Unanswered Questions

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CentOS 6 local update repository and security updates

I know that official CentOS 6 (even 7) update repositories does not provide security information. The consequence is thatyum-plugin-security plugin and yum check-update --security command does not ...
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God Process Monitoring - CentOS - Event System Not Found

I have god installed on at least a dozen (or more) servers running CentOS 5.5 in both i386 and x86_64 flavors that work perfectly. I just setup two new CentOS 5.5 x86_64 servers and installed God, but ...
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Intermittent munin-cron error “There is nothing to do here, since there are no nodes with any plugins”

We've installed munin monitoring on one of our servers. Generally it seems to be working well but occasionally, 4 times in 2 months to be exact, munin-cron has generated the following error: [...
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journald memory usage on CentOS 7

I have an AWS EC2 instance running a CentOS 7.7.1908 (systemd 219) with a server application. The server logs quite a lot of information to the system logs (using syslog). I have recently enabled ...
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nano very slow over ssh

Recently nano has started to be very slow when editing files over ssh. It's particularly slow when editing large files with syntax highlighting. It's most noticeable when yanking lines. There can ...
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Low Entropy on Container

I am thinking my entropy level may be low? $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail I am around 132-178 on average. Pool size is default 4096 (this is a container on a virtualizer by the way). ...
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Wrong filename encoding/decoding when downloading recursively with wget

I'm downloading files from a remote directory recursively using wget and whoever created the folders and files, used special characters such as è or Ó, when I download a single specificating the full ...
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GitHub SSH action failing: ssh: handshake failed: ssh: unable to authenticate, attempted methods [none publickey], no supported methods remain

I have recently rented a VPS running CentOS 8. I want to make countinuous deployment from one of my repos, so that when I push to main the repo is updated. I followed this tutorial on a fresh CentOS ...
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Users created in Kickstart unable to authenticate

Thanks to the answers to this question, I've been happily generating Kickstart files for Scientific Linux 6 and 7 for the past 5 years. However, we're now starting to build out some test systems with ...
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RSYSLOG not creating tcp port

At a certain point this was working and I do not know what could have changed. No logs are going to the TFTP folder and instead I just see the error message posted below. I tried rebooting the server. ...
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Server computational slowdown when RAM is used extensively

I have problem with server slowdowns in very specific scenario. The facts are: 1) I use computational application WRF (Weather Research and Forecast) 2) I use Dual Xeon E5-2620 v3 with 128GB RAM (...
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HSTS header not being sent though rule is present and mod_headers is enabled

We enabled HSTS in httpd.conf in the Virtual Host handling port 443. We tried with and without the <IfModule mod_headers.c>: <IfModule mod_headers.c> Header set Strict-Transport-...
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Proper way to override Mysql my.cnf on CentOS/RHEL?

Context: I'm porting an opensource server software (and writing associated documentation) from Debian/Ubuntu to CentOS/RHEL. For the software to run correctly, I need to add a dozen of specific ...
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What SELinux type should I apply on my Unix socket?

I have a Gunicorn socket file: /opt/rtd/gunicorn/run.sock. I need nginx to be able to open this socket and write to it. When I run sesearch --allow -s httpd_t | grep unix_stream_socket I noticed that ...
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difference between ifdown, ifconfig stop and ONBOOT=no

my ifcfg-eth1 config as below DEVICE=eth1 TYPE=Ethernet UUID=5e4f36f8-14eb-4f0c-8fa9-3af9be3899a7 ONBOOT=no NM_CONTROLLED=yes BOOTPROTO=dhcp DEFROUTE=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes IPV6INIT=no NAME="...
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How to reset and persist the hostname and FQDN of an Windows Azure Centos instance?

