Archives : November-2020
I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core). Is there a way to upgrade OpenSSH version openssh-7.4p1-21.el7.x86_64 to the latest stable version openssh-server 8.4 using yum repositories or rpm binaries?Best Regar..
Ive started migrating my sites to mariadb which is supposed to be a drop-in replacement of mysql. Both run on the same C6 box. DB folders were moved to a new location after both DB servers were stopped and properly upgraded. There were no reboots..
Heres a question to the fine-tuning gurus. Yesterday while installing a fresh CentOS server, I wondered how big of a deal the physical position of the swap partition on the disk is. Heres an example of a simple MBR partitioning scheme on a legacy B..
Ive always been a bit puzzled by the fact that Anaconda provides no option to manually create a partition table and specify if its MBR or GPT. From what I can tell – at least under CentOS 7.x – Anaconda will default to MBR, even if I specify a BIOS B..
Im currently trying to solve a tricky problem, and I dont even know if its possible. Let me describe the situation with a practical example. In my office I have a sandbox PC for testing various setups that cant be tested in a virtual machine. Im us..
Running CentOS 7 I have a previously combined backup of a disk with three partitions using dd. I now need to restore one single file from this backup and after perusing the internet, specifically https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31669/is-it-possible-to-mount-a-gzip-compressed-dd-image-on-the-f..
I ran into an odd issue on CentOS 8, anyone seen this?When repos are configured to use baseurl instead of mirrorlist, the ansible dnf module fails.It is as if it is ignoring the baseurl configuration.#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.CentOS.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$bas..
I stumbled on this today. https://www.hostwinds.com/guide/upgrading-from-CentOS-7-to-8/I understand the best is always a re-install…. But are these steps the next best thing to update from 7 to 8 ?Th..
I want to replace my hard drives based SW RAID-1 with SSDs.What would be the recommended procedure?Can I just remove one drive, replace with SSD and rebuild, then repeat with the other drive?Th..
Im currently running CentOS 8 off an SD card. It, unlike F32, lets me use my monitors full 1440 x 900.Both seem to use defaults and EDID, but F32 gets it wrong and saddles me with 640 x 480when I can find the incantation to have it run at all. The configurat..
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