Questions tagged [rhel-6]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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How do I install Firefox with preconfigured toolbars?
I have a custom Red Hat 6 kickstart disc which installs and configures a workstation as a control system.
We use Firefox (at the moment: the 31.4.0 long-term release) to allow the system maintainer ...
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RHEL 6 converting a BASH script to a CSH script
I have a BASH script( running on RHEL 6 ) that brings up a GNOME terminal, opens multiple tabs in that terminal, starts a server in each tab, names the tab after that server, and inserts the command ...
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How to use svn-client on RHEL5 after the server disabled SSLv3?
To deal with the recently-discovered POODLE vulnerability in SSLv3, we disabled the old protocol on our servers -- including the Subversion repository server.
This broke the svn-clients on our RHEL5 ...
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Cannot write samba shares
Running samba 3.5 on Red Hat Enterprise 6.1 I'm having issues sharing two folders. Here is the output of testparm:
[global]
workgroup = DOMAINNAME
server string = Samba Server Version %v
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how to configure dual wlan at boot on rhel 6
I got a RHEL 6.3 box, with 2 wlan interfaces.
I need wlan to be set at boot.
wlan0 -> connects to NETWORK0
wlan1 -> connects to NETWORK1
How should I setup this ?
I'm not used to ifcfg ...
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Is it safe to disable nmi_watchdog?
I'm using RHEL 6 (kernel 2.6.32-131) and I'm trying to start oprofile, but I keep getting an error. My oprofile version is 0.9.6-12.
I was able to successfully do
opcontrol --init
But when I did a ...
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Fixing "Couldn't find device with uuid" error in RHEL
How can I restore the missing volume? I get the below error message and I am trying to fix it. It would be great, if someone could guide me here. Shared all the outputs below for better understanding ...
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Installing R in RHEL 7
I took the following steps to install R in RHEL 7:
yum install epel-release
yum update
yum install R
But I got errors:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: R-core-devel-3.3.1-2....
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tagged and named tagged nics on EL6 not show the correct name
I added some VLANS (100 and 200) to my trunk connected to eth0.
In the ifcfg-eth0.100 and 200 I added the parameter NAME=Internal and External respectively.
When the OS is starting up and or when I ...
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Getting users to change password on next logon when using System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) with Active Directory (AD)
We have a Active Directory (AD) setup with our Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) configured to use System Security Services Daemon (SSSD; non-LDAP) to authenticate users. We need to be able to force our ...
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how can I shrink logical volume and create new partition if the logical volume to shrink is present in the middle?
I have a HDD of size 120Gb, that has RHEL6 with 2 physical partitions
sda1: /boot
sda2: LVM managed Logical volumes VolGroup00
VolGroup00 contains following logical volumes
/lv_root 36G
/lv_opt 45G
/...
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Installing Nvidia drivers on Red Hat
I wanted to install Nvidia drivers.
Can you tell me why the following is not working :
[root@INEICP-EPM-W134 Downloads]# rpm -Uvh XFree86-4.3.0-35.EL.src.rpm
warning: XFree86-4.3.0-35.EL.src.rpm: ...
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Disable TCP keepalive on RHEL6
Is it possible to disable TCP keepalive on RHEL6?
I know the kernel parameters for tuning TCP keepalive timeout are as follows:
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl
net.ipv4....
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install latest gcc on rhel 6 x86_64
I have an RHEL 6 server with gcc version 4.4.7. I wanted to update the gcc version (I think the current one is 4.8). Yum update doesn't work. Also, SO answers for a similar question on CentOS does not ...
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can't connect to kvm rhel guest from fedora host over any port other than 22 (ssh)
I have a kvm guest running Red Hat Linux in a Fedora 19 host. Running a ruby app in the guest on port 3000. I can ping the guest, and ssh into it from the host, but I cannot access the app itself. ...
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List repositories from multiple projects in Trac using mod_python
Currently working on a customized webpage that shows the available projects I have in Trac (1.0.1). I am using mod_python to connect the trac interface. I found a standard page for this, but it didn't ...
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How to dual boot RHEL 6 and Windows 8?
The Situation:
I have an ASUS Notebook with Windows 8 preinstalled, i created a new partition and installed RHEL 6 to that partition, but the computer keeps booting into Windows 8 without going into ...
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Why don't the Back and Forward buttons work as consistently in Thunderbird 3?
During the upgrade of my workstation from RHEL5 to RHEL6 Thunderbird was upgraded from 2.0 to 3.1. I've noticed that the Back button ([) and Forward button (]) don't work as consistently as they did ...
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./jmap command works when script is run manually but fails when run as cronjob
I have a fairly simple script written for calculating heap size and it uses ./jmap.
The script first finds the process id and saves it in a variable PID. The same PID is given as a variable in the ...
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Mechanisms to be root after ssh login (w/o using sudo)
Our servers are set-up in a way, that after ssh'ing to them using our userid ssh my_user@server(I am immediately greeted with [root@server ~]#
The command id confirms that, indeed, I am root.
However,...
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vsftpd uses TLS1.1 even after disabling
I have disabled TLS1.1 and SSLv3 in my vsftpd.conf
ssl_tlsv1_1=NO
ssl_tlsv1_2=YES
ssl_tlsv1=NO
ssl_sslv2=NO
ssl_sslv3=NO
ssl_ciphers=DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-DSS-AES128-...
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Skip mounting of nfs after three attempts
I am using RHEL 6.5 in my company and using a file server(NFS).
I have put a mount point address to file server in the client's fstab file like this
10.9.9.25:/opt/Files /opt/Files nfs ...
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change time zone offset without changing timezone id in linux RHEL
My current timezone is 'Africa/Khartoum' which is GMT+3:00, as per government desiccation it's going to be GMT+2:00 starting from 1st Nov. I know I can change my current date to be an hour earlier but ...
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SSD is not detected if inserted after bootup in redhat Linux
I am working on redhat linux system and it is not detecting Solid state disk(not working as hot plugging) if i insert it after boot up. If the SSD's are present before booting up of system then those ...
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audio not working on virtual machine
I am implementing a virtual agent using java. My agent works fine on my local machine. But when i deploy to Virtual machine agent is not able to speak due to lack of audio mixers on virtual machine. ...
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Installation of VB Guest Additons without GCC for many identical RHEL Linux systems
I have a number of nearly identically configured RHEL systems that need to have the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed. Unfortunately, the installation requires the addition of basically the ...
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pip not working with non-root user on RHEL 6 server
I have a server running RHEL 6 with Python 2.6.6. I am having trouble using pip with Python as a non-root user.
I am able to install pip packages and use them as root. However, when I try to run pip ...
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Once ssh-agent is killed due to power cycle, why am I still allowed to ssh without a password?
I have two linux servers running RHEL.
I set up private keys for ssh using ssh-keygen. I also copied the .ssh folder from the user I created to that same user with intentions of using openmpi. I then ...
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Configuring Apache to use corporate proxy for external web requests
I have an Apache web server running on my intranet.
I want all external HTTP/HTTPS requests from my Apache web app to use my company's intranet proxy.
Environment
Linux v2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 ...
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Using Chinese Characters In Firefox On RHEL 6.5
Firefox 38.2.1
RHEL 6.5 ( Redhat Enterprise Linux )
I was excited to learn that I could type Chinese characters and other foreign languages in Gmail just by adjusting some preferences in my Gmail ...
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Modern Desktop Environment for RHEL 6
I'm currently forced to work with a machine running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Since I'm usually working with the latest Ubuntu version and a corresponding modern desktop environment, I was quite ...
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RHEL 6: GNOME: staring a *.desktop file in a shell different from the system default
I'm in RHEL 6 with bash as my default shell.
I have a script called startServers
I made a startServers.desktop file which I put on my desktop so I can have the convenience of clicking on an icon to ...
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I can't press right click and icons disappeared on RHEL6
I'm only left with the desktop. When I right click, I get no response. Another problem is that there's no menus or icons.
When I try to open Nautilus it doesn't start.
When I tried to open it from ...
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How to set virtual host for OTRS URL in rhel 6
i installed otrs successfully all are working fine but i have to set an simple name instead of OTRS URL in RED HAT 6 operating System. I'm new to RHEL and i dont know how to set the virtual host.
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ping error two nic cards in linux pc
The problem I'm having is two NIC in my RHEL 6 server with different IP-addresses.
PC1
eth0 - 10.10.0.1
eth1 - 192.168.1.1
The other computer is setup the same way.
PC2
eth0 - 10.10.0.2
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How do I get the system-serial-number for Xen Server?
I would like to find out how could I be able to retrieve the system-serial-number of virtual machines installed on Citrix XenServer. I had referred to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15802876/how-...
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What's wrong with RHEL 6.5 on POWER in a PowerKVM guest?
I am seeing errors on two PowerKVM (Ver 2.1 SP1) systems on booting to the console of the form:
irq: irq 4110 on host null mapped to virtual irq 27
BUG: Bad page state in process vballoon pfn:...
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restore rpm to default installed version on RHEL
Is there a way to restore one single package back to the original version shipped with the RHEL OS?
A YUM downgrade just downgrades the package to the previous version located on the repository and ...
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Cloning HDD to SSD and using a HDD for Data Storage
First time poster with a possibly unique situation:
I've been tapped by my company to setup several new computers with RHEL 6.4. These new machines have a 250gb SSD and a 3TB hdd, and previously came ...
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Expand partition on RHEL VM hosted on OSX
I've installed a RHEL6 VM on my mac OSX. The mounted devices (mount on the vm) are:
/dev/mapper/sys-root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts ...
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Update grub for whole disks added to software raid
I have a raid-1 running under rhel6 (/dev/md0) that is mapped to /. It contains two unpartitioned disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). I'd like to be able to boot from either disk. But grub won't let me ...
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RAID-1 in RHEL 6; can't get partitioning on identical devices to look identical
I have a RHEL 6 fileserver. It contains two identical 2TB SATA drives. Both are supposed to contain one partition that takes up all the space on the drive (and this used to be the case). When I had ...
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