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CentOS 5 is an obsolete, free (as in beer and speech) GNU/Linux distribution that is community driven and based on source code released from RHEL.

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Centos 5.8 - firewall blocking Virtualizor staff

I run private KVM/OpenVZ hosting and im currently having issues with it. So I opened a ticket with virtualizor and they say they cant access the VNC connections, but I can. I figured the only thing ...
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How delete the content of a directory in Centos

I need to delete all the content of a folder in CentOS but not the folder itself. For example: I have a folder named "MYFOLDER" which contains subfolders FOLD_1, FOLD_2, FOLD_3, FOLD_4... etc , and ...
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How to resolve a failed Plesk update? [closed]

I have a dedicated server running CentOS 5.3. I'm trying to update Plesk 9.5.2 to version 10.0.0 but update fails. I do it with yum: yum update psa* --skip-broken -t but it fails and I get the ...
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CentOS 5.5 32 bit "service ntpd restart" issue or not?

I have CentOS 5.5 32 bit. I have a service provider that enables NTP on their routers. They have checked and doubled check their access list and I can ping the time servers but I'm getting a strange ...
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How can I understand a Linux server's role?

I've been given the task to create an excel table which includes all Linux servers in one of our AWS EC2 environments because the main aim is to get all the servers off AWS and migrate them to our ...
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How to get rid of this error message?

I have this error message popping up in my /var/log/messages file: modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.33.7.2-rt30-xxxx-std-ipv4-64/modules.dep: No such file or directory My OS is ...
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CentOs 5.11 mod_dav_svn update

I've Centos 5.11 with wasn't maintained by anyone. cat /etc/*-release CentOS release 5.11 (Final) And I tried to update svn from 1.4.6 to 1.6.11 using yum. sudo yum update subversion Loaded ...
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How to configure Centos 5.3 using OpenLDAP to store and serve SSH public keys?

I want to be able to manage all my users logins via OpenLDAP. I am using Centos 5.3, OpenSSH 4.3p2-42 and OpenLDAP 2.3.43. I have installed GOsa2. Is there a GOsa plugin to manage the SSH keys in ...
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Overwriting phpMyAdmin

I am using Centos 5.5 and had phpMyAdmin version 2.11.11 installed. I couldn't find a way to update it, so what I did was do a manual download, backed up /usr/share/phpmyadmin, then replaced that ...
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using tcpdump to display XML API requests without headers or ack packets

I need assistance, I am trying to use tcpdump in order to capture API requests and responses between two servers, so far I have the following command: tcpdump -iany -tpnAXs0 host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and ...
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How to install latest version of imagick on centos 5.8 64bit using bash

How can I download and install latest version of imagick on centos 5.8 64bit using bash for php 5.4. >yum info php Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base:...
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Can't connect to MySQL server on '198.211.37.xx'

For last couple of days I have tried many things to solve Can't connect to MySQL server. I would like to describe everything that I did so far. Create a mysql user and GRANT ALL Privileges. Bind 0.0....
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Can I install subversion client in Centos 5 for offline installation?

My Centos Version is : LSB Version: :core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-ia32:printing-4.0-noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Description: CentOS release ...
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How to make permanent changes to iptables of CentOS 5.5

I want to make an iptable rule permanent so if the server is rebooted I won't have to add the rule again. Specifically a rule I have related to nginx being reverse proxy of apache. iptables -t nat -...
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Domain names timing out after VPS IP change

I rent a CentOS 5 VPS from a UK-based provider, with DirectAdmin also installed. On Thursday night, they carried out planned maintenance to changed the two IPs I had been assigned to two new ones. On ...
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How do I point server1.example.com server2.example.com etc... to different servers? [closed]

I have example.com with host #1, I also have two different servers with two different IP's on host#2. I need server1.example.com to point to xxx.xxx.xxx.xx1 and server2.example.com to point to xxx.xxx....
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Yum reports updated bash but binary still reports old version

