Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 is a Linux distribution sold by Red Hat, Inc. for the enterprise market. It is used for both servers and desktops. Although the binaries are not freely available, the sources are, and so there are numerous projects which provide compatible rebuilds of RHEL, such as ...
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Building a router / NAT and need to compare performance of FreeBSD 8 v RHEL 6 [closed]
I am going to be setting up a router and NAT device but I am unable to choose between pfSense 2.x (FreeBSD 8) and RHEL 6.
The device will need to forward a medium (2k hosts) sized network where ...
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Caveats when upgrading from RHEL 5.4 to RHEL 6.3 on hundreds of production servers [duplicate]
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Caveats when upgrading from Java 6 to Java 7 on hundreds of production servers
I am about to upgrade the RHEL version from RHEL 5.4 to RHEL 6.3 in a few hundreds of ...
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xRDP “login failed” on RHEL
Apologies if I should be on SuperUser here (I've not quite got the demarcation between the two yet).
I've just installed xRDP on RHEL (Oracle Linux 6, specifically). I've got the service started and ...
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How to configure the tiger VNC in RHEL 6 to enable remote login after reboot?
How to configure the tiger VNC in RHEL 6 to enable remote login after reboot? Currently, I could remote login to it when it has login already. But if I remotely restart the server, it would not allow ...
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HOW ON EARTH do I get enforcing SElinux and postfix with custom milter to work?
I have an IPv4 setup of postfix on RHEL6 with SElinux in enforcing mode.
All my attempts at incorporating opendkim fails miserably unless I leave enforcing mode.
The errors I get when SElinux is ...
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glibc.i686 conflicts with libc6?
I have a 64-bit Redhat Enterprise Linux server (version 6.3) that doesn't want to let me install the glibc.i686 module for 32-bit compatibility. When I try yum install glibc.i686 as root, it gives me ...
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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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WebServer plugin file
We have 6 servers under load balancer with 2 member cluster. I want to know if plugin-cfg.xml is used for servers on which httpd process is not running.
The reason I am asking is I suspect on some of ...
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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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What are the required permissions to add SPN to Computer account
I am trying to add some RHEL6 boxes to an S2008R2 domain. Part of the process is to create a computer account in AD, then add an SPN to it.
Pretty much all guides say that you need Admin privileges ...
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Place for setting environment variables for WebSphere JVM process
I have a websphere application which runs under the user wsadmin.
The application invokes the SQL bulk loader client ./sqlldr
The sqlldr needs some environment variables predefined in order to work ...
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What is lldpad (RHEL)
recently I encountered the lldpad daemon in centos 6.3.
It says in the manual :Executes the LLDP protocol for supported network interfaces.
Link Layer Discovery Protocol also has a nice wikipedia ...
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Kernel Panic - not syncing VFS in RHEL6.3
My server is running RHEL6.3, and after shutting down, I am unable to boot up the server. I did not perform any upgrades or changes to the server prior to the shut down, and this is a new server ...
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RedHat: is it possible to install packages in a kind of mock environment to build RPMs
Is there a tool that allows to install the dependecies of an RPM .spec into an isolated environment? I won't install such dependencies globally on the system and I am not able to do so since I have ...
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How to set $LD_LIBRARY_PATH for a Tomcat webapp after it is automatically unset?
I have a Tomcat webapp that needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set.
I'm using RHEL6 and Tomcat6 (from yum package manager), the webapp is called adore-djatoka.
I'm starting tomcat by using a supplied ...
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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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How can I get the git-all meta package on RHEL 6.2
I believe I'm missing some of the common git addons, such as gitk, and I suspect it is because I installed git using
sudo yum install git
as the information for that package lists:
: The ...
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Installing djatoka on tomcat 6 on RHEL 6.3
Can someone help me get djatoka image viewer running on my RHEL 6.3 machine (an EC2 instance hosted by Amazon Web Services)?
Tomcat 6 installed nicely (using sudo yum install tomcat6 tomcat6-webapps ...
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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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How can I get the “base” repository for yum in RHEL 6?
My goal is to try and install git on a RHEL 6 machine.
I've seen the post here: How can I install git on RHEL 6?
And the answer refers to a download link that appears part of centOS: ...
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iptables blank after reboot
We've started encountering an issue with iptables on our RHEL 6.3 systems in that after a reboot, when the service starts, the rules are not loaded. We get the empty ruleset:
[msnyder@matt-test ~]$ ...
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mod_evasive DOSSystemCommand not working
I'm trying to get mod_evasive to fire off a script to add an iptables rule to deny the offending host. I've tried the suggestions from both answers here but I still can't get it working. Apart from ...
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Apache died; Suspect is ulimit but cannot reproduce
Apache died last night. Error log shows this
[alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: setuid: unable to change to uid: 48
Browsing around the Internet, everyone seems to say this is is an issue ...
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SSH as root using public key still prompts for password on RHEL 6.1
I've generated rsa keys with cygwin ssh-keygen and copied them to the server with
ssh-copy-id -i id_rsa.pub root@my.ip.address
I've got the following settings in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file
...
