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Month September 2022

VMWare tools are marked as not managed by VMWare and you can’t install it via vSphere

if you encounter the message “VMWare tools installed but not managed” on your VSphere it’s probably because you’ve installed the open-vm-tools on your Linux OS, or simply they were already installed on your OS. And that’s OK. There is no… Continue Reading →

Rocky Linux: remove remi’s php package

Start your oracle database server on linux boot: declare your database server as a systemd service

A systemd service define an application than can be managed by systemd, thus it enables you to start your database on linux boot and also to shut it down on linux shutdown.Furthermore it allows other systemd services to wait for… Continue Reading →

Can’t start my application as a service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER

Maybe you specify the wront user or group in your systemd service. Or another case, rare, that I’ve met in my work place: your application is executed by the forbidden uid / gid: 65535 So what you can do with… Continue Reading →

SELinux tricks

SELinux context not changed after semanage fcontext and restorecon Verify the order in which your SELinux rules will be applied You have the order in which the SELinux rules have been added. It is this order that will be followed… Continue Reading →

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