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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Systemd: Supervising process XXXX which is not our child. We'll most likely not notice when it exits
I've created a custom service file which looks like this:
cat /etc/systemd/system/aaa.service
[Unit]
Description=aaa main application
After=syslog.target…

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Confirming that yum-cron is configured properly on a CentOS 7 server
Is there any way to test whether yum-cron is configured properly? I need to confirm that it will automatically install security patches and that it will email me when it does so.
I have a CentOS 7 web server with yum-cron installed. It's been…

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How do I stop Dell R730xd fans from going full speed when Broadcom/QLogic NetXtreme 57711 PCI card added?
I have a pair of Broadcom NetXtreme 57711 10GbE cards. I put one in a Dell R710; it boots with the card fine, the OS (CentOS 7) recognizes it, and all seems well. However, when I put the other card in an R730xd (also running CentOS), something…

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Access denied trying to enable or unmask firewalld
My firewall is currently inactive.
systemctl status firewalld firewalld.service Loaded: masked (/dev/null) Active: inactive (dead)
I used the following command to enable the firewall
# systemctl unmask firewalld
but I got this error:
# systemctl…

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Firewalld CentOS 7 Masquerading
I'm trying to do the equivalent of this iptables rule in firewalld
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
How can I do this?

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Disadvantages of running an AWS worker server at 100% CPU
On a machine (AWS m5.large) that only runs nice'd background processing jobs (i.e. no web/DB/etc servers present), are there disadvantages to consistently running the CPU at 100%?
I understand that running the system such that it consumes 100% of…

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certbot for letsencrypt missing pyopenssl module
I need help setting up the CertBot for LetsEncrypt
I am running on CentOS 7 with Python 2.7
When I run certbot I get the following error:
[root@li86-193 frappe-bench]#certbot certonly --manual
Traceback (most recent call last):
File…

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Configuring 1:1 Nat using Firewalld for VM's
I've setup 2 vm's within my server and I'm trying to setup a 1:1 NAT for them with firewalld on CentOS 7. Currently both vm's are behind a virtual bridge (virbr0, vnet0, vnet1) and I've made copies of the NIC for each IP to be used with them. I…

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SELinux: How to create a new file type
On RHEL/CentOS 7 I'm trying to create a new SELinux security context for files to support a new service that I'm writing.
I've created a Type Enforcement file for my new service, but I can't manage to create a new type that the system will recognize…

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Can connect via SSH - but not via SFTP? Exit status 127
Unfortunately I can not connect via sftp to my VPS:
This is my sshd_config:
# Package generated configuration file
# See the sshd_config(5) manpage for details
# What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for
Port 22
# Use these options to restrict…

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sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max: No such file or directory
I try to change net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max by editing /etc/sysctl.conf
net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max = 65535
and sysctl -p
But i receive error:
sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max: No such file or…

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CentOS 7 systemctl - no feedback or status/output
I just installed CentOS 7.1 on one server and I'm confused by how systemctl works compared to service.
On CentOS 6, I would get feedback when running service, such as:
root@centos6 [~]# service mysql restart
Shutting down…

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From vSphere 5.5 - Deploying Centos 7 from template ignores customizations
I've been having troubles when deploying CentOS7 from template in that the customizations do not take effect. For the VM OS setting - I have selected RHEL7 as the OS rather than CentOS (previously having learned that lesson with Oracle Linux 6.5 at…

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Nginx module not binary compatible after compilation on Centos 7
I need to use the Nginx module ngx_http_auth_pam_module on a Centos 7 server. As a package is only available through the getpagespeed repository, which isn't gratis, I want to compile it myself.
Following various instructions I found, I downloaded…

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centos 7.4 can not install `dnf`from epel
It is so weird, I have a centos7 VM box. Try to install dnf because it is a dependency of another package.
Most instructions on internet is like this:
sudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum install dnf
But nothing installs. No package dnf…

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