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  • 2012-05-12
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Red Hat Certification – RHCE – Network Services – FTP

1st post - System Management and Configuration Objectives Network services Network services are an important subset of the exam objectives. RHCE candidates should be capable of meeting the following objectives for each of the network services listed below: Install the packages needed to provide the service. Configure SELinux to support the …

  • 2012-05-08
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Red Hat Certification – RHCE – Network Services – DNS

1st post - System Management and Configuration Objectives Network services Network services are an important subset of the exam objectives. RHCE candidates should be capable of meeting the following objectives for each of the network services listed below: Install the packages needed to provide the service. Configure SELinux to support the …

  • 2012-05-03
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Linux's ctrl-alt-SysRq - Magic SysRq Key

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Wow, awesome. Looks like you can do lots of fun stuff here in case you get a stalled system. Quite fun that this is a quite useful thing and I have never heard of this before. Maybe Linux community is being quiet about this …

  • 2012-05-02
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Red Hat Certification – RHCE – Network Services - httpd

1st post - System Management and Configuration This post is about Network Services. During all these exercises I try my hardest not to use google, as that's not available during the exam anyway. Objectives Network services Network services are an important subset of the exam objectives. RHCE candidates should be capable …

  • 2012-04-30
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Red Hat Certification – RHCE – System Configuration and Management

RHCE Preparation - System Configuration and Management This is post 1 in a series of posts where I will be going through the objectives for the RHCE certifications. It builds on the initial post that has the objectives: https://www.guldmyr.com/red-hat-certification-rhce-preparation/ It appears that the objectives have been updated …

  • 2012-04-26
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Red Hat Certification – RHCE – Skills Assessment

Just tried out the "Red Hat Skills Assessment" for RHCE. These are apparently the ones I need to work on: Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems Some Understanding Managing Flexible Storage with Logical Volumes Substantial Knowledge BASH Scripting and Tools Substantial Knowledge Manage System Resources Some Understanding Logical Volume Management Substantial …


  • 2012-03-26
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Update / Install Spotify 0.8.2.637 on RHEL6 x64

Previous post: https://www.guldmyr.com/how-to-update-spotify-on-rhel6-x64-native-client/ Installed spotify-client-0.8.2.637.g252b980.486-2.x86_64.rpm - this is converted from the .deb package that is downloaded from: http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/ you convert with 'alien' and this command: alien --to-rpm spotify-client_0.8.2.637.g252b980.486-1_amd64 …

  • 2012-03-13
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owncloud in a box!

owncloud http://susestudio.com/a/TadMax/owncloud-in-a-box Based on opensuse 12.1, I tested this out in vmware workstation by downloading the vm version (has a .vmdk file) inside the .tar inside the .tar.gz. "Run the appliance, go to http://[yourservername]/owncloud and login as admin with the password …

  • 2012-03-10
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openstack testing day

Only one day late! I actually started installing this on the 8th but I forgot to install it to hdd so the 'yum update' failed and broke the machine with I/O errors :) Installing it in a VMWare Workstation (fedora 64-bit type, 2, cores, 4G RAM, 20G disk). http://fedoraproject …