not. > > Your recollection is wrong, I have never done a CentOS install except > for the first couple when I was learning with

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/22/2011 08:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Unfortunately, this is not sufficiently reliable. Some idiot may > re-run it Re-enabling NetworkManager requires the root password. If someone can turn it back on with 'chkconfig' or another service management tool, they can also re-install it.

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/23/2011 04:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Still, it could get re-enabled with an update, RH loves to do this for > some services. Having reviewed the scripts for all of the services on a server that runs many, I'm very confident that the reason you see that happen is that you are using "chkc

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/23/2011 06:30 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Yeah, "libvirt" is not your friend for network configurations, nor is > the "bridged" network setup used for KVM. It's not well supported, > especially in the documentation. It's very well supported and documented. The URL in the message to whic

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/23/2011 06:20 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> You may feel that it is worth the effort to remove NetworkManager >> entirely, but I think most people will agree that there's no need to do so. > > It&#

Re: [CentOS] kernel security issues

2011-01-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/25/2011 02:24 AM, Dave wrote: > Question: Are those alerts mostly specifically centos related or do they > also affect the vanilla sources? I don't recall having ever seen a security problem in the RHEL/CentOS kernel that didn't affect the upstream sources. There's no need to rely on impre

Re: [CentOS] glibc++6.2?

2011-02-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
If you have an RPM package with unmet dependencies, the way to install it is: yum localinstall Yum will resolve the dependencies using the available repositories. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cento

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/02/2011 09:22 AM, Larry Vaden wrote: > What is RH's be-all end-all justification for staying with an ancient > code base for such important programs as BIND et al? Directives in the configuration files have changed. Users of RHEL expect to be able to update their systems without anything b

Re: [CentOS] SSH AllowUser WildCard

2011-02-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/07/2011 09:37 PM, Stephen Cox wrote: > Feb 7 18:17:25 server sshd[3537]: reverse mapping checking > getaddrinfo for AA-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx..host.com failed - POSSIBLE > BREAKIN ATTEMPT! That message indicates that the IP address from which you're connecting has a PTR record of "AA-xxx-xxx-

Re: [CentOS] SSH AllowUser WildCard

2011-02-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/08/2011 10:13 AM, Stephen Cox wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> You'll need to set up DNS properly for this to work. > > It is mobile Broadband... So that will not be not possible. Then I guess the answer is that OpenSSH works and

Re: [CentOS] VPN inside VPN?

2011-02-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/09/2011 12:01 PM, Nataraj wrote: > I would also look at routing. When the second vpn comes up, it may be > configured to alter the routing table which would then try to route the > first vpn through the second and the second through the first. That sounds mostly right. Many VPNs will take

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem

2011-02-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/12/2011 04:57 PM, Peter Ivanov wrote: > actually the line > ln -s /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15 /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.15 > solved my problem Your earlier "rpm -ql" and "rpm -V" output indicated that /etc/ld.so.conf.d/mysql-x86_64.conf was present and correct, so you probably

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/20/2011 12:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Or, maybe there was back in the days when they released source that matched > their binaries Red Hat's published source is what they use to create their binaries. There is no mis-match. ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] apache docroot permissions

2011-05-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/04/2011 12:49 PM, Johan Martinez wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions Richard and Kenneth. I installed drupal here > and it requires user running apache to have write access on filesystem. > Otherwise it complains: 'The directory sites/default/files is not > writable'. The content editors/deve

Re: [CentOS] LDAPs causing System Message Bus to hang when there's no network

2011-05-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/03/2011 10:43 AM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Can any one comment on what ppl are using for larger deployments? I > hope its not a resounding M$ AD?! Use sssd. It's now included in CentOS 5. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists

Re: [CentOS] Samba with 389 Directory Server Auth problem

2011-05-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/28/2011 01:57 AM, sync wrote: > [root@mybox logs]# net getlocalsid > lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search_domain_info(1392) Adding domain info for > CMOMA failed with NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL SID for domain mybox is: > S-1-5-21-4207250186-2406131440-3849861866 You should run "getlocalsid" before you p

Re: [CentOS] Odd permissions

2020-05-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/6/20 8:30 AM, mark wrote: when I log out, it restarts with me logged in, and only the second time I log out does it actually log me out. Are you using a Wayland or X11 session?  It sounds like you may have an .xinitrc file in your home dir that starts your X11 clients twice... ___

Re: [CentOS] du hung, wild display in ps

2020-05-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/6/20 12:28 PM, Fred Smith wrote: Was running du to examine the sizes of my backups and found du hung, /mnt/backup is probably a network-mounted filesystem that is offline for one reason or another. You could try "umount -f /mnt/backup" if you can't get the mount working by any other m

Re: [CentOS] user names

2020-06-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/1/20 10:29 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: The problem is the client program trying to talk to the linux server is base64 encoding the entire email address for the AUTH LOGIN, not just the "username". so my user name needs to include the "@" symbol. That's a common requirement for servers that im

Re: [CentOS] Bridge network for virt-manager

2020-06-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/2/20 3:38 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: Hello. I desire to get bridge network working using virt-manager. The easiest way to set up bridged networking on CentOS 7 is:     virsh iface-bridge eth0 br0 --no-stp This command will create a new bridge interface, br0.  The existing interface, eth0, w

Re: [CentOS] Trying to get bride network on CentOS 7 working with virt-manager

2020-06-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/8/20 3:46 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: I have these interfaces listed. virbr0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.122.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.122.255 virbr1: flags=4099 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.100.255 Those int

Re: [CentOS] CentOS runs on six cores.

2020-06-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/12/20 2:16 AM, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: Do we need an upgrade 😊? Can you restate your question so that it's clear what version you are running, what hardware you are running it on, what you expect to happen, and what is happening instead? _

Re: [CentOS] Modifying username

2020-06-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/14/20 1:39 PM, Jay Hart wrote: You may need to modify /etc/shadow for consistency. I don't know what to do here. Need some guidance please. Run "vipw -s" and make the same change to that file's record for ABCLast. ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

Re: [CentOS] Apache (httpd) fails to start at boot - Centos 8.1

2020-06-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/15/20 7:06 PM, Jay Hart wrote: If I do 'systemctl start httpd', apache will start right up. But during boot, it doesn't and I get the resulting errors below. Jun 15 21:17:28 dream httpd[1534]: (99)Cannot assign requested address: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 10.20.30.11:

Re: [CentOS] Centos7 and Vlan

2020-06-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/16/20 1:56 AM, Alfredo De Luca wrote: I have centos7 with 1 network interface and on that IFwe have 2 vlan. From both vlan we'd like to reach the internet independently so basically with 2 different gateways. Look for documentation on "multi-homing": https://blogs.oracle.com/networking/

Re: [CentOS] what's the advantage of NetworkManager for server?

2020-06-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/29/20 1:34 AM, d tbsky wrote: what's the advantage of NetworkManager for server? The shortest clear answer I can give you is: In the event of a power loss, many servers will boot faster than the managed Ethernet switch they are attached to.  Systems managed by network-scripts may not s

Re: [CentOS] pgbouncer.pid Permissions on CentOS 7

2020-08-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 7/31/20 4:40 PM, Bee.Lists wrote: However the service isn’t starting because the ownership of the parent directory, pgbouncer:pgbouncer results in some permissions issues: 2020-07-31 04:58:34.089 EDT [3682] FATAL could not open pidfile '/var/run/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.pid': Permission denie

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/2/20 1:19 PM, John Pierce wrote: One of the things that bugs me about PKI trust chains like this, what happens if the unthinkable happens, and Microsoft's RootCA gets compromised and has to be revoked... does that mean every single piece of UEFI hardware out there needs a BIOS upgrade? Y

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/2/20 4:11 PM, John Pierce wrote: isn't it more that they simply won't work with newer boots that were signed by the new keys? and the updated BIOS's won't boot older OS versions that weren't signed by the new keys? I don't know if the Secure Boot PKI has a publicly documented contingenc

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/3/20 2:21 AM, Jyrki Tikka wrote: The boot disks must have an EFI boot partition even though it's not used in this case. IIRC, they need a partition at the beginning of the drive to reserve space for GRUB2.  That should be a "BIOS boot partition" not an "EFI System partition" for GRUB2.