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WebSphere Cluster - One node remains Up at a time
I have a WebSphere application server running on two nodes in a cluster.
At a given time, only one node remains up and the other one in hung JVM thread.
If I stop the running one, the other one is ...
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Yum install packages to an alternate directory, without chroot?
I would like to use the Foswiki yum repository to install Foswiki (296 packages). The default installation path is /var/lib/, but I want to install it to an alternate location at /opt/www/. In the ...
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Alternatives to dl() in PHP?
We have a third-party package that requires the use of the PHP dl() function to load a binary extension. This function has been deprecated and removed as of PHP 5.3, so we're looking for a way to get ...
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Install WAS 7.0 on RHEL 6
I am trying to install Websphere 7 x64 on RHEL 6 x64.
I am using Developer edition.
When I try to execute ./install on the command prompt, it waits for few seconds and then returns to prompt without ...
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Apache SMTP connection times out
A web server that has successfully sent mail using the hosting providers's SMTP server before seems to suddenly have lost connection to the SMTP server.
[Wed Nov 28 09:51:27 2012] [error] [client ...
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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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Accident from tar -cvf, recover original file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to recover filed removed by rm in linux?
I'm using a RHEL6 server RAID10 with a ext4 fs, with a volumeGroup (lvm2) VolGroup00 created on a PV /dev/sda5 ...
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Account Lockout with pam_tally2 in RHEL6
I am using pam_tally2 to lockout accounts after 3 failed logins per policy, however, the connecting user does not receive the error indicating pam_tally2's action. (Via SSH.)
I expect to see on the ...
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Redhat 6 gui installation VS kickstart gives me different packages?
If i do the graphical install and select basic server + aide and screen i get a system with 535 installed packages.
If i look at the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg file in that freshly installed system i ...
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Php pdo_dblib - cannot find/unable to load freetds
Self-hosted box,
RHEL 6
PHP 5.3.3
PDO installed
freetds installed
pdo_dblib - so far no luck installing
My goal is to use PDO with sybase. Attempting to install pdo_dblib from the appropriate ...
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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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How do I disable multipath on Linux (RHEL 6) when it is on the root partition (/, /boot, /boot/efi, and swap)?
I have been working on configuring multipath on a couple of RHEL 6 servers. Through some fault of my own (blacklist mistyped) I have configured multipath on the root partition, yet it seems that I am ...
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RHEL 6 Upstart User Jobs
Does RHEL6 support upstart user jobs?
I modified /etc/dbus-1/system.d/Upstart.conf and added a policy section for my username. I then created ~/init.d/userjob.conf.
When I do inictrl list it ...
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mysqld service crashes on restart, after importing mysqldump #innodb
I have 2 mysql servers. Let's call them server01 & server02. Both have the same configuration: mysqladmin Ver 8.42 Distrib 5.1.61, for redhat-linux-gnu on x86_64
[client]
...
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1answer
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Locking user account on RHEL using PAM LDAP
I have a bit of an edge case here. My institution has a RHEL server where students can log in and do their work. Accounts are held in LDAP and the server uses PAM and LDAP to authenticate. At the end ...
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Root crontab not executing script
I have a script listed in my roots crontab
07 9 * * * /opt/HLRSDATA_2010_OCT/HLRS_Scheduler_sp.sh > /opt/HLRSDATA_2010_OCT/logs/HLRTKJob.log
This script contains the following
#!/bin/bash
echo ...
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Making sense of the RHEL release string when looking at yum info output?
I am trying to understand how interpret the release field displayed by yum info on RHEL 6. for example the commands below give wildly different values for Relase, what exactly is release refering to, ...
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How to free up space on RHEL6 /boot safely?
I am trying to do yum update on RHEL 6 box and I am getting this error message
Transaction Check Error:
installing package kernel-2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64 needs 10MB on the /boot filesystem
...
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How to install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel on RHEL Server 6.3?
I have need of installing a Java 7 development environment on a RHEL 6.3 (system details are below). Following the official OpenJDK directions I tried yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel (as root). ...
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VxFS on both Solaris and RHEL?
I'd like to know if VxFS could be used in order to share a volume ( on a SAN mounted using FC) between a RHEL (5 or 6) and Solaris (11) host ?
What I'm trying to achive is to shared a volume (from a ...
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AD GIT SELinux RHEL 6 : Can not get SELinux to allow connetion to git
I have a problem with SELinux!
I have installed git on Red Hat Enterprise 6 with AD group control and SSL Cert .
Everything works fine if I do setenforce 0 ( set SELinux in detection only mode ) or
...
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How can I install git on RHEL 6?
I'm trying to install Git on a RHEL6 development server, I have experience with Ubuntu but this is my first time working with RHEL (I'm a developer trying to fill in for a recently departed Linux ...
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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 install Nagios Business Process AddOns on RHEL6?
I want to install Nagios Business Process AddOns on RedHat EL 6.1, but I don't know how, and the doc provided for this purpose is too vague.
