Re: [CentOS] elasticsearch connection refused

2019-02-19 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 14:17 +, Laack, Andrea P wrote: > Selinux will not allow connections on other than default http ports. > > semanage port -m -t http_port_t -p tcp 9200 It's not a web server port - elasticsearch is a database. P. ___ CentOS m

Re: [CentOS] elasticsearch connection refused

2019-02-19 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 14:26 +, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 14:17 +, Laack, Andrea P wrote: > > Selinux will not allow connections on other than default http ports. > > > > semanage port -m -t http_port_t -p tcp 9200 > > It's not a web

Re: [CentOS] elasticsearch connection refused

2019-02-19 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 15:09 +0100, Ralf Prengel wrote: > > Am 19.02.2019 um 13:55 schrieb Ionut Hoza: > > Hi Ralf, > > > > You should check you firewall configuration ... most probably you need to > > allow port 9200. > > Also check if elasticsearch service is listening on all interfaces or just

Re: [CentOS] time to say good-bye to win 7 / printer is the last blocker

2019-02-22 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 07:12 +0100, Ralf Prengel wrote: > Hallo, > the laptop of my wife is the last Win7 system in my network. > My question: > I need a well supported printer (MFC) with network interface, if possible > with colour printing. > I know this is a bit controversial since they are a

Re: [CentOS] Performing post-installation setup tasks - for 75 minutes

2019-03-01 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 18:19 +, Gary Stainburn wrote: > I'm doing a new install, and everything seems to have gone fine apart from > the > incredible amount of time it's taken. > > It does have 6 x 4TB drives in RAID6 and I am installing from a USB DVD > drive > as I had no SATA ports left

Re: [CentOS] syslog / logstah problem with timestamp

2019-03-08 Thread Pete Biggs
> > {"index"=>{"_index"=>"%{[@metadata][comline]}-%{[@metadata][version]}", > > "_type"=>"doc", "_id"=>"U1XLXGkBpfl5FoHeY4J8", "status"=>400, > > "error"=>{"type"=>"mapper_parsing_exception", "reason"=>"failed to > > parse field [timestamp] of type [date]", > > "caused_by"=>{"type"=>"ille

Re: [CentOS] CPAN not working, or is it?

2019-03-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> However, as I went for bigger modules, anything that had dependences were > then failing as the dependencie were installed OK but then did not appear to > be available. CPAN on CentOS 7 doesn't install things in the system locations by default (and by design). This is to stop CPAN from ove

Re: [CentOS] CPAN not working, or is it?

2019-03-11 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2019-03-11 at 15:48 +, Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Monday 11 March 2019 14:28:38 Pete Biggs wrote: > > > However, as I went for bigger modules, anything that had dependences > > > were then failing as the dependencie were installed OK but then did not > &g

Re: [CentOS] CPAN not working, or is it?

2019-03-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Do you have any instructiions on how to do this? I realise it's far from > ideal, but I need to get this system working, and can do it on a stand alone > server. It's a long time since I've done it, but I think CPAN puts some variables in your .bashrc to configure the process. First you

Re: [CentOS] CPAN not working, or is it?

2019-03-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I started off as always by using RPM's for everything I possibly can. > > I try to do that, too. The claim in another reply that RPM CPAN > modules and cpan- or cpanm-installed modules cannot work together is > incorrect. Since I'm the only other person to reply, I presume you mean somethi

Re: [CentOS] read permission on rotated logs

2019-03-13 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 15:13 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote: > When logs (e.g. /var/log/maillog) are rotated (e.g. to > /var/log/maillog-MDD) is there a way via systemd or whatever It's logrotate that does it. You may want to look at the 'prerotate' and 'postrotate' sections of the logrotate confi

Re: [CentOS] read permission on rotated logs

2019-03-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 11:51 +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 3/13/19 11:13 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: > > When logs (e.g. /var/log/maillog) are rotated (e.g. to > > /var/log/maillog-MDD) is there a way via systemd or whatever to > > assign read permission to a specific group? > > Add the followi

