Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-02-23 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > https://www.eduroam.org/ > > > > I configure wireless once on my device (phone/tablet/laptop) and then can > > travel to institutions all round the world and use their networks > > seamlessly. > > How useless and infeasible indeed. > > Well, this country "this country"? > is almost th

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-02-23 Thread Pete Biggs
> There are devices that are using PXE-boot and require access to the company > LAN. > If I was to allow PXE-boot for unauthenticated devices, the whole thing would > be > pointless because it would defeat any security advantage that could be gained > by > requiring all devices and users to be

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-02-23 Thread Pete Biggs
> MAC addresses could be faked. > > > The PXE protocol, as far as I can see, has no concept of authorisation > > - although its certainly possible to introduce it after PXE has done > > its bit (but before imaging or whatever). > > > > You may be better off with authenticating the DHCP using RAD

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-02-23 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Yes, I do it frequently with my phone. You do it once and it remembers > > it. My phone is more often on wifi than on 4G when I'm in a town. > > And you need to install certificates or enter a password or something? Yes. Just once, then things are remembered and you can seemlessly roam betwe

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-02-23 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > A prerequisite for PXE is DHCP - by the time your device does anything > > with PXE it's already accessed the network and got an IP address and so > > on. There is absolutely no way to prohibit access to your network > > without first allowing the device some access to your network in order

Re: [CentOS] Set LANG on CentOS 6 server

2018-02-24 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 12:43 +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 24/02/2018 à 10:33, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit : > > I replaced fr_FR.UTF8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n and /boot/grub/grub.conf. > > Unfortunately, when I reboot the system, I still get this: > > > > # echo $LANG > > fr_FR.UTF-8 > > > > Any sug

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> > What do you want? > > I was asking for documentation telling me how RADIUS can be used, not only > that it can be used. RADIUS is just an authentication (plus a bit more) protocol - what you are asking is like asking how LDAP can be used. Usually it's treated like a magic black box by applic

Re: [CentOS] RADIUS

2018-03-02 Thread Pete Biggs
> That´s not my problem to solve, but think about it: You can get a lot more > information using CCTV cameras, and those are everywhere. Unfortunately, > nobody cares, and it´s not like you have a choice. So why would there > be any legal issues? It's called "A Law". Different places have diff

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: install python package in userspace

2018-04-06 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2018-04-06 at 11:50 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Fri, April 6, 2018 11:42 am, Richard Demeny wrote: > > Just sudo it > > This is exactly why I have big reservation in giving users sudo > permissions. If they need sudo on UNIX or Linux for small thing like this, > then they have no ide

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: install python package in userspace

2018-04-07 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2018-04-07 at 12:23 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: > > Am 07.04.2018 um 01:41 schrieb Pete Biggs : > > > > On Fri, 2018-04-06 at 11:50 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > On Fri, April 6, 2018 11:42 am, Richard Demeny wrote: > > > > Just sudo it >

Re: [CentOS] XScreenSaver

2018-04-09 Thread Pete Biggs
> It's not rocket science: someone on your distro's team just needs to > update it ONCE A YEAR. If that is too onerous for them, then I'd prefer > that they not distribute my software at all. And that just goes to show that he knows not what CentOS is - since clearly he doesn't realise that it is

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: install python package in userspace

2018-04-10 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2018-04-09 at 09:15 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Sat, 7 Apr 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > Does CentOS changed the package management? :-) > > > > Quite. > > > > This is not an Ubuntu dig, but when I challenge some of the users >

Re: [CentOS] yum excludes

2018-04-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Every yum command returns "nvidia excluding" lines, and those items > are invisible for installation, see lower. > I have no idea where those excludes are defined. > > -- > [root@gbw-d-l0070 ~]# yum update > Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fast

Re: [CentOS] tftpd server S not responding

2018-04-19 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 20:52 -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Steven Tardy wrote: > > > Reading back through prior emails. . . TFTP client requests packets *are* > > making it to the TFTP server. So it seems like something on the TFTP server > > itself. > > > > Right.

