Re: [CentOS] What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing harddisks?

2018-04-02 Thread Fred Smith
, > >> and the same filesystem, you've got other issues. How do you *guarantee* > >> that there's no user data - say, installed third-party software mixed with > >> the o/s? > >> > >> Note that you real

[CentOS] question re: ls oddity

2018-04-19 Thread Fred Smith
is some dotfile somewhere that ls refers to for options, this must be a version-change. it seems like a possibly useful feature, one might be able to use that to avoid nasty quoting problems in shellscripts, for instance. Anybody know how that gets enabled? thanks! -- Fr

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using GQRX in Centos-7, for SDR ?

2018-04-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 03:53:06PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 09:38:17AM +, Nux! wrote: > > Is it a Realtek chipset? > > yes it is. > > > I've had problems with it on CentOS as the system will load up the DVB > > drivers (for TV t

Re: [CentOS] USB audio on Centos-7

2018-04-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 09:02:08PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:08:59PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 02:06:35PM +1000, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: Below is an email from last year, and this is a followup or at least related, so I'm includin

Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

2018-04-24 Thread Fred Smith
push comes to shove, you can rebuild it in VirtualBox and do an export to OVF from there. It might be possible to import the existing VM into VirtualBox, and if so it MIGHT let you do an OVF export. no guarantees, I've not tried doing that particular thing. Good luck! Fred -- Fred Smi

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread Fred Smith
you should get a list of readable and > writable media for each device. > > Bill Gee potentially stupid question here: Why would one format a cd/dvd? I've never had to do that, I just write to 'em. for what purpose or need would one format one? thanks! -- Fred Smith -- fre.

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:20:33AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote: > > > > > > It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not support

[CentOS] dmarc auth on incoming email

2018-04-25 Thread Fred Smith
ppear to have been updated in several years. while I see that it is still available from epel, I wonder if anyone knows the project status? Is it still active? are there any other viable alternatives? thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

2018-05-09 Thread Fred Smith
dust' at the other end may need > to be ground through another machine so that all parts are less than > some specified size ( I think it was below 0.5 cm x 0.5 cm x0.5cm.) > Then again depending on the data type, those bits are poured into > concrete or taken to a specialized c

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7.5 and Courier 10 Pitch fonts in Libreoffice

2018-05-14 Thread Fred Smith
pt" ... as far as I remember. how about just using the "courier new" that you should get as part of LibreOffice? If you want 10 pitch, try choosing 12 point (and 12-pitch should be 10 point) Fred -- -----

[CentOS] using Skype on C-7

2018-05-14 Thread Fred Smith
as figured out how to configure the system to work with Skype, without having to configure FOUR different applications before it will work. thanks (a lot!) in advance! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The eyes of the Lord are

Re: [CentOS] OT Hardware Forum

2018-05-15 Thread Fred Smith
uit. But I digress... Are you on the Centos team? If so you'll probably see me near the top, even though I haven't folded for some time. Good luck! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - I can do all things through Ch

[CentOS] Yum list installed lies to me

2018-05-26 Thread Fred Smith
I do: yum install wxWidgets wxWidgets-devel it says: Package wxGTK3-3.0.2-15.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package wxGTK3-devel-3.0.2-15.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version so this is confusing to my feeble old brain: what's going on here? -- Fr

Re: [CentOS] Yum list installed lies to me

2018-05-27 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 10:44:51AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 05/26/2018 05:32 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >however if I do: > >yum install wxWidgets wxWidgets-devel > >it says: > >Package wxGTK3-3.0.2-15.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version > >

[CentOS] Yum dependency failure installing latest LibreOffice

2018-05-28 Thread Fred Smith
m, which still gives the same error. Once again, rpm is my friend. Anybody got any ideas what's wrong with my system? (or is yum broken??) thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Do you not know? Have you

Re: [CentOS] Yum dependency failure installing latest LibreOffice

2018-05-29 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 08:21:14PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2018 21:08:26 -0400 > Fred Smith wrote: > > > Trying to install the latest LibreOffice downloaded from Libreoffice.org. > > I had 6.0.1.1 and downloaded 6.4.0.2, and kept getting dependency errors: &

