Category Archives: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Oracle removes gnome packages from its database requirements
As a sysadmin I try to make sure my servers will have the minimal installation needed in order for them to work. In most cases this policy works fine, but some applications depend on too much unneeded software like GUI … Continue reading
Doing a minimal installation for RHEL 5.3 with kickstart
When installing RHEL 5, it doesn’t matter if you deselect all the packages during the installation. You’ll still end with the @dialup and @java groups. If you do a kickstart installation, you can set your %packages to @core @base -@dialup … Continue reading
Filed under Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle
Last month RHEL 4.8 was released (see release notes). With this release RHEL 4 is entering phase 2 of it’s life cycle. During this phase only urgent software updates will be done and important or critical security issues will be … Continue reading
Filed under Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Working for Free? – Motivations of Participating in Open Source Projects
I’ve been asked to summarize an article by Alexander Hars & Shaosong Ou about motivations of participating in open source projects written in 2000 for a psychology course. It was very interested to see how many things can motivate one … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora, Mozilla, Openoffice.org, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu
Network bonding types and configuration in Linux
A few days after the first time I created a network bonding device in Linux, I had to create two network bonding on the same machine. Sounds simple, but it seems that be default you can create only one device. … Continue reading
Filed under Red Hat Enterprise Linux, System Administration
When LVM volume groups collide
I took my hard drive and connected it to another computer with Linux installed. Both HDs had a PV which contained a VG named “vg00″. This collistion was the first time I had encounterd this situation and had to solve … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Mark J Cox, the Director of the Red Hat Security Response Team, published an update to RHEL 4 risk report: Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4 was released on February 15th, 2005. This report takes a look at the state of … Continue reading
Filed under Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The benefits of working with GPL drivers
For the last few day I’m having problem with the tg3 driver for Broadcom’s NetXtreme Ethernet NIC on an IBM System x3850 machine with RHEL4 update 4. The problem was that the tg3 driver recognizes only one NIC and ignores … Continue reading
Filed under Proud to use free software, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
My thoughts on RHEL 5.1 installation
I decided to test RHEL 5.1 to check what changed since RHEL 4. As I usually do a network installation, I had a few surprises. The installation was done with qemu (with kqemu module) on an AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ … Continue reading
Filed under Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Why does Oracle’s applications needs xscreensaver in order to run ?
Working with some of Oracle’s products, made me wonder about their installation requirements as appears in the documentation. Let start with Oracle® Database 10g Release 2. The installation guide for linux x86 says under “Checking the Software Requirements” it needs … Continue reading
Filed under Proprietary software, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
