folks,Are there any Oracle Linux users here? What are you doing with EPEL? Do you use Fedora EPEL, or Oracle EPEL? What are your reasons for using one or the other?I am aware that these two repos are quite similar, but not identical.Rega..
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folks,After doing a minimal CentOS 8.4 installation, I found the following packages to be useful for a simple server, so I removed them:cronie-anacron (replaced with cronie-noanacron)alsa-firmware ivtv-firmware iwl*-firmware sssd-common (along with ..
I just installed CentOS 8 in a VirtualBox VM, to explore it. Immediately, I noticed something strange. I insatlled it using a kickstart file, whose partitioning section is this:zerombr clearpart –all –initlabel reqpart –add-boot part pv.01 –ondisk=/dev/..
folks,RHEL 7 documentation says that if either ntp or chrony is running on a system, then it will enable the kernel feature to sync system time to the hardware clock every 11 minutes. This needs the CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHCoption to be set.However, it lo..
Were using ansible to configure our CentOS 6 servers, and we have a task to install a specific version of a package:- name: install thrift2yum: name=ripencc-thrift2-{{ version }}In this ansible task, the version variable is set by the operator. W..
folks,Ive got a Dell R320 running CentOS 7, and a 10G NIC. Im running a DNSserver on it, for testing. As part of my testing, Im attempting to capture all the DNS queries arriving on the server, using tcpdump. However, tcpdumps performance is abysm..
Dear folks,After updating some of our servers to CentOS 6.8, weve noticed that the ones using pam_sss.so for authentication, appear to be suffering from a leak of sorts.On these systems, the /var partition is running out of disk space, and we eventua..
Dear CentOS hive mind,Im trying to package up a perl module into an RPM for easy deployment. I want it to be as self-contained as possible (to avoid version issues with perl modules in base or EPEL). So in my spec file, Im doing:curl -L http://cpanmin..
folks,I have an existing CentOS 7.2 system, that I want to re-install. Icopied /vmlinuz and /initrd.img into /boot, place my kickstart file into/boot, and created a grub2 menu entry for this, as follows:menuentry Install CentOS 7 {insmod gzioinsmod part_gptins..
Dear CentOS folk,Ive been try to solve one issue with rsyslog on CentOS 6, but cant figure it out. Ive searched through rsyslog documentation, and used Google but not found anything that matches my issue.Im sending output of a program to rsyslog us..
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