Monthly Archives: November 2007

RH436 Qualified

For the last week I have been in Melbourne undergoing training for the RH436 course and exam. I am pleased to announce that I have passed the exam, and have now added the RH436 endorsement to my existing RHCE qualification! … Continue reading

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Moving LVM physical volumes with pvmove

< jethro> awh crap…. < jethro> the LVM howto didn’t mention that is wasn’t safe to move the / filesystem whilst it was in use * jethro deadlocked the server < jethro> I sure hope it’ll work after reboot < … Continue reading

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Yum looking for a media repo

Ever had a problem where yum will look for the media repository, despite the fact that there is no configuration in place to use that repo, and you’ve completely cleaned out the cache? This had me completely stumped, however I … Continue reading

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Misc tips and tricks

DD PROGRESS REPORTS Redhat magazine has an interesting tip by Andrew C. Dingman on how you can make the dd command give you progress reports whilst it is still running. Read the article here History of Slashdot Slashdot is a … Continue reading

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Adjust dates by months and years in perl

I recently needed to subtract 1 month from a date for a perl program I was working on. Whilst subtracting days or weeks is easy as you can just convert it to a timestamp, adjusting months or years is far … Continue reading

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