How does one reset a hostname and domain name (FQDN) to localhost.localdomain on a Centos 6.2 Azure Instance? I've tried editing /etc/sysconfig/network, /etc/sysctl.conf, setting the hostname manually,...
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Corosync unicast issue with different nets

I'm using a setup (on our staging-system) with 2 root-servers and 1 fail-over-ip. As software we use corosync and pacemaker. Corosync is configured for multicast communication via port 5405. --> ...
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Are there RPMs for GlassFish v3?

It seems that the GlassFish project itself does not provide RPM packages, and neither does JPackage (http://jpackage.org/). Is someone else providing ready-built RPM packages for RHEL/CentOS? On a ...
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Showing [Installed Version] when upgrading with dnf in CentOS/Redhat/Fedora/Rocky Linux

When running dnf upgrade it only shows the new version of a package about to be upgraded. But I would like to see what the currently installed version of the package is too. Without having to go look ...
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What controls the cleanup of the /tmp/systemd-private* directories?

It doesn't seem like the systemd-tmpfiles service cleans up these folders because I have files in /tmp/systemd-private-*-httpd.service-*/tmp/ that are 27ish days old (the last time httpd was restarted)...
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How to make systemd monitor processes started using a shell script in the service file?

I have written a service file in Linux that calls a script which starts multiple processes with one as primary and others as secondary. SERVICE FILE: [Unit] Description=TEST service Requires=abc....
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Are there any known common causes of "Cannot kill process: Success!" in error.log?

Operating system: CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) Error log: /var/log/httpd/error.log Apache version: Apache/2.4.6 In attempting to debug a PHP cron task, I am seeing some segfaults in error....
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A little confusion about DBM files and how they work

I have apache 2.4 and am using RewriteMap DBM files. ie: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteMap examplemap "dbm:/etc/httpd/conf/rewrite.dbm" RewriteCond ${examplemap:$...
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CentOS virtual host Server DNS could not be found

I want to deploy my project in virtual host in CentOS running server. I have this <Directory /> #change value of next line from none to all AllowOverride none Require all denied </...
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AWS EC2 - CentOS 7 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

I have an EC2 Instance with CentOS 7, after rebooting and stop - start, the instance cannot run anymore. I got this error, what cause this and how to fix it, thank you: [ 1.601892] List of all ...
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Bind notifies on DNS views

I have configured two Cent OS based DNS servers one for master and one for slave with internal and external views for a domain. The problem is that i get notifies and automatic zone updates when i ...
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Need help converting init.d service scripts to systemd (CentOS)

I have spent several days on an issue that's incredibly frustrating and I'm straight out of options. I am currently using a CentOS 6.8 server at work for our website. CentOS 6 (Enterprise Linux 6 or ...
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HAproxy and nginx RTMP

I am trying to use HAproxy in front of an RTMP nginx server. It does connect but it does not play the video. I have 2 servers: one with nginx using RTMP and another one with HAproxy. This is the ...
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Can't stop and reformat /dev/md0

I want to reformat /dev/md0, which is a RAID0 array consisting of 4 disks (sd[bcde]). However, when I tried to run the command mke2fs, I received the following error message: /dev/md0 is apparently ...
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Redis: Error moving temp DB file on the final destination: Operation not permitted

I have a nodeBB install which relies on Redis as the data store. Its just a test install at the moment while I iron out any problems. The Redis instance stayed up for a few days but then fell over ...
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journalctl prints the entire system log when following

[root@utility ~]# uname -rv 2.6.32-042stab093.5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 17:39:49 MSK 2014 [root@utility ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) [root@utility ~]# journalctl --...
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Send mail service start error

I installed sendmail on CentOS based on some tutorial. When I start sendmail, it showing sendmail failed error. Here the following command result: systemctl status sendmail sendmail.service - ...
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NGINX Worker Process, Burst Read Speed to only 1918kb/s

I am running an NGINX/1.8 server on Centos6.6 with multiple worker_processes, however while observing iotop I notice they burst up to 1918kb/s Read speed and rarely if at all pass that limit. I want ...
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pppd terminated bya SIGTERM in Centos 7 -- who's sending it?

