Re: [CentOS] resetting a serial port

2023-12-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 08:45:31PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have Centos 7 arm32 running on a Cubieboard and I am logged in as root on its serial uart from another system. On that system I use screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 Well it was working well for a couple days, but now only garbage co

Re: [CentOS] Ailing MATE desktop

2020-05-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 05:24:13AM -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 08:18 +0200, Simon Matter wrote: > > > On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 10:26 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS > > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 19:25 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via > >

Re: [CentOS] Ailing MATE desktop [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:08:54PM -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 16:12 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 05:24:13AM -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via > > CentOS wrote: > > > > > If you look at the listi

Re: [CentOS] Postfix restrictions

2020-06-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 05:53:28AM -0700, John Pierce wrote: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 2:47 AM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > > > > My aim is simply to eliminate as much spam as possible (that is, before > > adding > > SpamAssassin) while keeping false positives to a minimum. > > > > The one thing

Re: [CentOS] firewall questions

2020-06-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 02:33:18PM -0500, Chuck Campbell wrote: > I'm running Centos 7.8.2003, with firewalld. > > I was getting huge numbers of ssh attempts per day from a few specific ip > blocks. > > The offenders are 45.0.0.0/24, 49.0.0.0/24, 51.0.0.0/24, 111.0.0.0/24 and > 118.0.0.0/24, and

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 10:20:28PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: ... > > The issue seems to be with the shim package (not the grub or kernel > packages) and we are currently working with Red Hat on a fix. This > issue happened in many Linux OSes and even Windows, not just RHEL and > CentOS. > > We

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 07:16:25AM -0700, david wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > You just need to reinstall the kernel and it should work. > > > > Sorry for being so ignorant, but I don't understand "just reinstall the > kernel". I don't know how to translate that into a specific yum or rpm > c

Re: [CentOS] crontab query

2020-11-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:35:48AM -0600, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. wrote: > I need to schedule a process/program every hour on the hour between 9am and > 4pm on the 2nd through the 9th of each month except on Saturday and Sunday.  > So, I tried this entry: > > 0 9-16 2-9 * 1-5 ./myprog.sh > > Unfor

Re: [CentOS] crontab query

2020-11-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 03:59:09PM +0100, Ralf Prengel wrote: > Hallo, > doesn t it make more sense to start the script every hour and check all > conditions in the script? > Ralf > > Von meinem iPad gesendet I prefer to develop the script standalone. The date/time restriction can be added in

[CentOS] firewall-cmd - bug or bad design

2020-12-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
In my firewall I use an ipset as a geographical blacklist. A single addresses can be entered into the blacklist using CIDR notation or not, i.e. 111.222.111.222/32 OR 111.222.111.222 while a block of IP addresses can be entered using CIDR notation: 111.222.111.0/24 Both the ipset and

Re: [CentOS] units command, crazy output

2020-12-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 06:20:28PM -0500, Fred wrote: > whenever I use the units command from a script, e.g.: > > elapsed=86500 > echo elapsed time: `units "$elapsed sec" hms` > elapsed time: *Currency exchange rates from 2012-10-24* 24 hr + 1 min + 40 > sec > > the man page even says it outputs

Re: [CentOS] How to reset the USB subsystem?

2021-01-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:18:10PM -0500, Fred wrote: from a non-expert (me): possibly figure out what happens when the device is plugged/unplugged and doing that by hand. if you can find the udev file(s) that manage the port(s) that get hung you may be able to figure out what those steps would

Re: [CentOS] e2fsck but says mounted and cannot

2021-02-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 02:02:38PM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: I have a system that needs to run e2fsck (C7). I boot into rescue mode, skip to shell (option 3). enter they PW and I type: e2fsck -y /dev/sda1 and it says is mounted. This is "/" What do I do so I can run e2fsck ? A good first step

Re: [CentOS] qemu-kvm images of old Windows XP SP3

2021-03-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 10:03:54AM -0500, David McGuffey wrote: I have a Nikon slide scanner (very high quality) for which the software has not been updated. It last ran on WinXP SP3 and I was not able to get it to run under Win 7 and certainly not Win 10. Anyone know where I can obtain images o

