After installation machine hangs during first boot
A Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation may hang on first boot because of an Advanced Power Management (APM) issue. Try disabling APM with apm=off.
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Red Hat Delivers First Integrated Linux-Based High Performance Computing Platform
Red Hat recently officially released its High Performance Computing Platform, a large-scale cluster system, with support through Red Hat Network after announcing it last November.
How to use command to restart or shut down Linux system
Commands to shut down Linux: #shutdown -h now #init 0 #halt #poweroff. Commands to reboot: #reboot #init 6 #shutdown -r now.
Implement and configuration Highly Available LVM (HA LVM)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 and later have a feature for implementing highly available LVM without CLVM, which is part of GFS.
Export a directory with NFS v4
A major difference between NFS v4 and earlier versions is the ability to export a single directory in a way similar to an FTP or web server, such as exporting /shared.
Fedora 10 Release Schedule and Accepted Features
After releasing Fedora 9 on May 13, Fedora scheduled the Fedora 10 final release for November–December, with November 25 as the planned date…
Lock user after a set number of login attempts but also automatically unlock after 5 minutes
This article explains how to lock a user after a set number of login attempts using the pam_tally module in PAM.
Force users to change their passwords upon the first login
Linux can force users to change their passwords at their next login by locking the account, expiring the password, and unlocking the account.