talking about number of packages, this has always been my reference:
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

if a distro has it packaged it is quite sure they have anything :P

both debian and suse have it.

We ran into this issue last week with several legacy applications we soon hope to commit to the bone yard...

@gjacobse said in Managing Multiple Linux Servers via the Browser with Cockpit:

I haven't read the article yet,... but would be nice if it is available on Windows -

However, that said. I can just set up a VM and run there.... I don't do a massive amount of managing Linux Servers, but sometimes it would be helpful..

Not even on most Linux yet.

Oops. :-)

Just as a comparison, here's what it would look like with Ansible:

name: Recursively own html files file: path: /var/www/html owner: apache group: apache state: directory recurse: yes

@matteo-nunziati said in Anacron Jobs on a CentOS 7 Server:

@JaredBusch well never considered the workload on servers. I don't know how they manage it! maybe not so many use unattended upgraqdes in debian.

I definitely feel like Ubuntu users don't keep their systems as up to date ;)

/proc/version usually has pertinent information across most systems.

Edit: I looked closer. It's just the OS name (RHEL/Ubuntu) and kernel version. Never mind.

So that is where we are now. A missing package, unclear documentation and yum unable to resolve dependencies for some of the remaining packages. As the support community showed no interest in Kopano being used in production and actually got angry that we wanted to, we decided to halt here. But there is the documentation in case anyone runs into this and wants to pursue it further.

Planning to test this out soon.

@thwr said in Fedora Server for production use?:

@stacksofplates said in Fedora Server for production use?:

@thwr said in Fedora Server for production use?:

Interesting: Fedora 25 starts to panic with RAM < 512MB at the beginning of the kernel init phase, even in text mode. Just had a look at the manual which clearly says that Fedora requires 1GB of RAM.

Looks like I'm out of luck and have to stick to Ubuntu / Debian.

Another thing to note is with RHEL/CentOS 7.3 they recommend a 1GB boot partition instead of 512MB.

Just an aside.

Should work as long as you keep an eye on it. Ubuntu for example likes to keep old kernel and initrd images there until you clean them up (e.g. apt autoclean etc)

Ya I usually keep 3 and remove the others but I think the images are getting big enough they needed to adjust the size. If you do anew install it defaults to 1GB.

@JaredBusch said in Linux: What is the EPEL:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux: What is the EPEL:

d "frozen" to make for the core RH

To make what?

Fixed

@scottalanmiller Thanks for welcoming me warmly.

I want to configure email on osTicket. Please remember, I am not technical.

I hope the following does not seem needlessly verbose to you. I have worked with engineers over the years. They typically generally very strongly preferred terse communication to verbose communication.

According to Configuring email on osTicket, "In order to use Gmail, your host must support SSL, so osTicket can negotiate the secure connection, and you must enable IMAP or POP in your GMail or GApps account."

I have a Google Apps account, although I think it might be called a Google Suite account now. (I wearied years ago of trying to keep up with Google's executives' seemingly absurdly comical efforts to confuse their customers by capriciously rebranding/renaming/canceling products. Be that as it may, Google makes many excellent products several of which I use nearly every day).

I have not really used that Google Apps account much in about eight years, but it is grandfathered in as a free account. I logged in the other day and verified that it is still active. Therefore, I would like to use it.

If I were to follow the directions listed at Issue SSL Certificates for Apache Using Certbot on CentOS 7 does it seem to you that, that SSL certificate would suffice?

Also, the domain name which is associated with the GoogleApps account is not currently registered with a registrar. The domain name appears to be actually unregistered. After GoDaddy's pernicious practice (years ago) of snagging domains people had looked up but did not register, I prefer not actually look up the domain name for fear some other registrar might snatch it up. I simply went to the URL and saw it was down. Also, the name is not quite obscure but it is close therefore, I would be surprised if anyone had registered it.

Would I need to re-register my domain in order to test out the osTicket email functionality with with the GoogleApps? I suppose I probably would. See, I do not want to test the osTicket email functionality through some other method than GoogleApps because my experience from around 2005 to 2010 with GoogleApps email service was excellent (nearly flawless if I remember correctly) and because I have a read many horror stories of people who seemed technically competent trying to manager their own email servers.

I suppose I might test could configure email on osTicket to run through Gmail instead of GoogleApps, but then I would run the risk that email would work properly through Gmail but not through GoogleApps. What is your opinion? Does my concern seem "over the top" the top to you?

My domain is a .com domain. It looks like for less than $10/year I could register the domain with Namesilo.com (I read many glowign reviews about Namesilo.com on various sub Reddits). But I estimate I won't go live for another 3 to 6 months, and therefore don't want to bother signing up with Namesilo.com and trying to figure out how their site works.

Sure, it supposed to be easy. But I remember spending many hours wrestling with GoDaddy to get all sorts of things set up (including my email) set up about 8 years ago. Eventually, I set everything up properly. But tasks like this always seem to take me a couple/few hours to figure out. Of course, once I actually get them set up and know how they work, the same stuff that took with a couple/few hours only takes a maybe five to ten minutes the next time I do it.

