CentOS/RHEL 7

Question: How to do set environment variables for use with a systemd service of MySQL Server? There are a number of different methods that can be used to set environment variables for a systemd service. The method used can vary depending on the Linux distribution and the version of the distribution. The MySQL manual states the service setup is done simply as (example only): [Service] LimitNOFILE=max_open_files PIDFile=/path/to/pid/file Nice=nice_level LimitCore=core_file_limit Method … [Read more...] about How to Set Environment Variables for a systemd Service in CentOS/RHEL 7

Some specific applications or processes may need higher resource values than the default systemd assigned values. It's possible to override the default resource limits assigned by systemd. Basically systemd sets the default limits for any process when it starts. For example: # cat /proc/1696/limits | grep "Max locked memory" Max locked memory 65536 65536 bytes From the above example, the Max Locked memory is 64K for the PID 1696, and for some process … [Read more...] about How to Set Resource Limits for a Process with Systemd in CentOS/RHEL 7 and 8

The systemd facility replaces the older System-V initialization scripts from earlier releases. The systemd is an event-driven facility which allows non-dependent subsystems to be started, controlled, or stopped in parallel. Here we explain how to add a custom script to the systemd facility. 1. Write And Debug The Custom Script Typically a systemd script is written as a shell script. Begin by writing your custom script using the normal conventions. We will call our script my-custom-script.sh … [Read more...] about How to add a Custom Script to systemd in CentOS/RHEL 7

Question: How to set the banner shown as part of a console in CentOS/RHEL 8? GNOME console banner is a screen with a certain message that is shown before any user logins into the system using his/her login credentials. Login is performed by the Gnome Display Manager (GDM) tool. The steps to configure the GNOME login screen banner are outlined below. All steps are performed as the root user. 1. Create the GDM profile (if it doesn't exist) in /etc/dconf/profile/gdm which contains the … [Read more...] about How to Configure GNOME Console Login Banner in CentOS/RHEL 7 and 8

When suspending a device using the command dmsetup suspend, any I/O that has already been mapped by the device but has not yet completed will be flushed. For example, lvextend command was executed and for some reason, it did not finish. This will keep the volume in suspended mode and all I/O will be blocked. Most of the time, this indicates a problem with the underlying physical volumes and should be investigated further. How to confirm if PV is SUSPENDED Check for the # dmsetup info … [Read more...] about How to activate a “SUSPENDED” LVM physical volume

The Problem Stale ISCSI target connections which are still present on Initiator node can lead to various issues like: 1. hung iscsid service which can lead to global outage. 2. flood of messages error like: messages:Jun 3 13:58:00 server1 iscsid: iscsid: Connection5:0 to [target: iqn-name, portal: ip-here,3260] through [iface: default] is shutdown. messages:Jun 3 13:58:00 server1 iscsiadm: iscsiadm: Could not login to [iface: default, target: iqn-name, portal: ip-here,3260]. messages:Jun … [Read more...] about CentOS/RHEL – How to Remove stale ISCSI Target Node Information from ISCSI Initiator Server

1. In CentOS/RHEL core file creation is disabled by default. To enable it, executing the below command: # ulimit -S -c unlimited > /dev/null 2>&1 then execute the program in the same shell environment. 2. To enable it permanently, please follow steps below: - Edit /etc/security/limits.conf. # vi /etc/security/limits.conf * soft core unlimited The '*' is used to enable coredump size to unlimited to all users. - Edit /etc/sysctl.conf to add the path of the core dump and file … [Read more...] about How to enable core dump for Applications on CentOS/RHEL

Question: How to add additional language support in CentOS/RHEL? To add specific language support in CentOS/RHEL, you need firstly confirm the correct language group name by "yum grouplist" command. # yum grouplist The available language groups will be displayed in yum output as below: # yum grouplist Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin Setting up Group Process Installed Groups: ... Installed Language Groups: Arabic Support [ar] Armenian Support [hy] ... Available … [Read more...] about How to add additional language support in CentOS/RHEL

This post explains how to analyse the segfault message in message file and to identify the problem in application or operating system side. What is "segfault"? A segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) or access violation is a fault raised by hardware with memory protection, to notify operating system (OS) about a memory access violation. The Linux kernel will response it by performing some corrective action, generally passing the fault to the offending process by sending the … [Read more...] about What are “segfault” messages in /var/log/messages file