Monthly Archives: May 2019

Suppressing audit messages to /var/log/messages on Fedora 29 and 30

Posted on May 20, 2019 by mark

One of my machines has started rebooting for no reason that I can find, possibly power surges as my UPS seems have now have a dead battery. One difficulty in finding the issue is that the messages file if full … Continue reading →

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Using the certbot package on Fedora 30 to get LetsEncrypt certificates

Posted on May 17, 2019 by mark

There was a post on the fedora forums stating that the certbot apache plugin does not work on fedora, so I had a look. The post was correct, the apache plugin for certbot wants to use the “apachectl -v” command … Continue reading →

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Interesting issues with grub2 and Fedora 30

Posted on May 12, 2019 by mark

While the resolution was found in the Fedora forums as RedHat is built from successfull pilots of new code in Fedora in may exist in RedHat systems as well. I had major issues upgrading my KVM F29 instances to F30. … Continue reading →

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