Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 is a Linux distribution sold by Red Hat, Inc. for the enterprise market. It is used for both servers and desktops. Although the binaries are not freely available, the sources are, and so there are numerous projects which provide compatible rebuilds of RHEL, such as CentOS and Scientific Linux.
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recommended way to configure a centos-7 network interface with static settings via ansible
I'm new to ansible and a little googling hasn't lead me quickly towards the right solution to my question.
What's the 'with the grain' way to assign static network settings to a centos-7 host with ansible. I feel like this must be a pretty common…

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What repository is a yum group sourced from?
Is there an easy way to determine where a specific yum group is sourced?
I can query what groups are available using yum grouplist.
I can query group information using yum group info $yum_group_name
What's troubling me is I can't determine which…

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What is the benefit of registering an offline RHEL system?
I have a couple of RHEL 7.2 systems, which do not have any online connection - also not through any proxy or satellite.
I do have subscriptions which I could attach to the systems as described by RedHat here.
Now, my question is: What is the…

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iptables command from RHEL documentation for cobbler, fails in RHEL 7
This seems like a very simple question. But I don't see anything much about it on the web. The command comes from the RHEL documentation itself, so I would expect that it works... and yet it fails. Any insight?
Command:
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -m…

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Issues customizing a RHEL7 VM deployed from a template on VMware
In compliance with VMWare's VM customization matrix, I am testing this out on vSphere 5.5 Update 2d. I create the template with a RHEL 7.1 DVD and point anaconda to a kickstart that looks like this:
#version=RHEL7
# Ref:…

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How do I get a network interface up in rhel 7?
I was given a rhel7 vmware template to use for provisioning rhel 7 test environments. When I created my vm, it booted up fine except that my network interface doesn't seem to come up. If I type ifconfig -a I get the following:
ens192:…

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bond slave interfaces not getting the same aggregator id on LACP
I have a bug on some servers where LACP (802.3ad) is not working.
I have on all servers a bonding device bond0 with two eth slaves and each interface is plugged on a different swich, and both switches configured with LACP.
Everything seems to be ok,…

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pvs not showing correct available space
Recently installed RHEL7 on a PowerEdge R320 with the following drives:
2 x 300GB sas 15k
2 x 1TB sas 7.2k
When setting up LVM during installation I purposefully left over several hundred GB free in case I needed to expand later.
I'm now seeing…

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Check if RHEL certs have been updated
I have a sample .pem file placed in /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors, and I have run update-ca-trust, but I'm not sure how I can check if the command actually worked. I tried to cat /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt for the contents of my sample .pem…

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SELinux: manually changing files in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/
I'm setting up a CentOS 7 server in which the /home directory has to be located on another partition and then mounted with bind-mount. So: /data/homes should be bind-mounted to /home.
The problem is with making sure that SELinux contexts are applied…

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Why do I need to use systemd to set my timezone in RHEL7?
I used to be able to edit /etc/sysconfig/clock, but now I need to use timedatectl, which I believe is a systemd command.
What has that got to do with booting the system?

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How to Increase the Size of an XFS File System?
I just created an Amazon AWS EC2 instance running RHEL7:
[root@ip-10-184-161-46 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0 (Maipo)
[root@ip-10-184-161-46 ~]#
And even though I selected 10GB as my storage capacity, for…

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HyperV Linux EFI VHDX migration is missing EFI in the boot options
I have a HyperV 2016 cluster of n machine running on W2k16.
I've duplicated the VHDX of a RHEL 7.5 (Gen2) VM that runs with this boot order (and secure boot disabled):
After creating a new VM with the cloned disk, the EFI file entry disappeared,…

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VDO/Virtual Disk Optimizer limitations in storage stack
Well, RHEL 7.5 released with important add-on, VDO, which basically adds thin provisioned compressed and de-duplicated volumes, which is great and we'll get these benefits with derivatives and other distros too, as technology was acquired from…

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NetworkManager - do not allow user to disable network or connection
By default, users that are logged in on the system are able to completely disable network or connection, is there a way to disable this?
Thanks

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