Questions tagged [rhel8]
Enterprise Linux distribution released by Red Hat in 2019 and supported through 2029
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Systeem PathChanged is triggering too fast
I have a problem with my systemd setup. I have a service that starts my MEAN-Stack environment on the server.
[Unit]
Description=Frontend Server
After=network.target backend.service
[Service]
Type=...
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RHEL8: Does NFS I/O count as part of “%iowait” calculations?
Customer telling us that they see high %iowait in top and iostat output on a busy RHEL8 NFS client.
iostat man page clearly says that iowait is related to % of time kernel is waiting on "disk&...
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Allow Wordpress upgrades with SELinux in EL8 with nginx/php-fpm
I'm trying to allow the use of Wordpress upgrades (not plugin updates) directly on the web interface.
I already have SELinux working for everything except this feature. When trying to nail down what ...
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Fail2ban with Firewalld on RHEL 8 - Fail2ban seemingly blocks IPs, but they are not really blocked
I'm running fail2ban on RHEL 8 using firewalld. According to the fail2ban log (with DEBUG level) it blocks IP addresses without any error, but in fact there are no such rules in firewalld and nftables....
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Problems when install perl package
I am using Red hat (Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.2 (Ootpa) - 4.18.0-193.14.3.el8_2.x86_64).
When I install perl package by using rpm package
and command dnf install perl-libs-5.26.3-419.el8....
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How to disable Web Console and Red Hat Insights prompt on login to RHEL8 via SSH?
Whenever I log into my RHEL8 server via SSH, I get these lines printed:
Web console: https://<myserver>:9090/ or https://<myip>:9090/
This system is not registered to Red Hat Insights. ...
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Expecting a password in the middle of script in RHEL [closed]
I want to copy files from another server it's expecting a password to copy... Where as sshpass is working in Ubuntu, but in RHEL is there a way to pass the password in the script.
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Issue with RHEL8/CentOS8 remote virt-viewer and firewalld
In our lab we have a RHEL8 server with developer subscription.
On the machine we have a few VMs and some of them are on a private libvirt network, thus we can only access them via virt-viewer.
We use ...
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Nftables systemd ExecStart and ExecReload
I have an ansible role (historically inherited) to configure nftables for RHEL8, which I have been trying to make sense of. It is copying a systemd file for nftables.service that has a following ...
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Puppet 5.5.22, dnfmodule reset
I've been trying to figure out how to convert
dnf module reset php
dnf module install php:remi-7.4
to a stanza in a puppet module for several hours without any success.
Has anyone figured out how to ...
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is it possible to set default home-directory based on the users gidnumber?
I'm aware that I can change the general settings by running:
ipa config-mod --homedirectory=/some/path
what I would like to achieve is for IPA to change it to a different path based on the GID/...
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How to remove warning about “System not registered - please register to enable updates and addons” on Red Hat 8?
I'm using a RHEL 8.2 system and don't wish to register the system, but I do want to stop getting this annoying notification. Similar to this question asked several years ago, except that while the ...
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Unable to open PHP script files, even though I own them and have permissions
I'm using RHEL 8, and I have run into a crazy problem. My user account is unable to open PHP files.
If I have a file, owned by my user, and readable by my user, and I add <?php as the first line, ...
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how to restrict users switching from su command
How can I restrict users switching by su command..? suppose there are 3 users (root,user1 and user2) only root and user1 can switch by using su command. root or user1 should not be able to switch to ...
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Want to allow application to mount a drive using rhel 8
I can mount my drive using sudo mount.cifs ......
I can unmount doing sudo umount /mnt/mountpoint
It was prompting me for a password, so I changed the sudoers file to NOPASSWD:ALL and now it does not ...
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Create selinux context for systemd script?
I'm trying to create a systemd service that executes a custom script I wrote. It is just a backup script that I am using with a systemd timer. When I try to execute something simple in the systemd ...
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How best to connect a Windows 10 laptop to a RHEL 8 virtual machine?
