A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
This post came to life after experiencing some upgrade problems with missing dependencies and RPM packages from RPMforge and Redhat Enterprise Linux Client release 5. The prosess to remove or replace the packages was to remove RPMforge as a package repository and replace the blocking packages with Redhats own packages. The process of replacing RPMforge […]
This is how you can force a Redhat user to change his password upon first login on a Redhat 5 installation. This might work on other versions and distributions… First lock the account to prevent the user from logging in until the change has been made # usermod -L <username> Change the password expiration date […]
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ is a documentation page I always return to when I manage Redhat Enterprise Linux systems. Redhat has put a lot of effort in their documentation and even allow you to download them as PDF documents. The documentation below is for RHEL5.2 Deployment Guide May 21, 2008 PDF Installation Guide May 21, 2008 PDF Virtualization […]
# date -d @1221256800 “+%Y-%m-%d %T” 2008-09-13 00:00:00 Convert a date (YYYYMMDD) to unix timestamp # date -d “20080913” +%s 1221256800
This post describes how to disable IPv6 on a Redhat (RHEL5) installation. I haven’t had the time to test it on other version of Redhat. Edit /etc/sysconfig/network and change NETWORKING_IPV6=no Edit /etc/modprobe.conf and add these lines alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off Stop the ipv6tables service # service ip6tables stop Disable the ipv6tables service # […]