Tag Archives for RHEL

Fix Logwatch emails on Zimbra hosts

We’ve had an issue for a while where Logwatch emails are not getting through properly in Zimbra with Zimbra complaining about relay issues. While our migration to Zimbra will be the subject of another, much longer post, our last remaining … Continue reading

26. October 2009 by Jason
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Setting up stronger password policy rules in Linux – Part II

In a previous post we discussed how to setup stronger password policy rules in Linux and found out that any changes we make are not reflected back to existing accounts. So how do we make these changes retroactively apply to … Continue reading

31. December 2008 by Jason
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Setting up stronger password policy rules in Linux

Increased password security is no longer an optional item in setting up a secure system.  Many external organizations (such as PCI) are now mandating security policies that can have a direct effect on your systems.  By default, the account and … Continue reading

21. December 2008 by Jason
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Setup SAN disk for use in a Linux Veritas cluster

For this particular exercise we’re going to go through the entire process of provisioning disk for use in a VCS cluster. We will use EMC Symmetrix disk zoned and masked to a RHEL 4u6 host as the foundation.

09. December 2008 by Jason
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Fix Linux time sync issues in VMware

We’ve been having issues with our VMware guests keeping accurate time and didn’t want to break the best practices of using NTP like we normally do on our non-vm hosts so I ended up doing way more research on how … Continue reading

24. November 2008 by Jason
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Kickstarting a virtualized guest

If you need to provision hosts at a regular interval, kickstarting an installation is an effective and productive way of systematically creating guests. All of our Linux builds are now done via kickstart and as a result we have drastically … Continue reading

24. November 2008 by Jason
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