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When I setup Foreman (Satellite) server, I didn’t have Ansible support enabled. Here is how it can be done later on. If we only need Ansible support, it’s sufficient to just run this command: # foreman-installer \ --enable-foreman-plugin-ansible \ --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-ansible Just a note for myself, I also need Remote Execution enabled if I want to run Ansible playbooks as Job Templates. # foreman-installer \ --enable-foreman-plugin-remote-execution \ --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-remote-execution-ssh Note that the remote execution feature is enabled by default on Foreman/Satellite server. The Smart Proxy or Capsule server, on the other hand, must be specifically enabled with the above installed command. ...

The steps to build an RPM package: Download the source code Create the spec file (use the rpmdev-newspec command) Build the package (use the rpmbuild command) GPG sign the package (use the rpmsign command) Test the package (use rpm -qip command) In this post, I’m going to learn to create an RPM package of fpaste-4.0.1.1.tar.gz on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (variant). First we need to ensure the necessary packages are installed: ...

I need to use git on command line on macOS 11 (Big Sur), and git comes with command line developer tools. Here is how it can be done on macOS: ❯ xcode-select --install xcode-select: note: install requested for command line developer tools On a side note, I notice that every time there is an update to Big Sur, I also have to re-install this Xcode Command Line Tools. Ref: kamermanpr/install-xcodeCLT-homebrew-git.md

One of my Red Hat servers is behind proxy with no access to the outside world. This box is registered to a Satellite server to receive software updates. I want to install Zabbix server on this server using the packages from Zabbix upstream directly. To do this, I need to set the proxy for the Zabbix’s repository. There are a few ways to do this. For my purpose, the best place is to set proxy=proxy_server directly in the .repo file. ...

Lenovo released the firmeware v1.33 for ThinkPad P1 Gen1 recently which addressed many CVEs. CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE Version 1.33 [Important updates] - Update includes a security fix. - Addresses CVE-2020-0587, CVE-2020-0588, CVE-2020-0590, CVE-2020-0591, CVE-2020-0592, and CVE-2020-0593. (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0587) (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0588) (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0590) (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0591) (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0592) (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0593) [New functions or enhancements] - Updated the Diagnostics module to version 04.15.000. [Problem fixes] - Nothing It’s worth noting that this 1.33 version is not yet available via fwupdmgr. So to update it, just download the firmeware zip file from Lenovo website. Then, manually install it. There are 2 files in the zip, and I only need to install 1 of them. ...