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Rocky Linux is an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®.

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Is there a good way to allow non-root users to mount arbitrary external USB drives on Linux?

We have a situation where a site office has a couple of Rocky Linux 8 servers and regularly receives large amounts of data from clients. Data arrives on a variety of external USB hard drives and the occasional USB memory stick. These drives can have…
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CentOS: Admin user on xrdp session can't do admin

I'm running a Rocky Linux 8.4 workstation with GNOME and MATE desktops, but I've seen the same problem on CentOS 7.9... When I log into the machine on the local display, I can do things like administer users and set the system time using the Control…
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Why does xinetd try to close file descriptors on startup?

I have xinetd running inside a docker container (base image centos:7) on a rockylinux 9 host machine. On starting xinetd service in the docker image, it appears to hang. So I used strace, and found the following output, rapidly counting…
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Module RPMs makes kickstart installation of RHEL based distributions unusable

The title of the post has it all. The first steps to migrate from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 8 fail (in my eyes) because of module RPMs. If something is installed the traditional way via dnf, dnf notices if a dependency is only available as a modular…
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How to use cgroup v2 to limit memory and cpu per user group?

With cgroup v1, I can have group configuration in cgconfig.conf and assign groups to different users in cgrules.conf However, it seems to me that cgconfig and cgrules can't be used along with cgroup v2. The only way I know to use cgroup v2 is to…
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Why is pvscan skipping my devices?

I had a CentOS 7 server configured with a volume group that spanned 5 external hard drives. I upgraded the OS to Rocky 9, and now Rocky 9 isn't seeing the physical volumes, volume group or logical volume. My physical volumes (external drives) are…
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RockyLinux: unable to load cifs module

I have installed RockyLinux 8.5 and am trying to mount a directory via cifs. I get the following error message: # mount -t cifs -o user=,domain=,password= ///backups /mnt/backups mount error: cifs filesystem…
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Proper repolist after migrate2rocky.sh to Rocky

My migration from centos8 to Rocky linux went pretty well myhost /etc/yum.repos.d # uname -r 4.18.0 myhost /etc/yum.repos.d # Goal for this question; is this repolist sane? Or are some not migrated correctly. I thought I might reinstall firewalld,…
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How to prevent changes of GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG in /etc/default/grub

With Rocky Linux 8.4 (clone of RHEL 8.4) in /etc/default/grub I have GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=false A “dnf update” that included grub2-tools changed it back to GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true Is there some way to prevent this from happening in future grub2-tools…
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Rocky Linux 9 touch screen disable on-screen keyboard

I need to run an application on X11 in Rocky Linux 9.2, on a machine that uses a touchscreen monitor in addition to a mouse and physical keyboard. When I launch the application by touching its icon, the application window comes up together with the…
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Disabling GSSAuthentication in sshd_conf has no effect

I'm using a fresh install of the most recent build of RockyLinux 9. I'm trying to disable GSSAPI for SSH based login, along with passwords and permit only public key based login. Setting GSSAPIAuthentication no in sshd_conf doesn't appear to…
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High process memory usage (VmRSS) on rocky 8 vs. centos 7.7 for essentially everything

We're migrating some servers from centos 7.7ish to Rocky linux 8, and we're finding just about every process is using 20-50% more memory, causing machines to lock up. For example, sh on centos: # sh -c 'egrep "VmRSS|VmSwap" /proc/$$/status' VmRSS: …
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Yum dependencies and metadata for java-headless

I'm trying to install Java 8 and Tomcat 9 on a RockyLinux 9 server. Installing tomcat (from EPEL) requires java-headless >= 1:1.8.0 which is resolved to java-11-openjdk-headless. So Java 11 gets installed as a dependency... even though I have…
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Error deploying Ceph Quincy using ceph-ansible 7 on Rocky 9

I am trying to deploy Ceph Quincy using ceph-ansible on Rocky9. I am getting some problems and I don't know where to search for the reason. PS : I did the same deployment on Rocky8 using ceph-ansible for the Pacific version on the same hardware and…
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KVM : What is the Maximum Number of Physical CPU and Physical Core KVM Can Support on a Single HOST

I am new here so this is my first day with a very confusing Quistion so please help me to understand it Properly. Expert Advise Required My Quastion is : I have a dell PowerEDGE Server With Intel Scalable CPU 24 Cores and 64GB RAM on it, if i…
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