[CentOS] Using gpg to encrypt a URL line on CentOS 6.

2015-07-10 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a way to use GPG to encrypt a URL line with parameters ? I was looking at libmcrypt also but it is not part of CentOS. I have found examples for mcrypt but not for gpg. Thoughts? Thanks. jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:/

Re: [CentOS] Using gpg to encrypt a URL line on CentOS 6 additional information

2015-07-11 Thread Jerry Geis
>+1. also, it'd probably be good to state what you're trying to accomplish >rather >than if you can throw a technology at vague something or another. I think >you'd >find gpg's password input cumbersome for symmetric keys, the output too long >in ascii >armor and possibly annoying to deal wi

[CentOS] Installing from USB

2015-07-12 Thread Jerry Geis
I found this http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey So for centos 7 if did the dd command seemed to work great. I did the install. So now I'd like to "modify" the USB key to add a boot menu option with my customer install options. I mounted /dev/sdb2 and edited the file /mnt/usb/EFI/BOOT

[CentOS] sed question

2015-08-25 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to use sed to change a value in a pipe. --- This is the two line script CHANGE="1234" cat my_file.txt | sed 's/CANCELID/$CHANGE/' > cancel.txt --- and the my_file.txt has: CANCELID it gets changed to $CHANGE instead of the actual value 1234 .

[CentOS] virt-manager with dhcpd running on same machine

2015-08-27 Thread Jerry Geis
If I have dhcpd running on my machine, and I wish to run virt-manager on the same machine How do I do that - its telling me an error for starting the network and the error is that DHCPD is already running - port in use. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mail

[CentOS] CentOS 7 and gstreamer1 rtsp-server

2015-09-04 Thread Jerry Geis
I am playing with gstreamer on CentOS 7.1 . All the packages are there except gst-rtsp-server OK - So I went to look for it to compile it. Found a version that was NOT 1.0.7 and my compile stopped because it said the versions are not the same OK so went back to look for 1.0.7 and its not

[CentOS] Question maybe off topic

2015-09-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there something in CentOS/linux that would take a single input in my case RS232 port and deliver that to two connecting network ports? So two devices can get the single port data. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists

[CentOS] sendmail config finding wrong relay

2015-09-30 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I set my sendmail.mc file to have a SMART_HOST entry of mail.xyz.com I do "make" and "service sendmail restart" ... I should be good, but no. :) If I do "host mail.xyz.com" I get the correct address and if I "telnet mail.xyz.com 25" I get a connection. however when I do a test mail - its

Re: [CentOS] sendmail config finding wrong relay

2015-09-30 Thread Jerry Geis
>By which you mean that sendmail.cf contains the line: >DSrelay:mail.xyz.com ? Yes that is correct. >SMART_HOST will relay mail to destinations for which it doesn't have explicit routing information. > Do you also have a mailertable defined which might include the recipient domain, for example?

[CentOS] ssmtp config for gmail

2015-10-07 Thread Jerry Geis
I have tried to setup ssmtp to relay through gmail. root=my gmail address AuthUser=my gmail address AuthPass=my password FromLineOverride=YES mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587 UseSTARTTLS=YES TLS_CA_FILE=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt I get this error: Authorization failed (534 5.7.14 https://support

Re: [CentOS] ssmtp config for gmail

2015-10-07 Thread Jerry Geis
>I believe that your issue is the fourth bullet point in on the >support page they link to: > > -- Your mail app might not support the latest security > standards. Learn how to allow less secure apps access > to your account. > > >If you aren't using OAuth 2.0 (which you aren't in your cont

[CentOS] X and NUC5i3ryk on 7.2

2016-01-11 Thread Jerry Geis
I just received my NUC5i3 and tried to get X working using 7.2, it has Intel HD 5500 graphics. Not so much... lspci | grep VGA provides 0:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09) I download this package xf86-video-intel-1-2.99.917+519+g8229390-1-

[CentOS] Slow to reboot

2016-01-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I have CentOS 7.2 installed and when I issue a reboot I get a message about "A stop job is running" and its my process I start with a service file. My service file just runs a script. Type=forking ExecStart=/path/to/myscript What do I add so the reboot process goes faster ? My process does not

[CentOS] Looking for uvch264src in gstreamer-1.0 plugins bad free

2016-01-18 Thread Jerry Geis
I am using CentOS 7.2 and looking for the uvch264src element in gstreamer. It is supposed to be in the plugins - bad -free which I have installed. gst-inspect-1.0 does not show it. How can I get this element? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