Re: [CentOS] netmask set with ifconfig doesn't hold

2019-03-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 15:12 +, KM via CentOS wrote: > I gather that ifconfig is a way of setting the netmask in the current > shell instead of a persistent value. I say this because I am running > it and see it for my specific network interface, directly after > running it. > However if I rest

Re: [CentOS] read permission on rotated logs

2019-03-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 15:45 +, Leroy Tennison wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something here but doesn't logrotate have the > 'postrotate ... endscript' block for its configuration files where > you can run any command you desire? The problem is knowing the name that the logfile has just been rotat

Re: [CentOS] netmask set with ifconfig doesn't hold

2019-03-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 15:42 +, KM via CentOS wrote: > I should have mentioned that I tried nmtui but found no settings for > a netmask anywhere. like I said …. dummy. It's part of the IP address - so you put something like 192.168.0.1/24 for a 255.255.255.0 subnet. It's called a CIDR

Re: [CentOS] Resource utilisation of processes on linux server.

2019-04-14 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Thanks for the email. I will be interested in command line interface > tool/utility. Is there a way to find out the previous occurrence of > resource utilization? For example, there was a high load on the Linux > server which occurred three days back during the time of 3:00 AM to 4:00 AM > m

Re: [CentOS] Recommended PHP 7 source for Centos 7

2019-04-15 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 22:39 +, MRob wrote: > I know there's a couple third party repos offering PHP 7 for Centos. I > prefer not to add too much third party that I don't have to and PHP 7 > has been mainstream for some time now, I thought maybe it would be in > EPEL by now. > > What is the

Re: [CentOS] faI2ban detecting and banning but nothing happens

2019-04-19 Thread Pete Biggs
> I've added a fail regex to /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/exim.conf as suggested on > another page: The standard exim.conf already has a 535 filter. Was that not working for you? > >\[\]: 535 Incorrect authentication data > > which appears to be successfully matchnig lines in /var/log/exi

Re: [CentOS] faI2ban detecting and banning but nothing happens

2019-04-19 Thread Pete Biggs
> > The event that triggers the ban does complete as normal, which is what I > would > expect as the ban is triggered by the log entry which is *after* the failed > attempt. > > However, after the /var/log/fail2ban.log showed the IP as banned, I continue > to see entries in /var/log/exim/ma

Re: [CentOS] Does devtmps and tmpfs use underlying hard disk storage or Physical Memory (RAM)

2019-04-20 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 06:21 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > I am running the below command on CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) > > # df -hT --total > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/xvda1 xfs 150G 8.0G 143G 6% / > devtmpfs devtmpfs

Re: [CentOS] faI2ban detecting and banning but nothing happens

2019-04-26 Thread Pete Biggs
> > 2019-04-26 11:43:23,603 fail2ban.filter [7853]: INFO [dovecot] Found > 185.36.81.165 > 2019-04-26 11:43:24,016 fail2ban.actions [7853]: NOTICE [dovecot] > 185.36.81.165 already banned > 2019-04-26 11:44:09,734 fail2ban.filter [7853]: INFO [dovecot] Found > 45.227.253.100 > 2019-04-26 11:4

Re: [CentOS] faI2ban detecting and banning but nothing happens

2019-04-26 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I did wonder that myself. I have now amended to Dovecot definition in > jail.conf to: > > [dovecot] > > port= pop3,pop3s,imap,imaps,submission,sieve,25,1025,465,587 > logpath = %(dovecot_log)s > backend = %(dovecot_backend)s > > I then unbanned and banned each IP address manually wi

Re: [CentOS] faI2ban detecting and banning but nothing happens

2019-04-28 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > /var/log/fail2ban.log is showing that it's working: > > I have seem similar odd behaviour with f2b with other filters. > Try to uninstall the package > fail2ban-systemd > and stop and start fail2ban again. > This might change its behavior to the better. > The fail2ban-systemd package

