Konstantin,

What do you think about the option of "reverting" from Linux to UNIX
(e.g. FreeBSD ) ?

Eric Dyer, [log in to unmask]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Konstantin Olchanski
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:40:43PM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote:
>>
>> So if you put your system into permissive mode (setenforce 0), run the
>> certbot stuff via cron ... and grep out the denied lines, and I'll help.
>>
>>  That is my offer.
>>
>
> I appreciate your offer and I say "thank you". But the reality is I do
> not have the time to work on this problem.
>
>>
>> "the direction of el7 Linux" isn't even closely to be managed by this mailing list.
>>
>
> Then how is it managed? From a spherical board room at Red Hat in vacuum?
> Surely user input comes in somewhere, even if indirectly from
> the SL-users mailing list via FermiLab.
>
> Perhaps it is this lack of management that causes the present problem -
> where to have a web server one must do https, to do https one must have
> properly signed certificate, to have such certificate one must use the "letsencrypt" service,
> which malfunctions in the default configuration of RHEL/SL/CentOS7.
>
> (if there is another certificate service where I can roll out new certificates
> from a script and have them refresh automatically, I am all ears).
>
>>
>> But I could also twist
>> your argument: If you're not willing to accept that the world is moving
>> on and you need to learn things, perhaps you should start doing
>> something else instead?
>>
>
> My signature says "data acquisition", not "sysadmin". My field has been static
> for the last 100 years, no need to learn anything new ever. Not.
>
>>
>> But by all means, if you only came here to rant ...
>>
>
> That's for sure. Not too many happy people writing "SL works great for me" on this mailing list.
>
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> Konstantin Olchanski
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