Details: admin; Redhat; 12 April 2016

Introduction

If your Redhat server is not connected to the official RHN repositories, you will need to configure your own private repository which you can later use to install packages. The procedure of creating a Redhat repository is quite simple task. In this article we will show you how to create a local file Redhat repository as well as remote HTTP repository.

Using Official Redhat DVD as repository

After default installation and without registering your server to official RHN repositories your are left without any chance to install new packages from redhat repository as your repository list will show 0 entries:

# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
repolist: 0

Details: admin; Redhat; 08 January 2016

This guide will discuss a procedure on how to connect/establish a VPN connection using PPTP protocol on CentOS 7 or Redhat 7 Linux the non-GUI way. Below you can find connection details which will be used as an example. Replace the bellow PPTP VPN information to align with your PPTP VPN server settings:

Connection name: linuxconfig ( can be any descriptive name )
VPN connetion type: PPTP
PPTP VPN server IP or domain: 123.123.1.1
CHAP Username: admin
CHAP User password: 00000000

Configuration

Let's begin by installation of PPTP client:

# yum install pptp

Details: admin; Redhat; 07 January 2016

This config will describe a procedure on how to persistently load kernel modules during a boot time on CentOS or Redhat Linux system. In the below commands will use nf_conntrack_pptp as a sample module. Replace the name of this module with a module name you wish to load.

First, create a script within /etc/sysconfig/modules/ directory with a file extension modules. Where the name of the script can be any name of your choice. In our case the script will be called nf_conntrack_pptp.modules. Enter a following code into your new nf_conntrack_pptp.modules script while replacing the name of the module with the one you wish to load:

#!/bin/sh
exec /sbin/modprobe nf_conntrack_pptp  >/dev/null 2>&1

Details: admin; Redhat; 07 June 2015

This article will describe a way on how to change/set a primary display on CentOS/RHEL 7 with dual monitors and GNOME. The easiest and perhaps recommended way is to use GUI and navigate to Applications->System Tools->Settings->Displays.

show current primary display redhat/centos

The current primary screen is highlighted by a black top bar. To change you primary display simply drag-n-drop the black top bar from one screen to another:

. Another alternative is to you command line tool xrandr. First get all your connected screens:

$ xrandr | grep -w connected
DVI-D-1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 296mm
HDMI-1 connected primary 1920x1080+1680+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm

Details: admin; Redhat; 22 April 2015

If you currently do not hold a Red Hat Subscription and yet you need to enable EPEL ( Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux ) repository on your RHEL 7 Linux you need to download and install following file directly from Fedora project: