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Installing RHEL 6 over RHEL 5
My server is currently running RHEL 5. I would like to install RHEL 6 over it. Do I simply install it and will the installation erase everything I have on the server now?
Thank you.
Regards,
Rayne
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Not able to connect to my RHEL 5 box via Nomachine NX suddenly
I have installed NXServer, Client and Node (v3.x) on my RHEL box (using root). The nxserver is in running state. And I was able to connect from my Windows box.
Now suddently, when I try to connect to ...
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Using multiple interfaces on a RHEL5.5 x64 machine
I am trying to use a statically-assigned address on one interface (eth1) of a server and have a dhcp-assigned address on another interface (eth2) on the same subnet (172.17.11.0/24).
When I setup a ...
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Additional swap created on a new partition gets removed on reboot
I have created a new swap volume using logical volume management tool on RHEL.
Suppose the volume is /dev/rootvg/swap2
I did mkswamp /dev/rootvg/swap2
and then swapon /dev/rootvg/swap2 when listing ...
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RedHat - How to stack folders?
Every time I open a folder and double-click on another folder inside, another folder opens up. If I am finding a file burried in a folder, many folders will open before I can reach the file and then ...
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Linux: Is there a non-root shell command to find if a user account is enabled or not?
Is there a non-root shell command that can tell me if a user's account is disabled or not?
Please note that there is a fine distinction between LOCKING and DISABLED:
LOCKING is where you prepend ! ...
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Sticky Note in Redhat 5
Does anyone know if there is a "sticky note" application for Rhel5? In Ubuntu, there is Xpad and Tomboy, but I couldn't see an rpm version for this. I tried to download the tarball for Tomboy but it ...
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how to fix yum errors on my RHEL 5.3 box
I am getting errors when I try to install any package on my RHEL 5.3 linux box. I've previously installed mc(midnight commander) using yum but recently it started failing.
How can I fix it ?
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How to install Ruby on RHEL 5.3
I am trying to install the latest Ruby on RHEL 5.3 with the following:
[root@anjanb logs]# yum install ruby-full
Repository engineering-update is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository ...
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enable clearType/anti-aliased fonts on RHEL 5.3 desktop
I use vim, Xemacs, emacs on RHEL 5.3. The fonts suck right now. I would like it to look like my windows desktop where I have enabled anti-aliasing and have tuned the OS using the Cleartype Tuner ...
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How to lock a RHEL 5.3 workstation
I get option to SUSPEND/HIBERNATE or reboot/shutdown. Isn't there something similar to locking as in windows.
I don't want to log out each time I want a break(think bathroom, drink).
I would expect ...
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How do I find hard drive details in Red Had Linux?
Can anybody please tell me the command to find the hard disk details in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
I have a bad hard disk on the server and I want to replace it with new one of same kind.
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Setting up a proxy on RHEL5 to improve internet speed for a Windows 7 client?
Alright here's the problem, it seems like unless I download from anywhere accept my remote dedicated server, speeds are horrible like 50kbps. But if I download from my server it's like 2mbps.
So I ...
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How do I find out a list of RPMs installed using “--force” option?
I'm just wondering if there is an easy way I can generate a list of RPM packages which have been forcefully installed on the system (got a couple of servers transitioned).
All servers are RedHat-5 if ...
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SSH host authenticity issue
I'm receiving the wonderful "The authenticity of host xx can't be established." message when attempting to SSH into a box. I have two systems that recently swapped names. My system is a RHEL5.6 box.
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Install package (VLC) and dependencies to offline RHEL
Installing VLC itself should be easy enough as I can download the package from their site (or more specifically RPMForge).
With an offline system, I'll have to burn the package to disc and transfer ...
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Mount a disk image root has no access to
I need to mount a disk image located on an NFS network share without copying it first.
Only a non-root user (apache) on the RHEL 5 machine I'm on has permissions to access the files on that network ...
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What does “:pts/1:S.0” mean?
From the output of last on RHEL5
user3 pts/6 :pts/1:S.0 Sat Feb 26 04:04 - 05:40 (01:35)
user2 pts/7 :0.0 Fri Feb 25 21:32 - 04:53 (07:21)
user1 pts/6 ...
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Perl + failed to install Pogo module on RedHat 5.4
Please advice how to install the Person module "use Person;" on my linux machine
The perl script use - obj oriented
why I get the following:
[root@linux /tmp/Pogo-0.10]# perl Makefile.PL
Note ...
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NTFS-3G is only mounting external drives as read-only
I'm currently running RHEL 5.5, and I installed the ntfs-3g utility from here: http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/. I have also followed their instructions for auto-mounting NTFS USB ...
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How to enable fast user switching at the Lock Screen in Gnome in RHEL 5.5
On RHEL 5.5 in Gnome, how can one enable the Switch User button in the Lock Screen dialog box? Ubuntu has this feature. I followed a set of instructions for CentOS 5 which didn't work. Any ideas?
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Modern Python installation in home folder for scientific computing on RHEL
For various reasons, our system administrator finds Ubuntu to be too cutting-edge for our production workstation, and we have now installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (RHEL). I'm not terribly ...
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installing rhel/centos/fedora on a dell inspiron 17R laptop
Got a dell inspiron 17R laptop.
Trying to figure out how to install RHEL/Centos 5.5/Fedora 13 on the box.
When using the basic Centos 5.5 liveCD, continously got a repeating error of buffer I/O on ...
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passwd/shadow or group/gshadow mismatch?
I'm running RHEL 5. When using the GUI System>Administration>Users and Groups, I get the error:
The user database cannot be read. This problem is most likely caused by a mismatch between ...
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Mouse settings on RHEL5
How to change the mouse settings to default on RHEL5 .i have a problem using mouse with vim.it acts like a single click select.Please advise..
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Languages in vim
How to insert Hindi or Swedish characters in VIM
When I insert these words it appears as "......"
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what are the components you can install on RHEL?
I just got a question from a customer(actually from a customer to my manager then to me) and he is asking the following question: What are the components that were installed with RHEL? It may sound ...
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Installing VPN connection and WiFi drivers on RHEL5
In RHEL5,
How to establish a VPN connection,The details I get to connect the VPN are ipaddreess ,username/password
How to install WiFi drivers on RHEL5
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How to check what packages are installed on a RHEL5 system?
A command that can be run by an unprivileged user is preferred.
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Can I run 64-bit executables on a 32-bit Linux?
If yes, how?
OS: 32-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.4 (Tikanga)
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RPM to get X11 headers for RHEL
What is the best single rpm to install to get a complete set of X11 headers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x?
My guess is Xaw3d-devel (assuming that the dependencies also get installed).
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Installing google chrome on RHEL 5.3
I am trying to install Google chrome on RHEL 5.3 but getting error as
Missing Dependency:
libnss3.so(NSS_3.12.3) is needed by
package
google-chrome-beta-4.0.249.43-34537.i386
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