RHEL: Adding Disk Space

So your Disk is getting full or worse already full. Here’s a step-by-step approach to troubleshoot and resolve this issue: First, verify the current state of your volume group: vgdisplay vc_name This will show you the details of the ‘rhel’ volume group, including free space. Check the status of the new disk: Ensure that /dev/sdb […]

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PHP and OCI8 Installation for RHEL8

Download the following packages: oracle-instantclient18.5-basic-18.5.0.0.0-3.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient18.5-devel-18.5.0.0.0-3.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient18.5-sqlplus-18.5.0.0.0-3.x86_64.rpm Install the downloaded packages and the libnsl library: # dnf install oracle-instantclient18.5-basic-18.5.0.0.0-3.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient18.5-devel-18.5.0.0.0-3.x86_64.rpm oracle-instantclient18.5-sqlplus-18.5.0.0.0-3.x86_64.rpm # dnf install libnsl (ensure x86 and not i686) Download and install the EPEL repository: # rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm # dnf install -y https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm Install PHP and OCI8: # dnf module list php # […]

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Active Directory / LDAP for Satellite 6

Servers should be: dcg5.example.com dcg2.example.com dcg1.example.com Ports: LDAPS = 636 LDAP = 389 Account Username format for AD: CN=satellite.ldap.svc,OU=Accounts,OU=Satellite,OU=Services,OU=SSG,OU=Company,DC=grove,DC=ad,DC=company,DC=com Password for satellite.ldap.svc Base DN: DC=grove,DC=ad,DC=company,DC=com Groups base DN:  OU=Groups,OU=Satellite,OU=Services,OU=SSG,OU=Company,DC=grove,DC=ad,DC=company,DC=com LDAP filter: (objectClass=User) Satellite needed the following box checked: “LDAP users will have their Satellite 6 account automatically created the first time they log into Satellite […]

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When did that change?

Trying to shutdown an old web server from the late 1990’s that had it’s guts transplanted onto a newer system around 2003 and again around 2009. As you can imagine there are accounts and files that are like those items in your junk drawer, they beg the question…why is this here?! In an attempt to […]

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Former Anonymous members jailed in U.K. for PayPal, Visa DDoS attacks

Three men were sentenced Thursday in the U.K. for their roles in a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched against financial and music industry organizations in 2010 by the Anonymous hacktivist collective.

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Quotes

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.  Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.  — Brian W. Kernighan   Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. — Edsger Dijkstra […]

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