Re: [CentOS] Automatic clean /tmp folder

2021-04-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 01:09:57PM +, Gestió Servidors wrote: With these files I supposed that a file with more than 10 days in /tmp would be automatically deleted, but today I have found some files/folders with more than 10 days. What I have done wrong? The test is on access time, not mod

Re: [CentOS] Missing /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64.conf

2021-04-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 09:32:35AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: I'm yum updating some CentOS 7 systems today and got this error. Two systems (so far) seem to have rebooted fine. Should I worry? error: file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64.conf: No such file or directory S

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 8.4 .2105 Problems

2021-06-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 04:32:30PM +1200, Alan McRae via CentOS wrote: I noticed in journalctl that gnome-shell was core dumping. yum reinstall gnome-shell fixed my displays problem. So I am back to my first premise that the 'yum update' did not complete properly for some reason. Is there an

[CentOS] external USB drives, strange result on reawaking

2021-09-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
My backup system (using amanda) stores its data on external drives in a single 4 bay USB enclosure. As these drives are only needed during backup or recovery operations I have used hdparm to enable them go to an idle state after a period of inactivity. If I attempt to access any of the data when

[CentOS] grepmail

2021-10-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On my Fedora box I occasionally use grepmail. Recently I went to use it on my CentOS 7 mail server and found I had not installed it. Surprisingly (to me) I did not find it in the repositories. Grepmail is a perl script and uses several perl modules. I copied the executable from the Fedora box an

[CentOS] something is hammering non-existant floppy

2021-12-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On my CentOS7 system, I'm getting message sequences in /var/log/message and in the journal that are nearly identical to the sequence below. They come in multiple times per second. I've deleted the timestamps and system name from the messages. kernel: floppy0: Getstatus times out (0) on fdc 0 ke

Re: [CentOS] something is hammering non-existant floppy

2021-12-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 07:45:03AM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Dec 11, 2021, at 23:19, Jon LaBadie wrote: On my CentOS7 system, I'm getting message sequences in /var/log/message and in the journal that are nearly identical to the sequence below. They come in multiple times per s

Re: [CentOS] something is hammering non-existant floppy

2021-12-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 09:32:58AM -0600, Jon Pruente wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:05 AM Jon LaBadie wrote: On my two Fedora systems I get "autofs.service not found". Perhaps it is masked there. Are they the same hardware or vms running on the same hypervisor? Where/how is t

[CentOS] HP Microserver Gen 10+ video RHEL8

2022-01-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
I'm considering using an HP Proliant Microserver Gen 10+ with a Xeon processor. With the lower level Pentium processor, the CPU and chipset include Intel 610 graphics. But I can not find any info on any builtin video capability of the Xeon provisioned models. Has anyone used these models with S

Re: [CentOS] Assitance with perl

2022-02-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 08:54:38PM -0500, H wrote: I am writing a long bash script under CentOS 7 where perl is used for manipulating some external files. So far I am using perl one-liners to do so but ran into a problem when I need to append text to an external file. Here is a simplified exam

Re: [CentOS] Any downside to mount -o noatime?

2022-02-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 05:32:05PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, February 10, 2022 8:03 PM -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: relatime has been the default for a long time -- that only updates atime once per some reasonable timeperiod. The wear and tear from that is negligible and you c

Re: [CentOS] Any downside to mount -o noatime?

2022-02-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 06:22:55PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, February 10, 2022 8:49 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie wrote: atime updates that occur when {m,c}time are updated add no additional burden. Understood. If that's the only time it happened, I would be happy with that.

Re: [CentOS] Any downside to mount -o noatime?

2022-02-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 09:49:14PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, February 10, 2022 11:08 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie wrote: Are you reading that as "atime gets updated every 24 hrs"? If so you are missing "if needed". I.e. if the file's data blocks have

[CentOS] stream 8 or stream 9 for new server

2022-02-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
I'm replacing my ancient desktop home server (CentOS 7, email, dns, backup) with a new mini-server. I've been running stream 9 on the new toy for a couple of weeks and I find there are still a lot of incomplete or missing things. Enough to delay full implementation. Unless I do some workarounds

Re: [CentOS] Special characters in bash strings

2022-07-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 09:41:14PM -0400, H wrote: I have run into a bash variable string problem that I think I have nailed down to the variable string containing a tilde (~). Not sure if my conclusion is correct and could use some help. To make a long(er) story short, an associative array va

Re: [CentOS] RAID1 setup

2023-01-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 07:32:02AM +0100, Simon Matter wrote: Hi Continuing this thread, and focusing on RAID1. I got an HPE Proliant gen10+ that has hardware RAID support.  (can turn it off if I want). What exact model of RAID controller is this? If it's a S100i SR Gen10 then it's not hardw

Re: [CentOS] bash test ?

