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This is less of an upgrade and more of an opportunity to rebuild and refactor. How long have these RHEL4 systems been in production? 2006? 2007?
Did your organization ignore the Red Hat lifecycle ...
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Bypass Paypal Upgrade
It's so hard (and in this case useless) walking against the wind so, why don't you follow it instead? I can understand that upgrading may be a pain in the ass sometimes but it's worth it.
Also, not ...
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Bypass Paypal Upgrade
In principle I see no reason why using a proxy wouldn't work. I don't know enough about nginx to know whether that particular config would work or not.
Another option that may be worth considering is ...
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Bypass Paypal Upgrade
As ewwhite pointed out, RHEL4 has been EOL since 2012.
Why can't you upgrade? If the issue is licensing cost, there's CentOS. If the issue is some kind of code dependency, um. I don't have a glib ...
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What version of RHEL am I using?
I prefer hostnamectl:
$ hostnamectl
Static hostname: xxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Icon name: computer-server
Chassis: server
Machine ID: 3e3038756eaf4c5c954ec3d24f35b13f
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What version of RHEL am I using?
I quite like using the /etc/os-release file, which is in the release RPM:
# yum whatprovides /etc/os-release
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Determining fastest mirrors
* base: dl.za....
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How can I remount an NFS volume on Red Hat Linux?
Most NFS settings cannot be changed using remount or mount -a. See 'man nfs' where you will read:
With few exceptions, NFS-specific options are not able to be modified during a remount.
As long ...
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NFS: Server says "authenticated mount request", but client sees "access denied"
I faced the same problem from a Debian 10.2 server with a macOS client. My solution:
On the NFS server, add the insecure option to the share in /etc/exports and re-run exportfs -r
Source here.
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NFS: Server says "authenticated mount request", but client sees "access denied"
your rpcinfo indicates NFS is trying to connect over UDP. it appeared NFSv4 is no longer working over UDP but is expecting TCP to be used.
the linux kernel for example is trying to mount rootfs over ...
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What version of RHEL am I using?
A late arrival to this, but I had fun trying to figure out the RHEL version on several remote nodes. So, if you have a batch of servers that use the same password (I know, I know...) here is a quick ...
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What version of RHEL am I using?
If you want to just get the version numbers the following is about as short and simple as I can get it.
Tested on rhel 6.7, rhel 7.2, debian 8.3 and ubuntu 14.04:
lsb_release -s -r | cut -d '.' -f 1
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