Re: [CentOS] EXTERNAL: Samba issues with Win 10 (one last followup)

2018-06-28 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:50:06PM -0400, mark wrote: > Wells, Roger K. wrote: > > On 06/28/2018 10:35 AM, mark wrote: > >> > >> Just ran into a problem: someone with a new laptop, running Win 10, > >> version 1709, tried to map their home directory (served from a CentOS 6.9 > >> box, and it fails,

Re: [CentOS] Samba issues with Win 10

2018-06-29 Thread Fred Smith
in smb versions set to 3_11 in my smb.conf and it all still seems to work. With 6.9 some of the values/settings may need to be different, but one thing to check when remote stuff doesn't work, and you've checked everything else, is to try with setenforce 0. If it suddenly miraculously w

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + MATE : Folder contents not refreshed in file manager

2018-07-09 Thread Fred Smith
opying a bunch of files from one place into the window, the files do appear in the caja window as they get copied. Sorry, but I don't know what is different about those two activities versus what you describe Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ---

Re: [CentOS] how and where to get libuuid.a

2018-07-17 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:03:29PM +0800, qw wrote: > Hi, > > > I use Centos 7.4, and can find libuuid.so in my OS. how and where to get > libuuid.a? Did you try: yum whatprovides */libuuid.a -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ---

Re: [CentOS] Desktop lag with CentOS7/Mate and high CPU usage

2018-07-18 Thread Fred Smith
s that could be used to > > improve desktop/UI responsiveness with high CPU usage ? > > > > Personally, I would just move to gnmoe3 and use the Gnome Classic desktop. > you're making a couple of assumptions here: 1. that Mate is the cause, and 2. Gnom

[CentOS] odd popups

2018-07-20 Thread Fred Smith
Occasionally and without any action on my part, I get a popup saying I need to authenticate in order to read others' actions. I have no clue what this is for, so I always reject them. Anyone got a clue? Image attached. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.

[CentOS] Screensavers on Centos-7

2018-08-01 Thread Fred Smith
ed time. So, thanks in advance for any assistance! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father wh

Re: [CentOS] Enable FIPS mode for apache?

2018-09-26 Thread Fred Smith
pecific, that is all I know on the topic. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior,

Re: [CentOS] Simple bash question

2018-09-28 Thread Fred Smith
t doing odd things in Bash that might be helpful. Google is your friend. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He

Re: [CentOS] C7 and NVIDIA driver

2018-09-30 Thread Fred Smith
o RHEL7.5 > > * Desktop does not start after upgrading to RHEL7.5 with Nvidia graphics > > driver > > * Black screen after installing Nvidia proprietary graphics module in > > RHEL7.5 > > > > We're using gdm which launches Mate > > > > James Pearson > > ___

Re: [CentOS] 2038 year Problem

2018-10-03 Thread Fred Smith
mitigations. You can't convince me that there aren't a lot of programs and databases/files storing such things. and as time goes by it'll get larger, even before 2038 hits. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "And he will be called Wonderfu

Re: [CentOS] Setting up sendmail to mail system messages on CentOS 6 and 7

2018-10-28 Thread Fred Smith
ress > > That's all. > > ian Probably not helpful, but I run a home mailserver, always used sendmail. Spent 15 years slowly accumulating a functioning sendmail.mc. When I bring up a new system I just carry over the sendmail.mc, compile it, restart sendmail and voila. EL7 was no d

[CentOS] fingerprint reader on C-7 ???

2018-11-03 Thread Fred Smith
software itself. Does anyone here have any better information on if it is possible, and if so, how? thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch

[CentOS] last failed login...

