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.
AIX Migrate PV
Summary: ALthough AIX is by now on version 7.3 I find these old pages so fascinating I decided to keep them. On this page I'll show you how to migrate data from one physical volume to another on AIX using the migratepv command.. This page is for AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1.
Date: Between 2010-2013
Refactor: 21 December 2024: Checked formatting.
Red Hat 6.5 NFS Server
Summary: How to setup a Red Hat 6.5 NFS Server.
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 29 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
This server is installed using the kickstart as described in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Management Server. It provides a few shares for the business application, but it also provides the home directories share, so users have the same home directory on all servers.
First we will install NFS server and configure shares.
Red Hat Networking
Summary: How to setup networking on Red Hat.
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 29 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
With the introduction of Red Hat 6 a new utility was introduced to configure networking. It is called the Network Manager, is running as a service and appears on the desktop in the upper right corner:
Since it is a service it can be stopped and started to reset the network settings and it can also be disabled. It cannot to do all settings you might want to configure, for example bonding of networkcards.
Besides the Network Manager there are other ways to configure the network. You can edit the network configuration files manually, or use the old “system-config-network” tool.
We'll go through the different options in this article.
Red Hat Mercurial: Setup and Config
Summary: How to configure Mercurial on Red Hat.
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 29 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
This is the documentation page about the setup from mercurial on Red Hat systems here. Mercurial is a versioning system which uses a master repository server. The usual setup is shown in this picture:
Once you know how everything works, setting up Mercurial is quite easy, and consists of these steps:
- Installation
- Install Mercurial on master repository server
- Install Mercurial on client server
- Repositories
- Create AD Service account for mercurial on master repository server
- Create repository
- Cloning
- Create SSH trust between AD service account on master repository server
- Create clone
- Configure clone
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Management Server will function as the master repository server, while all other servers will function as a client, since we want to create a versioning system of all /etc directories.
Note that the element abbreviation for Mercurial is hg. Using mercurial will be done with the command hg.