Re: [CentOS] rsync upgrade

2020-08-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/6/20 8:45 AM, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: C7 is at rsync 3.1.2-10, and will not go above 3.1.2 ever. Is there a reason you think that?  RHEL 7 was originally released with 3.0.9, so we can demonstrate that Red Hat will update not only revision, but minor version increases within

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for KMail V1

2020-08-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/17/20 2:16 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: I am currently limping along using Thunderbird but I find the lack of useful keystroke functions (such as next unread message, next folder with an unread message) annoying https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts 'n' navigates to the n

Re: [CentOS] Boot fails with lvm snapshot

2020-08-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/19/20 1:02 AM, Patrick Bégou wrote: However, if this snapshot exists, reboot of the server freeze at boot time and I must manually remove this snapshot. Why ? It's a bug.  Update dracut. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287940 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15465

Re: [CentOS] Tracking or checking backported kernel patches from upstream

2020-09-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/2/20 8:17 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: You CAN do a diff on the exploded tarball from the SRPM and either the last kernel released (to see what is in this update) .. or the kernel.org reference kernel .. to see what is different from the kernel.org release. You can, but expanding two kernels

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird won't start after move to new box

2020-09-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/10/20 9:08 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: Thunderbird only starts if I run it -safe-mode I'd suggest removing ~/.thunderbird/*.default/extensions/ and reinstalling any extensions you need. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] Server entering Emergency Shell, but continues fine after pressing Enter

2020-09-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/11/20 4:51 PM, Quinn Comendant wrote: Does anyone know what initrd-parse-etc.service does? Or have suggestions how to troubleshoot that unit specifically? Run "systemctl daemon-reload && echo success" and verify that it reports success, and not errors. Check the output of "systemctl s

Re: [CentOS] Server entering Emergency Shell, but continues fine after pressing Enter

2020-09-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/11/20 5:29 PM, Quinn Comendant wrote: Those have always reported success (even before I removed the OnFailure option): In that case, I'd revert the change you made, unlock the root account so that you can use the emergency shell, let the system boot to an emergency shell, and collect th

Re: [CentOS] Server entering Emergency Shell, but continues fine after pressing Enter

2020-09-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/12/20 1:04 PM, Quinn Comendant wrote: I don't see any errors from `systemctl status initrd-parse-etc.service` or `journalctl -b 0` (I've pasted the full output here:https://write.as/at21opjv3o9fin1t.txt) I see errors in the journalctl output.  Look into these: Sep 12 19:41:12 myhost s

Re: [CentOS] Server entering Emergency Shell, but continues fine after pressing Enter

2020-09-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/12/20 1:04 PM, Quinn Comendant wrote: [root@myhost ~] systemctl status initrd-switch-root.service ● initrd-switch-root.service - Switch Root Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: signal) since Sat

Re: [CentOS] erasing a disk

2020-09-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/14/20 1:14 PM, david wrote: I've tried erasing the first megabyte of the disk, but there are ZFS or LVM structures that get in the way.  So, does anyone have an efficient way to erase structures from a disk such that it can be reused? Use "wipefs -a" on any partition (or raw disk) befor

Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/16/20 10:40 AM, Phil Perry wrote: You can achieve this with a hybrid RAID1 by mixing SSDs and HDDs, and marking the HDD members as --write-mostly, meaning most of the reads will come from the faster SSDs retaining much of the speed advantage, but you have the redundancy of both SSDs and HD

Re: [CentOS] Run as root on reboot

2020-10-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/28/20 4:34 PM, david wrote: During initial setup, I'd like to avoid the manual actions of logging on as root and executing a command, but instead have that command run without intervention.  The output of the command would still show up on the terminal that initiated the reboot. Having

Re: [CentOS] (C8) root on mdraid

2020-11-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/15/20 3:32 AM, Łukasz Posadowski wrote: Do anyone can suggest what else I forgot to do? Use metadata version 1.2 instead of 0.9. You need for the filesystem to be not visible until after the RAID is assembled, and the easiest way to do that is to put the metadata at the beginning of t

Re: [CentOS] (C8) root on mdraid

2020-11-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/15/20 10:40 PM, Łukasz Posadowski wrote: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:16:48 -0800 Gordon Messmer : Use metadata version 1.2 instead of 0.9. Thanks, I'll try that. I'm use to metadata 0.9, because GRUB have (had?) some issue with the newer ones. If that doesn't work, and

Re: [CentOS] Learning to build applications

2020-11-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/18/20 4:38 PM, H wrote: I am a beginner when it comes to compiling applications and would appreciate suggestion how to fix the above. Thank you. Looks like a build failure that was mentioned here: https://github.com/pgmodeler/pgmodeler/issues/1259 I believe this reply is relevant: "It'