2023-04-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 07:50:29AM +0200, lejeczek via CentOS wrote: Hi guys. I cannot wrap my hear around this: -> $ unset _Val; test -z ${_Val}; echo $? 0 -> $ unset _Val; test -n ${_Val}; echo $? 0 -> $ _Val=some; test -n ${_Val}; echo $? 0 What is this!? How should two different, opposite

Re: [CentOS] bash test ?

2023-04-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 09:16:26PM +0200, lejeczek via CentOS wrote: On 19/04/2023 08:46, wwp wrote: Hello lejeczek, ... Surround ${_Val} with double quotes (as you should) and things will be different: $ unset _Val; test -n "${_Val}"; echo $? 1 Now you get it? :-) I don't know, am not su

Re: [CentOS] Suddenly increased my hard disk

2016-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 05:47:33PM +0800, Chandran Manikandan wrote: > Hi Geleem, > Please have a look below of my result. > > For my system shows like below. > df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 909G 576G 287G 67% / > tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G

Re: [CentOS] Security patches list not showing

2016-04-21 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 06:52:47PM +0530, Selvin Durai Masilamani wrote: > Hi team, > > Security patches isn't not showing from Centos 5,6 and 7. > > Tried Steps: > > First I installed yum install yum-security package > > Then I tried yum update --security > > But getting these message > >

Re: [CentOS] cron

2016-04-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 05:58:39PM -0400, Steven Ford wrote: > Why bother with */1? Wouldn't that be the same as just *? > On Apr 22, 2016 5:48 PM, "Marcin Trendota" wrote: > I had the same question. Plus, the man page says "'/' specifies skips of the number's value through the range." That cou

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: very weird vi behaviour

2016-04-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 09:39:10AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > This is weird. As in, *deeply* weird. > > I ssh as root from one box to another (there are keys involved), and I go > to vi a file, such as > # line 1 # > # line 2 # > # line 3 > # line 4 > > And what I see in vi is > # line 3 >

Re: [CentOS] Bourne shell deprecated?

2016-04-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 03:32:49PM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > From NetBSD 6.1.5: > > > 4256EE1 # man sh ... > SH(1) > > NAME > sh -- command interpreter (shell) ... > > HISTORY > A sh command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. It was, however, > unmaintainable so w

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: awk

2016-04-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:31:51AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > This is odd, and annoying. CentOS 6, current. Here's my awk script: > > { >room = substr($0, 48, 10); >arr[$2,room,$1] = $0; > } > END { > for ( i in arr ) { > for ( j in arr[i] ) { > for ( k in arr[i][j] )

Re: [CentOS] more recent perl version?

2017-05-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:16:15PM +0200, hw wrote: > Johnny Hughes schrieb: > > On 05/23/2017 11:44 AM, hw wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > are there packages replacing the ancient perl version in > > > Centos 7 with a more recent one, like 5.24? At least the > > > state feature is required.

Re: [CentOS] Problem after last Update

2017-05-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 04:54:03PM +0200, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote: > Hello, > > why it is always a Problem when a kernel, firewall or KVM update is installed > ? > > I have a system with a server CentOS 7 (last) and 6 KVM Clients after the > Update Installation and reboot the most in Net

Re: [CentOS] RDP for Centos 7

2017-06-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 01:13:54PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 05:48:57PM +0100, Rehabilitation Village Farms Coop > wrote: > > Pls can someone tell me how to setup rdp and how it is used. Is there any > > step by step guide. Thank you > IIRC, there could be a "Windows

Re: [CentOS] getting rid of hp c3180

2017-07-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 02:47:47PM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Tue, July 11, 2017 2:20 pm, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I have a hp photosmart C3180 all-in-one and am well and truly sick of it. > > It seems like every time I go on another printing binge, > > I need yet another print cartrid