Re: [CentOS] HERE document in docker script file

2019-04-30 Thread Pete Biggs
> > EOF: line 6: warning: here-document at line 0 delimited by end-of-file > > (wanted `EOF') > > > > This is the sample script I am testing in my docker file: > > > > RUN bash -c "$(/bin/echo -e "cat << 'EOF' | tee -a /test.txt \ > > \n \ > > \n someting here \ > > \n something e

Re: [CentOS] yum remove iptables problem

2019-05-07 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2019-05-07 at 12:07 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Hi > > Just got a new server replacing another server. > I had to use iptables to protect it until I could move a hardware > firewall from the old server to the new server. > > Now I am trying to delete iptables but it wants to delete

Re: [CentOS] root .bash_profile?

2019-05-13 Thread Pete Biggs
> ~/.bash_profile > The personal initialization file, executed for login shells > > First, the ~ which might not apply to root. Why do you think that? '~' is just shell shorthand for user's home directory. > Second, it’s a “personal” init file, which also might not pertain to >

Re: [CentOS] root .bash_profile?

2019-05-13 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 16:20 -0400, Bee.Lists wrote: > > On May 13, 2019, at 2:46 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > First, the ~ which might not apply to root. > > > > Why do you think that? '~' is just shell shorthand for user's home > >

Re: [CentOS] root .bash_profile?

2019-05-13 Thread Pete Biggs
> Shame that "security experts" regularly recommend using another name for > the root account - security through obscurity anyone? > Unfortunately anyone can call themselves an "expert". If your protection against a UID 0 login is to change the username, then you need to seriously look at (a)

Re: [CentOS] root .bash_profile?

2019-05-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 04:50 -0400, Bee.Lists wrote: > su does not load .bash_profile and therefore is a completely > different application than with any other user. This one is > different, considering .bash_profile is indeed used for logins for > other users. su is an application for switching

Re: [CentOS] root .bash_profile?

2019-05-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 05:19 -0400, Bee.Lists wrote: > OK I think you need to read previous posts on this. > > I’m not looking for any other command. How are 'su' and 'su -' different commands? If you really dislike typing the extra " '-'", then setup an alias so you only have to type "'s' 'u'

Re: [CentOS] bash off topic

2019-05-16 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2019-05-16 at 12:57 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > I have a simple bash script it will take arguments from a file that has > quotes. > > my file arg.txt would be this > -lt "*.txt" > > my script file would be > LS_ARG=`cat arg.txt` > ls $LS_ARG > > it does not run properly: > sh -x ./arg.sh

Re: [CentOS] is "list_del corruption" fix available in Centos ?

2019-05-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Gentle reminder ! Please let me know if there are any pointers for this As far as I can see your original message never made it on to the mailing list ... > > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 7:26 PM santhosh kumar > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > We migrated from redhat 5.3 to centos 7.5 and facing

Re: [CentOS] Question about ntp

2019-05-27 Thread Pete Biggs
> > what is the standard way to sync time under Centos 7. > ntp or chrony. > chrony syncs to an NTP server, in the same way that ntp syncs to an NTP server. The both work. I have both ntpd (under CentOS 6) and chronyd (under CentOS 7) NTP servers on my network, they all work fine together. P.

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

2019-06-06 Thread Pete Biggs
> 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, but it seems like my systems spend more time reconstructing the RPMs tha

Re: [CentOS] Issue with dvd/cdrom drive

2019-06-24 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 22:13 -0400, doug schmidt wrote: > Hi, > I'm having an issue with my Thinkpad P70 laptop/workstation. This system is > a dual boot, > windows 10 pro and centos 7. I have not needed to use the cdrom until now, > however the system does not see it in /dev. I know the cdrom works

Re: [CentOS] Issue with dvd/cdrom drive

2019-06-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > [root@darkness ~]# ls -al /dev/sr* > ls: cannot access /dev/sr*: No such file or directory > [root@darkness ~]# ls /dev/s* > /dev/sda /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sg0 /dev/stderr > /dev/sda1 /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sg1 /dev/stdin > /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb3 /dev/snapsh

Re: [CentOS] Issue with dvd/cdrom drive

2019-06-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > [2.183682] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > [2.183825] ata3: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300) > [7.183893] ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) > [7.183908] ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) > [7.183960] ata4.00: qc ti

Re: [CentOS] Alternitives to Firefox...

