Red Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide.
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Purchasing Redhat 4.2 enterprise license [closed]
Anyone knows how/where to purchase linux redhat 4.2 licenses for an enterprise?
I'm looking to move all the PCs in the company to linux Redhat 4.2
It is a requirement that the version should be 4.2
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What is the general strategy for handling multiple missing shared objects?
I'm still learning Linux, so bear with me...
I ran ldd on Apache's httpd and found many missing shared libraries. I am new to this machine and am not sure whether some of these are misplaced or ...
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How to disable Alt-Tab shortcut in VMPlayer?
I want to send Alt-Tab to my windows host OS when working out of the guest OS on VM player. At the minute it gets trapped by the guest OS. Anyway to disable sending it to the guest (RedHat)?
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How do you automatically detect a new network card in CentOS 6 / RedHat?
I'm using CentOS 6 in a virtual environment. When cloning a virtual version of CentOS, the old eth adapters are "removed" and replaced with new ones and net MAC addresses. However, the ifcfg-ethn ...
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How can I enable anonymous access to a Samba share under ADS security mode?
I'm trying to enable anonymous access to a single service in my Samba config. Authorized user access is working perfectly, but when I attempt a no-password connection, I get this message:
Anonymous ...
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How to set up a NAT and and a Host Only adapter using Vagrant?
I am trying to make a NAT connection (for yum downloads) and a Host-Only connection (for talking with host) at the same time on my CentOS box when using Vagrant.
I CAN do it by SSHing and checking ...
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issue installing git on redhat 5.6
I get the following error when run:
It is somehow missing the perl dependencies, I am not sure do I need to update the perl or remove something as a workaround!
yum install git
Loaded plugins: ...
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yum update fails
i have RHEL 6.3
[root@RHEL6 yum.repos.d]# uname -a
Linux RHEL6.3-64-BuildMac 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 13 18:24:36 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
My /etc/yum.conf looks like ...
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Prevent users from being able to pipe output to another users terminal?
So currently on this server if two people are logged into the same server, you can do something like:
-bash-4.1$ cat /dev/urandom | write username
It will print a bunch of junk to their terminal. I ...
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Fedora 18: Can not find version.h
I am attempting to install some ATI graphics drivers. The installer fails and the log says this:
Check if system has the tools required for installation.
fglrx installation requires that the system ...
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Red Hat Gnome menubar disappeared
I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, and the menubar has disappeared, as you can see from this screenshot. I'm not sure which setting I modified.
I've removed .gnome config from my home ...
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Redhat cluster not working [migrated]
I have 2 services "Cache" and "Postgres" running in cluster for 2 linux server nodes:
Member Name ID Status
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Is it possible to upgrade from RHEL 4 to 6 with up2date(or yum) on or after 2012/08?
I'd like to upgrade my server's os from RHEL 4 to 6 after 2012/08.
I know that there are 2 methods to upgrade.
1. directly (RHEL 4 -> 6):
1. buy a new server machine.
2. install RHEL6 on the ...
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changing /etc/profile does nothing to root PATH
rhel 5
root has /bin/bash for shell
I removed "pathmunge /usr/local/sbin" from /etc/profile
there is no "/usr/local/sbin" in /etc/profile.d/* /etc/bashrc /root/.bashrc /root/.bash_profile ...
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Mounting External Hard Drive on Red Hat
I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 installed on my machine. I am unable to mount an External Hard (NTFS). I have tried several options which are as under:
Option 1
After making a dir /media/windows
...
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Displayport + VGA dual monitor in Redhat 6.2
I just got a new computer at work that only has a single DIsplay Port and a single VGA.
I can get the dual monitors in Redhat 6.2 to detect both monitors - but they both display the same thing, and I ...
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Unzip individual files from multiple zip files and extract those individual files to home directory
I would like to unzip individual files. These files have a .txt extension. These files also live within multiple zipped files. Here is the command I'm trying to use.
unzip -jn ...
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starting network interface in debug mode
Is it possible to start the network interface in debug mode?
I am looking for Something like "sshd -ddd" but for a network interface. Basically I am looking for a redhat based solution.
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Need general guide on building Linux Stream (LiS) under Redhat 6.2 [closed]
I have hit into some error, and the build simply fail, saying that there is some conflict. Thus I believe a .o file cannot be made and then result fatal error during linking, anyone have steps by ...
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Make an access directory structure tree?
I want to run a script that will show me all the folders (output to a text file) that the running user can see starting from root, down to the point where it doesn't have the permissions to go any ...
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What aids exist in RHEL v6 to calculate subnets without an internet connection?
The Red Hat version of the ipcalc program is very basic compared with some other versions that are available.
Suppose you didn't have an internet connection and could only use tools that exist ...
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How to find out why available disk space is decreasing every day?
I have a CentOS web server which does not have much load on it. I noticed that its available disk space drops by more than 100MB every few days.
There isn't any new software installed, however there ...
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Unix : `nc` on Ubuntu vs Redhat (netcat)
nc -q -1 local host ${PORT} ${CMD}
In Ubuntu, nc may be used as above, with the -q option. See manpage.
-q
after EOF on stdin, wait the
specified number of seconds and then
quit. If ...
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Server doesn't run after reboot [closed]
I just rebooted the server, but doesn't go up anymore.
What can be the problem?
Server is RedHat and i used 'reboot' command from root ssh.
