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Red Hat RHCSA & RHCE minor changes.

The Red Hat certification team recently made some adjustments to the RHCSA & RHCE exams objectives for RHEL 7. Concerning the RHCSA exam, VNC and LUKS related tasks have been removed, when firewall settings can now be set up through

Posted in RHEL7

New Linux Foundation certification program.

Two days ago, the Linux Foundation announced a new certification program. It consists in two exams: LFCS (Linux Foundation Certified System administrator), LFCE (Linux Foundation Certified Engineer). Both exams are performance-based exam in English lasting 2 hours focusing on system

Posted in RHEL6

RHEL 7 /tmp configuration.

Some applications writing files in the /tmp directory can see huge improvements when memory is used instead of disk. You will find all the details in the tutorial about configuring /tmp on tmpfs.  

Posted in RHEL7

RHEL 7 virtual console tip.

If you don’t know the kpartx command, you miss something! If you regularly play with virtual machines under KVM, you know that sometimes things go wrong. A change in the /etc/fstab file or in the ssh configuration and you are

Posted in RHEL7

RHEL 7 rc-local service.

With Systemd, the Init scripts are not there any more. Consequently, the execution of tasks at boot time had to change. Hopefully, a nice solution has been found: it uses the good old rc.local file. Now, to execute tasks at

Posted in RHEL7

Recertification path for RHCEv5.

Just a reminder for RHCEv5: you’ve got still 29 days to get recertified by passing the RHCEv6 only (a 50% discount is available in some countries).

Posted in RHEL6

CentOS 7 released.

Today, CentOS 7 has just been released. The distribution can now be downloaded from the CentOS website. The Release Notes explain what kind of images are available: the DVD images contain most of the packages but not all, the Live

Posted in RHEL7

Red Hat Live Chat.

Yesterday, there was a live chat organized by Red Hat on Twitter. The subjects were RHEL 7 training and certifications. Here is a retranscription: RHCSAv6 & RHCEv6 exams are available until December, the 19th but availability varies by location. According to location, RHCSAv6 &

Posted in RHEL7

RHCSA & RHCE exam objectives finally released for RHEL 7.

Today, the RHCSA & RHCE exam objectives for RHEL 7 are finally available. Concerning the RHCSA exam objectives, there are very limited changes. Details are available in the RHEL7 RHCSA What’s new? section. Concerning the RHCE exam objectives, changes are

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SLES for VMware End of Availability Announcement.

According to Sai Gopalan, VMware product marketing manager, “after July 25, 2014, customers that purchase VMware vSphere Standard, vSphere Enterprise, or vSphere Enterprise+ (either standalone or as part of a suite) will no longer be eligible to a free SLES

Posted in VMware

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