I probably spent at least 3 to 4 hours Googling and trying various methods to install osTicket 1.10 on CentOS 7. Now I can install it in about 10 minutes.

If I were to need re-register my domain to test osTicket's email feature though my Google Apps account then I suppose I would reluctantly sign up for an account with Namesilo.com. Maybe it really will be easy for me to figure out how to use Namesilo.com. Maybe it will only take me, say, five to ten minutes. But I doubt it. By the way, I want to be clear: I am not in any way attempting to besmirch Namesilo.com. I have never actually used their service at all.

But see. I am not technical. Therefore nuances and nomenclature that technical folks are familiar with are often so foreign and confusing to me that it usually takes me a while to "get up to speed on them." Once I understand the technospeak, I translate it into plain English and put it into some step-by-step notes for myself that I can refer to as needed.

I am sorry for this verbose message. Thanks for taking the time to read it.

@stacksofplates said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

@coliver said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

@stacksofplates said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

@coliver said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

@scottalanmiller said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

@coliver said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

Did anyone ever figure out if there was a way to setup files for firewalld? Or was the XML service files the way to go?

XML I think.

That's what I was afraid of. We're using IPTables on all of our OEL7 servers right now but I think moving to the default firewalld may be a good idea. I'll have to look into the XML config and see how much more difficult, if at all, it is over the IPTables file. It's a shame we can't just copy a single file around anymore but the XML files probably won't be too much more difficult.

Ya it's not bad at all. Here's the config from my Identity Management server. It's pretty similar to /etc/sysconfig/system-config-firewall on RHEL 6, just in zone specific XML files.

<zone> <short>Public</short> <description>For use in public areas. You do not trust the other computers on networks to not harm your computer. Only selected incoming connections are accepted.</description> <service name="http"/> <service name="https"/> <service name="ntp"/> <service name="dhcpv6-client"/> <service name="kerberos"/> <service name="ldaps"/> <service name="ssh"/> <service name="dns"/> <service name="ldap"/> </zone>

Those services are predefined right? You can also build your own services via the same process.

Ya and you can define specific ports. I prob could have grabbed a better example.

No, I think I've got it just need to investigate actually setting these up.

I'm running the same version on Ubuntu and mostly idle CPU utilization and disk usage here.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Linux Malware Detect and ClamAV on CentOS 7:

@travisdh1 said in Installing Linux Malware Detect and ClamAV on CentOS 7:

Any reason to use LMD instead of or in addition to rkhunter?

Doesn't rkhunter focus only on root kits?

Mostly, but this was the first time I remember hearing about LMD.

@scottalanmiller Also, using just using the root domain name for the conf file name is potentially confusing depending on how much you are hosting.

Even for my gaming website, I have a bunch of sub domains setup.

www.daerma.com.conf goes to the root and www.
oc.daerma.com.conf is owncloud
obelisk.daerma.com.conf is my nodeBB forum

That does not even get into what do you do about the ones that you have multiple TLD names for such as .it, .com, .org, etc.

I can't believe that they don't have a RHEL package at least!

@scottalanmiller said in Installing a Basic LAMP Stack on CentOS 7:

@NashBrydges said in Installing a Basic LAMP Stack on CentOS 7:

@scottalanmiller I haven't yet. About to give it a try. Stuck to legacy since that was what I was reading everywhere.

Where is everywhere? Technet says to not use legacy.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/compute/hyper-v/supported-centos-and-red-hat-enterprise-linux-virtual-machines-on-hyper-v

Legacy is a fallback driver that you never want to use, it's low performance and high overhead. If you needed that for CentOS, it would make Hyper-V a silly, non-production ready platform. But Hyper-V is a good, solid performer.

Not only that, but I install all of my CentOS 7 VM's as Generation 2 when on Hyper-V they work perfectly with default settings for everything except secure boot. Uncheck secure boot. Everything else is 100% default settings.

Great job @scottalanmiller and welcome aboard!

Hope you enjoyed the experience!

Now if you want to play with it, I recommend you to use our CLI (http://docs.openio.io/cli-reference) or you can deploy our S3/Swift implementation (https://github.com/open-io/oio-sds/wiki/Install-Guide---OpenIO-Swift-S3-gateway).

Feel free to send me some feedbacks, I'm here to help!

Guillaume.
Product Manager & Co-Founder @ OpenIO

@DustinB3403 said in Linux: Checking Filesystem Usage with df:

Will there be a topic on "managing inode in linux"

Yes, but it is going to go into an "Advanced Topics" section. Just as LVM and MD will have high level "normal" admin sections and eventually delve much deeper in advanced sections. I want to cover everything in a "normal admin" capacity like you would learn from the RHCE up front. Then go back and cover the nitty gritty details that other admin books don't. So it will basically take two passes but the hope is that the first pass will take you from "starting point" to "competent Linux Admin" then the second part will go where normal admin guides don't tread.

It doesn't update as "new" when I just update the list. Only if I comment on the thread.