Re: [CentOS] Centos machine sometimes unreachable

2012-08-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:20:20 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Good thought! Could someone have moved non-computer hardware, like, say, a > desk or chair, or there's been some utility work, and the cable run's > impacted occasionally... or stepped on? Or even vibrated loose. As a lesson in '

Re: [CentOS] OT: what are all these probes from my firewall log????

2012-08-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, August 18, 2012 11:01:26 AM fred smith wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 09:20:56AM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > > On 08/16/2012 11:06 PM, fred smith wrote: > > > hmm... just did traceroute 10.21.72.1 and it comes back as being a > > > system at my ISP. that doesn't seem right to me.

Re: [CentOS] I cannot find the package: kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.29.1 in centos mirror list

2012-08-27 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, August 27, 2012 05:31:12 AM Kris zhang wrote: > You are right, Thomas. i want to find the kernel-headers firstly, and then > i will find the kernel-devel. and the kernel-headers is needed by gcc. > > I have a question: is it ok if the version of kernel-header and > kernel-devel are not

Re: [CentOS] yum relocatable RPMs

2012-08-27 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, August 26, 2012 09:51:27 AM Rita wrote: > Hello, > > I dont have root access but I would like to install several packages (gtk) > in my home directory. Is it possible to install it via yum ? In a nutshell, yes, it should be possible. It will be complicated, and might even be very com

Re: [CentOS] NTOP alternatives?

2012-08-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 02:35:25 AM Rafał Radecki wrote: > Hi all. > > I have currently a task to implement a network traffic analyzer. Some years > ago I've used NTOP for that purpose, I would also like to test some > alternatives. > Which alternatives can you recommend and why? As a package

Re: [CentOS] update on: Centos email server suddenly much slower. What to do?

2012-09-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 07, 2012 05:09:09 AM M. Fioretti wrote: > I do have the feeling, after the exchange we had yesterday, that the DNS > servers my VPS provider told me to use had some problem now fixed, but > nothing more. Of course, the idea that I don't know for sure what happened > and it may

Re: [CentOS] VLC Equivalent for CentOS 6.3 (SOLVED)

2012-09-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, September 09, 2012 09:55:56 PM Mark LaPierre wrote: > I just installed the Fluendo DVD player. Cost me $20. Its playing > Shrek right now. Swaps to full screen and back without a hitch. > http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-dvd-player/ While there have been a few legal DVD

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 04:16:33 PM Tony Molloy wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a 24TB RAID6 disk with a GPT partition table on it. I need to > partition it into 2 partitions one of 16TB and 1 of 8TB to put ext4 > filesystems on both. But I really need to do this remotely. ( if I can > get t

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 14, 2012 04:26:11 AM Laurent wrote: > I don't know about gdisk features. Perhaps, it can do better than > parted... The feature set of gdisk is virtually identical to the feature set of fdisk, as 'gdisk' means 'GPT fdisk.' No filesystem resizing support, AFAIK.

Re: [CentOS] DRM EDID Error

2012-09-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, September 16, 2012 11:11:01 PM Eugene Poole wrote: > I know the monitor, keyboard, and mouse are not the problem because I > have 3 machines on a KVM using the same monitor, keyboard, and mouse. > Could this be my video card going bad? I read another posting where it > was suggested

Re: [CentOS] 11TB ext4 filesystem - filesystem alternatives?

2012-09-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 28, 2012 04:29:55 PM Keith Keller wrote: > No filesystem can fully protect against power failures--that's not its > job. That's why higher-end RAID controllers have battery backups, and > why important servers should be on a UPS. If you are really paranoid, > you can probably

Re: [CentOS] 11TB ext4 filesystem - filesystem alternatives?

