Re: [CentOS] M.2 PCI-E card

2017-04-03 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 20:17 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Alice Wonder said: > > I need a low profile PCI-E card that allows for up to 2 M.2 SSD > > drives that is known to work with the stock kernel in CentOS 7. > > > > Can anyone recommend one? > > I can't recommend a specific

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-10 Thread Pete Biggs
> I must admit that I skipped through the first and second stages - I > never found creating init scripts a joy and instead opted to write my > own scripts that I launched via inittab. As such, I welcomed the > simplicity systemd's service files without fuss. > > So, at which stage are you in

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> I just read through this thread, and I must say I'm a bit worried, to > the point that I'm asking myself: is CentOS still as reliable as it was? Yes. > This is not a rhetorical question, but a real one. On my Slackware > servers, I'm hosting a few dozen websites, various platforms for schools

Re: [CentOS] OT: systemd Poll

2017-04-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Years uptime, wow! What do you do when security update for kernel or glibc > is released? These come as often as once every 45 days in my observation. > They're non-exposed hosts doing very specific things - think internal network with an air-gap to the internet. P.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread Pete Biggs
>We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild > machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out. > What's happening is that it tries in this order > .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab80b83d > .../pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab80b83d > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-dd > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8025B > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8025 > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A802 > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A80 > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8 > > > .../pxelinux.cfg

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

2017-04-15 Thread Pete Biggs
Not wishing to extend this thread further, but ... > There are conspiracy theories out there that the NSA is involved with > bringing systemd to Linux so they can have easy access to *"unknown"* > bugs - aka backdoors - to all Linux installations using systemd *[1]*. They're conspiracy theori

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

2017-04-16 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2017-04-16 at 06:53 -0400, ken wrote: > On 04/15/2017 04:46 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Not wishing to extend this thread further, but ... > > > > > There are conspiracy theories out there that the NSA is involved with > > > bringing systemd to Linu

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

2017-04-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> Indeed. I think the assertion "OSS is somehow safer because of community > audit" is a logical fallacy. How would one go about "auditing" in the first > place? There are tools to audit source code for problems - OSS is safer *because* the source is available and can be audited. > Even if the

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

2017-04-20 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Think about what that would take in terms of man hours to accomplish > moving from EL6 to 7. And moving from 5 to 6 was not much better. > This is just too expensive to repeat every three years. So why do it? There is absolutely nothing wrong with sticking with EL6 for a long time, certain

Re: [CentOS] CentOS version

2017-04-27 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 12:23 -0400, Larry Martell wrote: > I am trying to find out what version of CentOS is running at a > customer site, but I do not have remote access and there is no one > there to run anything for me. But I do have a dmesg output and I see > this: > > Linux version 3.10.0-327.

Re: [CentOS] SCSI drives and Centos 7

2017-04-29 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2017-04-29 at 08:50 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > about 4 years ago, I tried to install CentOS 6 on a Supermicro server > with SCSI drives using a LSI raid system. I could never figure out or > find a way to make the installation disc of Centos 6 identify the SCSI > drive

Re: [CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

2017-04-29 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2017-04-29 at 15:43 +, Beartooth wrote: > My wife bought a new Thinkpad, on which we had the shop install > CentOS 7 (I *think* it's 7.3.) Alas!, I didn't think to specify NOT Gnome, > in thunder. So of course I got it. > > I've tried several times to force myself to acc

Re: [CentOS] system slowdown

2017-05-18 Thread Pete Biggs
> > kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 67s! [khungtaskd] > kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7 stuck for 67s! [khugepaged] > > These messages started appearing today around 7 AM, which is when > users started reporting the slowdown. They are still occurring > periodically and the system is

Re: [CentOS] yum error

2017-05-21 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2017-05-21 at 13:06 +0200, vychytraly . wrote: > And I got these errors: can't link /lib64/libSsl.so>10 to libssl.so.10 and > can't create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied sudo ldconfig And if the error persists check that there's nothing wrong with your filesyste

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