A Technical I.T./DevOps Blog
Problem scenario: You have Oracle VirtualBox running on a Windows 7 computer as the host. You have a Linux CentOS guest supported by Oracle VirtualBox. You want to have a file share that does not rely on vboxsf. What do you do?
Solution
1. On the Windows host desktop, create a folder. For this example, we’ll use “foobar” for the name.
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Problem scenario:
You created a new Linux CentOS 7.x guest server using Oracle VirtualBox on a Windows host. Your Windows machine has Internet access. From the Linux Guest you try to ping a 8.8.8.8 but you get this message “connect: Network is unreachable.”
How do you give the Linux guest Internet access?
Possible Solution #1
1. Using the GUI of the Oracle VirtualBox guest server,
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Problem scenario: You have a Linux Centos 7.3 server. You want to get Postgresql to work on it. What do you do?
Solution
To get Postgresql working on a CentOS 7.3 server, do the following four commands as the root user:
yum -y install postgresql-server postgresql-contrib
postgresql-setup initdb
systemctl start postgresql
systemctl enable postgresql
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Problem scenarios: Either you are using CentOS 7.x (and ifconfig is even not a command) or you are using ifconfig and different flags (like -v for verbose), but you cannot find the default gateway. How do you know if you have a default gateway even configured on a Linux server?
Solution The “ifconfig” command cannot show the default gateway. To find the default gateway on your Linux server,
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Problem scenario: You are using knife commands and getting errors. For example, you try to run this: knife client list
As a result, you get this error:
“WARN: Failed to read the private key /root/.chef/continual.pem: #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen – /root/.chef/continual.pem>
ERROR: Your private key could not be loaded from /root/.chef/continual.pem
Check your configuration file and ensure that your private key is readable”
What should you do?
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Problem scenario: How do you find out what version of PowerShell you are using?
Solution
Run this command: $PSVersionTable.PSVersion
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Problem scenario: You are trying to share files between your Windows desktop host of Oracle VirtualBox and a Linux guest virtual server. You run this command:
mount -t vboxsf contint /mnt/windows-share
but you get this error:
“/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error”
Solution
For the example command above that reproduces the error, the “contint” needs to match the “Name” value in what was configured in the Oracle VirtualBox Devices -Shared Folders -Shared Folder Settings window.
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Question: How do you install CentOS Linux 7?
Solution
1. Create a bootable .iso.
2. Insert the bootable media and boot to it. If the media is a USB stick, boot the server to it. For some BIOS you may need to press F12 during the splash screen after turning on the server/workstation. When you in the boot menu,
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Problem scenario: Synchronizing yum repositories has a number of benefits. In a secure environment, CentOS/RedHat/Fedora servers have no access to the Internet. There are numerous valuable yum repos on the Internet. Your network administrator may grant you temporary access to such an Internet repository. You may go to the directory on a server on your network that you want to mirror a copy or house a non-updating copy of the repo locally.
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Continue reading “How Do You Determine the Repo ID When For The “reposync” Command?”
Problem Scenario: When logging into Linux Mint, the first and only field for text is a password prompt. The corresponding username is not shown. You do not understand this. How do you get Linux Mint to prompt for a username?
Solution
Log in with the password of the user who just logged in. Go to Menu -Administration -Login Window. Uncheck “Automatically select the last logged in user.” (When this setting is checked,
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