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Re: [CentOS] upg. CentOS 7.5 to 7.6: unable to mount smb shares - samba NT domain member using ldap
by Gordon Messmer 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

On 1/2/19 12:09 PM, Miroslav Geisselreiter wrote: > some parameters from smb.conf: > [global] > workgroup = NT4DOMAIN > netbios name = nt4member > security = domain > passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldap://ldap1server.intranet.xx > ldap://ldap2server.intranet.xx" I'm not sure it makes sense to use "security = domain" with an ldap passdb backend. If you're using a real NT4 domain, then you shouldn't need a passdb backend at all. If you're not in an NT4 domain, then you should set "security = USER". The man page for smb.conf notes "This mode will only work correctly if net(8) has been used to add this machine into a Windows NT Domain." Did you add this host to a Windows NT domain, using "net join ..."?

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CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection
by Nicolas Kovacs 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Hi, I'm currently working on my next Linux book, which will be an elementary course about CentOS administration. I'm using VirtualBox for all the installer screenshots. Since CentOS has recently been upgraded to version 7.6, I thought I might as well base all book references on this version. So I downloaded the 7.6 1810 minimal ISO and started a fresh installation in VirtualBox. I'm using a Swiss French keyboard layout (ch-fr or fr_CH-latin1), so one of the first things I do in the installer is replace the default French AZERTY keyboard (since I use the french language) by a swiss french QWERTZ layout. Now when I reach this dialog in the installer and try do define my new layout, the slider in the selection window doesn't appear, and clicking on any of the first layouts doesn't do anything, so I'm basically stuck there. I'm running OpenSUSE Leap 15.0 KDE on my workstation, so I tried the same thing with the previous CentOS 7.5 1804 minimal ISO, and the keyboard selection dialog works perfectly. So my intuition would tell me that there's a nasty bug in the CentOS 7.6 installer. Maybe it went unnoticed, since most folks stick to the default keyboard layout selected in their language. Any suggestions ? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info(a)microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32

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CentOS 7 as a Fibre Channel SAN Target
by Steffan A. Cline 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

For quite some time I’ve been using FreeNAS to provide services as a NAS over ethernet and SAN over Fibre Channel to CentOS 7 servers each using their own export, not sharing the same one. It’s time for me to replace my hardware and I have a new R720XD that I’d like to use in the same capacity but configure CentOS 7 as a Fibre Channel target rather than use FreeNAS any further. I’m doing virtualization and this will allow me to have failover from one node to the other since they’ll all be sharing the same export rather than me simply backing up to the FreeNAS server the way I am now. Does anyone know of any really good current articles that explain how to set up CentOS 7 as the target in such a configuration and also setting up CLVMd so they can all share an export over Fibre Channel from CentOS 7? Steffan A. Cline steffan(a)hldns.com 602-793-0014

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browsers slowing Centos 7 installation to a crawl
by Michael Hennebry 04 Dec '19

04 Dec '19

My video problems mentioned in a previous thread are gone, though I do not know why. Now my problem is that whenever I have a browser open and an internet connection, my Centos 7 slows to a crawl. Chromium seems to be the least bad. Sometimes it slows to the point that I cannot even move the mouse. Even switching between virtual terminals takes a while sometimes. When I get there, top generally shows me between two and five D states. I've changed service providers lately. The problem survived the change. Some sites seem to aggravate the problem. Most recently, a site tried to connect to c.amazon.adsystem.com . I got the message waiting for c.amazon.adsystem.com . I have that address in my hosts file as 127.0.0.1 . ping finds it and pings. nslookup does not: > [hennebry@localhost ~]$ nslookup c.amazon.adsystem.com > Server: 192.168.0.1 > Address: 192.168.0.1#53 > > ** server can't find c.amazon.adsystem.com: NXDOMAIN Whether the slow-to-crawl problem is related to the failure to redirect, I do not know. The former is clearly more important. Any suggestions on how to diagnose it? Any ideas on why chromium is waiting for c.amazon.adsystem.com and how I can fix it? -- Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards

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UEFI and PXE
by isdtor 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

We have a working PXE setup. I've tried to adapt it to UEFI as per RHEL6 manual, but the client won't boot. Strangely, tcpdump shows that the client tries to download all files via tftp from the dhcp server rather than the tftp server (they are different). next-server is pointing to the tftp server. Any clues?

