This is part 5 of the learning Red Hat series on my blog. If you use RHEL 7 or RHEL 8, did you know that you can use it as a virtual machine host – straight out of the box. This works on Centos 7 / 8 as well. RHEL7/8 can...
This is part 4 of the series learning Red Hat. This process has been tested on RHEL8, it works on RHEL7 but any earlier version the process is a little different – often needing a boot disk. Understanding the boot process Its important to know how a Linux Operating System...
Here is part 3 of the learning Red Hat sessions. This is an overview of everything permissions based. You will learn about How to find permissions File Permissions Umask Masking How to find file and file system permissions There are a number of different ways to find out file permissions...
Here is part 2 of the RHCSA learning sessions. This will focus on some of the core components to manipulate files. You will learn how to: Find Files Find files Read files Manipulate test Link files Finding files is a key skill needed for any system admin. There are a...
Grep and RegEx This is the first of a mini series focusing on some of the key elements of the Red Hat RHCSA exam. The grep command is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression. To use the command, simply type grep....
Have you ever had the headache where you cannot create a project in your GCP organization. It can be extremely frustrating. Go to the google cloud console and make yourself an OrgAdmin, Owner, and ProjectCreator with these commands: gcloud organizations add-iam-policy-binding *myOrgId* –member=”user:m…@here.com” –role=”roles/resourcemanager.organizationAdmin” gcloud organizations add-iam-policy-binding *myOrgId* –member=”user:[email protected]” –role=”roles/owner” gcloud...
Here is a step by step guide to restoring a Linux server. This example is a bare metal restore into VMware, but the same process can be used for a physical server. I found this task quite tricky, but once you have the hang of it, it will become second...
Here is a collection of some really cool PowerShell one liners scripts. I find them very useful for day to day system administration tasks. I will keep adding to this list as I learn more useful commands. Get a list of all installed applications on a Windows device This one-liner...
Here are some of the most useful commands I have picked up with my time on Google Cloud Shell. This list is not definitive, but I am sure that you will get some use from them. How to prevent project deletion in Google Cloud Shell This is a great command...
Sometimes you need to know what information you have got in your SharePoint solution. I have been asked this numerous times since GDPR was introduced. Get-SPWeb http://your-sharepoint-site | Select -ExpandProperty Lists | Where { $_.GetType().Name -eq “SPDocumentLibrary” -and -not $_.Hidden } | Select -ExpandProperty Items | Group {$_.ParentList.ParentWeb.Url + “/”...
