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Getting Fail2Ban to work behind a proxy server

[ 20190810215219 ]
Bad wifi performance with Intel wireless adapters on Arch Linux

[ 20190810212010 ]
Arch linux wont let me ssh in until user logs into the console

[ 20181204144314 ]
Wireguard VPN on Raspberry PI

[ 20180611200732 ]
TP-Link Archer T4U AC1200 on Fedora 28

[ 20170920211435 ]
Getting WingDing2 fonts working on fedora/centos

[ 20170920205029 ]
Why wont snmpget work anymore?!

[ 20141010153922 ]
Centos VM will not start on XENserver 6.2 after disabling selinux

[ 20140708205107 ]
Set system hostname on Centos 7

[ 20140627103441 ]
Change boot OS of a headless raspberrypi.

[ 20140511185046 ]
X11 Forwarding problem on smartos

[ 20140210104109 ]
LibreVPN between two linux boxes

[ 20130627091500 ]
Disabling visual ctrl-c "^C" in ssh sessions

[ 20100710201234 ]
Postfix and AT&Ts Uverse

[ 20100414190220 ]
X11 forwarding setup failed

[ 20100323214438 ]
vncserver wont start with 'fixed' font error

[ 20090930085525 ]
thunderbird wont open HTTP links with firefox

[ 20090723153406 ]
Solaris and the dreaded "couldn't set locale correctly" message

[ 20090522123520 ]
FAIL to mount cifs volume with return code = -13

[ 20090218205655 ]
Program failure (-25) of crm

[ 20081225004357 ]
getting Mailman and Postfix to play nice together on gentoo

[ 20081111115501 ]
Where the hell did my swap go?!

[ 20081030110717 ]
Enable tftp on slowaris 10

[ 20080617222744 ]
Getting smtp-auth to work on Gentoo with qmail

[ 20080606222212 ]
atheros AR5212 wireless on a Thinkpad T42

[ 20080226201837 ]
LOL Cats!

[ 20080217211812 ]
Installing mod_security on gentoo

[ 20080125213318 ]
getting qmail-scanner to emerge on gentoo

[ 20080120093607 ]
Using the perl MCPAN shell with wget behind a proxy

[ 20080111145948 ]
Getting Apache Tomcat 5.5.X to start/stop correctly

[ 20071228103211 ]
A VNC server is already running as :10, but it isn't

[ 20071211194258 ]
Problems compiling cyrus-sasl on solaris boxen

[ 20071210224851 ]
appropriate Inline DIRECTORY

[ 20071210194038 ]
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Centos VM will not start on XENserver 6.2 after disabling selinux

[ link: XENserver-selinux-problem | tags: xenserver centos selinux | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:08:58 -0400 ]

I was trying to disable selinux on my centos 6.5 VM running on XENserver and after I set "SELINUXTYPE=disabled" in the /etc/selinux/config file and rebooted, the VM would NOT come up. I tried rebooting the VM a few more times and got nothing.

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Set system hostname on Centos 7

[ link: centos7hostname | tags: centos linux | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:09:11 -0400 ]

I was kicking the tires of Centos 7 today and noticed that I could not get the system's hostname to set by setting the HOSTNAME variable in the /etc/sysconfig/network file.