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If you want to know what is Network Teaming, please check out this link. In this post, I’m going to just list all the commands required to setup a team interface. Let’s list the available network interfaces I have on my server. $ nmcli dev status DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION enp1s0 ethernet connected enp1s0 enp7s0 ethernet connected student virbr0 bridge connected (externally) virbr0 enp8s0 ethernet disconnected -- enp9s0 ethernet disconnected -- lo loopback unmanaged -- virbr0-nic tun unmanaged -- From the above output, you probably can guess that I’m going to use enp8s0 and enp9s0 to create a team network interface....

If you’re a seasoned Linux user, you may have used source command once or twice before. You might also have used ., the exactly same command, instead. Both source and . are shell builtin commands. I have used this many times, but I only used for one purpose which is to read the environment variables from a file to the current shell environment. So, when I was asked during a job interview, “What does source do?...

I normally use dwm as the Windows manager on my laptop. However, I occationally need to switch to Plasma to test some applications out. This laptop is currently running Fedora 34 which has been upgraded from previous versions as old as 28, I believe. When I run Dolphin, there is an annoying error message “Could ont enter folder tags:/”. Though it doesn’t cause any problems, it’s very annoying. I found a solution from bug report #437176 suggesting to purge Baloo database....

I just setup a new server with a minimal installation of AlmaLinux 8. AlmaLinux is a variant of free Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. It’s like a CentOS 8, but will have a full support until the end of RHEL 8 life cycle. This server is to serve as a new proxy for all VMs inside my home lab. I want to use tinyproxy which is need to be compiled from source as the RPM package is not available as of the time writing....

Recently, I found out that the ZFS pool on a FreeBSD is running out of space. There is no option to clean up this storage, but there are spare disks. So the next logical thing to do is to add 2 extra disks to the existing (mirror) ZFS pool. This FreeBSD server is a virtual machine (VM), and after attaching 2 physical disks to this VM, I had difficulty identifying these disks....