Taking the mystery out of your Bash history.
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How to manage your Linux command history
How to create a Linux RPM package
You’ve written a great script that you want to distribute, so why not package it as an RPM?
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QEMU Live Update
In this blog Oracle Linux Kernel engineers Steve Sistare and Mark Kanda present QEMU live update. The ability to update software with critical bug fixes and security mitigations while minimizing downtime is extremely important to customers and cloud service providers. In this blog post, we present QEMU Live Update, a new method for updating a running QEMU instance to a new…
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QEMU Live Update
In this blog Oracle Linux Kernel engineers Steve Sistare and Mark Kanda present QEMU live update. The ability to update software with critical bug fixes and security mitigations while minimizing downtime is extremely important to customers and cloud service providers. In this blog post, we present QEMU Live Update, a new method for updating a running QEMU instance to a new…
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QEMU Live Update
In this blog Oracle Linux Kernel engineers Steve Sistare and Mark Kanda present QEMU live update.The ability to update software with critical bug fixes and security mitigations while minimizing downtime is extremely important to customers and cloud service providers. In this blog post, we presentQEMU Live Update, a new method for updating a runningQEMUinstance to a new version while minimizing the impact to the…
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QEMU Live Update
In this blog Oracle Linux Kernel engineers Steve Sistare and Mark Kanda present QEMU live update. The ability to update software with critical bug fixes and security mitigations while minimizing downtime is extremely important to customers and cloud service providers. In this blog post, we present QEMU Live Update, a new method for updating a running QEMU instance to a new…
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What to do in case of a Linux kernel panic
Here’s how to avoid panicking when you see a Linux kernel panic.
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How to handle a Linux kernel panic
How to handle a Linux kernel panic
Here is a collection of resources to help you deal with kernel panic events.
Peter Gervase
Wed, 11/11/2020 at 4:26am
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A kernel panic often lives up to its name, causing panic for the admin. But the good news is that all is not lost; there are steps you can take.
So, first off, what is a kernel panic? As defined in the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC) Glossary, a kernel panic is “a system error that cannot be recovered from, and requires the system to be restarted.” As we all know, a forced restart is never good.
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Linux
Linux Administration
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Looking forward to Linux network configuration in the initial ramdisk (initrd)
One of the tasks that the initrd might be responsible for is network configuration.
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Linux patch management: How to back out a failed patch
Linux patch management: How to back out a failed patch
A good patch management plan always includes a good patch backout plan.
Sreejith Anujan
Tue, 11/10/2020 at 5:57pm
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Keeping servers up to date is one of a system administrator’s primary responsibilities. However, updates do not always work the way you expect, so it’s equally important that you know how to a) revert a patch to get the server back to the previous state and b) apply patches in subsets to get more flexibility.
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Linux
Linux Administration
Backups
Patch management
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