Rhel

Getting started with firewalld

August 15, 2015

I’m mostly writing this for my own reference as I spent a bunch of time figuring this out while I was on holidays with some serious oVirt misadventures and didn’t document any of what I did, so since I had to reinstall CentOS 7, I’m stuck doing this all over …

My adventure upgrading RHEL5 to RHEL6

February 23, 2011

Well, I’ve begun the migration and probably picked the hardest machine to start with. One of my goals here was to do a clean migration from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 box to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 box for a specific set of services, and to intentionally have SELinux …

The most important updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

November 23, 2010

This week’s techmail is The most important updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Disclaimer: I didn’t give it that title. =) It mostly looks at the security features of RHEL6 and what makes it compelling (to me, who is more concerned about security than pretty much …

runit and supervised services on RHEL/CentOS 5

April 7, 2010

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I maintain a repository of packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (arguably these could/should be in EPEL but I’ve not had time to get into the Fedora side of things as of yet… someone will beat me with a wet …