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edit or write access to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file for non-root user.
by Kaushal Shriyan 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Hi, I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core). Is there a way to provide write/edit access to a file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file only for non-root users? For example- john is the local Unix user on the server who wants to edit it. Thanks in advance. Please guide. Best Regards,

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Git 2.23 or later
by H 23 Aug '21

23 Aug '21

The latest version of git for C7 is 1.8.3 and in SCL it's 2.18 although the repository claims 2.9 is also available. I am looking to upgrade to 2.23 since i need the --no-overlay option. Is anyone running this version (or later)? If so, from which repository? Thanks.

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Minimising a CentOS installation
by Anand Buddhdev 21 Aug '21

21 Aug '21

Hi 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 all packages that depended on it) What other things do folk usually remove to make their installation smaller? Regards, Anand

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 197, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2021:3158 Important CentOS 7 exiv2 Security Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2021:3154 Important CentOS 7 firefox Security Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2021:3160 Important CentOS 7 thunderbird Security Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:49:24 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2021:3158 Important CentOS 7 exiv2 Security Update Message-ID: <20210818164924.GA28105(a)bstore1.rdu2.centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2021:3158 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3158 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) x86_64: bb452c600e6c925bf0e8b365957a5cb5741e5f38181ed32aed22124e690edc30 exiv2-0.27.0-4.el7_8.src.rpm 18defd29c31366e3f3fc7602eed4307dcdd1028a8e25fd6823379fa2ef33eb6b exiv2-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm 4402a7fcf865ee506196d91c722ec2875470f134b63f3912ac69561ba10e5113 exiv2-devel-0.27.0-4.el7_8.i686.rpm 1a5b2d18101ca9a398c7873900403ed4ffc7daf7fb801a9ce1649c3fafe185cf exiv2-devel-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm 73cda0f598ca90fe3470940ed62663a7a5a1091731757b8e057fc929d3c1a209 exiv2-doc-0.27.0-4.el7_8.noarch.rpm 037e885e4b00fa8c73772c5a2e0f05aa735f04807e080c5819a8a15dade3d5dc exiv2-libs-0.27.0-4.el7_8.i686.rpm 54b72bac2daf97a8d1ba79e4288be55712b5b35027f2df547f3e0af93bd9b6a5 exiv2-libs-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net Twitter: @JohnnyCentOS ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:50:15 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2021:3154 Important CentOS 7 firefox Security Update Message-ID: <20210818165015.GA28235(a)bstore1.rdu2.centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2021:3154 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3154 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) x86_64: 7724d8a7b5c53b6b19107130e41d127672ad5e6814dd6d9cdf6130a27f22354b firefox-78.13.0-2.el7.centos.i686.rpm 73a1cda95043965a2075495410ef47a525580c614071ac8a4b643cff8fbb2c61 firefox-78.13.0-2.el7.centos.src.rpm 64a964dbf122edcb897186c8824b60976d45bd7ddce017d938404771e1396a1e firefox-78.13.0-2.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net Twitter: @JohnnyCentOS ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:51:04 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2021:3160 Important CentOS 7 thunderbird Security Update Message-ID: <20210818165104.GA28362(a)bstore1.rdu2.centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2021:3160 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3160 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) x86_64: 245ac011d84f87d216206c87c125f53accc51bf59e77b4f325bd2519bbae562a thunderbird-78.13.0-1.el7.centos.src.rpm d358a86339e24e16bfcc77c61f6f12dea5c1485847a4bd5eee6a6e06c3634ff2 thunderbird-78.13.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net Twitter: @JohnnyCentOS ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce ------------------------------ End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 197, Issue 3 ***********************************************

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Re: [CentOS] A Blast from the past
by Mark Woolfson 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