Re: [CentOS] Enterprise company using CentOS

2018-04-19 Thread Pete Biggs
> We are about to create a business case for migrate RHEL to CentOS for all or > a subset of our RHEL holdings. I have two questions that I hope to get help > answering. > > 2. Suggestion/recommendation of vendors that can provide support for CentOs. > Forgive me if I'm being a bit naive, but su

Re: [CentOS] Network Performance

2018-04-30 Thread Pete Biggs
> There were dozens of examples of such ftp tests with varying > block sizes, bidirectional transfers, destination files on > RAID storage, and a mix of some system loading programs run > independently and during the network performance testing. > Also archived were a full complement of network te

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

2018-05-09 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 13:00 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: > > Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen : > > > > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, wrote: > > > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it > > > yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal

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

2018-05-12 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2018-05-12 at 18:50 +0100, Phil Wyett wrote: > On Sat, 2018-05-12 at 12:17 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Everyone, > > > > With the update to Centos 7.5 it is apparent that we lost the Courier > > 10 Pitch fonts that were in "xorg-x11-fonts-Type1". Does anyone know > > how to get thi

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

2018-05-12 Thread Pete Biggs
> > With the update to Centos 7.5 it is apparent that we lost the Courier > 10 Pitch fonts that were in "xorg-x11-fonts-Type1". Does anyone know > how to get this back. > As far as I can see they are still there: # cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) # rpm -q

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

2018-05-12 Thread Pete Biggs
> See subject line for libreoffice reference. > I would claim that it's late - except it isn't and I'm just going blind. Sorry. P. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Squid and log files

2018-05-15 Thread Pete Biggs
> I don't know if the compressed and archived *.gz log files are supposed > to be erased some time. Anyway, I'd like to make sure they are kept at > least for one full year. > > Where is this defined ? > It's the logrotate system. Look in /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/ and 'man logr

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd vs. iptables firewall script

2018-05-23 Thread Pete Biggs
> Doesn't work. I redirected all my errors to /var/log/messages, so here's > what I get when I try to connect Filezilla to that server. > > May 23 16:48:58 c7-server kernel: +++ IPv4 packet rejected +++ IN=enp0s3 > OUT= MAC=08:00:27:00:00:03:d4:85:64:b2:b2:1b:08:00 SRC=192.168.2.2 > DST=192.168.2

Re: [CentOS] Questions about yum-cron

2018-06-03 Thread Pete Biggs
> > 2. It looks like editing /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf affects a *daily* > operation of yum-cron, whereas editing /etc/yum/yum-cron- > hourly.conf provides hourly operations. The documentation is not very > clear about this, and I'm a little confused here. In other words, > yum-cron.conf affects /e

Re: [CentOS] installing perl-CPAN without perl-local-lib

2018-06-04 Thread Pete Biggs
> Any ideas on how I can get to do the simple task of installing these modules > system wide? There's lots of info on it on the web. For the definitive answers look long the local::lib pages on CPAN - basically there are environment variables you can set to say where things are to be installed.

Re: [CentOS] dumb shared library question

2018-06-26 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 21:36 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote: > Binary compiled on a system with ggc 5.5.0 w/ libstdc++.so.6.0.21 > > Because the major version is libstdc++.so.6 there shouldn't be any > problems running it on CentOS 7 with libstdc++.so.6.0.19, right? 'Fraid not - there are sub versions

Re: [CentOS] cron.daily and others, not running

2018-07-02 Thread Pete Biggs
> > So, service is running but what could happen that makes /etc/cron.* not > being fired? You don't say, but if this is CentOS 7, then cron.daily/weekly/monthly is run using anacron, not cron. It's configured in /etc/anacrontab and is usually run once a day by the script /etc/cron.hourly/0ana

Re: [CentOS] cron.daily and others, not running

2018-07-02 Thread Pete Biggs
> > For the record: > # service anacron status > Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status anacron.service > Unit anacron.service could not be found. > You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root It's not a service. As I said, it's run using a script in /etc/cron.hourly > > Sure, anacron is not install

Re: [CentOS] Bash question

2018-07-06 Thread Pete Biggs
> I am trying to make a variable containing spaces which is MSG. Then add to > that variable the argument csv. The "echo" above prints the write stuff. > But when I try to use it in the last command its no longer valid and says > Source file could not be loaded. > > What am I missing? much sea

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-12 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > Kernel driver in use: i915 > > Kernel modules: i915 > The i915 driver is fairly rock solid - virtually all desktop machines these days have on-board Intel video, it's the lowest common denominator. And your chipset is not exactly cutting edge stuff. Are there any erro

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-12 Thread Pete Biggs
> > A long shot is the theme. Are you using some non-standard theme on your > > desktop? > > What is a theme? It's how the desktop looks - colours, icons, widgets that sort of thing. Complex themes have a "theme engine" underneath that does a lot of the hard work of drawing things on the scree

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-12 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 09:06 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > For some reason you say you disliked Gnome - but does Gnome show issues > > (they use the same video driver)? > > No, neither gnome nor gnome-classic. > One of

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-15 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7. I meant to use a live DVD from some other distro so that it had differently compiled drivers - the idea was to eliminate (or otherwise) the drivers from CentOS 7. > It would not do videos at all. > It claimed it did not have mp4 codecs. > It

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-15 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2018-07-15 at 09:06 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > I tried the live DVD from which I installed C7. > > > > I meant to use a live DVD from some other distro so that it had > > differently compiled driver

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> > What it actually does is to download Fedora Media Writer which when run > > downloads the correct image and writes it to a memory stick. > > Won't boot for me. > I keep getting kernel panics and am real tired of the power button. > I have to boot C6 with acpi=off, but that did not help. > >

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-21 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 10:10 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > Check your hardware - all these things might well be symptomatic of an > > hardware issue. > > I'm not at all sure how. > If it means opening the case, >

Re: [CentOS] bad text under KDE and C7

2018-07-21 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I don't necessarily mean the video - kernel panics are rarely to do > > with something that far removed from the CPU. I mean test the hardware > > of your computer. > > I'll do the testing suggested. The machine is rather old. > HP Compaq dc5800 sff (small form factor) > I would not be surp

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-07-25 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I did find where the mail is going. I found it in /Maildir/new/ Yes, that's how Maildir mail works - delivery to a Maildir folder means that the mail is put in Maildir/new until it is seen, when it is moved to Maildir/cur via Maildir/tmp - it's complicated, but it's necessary in order to m

Re: [CentOS] how to update python 2.7.5 to python 2.7.15 on centos 7.4

2018-08-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> > How to update python 2.7.5 to python 2.7.15 on centos 7.4? > It is unwise and probably almost impossible to update the system version of python - so much depends on it and being python, it depends on that specific version. (If you try and do 'yum erase python' it won't do it because yum it

[CentOS] SSSD and cache persistence

2018-08-06 Thread Pete Biggs
ut surely there is a better way of SSSD actually realising that a user has been deleted from LDAP? Pete ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SSSD and cache persistence

2018-08-07 Thread Pete Biggs
> If the cache is invalid SSS will, obviously, go back to the source and > return the information there, however, bizarrely, if the original > source doesn't have the information (like when a user is deleted) the > cached information is still returned. That cached information is > retained for ev

Re: [CentOS] SSSD and cache persistence

2018-08-07 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 19:55 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/06/2018 03:16 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: > > If the cache is invalid SSS will, obviously, go back to the source and > > return the information there, however, bizarrely, if the original > > source doesn't have th

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> I have removed DNS3 from ifcfg-eno1 and set ONBOOT=no in ifcfg- > enp1so0, reboot and still can't read mail. Logging into roundcube > either times out or if I get in, the inbox is empty. > So, again, what do the dovecot logs say? How is roundcube setup? Specifically what is the IMAP server s

