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Okay, I made a foolish mistake a few months ago and upgraded my perfectly running CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 and have been struggling ever since. Looking to upgade to AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux. I have a number of things I need to clean up on this system bef..

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I need to schedule a process/program every hour on the hour between 9am and 4pm on the 2nd through the 9th of each month except on Saturday and Sunday.  So, I tried this entry: 0 9-16 2-9 * 1-5 ./myprog.sh Unfortunately it runs outside of the 2nd thro..

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when I try: # dnf update grub2-common Last metadata expiration check: 0:50:01 ago on Thu 27 Aug 2020 02:27:52 PM CDT. Error:  Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: kernel (try to add –allowerasing to comm..

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Since I upgraded to CentOS8, I cannot get HandBrakeCLI to work: # HandBrakeCLI HandBrakeCLI: error while loading shared libraries: libass.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Googling this, it appears the error message is rela..

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Four problems below: # dnf -y groupupdate Core Minimal Install bintray-tvheadend-stable 0.0  B/s |   0  B     00:00 Failed to synchronize cache for repo bintray-tvheadend-stable, ignoring this repo. Last metadata expiration check: 0:03:11 ..

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Im having some difficulty finding a method to shrink my /home to expand my /.  They both correspond to LVMs.  It is my understanding that one cannot shrink a xfs filesystem.  One must back it up (xfsdump), remove (lvremove) redefine it and then rest..

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