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Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 is a Linux distribution sold by Red Hat, Inc. for the enterprise market.

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Mount NTFS (read/write capability) filesystem on RHEL 5 (2.6.8-18.el5)

I'm using RHEL 5.0 with the kernel 2.6.8-18.el5. I want to mount my external hard disk drive with the NTFS file system. I cannot mount it because it doesn't support NTFS file system. Error msg: mount: ...
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What are ideal permissions for Linux/Apache web site to enable team working but protect some files

I'm finding it hard to find advice on the ideal permissions for a website folder structure on RHEL5. I want multiple users to be able to change/add/remove files within the website folders - but ...
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How to check GUI on RHEL5 from Windows client

How to check GUI on RHEL5 from Windows client? I got Xterm running using Xming. When I tried xclock I got bash: xclock: command not found
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In RHEL 5, yum cannot find a package (python-devel)

At work I need to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 5 on one particular server. I am experienced with Linux, but not much with RHEL (more with Debian and Ubuntu). I want to install gitosis,...
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How do I enable PHP execution on the default directory?

I'm setting up a server with Plesk, and we'd like to be able to provide a publicly-accessible copy of phpMyAdmin. I was able to determine where it could go: /var/www/vhosts/default/httpsdocs ...
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bnx2 and e1000e drivers on RHEL 5.3 detects repeated link loss

UPDATE: The problem was faulty hardware on the switch. Thanks to all of you for the good debugging suggestions. Correct answer given to MattyB for suggesting using a different switch to see if the ...
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Downloading files from internet to RHEL5 server

How to download a file from a location in internet to RHEL5 server running at runlevel 3 (without GUI)? Like, can we use sftp to directly download files from a website? Or, do we have any commands ...
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Compiling 32-bit binaries on 64-bit RHEL

I have a 64-bit RHEL 5.3 server. There's a piece of server software that's more memory efficient if I compile it as 32-bit. Is there a way to tell GCC to target 32-bit? I just want a specific piece ...
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Easiest way to convert HVM DomU to PVM?

I've got a bunch of Xen 3.4 DomUs that are currently running as HVM because of our infrastructure (Kickstart which doesn't handle Xen PVM yet). Both DomU and Dom0 are RHEL5 machines. If I understand ...
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How to bind a physical network device to dom0 or domU only in RHEL5 cobbler deployed systems?

I have a physical machine with two nics. I already have a fully working cobbler server and I am able to deploy a bare metal or dom0 server in a few minutes. My target OS is RHEL5. My goal is to ...
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Problem when installing package using RPM

I'm new to Linux, currently using RHEL 5. I want to install some package on my Server but there is an error: rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file:...
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high load on RHEL5 XEN [closed]

all I do is sending out bunch of emails and my server's load gets up to 900s, any ideas where to look?
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What is the best process to automate Zimbra deploy using cobbler+puppet?

I set up a fully working cobbler server on a RHEL5 machine. This is able to deploy a new server on bare metal machine, partitioning the disks, using LVM and creating as much virtual machines as I need....
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Is it a good idea to alter MySQL system priority from default?

I'm running MySQL 5.0.x on RHEL 5.3. I read in the MySQL Manual (here) that 'it is essential to run the mysqld process with the highest possible priority on the 2.4 kernel to achieve maximum ...
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Installing MySQL 5.1 & PHP 5.2 on RHEL5.3

I would quite like to be running the latest production releases of PHP and MySQL on my production RHEL5.3 server. PHP so that I can use Zend Framework 1.9 which only supports PHP 5.2.4 or later. ...
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apache status shows only one process

Running "sudo serivce httpd status" shows only a single process id. The root process. However, if I use top or ps, I can see there are more process than that. Apache is in prefork mode. Has anyone ...
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Moodle not running not giving an error and not loggin an error

I've moved a Moodle install from one machine to an identical machine and now it won't run. It gives no error on the screen, logs no error anywhere I can find, it just returns a completely blank page. ...
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Installing using easy_install and bdist_rpm possible?

I'm setting up a new server based on RHEL5 and wanted to install some python modules which don't come with it. I've seen that setuptools have an option to build RPM packages out of modules, but ...
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How can I uninstall software from an RHEL 5 system?

I installed Rubygems 1.3.4 on an RHEL 5 system. The way you install that is to download source and run setup.rb. I did not find a package for it through yum list available. Now I'd like to uninstall ...
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Help upgrading RHEL 5.1 to CentOS 5.1

I'm trying to follow the steps from the MigrationGuide (modified to reflect the fact I'm dealing with non-current versions) to migrate from RHEL 5.1 to CentOS 5.1. I used the following commands: # ...
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MySQL connection spike out of nowhere

We're running a website spread across three severs. Two of them are load-balanced web servers, and the last is a dedicated mysql server. The mysql server is running RHEL5 64-bit using a 2.6.18-92.1....
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Managing configuration via RPMs?

I need to provide some configuration customization to several servers in our small department network. We are using RHEL5 currently and since I don't want to repeat work, I'd like to create RPMs with ...
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Linux account expiration

If I do (in rhel5): useradd -m -e 2009-07-03 -c "Temp Account" tempuser Will this account expire at the end of 2009-07-03 or at the beginning? What if the user is still logged in? Is it kicked out?...
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Which version of MySQL should I install on 32-bit RHEL 5?

$ uname -a Linux host.domain.com 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 13:59:00 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I would like to install MySQL under /usr/local and not use the RPM installer. The ...
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RHEL 5 Mounting RAW devices

I Hope this is a simple question. What is the best practice to mount RAW drives on RHEL 5. I have found a couple of approaches but i'm not sure what the correct one is as i have found references to ...
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Chrooting a users login

I want to limit certain users on my system to a subset of commands and have absolutely no access to the rest of the system. I figure chrooting is the way to solve this but I only know how to chroot a ...
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Monitoring hardware failure on HP DL servers

Are there any tools other than the HP provided ones for monitoring component failures in these server from RHEL5?
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GLPi does not import AD details but authenticates just fine

I've installed an OCS/GLPI configuration using RHEL5. I've configured GLPI to authenticate to our AD, which it does, however, none of the AD user details appear after logging in. It will create the ...
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ssh keys + RHEL5

I've been able to set up SSH authentication keys on my ubuntu, fedora core and mac systems, however, I'm not able to get SSH keys to work properly with redhat enterprise linux 5 (RHEL5). I've tried ...

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