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Yum Update on ‘end of life’ CentOS6

If you ever have the need to install CentOS 6, you will not be able to install any updates via yum because it’s gone end of life. Example Error However, there is a handy workaround for this. Step 1 – Create a new repo with your favourite text editor. I...

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Grafana SSL – How to configure HTTPS

Here is a quick guide to configuring a self-signed SSL certificate in Grafana, allowing you to browse to: https://my_grafana_server What is Grafana? Grafana and Prometheus will give you a great solution if you need monitoring dashboards. Check out https://grafana.com and https://prometheus.io to start your Journey. Want to create your own...

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Configure Time with NTP and Chronyd on Red Hat Linux

NTP (Network Time Protocol) is important because it allows computers and other networked devices to synchronize their clocks with a highly accurate reference time source. This is critical for many applications requiring accurate timing, such as financial transactions, scientific experiments, and network security. Here are some specific reasons why NTP...

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Managing Users & Groups in RedHat

Managing Users in Linux User management in Linux refers to the process of creating, modifying, and deleting user accounts on a Linux system. It includes tasks such as creating new user accounts, modifying user account settings, assigning users to specific user groups, and managing user account permissions. In Linux, each...

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How to use Red Hat (RHEL8) as a Linux VM host

Red Hat Virtualization, building a Linux VM This is part 5 of the learning Red Hat series on my blog. Did you know you can use Red Hat as a Virtual Machine host? In fact you can use almost all new flavors of Linux to create a Linux VM host...

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Change the Root Password on a Linux Server

Sometimes a root password reset is needed, perhaps a system administrator has left your place of work and not documented the root password, or you have experienced an error in the operating system error that has halted the system in read-only mode. To change a password on Linux, like a...

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Understanding Red Hat Permissions

This is an overview of everything permissions based. You will learn about How to find file and file system permissions There are a number of different ways to find out file permissions in Linux. Stat command One of my favourite Linux commands is the stat command. Stat – gives you...

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How to manipulate files in RedHat

In the ever-evolving world of Linux, RedHat stands out as one of the most prominent and trusted distributions. At its core lies the ability to effectively manage and manipulate files, a foundational skill every system administrator or enthusiast should master. File manipulation encompasses the basics of creating, reading, and deleting...

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Grep and RegEx One-Liners

GREP (Global Regular Expression Print) is a command-line tool for searching and manipulating text files. It allows you to search for specific text patterns, called regular expressions, within a file or set of files and perform various operations on the matched text. Regular expressions, or regex for short, are patterns...

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Install Glances on Red Hat (RHEL)

This procedure works with Red Hat version 6,7,8, CentOS 6,7,8, and the Rocky Linux distributions. Glances is a fantastic resource monitor tool for Linux and Windows-based systems. CPU, Disk, Memory, etc can be monitored either locally, or remotely via the web page. This is the main glances website Red Hat...