CentOS is a Linux distribution standing for "Community ENTerprise Operating System" and is a rebuild of "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" (RHEL), belonging to the same company that distributes RHEL (Red Hat, Inc.). The "CentOS7" tag refers to versions 7.x-xxxx of CentOS, working only on 64-bit hardware. Maintenance updates for CentOS/RHEL 7 will stop on June 30, 2024, with full updates ceasing in winter of 2019.
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FreeIPA Installation Failing During CA Restart
I'm trying to set up a simple vagrant box for testing with FreeIPA. I'm using the CentOS 7 image, and installing minimal extra things to the box, and using a very simple FreeIPA definition to start with. I've tried doing it using simple shell…

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After reboot of CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)server ,it stopped xfs support
After reboot of CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)server ,it stopped xfs support and throws below error
mount: unknown filesystem type 'xfs'
#lsmod | grep xfs
is not showing anything and #modprobe xfs is also not working .
#find…

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Can't open PID file on Cent OS 7 for Apache status
Found following on systemctl status httpd.service on Cent OS 7.
Apache 2.4.41 is compiled and installed. There is not such message on Cent OS 6.
systemd[1]: Can't open PID file /var/run/httpd.pid (yet?) after start:
No such file or…

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Ricoh and Konica Printers fail authentication scanning to SMB shares
Hello I hope someone can give me some guidance here.
I have spent the past week and a half trying to resolve this issue but have been failing so far. I will break down how the issue began and what I have tried / learned so far.
On January 29th one…

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Failed redirect for at.com Unable to set enhancement redirect for at.com SSL apache centos 7
i tried to using let's encrypt SSL and install it using certbot certbot --apache -d at.com -d www.at.com -d destmap.at.com -d to.at.com. but it can't. i got this error
Failed redirect for at.com
Unable to set enhancement redirect for at.com
Unable…

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How to configure Fail2ban with private key ssh connection on CentOs 7
I tried to install Fail2ban on my Centos 7 machine to prevent force brute connection on ssh server.
I'm using a private key with a passphrase to connect. I tested Fail2ban but it doesn't block me when i put a bad passphrase.
I just want to insist…

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Getting ldap_bind Invalid credentials (49) with openldap
I am getting error ldap_bind Invalid credentials (49) with openldap. I only installed and configured openldap on centos7. I changed the password couple of time as well. I Know there are many question there on same issue but I tried all of them…

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Extend Boot and EFI Partitions CentOS 7
I got a new dedicated server which have 500GB SSD holding the operating system and the other HDDs have the data. By default the /boot partition is considered small I wanna extend it same applies to EFI as shown below:
Filesystem Size …

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How to grant user read write permission to another users home directory linux AWS
I have two users on my server, user1 and ec2-user
I have added user1 to the ec2-user group
If I change the permission to 775 on the /home/ec2-user directory as user1 I can write files.
find /home/ec2-user/ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \
However…

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AIDE reporting file additions to folder marked ACL only
I have a server configured with AIDE and I'm trying to tune out false positives. I received an alert this morning that a file had been added to a folder that I believe should only alert on ACL changes, unless I'm misunderstanding something.
Here are…

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When was new hardware added Centos 7
On Centos 7, is there a way to find out when was a new hardware added? My vendor says they added a new nic card on our Dell servers but now I am not sure which ones were done. Hope there is some log that shows time and date when a new nic was added.…

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Subdomain setup for Flask + apache
I have installed and deployed Flask on a CentOS server but the subdomain for some reason, is not working properly. I really need some help on this one. I am actually a newbie in this field so please be a little gentle.
Here are the details:
CentOS…

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I recovered my RSA key, but I'm locked out of my webserver
So when I built my unmanaged webserver for my portfolio site jasonwarner.dev I had initially locked it down by disabling any login and the root account, completely because I was getting notifications about a couple hundred thousand root login…

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Centos 7 - Locked out of accessing the VPS after enforcing SELinux
As title says, I can't log into my VPS after enforcing the Sellinux flag.
Do I have any options to get in without reinstalling the OS and losing all my configurations?

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Can a CentOS 8 chrony client synchronize with a CentOS 7 ntp server?
Can a CentOS 8 chrony client synchronize with a CentOS 7 ntp server? By ntp server, I mean it was configured through yum installing the ntp package and not the chrony package.

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