[CentOS] Intel Xorg driver for Intel HD graphics

2016-01-24 Thread Jerry Geis
I found this page: https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2015q4-intel-graphics-stack-release I have an Intel NUC5C with "Intel HD" graphics and I'm trying to use CentOS 7.2 I downloaded the files suggested: cairo-1.14.4.tar.xz libva-1.6.2.tar.bz2 mesa-11.0.4.tar.xz intel-gpu-tools-1.1

Re: [CentOS] Intel Xorg driver for Intel HD graphics

2016-01-24 Thread Jerry Geis
> i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 Adding this to the boot - does not make it work on straight 7.2 I saw information about this - but it is mentioned on the page I included that this was no longer needed with the files listed in the link. The kernel 4.4 installs and runs fine on the NUC5C. Its the

[CentOS] Dual boot C7 with Window 10

2016-04-19 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a laptop with windows 10. I went into the Windows disk manager and shrunk the volume to make room for C7. That worked. I also changed the BIOS from secure boot to "both" (secure/legacy) I installed C7, went fine. About the time it was done I realized I never saw anything about "other" boot

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot C7 with Window 10

2016-04-19 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks... I added the "insmod ntfs" re-ran config no boot... I change the hd1 to hd3 re-ran config no boot... This is what my partition table looks like. # Start EndSize TypeName 1 2048 534527260M EFI System EFI system partition 2

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot C7 with Window 10

2016-04-19 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, Partition 5 is what the linux partitioning add... Partition 6 is LINUX - Why it shows up as Microsoft Basic I dont know. Partition 7 is the normal swap I have tried booting partition 1 and it says. "an operating system wasnt found." When booting partion 3 I get a screen "WINDOWS BOOT MAN

[CentOS] CentOS 7 and 4K display

2016-05-05 Thread Jerry Geis
I installed C7 along with MATE desktop... My monitor is a 4K unit but when I goto the System -> preferences -> hardware -> Displays there is selection for the 4K display. It stops at 1920x1080. The var log x file shows the 4K resolutions in the file so that is good. How do I get the selections f

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and 4K display

2016-05-06 Thread Jerry Geis
| What is your graphics card model? NVIDIA Corporation GK208 [GeForce GT 720] This does 4K | Which driver are you using? I am using the NOUVEAU at this time | What connector are you using (DVI, Display Port, HDMI)? HDMI | Does it work at 4k with Gnome, or KDE? Yes has worked under Gnome The /va

[CentOS] kvm to virtualbox

2012-11-08 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a KVM (qemu-img raw) that I have attempted to convert to VirtualBox. I did the convertfromraw to convert to vdi. I was hoping it would be that simple but, no. When I try to boot the image, it does not boot. Is there something "extra" I need to do - or something different? Thanks, Jerry

[CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-07 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there something that "automatically" removes files in the /tmp directory on a scheduled basis? Perhaps like at the start of the month or something. I am on CentOS 6? I had a number of files stored there and they are just gone. Very odd. Jerry ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-07 Thread Jerry Geis
> /tmp is generally cleared out on reboot. I checked that and the couple machines had been up for 16 days and 23 days. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-08 Thread Jerry Geis
On 12/08/2012 06:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 07.12.2012 19:55, schrieb Jerry Geis: >> Is there something that "automatically" removes files in the /tmp >> directory on a scheduled basis? Perhaps like at the start of the month >> or something. > yes,

[CentOS] Quesstion on "remote password for maintenance"

2013-01-11 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a remote "centos 5" box that has no errors on screen, has nothing saying anything is wrong, however at boot it says "give remote password for maintenance". I had my remote person login and issue "e2fsck -y /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3" for my two partitions and reboot and it comes back with the

[CentOS] the at command

2013-01-21 Thread Jerry Geis
I was trying to use the 'at' command. Does it not have "resolution" to the second? When I run it with 'at -f /tmp/tt.sh "01/21/2013 15:20:45" syntax error. Last token seen: 15:20 Garbled time How do I run a command in the future including "seconds". Thanks, Jerry __

Re: [CentOS] the at command

2013-01-21 Thread Jerry Geis
> @Jerry: > You might explain what it is you are attempting to do or why it is you need > to schedule a job down to the second. I am looking for a way to "sync" up running a command on 10 boxes at the same time. So I thought - hey in my program "I can send a command out that I want to run - this

