The protocol used by rpc.rquotad is an unsecured and obsolete protocol and should be disabled. This security vulnerability is discussed in CVE-1999-9625 and further details can be found in that document. This procedure can disrupt NFS clients relying on disk quotas. To avoid issues, schedule a maintenance outage and stop these NFS clients. For CentOS/RHEL […]
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How to monitor NVME drives on Centos 6
Recently, one of our customers asked us to upgrade his server hardware. Unfortunately, they can’t update their software and We had to install Centos 6 with new NVMe drives. But, We need to monitor them and default smartmontools don’t support NVMe on Centos 6.X. Also, you can read about how to install smartmontools in the […]
Monitor HDD and SSD with smartd and smartctl
Basic information smartd is a daemon that monitоrs the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) system that is built into most ATA/SATA and SCSI/SAS drives and solid-state drives. smartctl is a command-line utility designed to perform SMART tasks such as printing the SMART self-test and error logs, enabling and disabling SMART automatic testing, and initiating […]
Intel I219-LM Centos 6 network failed to start
Introduction If you are using old software on new software you can receive some weird errors. Today We will describe an error with Inle l219-LM and CentOS 6 error. For some reason from time to time, Centos 6 fails to start network when using the Intel I219-LM network card. We’ve faced the following issue with […]
How To Install Python 3 On CentOS 7 Using SCL
Introduction Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python’s design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its notable use of significant whitespace. Its language constructs and object-oriented approach aim to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects. It’s an incredible programming […]
CentOS/RHEL7 – Tuned Profiles Oracle
Tuned is a set of tools and a daemon that tunes your system’s settings automatically depending on its usage. It periodically collects data from its components through plugins, which it uses to change system settings according to the current usage. You can find the system’s tuned profiles used in /lib/tuned/. When you create your own, […]
tuned-adm and Oracle
To offer the best possible performance right from the start, CentOS/RHEL 7 and 8 come with tuned. It offers a daemon that monitors system activity and provides some profiles. In the profiles, an administrator can automatically tune a system for the best possible latency, throughput, or power consumption. Based on the properties of an installed […]
“-bash: route: command not found” on CentOS/RHEL 7
The route command is used to show/manipulate the IP routing table. The simplest command with ‘route’ is to run it without any options or arguments which will return the IP routing table. The equivalent command with ip is as follows: $ ip r where r stands for route. The route command was deprecated in CentOS […]
How to Add or Remove Ports when firewalld is Disabled
There may be a case when you need to add or remove ports when firewalld is disabled. In such cases “firewall-offline-cmd” can be used as it is an offline command-line client of the firewalld daemon. A port can be added or removed via firewall-offline-cmd in case firewalld is not active. Note: Please make sure to […]
firewall-offline-cmd Command Examples in Linux
firewall-offline-cmd is an offline command-line client of the firewalld daemon. It should be used only if the firewalld service is not running. A port can be added or removed via firewall-offline-cmd in case firewalld is not active. firewall-offline-cmd Command Examples 1. For adding a port: # firewall-offline-cmd –port=XXXX:tcp 2. For removing a port: # firewall-offline-cmd […]