2018-11-10 Thread Fred Smith
ate and time it gives are RIGHT NOW, just at the time I'm logging in (which succeeds). Anybody know why that would be happening? BTW, using the Mate desktop, but did not change the DM, so I think it is still GDM. Thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fc

[CentOS] touchpad problem

2018-11-11 Thread Fred Smith
any of you remind me how to find out the Synaptics model it is, and/or figure out if it would be expected (or not) to support two- finger scrolling? Any advice will be appreciated, thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

[CentOS] off-topic question about RDP to Win-10

2018-11-11 Thread Fred Smith
the win10 box in my office. They don't show any other useful information, and I don't know where to go to figure this out. Anyone out there have any ideas they can share? thanks in advance! Fred -- ---

Re: [CentOS] off-topic question about RDP to Win-10

2018-11-12 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 05:10:50AM -0500, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Fred Smith wrote: > > >I have a win10 VM in virtualbox on my Linux (C7) desktop. I CAN connect > >to it with rdesktop 1.8.3 (now rather old, but it's the latest release), > >but c

Re: [CentOS] off-topic question about RDP to Win-10

2018-11-12 Thread Fred Smith
actually, rdesktop is workig, I just wanted to use remmina instead. another kind sould posted the fix for remmina: in remmina, change security from "negotiate" to "tls" and voila! nks for the reply Fred > On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 5:11 AM wrote: > > > > On Sun, 11 N

Re: [CentOS] touchpad problem

2018-11-12 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 04:07:47PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/11/18 4:31 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >Can any of you remind me how to find out the Synaptics model it is, > >and/or figure out if it would be expected (or not) to support two- > >finger scrolling? > &

Re: [CentOS] touchpad problem

2018-11-18 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 09:16:23AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/12/18 6:50 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >looking in dmesg output for subsets of that I find: > >3.417773] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as > >/devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input5 > ... > >

Re: [CentOS] Update failure: Mate requires libgtop-2.0.so.10

2018-12-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 08:59:22AM -0500, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > In addition, there is a bugzilla report for this: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1644519 I think I'm going to just lie low for a while until the upgrade to 7.6 stabliizes a bit. I have several machines, mostly perso

Re: [CentOS] [OT] EPEL update?

2018-12-08 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 12:56:05PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 12:18, Richard > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2018 17:08:52 + > > > From: Tony Molloy > > > > > > On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 07:44 -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > >> On Mon

Re: [CentOS] A question about why the function "recv" return 0

2018-12-17 Thread Fred Smith
asn't done so, but possibly there are one or more proxies in the middle,... maybe one of them has dropped the link for some reason. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged

[CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-19 Thread Fred Smith
hI ALL! There have been a large enough number of people posting here about difficulties when upgrading from 7. to 7.6 that I'm being somewhat paranoid about it. I have several machines to upgrade, but so far the only one I've dared to work on (least critical if it goes bad) is my new-to-me-but-u

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-20 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 01:50:06PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > hI ALL! > > There have been a large enough number of people posting here about > difficulties when upgrading from 7. to 7.6 that I'm being somewhat paranoid > about it. > > I have several machines to upgrad

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-21 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 06:27:45PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2018-12-19, Fred Smith > wrote: > > [...] > > > Result: Boots to GDM just fine, but Mate is a black screen. Switching > > to Gnome, works fine, but I can't stand Gnome. Not knowing what else

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-21 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 01:06:14PM -0800, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 12/21/18 12:44 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 06:27:45PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >>On 2018-12-19, Fred Smith > >> wrote: > >> > >>[...] > >> >

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 04:33:59PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 01:06:14PM -0800, Alice Wonder wrote: > > On 12/21/18 12:44 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > >On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 06:27:45PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > >>On

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-22 Thread Fred Smith
how to fix it, if it does.) > > > > Suggestions appreciated, in advance! > > > > You might like to try running a different distro on it to check - > possibly run Fedora 29 Live from a USB drive. If that works OK using an > updated Rade

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-25 Thread Fred Smith
tion Time : Wed Dec 2 23:13:22 2015 # mdadm -D /dev/md127 /dev/md127: Version : 1.0 Creation Time : Wed Dec 2 23:13:18 2015 -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD

[CentOS] OT: but if anyone here knows...

2019-01-03 Thread Fred Smith
at else this needs. thanks in advance! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,

[CentOS] bare-metal backup before update--options?

2019-02-11 Thread Fred Smith
ate. Thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be no end. He will reign on David's thron

Re: [CentOS] bare-metal backup before update--options?