Re: [CentOS] the at command

2013-01-21 Thread Jerry Geis
> > Why do you think you need to do that and make sure they run at exactly > the same second? It seems like instead it would be better to make your > command more robust to small deviations in the time at which they are > run. > keith - Thanks for your reply. I do need to run the commands at exac

[CentOS] lokkit and multicast

2013-01-24 Thread Jerry Geis
I use lokkit to set my firewall. on 5.X seems the default is to allow multicast through. on 6.3 seems the default is to block multicast what can I use on the command line for lokkit to enable port 6550 for multicast? Thanks, jerry ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] lokkit and multicast

2013-01-25 Thread Jerry Geis
I am adding a line like: iptables -I INPUT -p udp -m state --state NEW -m multiport --dports 6550 -j ACCEPT to /etc/sysconfig/iptables before the REJECT line... to allow my multicast port 6550 traffic. I then restart iptables and it is still not passing through. If I stop iptables it works. A

Re: [CentOS] lokkit and multicast

2013-01-25 Thread Jerry Geis
OKay I did not find a way to enable multicast on the lokkit command line, however, this did work below. The big issue that it did not work the first time was the module was not loaded. modprobe xt_pkttype iptables -I INPUT -m pkttype --pkt-type multicast -j ACCEPT jerry

[CentOS] motherboard for cents 6.3

2013-02-14 Thread Jerry Geis
Seems like overnight every motherboard that worked with linux has DROPPED off the face of the earth. Every motherboard I looked at is using the realtek 8111 chipset and a northbridge that is not supported. Example: GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3, does not work with linux I tried disabling the onboard NIC

[CentOS] question after updating to 6.4

2013-03-11 Thread Jerry Geis
My video driver for AMD HD 4200 did not work after upgrading. I tried to fix it with 13.1 legacy drivers but that did not work I then just grapped a AMD HD 5200 video card and put on AMD 13.1 "regular" and that worked. however, After updating x86_64 to 6.4 and when I compile my project I get thi

[CentOS] vnc refresh issues after update to 6.4

2013-03-13 Thread Jerry Geis
After updating to 6.4 (x86_64) when using VNC into my machine VNCviewer to vino-server does not always refresh the screen correctly. Any ideas on that ? Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Dell R320 server

2013-05-23 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a way on Dell R320 (two power supplies and hardware RAID-1) on centos to get a message that a power supply is failing or that one of the hardware RAID disks is failing? Sure there is the front panel - but no-one is there ... Is that reported to linux/centos some way? This is my first R3

Re: [CentOS] Dell R320 server

2013-05-24 Thread Jerry Geis
> > > You can use IPMI if the machine has it. That way you get a consistent method > to get many errors from the machine. > > - James - I did the following... yum install ipmitool modprobe ipmi_devintf ipmitool chassis status and I got this below. System Power : on Power Overload

Re: [CentOS] Dell R320 server

2013-05-24 Thread Jerry Geis
On 05/24/2013 08:44 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> >> >> You can use IPMI if the machine has it. That way you get a >> consistent method to get many errors from the machine. >> >> - > James - I did the following... > > yum install ipmitool > modprobe

[CentOS] how can I use Gstreamer 1.0 on CentOS 6

2013-07-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Gstreamer depends on later glib and gtk that CentOS 6 does not have. Suggestions? Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] X11partioning

2013-09-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, I am searching for a way in X11 to "partition" or "divide" the screen. For example the physical size of the screen may be 1920x1080 but what if I want 3 sections like A B C where A is treated as a screen or division by itself, then B and C the same way. Some subset of the scre

[CentOS] RH developer toolset

2013-09-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I saw an article this morning about the RH developer toolset. basically it includes a couple of packages like PHP python mysql (etc) that are later packages than that included in the released version like a 6.4 for example. So instead of php 5.3 with patches it would be php 5.4 and so on. That is

[CentOS] dwm

2013-09-17 Thread Jerry Geis
I downloaded dwm and installed - all is fine. The manual says Once installed, add to your $HOME/.xinitrc exec dwm and it should start when you run startx. I did that - if I run startx this works... however - if I am running X from /etc/inittab how do I start up dwm ? Thanks, Jerry ___

[CentOS] Clutter-gtk 1.4.4

2013-11-01 Thread Jerry Geis
I have need to compile (from source) clutter-1.16.0 (seems to be fine) and then clutter-gtk 1.4.4 on centos 6.4 (x86-64) I am getting this error: ake[2]: Entering directory `/home/silentm/MessageNet/totem/clutter-gtk-1.4.4/clutter-gtk' CC gtk-clutter-actor.lo CC gtk-clutter-embed.

