Network Interface Name in rhel7
- Dec
- 07
- Posted by TKH Specialist
- Posted in networking, RedHat 7, rhel 7
Anyone who has installed rhel7 knows how annoying it is to check you network and not see eth0. Perhaps it is just me then… Regardless here are instructions on how to change it: First you need to know the name of the network adapter in use, you can look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eno##### or run this command: […]
read moreUsing redhat-support-tool in 10 space
- Oct
- 13
OK, Private IP space, but you should know that 10 space means private IP space. The command redhat-support-tool is useful when working with a Red Hat support ticket. Once a ticket is opened with Red Hat your next step should be to create and attach an sosreport to the ticket. If you don’t then you […]
read moreRHEL – Installing X Windows (required for Oracle Installs)
- Jun
- 23
- Posted by TKH Specialist
- Posted in Oracle, RedHat 6, RedHat 7, X11
This is the quick and easy way to install X windows on your RHEL server > yum groupinstall “X Window System” “Fonts” To verify that is works, you ssh to your box using -X and then run “xclock” to verify that X windowing works. > ssh -X myaccount@myhost > echo $DISPLAYl localhost:11.0 > xclock
read moreKerberizing RHEL Server
- Jun
- 13
- Posted by TKH Specialist
- Posted in RedHat 6, RedHat 7, System Administration
Notes from Plone… yum install krb5-workstation pam_krb5 -y # if krb5.conf is present we should get a fresh copy mv /etc/krb5.conf /etc/krb5.conf.bak yum reinstall krb5-libs -y sed -ie ‘s/example.com/FQDN/g’ /etc/krb5.conf sed -ie ‘s/EXAMPLE.COM/FQDN/g’ /etc/krb5.conf fqdn=`hostname –fqdn`; echo ” ank -randkey host/$fqdn@FQDN ktadd -k /etc/krb5.keytab host/$fqdn@FQDN “; — OR — kadmin netid/admin@FQDN addprinc -randkey host/$fqdn ktadd […]
read moresystemd commands, hints and cheatsheet
- Apr
- 15
- Posted by TKH Specialist
- Posted in Cheat Sheets, RedHat 7, System Administration
List all running services # systemctl Start/stop or enable/disable services Activates a service immediately: # systemctl start foo.service Deactivates a service immediately: # systemctl stop foo.service Restarts a service: # systemctl restart foo.service Shows status of a service including whether it is running or not: # systemctl status foo.service Enables a service to be started […]
read morePassword Recovery in Redhat 7
- Feb
- 11
- Posted by TKH Specialist
- Posted in RedHat 7, rhel 7, System Administration

Forgot your password on your rhel7 server? Well there are some differences to process from rhel6. Here is how you do it. With SELinux and systemd in the mix we have to deal with that. Here is the procedure of what needs to be done in order to recover a forgotten root password on Redhat […]
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