Auto Connect to Hidden Wifi With Networkmanger

If you’re here to find out how to setup network connection to hidden wifi access point, you might want to check this post: How to Connect to Hidden Wifi Using nmcli instead. This post documents how I fix an issue of wifi connection on a laptop running Gentoo to a hidden access point. The problem is that the wifi connection doesn’t automatically connect despite I’ve set the autoconnect.connection yes. ❯ nmcli con show CamBlue | grep -i autoconnect connection....

December 21, 2020 · 2 min · 270 words · kenno

Systemd List Failed Units and Services

This is a quick note to list failed services on systemd system. [root@zilla ~]# systemctl status ● zilla State: degraded Jobs: 0 queued Failed: 1 units Since: Fri 2020-09-04 02:20:47 AEST; 3 months 11 days ago CGroup: / ├─1 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --system --deserialize 22 └─system.slice ├─httpd.service │ ├─21860 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND │ ├─21861 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND │ ├─21862 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND │ ├─21863 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND │ ├─21864 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND │ └─21865 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND ... [root@zilla ~]# systemctl list-units --failed UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION ● ipmi....

December 15, 2020 · 2 min · 233 words · kenno

oVirt - Removing a Storage Domain

This note is, again, for me to remind myself in case I couldn’t recall how to do this in the future. To remove a storage domain from the cluster, use the following steps: Click Storage -> Domains Click on the name of the storage domain to open the details view Click on the Data Center tab Click on Maintenance button, then click on OK The Detach button becomes active, click on it....

December 14, 2020 · 1 min · 81 words · kenno

Crontab Tip

On Fedora based system, whenever I need help writing a cron task and confused which field is minute, hour, day,..etc, I usually check the /etc/crontab file. ❯ cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root # For details see man 4 crontabs # Example of job definition: # .---------------- minute (0 - 59) # | .------------- hour (0 - 23) # | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31) # | | | ....

December 13, 2020 · 1 min · 164 words · kenno

Passed Red Hat Virtualization Exam EX318

Another month, another Red Hat exam has been ticked off the list. This time, it’s about the Red Hat Virtualization, a technology based on oVirt. The code name of the exam is EX318, and as rumours has it, it’s one of the easiest Red Hat exams; I can’t agree more. The exam’s duration is 3 hours; it’s a hand-on closed book exams. The exam is based on Red Hat Virtualization version 4....

December 9, 2020 · 1 min · 170 words · kenno