How to install a specific version of PostgreSQL in Red Hat 8?

I’d like to install a specific version of PostgreSQL in RHEL 8 with dnf. To achieve this I followed the PostgreSQL guide : https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/ But actually I can only install the last version (12.9) not the 12.4 (the version I want). The version is however present in the repository : See : https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/12/redhat/rhel-8.5-x86_64/ If I … Read more

RHEL 8.1 Kickstart cannot find ks.cfg

I’m having an issue with the RHEL 8.1 kickstart via NFS: NFS share: 192.168.x.x:/export/nfs/kickstart/rhel8 Kickstart File: 192.168.x.x:/export/nfs/kickstart/rhel8/ks.cfg It appears that Anaconda(?) is mounting the NFS directory locally under /run/install/repo — I can check that the mount is there and all files on the NFS share are available at that location. However, Anaconda seems to be … Read more

Client machine unable to connect to the local ftp repository server. Writes an error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo ‘***’, ignoring this repo

Please help me to understand where I was wrong, because I’ve read a lot of articles also I’ve seen lot’s of Youtube videos, but all the time in the end I’ve got the same error result. So, on my Server machine (192.168.25.146) I’ve install from the rpms: ftp, vsftpd, createrepo and dnf-utils packages. Then, I’ve … Read more

Unable to use YUM. RHEL 8.2 server hosted in Azure

I have a Red Hat server hosted in Azure and when I try to use yum to install software or do a system update I get the below error, Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘rhui-rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rhui-rpms’: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for https://rhui-1.microsoft.com/pulp/repos/content/dist/rhel8/rhui/8/x86_64/baseos/os/repodata/repomd.xml [Connection timed out after 30001 milliseconds] The system has been registered … Read more

Oracle Linux 8 getting DHCP but DNS not updating

My Oracle Linux 7 boxes automatically get a DHCP address and then BIND9 DNS is updated successfully. I recently installed an Oracle Linux 8 box, and while it is successfully assigned a DHCP ip address, BIND9 DNS is not being updated causing nslookups, dig etc to fail for the Oracle Linux 8 box. Has something … Read more

How best to connect a Windows 10 laptop to a RHEL 8 virtual machine?

I use a Windows 10 PC to log into and work on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 system every day. I have been using xpra to talk to it. Xpra dies every few minutes for a few seconds. Very irritating. I’m told that RHEL8 doesn’t support xrdp. Yes, I need X-Windows support. I need … Read more