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> Here's the link for the maillog: > > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/kbH2N9Pc~JPuCqVpE1kszQ OK. There are a couple of things: Aug 23 21:47:18 ts130 postfix/smtpd[3750]: warning: hostname localhost does not resolve to address 127.0.0.1 Aug 23 21:47:18 ts130 postfix/smtpd[3750]: c

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > OK. There are a couple of things: > > > >Aug 23 21:47:18 ts130 postfix/smtpd[3750]: warning: hostname localhost > > does not resolve to address 127.0.0.1 > >Aug 23 21:47:18 ts130 postfix/smtpd[3750]: connect from > > unknown[127.0.0.1] > > > > That needs to be fixed. What does the e

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I think part of the problem is that 'localhost' is being interpreted as > > the IPv6 loopback device ::1 and not the v4 127.0.0.1 - it may be that > > roundcube has got a wrong mailhost stored. Try running the following > > SQL command on your roundcube database: > > > > mysql --user=rc -p

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-25 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > > > Can you reach localhost by "normal" means? > > > > telnet localhost 25 > > > > > > I cannot. > > > > > > Can you share the specific output of the command? It might help. From > > what you've told us, localhost resolves to the IPv6 local address, and > > that address is prese

Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working

2018-08-25 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > On 08/25/2018 03:35 AM, TE Dukes wrote: > > > > Can't say that's what I expected. What about "getent hosts 127.0.0.1"? > > > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > > > OK. /etc/hosts isn't being used. You indicated earlier that you had > > more hostnames in that file. They should show

Re: [CentOS] Certificates

2018-09-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> > so - if you want to get certificates for an imap only server, you will > have to setup an webserver for the challenge. or deal with your dns server. > Having just setup up some LetsEncrypt certificates on a CentOS server: Certbot automates the process - if you have a webserver running, it

Re: [CentOS] Certificates

2018-09-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Your IMAP server can use those files and may then respond to > requests for IMAP over SSL/TLS on e.g. port 993. Port 143 is for > unencrypted IMAP, so in that case certificates are not relevant at > all. Well, apart from STARTTLS ... P. ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] Certificates

2018-09-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> > And for other services like IMAP, SMTP, LDAP (maybe not LDAP) constant > changing certs even with a long lived root may get old for your customers. Why? I have corporate systems on 2 year commercial CA signed certificates and personal servers on 90 day LetsEncrypt ones - my users of IMAP a

Re: [CentOS] ca-bundle questions

2018-09-12 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2018-09-11 at 19:38 -0500, Chuck Campbell wrote: > Sometime in Feb, yum updated something to do with ca-bundle. I didn't > notice at the time, but it put these two files on my machine: > > /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.trust.crt.rpmnew and > > /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt.rpmnew > >

Re: [CentOS] ca-bundle questions

2018-09-12 Thread Pete Biggs
You need to dig deeper - I will give you a start ... > > > Sometime in Feb, yum updated something to do with ca-bundle. The "something" is the ca-certificates.noarch rpm. It is updated every year around May. The last update was around May 16th this year. Not February. > > > I didn't > > > no

Re: [CentOS] postgresql Service Blind

2018-09-13 Thread Pete Biggs
> > When I nmap the CentOS box, I can’t see that port open. I’ve turned > off SELinux, so I’m not sure why I can’t see the open port 5432. > > What am I missing? It has to be something I’ve overlooked. > In postgresql.conf change the listen_address to be listen_address = '*' by default it

Re: [CentOS] Very weird problem with handling symbolic links

2018-09-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> > $ mkdir test_link > $ cd test_link/ > $ ln -s /tmp/ link_to_tmp > $ ls -l > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 kikinovak kikinovak 5 Sep 17 10:56 link_to_tmp -> /tmp/ > $ rm link_to_tmp/ > rm: cannot remove ‘link_to_tmp/’: Is a directory > $ rmdir link_to_tmp/ > rmdir: failed to remo

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux distros?

