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Hi, When I install a CentOS server/desktop/workstation, I usually start from scratch with a barebone minimal installation, then add packages as needed. Some machines (like dedicated servers in a datacenter) come preconfigured by the hosting company, so I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to start stripping that stuff first. Here's a little script I wrote, which essentially strips down

Le 12/04/2018 ? 15:37, Paul R. Ganci a ?crit?: > I just did a fresh minimal install of centos 7 on new hardware. While > playing around with window systems I removed X windows like so: > >>yum remove "X Window system" > > and then tried to re install > >>yum group install "X Window system" > > which gives this error: When you install a

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 09:08:03PM +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 06/05/2016 18:31, Johnny Hughes a ?crit : > > There actually are a couple more things than core in a minimal install > > .. here is the current minimal list: > > > > https://git.centos.org/blob/sig-core!comps.git/220ef7b59c95531d3752d4074ce673aa09792c67/c7-minimal-x86_64-RPMS.lst > > > >

Le 06/05/2016 18:31, Johnny Hughes a ?crit : > There actually are a couple more things than core in a minimal install > .. here is the current minimal list: > > https://git.centos.org/blob/sig-core!comps.git/220ef7b59c95531d3752d4074ce673aa09792c67/c7-minimal-x86_64-RPMS.lst > > some of those might not get installed every time (ie, disk encrypt may > not be on non-encrypted

Le 26/02/2018 ? 16:12, Gordon Messmer a ?crit : > I would hazard to guess that the flaw is simply that from time to > time, packages are added to the minimal install as a side effect of > adding in new dependencies. If you had a minimal install and simply > ran "yum update", you would periodically see yum report that it would > install new packages for dependencies, in

Hi everybody, I'm back to CentOS after a long period during which I've been using mainly Slackware. I still use Slackware for teaching and for my local clients (on servers and desktops), but right now, I'm planning to update my own documentation about CentOS, which is still based on version 5.x. First things first. For the moment I have a sandbox server in my office with a

Hi, I just spent two rainy days writing and fine-tuning a post-installation script for CentOS 7 and KDE. https://github.com/kikinovak/centos-7-desktop-kde I've just tested it on three different machines here, and it works quite nicely. Feel free to give it a spin and make some suggestions. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730

Hi, I'm currently experimenting with Yum on a fresh CentOS 7 minimal install, and I'm getting some puzzling results. Here's what I did. 1. Install CentOS 7 from the Minimal CD. 2. Install 'deltarpm' and update all packages. 3. Install the "Core" package group: 'yum group install "Core"' 4. Install the "Base" package group: 'yum

On 05/06/2016 11:18 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 06/05/2016 13:50, Johnny Hughes a ?crit : >> Maybe add a: >> >> yum groupinstall core > > That did add a handful of packages indeed (as was already suggested in > the previous answer), but the problem still persists. > > After rebooting, the system hangs after mounting the /boot partition and > then exits

Hi, I'm currently experimenting with Samba on a few sandbox machines. On the server side, I have setup CentOS 7 with a basic Samba setup and two shares, one public, the other password-protected. I have two Windows 7 boxes in my network, and I can access the shares perfectly, log in to the password-protected share, read and write files, so this seems to work OK. On my main Linux workstation

Hi everyone, I just discovered something very weird on a vanilla CentOS 7 installation. If I create a link to /tmp as a normal user, it looks like I can't remove this link anymore. Here's what this looks like: $ mkdir test_link $ cd test_link/ $ ln -s /tmp/ link_to_tmp $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 kikinovak kikinovak 5 Sep 17 10:56 link_to_tmp -> /tmp/ $ rm link_to_tmp/

Le 26/02/2015 15:00, David Both a ?crit : > Perhaps I have not been following closely enough, but why go backwards? > Why not start with a "minimal" installation and then add only those > packages that are needed for your situation? Here's why. I'm currently experimenting with CentOS on my workstation, trying out different desktop environments like GNOME3, KDE, MATE,

Hi, I wanted to create an account on bugs.centos.org to report a minor but annoying bug with Dolphin. After trying to register by providing the login (kikinovak) and email address (info at microlinux.fr), I'm told that the email is already in use. Uh oh. Maybe I already created an account years ago and then forgot about it. So I click on the field for forgotten passwords, only to be told

Hi, I just installed CentOS 6.6 on my HP Pavilion DM1 laptop. The wireless card is only poorly supported in the default setup, so I decided to write an installation script for the Linux-STA driver, which works perfectly. https://github.com/kikinovak/centos/blob/master/6.x/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta.sh Grab the files: # git clone https://github.com/kikinovak/centos Run the script: # cd

Hi, I just sanded down the remaining edges of my CentOS 7 post-install configuration script and published it on a Github repository, along with some detailed instructions. * https://github.com/kikinovak/centos-setup Feel free to use it (and/or adapt it to your needs). Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise -

Hi, I'm currently setting up a local FTP server, to receive disk images sent with G4L (Ghost4Linux). This server has been running Slackware Linux before, and the Vsftpd setup was relatively simple. With CentOS things seem to be slightly different, so I'm currently trying to work things out. For the moment, two things seem to be creating problems, the simple iptables firewall and

Le 17/11/2019 ? 18:56, Jonathan Billings a ?crit?: > You should never be using ntpdate anymore (which is why the ntp project is deprecating it, http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate <http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate> ). I really only ever suggest ntpd unless you?re running an NTP server that provides NTP service to your network, and needs to

Le 23/09/2017 ? 19:36, Remik.ca a ?crit?: > If you are just upgrading, you don't need to burn any DVDs. Just mount the dmg and run the included installer. > > You'd only need to burn the DVD if you wanted to wipe the MBP and do a clean install. > > Or - use Recovery Mode and do entire macOS installation over the internet, no boot DVDs required, just internet access (wired

Hi, I just installed a fresh CentOS 6.6 desktop. It's a client's machine, it is physically installed on a testbench in my office. Usually, when I perform installations, I start with the base system on the testbench, and once networking is configured, I SSH into it and then do all the fine-tuning remotely. My configuration files, scripts and HOWTOs are all stored in a Github

Hi, I've been working with Squid + SquidGuard for a few years, though only on Slackware. I'm currently transferring my proxy expertise to CentOS 7, and right now I'm having a little problem with that. Squid works perfectly so far as a transparent HTTP + HTTPS cache proxy. The next step is to add SquidGuard, so I installed it and edited the most basic /etc/squid/squidGuard.conf file