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Over NFS Home Blocked By Firewalld

2020-11-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/20/20 11:31 AM, Michael B Allen wrote: I can't log into a desktop with an nfs home dir without punching a reverse hole in my firewall? That shouldn't be. I'm pretty sure your client is using NFSv3, and the ports you need opened are for RPC, and they *are* dynamic (so the next time these

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Over NFS Home Blocked By Firewalld

2020-11-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/20/20 1:26 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: Thanks for the inputs but my problem has nothing to do with NFS. Do you think that because you saw "krbupdate" in /etc/services? The problem you've described is definitely an NFSv3 problem.  The connections causing the client to hang are portmap co

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and mdadm

2020-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/1/20 3:48 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: If anyone can explain the exact meaning of --metadata, I'd be grateful. I think the man page is pretty clear on that one.  There are two different versions of the metadata block, and the second one (1.x) can be stored at different locations depending

Re: [CentOS] Setting up NIS on Centos 8

2020-12-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/6/20 8:17 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: The main problem with NIS is that logins and passwords circulate in clear-text over the network. That's not quite it.  Passwords aren't sent over the network at all when a service or system processes a password in a NIS environment.  Under NIS, membe

Re: [CentOS] Setting up NIS on Centos 8

2020-12-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/9/20 6:06 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Okay, say I decide to go with LDAP and NFS.  I'll be needing some hand holding to get it set up. If you don't have a very good reason to do choose something else, then use FreeIPA for your LDAP/Kerberos service.  It's very streamlined. __

[CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
Personally, I think that changing focus on CentOS Stream is going to make CentOS (and maybe even RHEL) better in the same way and for the same reasons that Fedora is a better distribution than Red Hat Linux was. CentOS Stream should fix the biggest problems that CentOS has had in the past, pro

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/10/20 6:28 PM, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote: Allow me to disagree. We both trust Chris Wright's words, don't we? CTO won't lie. Citing him: "To be exact, CentOS Stream is an upstream development platform for ecosystem developers. It will be updated several times a day. So, like F

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/11/20 8:00 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: how could you ask trust and confidence with something like that: I'll repeat what I said earlier, CentOS has never offered the things people are complaining about losing.  They've never asked for your trust and confidence.  Both Red Hat and the CentO

Re: [CentOS] 8-stream dnf overly verbose

2020-12-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/11/20 8:31 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: Also, WOAH. I just noticed that CentOS Stream bugs are to be filed as _actual versions of RHEL 8 and RHEL 9_. That's amazing. I don't usually like to reply when I have nothing to add, but that is *holy cow* level of amazing. ___

Re: [CentOS] question centos stream 8 applying updates

2020-12-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/10/20 2:53 PM, edward via CentOS wrote: after reading some info on centos stream is a  rolling release. i'm wondering applying It's not a "rolling release" in the most commonly used sense. There just isn't a minor number for releases.  CentOS Stream 8 will always be CentOS Stream 8, a

Re: [CentOS] question centos stream 8 applying updates

2020-12-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/11/20 10:19 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: Just one ten-year long release. My mistake: Stream releases are five-year long releases (RHEL's "full" support period). ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/m

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/11/20 9:56 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: And I will repeat that millions of CentOS users found free clone of RHEL trustworthy enough to use it for production, even without "official endorsement". Exactly.  That's why it's so weird that those people, today, think that CentOS Stream won'

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/13/20 2:45 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: When people are happy with something they do not voice their content on the mailing list, mailing list is only to voice your discontent. You heard about "silent majority", right? Ever though why it is called that? So, the majority of users are si

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/13/20 1:32 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 12/13/20 8:56 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/13/20 2:45 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: When people are happy with something they do not voice their content on the mailing list, mailing list is only to voice your discontent. You heard about

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/15/20 7:59 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote: Why would RedHat invest millions more in buying the CentOS process just to have CentOS act as the beta? Indeed. Often, when you can't find a reasonable answer to a question, it is because the premise of the question itself is wrong. __

Re: [CentOS] Status of DLM in CentOS?

