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Unable to SSH VM instance after OS upgrade & reboot of VM instance in GCP
My VM instance was on CentOS 7
I recently attempted upgrading that to Almalinux 8 using below link
https://wiki.almalinux.org/elevate/ELevating-CentOS7-to-AlmaLinux-9.html#migrate-centos-7-to-...
google-cloud-platform
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How to initialize cockpit on CentOS8?
I am trying to access my public IP of the EC2- box on port 9090 to access centOS8 cockpit but I am unable to get to my centOS8 cockpit.
My security group from the server is Security group
This is what ...
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How to prevent ethernet issues after command line shutdown in CentOS7?
I'm running into a frustrating issue with a system running CentOS7. There's an Intel NIC (Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM (rev31)) which, when working, provides a 1000Mb/s connection....
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CentOS 7 kickstart file, add entry to /etc/hosts
I have a CentOS 7 kickstart file working quite nicely, mostly. The %packages section fails because I need to add an entry to /etc/hosts to point mirrorlist.centos.org to our internal company repo. I ...
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CentOS 7 SCL (Software Collections) abandoned?
There is a difference in version between httpd24-httpd installed with Software Collections on CentOS 7.9 and httpd24-httpd installed with RHEL (Universal Base Images).
CentOS 7.9
yum install centos-...
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How to automatically change the name of a file on a daily basis
I am new to Linux/CentOS and right now I am running into a little problem.
My CentOS7 Server logs all Maillogs, via Logrotate, on a daily basis and moves them to the folder /var/log/old_maillogs. ...
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Looking for CIS Benchmark script for CentOS 7
I am not sure this is the right place to ask this. I apologize if it is not.
I have few CentOS machines that is running 7.7 version. And I need to do a CIS benchmark for finding any vulnerabilities. I ...
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Centos show me "Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base/7/x86_64"
Hi, i have a issue, when i type in Centos 7 "yum update" show me next error
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown),
and yum doesn't ...
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How to manually validate the signature of an rpm file
What I need
A way to get an asc file containing the signature from an rpm file.
Why I need it
I'm running into the issue described in this Reddit thread, where Chrome installed from https://www.google....
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High CPU usage by ksoftirqd
We use GCP for running Kubernetes and for communication with our services in different locations using VM masquerading by iptables. The first time we faced an issue with performance when we use only ...
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xfs corruption metadata after reboot
I had a problem on a RAID1 with 4 disks. We replaced the faulty disk and restarted the server, the rebuild was done, two linux centos 7 machines did not come up accusing error of xfs corruption. Other ...
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DNS issue with CentOS7?
I am working in a VMWare environment creating a network for a college class, and I keep running into what I can only assume is a DNS error with my two CENTOS7 systems. The system environment is as ...
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Centos 7.0 can't start network service
I get this error when I start network service
Job for network.service failed because the control process
exited with error code. See "systemctl status network.service"
and "...
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mysql -V shows a different version than mysqld -V
I'm running centos 7 with mySQL 5.7.xxx. mysql -V shows Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.26-29, but mysqld -V shows Ver 5.7.11-4. systemctl status mysql and systemctl status mysqld both show the same running ...
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CentOS 7 - disable all services, except ssh and networking
This is a follow up question to Disable all services, except ssh. I want to achieve the same thing on CentOS 7 but I'm having trouble getting it to work.
I've created /usr/lib/systemd/system/...
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CentOS 7 with php-fpm renders raw PHP
Summary: My CentOS 7 server with PHP 7.4 fpm is not executing PHP files instead they provide a raw PHP file to the client. In the next section, I will explain the environment.
I have set up a minimal ...
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CentOS 7 - Not Getting IP Address After Reboot
I can't quite seem to figure out why. Seems very odd.
Setup;
DHCP/Static IP Managed on Router/Firewall
VM with CentOS 7 Installed that ultimately gets IP address from above
Seems that whenever I ...
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failed to open /etc/userdomains for linear search: Permission denied (euid=1000 egid=1001)
Here my autoresponder in centos is not working can anyone help me with it.
