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Centos 6.x encrypt $HOME like in Ubuntu 12.04 [closed]

I'm trying to find a way to encrypt $HOME for users on Centos/RHEL 6.x system using ecryptfs, same way it's done on Ubuntu 12.04 (and earlier/later). So far, I've managed to encrypt $HOME/Private ...
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HP DL380p Gen8 (p420i controller) I/O oddity on XFS partitions

On DL380p gen8 servers using XFS on top of LVM on top of raid 1+0 with 6 disks, an identical workload results in a ten-fold increase in disk writes on RHEL 6 compared to RHEL 5, making applications ...
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updates-testing repo for CentOS 6?

What is the equivalent CentOS 6 repo for the updates-testing repo of RHEL/Fedora? I am trying to follow the node.js installation instructions here and am having trouble figuring out what repo to add ...
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What is an active CentOS6 / RHEL6 repository providing icinga? [closed]

There are several CentOS6 repositories listed in the wiki and I checked nearly all of them. Only RPMForge provides icinga / icinga-web, but in v1.7.2 which is fairly outdated and contains several ...
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RHEL/CENTOS6 Interface naming and IP assignment for rotating MACs

Background: I am creating an RHEL6 OS disk image that will potentially be passed around to many different computers with identical hardware (except for serial numbers such as MACs). The image is ...
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Disable BIND9 /var/log/messages logging in RHEL6 or CENTOS 6

I'm try to disabled bind9 logging to /var/log/message file in rhel6. I've added below logging categories in named.conf but still its logging to /var/log/messages :( logging { category ...
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latest mod_dav_svn for RHEL 6

I'm looking for lates mod_dav_svn rpms for RHEL 6/Centos 6 that are build as normal RPMS i.e. mod_dav_svn, subversion and other usual packages. Looking to: http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html ...
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Persist IP address alias across reboots in CentOS/RHEL 6 using “ip” command

I've always used the ifcfg-eth0:1 alias files to create additional addresses. However, in recent rhel documentation, it states that: As the ip command of the iproute package now supports assigning ...
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sendmail.mc to fwd all mails for a domain -> First.Last@gmail.com (MX record already set up)

I'm currently using Google Apps to forward mails addressed to recipients at my domain balkan-preferans.de (176.9.40.169) to my address First.Last@gmail.com - this is done by the following DNS-zone ...
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A stock install of Moodle doesn't seem to run on CentOS or RHEL 6.3

I've got a clean instance of CentOS and a clean instance of RHEL 6.3 - I've tried to installed Moodle on both. Error: Database connection failed It is possible that the database is overloaded or ...
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Best practices for tuning virtual hosts

While digging around to find resources on tuning virtual hosts I found an article on VMWares knowledgebase about changing the I/O scheduler. What else should be considered for improving ...
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chkconfig creating service symlinks with the wrong order

On RHEL 6.3, I have a system service that should be starting after postgresql and httpd (order 64 and 85, respectively), but chkconfig always places it at order 50. I tried an experiment on a CentOS ...
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Doubled up RAM to 32 GB - now how to speed up a “LAPP” server?

I run a small Facebook game at a CentOS 6.3 quad core machine with PostgreSQL 8.4.3 + few PHP scripts (doing mostly select queries) + 1 Perl daemon and even though the server worked ok, I've suggested ...
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How to add interface alias on RHEL6 or CentOS6 with NetworkManager?

How to add a network interface alias (for example eth0:0) on CentOS6 or RHEL6 in the "correct" way that is through NetworkManager without NM_CONTROLLED=no. And this has to be done without GUI. Thank ...
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Sphinx search on RHEL / CentOS MySQL cluster

Is it possible to add a new resource type to an RHEL or CentOS 6.x cluster, in order to allow Sphinx fulltext search to run alongside MySQL? The clusters are managed using luci/ricci and cman.
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Centos/RHEL 6: 32bit PHP package on 64bit architecture

How can I install the i686 php package on an x86_64 architecture?
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Interpreting cryptic kernel “page allocation failure” messages

I have a multi-user CentOS 6.1 database system running an application named ABC. The server is 64-bit, 8GB RAM and 6 vCPU (on VMWare ESXi 4). We get frequent dumps into the dmesg and the system logs ...
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Modify XFS filesystem creation parameters during kickstart installation

I'm streamlining the kickstart process for a series of EL6.2 (RHEL, CentOS, SL, etc.) systems. I'd prefer to use XFS over ext4 for the growth/data partition. However, I'd like some control over the ...
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how to change screen resolution in rhel/centos 6?

I have cent os 6 dvd installed on my computer.my monitor resolution is 1920 X 1080. i cannot increase screen resolution to 1920 X 1080. system->preference->Display can give maximum resolution as 1280 ...
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Reloading a kernel “live” in CentOS / RHEL 6

When upgrading the kernel package on CentOS or RHEL 6, is it possible to load the new kernel without rebooting? My gut tells me it's not, but if it were, it'd be handy - especially when compiling ...
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Compiling realtime kernel from RHEL 6 MRG sources on CentOS 6

I'm trying to compile kernel-rt-2.6.33.9-rt31.75.el6rt.src.rpm from RHEL6 MRG source RPMs on Centos 6 x86_64 system. It's first time I'm doing this, so I did research on how to do this properly. From ...
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rhel6 repsitories gives broken dependencies

i tried several repositories for rhel 6 like epel,freshrpms,etc and all the repositories give broken dependency while installing pakages(eg:vlc,exaile).From where i get a repository without broken ...
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/etc/inittab respawn script migrating from RHEL/CentOS 5.x to 6.x

I have a non-forking perl script running as a TCP-sockets daemon (this script is a backend for a multiplayer game) in CentOS 5.7. It is being started and respawned by /etc/inittab: ...
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Upgrade CentOS 5.x to CentOS 6.x - tips and techniques

Now that CentOS 6.0 is making its way to the various mirror sites, I wanted to solicit opinions on the upgrade process. In working with the commercial RedHat 5.6 and 6.x distributions for the past few ...