2020-12-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/9/20 2:16 AM, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote: I was searching for DLM for my Centos 8. But it seems there are no packages available. The "dlm" kernel module is included in the standard kernel. Locks are configured with the "pcs" package. ___ C

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/17/20 5:54 PM, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote: It's purely a developer's distro. Has Chris Wright ever recommended CentOS for any purpose other than development and testing? Shall I explain difference between a developer's distro and the one suitable for production servers (a

Re: [CentOS] Disk choice for workstation ?

2020-12-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/26/20 12:20 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Any advice from the hardware gurus on this list? I think your request lacks at least one critical consideration: What is the cost of down time? You've got a RAID1 setup now, so I have to assume that you've decided at some point in the past that t

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/3/21 2:51 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: is it still OK to set up EPEL as a repo? Yes.  CentOS Stream is expected to be backward-compatible with RHEL, for the same reason that each RHEL point release is backward-compatible with previous point releases. _

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/3/21 5:34 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Except in cases where packages in a RHEL point release are being rebased. This is something which is happening with a lot more gusto than in any previous releases so there may be points where say a QT or a gnomelib provides in Stream is ahead of EPEL

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/3/21 8:05 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: So how would one use this shiny bit of information?  Is there a way to discover if an EPEL application is going to clobber your system before you install it? As long as the upstream developers observe semantic versioning, dnf would tell whether or not

Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?

2021-01-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/4/21 3:05 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: I would expect broken update paths. Also after EOL of CentOS Linux but not sure if they plan a new "playground" repo: EPEL-NEXT ... see here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/WCFRJJ3JJFTGD6

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/5/21 2:27 PM, Jamie Burchell wrote: We already automatically update our systems with yum-cron / dnf automatic and I'm reading that if we're already doing that, Stream isn't going to be a departure I'd have said the same:  If you trust CentOS enough to update automatically, then Stream wi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/5/21 11:32 AM, Jamie Burchell wrote: is the change a non-issue for my use-case? Probably.  For a lot of users, Stream is a drop-in replacement that's better than CentOS was, because it gets updates consistently and doesn't suffer from periods in which no updates are available, including

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/5/21 3:02 PM, Jamie Burchell wrote: We will need to (manually) migrate to Stream 9.x after 5 years instead of 10 though? Yes.  CentOS Stream has a lifecycle comparable with other LTS distributions. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/5/21 3:39 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: And as someone mentioned, these other distributions have long great record of system upgrade from one release to another. CentOS has no record (and probably no upgrade engineered yet). In that respect CentOS Stream is way behind... In that respect, Ce

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/5/21 6:30 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: I was not comparing CentOS Stream with CentOS (former 10 year life cycle system), I was comparing CentOS Stream with Debian (and clones) LTS. The original message came from a CentOS user who asked "is the change a non-issue for my use-case?" So, I'd

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/5/21 10:47 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: And in the past, things have been known to break. Activate the CR repository, and suddenly libmagick is broken because it hasn't been rebuilt yet against the new version. Are you describing an actual problem, right now, or is that an invented example?

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/5/21 11:31 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: No, this was an actual problem I had back in April 2020. Upgrading from CR broke imagemagick At the time, you described that problem as: I got an alert from Yum-Cron this morning: Failed to check for updates with the following error message: Failed t

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban problems - not banning

2021-01-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/6/21 2:57 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: 2020-12-22 19:38:27,619 fail2ban.utils  [1836]: ERROR 7f119e95f7f0 -- exec: ports="0:65535"; for p in $(echo $ports | tr ", " " "); do firewall-cmd --add-rich-rule="rule family='ipv4' source address='113.110.47.81' port port='$p' protocol='tcp' r

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/6/21 9:20 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Broken packages explained away are still broken packages. I'm not sure how your system got in to a broken state, though. If you have a working system, and one repo updates a package to remove a dependency of a currently working package, those packages

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

2021-01-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/6/21 8:01 PM, Strahil Nikolov via CentOS wrote: - No chance to "yum history undo last" as there are no older packages I've seen that mentioned as a change pretty frequently, but I don't think it is in any meaningful sense. In CentOS Stream, package versions may be rebased periodically,

Re: [CentOS] LTS

2021-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/11/21 10:30 PM, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: CentOS Linux can continue as Fedora LTS or something similar with a five-year life cycle. Yeah, you're describing CentOS Stream.  It's an LTS distribution with a five year support cycle, similar to other LTS distributions.

