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Prepare voor RHCE Certification

Red Hat’s RHCE certification is one of the most popular certifications in the IT market at the moment. There are different method in preparing for both the RHCSA en RHCE exams. Which works best depends on the individual. I decided to … Continue reading

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Resize an encrypted LVM logical volume

Recently I had the challenge to resize an (dm-crypt, cryptsetup) encrypted LVM Logical Volume on Linux. While resizing a ‘plain’ Logical Volumes can’t get any easier, resizing an encrypted volumes involves a couple of more actions. Also, in contrast to … Continue reading

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Fix “IPv6 addrconf: prefix with wrong length” messages in Linux

Glancing trough the system-logging of one of my Internet VPS nodes, I noticed that the Kernel Ring Buffer (dmesg) was quite noisy with IPv6 Router Advertisement messages as: “IPv6 addrconf: prefix with wrong length 48″ Some research learned me that … Continue reading

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Force change password upon login

With the following command you can force a user to change it’s password upon login on a Linux host: # chage -d 0 [user]

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OpenRedAlert

1992 all over again with this re-written OSS game engine for RedAlert (linux/win32). http://code.google.com/p/openredalert/

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XEN guest images

Jailtime.org is a great resource if you’re looking for some ready-to-run XEN guest images. http://www.jailtime.org

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oVirt

New virtualization tools from the RedHat shed. oVirt offers a compleet solution for running and managing VM hosts. Funny to see that it uses KVM (trough libvirt) instead of XEN, with XEN being the main VM-technology in the RedHat exterprise … Continue reading

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