2019-06-27 Thread Pete Biggs
> Another is the *lack* of a place to *type* a file name when you click a file > upload button. The file upload browser both comes up too tall (taller than my > screen [why?]) and lacks a place to start typing a file name, one *must* > scroll down though (in my case) a long list of files and dire

Re: [CentOS] Have you run "tuned-adm profile throughput-performance" ?

2019-07-06 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2019-07-05 at 11:48 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 7/4/19 10:18 PM, Steven Tardy wrote: > > I would also look at power settings in the BIOS and c-state settings in the > > BIOS and OS as disabling c-states (often enabled by default to meet > > green/energy star compliance) can make a not

Re: [CentOS] Installation question?

2019-07-30 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2019-07-30 at 13:24 -0400, John Chludzinski wrote: > I've been doing a CentOS 7.6.1810 net-install since last night. The machine > seems ok but has been stuck with "performing post-installation setup tasks" > for hours. This is an old Dell T5400 box, so it isn't blazing fast but ... > > Is

Re: [CentOS] Installation question?

2019-07-31 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 09:32 -0400, John Chludzinski wrote: > After finally completing and trying to reboot, the machine goes into > "Emergency Mode" and asks that I log in as root. That fails and the machine > becomes completely unresponsive. > > I tried the minimum install and got the same result

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-02 Thread Pete Biggs
> This is just the first screen of it, there are many more. The data > compiled here is for the last month (rsyslog is keeping the current > log plus four older logs). I find it disturbing that there were 12251 > attempts at telnet during that time, 2154 on 8080, and so forth. either > I'm some k

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> > 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 week. > Oh definitely. My systems are set to "3 bans and you're out" - a recidive ban is permanent after three ot

Re: [CentOS] browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl

2019-08-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> In any case, Centos 7 has not always been this slow. > Presumably something has changed. Firefox especially, and to some extent Chrome, have both started using much more memory recently (as in the last six months or so). I run 50+ desktops on CentOS and I've noticed more and more of them gett

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 05:27 -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) > > That’s nowhere near sufficient. To restore classic core file dumps > on CentOS 7, you must: > I was under the impression that a SIGKILL doesn'

Re: [CentOS] xfs

2019-08-28 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 12:42 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > I used to be able to 'repair' ext4 fs issue (when the boot process > drops > you into emergency mode)... > > but now with xfs - it does not seem to let me do that. > > xfs_repair /dev/sda3 > or > xfs_repair -L /dev/sda3 > both say fatal error

Re: [CentOS] RPMDB problem

2019-09-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 14:09 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > When doing yum operations I get this message at the end of whatever > yum was doing: > > ** Found 1 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: > brscan4-0.4.8-1.x86_64 is a duplicate with brscan4-0.4.3-1.x86_64 > > It is true,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-09-25 Thread Pete Biggs
> I am guessing that because CentOS releases only every 3-5 years, > people forget how much work is done at the beginning of every release. > First there is a lack of packages available. Then there is the > complaining that the OS is useless because it doesn't have ABC. Then > there is finding th

Re: [CentOS] Question about CentOS Stream OS

2019-10-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I am referring to https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSStream > and > i am not sure if i understand it correctly, Is it a separate CentOS > distribution which is similar to > CentOS-8 (1905)? > Currently CentOS-Stream is the same as CentOS. In the future new features and upg

Re: [CentOS] Is it a way to upgrade CentOS 7 to 8?

2019-10-12 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 21:03 +0200, Pierre Malard wrote: > Ok, thanks. it’s now very clear… > I must stay in CentOS 7 as long as possible… > No, that's not the way to look at it. Yes, an upgrade of major CentOS versions is a wipe and re-install (unless you really, really know what you are doing),

Re: [CentOS] how to reinit an own repo after adding files?

