Five Steps To Creating a Yum Repository Available on Your Network

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Q.  How do you create a yum repository server on a network?
Answer:

1.  Put the .rpm files into a directory (e.g., /mnt/coolrepo).
2.  Enter this command: createrepo /mnt/coolrepo
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     a) Install Apache. 
     b)  Configure the httpd.conf file to make the /mnt/coolrepo file presentable over the network. 
           cd /; find . -name    httpd.conf
           vi httpd.conf
           Edit the DocumentRoot stanza to have the value be /mnt/coolrepo
          

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Linux (RedHat distribution) Administration Tips

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#1  When updating firewalld with the firewall-cmd command, remember that a response of “success” does not mean the changes took effect.  You still have to stop and restart the services.  There are three ways of doing this:  reboot the server, use systemctl stop firewalld; systemctl start firewalld, firewall-cmd –reload

#2  When trying to install an rpm package (e.g., rpm -ivh nameOfNewPackage), you can get this error:
“…existingPackageName is obsoleted by nameOfNewPackage…”

One solution to this is to uninstall the existingPackageName. 

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Ansible Can Push Down Files and/or Changes To New Servers With Little Initial Configuration

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Some critics say that Ansible does not do enough to warrant its deployment in an enterprise.  The initial deployment to the managed nodes is less than what Puppet and Chef require.  Even minionless deployments of SaltStack require more configuration work than Ansible.  In this post, we want to demonstrate an advantage of adopting Ansible related to the first deployment.  When using passwordless SSH authentication, the great benefit is the lack of a prompt. 

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How Do You Copy Files into a Docker Container from the Server’s Command Line?

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Docker is itself a dependency resolution tool.  It is a container that allows a DevOps engineer to prepare one-time an OS environment with nuanced dependencies and configurations for other packages to be installed.

Leveraging the efficiency of a configuration management tool (such as Ansible, CFEngine, Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack) can empower DevOps engineering.  It can also necessitate using duplicative deployments in different environments (development, quality assurance, staging, and production).  Having a backup plan for disaster recovery is also important. 

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OpenStack Wikipedia Article: Sahara Paragraph Updated

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I edited Wikipedia’s OpenStack Article found here.  This is the paragraph for Sahara as I found it on 4/5/16:
“Sahara aims to provide users with simple means to provision Hadoop clusters by specifying several parameters like Hadoop version, cluster topology, nodes hardware details and a few more. After a user fills all the parameters, Sahara deploys the cluster in a few minutes. Sahara also provides means to scale an already-provisioned cluster by adding and removing worker nodes on demand.”
This is what I revised it to be:
“Sahara is a component to easily and rapidly provision Hadoop clusters.

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How to Handle “Failed to connect to the Docker daemon” message in Linux

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To see if Docker has started, do this command:
ps -ef | grep -i docker
If that returns only a service for the grep itself, then Docker is not running.   Occasionally the Docker service won’t start through traditional methods.  But some users have found that this command will work reliably:
docker daemon &
The “&” allows for the next prompt to return.  This method is explicit to new users of Docker too. 

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How do you install two or more RPM packages when they depend on each other?

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Question:  How do you solve circular dependency problems when installing RPMs in RedHat Linux?
Problem Scenario:  For example, you keep trying to install different RPMs, but they always require a different installation.  By exhaustively going through the dependencies, you find a circle of dependencies.  This is sometimes called mutual recursion.

Root cause:  Human error.

Solution:  The way to resolve circular dependencies is with a yum localinstall command with a list of each of the RPM packages afterward.

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How To Potentially Solve an HTTP 403 Error on An Apache Server

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Problem scenario:  You are trying to access a file on a website.  But you get the 403 Forbidden error every time.  What are some different things to look for to fix this problem?

Solution:

If you do not have access to the back-end of the web server, try these:

  1. Clear the cache/history from your web browser.
  2. Clear the cookies from your web browser.

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