2019-02-11 Thread Fred Smith
t; of USB/DVD/CD) and: > > - recover all disks using dd from the backups made before > - reboot and be back on 7.5 > > Any reason why this shouldn't work? Thanks for the reply! by rescue mode, do you mean (1) the "rescue" kernel in the boot menu? Or (2) an option on

[CentOS] odd messages at boot time

2019-02-18 Thread Fred Smith
issue. Anybody got any ideas on what this might be about? thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only h

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-02-27 Thread Fred Smith
no package > kmod-nvidia-340xx available ? > > What did I miss? Thanks, I'd try "yum install kmod-nvidia". ISTR that works. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The Lord is like a strong tower.

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-06 Thread Fred Smith
to install which means that I cant install video > players, vlc smplayer mplayer, orĀ  ffmpeg-libs. I asked the same question recently and Phil informed me that the ocl-icd now comes in one of the nvidia packages, so you no longer need the one from epel. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.s

Re: [CentOS] compile question on CentOS 7

2019-03-17 Thread Fred Smith
lts in: $ ./foo abc abc fnmatch abc, abc returned 0 $ ./foo abc aBc fnmatch abc, aBc returned 0 $ ./foo abc aBcz fnmatch abc, aBcz returned 1 -- --- .Fred Smith / (

[CentOS] http error when updating 7.5 ==> 7.6

2019-03-22 Thread Fred Smith
Was just doing a (very) belated update on a 7.5 system and ran into this set of errors: Package Arch Version Repository Size =

Re: [CentOS] http error when updating 7.5 ==> 7.6

2019-03-25 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 07:32:33AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 3/25/19 6:37 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On 3/23/19 9:19 AM, Bez Thomas wrote: > >>> On Mar 22, 2019, at 9:52 PM, Fred Smith > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Was just d

Re: [CentOS] http error when updating 7.5 ==> 7.6

2019-03-26 Thread Fred Smith
However, I'm sure there are users on limited connections (either monthly cap > or slow) who appreciate the deltarpms who are not on this list to cast their > vote. > > I suppose the only way to find out is to take them away and if there is > outcry, put the

Re: [CentOS] epel-repository | repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404

2019-04-18 Thread Fred Smith
n I first run a yum command, but if, after it errors out, I run it again, then heck, it works fine. have you tried rerunning the yum command? I've never bothered to report the problem to epel because it is easy to work around (and I'm lazy), but if you can't get around it, you may wi

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 8 released

2019-05-07 Thread Fred Smith
amount of work to get it ready, so lets all refrain from bugging the developers, please? > When epel repository will be usable with C8? Whenever it's ready... -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "Not everyone who says to me, 'L

[CentOS] JavaFX on C7 ?

2019-05-12 Thread Fred Smith
screwing up my system. Thanks in advance! Fred PS: I see openjfx at openjfx.io. I assume that if this version is appropriate for C7, that I need the one containing the jmods, not the SDK? Again, clues will be much appreciated! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome

Re: [CentOS] JavaFX on C7 ?

2019-05-13 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 02:11:42PM +, Denniston, Todd A CIV USN NSWC CD CRANE ID (USA) wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2019-05-12 at 21:52 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > I'm getting: > > > > > > Error: JavaFX runt

[CentOS] multilib problem during "yum update"

2019-05-26 Thread Fred Smith
go I finally excluded libgpg from the updates, hoping there was some mirror problem that would go away, but apparently not. I can't see any reason why having both i686 and x86_64 is a problem, I'm hoping someone here can enlighten me. thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre..

Re: [CentOS] Question about ntp

2019-05-27 Thread Fred Smith
ected. Since it is now the default NTP provider for EL7 I use it again, and it still works fine for my needs. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The Lord is like a strong tower. Thos

Re: [CentOS] Question about ntp

2019-05-27 Thread Fred Smith
local time server and it worked great for that purpose. It's hard to imagine that someone would have REMOVED that ability in the intervening years -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty G

Re: [CentOS] multilib problem during "yum update"

2019-05-28 Thread Fred Smith
from having disabled it, I'll do a closer study of the priorities. thanks for the rap on the head! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence

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

2019-06-04 Thread Fred Smith
a really dog-slow dual-core Atom maxed out with a whopping 2Gig of RAM, the drpms seems to take forever to finish the rebuild. I suspect for me it'd be faster to just download the full RPM. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Re: [CentOS] Alternitives to Firefox...

