Make an archive of /usr/local named local.tgz. The file must be compressed by gzip. Done.
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New specialized volume group
Create a new volume group with 32 MiB extents, 50 extent logical volume make and mount it vfat call the lv lv_datasource and mount it as /datasource. Always good to know what junk is on your disk. Next we check the vgcreate man page which is the only documentation available on the RHCSA exam usually. […]
Read More →Find user owned files
Find all files owned by user mercury and store the results in /tmp/results/
Read More →Specific user add question
Add a user mercury to your system numeric id 3689
Read More →LDAP integration
The time has come for LDAP The classroom server has been set up with ipa-server and ldapusers with password is password. Some of the setup on my server1 box was done in the infrastructure article part 2. ipa-client-install install was used earlier we pulled it out to create this content with a re-install. The passwords […]
Read More →To be without spam. A spamassassin story
I have used spamassassin for many years with variable levels of success. I will tighten the rules in one place, the soammers would find a new way to deliver the spam on my server. Last week my wife, retired her email address because she’s getting more spam than real mail. It was the worst of […]
Read More →LVM filesystem exercise
A Volume Group was created at 200Mib thusly: fstab setup: It was properly mounted: Now we need to extend it to 400 MiB any number between 370-430MiB is cool. Done and doner!
Read More →file permissions exercise (acl)
/etc/fstab is copied to /var/tmp/fstab user abraham needs to be able to read and write /var/tmp/fstab user leah can neither read nor write /var/tmp/fstab All other users must be able to read and write the file present and future. The results seem to be incorrect so I added a step.
Read More →ntp integration
Integrate server1 with classroom nfs server For some reason I already set this up: Partially anyway I ran yum -y install chrony and systemctl enable chronyd.service
Read More →User needs cron
Few users are really safe with cron. But the RHCSA deities say we need this exercise so we are going to do the exercise. Lets say the user is leah and she needs to run a job the echo’s Shalom every day at 19:07. Looks good to me.
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