Install Centos 8 using VNC
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How to mount raw images (.img) images on Linux
If you have a few .img files coming as disk images from devices like floppies, CDs, DVDs, SD cards, etc, you will realize that you cannot mount the in Linux, because they contain a file system that has to be … Continue reading →
Change port for sshd server
I changed the port for sshd on my servers to reduce the number of attacks against the sshd server. In the following example, I am changing the port from the default of 22 to 43231 First – backup your sshd_config … Continue reading →
DRBD on Centos
Installation Centos 7 rpm –import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-2.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm yum -y install drbd84-utils kmod-drbd84 Centos 6 rpm –import http://elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-5.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm –import ‘http://keys.gnupg.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x0608B895&op=get’ yum -y install drbd84-utils kmod-drbd84 Configuration create /etc/drbd.d/drbd1.res resource repdata { protocol … Continue reading →
Could not apply stored configuration to monitors
You log onto your linux system and you get the message “Could not apply the sotred configuration to monitors” Start a bash prompt cd ~/.config mv monitors.xml monitors.xml.zzz Log off and log back on again
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Centos 7 yum -y install epel-release yum -y groupinstall “GNOME Desktop” yum -y install xrdp xorg-x11-xinit firewall-cmd –permanent –zone=public –add-port=3389/tcp firewall-cmd –reload systemctl start xrdp.service systemctl enable xrdp.service Centos 6 rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm wget -O epel6.key.txt ‘http://keys.gnupg.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x0608B895&op=get’ rpm –import epel6.key.txt … Continue reading →
Custom status line in vim
Add the following three lines to the end of either /etc/vimrc or ~/.vimrc set paste set statusline=%F%m%r%h%w\ [FORMAT=%{&ff}]\ [TYPE=%Y]\ [ASCII=\%03.3b]\ [HEX=\%02.2B]\ [POS=%04l,%04v][%p%%]\ [LEN=%L] set laststatus=2 Will the following to the bottom of your vim session: ~/x.txt [FORMAT=unix] [TYPE=TEXT] [ASCII=000] [HEX=00] … Continue reading →
Mate on Centos 8
I wanted to get Mate installed on my Centos 8 system. I had to dig around a bit but I found the info I needed. Keep in mind this is an “unofficial” Centos 8 repository and if you have … Continue reading →
SSH WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!
You go to ssh to a system and you get the following message @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: POSSIBLE DNS SPOOFING DETECTED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The ECDSA host key for server.domain.com has changed, and the key for the corresponding IP address 10.128.15.2 is … Continue reading →
Show available wifi networks
nmcli dev wifi nmcli -f ALL dev wifi For more information see here
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