I use a Windows 10 PC to log into and work on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 system every day. I have been using xpra to talk to it. Xpra dies every few minutes for a few seconds. Very irritating.
I'...
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Unable to ssh (port 22) to Ubuntu 20.04 from RHEL8
I have a server running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The firewall (ufw) is disabled and it is accepting incoming ssh connections on port 22. I have a server running RHEL7 set up ages ago and it works fine with ...
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Oracle Linux 8 getting DHCP but DNS not updating
My Oracle Linux 7 boxes automatically get a DHCP address and then BIND9 DNS is updated successfully.
I recently installed an Oracle Linux 8 box, and while it is successfully assigned a DHCP ip address,...
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Using SSSD with multiple LDAP servers/domains
I need to authenticate users using two separate LDAP servers. Have configured SSSD with two domains but only one seems to be working. I ran the command authconfig --enablemkhomedir --enablesssd --...
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“system clock synchronized: no”, flip it to yes
# timedatectl outputs
Local time: Tue 2020-10-06 13:35:31 PDT
Universal time: Tue 2020-10-06 20:35:31 UTC
RTC time: Tue 2020-10-06 20:35:30
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RHEL8 Limits not applied when setuid is configured
I have configured my limits.conf file to allocate a huge stack size
* soft stack 65535
* hard stack 65535
ulimit -s shows the correct value for both root ...
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Failed to commit changes to dconf error when homedir is remote (cifs) on RHEL 8
I am using pam_mount to remote mount home directories (CIFS), though this problem also happens if I mount a home directory manually.
The home directories are mounted successfully.
However, there's ...
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How to install pam_mount on RHEL 8?
I'm trying to install pam_mount on RHEL8 but keep getting this:
rror:
Problem: package pam_mount-2.16-10.el8.x86_64 requires hxtools, but none of the providers can be installed
- conflicting ...
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Unable to use YUM. RHEL 8.2 server hosted in Azure
I have a Red Hat server hosted in Azure and when I try to use yum to install software or do a system update I get the below error,
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'rhui-rhel-8-for-...
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Accessing KRB5CCNAME from /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default on RHEL8
I would like to run a script after a user login. This script, using his kerberos tickets, will mount an SMB share.
Under RedHat 7 I could simply call the script from /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default and it ...
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migrating mysql rhel6 to mariadb rhel 8
I have 3 servers running MySQL on RHEL6. I need to replace the servers with one's running MariaDB on RHEL8. I know 2 of them are in master/slave configuration. I have been studying this but I still ...
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Backup files from FreeIPA client to a domain server using cron script
I have machines running RHEL8 on an IPA domain (application servers and one storage server). The application servers run Postgres docker containers with database data stored on the host application ...
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Squid Proxy unable to start with custom config file in RHEL8, but works in Amazon Linux
Basically I am just following this guide from AWS, but this guide uses Amazon Linux, but I need to use RHEL 8. I tested in Amazon linux, and it works fine. In RHEL8 also, Squid is able to start with ...
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Partitioning/RAID approach for a fresh RHEL installation
I just inherited a brand new HPE DL360 Server with 6x600GB and 2x300GB HDD drives in it and 16GB of RAM and i'm planning to install a fresh RHEL distribution. Having not much experience with RAIDS and ...
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Curl to host and port not working from inside Docker container
Below are the containers:
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
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Users created in Kickstart unable to authenticate
Thanks to the answers to this question, I've been happily generating Kickstart files for Scientific Linux 6 and 7 for the past 5 years. However, we're now starting to build out some test systems with ...
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Client machine unable to connect to the local ftp repository server. Writes an error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo '***', ignoring this repo
Please help me to understand where I was wrong, because I've read a lot of articles also I've seen lot's of Youtube videos, but all the time in the end I've got the same error result.
So, on my ...
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logrotate mariadb not workin as expected
i'm trying to configure logrotate for mariadb log files,
Environment:
system : RHEL 8.2
logrotate : 3.14.0
mariadb: 10.4
the file is
/var/lib/mysql/SITE2-L-MANAGEDPKI-01.log{
missingok
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New to RHEL; Coming from Fedora; Different repo managers?
