Here we cover the RHCE exam objective “Use firewalld and associated mechanisms such as rich rules, zones and custom rules, to implement packet filtering and configure network address translation (NAT)” in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.
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How To Use Firewalld Rich Rules And Zones For Filtering And NAT
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on April 6, 2016
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Configure Additional Options Described In Documentation For SSH In Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 30, 2016
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Here we are going to take a look at some of the options available to us when configuring OpenSSH server and discuss what they actually do, as per the RHCE objective.
How To Change Log Rate Limiting In Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 23, 2016
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By default in Linux there are a few different mechanisms in place that may rate limit logging. These are primarily the systemd journal and rsyslog rate limits that are in place by default.
Here we cover modifying or removing rate limiting for logging.
Linux Web Server Performance Benchmark – 2016 Results
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 9, 2016
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I have previously performed a benchmark on a variety of web servers in 2012 and have had some people request that I redo the tests with newer versions of the web servers as no doubt a lot has likely changed since then.
Here I’ll be performing benchmarks against the current latest versions of a number of Linux based web servers and then comparing them against each other to get an idea of which one performs the best under a static workload.
How To Configure An iSCSI Target And Initiator In Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 2, 2016
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With an iSCSI target we can provide access to disk storage on a server over the network to a client iSCSI initiator. The iSCSI initiator will then be able to use the storage from the iSCSI target server as if it were a local disk.
Here we cover how you can set up both an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator in Linux and connect them together.
How To Configure Local DNS Query Cache In Linux With Dnsmasq
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on February 24, 2016
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In many Linux based distributions there does not appear to be any local DNS query caching performed by default on the client side like there is in Windows. This means that if a process on the system constantly needs to connect to some domain name it will perform a DNS lookup against the resolver defined to retrieve the IP every single time.
In this particular example instance there is a process that performs 30,000,000 DNS requests per day on average against the nameserver, we are going to significantly reduce this by configuring a local DNS cache on the server performing the excessive DNS queries.
How To Provide NFS Shares For Group Collaboration
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on February 17, 2016
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Previously we have covered how to provide NFS shares to specific clients, here we are going to expand upon this and cover how an NFS share can be shared with members in a group for collaboration purposes.
This will be done primarily with the use of set group ID (Set GID), as using this results in all files and directories created within the group share being automatically set with the same group owner as the share itself.
State Of The Linux Desktop In 2016 – Year Of The Linux Desktop?
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on February 10, 2016
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It’s the year of the Linux desktop! A statement I’ve seen thrown around for many years now. It’s basically at the point where the running joke is that “year of the Linux desktop” is CurrentYear+1, a fantasy wonderland that remains ever so slightly out of reach.
So how is Linux to use on the desktop going into 2016? Let’s find out.
Use /proc/sys and sysctl to modify and set kernel runtime parameters
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on February 3, 2016
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The Linux kernel is optimized so that it can perform generic tasks and work well with an average workload without any modification out of the box, however you can optionally further optimize and tweak various kernel runtime parameters to increase the performance level, allowing you to squeeze out as much performance as possible.
Here we’re going to discuss the /proc/sys file system and how you can modify kernel runtime parameters to modify and tune Linux.
How To Free /boot Disk Space In Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on January 27, 2016
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By default the size of a /boot partition in Linux is not that big, 512mb or so is quite a typical default. This space is used to store different versions of the Linux kernel that you have concurrently installed at the same time.
If this space fills up you may not be able to perform a kernel upgrade in future so it is important to not let it fill and free up space in /boot.