Folks, I created a script to keep a persistent "emergency" connection with a 3G modem, so I can access my CentOS 7 makeshift server remotely if the usual network fails. Everything works for a few ...
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slabtop command doesn't work

I've inherited Sys Admin duties on webserver and I'm a bit of out my element, but learning as I go. My newest issue is all the of the ram has been gobbled up and I'm not sure where it has gone. free -...
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CentOS kickstart automated setup with parted / RAID

I'm trying to use parted to partition my entire drives automatically during the CentOS kickstart install, however, I'm getting two issues with my install. I want to kickstart my installs across ...
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Sendmail on CentOS 6, with SRS

I do some mail forwarding, but I'm also a big fan of SPF; I'm aware that I have a problem. While my mail server was running Centos5, I was using pysrs as a milter, and it worked well - but it hasn't ...
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Linux cgroups cpuset w/ subs causes cgconfig not to start

I am having a problem trying to separate 2 groups using cpuset subsystem. This works fine, however if i go to add a subgroup to that group (in this case -- user1), cgconfig will fail to start with "...
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tape changers on Centos 6 enter flurry of activity upon boot, at udev start

I have two tape-changer robots (Quantum Superloader 3), one with parallel SCSI connectivity, the other with SAS. They were connected to a Centos 5 server, and boot would proceed normally. They are ...
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Intranet corporate SSO for webapps against Active Directory

I am trying to plan and implement a SSO solution in a corporate environment that serves intranet web applications running on CentOS: Corporate portal (Drupal backend) Project management (Project.NET) ...
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Apache rewrite works under FreeBSD, not under CentOS

I have 5 production servers which are running FreeBSD 9.2, but we are planning on transitioning to CentOS. Because of this, I am attempting to set up some virtual machines to emulate our production ...
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CentOS7 systemctl calling ExecStop on reboot after my procceses are already killed

I have a systemd script which is as follows: [Unit] Description=My sites Before=shutdown.target reboot.target halt.target [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '/etc/xxx/mySites start' ...
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Nginx error: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream

I have installed Nginx 1.6.2 with PHP-FPM (PHP 5.5.18) under CentOS 6.6 server. I didn't touch nothing else but /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf file where I made some changes (see below): server { ...
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Unable to su or ssh as anyone but root on CentOS 7

I seem to be unable to ssh or su as a local user on my CentOS 7 machine as of today. $ adduser ndejay $ passwd ndejay Changing password for user ndejay. New password: Retype new password: $ su ndejay ...
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how to allow outgoing traffic with firewalld / libvirt on CentOS 8?

I installed a CentOS 8 guest on a CentOS 8 host using libvirt. However firewalld is blocking all outgoing traffic from the guest to the internet unless I use target=ACCEPT for the libvirt zone. The ...
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CentOS Linux 8 freezes when changing SELinux Booleans (setsebool)

Problem Various CentOS Linux 8 servers freeze/hang when changing SELinux Booleans. Details and research We manage hundreds of CentOS Linux servers. Lately we see deviant behavior on some (but not all) ...
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CentOS: how to fix GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded (Maximum active connections)?

On a CentOS 7 server I'm getting this error while trying to reboot: # reboot Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: The ...
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Server can't find domain: SERVFAIL

I have VPS and CentOS7 installed on it. Also I have httpd Apache2, nginx, named and iptables services working there. First, when I just bought this server, I had hostname maindomain1.com and made my ...
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OpenVPN Traffic Control on CentOS 7

I'm trying to give my OpenVPN some bandwidth limitation. I would like for example for each user give 10Mb/s for upload and download. I tried the following answer I found (Automatically Call a Script ...
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Libreswan Testbed in VirtualBox

I'm currently working to create a testbed in VirtualBox for two VMs with an isolated opportunistic IPSec network with LibreSwan. All services are coming up fine, but network traffic between the two ...

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