I'm coming from fedora. Just testing the waters in RHEL 8.2
None of my standard dnf packages are available. For instance:
$ sudo dnf install powerline powerline-fonts
[sudo] password for adamhanna:
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Unable to install RHEL 8 on older hardware [closed]
My office is looking to upgrade the OS on some of our small servers from RHEL 6 to RHEL 8. We're a pretty small operation and we have a few RHEL servers running on some older bare metal hardware that ...
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ImportError: No module named svn.core Python Traceback
I am working on the Setup of the Subversion server in one of my environments using
RHEL 8
Apache 2.4
Subversion 1.10.6
Python 2.7
Viewvc 1.2.1
Apache & Subversion installation has been done ...
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Increasing ulimit open files not applied in RHEL 8.1
I have a fully-updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.1 x86_64 system where, as a local user in a local terminal (i.e. not remotely via SSH), when I run ulimit -Sn it says 1024 and ulimit -Hn ...
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RHEL 8 - Module Streams
In my RHEL 8 box, I've just created local repos (BaseOS & AppStream) based on the RHEL 8 ISO and I can successfully install packages.
However, when I'm trying to list modules or some specific ...
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RHEL 8.1 how to install libssh2 1.9 and openssh 8.1 or higher
I need to upgrade my libssh2 and openssh to newer versions. Currently, I have libssh2 v1.8 and openssh v8.0 . To pass compliance, both need updated but these are the only versions showing up in yum/...
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How to install Node.js 12 on CentOS 8?
I tried the following this post which states
Application Streams are typically named for the version of the software that is included, e.g. nodejs:8 or nodejs:10 [...]
... but as you can see ...
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Yum on Centos 8 - Failed to download metadata for repo 'AppStream'
I'm on a fresh Centos 8 install and have tried to use yum for the first time (on this machine). I get the following for any attempt to install or update anything:
yum update
CentOS-8 - AppStream ...
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Install Ansible Tower in specific directory
Can you mount a second drive at /opt/ansible and tell Tower to install there instead so it won't affect a boot partition? What are some considerations if you can?
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RHEL 8.1 Kickstart cannot find ks.cfg
I'm having an issue with the RHEL 8.1 kickstart via NFS:
NFS share: 192.168.x.x:/export/nfs/kickstart/rhel8
Kickstart File: 192.168.x.x:/export/nfs/kickstart/rhel8/ks.cfg
It appears that Anaconda(?)...
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vdo: ERROR - Device /dev/sdc excluded by a filter
After creating a third disk in vagrant/virtualbox, I was getting this error while trying to create a VDO (Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 8 tool for deduplication and compression).
For LVM you usually go ...
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How do I run docker agent in Jenkins on RHEL base image?
I have Jenkins running on RHEL 8. I am trying to run my pipeline, but it is not working, and I think it might be an issue with Podman, because I am able to run the pipeline on my machine which uses ...
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RHEL 8 Qt 4.8 packages
I need Qt4 packages for RHEL 8. "yum search qt" on RHEL 8.0 reveals only Qt5 packages.
Are there any Qt4.8 (or later) packages for RHEL 8?
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yum repo sync “Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rhui-client-config-server-8'”
While doing yum provides or yum update on AWS Instance of RHEL 8.0 (Ootpa) a "rhui-client-config-server-8" repository giving Failed to Synchronize error.
Steps followed
yum clean cache (no success)
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Newly created XFS filesystem shows 78 GB used
We have a 12 TB RAID 6 array which is supposed to be set up as a single partition with an XFS file system. On creating the new file system, it says it has 78 GB in use, but there are no files on ...
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Yet another PDO could not find driver issue
I've been working for the last two nights to set up my own LEMP server on Amazon ec2. I'm not a server expert so it's been slow going, and the latest error "could not find driver" is given when ...