I'm trying to update a CentOS 5 system in order to patch the bash vulnerability described in CVE-2014-6271 / RHSA-2014:1293-1, but am running into an issue. After seemingly-successfully updating bash ...
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qemu-kvm fail to boot Centos 5.3 after Kernel update at the host (feodra)

After updating Fedora 18 to kernel 3.9.x (current 3.9.4), I can no longer boot my Centos 5 guest OS. When I try to boot, the process halt at start and the CPU core work at 100%. If I boot Fedroa (...
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imuxsock messages in syslog and system becomes unresponsive

I am getting such messages in syslog. rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock lost 21869 messages from pid 3418 due to rate-limiting rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 3427 due to rate-limiting ...
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How to build from source on CentOS 5.9?

I'm building iptraf-ng on CentOS 5.9 and running into the following errors: src/packet.c: In function ‘packet_process’: src/packet.c:322: error: ‘ETH_P_QINQ1’ undeclared (first use in this function) ...
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init: Id "2" respawning too fast

I've just updated a CentOS 5.10 box to 5.11 with all the latest patches and rebooted. Following the reboot I'm now getting the below error message every few minutes: init: Id "2" respawning too ...
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Server high CPU load issue! ( Cpanel + CentOS 5) [closed]

Our server cpu load is high todays sometimes reaches to 560! .. We have the lastest Cpanel/whm and the kernel is update!while the load average is : Load Averages: 39.05 75.01 45.33 the apache log is:...
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CentOS /dev/bus/usb structure

On my Ubuntu 12.04 when I plug in usb device, under dev directory tree usb device is added like this: /dev/bus/usb/001/001 On my CentOS 5 added like below: /dev/bus/usb/devices/2-1.4/ lsusb needs ...
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How to tell what is blocking internet (download) on cloud server

Background: My employer is using a cloud-based database server through a service called Rackspace. This server is accessed by our other servers via ssh. Our network admins are unreachable for the next ...
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Linode - Centos 5.5 -

I rather foolishly undertook to install a control panel on a Linode. I opted to use CentOs 5.5 (either ordinary or 64 bit) but I am like a monkey playing a reward game... I have some idea of what I ...
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Plesk 11 / Cents5, how do IP's on multiple ranges work [closed]

I have a plesk 11 setup running centos5 and i'm a little confused by something. On the server I have 2 ips from 2 different ranges. They are public IP's pingable from the outside world and working ...
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How would I be able to take a snapshot of a CentOS 5 server and compare it later on?

I have a consultant that was hired to install some custom software to a CentOS 5 server. After she's done, I'd like to review her changes to possibly automate or optimize them. I was thinking of: ...
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Error when restarting postfix

When I have restarting the postfix server I am facing the below error :: postfix-out/master[1714]: fatal: open lock file pid/master.pid: cannot create file exclusively: Permission denied I having a ...
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What would cause ifconfig NIC frame drop counts to increase SLOWLY (90-100 frames per day)?

I have a web appliance running CentOS 5.11. It sees a fair amount of traffic (apologies, I don't have specific numbers but I know it's in use). For some reason, I'm seeing ifconfig error counts ...
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Replicating My Production Environment

I have a CentOS production server that I am currently doing my development on (I know this is awful) I'm bringing on some new developers and I want to set up appropriate development, staging and ...
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Rollout approach for centOS/RHEL linux servers to achieve centralised authentication through AD

We have 3 environments testing develop and production each having more than 40 Linux servers. Need to establish centralized authentication through AD for all these environment. Which is the best ...
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nfs mount passwordless login

Setup: OS : CentOS5 node 1 : 172.16.1.1 sandbox1.local node 2 : 172.16.1.2 sandbox2.local The nodes have the hostnames in the hots file. Pinging to each other works fine. Problem: My home is ...
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Enabling APC cache takes down website

I have a VPS running on centos 5 with 2 GB ram. I run a IP.Board forum on that server. Recently my server was hacked and I had to format the disk and start again. I was using APC cache before and it ...
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Installing PostgreSQL on Centos 5

I'm following the instructions from here. I try and run yum localinstall http://yum.postgresql.org/9.4/redhat/rhel-5-i386/pgdg-centos94-9.4-1.noarch.rpm which returns the fault cannot open file... ...
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Linux CentOS: A server throws weird error messages, can you speculate why?

