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note to self: Fedora minimal Installation and virt-manager
If you need to install virt-manager on a Fedora/Red Hat minimal installation, add the following packages: yum install xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 xorg-x11-xauth libvirt-daemon-kvm libvirt virt-manager qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-tools
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Very simple time sync sollution for Satellite
Hi, because I don’t want to create a Google Account, here my comment to the blogpost Time on Computers, NTP, Certificates, etc from Ivan Makfinsky. The simplest method is to put the following line into the pre script: rdate SATELLITESERVER hwlock … Continue reading
uptime madness, or why do you need to reboot just because you replace the harddiscs?
I just got an new HP Microserver for a customer. I only had two 500GB disc available and installed Centos onto it. But now the 4* 3TB discs have arrived and I need to move everything from the 2 small … Continue reading
Thank you Seth Vidal, my first ansible playbook
I was shocked when I heard about Seth Vidal’s death. Of course I use yum daily, but it brought tears to my eyes, when I was reading my “my TODO List after a install” and realized that Seth was one … Continue reading
my TODO List after a install
I had to reinstall a couple of machines recently and I had to do the same thing more then once. So I wrote a script,and for my own future self I post it here, as reference. sed -e ‘s:ONBOOT=no:ONBOOT=yes:’ -i … Continue reading
Be carefull when updating from RHEL6.1 to RHEL6.4
If you have a RHEL6.1 and try to update to RHEL6.4, you will get some strange errors, about missing libraries. The reason is that ldconfig will not run anymore, because /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-2.6.32-* sepcifies hwcap 0 till RHEL6.1 and RHEL 6.2 and … Continue reading
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Memorymangement is harder than it is known.
After I thought I understood memory manager after all, this comes along. I have a behavior I can’t understand or explain. Let’s see if anyone can solve the puzzle. You have a machine, lets say with 8GB Ram. You only … Continue reading
RHEL6.4 and NX
Be careful if you update to RHEL6.4 and you are using NX. RHEL6.4 removes the keymap.dir and this breaks NX at the moment. To fix this, simply do a touch /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap.dir. It looks like that RedHat will not fix this, … Continue reading
Todo after a Fedora upgrade
Even with the new fedup tool to upgrade. There are a couple of commands I use always after an upgrade. I suggest you use them too: yum distro-sync package-cleanup –problems package-cleanup –orphans rpmconf -a -fvimdiff rpmorphan Helps to keep your … Continue reading
python virtualenv
After joining my local LUG at the python workshop and because I start using more python now. Here some hints and tools that I’m using a lot lately. virtualenvwrapper Install it with pip install virualenvwrapper or yum install python-virtualenvwrapper.noarch. Create … Continue reading