2019-10-20 Thread Pete Biggs
> Im using createrepo. > The problem is that changes in the repo are not availiable via yum on my > system. > Are you using createrepo every time you make any changes? You need to do that in order to re-create the XML metadata containing the updated packages. P. _

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

2019-11-06 Thread Pete Biggs
> I've been trying to folow directions, but no go. > The bad ELF interpreter really through me for a loop: > > [root@localhost drv]# ls ~hennebry/D*/*.rpm > /home/hennebry/Downloads/hll2360dcupswrapper-3.2.0-1.i386.rpm > /home/hennebry/Downloads/hll2360dlpr-3.2.0-1.i386.rpm > [root@localhost dr

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

2019-11-07 Thread Pete Biggs
> I had tried that also, but tried it again. > before my last try, I power-cycled the printer. > This time it worked. > For some reason CUPS now shows two queue names: > HL-L2360D-series Brother HL-L2360D series localhost.localdomain > HL-L2360D HLL2360D > both Brother HL-L2360D for

Re: [CentOS] CLAMD and EXIM - anyone got it working`

2019-11-29 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2019-11-29 at 09:56 +, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Has anyone actually got CLAMD and EXIM working? > > I've just had a go on a new VPS server without success. The only > thing that happened was that my server slowed because clamd was > hogging CPU. > > I have done a lot of googling and al

Re: [CentOS] External HD partitioning & formatting considerations

2019-12-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I would instead recommend getting/building a NAS aka file server and using > the network to share files, or make backups, or whatever. > And if the machines aren't on a network? P. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.

Re: [CentOS] systemctl behaves like it is being piped to less in centos 8?

2019-12-13 Thread Pete Biggs
> > is what is annoying me. That seems to be what I would expect if I > piped it to less. I checked a fedora 31 and another centos 8 box and > am seeing the same behaviour. Am I missing something? > The environment variable $PAGER determines what pager to use. The default is 'less'. User

Re: [CentOS] systemctl behaves like it is being piped to less in centos 8?

2019-12-13 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2019-12-13 at 16:44 +, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <5c2439dc6351659900b0c7ef421ae3f1e7b84fe4.ca...@biggs.org.uk>, > Pete Biggs wrote: > > > is what is annoying me. That seems to be what I would expect if I > > > piped it to less. I checked a fedo

Re: [CentOS] State of CentOS 8

2019-12-23 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 09:16 +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 23/12/2019 à 02:48, Akemi Yagi a écrit : > > You may want to watch the "CR work" on that wiki page. > > CR seems to be empty right now. > I thought that was the role of 8-stream now? P. __

Re: [CentOS] Raspberri PI 4B 4GB install image

2019-12-26 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2019-12-25 at 20:33 -0500, MAILIST wrote: > You will have better luck with Raspbian. Just sayin' Yes, absolutely. I know it's appealing to install an OS you know and love, but the tweaks that the RasPi Foundation have put into the Raspbian kernel and utilities make it a no brainer. I run

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

2020-01-09 Thread Pete Biggs
> Has anyone created a fail2ban filter for this type of attack? As of > right now, I have manually banned a range of IP addresses but would > like to automate it for the future. > As far as I can see fail2ban only deals with hosts and not networks - I suspect the issue is what is a "network": I

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

2020-01-09 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > > As far as I can see fail2ban only deals with hosts and not networks - I > > suspect the issue is what is a "network": It may be obvious to you > > looking at the logs that these are all related, but you run the risk > > that getting denied accesses from, say, 1.0.0.1 and 1.1.0.93 and >

Re: [CentOS] C8 Question

2020-01-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> I noticed a strange behaviour (don't know if this is the wanted > default). If I try ,from normal user shell, to run command like "reboot" > or "shutdown -h now" system will reboot/shutdown. This happens on tty > console, on xfce terminal and ssh session. I've just created a normal user on

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Lyx - installing templates and class files

2020-01-25 Thread Pete Biggs
> It appears that most of the class files don't exist in the form of a > rpm. In fact, some of this stuff doesn't seem to be downloadable as > a .cls file (which is the format that lyx expects to see). Somehow > (that I haven't yet read up on) you are to convert a tex file that > you download f

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: UPD packet checksum verification?

