Becoming a Red Hat Certified Engineer

After spending almost 8 weeks preparation, I finally took the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam yesterday. I found the questions are not very difficult, however it’s very easy to make mistakes. The exam duration is 3.5 hours and I had about 15 minutes left when I completed the last question. Having done the the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) before, I remember if you receive an email from Red Hat with an attachment, that implies that you pass the exam....

September 13, 2018 · 1 min · 170 words · kenno

Update ThinkPad X1 Carbon G6 BIOS Update on Fedora

As a ThinkPad fan, I really like X1 Carbon (G6). I run Fedora 28 on it, and almost everything runs flawlessly. One issue that bothers me a lot is problem with suspend. The X1 Carbon G6 supports S0i3 instead of the S3. Without the S3, when the laptop is put to suspended, the battery continue to drain and sometimes the cpu fan keeps running. Fortunately, this issue has been recently addressed by Lenovo through firmware update....

September 13, 2018 · 2 min · 279 words · kenno

Connect to a WPA2-Enterprise Connection Using nmcli

This is like a re-post of a question from askubuntu.com. To get to that post, I usually had to google it. So, I’ll post it here so I know where to look for when I need it again. At work, we use WPA2-Enterprise for wireless connection. To create a new connection on my laptop with wlp3s0 as Wifi device, follow this step: That’s it if you know how to do it....

August 27, 2018 · 1 min · 81 words · kenno

How to Generate SELinux Policy Manual Page

It seems that by default, SELinux policy manpage is not available. Here’s how to make it available. First install selinux-policy-devel package Then generate the man page by running: # sepolicy manpage -a -p /usr/share/man/man8<br/> -a : all domains -p : path to store the manpage (by default it’s /tmp) /usr/share/man/man8 – section 8 of manpage is for system admin command Create or update manual page index caches # mandb Benefit...

August 26, 2018 · 1 min · 80 words · kenno

How to change shell in Fedora

If your search engine take you to this page, chances are you get used to use chsh to change user’s shell. On Fedora (28 at least), chsh is not available by default. You can install util-linux-user according to this post to get the chsh command. However, there is another alternative which I didn’t even think of - use usermod command. Here’s how I did it to change to zsh shell:...

July 23, 2018 · 1 min · 91 words · kenno