Hello, Can you please help with an interesting problem. I have an Intel Haswell based processor with CentOS 7.0 with an early kernel booting and running perfectly. I changed the processor to an Ice Lake and I get the problem below when I boot the working Haswell disk. The boot process hangs almost immediately and when I remove the 'quiet' boot parameter I see that it hangs randomly, usually with a high CPU number, when SMPBOOT is starting up the cores. The only solution I have found is to boot with the 'nr_cpus=8 (could be any low number), update to the latest kernel then reboot with the 'nr_cpus=8' parameter removed. On examination there are no problems with CentOS 7.4 and above but there are with CentOS 7.3 and below. Mark -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 197, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2021:2845 Important CentOS 7 java-1.8.0-openjdk Security Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 16:31:46 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2021:2845 Important CentOS 7 java-1.8.0-openjdk Security Update Message-ID: <20210811163146.GA13797(a)bstore1.rdu2.centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2021:2845 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2845 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) x86_64: 2ef14c819a2c602bcce68d1f84b1e8143bb560f7737ba254e3b07d9c4302af67 java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.i686.rpm bea9e14dd6778afded7cb4e5d5a5f3fa3b0fefe9bafbf913cd21dd494fc8a966 java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.x86_64.rpm 3f7b46638efdb99c13fe45aa513af69cad728c4ffca568196d21fed273ba7f97 java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.i686.rpm 55baaa197af05067cb206423655392e7b0a52e3ee9144a1fde30de40eb599d5a java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.x86_64.rpm c6fc833a542f540c1edc0431e34f06b0cd121fc635294ae62ae5d48fab254ddf java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.i686.rpm 5001584535af6ba52a00d1913b2b5f60df1239116a2cbcff84db48a9359bd3a3 java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.x86_64.rpm 00dfecc575f562ca6c58f3290ca7fda9b19bbacf629d7c687dc4242984f8bb37 java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.i686.rpm 2ced5602fa70385602b80de9a0a4dd9347186ade416907e8bb7fd066af18f6e3 java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.x86_64.rpm c7627b2a018e4b1db2b6131608528eae404bf3c43ab252995b1d5f7196ab97e1 java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.i686.rpm 0a35810bd924f95ae2af1ba31051f64c8683e42b953329a6af07ea00495f96a2 java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.x86_64.rpm 60639db656637bac71a8495c83b9cc351c89b200e836ed3343dfa6bca29e3956 java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.noarch.rpm 9deefb8ac4e6a1d43c4894b9e5daf58d70b43a9f12952164dc89a1d15e5a400c java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-zip-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.noarch.rpm dfa6a2ee9076eba358c12de54d5d936a15a282109538f6772bdb75582afd0584 java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.i686.rpm dfbc0cbaf5fb588c23fcfdacafa9024ed6efd13bfbb1cf69316269cbaee79463 java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.x86_64.rpm Source: 38cfa9cb3255518e6d06ffca3f266df4124bb1d55baea794b484bfc2cd145736 java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.302.b08-0.el7_9.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net Twitter: @JohnnyCentOS ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce ------------------------------ End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 197, Issue 2 ***********************************************

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 197, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2021:1002 Important CentOS 7 flatpak Security Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2021:3028 Important CentOS 7 microcode_ctl Security Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 15:29:20 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2021:1002 Important CentOS 7 flatpak Security Update Message-ID: <20210809152920.GA13355(a)bstore1.rdu2.centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2021:1002 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1002 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) x86_64: ac621916b414525cdb8e9a02b622a0b85c0f539979311abe60541cc0da534032 flatpak-1.0.9-11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm aeadded2fd899332eca7c3d0d69c10f06ba09b988bbb0be751dfc6ea05b1a753 flatpak-builder-1.0.0-11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm 1979501bae62e6070c0c6037b5547a69c4342485df1f9dd821ad18a174b0bd48 flatpak-devel-1.0.9-11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm e251fe0d7ffbb8b51c6644310756c5ea0a0ea8d5282cb0ecda819c8ff161dfec flatpak-libs-1.0.9-11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm Source: b370bbea447786abdcf03a57a462ba72d2fa235bd255bcdc74be873e55b25424 flatpak-1.0.9-11.el7_9.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net Twitter: @JohnnyCentOS ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 15:29:53 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2021:3028 Important CentOS 7 microcode_ctl Security Update Message-ID: <20210809152953.GA13461(a)bstore1.rdu2.centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2021:3028 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3028 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) x86_64: 68b647f3d90f5828c04a513b4561ba0866363b42452fbf73668418e2faa06983 microcode_ctl-2.1-73.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm Source: e53891c0f92e021a87e8bda5e3ec6b66e6b05ca2c4eed2267de314c906cc7623 microcode_ctl-2.1-73.11.el7_9.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net Twitter: @JohnnyCentOS ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce ------------------------------ End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 197, Issue 1 ***********************************************

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Freeipa sssd service
by Gokan Atmaca 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Hello I started using freeipa. Users I have given "SUDO" right cannot use this right after logging out and logging in. For the solution, I need to restart the "SSSD" service. How can I solve this? Thanks.

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centos 8 stream / last yum update / VirtualBox 6.1.26
by Mathy Froeyen 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

Hi all Till this morning, I ran Windows 10 client on VirtualBox 6.1.24 on host Centos 8 stream kernel 4.18.0-315.el8 without problem (desktop). I took the risk to do a "yum update" and as well as the kernel as the VirtualBox were updated: kernel going from 4.18.0-315.el8 to 4.18.0-326.el8 VirtualBox going from 6.1.24 to 6.1.26 But yum complained already : ... Installing: Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ VirtualBox-6.1 x86_64 6.1.26_145957_el8-1 virtualbox 86 M ... Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Installing : SDL-1.2.15-39.el8.x86_64 1/2 Running scriptlet: SDL-1.2.15-39.el8.x86_64 1/2 Running scriptlet: VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.26_145957_el8-1.x86_64 2/2 Installing : VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.26_145957_el8-1.x86_64 2/2 Running scriptlet: VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.26_145957_el8-1.x86_64 2/2 Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group! depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, nvidia-drm.ko.xz): No such file or directory depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, nvidia-modeset.ko.xz): No such file or directory depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, nvidia-peermem.ko.xz): No such file or directory depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, nvidia-uvm.ko.xz): No such file or directory depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, nvidia.ko.xz): No such file or directory Verifying : SDL-1.2.15-39.el8.x86_64 1/2 Verifying : VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.26_145957_el8-1.x86_64 2/2 Installed products updated. Installed: SDL-1.2.15-39.el8.x86_64 VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.26_145957_el8-1.x86_64 Complete! Vbox did not start my Windows 10 when I tried. I also tried to install VirtualBox 6.0 and 5.2 with the same kind of error in yum. I rebooted then the computer and started a previous kernel 4.18.0-310.el8 and reinstalled Virtualbox 6.1.26 now without those errors and it runs smooth as before. (Kernel 315 had the same vbox errors.) However, when I went back to kernel 4.18.0-326 and tried starting there VirtualBox 6.1.26 again, he complained with : ... Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows10. Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver is either not loaded or not set up correctly. Please try setting it up again by executing '/sbin/vboxconfig' as root. ... (I tried that "/sbin/vboxconfig" but that tells me nonsense about registering because of EFI secure boot, but I did not change anything in the BIOS.) or there is some conflict between the last kernels and VirtualBox? cheers mathy

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Transition test report going from CentOS8 to Debian 10.
by Lamar Owen 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

Sorry for the length.... I'm posting this here since this particular transition has been mentioned on-list as one possibility for a path forward for current CentOS Linux users. AlmaLinux, the Developer Subscription RHEL, Rocky, CentOS Stream, Springdale, upgrading to full RHEL; all these are also possibilities, too, and all have different strengths and weaknesses. The transition to Debian has a lot of strengths, including a long track-record of support (even if the support time for a particular release is shorter), a fully-open development model with no 'corporate overlord' that I know of, a large set of supported packages, and a huge community of developers and users. For the CentOS user the main weakness is having to learn a few areas of difference in the way the system is setup and maintained; of course, if a ten-year 'stable' timeframe is really that important to you the lack of that is also a weakness. So, last week I transitioned, as a test of sorts, my working CentOS 8 main laptop to Debian 10. I kept a complete backup of the C8 install should I wish to go back to it, and installed Buster to a new mSATA SSD, but ported the two SATA drives (Dell Precision M6700 - has an mSATA slot plus two SATA bays) straight over after making full backups. I posted a pretty complete rundown on the scientific linux users mailing list, so I won't recap it all here. The bottom line was the the transition was not any more difficult, really, than moving from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8. The software versions in Buster are pretty close to what is in CentOS 8, although I have yet to need any third-party repository (PPA) for anything I've needed to install. All the packages I have worked with so far have worked fine with a little bit of massaging. These include commercial (and costly) software such as Harrison Consoles' Mixbus32C, Qoppa's PDFStudio2019 Professional, and others. So if you were to decide that this is the route for you to take, it does work and I found it to be not nearly as hard as I had thought it might be. If you install GNOME 3 you get GNOME 3; it feels pretty much the same as a non-Classic CentOS GNOME 3, just with a different set of extensions installed by default. That's on the workstation. On the server side, I'm evaluating Proxmox for the virtualization solution, and so far I'm finding it to be a pretty easy migration. I'm using the 'non-subscription' repository, so this is a no-cost option. Even getting the box registered to our EMC Clariion SAN was relatively easy; EMC provides the Unisphere Server Utility for Linux x64 in RPM form; the latest I have is "ServerUtil-Linux-64-x86-en_US-1.0.55.1.0044-1.x86_64.rpm" (which is fairly old, but I did say Clariion arrays, so they're pretty old, too). Debian has provided the 'alien' tool for some time; after installing alien, a simple 'alien -i ServerUtil-Linux-64-x86-en_US-1.0.55.1.0044-1.x86_64.rpm' installed the EMC RPM in the correct place. Proxmox already included everything that serverutilcli requires; on a plain Buster install I had to install dm-multipath and the device mapper libraries and tools before serverutilcli would find the arrays; but it ran just like it did on CentOS 8 (and 7). I haven't decided whether to stay on Debian or not; too early to tell. I have time to test and evaluate. My CentOS 7 installs aren't goin anywhere, though, at least until late 2023. And I've registered for a Developer subscription of RHEL so that I can properly evaluate that option, too. This is the beauty of open source: we have OPTIONS.

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