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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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How to open port for a specific IP address with firewall-cmd on CentOS?

I would like to open port 4567 for the IP address 1.2.3.4 with the firewall-cmd command on a CentOS 7.1 server. How can I achieve this, as the documentation I could find was too specific on this?
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Centos 7 save iptables settings

Problem: iptables resets to default settings after server reboot. I'm trying to set rule like this: iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 3000 -j ACCEPT after that I do: service iptables save and it writes back something like this iptables: Saving…
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Create a directory under /var/run at boot

I had a daemon that needed its own dir in /var/run for its PID file with write permission granted to the daemon's user. I found I could create this dir with these commands: # mkdir /var/run/mydaemon Then I could change its ownership to the…
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Install a newer version of Git on CentOS 7

I like to enable Git "Push to Deploy" on my CentOS 7 server. Currently I only can get Git 1.8.3.1 via yum. I need a newer version. Do I have to build it from source or is there any repo I can use? I alreay added EPEL and elrepo but yum still gives…
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How to manage DNS in NetworkManager via console (nmcli)?

I have CentOS 7.2 (guest in VirtualBox, vagrant box centos/7, no GUI). I see there is a nameserver in file: $ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by NetworkManager nameserver 10.0.2.3 But how to add or replace with new one? I have done this manually…
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How to shrink /home and add more space on CentOS7

CentOS 7 file system is XFS, And resize2fs doesn't work. I need to shrink /home to 400G and add 100G space to /. What should I do? # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/centos-root 50G 50G 341M 100%…
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Authentication is required to manage system services or units.

I have a strange issue whenever trying to stop/start a daemon as a regular user, it asks to authenticate with the credentials of another regular user - for example: [bob@server ~]$ systemctl stop some-daemon.service ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR…
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I updated my CentOS 7 system. Why is Meltdown/Spectre only partially mitigated?

Like many of us, I spent yesterday updating a whole lot of systems to mitigate the Meltdown and Spectre attacks. As I understand it, it is necessary to install two packages and…
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Centos 7 Extend partition with unallocated space

I have centos 7 server (CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)) When I was updated my server I saw error you need extra space. But I had 20GB disk on server when I check disk spaces I saw only 4.5GB partition created and 16GB partition is free space…
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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 in 2024. CentOS 8 will receive updates till…
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Could not resolve host: mirrorlist.centos.org Centos 7

I have a fresh install of latest centos 7 [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) [root@localhost ~]# I wanted to install something and wget was not installed so when I tried to install wget I saw tha yum…
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Proper way to deal with corrupt XFS filesystems

I recently had an XFS filesystem become corrupt due to a powerfail. (CentOS 7 system). The system wouldn't boot properly. I booted from a rescue cd and tried xfs_repair, it told me to mount the partition to deal with the log. I mounted the…
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How to remove access to a port using firewall on Centos7?

Had a port opened up to for public use using firewall-cmd, I wanted to limit this port to a specific IP which I found the answer for on this SITE. I used the following to open it: $ firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=10050/tcp $…
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Permanently enable a SCL

Is there a way that I can permanently enable a SCL? I've installed rh-php56, and I would like to make sure that it is loaded every time I ssh into my machine. I am currently running CentOS 7.
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long delay when logging in with CentOS7

I have a CentOS 7 system and when I login with putty or ssh there is a long delay before I get the password prompt. I ran ssh -v and I found that it gets up to this: debug1: ssh_ecdsa_verify: signature correct debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1:…
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