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Centos 7 on Dell Latitude E6500
by Rainer Fügenstein 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Hi, I tried to install Centos7 x86_64 minimal 1503-01 from an USB flash drive on my old Dell Latitude E6500 laptop. boots up in text mode, switches text resolution, writes: Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen Reached Target Paths Reached Target Basic System. then hangs for some time, eventually starting dracut emergency shell. log says: multipathd: sdb: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec interesting: sdb is the internal 240GB kingston SSD drive (existing ntfs bitlocker partition recognized as sdb1) sda is the write protected USB stick, recognised as CDROM drive. 4GB rom intel 45 express chipset mobile intel GMA 4500MHD graphics intel 5100AGN wifi what to try next? any additional infos I can give you? thnx in advance. -- Best regards, Rainer mailto:rfu@oudeis.org

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/boot partition too small
by KM 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

First off - let me say I am not an administrator. I need to know if there is an easy way to increase my /boot partition. When I installed CentOS 6 after running 5, it was my oversight not to increase the /boot size. it's too small and I can't do yum updates. if it's not easy to actually increase it, is it safe to take a chunk in my root filesystem (like /new.boot or something) and just mount it as /boot from now on so it uses the space or is that not a good idea? I am sure I could easily copy the rpms/kernel stuff over to it and then unmounts the real /boot and mount this new area as /boot. Can you administrators let me know what you think of all this? Thanks in advance. KM

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clamd / amavisd missing socket
by Jon LaBadie 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

I think something along these lines appeared before but I was unable to find them. I'm on a 7.6 system, been running clamav and amavisd-new since 6 days with little problem. On a recent reboot, clamd@amavisd does not start up and fails manual start. The problem seems to be the missing socket that connects the pair, "/var/run/clamd.amavisd/clamd.socket". I believe this should be created by systemd files but I see no indication of them on my system. Anyone know which files might be missing and where to get copies? Or a work around to run clamd@amavisd and get rid of the "*** UNCHECKED ***' additions to my my Subject lines? BTW manual creation of the socket with netcat had no effect on the startup. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jon(a)jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)

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NFS Server on Centos 7.6.1810 dying without reason
by Erick Perez - Quadrian Enterprises 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Good morning, in order to post proper documentation, what logs (or log level) do I need to troubleshoot a Centos 7.6.1810 3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 tha tis running a NFS server on top LVM on top of XFS on top of VDO on top of MDAM on a 6 SSD disk RAID6 ? This physical NFS server is servign 2 NFS v4.2 shares to 2 physical KVM virtualization hosts. When remote NFS clients start doing intensive stuff (massive writes) , the NFS server crashes and sometimes make the Linux server reboot. form KVM side this is all I get: hvm002 kernel: nfs: server 10.10.10.2 not responding, timed out thanks --------------------- Erick ---------------------

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CUPS job handling
by hw 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hi, is it somehow possible to make CUPS automatically redirect jobs, and following jobs, away from printers which can not print them to other printers that can print them until the printers that couldn't print them are again able to print them? Like I have a bunch of label printers which are all the same, and all of which are prone to run out of labels or out of ribbon every now and then. It can take hours or even days before someone can refill a printer. Hence it would be very useful if CUPS could be told something like "if printer A doesn't print, move its current job to printer B and divert all new jobs sent to A to printer B instead until A prints again". What exactly happens when a printer that is member of a class can not print a job that was sent to the class? Will the unprintable job be automatically moved to another member of the same class, or will it only be aborted and never printed? With a class of two printers and one of them running out of labels, /var/log/cups/error_log only holds: ... [Job 174733] Stopping unresponsive job. What does this mean? Has the job been printed or not? Has it been printed after I refilled the printer?

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