• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 released

    calendar Feb 21, 2013 · 3 min read  ·
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    Today Red Hat released the fourth update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. After 8 months there's also another update that brings a lot of fixes and new features.

    The Release Notes für RHEL 6.4 are, as usual, very considerably - I personally think, that the following updates are specially mentionable:

    Kickstart

    Using th …


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  • Red Hat Certified Professional (RHCP) of the Year 2013

    calendar Feb 16, 2013 · 4 min read  ·
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    Since a few years Red Hat is awarding a free ticket (incl. flight and hotel) for their own "Red Hat Summit" exhibition in Boston/Massachusetts in line with the "Red Hat Certified Professional (RHCP) of the Year" promotion. Every administrator who holds a valid certification can apply - valid …
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  • Short tip: list of modified RPM packages

    calendar Jan 24, 2013 · 1 min read · rpm kurztipp  ·
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    If you want to have a short overview about which files of installed RPM packages has been altered, you probably don't want to deal with AIDE - a short script should be enough:

     1#!/bin/sh
 2for i in $(rpm -qa|tr "n" " ")
 3do
 4        RESULT="$(rpm -vV $i)"
 5        if [ "$?" != …

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  • Short tip: unpack manpages under HP-UX and RHEL

    calendar Jan 21, 2013 · 1 min read · hp-ux kurztipp  ·
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    Especially on new installed systems it is possible  that the manpage database wasn't initialized, yet. You can identify this if whatis / man -k doesn't "find anything":

    1# man -k man
2man: nothing appropriate

    Under HP-UX the index is created using the following command:

    1# catman -m

    Under RHEL there is a tool …


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