2018-10-16 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 05:54 +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Good afternoon from Singapore, > > What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux distros? > > Is systemd implemented in all the latest Linux distros? > > Please advise. Thank you. > I really thin

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7.6 released

2018-10-31 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2018-10-30 at 14:14 -0700, Yan Li wrote: > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/7.6_release_notes/ > > They silently rebased GNOME to 3.28, which wasn't in the 7.6 beta nor in > the release notes. Can't wait to see it on my desktop. Too bad

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024

2018-11-03 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2018-11-03 at 10:44 +0100, Walter H. wrote: > On 02.11.2018 21:02, Frank Cox wrote: > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/ > > > > That's still several years in the future, of course. > > > > But it's interesting nonetheless. > by reading between the lines this

Re: [CentOS] reading old dump backups from 2009

2018-11-03 Thread Pete Biggs
> > restore tvf u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump Verify tape and initialize maps > Input is from a local file/pipe > Checksum error 2030402, inode 0 file (null) > restore: Tape is not a dump tape what does 'file' think the file is - i.e. what does file u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump say? > > > Here'

Re: [CentOS] Evolution: always a 90-second delay

2018-11-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Whenever I try to receive or send mail, there's always a 90-second > delay before the connection works. Since the delay is always exactly > 90 seconds, I think I may be waiting for something to time out. > > Perhaps this is a clue. My address is u...@example.com. I have to log > in to pop.e

Re: [CentOS] In centos, how to switch to default gcc after switched to a higher version of gcc with devtoolset.

2018-12-01 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2018-12-01 at 11:03 +0800, yf chu wrote: > I want to install several gcc with different versions in centos. The > default version of gcc in centos6 is 4.9.3. So I use devtoolset > install a higher version of gcc. Then I switch to the higher version > of gcc by executing "source /opt/rh/devt

Re: [CentOS] Centos7 broken after update

2018-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
> > thanks for the suggestion. Indeed it seems I have a problem with > glibc. Version is different between x86_64 and i386 and I have two > glibc-common for x86_64. > Trying to remove the old one request removing half of the system > packages because of the dependancies. The newest cannot be re

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.5 Linux box got infected with Watchbog malware

2018-12-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> Is there a way to find out how the CentOS 7.5 Linux box got infected with > malware? > Currently i am referring to > http://sudhakarbellamkonda.blogspot.com/2018/11/blocking-watchbog-malwareransomware.html > to carry out the below steps and is done manually. > > 1)rm -fr /tmp/*timesyncc.servic

Re: [CentOS] Spamassassin + Postfix : delete spam mail on the server ?

2018-12-18 Thread Pete Biggs
> The problem with this setup is that spam mail is still delivered, and I > need Thunderbird's filters to weed out incoming mail. And when I'm using > my webmail (running SquirrelMail), my inbox is a tsunami of unread > [SPAM] messages. > > So I'd like to go a step further and delete all message

Re: [CentOS] upgrading 7.5 ==> 7.6

2018-12-22 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Then I ran the upgrade, which went without any notable issues. Reboot > works fine. the X login screen appears, I enter my credentials and log > in. It goes through a lot of motions and eventually stops with the > snowy/gray background from the Plymouth boot screen, but with nothing > at all

Re: [CentOS] compiling fedora srpm on CentOS

2018-12-27 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2018-12-27 at 20:56 +0530, sthustfo wrote: > I tried installing fedora grpc srpm on CentOS and ran into following error > when installing srpm. I understand fedora makes use of more recent versions > of openssl, glibc etc but why should this happen when installing source rpm? > > Any point

Re: [CentOS] kickstart configuration is working fine but some questions

2018-12-28 Thread Pete Biggs
> 1) > The installation stops in the last screen "installation finished" and > doesn't switch to the login-screen. It won't "switch" to the login screen - the system will reboot if you have the command "reboot" in the kickstart file. > 2) > How can I configure the profile for users to answer al

