Red Hat creates, maintains, and contributes to many free software projects and has also acquired several proprietary software packages and released their source code under mostly GNU GPL while holding copyright under single commercial entity and selling looser licenses. As of February 2009, Red Hat ...
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what is this kicker process that shows up when i do top?
This morning when I came to my office i noticed the machine very slow so I did 'top' at the terminal and i see at least 50 process running and they are "kicker-3.4-reve"!!! I am using RedHat Linux
It ...
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Fail to instll git-core on RedHat [closed]
I have try yum command to install Git but display following error on RedHat.
yum install git-core
Display error like..
perl-Git-1.7.4.1-1.el5.i386 requires perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8)
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Multiple mounts under a mount on a linux server
I have a server that I mount some storage (LUNs) under. The first mount is
LUN0(20Gb) as /database
then under that I mount
LUN1(10Gb) as /database/logs
so in essence I can't mount /database/logs ...
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PHP 5.4.3 RPM and steps of installation?
Can someone please point me a PHP 5.4.3 RPM that includes mysql and PDO ?
I appreciate if someone can guide me or give me link to step by step installation of rpm.
I have redhat linux.
(gcc version ...
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RedHat Kickstart
I'm looking into creating a kickstart script to get a default build of a system.
However this system requires some in-house software which are currently on DVDs.
As this is my first kickstart ...
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ngnix on amazon ec2 instance which has RedHat 4.4.4-13? [migrated]
I have an ec2 instance running on amazon which has AMI(ami-1b814f72).Its running RedHat 4.4.4-13 version.
I want to install ngnix and gunicorn on with django. According to ngnix ...
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Steps to install PHP 5.4.3 from rpm and yum?
I got a link saying following steps of installation of PHP 5.4.3.
rpm -Uvh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm
yum install php54w
Can i use above method safely?
Or any other rpm that i ...
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Can i scp to an sftp-only server with RHEL5?
I have a RHEL5 box with sftp access to a central server. No ssh, not anything else but sftp. SFTP is nice, but it's interactive. I've heard of scp variants that use sftp protocol under the hood, ...
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script to check for os libraries on RedHat 5.x and 6.x
We ship ImageMagick with our product. It needs quite a few libraries.
libtiff libICE libdl
libfreetype libX11 libglib-2.0
libjpeg libbz2 libxml2
libpng librsvg-2 libz
libfontconfig libgdk_pixbuf-2.0 ...
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vsftp on RedHat (CentOS) - Is there a way to disable uploading files by mime/type or extension?
E.g. disable "*.file, .html" uploads? Or enable only ".avi" and "*.mov" etc.
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vsftp on RedHat (CentOS) - Is there a way to set up file-size and number of files quotes for anonymous uploads?
We have vsftpd service on our server but I didn't find a way to put limits on file size and total space available for anonymous file uploading (doing it via an account will make it harder - as our ...
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Testing File system Full scenario
I have a program that writes files to disk. I want to test the programs behaviour when the filesystem written to is full.
What is the best option for creating a small filesystem to test this ...
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TortoiseHg installation error on RedHat 5.3
Here is information about my machine.
(1) RedHat 5.3 x86_64 version
(2) Mercurial 1.8.1
(3) Python 2.4.3
When I check the compatible version of TortoiseHg and Mercurial at link, it showed that ...
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How to spawn a terminal when executing a compiled C program?
I've overwritten the gnome-screenshot program to suit my needs in getting a screenshot from a secondary home-made graphics card output and now when I press the PrintScreen button it executes it (as ...
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Is it true that if I have 4GB RAM - Red Hat automatically installs a PAE kernel?
And if so, is there a way to "downgrade" to the regular kernel?
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Octave installation errors: require libfftw3.so.3()(64bit), libfftw3f.so.3()(64bit) and libglpk.so.0()(64bit)
I have a RedHat 6 workstation machine and tried to install octave on it.
I have install the epel-release 6.5 package.
When I install the octave by yum, the system complained as below:
Error: ...
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Error while installng Red Hat OS for Dual Boot over Windows 7
I want to have 2 OS installed on my HDD (80GB).
I installed Windows 7 first.
Then booting from the DVD drive I launch the RHEL setup and in the partitioning phase I get the following errors:
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How can I route all my Internet usage through a remote server?
I have a remote Red Hat Linux server in Hong Kong with rackspace with root access.
At home I have a regular ADSL2 100 Mbit/s connection using a FRITZ!Box.
I would like to understand the ways of ...
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Sybase Open Client 15.5 and RHEL4
I cannot find a definite answer on the sybase website if Sybase openclient 15.5 is available for RHEL4.
If the answer is yes, where can I download the software package? A link will be appreciated.
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How many Grsync installations required for one way synchronization?
I plan to synchronize my files one-way only from a directory at my local 64-bit Window 7 PC to a remote RedHat Linux server via internet. I do not have root permission at the remote shared server so I ...
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IPv6 source address selection and routing in Linux
I'm in the process of setting an ipv6 on my test network.
I work with a /56 network and CentOS 6.2.
I have an interface with 2 IPv6 addresses on 2 different networks :
2b0 1:abcd:4001:c00::30/56 ...
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The list of the limitations of the Red Hat Linux Enterprise with trial expired
After the RHEL 5.8 it still reachable via ssh. The yum still able to update the system.
I noticed the security plugin on sudo yum check-update failed:
$ sudo yum check-update
Failed to set locale, ...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 trial expired
My trial of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 will expire tomorrow.
What behavior should I expect? It will not boot?
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Modify PATH variable for X11 during log-in
I am working on some lab computers (read: no administrative rights) that, if I log in, I need to change the PATH variable as X11 starts. The reason is that I need to change the PATH variable at this ...
