Firewalld is a pain to set up. To switch to iptables: yum -y install iptables-services If you would like to save the firewall rules you need to run the following command iptables-save > /root/iptables-rules.txt These rules can be added to … Continue reading →
Check these two items in the /etc/systemd/logind.conf PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=yes SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited=yes Tested with Centos 7
Continue reading →You execute: systemctl start xrdp and the service does not start and you find the following in the messages log Apr 7 16:01:22 myserver systemd: Started xrdp session manager. Apr 7 16:01:22 myserver systemd: Starting xrdp session manager… Apr 7 … Continue reading →
Some RAID Controllers, many fake RAID controllers and software raid put a signature on both the beginning and/or ending of the space on a hard drives. This many times creates problems when reformatting the drives or reloading the system after … Continue reading →
In linux, hard drive dev assignments can get changed between reboots – especially with external/removable drives. This means using /dev/sdX or /dev/hdX is not the best way to mount a drive that needs to be mounted every time at boot. … Continue reading →
I found the following entries in my /var/log/messages file Feb 21 03:50:01 vm1 systemd: Created slice user-0.slice. Feb 21 03:50:01 vm1 systemd: Starting Session 6642 of user root. Feb 21 03:50:01 vm1 systemd: Started Session 6642 of user root. These … Continue reading →
You start AnyConnect on Centos 7 using the shortcut and the application flashes on the screen and disappears. So you try running it from the bash prompt and you get: [user@mymachine ~]$ /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnui /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnui: error while loading shared libraries: libpangox-1.0.so.0: … Continue reading →
first – determine the dev of the hard drive – as in /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc Then excute shred -vz -n 3 /dev/XXX where XXX is the identifier of the hard drive Increase 3 to a larger value for higher security … Continue reading →
semanage is used in configuring selinux. If it is not installed you need to run yum -y install policycoreutils-python
Continue reading →Updated xrdp on a Centos 7 system and xrdp would not start. Error logged in /var/log/messages: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/xrdp: Permission denied Fix: chcon -t bin_t /usr/sbin/xrdp /usr/sbin/xrdp-sesman Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177202
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