[CentOS] lightdm dependency

2017-09-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On a CentOS 7 system I'm trying to install lightdm. Yum says it requires "glib2(x86-64) >= 2.50.3". glib2 2.46 is installed but I have not found a 2.50 version. Have I overlooked it in some repo? -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@labadie.us 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H)

Re: [CentOS] lightdm dependency

2017-09-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:56:42AM +0200, Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE wrote: > Le 05/09/2017 à 07:01, Jon LaBadie a écrit : > > On a CentOS 7 system I'm trying to install lightdm. > > Yum says it requires "glib2(x86-64) >= 2.50.3". > > glib2 2.46 is insta

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

2017-10-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
> > Best practises also involve to generally not delete files unless you can > be sure that they can be deleted. That is probably what the FHS > intended by specifying that files in /var/run must be deleted/truncated > at boot time, assuming that the programs that created them would do this > (an

Re: [CentOS] how to prevent files and directories from being deleted?

2017-10-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 08:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 09.10.2017 um 17:54 schrieb Jonathan Billings: > > I think that the important learning points today are: > > > > 1.) CentOS7 (and any other distro that uses systemd) will have /run as > > a tmpfs filesystem, and /var/run points

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Bash help

2017-10-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:47:12AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 25, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Mark Haney wrote: > > > > I have a file with two columns 'email' and 'total' like this: > > > > m...@example.com 20 > > m...@example.com 40 > > y...@domain.com 100 > > y...@domain.com 30 > > > > I need

Re: [CentOS] Centos7- WiFi not recognized - HWaddress - Or Any Idea

2018-12-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 06:22:33AM +, Cristian Danciu via CentOS wrote: > Hello, > I recently installed centos7+Gnome on my macbook air , at first start the > wireless adaptor , which is the (infamous?) BCMA4360 , seemed to work because > I was asked to choose the network and provided passwor

[CentOS] Firewalld and iptables

2018-12-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
After a recent large update, firewalld's status contains many lines of the form: WARNING: COMMAND_FAILED: '/usr/sbin/iptables... Checking iptables.service status shows it to be masked. I realize that firewalld uses iptables, but should it be enabled and started as a service? Jon -- Jon H. La

Re: [CentOS] Firewalld and iptables

2018-12-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 03:14:12PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 14, 2018, at 2:30 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > After a recent large update, firewalld's status contains > > many lines of the form: > > > > WARNING: COMMAND_FAILED: '/usr/sbin/ip

Re: [CentOS] Firewalld and iptables

2018-12-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 04:55:33PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Friday, December 14, 2018 5:57 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie > wrote: > > > Well, there are about 20 of them and several screen widths > > long. However they all end with one of two reasons: > > > >

Re: [CentOS] determining what depends on a rpm

2018-12-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 03:05:45PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > yum remove lightdm > > That command tells me that it's also going to remove lightdm-gobject and > lightdm-gtk. > > rpm -q --whatrequires lightdm > no package requires lightdm > Perhaps you want the "--requires" instead of "--whatrequi

Re: [CentOS] hplips

2019-02-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 01:48:19PM -0500, mark wrote: > Yeah, about that... Back in '12, we got a nice HP poster printer. They > don't support Linux, but a co-worker got the .ppd out of the Mac support > file. > > I tried it, then I looked at the file in vi... and found it *only* > supported the 2

Re: [CentOS] HPlip Mark Roth/Jon LaBadie .

2019-03-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 02:35:30PM +0100, Ger van Dijck wrote: > > The problems with HPlip goes on and on : I can not manage to establish a > connection on WiFi with the HP4620 : I can print to the printer but not scan > . Running hp-check results in cups is not running, hplip is not properly > (H

Re: [CentOS] how to combine two static libs into one lib via libtool

2019-05-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:37:39AM +0800, qw wrote: > Hi, > > > I can use ar combine two static libs into one lib via libtool. How to do it > via libtool? > > Never used libtool, but "info libtool" has a section titled "linking libraries". jl -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@labadie.us

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:07:32AM -0600, James Szinger wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:44 AM mark wrote: > > > > The joys of systemd > > I'm not sure it's right to blame systemd. Systemd asked nicely for > the service to shutdown. But we can blame systemd for the cryptic message A