2012-09-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, September 29, 2012 11:56:04 AM John R Pierce wrote: > On 09/29/12 5:19 AM, Ilyas -- wrote: > > Backend storage is 2 SATA directly attached disks. No any caches on > > SATA controller. > > Both disks run in mdraid mirror. > > > > Zeroed files have written many days (some files was writt

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, October 08, 2012 01:20:41 PM Mike Watson wrote: > I've installed CentOS 6.3 on a new system. I've a nagging problem that > I'm trying to fix---the screen resolution changes. I've a flat screen > monitor that has 1600x900 capability. However when I logout and then log > back in the res

Re: [CentOS] Multimedia Workstation using Centos 6.3

2012-10-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, October 14, 2012 04:26:14 AM Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > [sheepish query] > > Are there repositories which will help a centos die-hard nerd to run > 64 studio like workstation (of course bomus will be to pointers to HPC > with desktops for rendering and the such)? >

Re: [CentOS] Multimedia Workstation using Centos 6.3

2012-10-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, October 15, 2012 05:11:39 PM Nux! wrote: > I have a lot of multimedia stuff in my repo > http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/ Ah, yes, forgot about Stella and your repos > and I'm willing to put some effort > into backporting from Fedora or create new packages with a multimedia >

Re: [CentOS] SeaMonkey on CentOS 6.3

2012-10-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, October 19, 2012 12:58:29 PM Tim Evans wrote: > Is there a yum-installable version of seamonkey somewhere? Yes. The LinuxTech repo has it; see the CentOS wiki article on repositories for the link. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, October 19, 2012 05:44:14 AM Ned Slider wrote: > On 19/10/12 02:36, fred smith wrote: > > that all makes perfect sense, except,... why did everything ELSE > > still work? (I admit to not having tried any of the GL screensaver > > demos, or any high-end GL games...) > Only applications

Re: [CentOS] Completely automatic yum updating on Centos 6

2012-10-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, October 25, 2012 03:05:56 PM Frank Cox wrote: > I am about to set up a computer with Centos 6 that I'll probably never see > again. I don't want to give out the root password, but I would like to > have it automatically and transparently update itself. Now, what I'm about to say may

Re: [CentOS] Completely automatic yum updating on Centos 6

2012-10-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, October 26, 2012 10:41:19 AM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > But, having said all of that, it must be said that the SL update > > 'nondisruptive index' is not 100%; it is really close to 100%, but there > > h

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and ActiveX

2012-11-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, November 01, 2012 08:42:51 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Only vaguely on topic, here: does anyone know how, in Firefox on CentOS > (6.3), or if it's possible, to see and use ActiveX controls on a website? > The calendar here at work has ActiveX controls, apparently, and I can't > even s

Re: [CentOS] HFSPlus Question

2016-06-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On 06/07/2016 09:06 PM, Albert McCann wrote: Thanks for the clues from yourself and other's. I haven't had a chance to check things out yet, I'm still dealing with food poisoning I came down with after sending my question. :-( Use the ELrepo kmod-hfsplus module. See elrepo.org for details on

Re: [CentOS] LSI SATA MegaRaid & Centos 7 build 1511

2016-08-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On 08/18/2016 02:17 AM, Fawzy Ibrhim wrote: I totally agree with John; NEC sold these servers with fakeraid from LSI as I used to login to LSI Firmware to manage the RAID disks. The NEC compatibility page at http://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/express/linux/centos.html indicates that the R120b

Re: [CentOS] DNF update

2016-09-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On 09/06/2016 08:57 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: I was searching tonight how to update OLD systems. I have C5 and C6 systems that need updating and they are remote systems. ... Is this a valid option for updating C5 and C6 to take them to C7? First, a bit of nomeclature clarification is in order. To me

Re: [CentOS] PHP vulnerability CVE-2016-4073

2016-09-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On 09/23/2016 04:42 AM, James Hogarth wrote: Of course this is where Red Hat intends SCL to fill the gap of the "supported" new httpd24 and php56 on RHEL ... https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/15 Unfortunately this is having a knock on effect in the EPEL world where, since Fedora has no SCL pack

Re: [CentOS] Centos & USB3

2016-09-27 Thread Lamar Owen
On 09/27/2016 11:55 AM, Always Learning wrote: * in C6.5 (my install disk; OS be updated to C6.8) USB2 works but USB3 does not. It is a bit confusing how you worded this. Are you saying that you have already installed 6.5 and fully updated it to 6.8? Please does anyone have any ideas how t

[CentOS] External monitor support changes.