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade CentOS 7.4 to 7.5 and don't want to upgrade it to 7.6

2019-01-07 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > Is there a way to upgrade from Centos Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) > to Centos Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) as we will not avail support if we > upgrade it to CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) as per the software > requirements of the product. I look forward to hearing from you. >

Re: [CentOS] How do I remove a kernel

2019-01-08 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 17:22 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have 4 kernels in /boot, leaving on 20MB which is not enough for the > next one. > > I had installonly_limit= set at 5, as there were some kernel problems. > After I got the error that there was not enough room for another kernel,

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart finishing Installation

2019-01-09 Thread Pete Biggs
> which switch is the right one for Centos 7.6 to finish the > installation. > Every Installation needs an acknowledgement at the end when the > network configuration is shown while installing with grafics. > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/installa

Re: [CentOS] Yum excluding packages I need

2019-01-11 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2019-01-11 at 11:41 -0500, mark wrote: > C7, and I did a yum update --disableexcludes=all, and yet it's telling me > [nvidia]: excluding kmod-nvidia-410.66-1.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 > [nvidia]: excluding kmod-nvidia-410.73-1.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 > [nvidia]: excluding kmod-nvidia-410.73-2.el7_6.e

Re: [CentOS] Yum excluding packages I need

2019-01-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Ok, final resolution: reinstalled the 390... and there's no driver for the > current kernel. I did an rpm -ql, and it's for an 862 kernel. > > Time to remove, and go to the proprietary (this server has two Tesla > cards, and uses CUDA). > Definitely. If you are using CUDA with Tesla cards

Re: [CentOS] C 7 and gssproxy

2019-01-28 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 00:04 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 1/25/19 10:27 AM, mark wrote: > > Ok, folks, > > > > I brought this up some time ago, and got no replies. We have a good > > number of systems - > 100 - and we use sssd. On the C 7 boxen, which is > > most of them, gssproxy *

[CentOS] CentOS 7, rsyslog and redis

2019-02-09 Thread Pete Biggs
TL;DR: Is there a sensible way to get rsyslog to talk to redis on CentOS 7. The official way is to use the omhiredis plugin, but that doesn't seem to exist in the CentOS 7 repositories? (It's how I do it on my Fedora box.) The long version: I'm trying to rationalise logging and am using an ELK

Re: [CentOS] Question about updates

2019-02-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> as a beginner using centos I‘ve a question about updates. > What it the right repo for getting all security and other updates? > http://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/linux/distributions/centos/7.6.1810/updates/ > for example? > A default install of CentOS is configured to use the "best" mirror for u

Re: [CentOS] Question about updates

2019-02-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> Hallo. > thanks to all for the answers. > One aspect is unclear for me. Updates are published using the update- > directory like the one in my question? > Yes, there is a "base" repo which is what is used as a fresh install for that particular version of CentOS. The "updates" repo contains th

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] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-06 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
-icd --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: nvidia-x11-drv-340xx conflicts with ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.el7.x86_64 I removed ocl-icd and installed the package, but needless to say I can't get ocl-icd to install which means that I cant install video players, vlc smplayer mplayer, or  ffmpeg-lib

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-06 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 03/06/2019 09:59 AM, Fred Smith wrote: I tried to install this and ran into a conflict --> Processing Conflict: nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-340.107-2.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64 conflicts ocl-icd --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: nvidia-x11-drv-340xx conflicts with ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.el7.x86_64 I

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-06 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 03/06/2019 04:21 PM, Phil Perry wrote: On 06/03/2019 19:30, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: That is all good and well, but my problem is that I now can't install vlc smplayer mplayer, or  ffmpeg-libs because they need ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.el7.x86_64from epel. I tried to roll back to the pre

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] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-11 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
7_6.elrepo Needless to say I'm a tad confused. Pete -- Unencumbered by the thought process. -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___

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

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