2020-01-26 Thread Pete Biggs
> what does Centos 7 do with UPD packets having invalid checksums? By default I assume they are just dropped - that's what should happen. > > Are such packets inevitably dropped? Applications can specifically disable checksum checking for the kernel network stack on a per application basis,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7: UPD packet checksum verification?

2020-01-26 Thread Pete Biggs
First of all - disclaimer - I'm no network specialist, I just read and am interested in it. I may get things wrong!! > > > Both physical interfaces show the same. But does this mean it's on as in "rx- > checksumming: on" or off as in "tx-checksum-ipv4: off [fixed]"? As far as I understand i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8.1 and NVIDIA support

2020-01-29 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 19:11 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > Does CentOS 8.1 support OLDER generate NVIDIA ? > Like NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [GeForce GT 520M] > > I'm looking for hardware acceleration H264 type support. > As far as I know CentOS (i.e. RHEL) never supported accelerated nVidia drivers

Re: [CentOS] Switching from lokkit (iptables) to firewalld

2020-02-04 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 19:04 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi All, > > Over the last 20 some years I have a file with about 200K worth of address > that have "wrongly" tried to connect to my boxes running centos. So the > file has one line per address or group of addresses like: > 2.244.112.0/24 > >

Re: [CentOS] Relabel /usr directory

2020-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> The -X option to rsync will copy all extended attributes from the old to > the new filesystem. > Yes, I discovered this when I rsync'd a whole 4Tb filesystem and the backup system decided everything had changed because the attributes had changed. I've settled on using "rsync -avHAX ..." and

Re: [CentOS] Relabel /usr directory

2020-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 12:59 +0300, Dimitri Zelenkin via CentOS wrote: > Pete Biggs wrote: > >> The -X option to rsync will copy all extended attributes from the old to > >> the new filesystem. > > Yes, I discovered this when I rsync'd a whole 4Tb filesystem an

Re: [CentOS] C8 network install

2020-02-23 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-02-23 at 02:58 -0600, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > I'm building a new storage server. I was unable to use the CentOS-8- > x86_64-1905-dvd1.iso image written to a 256GB thumb drive. It kept > failing the integrity check. I had to use the much smaller CentOS-8- > x86_64-1905

Re: [CentOS] Encrypted container on CentOS VPS

2020-02-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > What is a "loop way"? I googled it together with Linux and file and > did not find anything. The proper term is "loopback filesystem". > Is this simply like a separate file that is LUKS-encrypted and I > would then mount it for remote access? Yes, it's a filesystem in a file that you mo

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Installing a single rpm package from desktop/browser on CentOS 7

2020-02-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> In many case, but in the situations I'm talking about here is really a > lot more cumbersome to use. To use the command line to install a a > package from a website, I have to > > 1. Right-click > 2. Select Save Link As > 3. Enter filename/directory > 4. Open a terminal > 5. Remember wh

Re: [CentOS] System Time

2020-03-08 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-03-08 at 17:59 +, Chris Olson via CentOS wrote: > A few years ago, one of our interns was curious about system > time keeping features in computer systems. This intern was > also the proud owner of an inexpensive Radio-Controlled Clock. > The intern wondered why computer motherboa

Re: [CentOS] signing modules

2020-03-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I'm getting an error about a module not being signed so not loading. > CentOS 7.7 UEFI booting. (I cannot remove UEFI as hardware does not allow > it). > You need to turn off secure booting - you can still boot using UEFI, but if secure booting is turned on the kernel doesn't allow unsigned

Re: [CentOS] signing modules

2020-03-16 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2020-03-16 at 12:42 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > > You need to turn off secure booting - you can still boot using UEFI, > > but if secure booting is turned on the kernel doesn't allow unsigned > > modules. > > Thanks - so is that command line to run ? Config file to edit ? > It's a BIOS set