[CentOS] Question on list of packages on centos 7

2013-11-27 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a way to get a list of packages AND version of that package in centos/redhat 7? Perhaps from one a beta of 7 or something? I searched for "list of packages in redhat 7" and I can get a list but the list did not have any version information just the package name and description. Not off t

[CentOS] migrate ext3 to ext4

2014-01-22 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I issued the commands on a single disk system: with two partitions / is linux sda1 and /home is sda3 yum -y update yum -y install e4fsprogs reboot umount /home tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/sda3 e2fsck -yfDC0 /dev/sda3 That worked just fine. I then had a diff

[CentOS] Question on iptables

2014-01-27 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a rule in iptables to drop certain packets from addresses, like: iptables --list | grep 37 DROP all -- 37.0.0.0/8 anywhere So I am wondering how this got through??? [Jan 27 02:36:52] NOTICE[9298][C-05ce] chan_sip.c: Call from '' ( 37.8.28.217:10024) to extension '888

[CentOS] UEFI booting

2014-02-05 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, I received a Intel Nuc D34010WYK. nice and small. I installed 6.5 x86_64 on it in LEGACY boot mode on the mSATA disk. All worked except sound. In process of trying to get that working I saw posts about Need to not use LEGACY boot mode for HDMI sound to work. I am trying to find a documen

[CentOS] bridge network question

2014-02-19 Thread Jerry Geis
I have centos 64 6.5 I installed bridge-utils I installed tunctl I added BRIDGE=br0 to ifcfg-eth0 I created ifcfg-br0 with correct settings I did service network restart and I get an error about br0 not present. When I plug in the second network (USB to ethernet) It detects as eth1 What do I n

[CentOS] ethernet bridge setup

2014-03-17 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a USB to ethernet device connected to CentOS 6.5 on my laptop. I setup ifcfg-eth0 and added BRIDGE=br0 on eth0 did service network restart, all came up. "seems" to be working. However when I plug an ethernet device into the USB port that is wanting DHCP it is not getting an address. Is

[CentOS] su command

2014-05-08 Thread Jerry Geis
I am running pulseaudio on centOS 6.5 audio works fine as the user. running the command aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav works fine. when I login as root and run the command su user -c "aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" it does not work. I thought su actually runs as tha

[CentOS] Firewall question

2014-06-26 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a firewall rule to drop packets from certain addresses: (email spam) my /etc/sysconfig/iptables begins as: # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.7 on Thu Jun 26 09:11:09 2014 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [1:148] -A INPUT -m pkttype --pkt-type multicast -j ACC

Re: [CentOS] Firewall question

2014-06-26 Thread Jerry Geis
yes I am seeing it hit. iptables --list -n -v | grep 198.101 8 416 DROP all -- * * 198.101.11.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Firewall question

2014-06-26 Thread Jerry Geis
Actually I think I was wrong... Somehow the mail is landing on my box (from an address I am not blocking) and this particular email is requesting going OUT of my box. Seems the firewall operating fine. I just looked at it incorrectly. Jerry ___ CentOS ma

[CentOS] Questoin on iptables

2014-07-14 Thread Jerry Geis
I am getting this error... Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. iptables v1.4.7: Couldn't load target `Spamhaus':/lib64/xtables/libipt_Spamhaus.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file yum provides says not found also. CentOS 6.5 x86_64 Thoughts? Thanks, Jerry _

Re: [CentOS] Questoin on iptables

2014-07-14 Thread Jerry Geis
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 14.07.2014 23:00, schrieb Jerry Geis: > > I am getting this error... > > > > Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. > > iptables v1.4.7: Couldn't load ta

[CentOS] centos 7 and biosdevname=0

2014-07-24 Thread Jerry Geis
I tried adding biosdevname=0 when installing CentOS 7 witht the Everthing USB stick (nice) but the names are eth0 its something like enp3s0... Is there not a way to use the old names any more? Thanks, jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