There's a server in my company which is part of the production environment. On the server there's an ActiveMQ server running. I logged into the Active-MQ UI and tried to create a new queue. When I did,...
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pam_tally is not supporting user locking after failed attempts on CentOS

After adding the below configurations in /etc/pam.d/system-auth. The user account is not getting locked after multiple failed attempts. As per the below configuration the account should be locked ...
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Renaming files recursively and moving them inside one single directory

I have a project with 500k users in CentOS. The picture file/directory structure was setup like this (yeah... i know): user/0070/ this is the user ID / 1000, so that all users in the range of [70000-...
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DL160 G5 fails to boot CentOS 5.11

I'm trying to install CentOS 5.11 on DL160 G5, with 4 bays holding 3TB sized drives. The installation with default partition layout completes successfully, however on boot I get to a blinking cursor ...
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CentOS tmpfs mount doubling up?

Everytime I mount a ramdisk with the following command, I get two instead of one ramdisk? mount -t tmpfs -o size=1024M tmpfs /home/site/public_html/var/cache Mount shows no ramdisks mounted prior, ...
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Howo to get Multipath IO with Dell MD3600i into active/active setup?

I'm desperately trying to improve performance of my SAN connection. Here's what i have: [root@xnode1 dell]# multipath -ll mpath1 (36d4ae520009bd7cc0000030e4fe8230b) dm-2 DELL,MD36xxi [size=5.5T][...
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Migrate CentOS VM using LVM on IDE to run with VirtIO

I'm trying to migrate existing IDE-using, LVM-based CentOS 5.2 VMs to use virtio. The symptom is a kernel panic upon boot when the system can't find any volume groups. Does anyone know how to make ...
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How to fix yum install not valid release error on Centos 5

When I try to yum install anything I get: -bash-3.2# yum install strace Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Determining fastest mirrors * dag: apt.sw.be * lxlabsupdate: download.lxlabs.com * rpmforge: ...
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Linux Centos5 lockup - possibly a memory issue?

Here is an OCR of a screenshot of a VPS hosted Centos5 64 bit Linux server that has just frozen up on me. I have now rebooted this VPS guest but would appreciate it if anyone who understands the ...
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How to config awstats to analyse .php traffics?

By default, awstats group .php traffics into a single Dynamic PHP Script file number. However, the site's pattern lies in route=??? after an index.php?, e.g.: GET /index.php?route=account/login/...
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ntpdate ignores my timezone

I'm trying to set up time sync on a CentOS 5.5 VDS but can't figure out why it won't update to the correct timezone. e.g. After manually setting the correct date and time when I run this: date &&...
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The requested URL /sot was not found on this server

I have a VPS (Centos 5) and want to use a file in address like this: www.domain.ir/socket.php but after entering the address I see this error: Not Found The requested URL /socket.php was not found ...
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Can RHEL5/CentOS5 be run on Intel Haswell-EP (E5-26XX V3) CPUs?

We need to upgrade the hardware on some of our CentOS 5.11 servers. From Redhat's Intel CPUs and Supported RHEL Versions page, I see that the E5-26XX V2 CPUs are supported. However, the E5-26XX V3 (...
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Intermittent full system hang on VM server running CentOS 5.10

CentOS 5.10 / VMWare ESX 5.1 I've got an older email server running CentOS 5.10 (with SendMail) and it's experiencing intermittent hangs wherein the system becomes completely unresponsive. During ...
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What is the easiest way to get XtraDB for MySQL running on CentOS 5

I'm having a lot of issues with a dedicated MySQL server and it seems like upgrading to the XtraDB version of InnoDB will probably have a positive effect, but I'm hesitant to get involved with it ...
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Could not load file or assembly fastcgi-mono-server4

I am trying to host an ASP.NET Web Forms application using Mono. I have installed Mono 3.0.7 and XSP 2.10.2 from source into the /usr/bin directory. I then started the mono server with the following ...

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