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How to change hostname in Redhat & Oracle Linux

Posted on October 24, 2012 by SoCRaT

As user “root” “vi /etc/sysconfig/network”, change HOSTNAME value to the new hostname “hostname NEW_HOST_NAME” to change it for the current sessions “vi /etc/hosts”, change the old value to point to the new hostname “service network restart” to restart the networking … Continue reading →

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Change display resolution in Redhat 5 or Oracle Enterprise Linux 5

Posted on January 9, 2010 by SoCRaT

Edit your “/etc/X11/xorg.conf” file, add the “Modes” part under subsection “Display” where the first mode – which is 1024×768 in the example below – will be the default one: Section “Screen”        Identifier “Screen0”        Device  … Continue reading →

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How to solve the problems of "Oracle Enterprise Linux" in virtualbox

Posted on January 6, 2010 by SoCRaT

Not able to boot: Just press escape during the grub loading process and choose the second kernel :), that’s it! If you want it to be persistent to avoid doing that at every startup, just go edit the “/boot/grub/grub.conf” and … Continue reading →

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