Re: [CentOS] bnxt_en :: interface renamed with a suffix

2021-01-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/15/21 3:26 AM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: does anyone have any idea what is going on? I disabled anything i could (to have a proper normal nic that do not act and do things behind the OS) Can be more specific about either 1: what you have disabled or 2: what you expect the interface name t

Re: [CentOS] Permission denied when updating CentOS 8 Streams

2021-02-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/19/21 12:37 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: - Curl error (7): Couldn't connect to server for http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream&arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream&infra=stock [Failed to connect to mirrorlist.centos.org port 80: Permission denied] It's unusual to see EPERM on a call to c

Re: [CentOS] bash: return status of an assignment

2021-02-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/27/21 1:32 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: [ -z "$INSMOD" ] && INSMOD=$(which modprobe) || INSMOD=$(which insmod) It seems to set INSMOD to /usr/sbin/insmod, even though /usr/sbin/modprobe is available. (Both are symlinks to ../bin/kmod.)     [ -z "$INSMOD" ] && INSMOD=$(which modprobe) || I

Re: [CentOS] bash: return status of an assignment

2021-02-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/27/21 4:39 PM, Skylar Thompson wrote: You can fix it if you group the assignments together: [ -z "$INSMOD" ] && (INSMOD=$(which modprobe) || INSMOD="$(which insmod)") They do need to be grouped, but if you group them with parentheses, they execute in a subshell, and the assignment is los

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

2021-03-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/1/21 5:57 AM, Simon Matter wrote: Is there anybody running webmail on EL8? Can you make a recommendation on a certain tool? I've had good success with SOGo, and I publish scripts for building the free release as rpm packages: https://github.com/gordonmessmer/build-sogo If you decide t

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

2021-03-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/1/21 4:31 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote: Do those scripts also handle the building of Objective-C, which is needed to build SOGo? I have been toying with this off and on, there's an independent repo somewhere that has the EL8 builds of Obj-C and SOGo, but I haven't had time to get everything set

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

2021-03-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/2/21 5:42 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: You may need to rebuild gcc from different source rpms to get Objective-C in EL-8. The RHEL gcc source rpms did not produce Objective-C rpms or binaries when I looked at it in 2019. That would explain the gcc rpms in the upsteam nightly repo (htt

Re: [CentOS] Tar of files

2021-03-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/3/21 6:53 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: When I "tar" up an archive the files have an owner bob, when I extract that to another machine bob is there also but user number is different. So when I extract bob is no longer the owner of the files but someone else. Is there a good way to account for this

Re: [CentOS] Expand XFS filesystem on CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)

2021-03-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/12/21 4:45 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Is there a way to expand xfs filesystem /dev/nvme0n1p2 which is 7.8G and occupy the remaining free disk space of 60GB? Can you set up an identical EC2 instance to test the process?  I definitely wouldn't do this on a system with data that you need, b

Re: [CentOS] Dual WAN on EL8 desktop.

2021-03-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:30 PM Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > What is ideal is the bandwidth of two connections and half bandwidth > when one link is down. That may not be *generally* possible. You can load-balance your network streams (connections), so that you'll utilize the bandwidth of two

Re: [CentOS] remote disk decryption on centos?

2021-03-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/12/21 1:51 PM, ept8e...@secmail.pro wrote: Hi I was reading about how unlock encrypted root partition from remote (unattended). I'd like asking what is compatible way for this in centos and commonly used by administrators? What's your threat model?  Are you trying to protect the system fr

Re: [CentOS] KVM vs. incremental remote backups

2021-04-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 3/31/21 12:50 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: The problem with using Rsnapshot on the VM's filesystems rather than backing up the whole VM is the time it takes to restore all the mess. All the same, backing up the VM filesystem from within the VM is the best way to back them up using rsnapshot.

Re: [CentOS] "System error" when trying to logon via SSH to CentOS 8 joined to AD

2021-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:10 PM Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote: > I joined a CentOS 8 box to an AD, using the below document as general > guide: How general? Can you describe what you've done that differed from the guide? > When I comment a line in /etc/pam.d/password-auth (the one comme

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-04-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/27/21 6:36 AM, Carlos Oliva wrote: I have heard that Stream is beta releases of RH -- rather distressing. Is this a proper characterization? No, I don't think so.  I think a better characterization would be: Rawhide is a development (beta?) release.  Fedora is a stable release.  CentOS

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