2022-07-20 09:50:10 1oE6LK-00A004-0j ** [email protected] R=userautoreply T=userautoreply: Expansion of "${if def:...
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Unknown kernel command line parameters "BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.18.11-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64", will be passed to user space
On CentOS 7, after upgrading the kernel to version 5.18.11, I observed the below message in /var/log/messages:
Unknown kernel command line parameters "BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.18.11-1.el7.elrepo....
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How to alter firewall (iptables) log rules such that they stop flooding the primary console on AlmaLinux 8?
I have a constant deluge of firewall blocks showing up on my console in AlmaLinux 8:
How do you modify iptables rules / settings so as to disable these from showing up on the primary console and to ...
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How to boot custom .iso from CentOs 7 [closed]
I have a custom Windows 10 .iso mounted. I want to boot that .iso so I can overwrite my current VPS's OS (CentOs 7).
I can't get to the boot screen because when I'm connecting via terminal, ssh will ...
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fail2ban not creating jails in CentOS
I'm trying to create a jail in Fail2Ban to protect a Asterisk PBX.
I already did as suggested and made a copy of jail.conf named jail.local. In jail.local, I set up a asterisk jail as follows:
[...
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How to setup multiple vps in one hardware
I purchase a rack server hardware with 64GB ram now i want to create 8*8GB VPS so how can i do that.
I have 1 internet connection and 8 static IP from ISP, Now problem is how can i setup port ...
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How to enable http/2 from a Centos Package/yum?
I'm running the following version of Apache on Centos 7:
httpd.x86_64 2.4.6-97.el7.centos.5 @updates
httpd-tools.x86_64 2.4.6-97.el7.centos.5 ...
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HAProxy path_beg error - 503 service unavailable
Given a backend that running on:
172.18.1.125:8888
curl tested:
curl --location --request GET "http://172.18.1.125:8888/oauth/sign-key"
sample_response //>> HERE IS RESPONSE
On ...
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Long-overdue "yum update" has multiple "requires" errors
After much neglect of my VPS (currently running CentOS 7.4.1708), I tried to run yum update, but after a long list of "Processing Dependency..." lines, the end of the output looked like this:...
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How to update memcached to 1.4.33 on centos? Yum says there is no update
I need to update memcached on centos7 from 1.4.15 to 1.4.33 however yum update says there isn't anything to update, clearly there is as there is a newer version. I can't find anything on google ...
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Issues installing Cent OS 7 + Zen 3 5800x
Trying to install CentOS 7 on local DEV server.
Server specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x
Motherboard: ASRock B550M STEEL LEGEND AM4
RAM: Corsair 32GB RAM
Hard Drive: 2x 500GB Corsair NVME
LAN: Intel ...
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How to disable Root Access, to VPS, via SSH?
I run a VPS, on a Linux Server, with CentOS 7 (64 bits) being the chosen Operating System.
I have recently wiped the VPS, so it only has a clean install of Plesk Onyx at the moment. I would now like ...
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CentOS7 sets time to +8h in the night: [systemd] Time has been changed
I am curious: My CentOS7 server, which did not run ntpd or chrony, updated the system's time to +8h at 11pm.
Message:
[systemd] Time has been changed
appears in /var/log/messages.
Well: I don't know ...
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Openoffice headless on CentOS 7 / 8
We used to run Openoffice headless on CentOS 6.8 but are now upgrading to CentOS 8
However, I'm not able to install Openoffice headless using the following commands:
yum install openoffice.org-base
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How can I get my CPU to run at maximum speed by circumventing CPU scaling? [closed]
I am running CentOS 7 (7.9.2009) (kernel 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64) on a rather old laptop (Lenove T61) with a dual core CPU (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz). The driver for CPU scaling ...
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How can I run a shell as a user that has no shell access?
Maybe I'm not using the right terms so allow me to explain myself using an example. Connecting over SSH as user "centos" and executing cat /etc/passwd in my Centos7 machine I get:
centos:x:...