[CentOS] /etc/init.d CentOS 7

2014-09-25 Thread Jerry Geis
There is a README file on CentOS 7 in /etc/init.d that says Note that traditional init scripts continue to function on a systemd system. An init script /etc/rc.d/init.d/foobar is implicitly mapped into a service unit foobar.service during system initilization So I dropped my file in the above dir

Re: [CentOS] /etc/init.d CentOS 7

2014-09-25 Thread Jerry Geis
>is your init.d script chmod +x ? >just putting something in init.d isn't sufficient, it has to be linked >in rc?.d as a S##name ... which chkconfig on (or systemctl) are >supposed to do Yes the script is executable... forgot to mention that. >From the comment in the README file, I thought th

[CentOS] systemd startup on centos 7

2014-09-26 Thread Jerry Geis
Ok I created my script this morning [Unit] Description=Connections After=network.target [Service] Type=notify ExecStart=/home/silentm/bin/mystart [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target I put it in the correct directory, I rebooted and I see that my mystart script runs- programs start up but then

[CentOS] gconftool-2 for 7

2014-09-30 Thread Jerry Geis
on 6 the command: gconftool-2 -t bool --list-type bool --set /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver/start_screensaver false would stop the screen saver. What is it on 7. The above seems to do nothing. Also The gnome-panel process was running in 6 - it does not seem to be run in 7. How do I hid

[CentOS] CentOS 7 turn off power saving by command line

2014-09-30 Thread Jerry Geis
In CentOS 6 gconftool-2 (command line) is used to enable/disable items. In CentOS 7 I found "settings->power-> blank screen" as something I wish to configure by the command line? How is that accomplished? I brought up gconf-editor and searched for power and blank and found nothing. How can I co

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 turn off power saving by command line

2014-09-30 Thread Jerry Geis
>Hi, >I think you need dconf for this. >.HTH Ok I installed dconf-editor, ran it searched for many things trying to find the "blank screen", power or anything and did not find it. Thoughts? Jerry On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > In CentOS 6 gco

[CentOS] slammed

2014-10-02 Thread Jerry Geis
I just got SLAMMED with accessed to httpd from 91.230.121.156 I added the address to my firewall to drop it. FYI host 91.230.121.156 156.121.230.91.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer no-rdns.offshorededicated.net. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

Re: [CentOS] slammed

2014-10-02 Thread Jerry Geis
> Are you running Wordpress? > My company's Wordpress installation was getting hammered by an IP in the > same netblock, yesterday...look in your httpd logs for repeated POST > operations to xmlrpc.php. > yes that is it. Jerry On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jerry Geis

[CentOS] en01 network

2014-10-04 Thread Jerry Geis
I have installed CentOS 7. I added "biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0" at install time. I still have a network name of en01 and not eth0. How do I get eth0 when viewing ifconfig? dmesg | grep eth0 show its being detected, and being renamed. systemd-udev renaming eth0 to en01... I then looked in /etc/

[CentOS] CentOS 7 remove items on screen

2014-10-06 Thread Jerry Geis
How can I remove the four items on screen? Applications, Places home trash from the command line? I'd prefer to remove the top panel and bottom panel all together if possible, but they can stay - I just don't want anything showing on the screen. searched all around for kiosk mode gnome3 etc.. no

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 remove items on screen

2014-10-07 Thread Jerry Geis
" and "Places" in the top menu bar? or remove the menu bar all together. Or at minimal - if you click on them - no further menus are given. Thanks, Jerry On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > How can I remove the four items on screen? > Applications, >

[CentOS] removing menus

2014-10-09 Thread Jerry Geis
I am attempting to get no menus on the desktop... for CentOS 7. I did: rpm -e --nodeps gnome-shell-extension-apps-menu rpm -e --nodeps gnome-shell-extension-places-menu But now I get an "Activities" menu at the top... instead. Any idea how to remove that package... I cant find what it is called.

