SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
Red Hat Simple Partitioning
Summary: This post is about the simple partitions you can configure on red hat. If you're looking for the fancy stuff look here (click for LVM info).
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 29 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
The only really cool thing about this is encryption, scroll down for that.
Red Hat SELinux
Summary: How to configure SELinux on Red Hat.
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 29 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Security Enhanced Linux is an additional method to protect your system, besides updating and a firewall. It is a set of security rules that determine which process can access which files, directories, ports etc. Every file, process, directory and port has a special label called a SELinux context. There a several contexts, but the most interesting one is the type context, which always ends with “_t”.
This article shows some information and commands to work with SELinux. When you encounter a issue on a SELinux enabled system, you should always ask yourself the question, “Could this be caused by SELinux”. So dealing with that question will be the first part.
After that more information will be given about SELinux modes, configfiles and commands.
Red Hat Software Repositories
Summary: Red Hat uses repositories to manage the software. Every system comes with the Red Hat subscription channels which are available after you've registered your system. This post is about managing the repositories.
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 29 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Red Hat 6.5 Post Install
Summary: All sorts of things to configure after installing a Red Hat server.
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 29 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
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Note that if you experience the GSSAPI errors in the /var/log/messages logfile and experience slow logon times you should disable LDAP referral in the config file, see Fix: Red Hat GSSAPI Error
After creating a server with kickstart from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Management Server you need to do some more configuration depending on the exact machine. This post install page will tell you all the steps but change details depending on your requirements: