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    Official RHEL 8 DISA STIG

    I upgraded RHEL 7 to 8.9 an EC2 instance using leapp tool. Then, I ran the Ansible playbook to remediate DISA STIG for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/ansible-role-rhel8-stig). It only applied a few medium and low-severity items. No CAT I findings even though it...
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    Boot issue after the upgrade

    I upgraded (in place using leapp) one of the servers RHEL v7.9 to 8.9. As per the preupgrade report I had to disable the FIPS mode. I enabled the FIPS mode after the successful upgrade & reboot. The server doesn't boot now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I enabled using the below...
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    Disable FIPS mode

    What does this command 2nd line do? It seems it removes the fips=1 argument from the kernel command line. Should this command be a one-liner? I was not able to run each line separately. grubby --update-kernel=ALL --remove-args=fips=1 [[ -f /etc/default/grub ]] && sed -i 's/ fips=1//'...
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    RHEL upgrade 7 to 8 leapp preupgrade error

    Leapp preupgrade errors out I was not able to enable repo, so I am running sudo leapp preupgrade --no-rhsm Actor: dnf_transaction_check Message: DNG execution failed with non zero exit code How do I fix this error?
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    How to upgrade RHEL version 7

    We have around 100 AWS EC2 instances running on RHEL 7.9. I am not sure the best way to upgrade to 8+ I'm not a Unix admin. What is the recommended approach as many of our legacy applications (dev, test, uat, stage environments) are deployed to these servers including production? Any...
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    Move /var directory to a new partition

    I'd like to move /var directory to a new partition on the SAME disk. I'm not adding any new hard disk. I tried the following commands to do so. Can someone help with the last 2 commands? Also, how do I make sure it doesn't use old /var anymore? lsblk mkdir /mnt/newvar blkid mount /dev/xvda1...
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    Moving directories into separate partition

    I have an EC2 instance running on RHEL 7.9 with one volume /dev/sda. I am not a Linux admin. I just know some basic stuff. How do I move /var & /home directories into separate partitions? I have to do this due to some requirements. What would be the impacts of doing so? Thanks.
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