The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Installation Number is a 16-character hexadecimal text string used during the installation process. The installation number enables a user to install the full set of supported packages included with the subscription. For a limited set of Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers, the installation number is also used to activate subscriptions for additional Red Hat products and services. It replaces the Subscription Number from earlier versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Why use an installation number?
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installation trees and ISO images, in addition to the core operating system, contain a number of optional components. The Installation Number entered by the user during the installation process guides the Installer to include the correct components that match the user’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux Subscription. With certain types of Subscriptions it is also used to activate the Subscription in Red Hat Network. When registering the system to Red Hat Network (RHN), the Installation number is used to automatically subscribe the system to the right child channels. Finally it can be used by the customer to verify compliance to the subscription and might be requested by Red Hat Support when reporting an incident. » Read more
Before installing an update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to the system have been applied.
To use Red Hat Network (RHN) from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4, launch the interactive Red Hat Update Agent with the command:
# up2date
To find more information about the command line options available for up2date, use the command:
# man up2date
To use Red Hat Network (RHN) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, launch the graphical Update tool with the command:
# pup
Alternatively, for a command-line interface, use the command:
# yum update
To find more information about the command line options available for yum, use the command:
# man yum
Product: Red Hat Directory Server
Version: 8.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5
Creating new directory server instances can be done from the command line, with the script setup-ds-admin.pl as described in the Installation Guide, 6.2.1. Creating a New Directory Server Instance
If you are unable to register a new Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 instance with the script setup-ds-admin.pl to a remote configuration server, build
Red Hat-Directory/8.0.0 B2007.353.1757 » Read more
By default, gnome-terminal does not spawn a login shell. To use a login shell for all gnome-terminal windows for a particular user in gnome-terminal, you can use gnome-terminal preferences dialog:
"Edit" -> "Current Profile" -> "Title and Command" and select "Run command as a login shell"
Alternatively, using the command line tool "gconftool-2" will achieve the same result:
# gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/login_shell true
To set this as a default option for all users, use gconftool-2 to set the default value of the key "login_shell" to "true" in the GConf database. As root, run the following command:
# gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type boolean --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/login_shell true
Users will still be able to change that default value on a per user basis using the preference dialog in gnome-terminal. » Read more
Hot off the presses, Summit slide decks:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Performance Optimization [PDF] - John Shakshober and Larry Woodman
Why Computers Are Getting Slower (And What We Can Do About It) [PDF] - Rik Van Riel
The Virtualization Toolbox. Open Source Solutions for Managing Virtual Environments [PDF 1] [PDF 2] - Dan Berrange and Richard Jones
Func - the Fedora Universal Network Connector [PDF] - Michael DeHann and Adrian Likins
Dynamic Grid Computing with Red Hat Enterprise MRG & Amazon EC2 [PDF] - Bryan Che
Missed the show? Catch up with our videos or check out the full list of available slide decks. We’ll be adding more of our (and your) favorites as they come in. » Read more
As promised, we have the first of the slide decks from the Summit sessions:
Cobbler: Provisioning for Bare Metal and Virtualization
[ODP] slides by Michael DeHaan from his talk given Thursday June 19, 10:15 a.m.
And we still have a few more news items and blog entries about the Summit:
We’re still collecting all the news, updates, and postings from the Red Hat Summit. Now that our teams are back in the office, the real work of compiling all the video, audio, and materials we gathered has begun.
We know you’re all clamoring for more than links–the most popular question has been about the session and keynote videos and slide decks. The first few keynote videos are up at the Summit web site. We’ll be adding more as soon as some legal and liscensing issues are dealt with.
The slide decks are also on their way. The first few should be available this week, with more to follow.
And it won’t all be recap–also coming up are several articles that follow up on Summit and FUDCon topics, from the same folks that presented them in Boston. » Read more
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