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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 # man -k _selinux (or e.g. ”man httpd_selinux“) ...

In my previous post, I wrote about my quest to identify a disk presented by the Dell server itself. At the end of the post, I mentioned that I should be able to resume with creating a LVM volume on the new disk. LVM stands for Logical Volume Management. There is a good tutorial available at this page if you’re interested in – How To Use LVM To Manage Storage Devices on Ubuntu 16.04. ...

First if you haven’t yet heard about vim-airline plugin, and you’re a Vim user, you really owe it to yourself to check it out. By default vim-airline displays the opening buffers on the top part of the window. So how to navigate between those buffers? Well, according to this, it seems those buffers are for visual only. To navigate between them, we can use :bp for previous buffer, and :bn for next buffer. Alternatively, we can use :ls to list all buffers, then navigate to a particular buffer by running :number (substitute number with an actual number). ...

A reminder to readers, most of these blog posts are to remind me what I have done or fixed some problems. What works for me may not work for you. Most of the time, they aren’t even the best practice. Here’s a snippet of the PF firewall rule on my FreeBSD box which acts as a DNS server. Basically, the firewall opens up UDP port 53 to allow LAN access it. ...

In the past few weeks, I noticed that data transmitting from one of sensor nodes got dropped dramatically. This sensor node is an Arduino Micro using nRF24L01+ as the transmitter. Well, it’s supposed to send data to the base station once every 30 seconds; however the transmitting recurrence time exceeded 2 minutes. By default the transmitting rate is at 1 Mb/s, so I dropped it to 250 Kb/s to see if had any better improvement. It didn’t help. ...