[CentOS] httpd on centos 7

2014-10-23 Thread Jerry Geis
I have read the info on apache 2.4... I added to the bottom of httpd.conf these lines (and restarted httpd) - # old 2.2 config # Order Allow,Deny # Allow from all AllowOverride None Require all granted AllowOverride None Require all granted SuexecUsergroup silentm si

Re: [CentOS] httpd on centos 7

2014-10-23 Thread Jerry Geis
isabled. with SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config It is a users home... I did have permissions set drwxr-xr-x. 34 silentm silentm 4096 Oct 22 21:27 silentm drwxr-xr-x. 22 silentm silentm 8192 Oct 20 08:40 public_html drwxr-xr-x. 3 silentm silentm28672 Oct 17 10:52 gifs

Re: [CentOS] httpd on centos 7

2014-10-23 Thread Jerry Geis
I stumbled into it based on Johnny's reply... Got me thinking that there must be a new control for "per user" directories. And there is conf.d/userdir.conf had per user disabled. Thanks Johnny. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

[CentOS] Gnome 3 on centos 7

2014-10-23 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all - almost have my migration to Centos 7 done... My last piece is finding a way to keep menus away from users on Gnome 3. gsettings took me pretty far, to remap gconf-tool to gsettings. I also removed two packages gnome-shell-extension-places-menu gnome-shell-extension-app-menu This remov

Re: [CentOS] Gnome 3 on centos 7

2014-10-23 Thread Jerry Geis
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:50 PM, wrote: > Note that I still can't post to the list.... > > Jerry Geis wrote: > > Hi all - almost have my migration to Centos 7 done... > > > > My last piece is finding a way to keep menus away from users on Gnome 3. > > >

[CentOS] setting background on the command line

2014-10-24 Thread Jerry Geis
I have centos 7 I am using: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri file:///usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/Wood.jpg to set the background from the command line... dconf-editor shows the command worked. But the picture is not updated??? How do I get the desktop to re-draw? Thanks,

[CentOS] dmesg error

2014-11-03 Thread Jerry Geis
I am seeing this in dmesg on Dell Poweredge 860 INFO: task tail:17872 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. tail D 81021ac87040 0 17872 31199 (NOTLB) 810124fc7bd8 0082 81021c8ad200 81

[CentOS] Upgrade 6 to 7

2017-06-01 Thread Jerry Geis
I found this site https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CentOSUpgradeTool Is this still the case - there is no upgrade path from 6 to 7 ? I have a few remote servers I'd like to upgrade (if possible). Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cento

[CentOS] Crazy thought about upgrading to new major release

2017-06-06 Thread Jerry Geis
I have older systems out there that work fine, just for what ever reason would be great to upgrade from a C5 -> C7 (due to no longer supported) or C6 > C7 (for updated packages). Sounds like the upgrade tool is not quite an option... I was thinking... What would be wrong with any "easy" script th

[CentOS] Updating to CentOS 7.3

2017-06-19 Thread Jerry Geis
I have remote systems that need updating. C5 and C6 systems. Is there a "method" that is out there that you can load an ISO of 7.3 on a different partition (other than root) tell the boot up process that the ISO is there, do a clean install, install everything, auto reboot, and now C7 is installed

[CentOS] CentOS 7.3 and e1000e

2017-07-07 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - I have a box running the above. Power was lost long enough that UPS did not work. When power came back on the C7 box boots way faster than the switch and resulted in no network. power cycling the C7 box resulted in network. This even happened a second time. The only way to get the box ba

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.3 and e1000e

2017-07-08 Thread Jerry Geis
>Do you use NetworkManager or the network sysv service? I use the sysv service Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Custom kickstart post section on usb thumbdrive

2017-08-14 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, I am attempting to create a custom USB drive for kickstart install. I found this: 1. get the ISO file of CentOS 7 2. mount -o loop CentOS-7.0*.iso /mnt/ 3. mkdir -p /CentOS-7-ISO-respin/{CentOS-7-unpacked,CentOS-7-iso} 4. rsyn

[CentOS] Centos 7 Install

2017-08-17 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a Centos 7 install that seems to be filling up disk space to 100% on the root partition. in /tmp I found files of names... systemd-private--colord and rtkit I have never seen these files before. there were also files of X.tmpin the /tmp folder. Why are these files

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Install

2017-08-17 Thread Jerry Geis
, Jerry Geis wrote: > I have a Centos 7 install that seems to be filling up disk space to 100% > on the root partition. > > in /tmp I found files of names... > systemd-private--colord and rtkit > I have never seen these files before. > > there were also files of XXX

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Install

2017-08-17 Thread Jerry Geis
er time it fills the / root partition. What is making those files ? How do I stop it? jerry On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > This is a listing. > > total 44 > drwx-- 2 rootroot 6 Aug 17 15:36 lu26465gujqup.tmp > drwx-- 2 rootroot8192 A