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

2020-03-25 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 14:39 +, Leroy Tennison wrote: > Since you state that using -z is almost always a bad idea, could you > provide the rationale for that? I must be missing something. > I think the "rationale" is that at some point the compression/decompression takes longer than the time r

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

2020-03-25 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 19:15 +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 14:39 +, Leroy Tennison wrote: > > > Since you state that using -z is almost always a bad idea, could you > > > provide the rationale for that? I must be missing something. > > > > > I think the "ratio

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Gstreamer and Mplayer

2020-03-30 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-03-29 at 23:18 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 2020-03-29 18:42, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:34:20 -0400 > > Mark LaPierre wrote: > > > > > What replaced Gstreamer and Mplayer in CentOS 8. RPM finder finds both > > > for CentOS 6 and 7 but not 8. There must be a rep

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS

2020-04-12 Thread Pete Biggs
> Yes, let me validate Mr. Kovacs comment. I am aware of the shortcomings > of NIS in the area of security. Let me provide some information on the > topography of my network and my reasoning for choosing NIS/NFS. Perhaps > an alternative may be suggested to meet my needs without totally >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS

2020-04-12 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 08:13 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Apr 12, 2020, at 05:47, Pete Biggs wrote: > > There are other options than LDAP, and servers other than OpenLDAP, but > > LDAP is the de facto standard. > > Unfortunately, OpenLDAP as a server is deprec

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 17:14 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > So, it installed happily. > > Then wouldn't boot. No problem, I'll bring it up with pxe, then chroot and > grub2-install. > > Um, nope. I edited the device map from hd0 and hd1 being the RAID to > /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, then ran grup2-i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install on one RAID 1 [not-so-SOLVED]

2017-01-25 Thread Pete Biggs
> > If you are using RAID 1 kernel mirroring, you can do that with /boot too, > and Grub finds the kernel just fine. I've done it many times: > > Hmm, OK. I wonder why anaconda doesn't do it then. Reading various websites, it looks like grub2 can do it, but you have to make sure that various g

Re: [CentOS] firewalld

2017-01-28 Thread Pete Biggs
> > The zone apparently means something because an interface can only be on one. > Moving it to a different zone results in the same error (same services/ports > opened in each zone). The "zones" are just labels and are used to create kernel iptables. Each zone has a default set of open and clos

Re: [CentOS] firewalld

2017-01-29 Thread Pete Biggs
> Last login attempt from roundcube > > Jan 29 16:38:08 ts130 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, > method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=2076, secured, > session= > Jan 29 16:38:08 ts130 dovecot: imap(tdukes): Error: user tdukes: > Initialization failed: Namespace '': Mail storage autodetection fa

Re: [CentOS] Centos6.8 and Python33

2017-02-06 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2017-02-06 at 13:07 +0100, Patrick Begou wrote: > I've some trouble with installing numpy in python 3.3 on Centos 6.8 as > installation request a different python version... > > [root@sge ~]$ yum install python33 python33-python-tools > [root@sge ~]$ scl enable python33 bash >

Re: [CentOS] GCC 4.9 in CentOS 7 ??

2017-02-09 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > That's the very problem that Software Collections endeavors to solve. If > > you install a non-standard package that conflicts with OS defaults, > > install it as a collection so that end users can choose whether to use > > the enhancement or the default, on a per-session basis. > > Does

Re: [CentOS] dhcpcd.conf

2017-02-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 17:57 -0800, Alice Wonder wrote: > Hi, > > ran into a problem w/ linode hosted VM where IPv6 address changed after > they migrated it to a different host. > > They claim I can fix it with > > sed -i 's/slaac private/slaac hwaddr/' /etc/dhcpcd.conf > > However there appear

Re: [CentOS] IPv6 broken on Linode

2017-02-16 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2017-02-16 at 00:37 -0800, Alice Wonder wrote: > https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=14570&p=72785 > > I can not figure out what I need to do. > > Apparently according to linode support, the VM is trying to grab an IPv6 > address with some privacy stuff enabled by default causi