2019-06-26 Thread Fred Smith
r even if it works on C6. A potential problem is that everybody (even MS!!) except firefox uses the same browser engine, and that is one developed by Google who seems determined to take over the web just like MS tried with IE. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.st

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

2019-07-05 Thread Fred Smith
of RAM. it would run for a little while, pause for a minute or two while the hard drive went chunka-chunka, then eventually come back to life. not pleasant. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - But God demonstrates his own love f

Re: [CentOS] Mate on Centos 7

2019-07-15 Thread Fred Smith
I use MATE on C7, because Gnome is, how do I say this politely..., um, horrible. Not a KDE fan either. Gnome-2.x wasn't broken, didn't need to be thrown away and replaced by something completely different. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ---

Re: [CentOS] Mate on Centos 7

2019-07-15 Thread Fred Smith
e in Bugzilla. > >> > >>Not much else you can do here. It's not part of CentOS, and is up to > >>the EPEL maintainers to upgrade. > >> > >>1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1729951 > >> > >>-- > >>Jo

[CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-01 Thread Fred Smith
nassigned and unused port. Anyone got any clues? Thanks in advance! Fred -- ------- .Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / // / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us // (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-02 Thread Fred Smith
ry fails me as to exactly when that was, but it may have been as much as 20 years ago, certainly at least 15. so I've had that address for long enough that there shouldn't be any botnets thinking that I am one of its command/control servers.

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:28:23AM -0400, mark wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 08:22:06AM +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > >> > >>> This is just the first screen of it, there are many more. The data > >>> compiled here is for th

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-02 Thread Fred Smith
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 wrote: > > > > > One thing I don't understand is how/why the firew

[CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-05 Thread Fred Smith
to "beats me" which is where I am now). I'm even wondering if systemd has something to do with it. Thanks in advance! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - But God demonstrates his own love for us in

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-05 Thread Fred Smith
and there's no evidence of a memory shortage. > > From: CentOS on behalf of Fred Smith > > Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2019 10:57 AM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] another bizarre thing... > > Hi all! > > I

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 05:27:54AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > > > no core file (yes, ulimit is configured) yeah, I meant "ulimit -c unlimited" is in effect. I had no idea systemd had made such a drastic change. or

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 03:49:29PM +, James Pearson wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: > > > > Hi all! > > > > I'm stuck on something really bizarre that is happening to a product > > I "own" at work. It's a C program, built on CentOS, runs on

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-06 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 03:18:06PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Aug 6, 2019, at 7:59 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 05:27:54AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > >> On Aug 5, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Fred Smith > >> wrote: > >>>

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 09:02:37PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Aug 6, 2019, at 8:48 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > > > Setting up as you described earlier, is there a way to allow only > > a single program to drop core? > > Of course. > > The * in the limits.d

Re: [CentOS] Mate on Centos 7

2019-08-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 09:10:17AM -0700, Greg Bailey wrote: > On 8/7/19 8:02 AM, isdtor wrote: > >isdtor writes: > > > Can I really be the only user of Mate on Centos 7?? > >>>No, definitely not. I use MATE on C7, because Gnome is, how do I > >>>say this politely..., um, horrible. Not a KDE fa

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:57:45PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm stuck on something really bizarre that is happening to a product > I "own" at work. It's a C program, built on CentOS, runs on CentOs or > RHEL, has been in circulation since the ear

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-08 Thread Fred Smith
let them install the latest version for 6 and see what happens, but so far, no joy. Fred > Subject: Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing... > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:57:45PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I'm stuck on something really bizarre that

[CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-10 Thread Fred Smith
ot;. what the hey? I tried "yum clean all" but it didn't help. I also verified the sha256sum of the download. Anyone got any good advice? thanks in advance! Fred -- -----

Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-11 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 01:51:21PM +1000, Bill Maidment wrote: > On 11/08/2019 1:25 pm, Frank Cox wrote: > >On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:37:13 -0400 > >Fred Smith wrote: > > > >>unpack all the rpm files, type "yum install *.rpm", or "yum > >>local

Re: [CentOS] another bizarre thing...