2016-10-10 Thread Lamar Owen
I've been working on this issue for quite a while. Back in January of 2015 I posted about how well external monitors worked with the out-of-the-box CentOS 7 ATI radeon drivers and my Dell M6500 with an ATI FirePro M7820. At the time the support was seamless and 'Just Worked' without any issu

Re: [CentOS] OT: Blank mails from this list

2016-12-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/15/2016 02:03 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: Recently, like the last week or so, I've started getting blank emails from this list. Blank as in no message text is visible in the email. ... Has anybody else seen this, or is just me? I have seen blank body (but still with the list's .sig) emails for a

Re: [CentOS] WAY OT: Blank mails from this list

2016-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/16/2016 08:47 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: My actual name is Michael, which while typically male. I have for the record seen used with both genders despite the name Michelle existing. So I guess by choosing Alice I am kind of bringing it on myself. Michael Learned (best known for her role in t

Re: [CentOS] OT: Blank mails from this list

2016-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/16/2016 01:35 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: Do you use Exchange at your workplace as well? No. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] libgme drive-by exploit.

2016-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
An interesting exploit: https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/12/redux-compromising-linux-using-snes.html While this is tailored to Fedora 25 (with Chrome) and Ubuntu 16.04, in checking my CentOS 7 system I find that it is not vulnerable simply because it doesn't have the libgme used by

Re: [CentOS] libgme drive-by exploit.

2016-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/16/2016 02:12 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: An interesting exploit: packages have it lessee nope, didn't find the 'Game Music Emu' (gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras contains this in Fedora 25) anywhere, but I reserve the right to be wrong. And five minutes later: [low

Re: [CentOS] libgme drive-by exploit.

2016-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/16/2016 02:32 PM, Frank Cox wrote: rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib64/libgme.so.0 game-music-emu-0.6.0-5.el7.x86_64 Like I said, I always reserve the right to be wrong. Debian has issued an update with a list of CVE's that are so new that they're not on mitre yet. Debian DSA-3735-1: htt

Re: [CentOS] firefox-45.6.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 crashing... unusable

2016-12-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/19/2016 08:44 AM, ken wrote: Last night installed the latest, firefox-45.6.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64. Fired it up this morning and within the first hour it's crashed three times. That comes to it being usable for about five minutes before it crashes. Anyone else getting this? For what it

Re: [CentOS] devtoolset-4 ageing?

2016-12-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/19/2016 08:33 AM, lejeczek wrote: devtoolset-4-elfutils-libelf-0.163-2.el7.x86_64 VS elfutils-0.166-2.el7.x86_64 isn't devtool ageing? Could this be the case with more packages? regards, devtoolset-6 is available. ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

Re: [CentOS] devtoolset-4 ageing?

2016-12-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/19/2016 11:47 AM, lejeczek wrote: On 19/12/16 16:05, Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/19/2016 08:33 AM, lejeczek wrote: devtoolset-4-elfutils-libelf-0.163-2.el7.x86_64 VS elfutils-0.166-2.el7.x86_64 isn't devtool ageing? Could this be the case with more packages? regards, devtoolset

Re: [CentOS] devtoolset-4 ageing?