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Unable to connect to Internet in OEL5 guest even though I can ping machine from host machine
I have Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 as Guest on VirtualBox running on Windows 7 host using Bridged Network.
I have being trying to configure a static IP on OEL5 VM Guest at work, as previously the VMs ...
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Installing Red Hat 6.4 (RHEL 6.4) cannot find installation media
I am trying to install RHEL 6.4 on a Dell PowerEdge R720. I am using a DVD and every time the Red Hat prompt comes up and asks for my language and keyboard preference. After that, an error message ...
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Which CentOS ISO to use for my virtual machine? [closed]
I have a physical server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga). I would like to create a virtual machine (using VirtualBox) with a binary-compatible version of CentOS server as ...
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Installing a CPAN module using a remote compiler
I need to install the XML::Parser module. Unfortunately, that package uses expat. Due to security concerns, I am not allowed to install the dev package of expat. making the CPAN Module fail to ...
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After renaming system with hostname, mails sent no longer show correct domain
I have a RH server that I renamed a few days ago from XXXX to YYYY. Previously email sent from the server would be sent from username@domain.com. After using hostname to rename the server, they now ...
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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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Error compiling and installing mcrypt from source
I'm hoping someone can help shed some light on my current issue.
Scenario: Installing libmcrypt, mhash and mcrypt from source in order to compile PHP5.4 with the mcrypt extension enabled.
OS: ...
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RHEL 6.4: Cannot Update via Terminal
I have a RHEL 6.4 server and I cannot use the yum command from within an SSH connection. If I execute any yum command (yum update, yum install, yum clean all) I get the following:
Loaded plugins: ...
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Where are the rpm files after installation using yum?
redhat 5.4.
I have installed a package using yum the package was wireshark.
However, after it has installed. Where can I find the rpm package?
I would like to locate the actual wireshark.rpm ...
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redhat 5.4 too slow on my hp Elitebook 8440p
I installed RedHat Enterprise 64bit 5.4 on my hp Elitebook 8440p however the performance is disturbing. When I am typing, the computer seems to hang and repeats some keys. I also note that coping ...
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Discrepancy between df and du
I have a question pertaining the difference from 'df -h' and 'du -bs'. I have seen several questions here about it, but the issue was always that 'df -h' was reporting more used space than 'du -bs'. I ...
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Critical error on Red Hat Linux
I have a RHEL 5 x64 virtual machine. My colleague accidentally deleted some main system files related to root as he said.
Now when I boot the machine , I got the following error :
exec of init ...
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Installation of java in LINUX
I am trying to install Java on Red Hat Linux through SSH.
I am using wget to download the installer. When wget downloads the file, it saves it with a filename of
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is it possible to change the way of authenticating linux with the help of a daemon (FC4 particularly)?
I got a pc and a special application installed on it, the OS is FC4 and we don't have root password I tried several random passwords and after 3 times I realized that something fishy is happening ...
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How to Disable IPv6 on RHEL-5
I am trying to disable IPv6 on interface eth0 on RHEL 5.
Here is a description of what I have attempted.
I had already made following entries in ifcfg-eth0 :
IPv6INIT=NO
IPV6AUTOCONF=NO
Following ...
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Machine needs F1 key to reboot, how to skip this?
Each time the machine (Linux, RHEL) reboots, it waits for F1 key to be pressed in order to continue the boot process. How can I skip this ?
These are the message :Node3 DRAM uncorrected ECC ...
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Why provide vi and vim?
I think I'm right in saying RedHat and other distributions provide both vi and Vim.
Does anyone know what the rationale is behind providing both when presumably if Vim is provided it covers the ...
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I took an image from entire hard disk of a real PC running linux FC4 and try to run it under virtual box but grub freezes all the time
I am trying to run an image which I took from an actual PC (cpu = intel/motherboard=unknown to me/ os = FC 4/ RAID disk controller) and I want to run that image under virtual machine ...
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how to dual boot Redhat and ubuntu on using different partitions
I want to dual boot my laptop using RedHat and Ubuntu in different partitions.
My hardisk contains the following partitions:
/boot ==> redhat boot partition 300MB
/SWAP ===> 8GB
/ ===> ...
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Logical Volume Partitions
I am trying to incorporate Logical Volumes into the paritioning scheme for the VM I am creating, in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. I am booting from an ISO Image and I have a Kickstart Script that ...
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yum: enable a disabled repository
I've found out I can use yum --enablerepo= to temporarily enable a disabled Yum repository, but I want to permanently enable a repository.
Is there a preferred Yum command to enable a disabled ...
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Installing 32 bit glibc on 64 bit RHEL
I'm trying to install glibc-2.12-1.25.el6.i686 on 64 bit RHEL. I understand it has a dependency on the NSSRAWHASH package (I'm using the nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.9-3.el6.i686.rpm package), so I run ...
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how to install openerp in redhat linux
I have been trying to install openerp in redhat linux 5 . I came to know that I have to install python libraries to launch openerp. But still not sure on how to launch openerp . I have done installing ...
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Commands for reporting media file metadata info on a linux(Red Hat) machine
All,
I have a shell script running on MAC OSX that uses mdls command to report metadata information about media files (mp3, m4v, mp4, m4r etc.). I have to write a similar script for a linux ...
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unix_chkpw run before access.conf via pam - security risk
I have RHEL 6.3 systems that have PAM's access.conf correctly configured and running. However, it seems in a less than ideal state, after analysis of a root-hack attempt, and I'm wondering if there's ...