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 httpd Permission problems with Postfixadmin

2017-02-17 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 12:02 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > More joy with Centos 7. > > I am having permission problems with Postfixadmin. I am installing as > I have in my notes I did in Centos6 and it is not working. > > I untar Postfixadmin into /usr/share. The owner is root:root (I even > t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 httpd Permission problems with Postfixadmin

2017-02-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> > What is the setting "allowoveride"? What does it mean? > > It tells apache to obey .htaccess files in the document directory - in other words it "allows" the .htaccess file to "override" the configured parameters. The arguments to it say what subset of commands can be overridden - AuthConfi

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 httpd Permission problems with Postfixadmin

2017-02-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> > From error.log: > > [Fri Feb 17 12:56:33.478024 2017] [authz_core:error] [pid 5759] [client > 192.168.160.12:48290] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: > /usr/share/postfixadmin So it's an authorisation issue. In your .htaccess file change  Order allow,deny      Allow

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 httpd Permission problems with Postfixadmin

2017-02-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Not there still. In /var/www/html I created .htaccess: > > # ls -lstra > total 12 > 4 drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Feb 6 16:06 .. > 4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Feb 17 13:32 . > 4 -rw-r--r--. 1 root apache 21 Feb 17 13:32 .htaccess > > # cat .htaccess > Require all grant

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 httpd Permission problems with Postfixadmin

2017-02-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Thing is, I don't have an .htaccess file ANYWHERE on this system. I > checked. > If you don't have a .htaccess file, then why have the AllowOverride directive in the .conf file? Putting AllowOverride in means that every time apache retrieves a file from that directory, *and every directo

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED - Re: Centos 7 httpd Permission problems with Postfixadmin

2017-02-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Changed it to: > > # cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/postfixadmin.conf > alias /mailadmin /usr/share/postfixadmin > > AllowOverride AuthConfig > #allow from all > Require all granted > Yes, all directories need to have 'Require all granted' on them somewhere - if you look

Re: [CentOS] usb drives & Orico ORICO 9548U3-BK

2017-02-18 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > I decided to build an archive server for the purpose of backing up > other fedora/centos desktops at the office. I built a machine and have > installed Centos 7.3 on it with all updates current. I also purchased > a 3.0 usb sata drive cabinet (Orico ORICO 9548U3-BK) and installed two > 5

Re: [CentOS] Centos7 whatprovides php-imap

2017-02-23 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 10:28 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Would someone with a Intel Centos7 installation PLEASE find out for me: > > yum whatprovides php-imap > > # yum whatprovides php-imap Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile x x x php-imap-5

Re: [CentOS] How rc-local.service works?

2017-03-12 Thread Pete Biggs
> Let me cite the service file here: > > [Unit] > Description=/etc/rc.d/rc.local Compatibility > ConditionFileIsExecutable=/etc/rc.d/rc.local > After=network.target > > [Service] > Type=forking > ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/rc.local start > TimeoutSec=0 > RemainAfterExit=yes > > I basically don't under

Re: [CentOS] laptop editing

2017-03-17 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 21:20 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > How does one put centos on a laptop? > My understanding that laptops no longer come with optical drives. Some do, some don't. They all come with USB ports though. https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey P. _

Re: [CentOS] Python 3.x on Centos 7

2017-03-24 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 08:52 -0500, Matt wrote: > > # yum install python34 > > I already have epel installed. If it breaks something is it as simple > as yum erase python34 to restore everything back to normal? > If it's in epel it will have been tested with RHEL/CentOS so shouldn't break anythi

Re: [CentOS] NFS Client with quota

2017-04-03 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Previously, when I examined rquotad, I did not work as I expected. > I will try to verify again. > I gave up on NFS quotas - it was a while ago, but I seem to remember that it sort of just about worked with an EXT4 server file system, but was a pig with an XFS server. My instinct is that it

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