RHEL-CentOS

Introduction to Inode File descriptors, file table and inode table in Linux. Image Source: Wikipedia An inode is a data structure on a filesystem on Linux and other Unix-likeoperating systems that stores all the information about a file except its name and its actual data. Inode is created during creation of file along with file name, inode is an integer value which is always be unique for different files in Linux filesystem. File name and corresponding inodes are stored as …

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Corruption of initramfs can be occur by many ways for example after patching CentOS 7 Linux OS or installing a buggy device driver in server you found CentOS 7 Linux server has become unbootable. You may also encouter below kernel panic error because server initramfs got damaged . CentOS 7 Linux Kernel Panic screen Now in such situation specially server which is in production environment could cause outage which can create serious problems for your organization and you can’t take …

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Linux is known for one of most secure Unix Operating System (OS) in world. But that is not mean it is 100% secure there is say in Information Technology (IT) no technology is a completely secure that is why from a System Administrator to CIO they take measure for securing IT infrastructure on regular basis by applying Personal Security, Hardware Security and Software Security. In this tutorial we won’t discuss on these topics as these are beyond the scope of …

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Red Hat has launched the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) for users and developers for testing purpose and getting feedback from them. Red Hat Inc. which is developing RHEL 8 has announced this operating system beta version for public use on November 14, 2018. Four year ago when Red Hat had launched the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7) redefined operating system, it changed the paradigm of open source. Lot of changes have been …

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You were running a program installed in your Linux/Unix system and suddenly that program get stop and it log error in its logs memory segmentation fault error or you might executing a command in Linux / Unix server say you are working on LVM extension or VG scanning but you are unable to do so as you are getting segmentation fault error in output or in syslog log in Linux/Unix system as segfault example of error reporting in syslog log: …

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Pacemaker is an open source cluster manager software which provide high availability of resources or services in CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 Linux. It has feature of scalable and advanced HA Cluster Manager. This HA cluster manager distributed by ClusterLabs. Corosync is the core of Pacemaker Cluster Manager as it is responsible for generating heartbeat communication between cluster nodes which make it capable of deploying High Availability in applications. Corosync is derived from an Open Source project OpenAIS under new …

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You are updating the system through yum command and suddenly power goes down or what happen if yum process is accidentally killed. Post this situation when you tried to update the system again with yum command now you are getting below error message related to rpmdb: error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 2196/139984719730496 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db5 error(-30973) from dbenv->failchk: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db5 – (-30973) …

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