2019-08-11 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:16:35AM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:57:45PM -0400, Fred Smith > (fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us) wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I'm stuck on something really bizarre that is happening to a product > >

Re: [CentOS] failure to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-12 Thread Fred Smith
weird that yum reacts the way it does. -- --- .Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / // / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us // (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 --

Re: [CentOS] OT: mostly gone

2019-08-20 Thread Fred Smith
to kill them, I can say, no: > I've been with the NIH, and so, yes, I really meant it. > > I'll show up occasionally, but not like I have been. > > So long, and thanks for all the fish. > > mark > > _

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 will be released soon?

2019-08-28 Thread Fred Smith
ssment in the > > United States. > > > I'm with Nicolas Kovacs. I thought your post was factual and funny. I > felt the reply you got was kinda rude and I had the impression the poster > didn't actually read what you wrote, preferring to infer insult where none > wa

Re: [CentOS] why windows 10 can't access centos samba

2019-09-12 Thread Fred Smith
that we can take > a look. There are so many ways to operate Samba that it is impossible > to help without. You should also ensure you're not suffering a selinux blockage. I've had that happen with Samba. Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

[CentOS] conflicts in updating to CR repo

2019-09-14 Thread Fred Smith
30.40-2.el7 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem Thanks in advance for advice! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; Guide me in your t

[CentOS] RPMDB problem

2019-09-14 Thread Fred Smith
of them. what's the best/proper way to deal with this? -remove both, reinstall one? -remove one? which one? I don't see a feature in rpm (or yum) for removing a single one of duplicate packages. How? Thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ---

Re: [CentOS] What about Mate Desktop on Centos 8?

2019-09-16 Thread Fred Smith
gt; then? I hope it hasn't died since that's what I use for all of my computers. For Centos 7, I use Mate from the epel repo. I assume it'll eventually appear there for C8 as well. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Do you n

Re: [CentOS] What about Mate Desktop on Centos 8?

2019-09-16 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 09:39:58PM -0400, H wrote: > On September 16, 2019 8:06:41 PM GMT-04:00, Fred Smith > wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 04:18:31PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > >> According to Twitter: > >> > >> https://mobile.twitter.com/C

Re: [CentOS] conflicts in updating to CR repo

2019-09-18 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 07:20:35PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote: > On 14/09/2019 19:06, Fred Smith wrote: > >Note, first of all I haven't actually updated, I'm just running "yum update" > >to see what conflicts, if any, I get so I can be prepared when the final

Re: [CentOS] conflicts in updating to CR repo

2019-09-19 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 12:10:41PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 9/18/19 5:48 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 07:20:35PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote: > >> On 14/09/2019 19:06, Fred Smith wrote: > >>> Note, first of all I haven't actu

[CentOS] deprecations leading up to C8

2019-09-19 Thread Fred Smith
s in advancce! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ---

[CentOS] selinux reports

2019-09-19 Thread Fred Smith
this file: /run/xtables.lock Having no clue what xtables-multi is, or why or even if it should be able to open that file, I am at a loss: should I take action to enable it, or not? Thanks in advance! Fred -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.

Re: [CentOS] Brother HL-L2360DW printing quality

2019-09-19 Thread Fred Smith
find out if any particular document contains embedded fonts, but I imagine there are tools that will report that. Good luck! Fred > > _______ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/ce

Re: [CentOS] deprecations leading up to C8

2019-09-20 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 02:49:36PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 2019-09-20 12:06, schrieb Randal, Phil: > >When I migrated our mx boxes from CentOS 5 to 7 I made the leap to > >postfix. > > > >I built a test server with postfix etc on it and threw everything I > >could think of at it before

Re: [CentOS] deprecations leading up to C8

2019-09-20 Thread Fred Smith
#x27;t in the default installation. > > On 9/19/19 6:04 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > Was reading the long list of things being deprecated in the RHEL 8 > > release notes t'other day, and saw my old friend sendmail on the list. > > > > I've stuck by her because

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