Enabling the Nginx plugin for collectd under CentOS (or any other system using SELinux) might be confusing for a newbie. Most sources on the Internet…
CentOS 8
Dracut boot failed with missing device – exit and continue normal booting!
This issue deserves a much more article, in fact, a straightforward tip: You may be able to continue a normal boot only by typing “exit”…
podman – Error adding network: failed to allocate for range 0: 10.88.0.46 has been allocated after server reboot
We’ve just stumbled on the following error with one of our podman CentOS 8 servers after restart: Apparently, something got wrong, because the two containers…
firewalld and podman (or docker) – no internet in the container and could not resolve host
If you happen to use CentOS 8 you have already discovered that Red Hat (i.e. CentOS) switch to podman, which is a fork of docker….
rsync daemon in CentOS 8
Apparently, the team behind the CentOS 8 decided to split the rsync functionality to two packages – one for the client-side and for the server-side,…
Install CentOS 8 over the old OS and preserve the storage partitions
Always put your root partition separate from the storage (aka data) partitions. root partition should be only for system files and nothing more! Keeping this…
Adding bonding interface to CentOS 8 – editing configuration files only
This article shows what files to add if you want to add a bonding interface under CentOS 8 without invoking the Network manager command utility….
CentOS 8 dracut-initqueue timeout and could not boot – warning /dev/disk/by-id/md-uuid- does not exist – inactive raids
Booting the CentOS 8 failed with dracut-initqueue timeout and could not boot – warning /dev/disk/by-id/md-uuid- does not exist we have an article on the subject…
Technical details of a default CentOS 8.0.1950 minimal installation
This article is for those of you who do not want to install a whole new operating system only to discover some technical details about…
How to do a network installation of CentOS 8 (8.0.1950) – minimal server installation
Minimal net install is useful when a dedicated server is installed from a IPMI KVM or Dell iDRAC, HP iLO, IBM IMM or where the…