Re: [CentOS] Delta RPMs (drpms) for CentOS-6 and CentOS-7

2019-06-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 09:06:42AM +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > We would like to remove delta rpms (drpms) from our CentOS-6 and > > CentOS-7 repositories. > > > > I live on fast connections both at home and work and for me I see no > real advantage to delta RPMs - I've not really measured it,

Re: [CentOS] Disk Performance Issue

2019-06-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 03:42:24PM +, Chris Olson via CentOS wrote: > We have a very old Dell desk top machine that has been running > CentOS 6 for the past five years.  It received a new, 1 TB disk > and additional memory before the OS installation.  It has been > the primary Linux machine in

Re: [CentOS] Roughly how many more months before CentOS 8.0 release?

2019-07-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:43:58AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 7/10/19 1:18 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Good afternoon from Singapore, > > > > May I know roughly how many more months before CentOS 8.0 will be released? > > > > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8 > >

Re: [CentOS] Mate on Centos 7

2019-07-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 12:37:56PM +, James Pearson wrote: ... > > As said elsewhere in this thread, there isn't currently an EPEL > maintainer for Mate, so you will have to look elsewhere > ... > > I guess that if unless 'someone' takes on the maintainer role for >Mate at EPEL, then t

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:19:49AM -0400, mark wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:28:23AM -0400, mark wrote: > > > One thing I don't understand is how/why the firewall is DROPping so > > many attempts on port 25 when it in fact has a port forward rule sending > > port 25 on

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:43:30PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:38:05PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:19:49AM -0400, mark wrote: > > > Fred Smith wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:28:23AM -0400, mark wro

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 04:50:05PM +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: > > On 02/08/2019 19:38, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:19:49AM -0400, mark wrote: > > > Fred Smith wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:28:23AM -0400, mark wrote: > > &g

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 09:00:23AM +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: > > On 05/08/2019 08:50, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > I've found the default 10min bans hardly bother some attackers. > > So I've added the "recidive" feature of fail2ban. After the > &g

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 09:31:56AM +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: > > On 05/08/2019 09:18, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > I've found the default 10min bans hardly bother some attackers. > > > So I've added the "recidive" feature of fail2ban. After the > > > second 10min ban, the attacker is blocked for 1 w

Re: [CentOS] Giving full administrator privileges through sudo on production systems

2019-08-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 08:01:56AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > > On Aug 16, 2019, at 6:21 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > > > On Aug 15, 2019, at 11:04 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > >> > >> Based on above cases, is it OK to give group of random users full > >> administrator privileges using

[CentOS] clamd / amavisd missing socket

2019-08-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
I think something along these lines appeared before but I was unable to find them. I'm on a 7.6 system, been running clamav and amavisd-new since 6 days with little problem. On a recent reboot, clamd@amavisd does not start up and fails manual start. The problem seems to be the missing socket tha

Re: [CentOS] CUPS job handling

2019-09-01 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 02:19:58PM +0200, hw wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:48:37 -0500 (CDT) > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, hw wrote: > > > > > is it somehow possible to make CUPS automatically redirect jobs, and > > > following jobs, away from printers which can not prin

Re: [CentOS] ***UNCHECKED*** clamd / amavisd missing socket

2019-09-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 10:22:21AM +0200, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > Le vendredi 30 août 2019 à 13:57 -0400, Jon LaBadie a écrit : > > I think something along these lines appeared before > > but I was unable to find them. > > > > I'm on a 7.6 system, been running

Re: [CentOS] C8 install libreoffice

2019-09-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 02:46:18PM +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > > Alternatively you may like to learn how to use your package manager to > get answers to your questions. > > ...snip > # yum search libreoffice > ... The RHEL 8 Release Notes mention several package managers. Yum3, the older python-

Re: [CentOS] C8 install libreoffice

2019-09-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:02:18AM +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 29.09.19 23:05, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: > > > Can't see qny sort of office there, however when I do > > # yum group info "office*" > > all the expected LibreOffice stuff is there. > > yum group list --hidden > At least

Re: [CentOS] printer only prints one page, if anything

2019-11-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 02:55:32PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I've got a Brother HL-L2360D series printer connected to Centos 7. > CUPS lists it as Generic PCL6/PCL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9 . > When I tell it to print a pdf file, it prints at most the first page. > Have you tried