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Install Logcheck / Logtail in Rocky Linux 8
I need to install logtail / logcheck in Rocky Linux 8. We have an application that uses it and we are migrating that from Centos 7 to Rocky 8.
Yum doesn't find it.
[root@myserver ~]# yum provides ...
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How do I disable sshd algorithms?
From my vulnerability scanning software I get this flag/message
The following weak key exchange algorithms are enabled :
diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1
diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
I want to ...
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Require root password when executing "sudo -s"
I have a CentOS 7 server on AWS.
When logged in with the centos user, how can I prevent sudo -s logging in to root without requiring root's password?
[root@server ~]# cat /etc/sudoers | grep rootpw
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PHP file_get_contents sometimes returns 502 on 1 of 2 Servers
I have two virtual servers.
The old: Ubuntu 12.04 with PHP 7.2.
The new: CentOS 7.9 with PHP 8.0.
On both servers the same application is running. A cron is minutely getting some details from another ...
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CentOS 7 - end of life in 2024, then what
We are working on a software solution and some of our providers are really CentOS 7 centered.
CentoS 7 will continue to produce through the remainder of the RHEL 7 life cycle, which will end sometime ...
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Should I use Centos 7 or Centos 8 on my VPS Server for Plesk? [closed]
I'm going to buy a VPS from a company. It asks me if you want to choose Centos 7 or Centos 8 when purchasing VPS. From what I've researched on the internet, there is no difference between the two. But ...
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systemd-tmpfiles race condition
I have a config file /etc/tmpfiles.d/test.conf:
z /dir/* 660 - - -
z /dir/subdir 2770 - - -
z /dir/subdir/* 660 - - -
Z /dir - root test -
When I run systemd-...
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CentOS doesn't boot with "A stop job is running for Security Auditing Service" message
CentOS prints the following during boot
[ *** ] A stop job is running for Security Auditing Service (9s / 1min 30s)
and then switches into the single user mode.
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spawn-fcgi doesn't start automatically even though has root permission Centos 7
I have very strange problem I don't know how to solve this. I have spawn-fcgi service only starts if I manually start as root but not with on boot
systemctl enable spawn-cgi gives me this information ...
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How to install PHP on CentOS has preinstalled Apache HTTPD?
I'm using CentOS 7. I wanted to install PHP 7 so I used remi-php (latest PHP version of yum is 5.4). Since the HTTPD version of yum is too old, I compiled the latest HTTPD version from the source code....
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CentOS 7 (dracut) is finding inconsistent network device names causing problems for kickstart
I use the boot options biosdevname=1 net.ifnames=1 in order to get consistent, predictable device names. I'm starting to notice a problem where in some cases, the network device names are not ...
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Create local yum repository for a package which is available on http
I am trying to create local yum repo for packages.
I have followed steps here to create the repo: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/create-local-yum-repository-centos
But now, I want to create repo for a ...
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how to send log file using rsyslog
I am using Centos 7.6 and have configured rsyslog server and able to send logs(syslog) from client to server, but I need to transfer the file /var/log/wtmp to rsyslog server and I have tried below ...
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Installation of Tripleo failed to install python-gnocchiclient, and python-pankoclient on Centos7
I am trying to install OpenStack since days, on Centos7 with Stein distribution I am installing the Undercloud via triplo repository but two stages are failing with errors, they are given below:
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Need to add older version of IUS repo in order to install specific PHP 7.2 packages
The Issue:
Without unnecessary detail, I have two servers that are nearly identical. However one has its yum repos configured such that php 7.2 packages imagick and sodium are available for install, ...
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acpi package has zero elements CentOS 7 boot error
I hope I asked this in the right StackExchange site, didn't knew where to post.
I have this boot error (attached), I can't understand much from it, acpi package has zero elements , etc.
I had Centos 7....
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Unable to update to Wordpress 5.7.2: Could not copy file
I'm trying to update to the latest (5.7.2) version of Wordpress from a fresh installation on CentOS 7, however I keep getting the error message
Could not copy file.: wp-admin/images/about-color-...
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