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Booting Linux Installer on Mac Pro
I have an early 2008 mac pro. I want to install redhat 5.8 on it, single boot only.
I have a new harddrive in the machine but I can't seem to boot my redhat 5.8 installer. I've held option on boot, ...
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Enable wheel mouse click page scrolling in eclipse
Is it possible to enable wheel mouse click vertical and horizontal scrolling in eclipse? I am trying to do this on a Redhat install of Eclipse Indigo.
Thanks
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Installing & Configuring Linux DNS server Step by Step? [closed]
I am new for linux and want to installed & configuring linux dns server. I went through new but i am unable to installed and configuring linux Dns server.
Plz Some body help me to installing and ...
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unable to run OpenOffice from text mode
I have installed OpenOffice in Redhat5 in text mode. When I tried to start OpenOffice using the command:
sudo /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100; ...
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Where are variables sourced from in bash/redhat?
I am getitng something weird in my environment. I have a .bash_profile that only checks for .bashrc and then sources it. I have a JAVA_HOME in that file that is correctly setting the variable and ...
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installing perf on RedHat
I read about perf tool and I was interested in using in my RedHat.
On Ubuntu it is enough to call sudo apt-get install linux-tools-2.6.38-11.
What about RED HAT? I tried both
yum install linux-tools
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Kill program after it outputs a given line, from a shell script
Background:
I am writing a test script for a piece of computational biology software. The software I am testing can take days or even weeks to run, so it has a recover functionality built in, in the ...
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Scientifc Linux 6, fresh install, does not have a ifcfg-ethX
I installed SL6 few days ago, then I installed the required packages for KVM, however when I tried to modify the ifcfg-ethX file in order to add a bridged connection, I found out that it does not ...
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How to add LDAP user to existing local group in RHEL?
I'm attempting to add some of our LDAP users to a locally defined group on our RHEL server, however I get an error stating that the LDAP user is not found in /etc/passwd.
What would be the best way ...
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How to configure double-click or triple-click in Red Hat Linux gnome terminal
So, I recently saw someone using a mac OS terminal, and saw that they could double click on a bracket, and the terminal would automatically select up to the matching bracket. Is there a way to ...
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where to download yum-utils-1.1.16-21.el5.noarch.rpm?
I am trying to install yum-utils package,yum-utils-1.1.16-21.el5.noarch.rpm, for RedHat linux. However, I could not find where to download it form. Anyone has any idea ? Thanks
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HTop show nothing on SecureCRT
I am facing a problem when I use htop on SecureCRT
I use SecureCRT to connect to a remote computer running RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.2, but if I type the htop, the screen shows nothing to me!
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How to make Mercurial find updated version of Python?
My system is RedHat 5 Linux and has default python 2.4 installed. In order to execute Mercurial 1.81, I tried to upgrade python from 2.4 to 2.6 and I thought I saved it in a different directory. I ...
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Package dependency error message when install octave on RedHat linux
Hi I tried to install octave on my RedHat 5 Linux. I typed command as
yum install octave
Then, it complained as following :
gcc-gfortran-4.1.2-44.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
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RedHat 5.5 Guest OS won't start on VMWare ESX4.1
We have a server with VMWare ESX4.1 installed on it. The physical machines has 2 quad-core CPUs and 16GB memory.
We already have up and running 2 VMs, each configured with 2 CPUs (=2 cores) and 8GB of ...
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what kind of server do you recommend with ubuntu client? [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 for 6 months now and I would like to go further now.
I would like to install a server.
But it's very hard to choice.
a couple of friends said :
Red hat or centOS.
I really ...
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2answers
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How to resize a partittion on Linux for install Windows Seven?
When I installed Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.4 on my laptop, there is only one partition(about 490G) and a swap partition, now I want to create another partition to install windows 7.
What should I ...
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What would cause PHP variables to be rewritten by the server?
I was given a VM at my company to install web software on. But I came across a rather bizarre issue where PHP variables would be overwritten (rewritten) by the server if they matched a specific ...
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Linux find files
What could be a command to find all files owned by "abc" user, I guess that can be extended to finding all files with group 'def'.
e.g.
if I got result (ls -l) such as one shown below
-rwxrw-r-- ...
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dual monitors not working with RHEL 6
I installed REHL 6 (30 day demo version) on a system that already had 2 identical graphics cards. There are 2 identical monitors conneted, but only 1 monitor is detected. I tried System -> Preferences ...
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which yum version can handle sha256 checksum
I am using redhat es 5.4, I add fedora 15 repo in yum.repos.d, the fedora 15 using sha256 to generate checksum.
it seems the yum version I am using can't handle checksum generated with sha256.
I am ...
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Redhat ES 5.4 64-bit: how to install sound card driver
I am running Redhat ES 5.4 64-bit on Lenovo E46A laptop.I got it yesterday.
the PCI devices:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Arrandale DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel ...
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Red Hat/Gnome: How to automatically open and arrange terminals in different workspaces
I want to open and arrange several terminals in different workspaces when a specific user logs in. For example, in workspaces 1, 2 and 3, I want to open and arrange 4 terminals in each workspace. I ...
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iptables Administration in Redhat
Normally (that is, on Debianish systems), when you have to add a firewall rule uou have to put a defenition in the iptables.d/ directory and restart iptables. I can easily write a script to do this on ...
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change default shell from zsh to bash
I'm trying to change my default shell in RHEL5 from zsh to bash.
I tried to the methods mentioned in this thead. By typing sudo /usr/bin/chsh -s /bin/bash, the system says sudo: /usr/bin/chsh: ...
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installing git version of gnu screen on a rh6 linux with no root permissions
How I would go about installing git version of gnu screen on a centos with no root permissions?
I tried this:
mkdir ~/work
cd ~/work
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/screen.git
cd screen/src
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