Re: [CentOS] Blocking attacks from a range of IP addresses

2020-01-11 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 11:49:59AM +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 6:07 AM H wrote: > > > I am being attacked by an entire subnet where the first two parts of the > > IP address remain identical but the last two parts vary sufficiently that > > it is not caught by fail2b

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail

2020-01-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 02:10:08PM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > it also says unknown token for "timeout" > version is 6.3.24 and man page says timeout is valid as a token. > > Jerry > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 2:04 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Anyone know how to specify for fetchmai

Re: [CentOS] Need help to fix bug in rsync

2020-03-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 02:49:24PM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > Hi, > > I've discovered a bug in rsync which leads to increased CPU usage and > slower transfers in many situations. > > When syncing with compression (-z), certain file types should not be > compressed during the transfer

Re: [CentOS] Mostly better: new C7

2020-04-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 03:47:13PM -0400, mark wrote: ... > > Having installed a KDE desktop, much is better... with one exception: I > can't seem to find any games. I tried yum groupinstall "Games and > Entertainment", which showed when I did group list... and was told it was > empty. > > Now wh

Re: [CentOS] ClamAV from EPEL

2016-05-14 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 02:55:01AM +, Richard wrote: > > > Date: Saturday, May 14, 2016 16:20:41 -0700 > > From: Alice Wonder > > > > On 05/14/2016 01:22 PM, Walter H. wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> just curious; > >> since March 3rd, 2016 everdays logwatch-mail > >> shows this: > >> > >> L

Re: [CentOS] for loop example

2016-06-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 11:11:21AM +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > Hi list, > > Can you look in to this? > > > [root@centos67 loop]# cat file1 > firstname1 > firstname2 > > [root@centos67 loop]# cat file2 > lastname1 > lastname2 > > I need a OUTPUT like this > > > *firstname1 lastname1fi

Re: [CentOS] netbook screen suddenly goes black

2016-06-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 08:58:54AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:34:30PM +0300, Александр Кириллов wrote: > > >Can anyone of you provide further hints on what I should be looking > > >for or at? > > > > Is it trying to hibernate? > > gosh, I hope not! I was in the middle o

Re: [CentOS] Does centos 6.8 support gstreamer 1.8?

2016-06-30 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 03:46:49PM +0800, qw wrote: > Hi, > > I found gstreamer offcial have just announced 1.8.2 version. > ("gstreamer.freedesktop.org") > > But centos 6 only support gstreamer 0.10. When will centos 6 support > gstreamer 1.8? > I've no idea, but my centos7 system has both g

Re: [CentOS] how to use python 2.7 by default instead python 2.6 on centos 6.8

2016-07-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 11:26:25AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, John Hodrien wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, qw wrote: > > > > > centos 6.8 comes with python 2.6. But I want to use python 2.7 to build > > > gstreamer sdk. I have built python 2.7 and installed it into my cust

Re: [CentOS] update clamav to 0.99.2

2016-07-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 10:19:04PM +0200, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: > Helo, > > update is in EPEL repository. > > on startup, clamd does not further create clamd.sock and clamd.pid > > clamd service stops without any message - even in debug mode. > > It's a nightmare. No help to offer. I update

[CentOS] ?barracuda? listing in logwatch session 123 of user root.

2016-07-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
My nightly logwatch report had a never before seen section last night, "barracuda spam firewall". I have not problem with the emails it noted as being rejected. But I've always thought of "barracuda" as a commercial product. I have neither configured nor enabled any barracuda software and "yum l

Re: [CentOS] ?barracuda? listing in logwatch session 123 of user root.

2016-07-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 04:14:36PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: > > On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 23:06 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > My nightly logwatch report had a never before seen > > section last night, "barracuda spam firewall". > > Is this a C7 issue, as

Re: [CentOS] ?barracuda? listing in logwatch session 123 of user root.

2016-07-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:22:59AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 07/19/2016 10:06 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > My nightly logwatch report had a never before seen > > section last night, "barracuda spam firewall". > > > > I have not problem with the emails

Re: [CentOS] ?barracuda? listing in logwatch session 123 of user root.