[CentOS] intel wireless 3165 and CentOS 7.3

2017-09-08 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to get wireless working on CentOS 7.3 with intel wireless 3165 ip link 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT qlen 1000 link/ether b8:ae:ed:77:b3:

[CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I am attempting to update to 7.4 using the DVD I get these errors(truncated list) Error: Package: libgpod-0.8.3-14.el7.x86_64 (@epel) Requires: libusbmuxd.so.2()(64bit) Removing: usbmuxd-1.0.8-11.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda) libusbmuxd.so.2()(64bit) Obsole

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I continued to play to get this running. I am close. When X comes up and I click on the user to login - It appears X restarts. I do see a message that gdm was killed by SIGTRAP in the logs. I may just have something not installed at this point. I had to "yum remove" a couple things to allow the up

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I am running the propriatry NVIDIA driver 384.69 for GT 720 support. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I have recompiled the NVIDIA binary driver. So graphics comes up - just when I click on the user - it restarts. Jerry On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am running the propriatry NVIDIA driver 384.69 for GT 720 support. > &

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Jerry Geis
if I do "init 3" to exit graphics. then run startx - it does not start - but the only message (no errors) is Server terminated successfully. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-14 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi Johnny Thanks for the commands I think something was messed up as the yum group install "Gnome Desktop" seems to do the trick. I had all the other items setup, for disable nouveu and all that.for the binary NVIDIA. Anyway - my desktop is back up and running, thanks. Jerry

[CentOS] vmware player 12.5.7 with CentOS 7.4

2017-09-14 Thread Jerry Geis
hi all - anyone find a way to get vmware player 12.5.7 working with 7.4? Thanks - everything good with the upgrade except that. Great job CentOS team! Jerry starting vmplayer I get the following: Note: adwaita is installed. canberra is installed No idea what pk is ? vmplayer (vmware-modconfi

[CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-19 Thread Jerry Geis
I was doing an update to 7.4 and somewhere in middle the machine died. If I drop back to a previous kernel the machine is alive. So how do I say "forget the previous yum update" and start all over and do it again. Booting into the new kernel I get a kernel fault. So going back one level on teh bo

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-20 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks all for the thoughts. I have no issues with 7.4 - this was clearly "freek" accident while updating, either internet connection closed on me or something. I brought the unit back here, I tried a few of the suggestions - wasn't really working for me. So I just re-installed 7.4 and all was fine

[CentOS] webkit on CentOS 7.4

2017-09-22 Thread Jerry Geis
Hello is the webkit with CentOS 7.4 compiled with ENABLE_MEDIASOURCE ? When I call the set_media_source function with TRUE and then ask get_media_source function for the value it returns TRUE. I presume it would no return TRUE if its not enabled. However, my webpage with a video tag using webkit

Re: [CentOS] webkit on CentOS 7.4

2017-09-22 Thread Jerry Geis
hi Johhny thanks - I am using the second link webkitgtk4. I could not find anything mediasource or media_source in the build log. Is that an "oversite" in the upstream? Can it be enabled for all and rebuilt and posted? (I'd rather not compile webkit). Thanks, Jerry _

[CentOS] vmplayer for linux 12.5.7 on CentOS 7.4

2017-09-23 Thread Jerry Geis
So after the update to CentOS 7.4 vmplayer 12.5.7 is no longer working. I can't believe after all the time that RHEL 7.4 has been released and VMware has not fixed the issue and made a new release. What is everyone doing that used the vmplayer on linux? Thanks, Jerry ___

Re: [CentOS] vmplayer for linux 12.5.7 on CentOS 7.4 (Jerry Geis)

2017-09-24 Thread Jerry Geis
Perfect. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] VNC into CentOS 7.4

2017-09-25 Thread Jerry Geis
When I VNC into 7.4 everything is fine until I run vmplayer (VMware). The vmplayer runs but when I type on the console for vmplayer which is also running a centos image I get multiple key presses - sometimes. Its not everytime - but enough to be annoying. How do I take care of that ? Jerry __

[CentOS] compile webkit

2017-09-30 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to compile webkitgtk I downloaded the webkit source, extracted CMake Error at Source/cmake/OptionsGTK.cmake:12 (message): GCC 4.9.0 is required to build WebKitGTK+, use a newer GCC version or clang I downloaded 2.14.7 - just like CentOS 7.4 has, how can I be getting a GCC error ?

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