2016-12-27 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/19/2016 01:09 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/19/2016 11:47 AM, lejeczek wrote: devtoolset-6-runtime is missing from repo(s) ? Looks like it is being made available, but not all there yet. Wait a few days and check again, I guess. I just happened to notice that some devtoolset-6 packages

Re: [CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

2017-02-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/09/2017 03:12 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: The patch files are in git as text files, right? Why would you need checksums of those? That is the purpose of git, right? Not to stir up a hornets' nest, but how does Google's announcement at https://shattered.it affect this now? (Executive summar

Re: [CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

2017-02-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/23/2017 03:32 PM, James Hogarth wrote: On 23 February 2017 at 19:55, Lamar Owen wrote: Not to stir up a hornets' nest, but how does Google's announcement at https://shattered.it affect this now? (Executive summary: Google has successfully produced two different PDF files th

Re: [CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

2017-02-27 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/23/2017 07:31 PM, Warren Young wrote: All of this is not to say that Git doesn’t have a problem. They do. It’s just that the problem in question doesn’t affect the integrity of git.centos.org, as far as I can see. Thanks for the good answer, Warren. Since last posting on this, I've been

[CentOS] New C7 kernel ABI and kmods

2017-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
All, This is just a heads-up that the new C7 update kernel breaks ABI compatibility, at least as far as using the ELrepo nVidia drivers is concerned. I have posted more details to the ELrepo list; but since many folks use the Elrepo kmods I thought a heads-up would be appropriate. If you us

Re: [CentOS] Solved Re: imaging a drive with dd

2017-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On 03/02/2017 11:57 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: The following worked: # dd if=/dev/sdb of=cubietruck.img bs=512 count=6268927 6268927+0 records in 6268927+0 records out 3209690624 bytes (3.2 GB, 3.0 GiB) copied, 114.435 s, 28.0 MB/s So bs= IS the drive blocksize. This is the result of trying

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/09/2017 12:39 AM, Anthony K wrote: So, at which stage are you in w/ regards to adopting systemd? Are you still ridiculing it, violently opposed to it, or have you mellowed to it? So, the hornets are swarming. But to answer your question: None of the above. If I want to run CentOS

[CentOS] Need a bit of 'archeocomputing' help on CentOS 7.

2017-04-21 Thread Lamar Owen
I have an application with is binary-only, does its job well, and is only available for either libc5 (!) or early early glibc2.0 (!!). It has been running on a Red Hat Linux 5.2 (NOT RHEL; RHL) server for a really long time, and it honestly does its job and it's not easily replaced by an open-s

Re: [CentOS] Need a bit of 'archeocomputing' help on CentOS 7.

2017-04-22 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/21/2017 12:11 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: ... The latest version of libc5 I know of that was shipped by Red Hat is in RHL 6.2, libc-5.3.12. (There is a 5.4, but not sure of stability or compatibility). ... I've successfully set up the bridging; a CentOS 7 VM on the same host has

Re: [CentOS] Need a bit of 'archeocomputing' help on CentOS 7.

2017-04-22 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/22/2017 11:24 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: Obviously, the system is designed for this - but why is nobody doing this for Linux? The time commitment necessary to keep up with the sometimes dramatic changes in the typical Linux distribution is very large; I would guess that's the reason it'

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll - So Long, and Thanks for All the fish.

2017-04-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/20/2017 05:55 PM, Warren Young wrote: ... I find that most hardware is ready to fall over by the time the CentOS that was installed on it drops out of support anyway. ... James' point isn't the hardware cost, it's the people cost for retraining. In many ways the Fedora treadmill is eas

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll - So Long, and Thanks for All the fish.

2017-04-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/24/2017 11:52 AM, Warren Young wrote: On Apr 24, 2017, at 7:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: James' point isn't the hardware cost, it's the people cost for retraining. Unless you’ve hired monkeys so that you must train them to do their tasks by rote, that is a soft cost,

[CentOS] Odd disk automount issue on C7.3.1611

2017-04-25 Thread Lamar Owen
+ext4, and I'd like to make these two drives back each other up. If I plug in a different USB3 drive, such as my 4TB Seagate, everything works as expected; it seems to only be the identical drives that confuse whatever process is detecting this. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pis

Re: [CentOS] SCSI drives and Centos 7

2017-04-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/29/2017 09:50 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Has anyone used Centos 7 on SCSI drives, or am I going to need to get an upgrade of the server? The server is working great. I am, on IBM LS20 blades. The SCSI controller, according to lspci, is: 02:02.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbi

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