2016-07-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:24:19AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Tue, July 19, 2016 10:06 pm, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > My nightly logwatch report had a never before seen > > section last night, "barracuda spam firewall". > > > > I have not probl

Re: [CentOS] Mounting NFS subdirectories individually or just the parent?

2016-07-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:40:38PM +0100, Sean Brisbane wrote: > There is a slight performance related reason for exporting disk partitions > individually, the performance boost is server-side as Paul says. The > advantage is that the no_subtree_check can be used without any additional > security

[CentOS] firwalld 0.4+ ipset root.

2016-08-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
Before firewalld I used to use ipsets to blacklist several countries. Firewalld added support for ipsets with version 0.4, a year ago. Centos 7.2 is still at 0.3.9. Anyone know of a newer Centos package? jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703

[CentOS] postscreen and clamav on CentOS 6.8

2016-08-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
A friend runs 6.8 but would like to add postscreen to his email server. It is provided with postfix version 2.8 and up. The newest postfix for 6.8 is 2.6.x. Any likelyhood it will be further updated? Or is there another source for newer postfix versions for CentOS 6.8? Similar query for the cl

Re: [CentOS] postscreen and clamav on CentOS 6.8

2016-08-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 08/12/2016 03:38 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > A friend runs 6.8 but would like to add postscreen > > to his email server. It is provided with postfix > > version 2.8 and up. The newest postfix for 6.8 > >

Re: [CentOS] explain strange behavior

2016-08-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 01:12:57PM -0500, Dan Hyatt wrote: > In my bin directory, most of the binaries are linked to it. It is in my > path. I have googled this and cannot find anything close. > > I am running bash on centos6.8 > > When I run "which command" most of the files in this custom bin

Re: [CentOS] how to find recently installed font packages

2016-08-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 08:28:35AM -0500, geo.inbox.ignored wrote: > > > besides versatility of yum, vastness of arguments is, for me, an > enjoyable learning process. > > when i found yumex wanting to also remove libreoffice files, i > dropped back to yum. when yum also wanted to remove libreof

Re: [CentOS] hacking grub to control number of retained kernels.

2016-09-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 10:52:05PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > I've recently had this problem on two C7 systems, wherein when doing "yum > update", I get a warning about /boot being low on space. > > both systems were installed using the partition size recommended by > Anaconda, right now "df -h" s

Re: [CentOS] more than one IP address on network device?

2016-09-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
Valeri, not on list as it does not pertain to Linux. On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 10:25:23AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > ... > > IPADDR2=192.168.1.10 > > BROADCAST2=192.168.1.255 <-- > > NETMASK2=255.255.255.0 > > NETWORK2=192.168.1.0 <-- > > GATEWAY2=192.168.1.1 <-- > > Interesting... With thes

Re: [CentOS] DNF update

2016-09-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 09:28:09AM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Always Learning wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 23:22 +0100, J Martin Rushton wrote: > > > > > Under Fedora23 issuing a yum command gets you a warning, then it > > > automatically runs the appropriate dnf

Re: [CentOS] Iptables not save rules

2016-09-13 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 08:16:28AM -0400, TE Dukes wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > > Behalf Of John R Pierce > > Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 10:44 PM > > To: centos@centos.org > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Ipta

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 03:34:29PM -0400, TE Dukes wrote: > > Thought I'd give 7.0 a try before I upgrade from 6.8. > > I know you can use yum to install groups but I don't know what the groups > are. > $ yum grouplist jl -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd.

Re: [CentOS] mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified

2016-10-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 11:42:41PM -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hey guys, > > My NFS server has been working really well for a long time now. Both > client and server run CentOS 7.2. > > However when I just had to remount one of my home directories on an NFS > client, I'm now getting the error wh

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization Networking

2016-10-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 07:54:36AM -0400, TE Dukes wrote: > > OK, I'm about done trying to get this to work. I have spent HOURS reading, > installing, re-installing, etc. > > I can get the guest to access the internet but have tried every was possible > to be able to access the guest from the LAN

Re: [CentOS] mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified

2016-10-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 12:27:10PM -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2016-10-03, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > IIRC, for mount.nfs, the "r" option is read only while the "w" > > option is read+write. They may be mutually exclusive. > > I don't believe this

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