Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a linux distribution from Red Hat intended for enterprise use.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux based on Fedora?
According to this site, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is based on Fedora. Is this true?
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What killed my process?
Been having a problem with application that keeps getting killed. This is running a RHEL5 server. We ran strace against the process and at the end of the trace file I get a bunch of +++ killed by ...
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DNS resolver improvements?
I have recently come across the following configuration of /etc/resolv.conf which is/was supposed to increase the speed of DNS resolution:
nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 2.2.2.2
nameserver 3.3.3.3
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man page only found after ran with root
When I try to run man page on my Red Hat as a normal user I get "No manual entry for zip"
If I change to root run: "man zip" and then I get the man page and afterwards I see the same man page as I did ...
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Kernel panic on boot
Last week I installed SL6.2 on my tower using the LiveCD iso and unetbootin without issue. I was taking my time configuring it since it was my first real jump into linux. I ran into problems when I ...
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When using screen, I see me as logged in twice through 'who'
I've been using Gnu screen for some time now, and I absolutely love it!
I installed it on a second RHEL server of mine, and I'm seeing odd behavior when I issue a 'who' on the new server.
'who' ...
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How to know what version of C++ compiler is installed on Linux server?
We have a RHEL5.5 server, and the system engineering guys at my company said that they have recently installed Intel C++ 11.1 compiler on the box.
But, when I do a cc -v, I get
Using built-in ...
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ssh server on runlevel 3
I have been trying to setup a ssh server on my desktop for remote access and have been running into a few issues. The first I have found is that sshd is not starting on boot. As soon as I run:
sudo ...
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Which version of Fedora, RHEL, correspond to which version of CentOS?
Which version of Fedora, RHEL, correspond to which version of CentOS?
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How to get rid of errors when running find command in Linux?
I am using following command to list out 20 large files in a directory. But along with the file listing, it also shows error messages, such as permission denied. I tried adding 2> /dev/null but it ...
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how to install a chrome on my RHEL 5.3 box
I'm trying to install latest chrome on my RHEL 5.3.
[foo@bar Downloads]# rpm -ivh "google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64(4).rpm"
warning: google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64(4).rpm: Header V4 DSA ...
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What exactly is the use of prefix while running configure?
I am trying to install 32 bit Python on x86_64_ Linux.
Following instructions from http://blog.devork.be/2009/02/compiling-32-bit-python-on-amd64.html
I downloaded the tarball from here: ...
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access control list share file but not directory RHEL6
i have a file that i want to be accessible by a single user, but i dont want the user to have access to the folder it resides in, my understanding is that the following steps should work, but they ...
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execvp exec format error for shell script on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
We have two RHEL 6 systems that are running identical versions of the kernel and glibc (glibc–2.12–1.90.el6_3.6). According to the POSIX standard and the Linux man pages, if the kernel determines that ...
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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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How to boot RHEL with no bash?
How can I boot a RHEL VM if I deleted /bin/bash? When trying to boot, I now get the following error:
"INIT: Cannot execute "/etc/rc/d/rc.sysinit"
The next thing I tried was to modify the kernel ...
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how to update svn package on RHEL 5.3?
I have 1.4.2 version of svn on my RHEL 5.3 box. I tried updating and I get the following message. What should I do ?
[foo@bar adminui]# svn --version
svn, version 1.4.2 (r22196)
compiled Sep 1 ...
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Install wine on RHEL with Yum
I'm trying to install Wine on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Yum, but it's not in the RHEL repository. How can I install RHEL via Yum? I'm pretty sure there may be other repositories out there ...
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Library not being located with directory set in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
I am attempting to verify the installation of CUDA and am running into some issues. I have successfully built all of the examples that come with the GPU computing SDK. When I try to run deviceQuery ...
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Error running Samba share of fuse mount
I have created a fuse directory, and start it like this: ./myfuse /home/shared -o allow_other -o umask=022 -o nonempty -d
I can access it like this: ls -la /home/shared and it works fine.
Ok, turn ...
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Log CPU usage to file for specific process over time
I am looking to log CPU usage to a file over time on an RHEL system, and have seen this, but it doesn't seem to produce the right results - it seems like an anomaly between how ps and top calculate ...
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what/where is the default yum conf and server
I have 2 new redhat hosts (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.9).
Lets call them A and B. They both run on 2 different networks.
I try to run the 'yum -update' command on both hosts.
Works ...
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How to configure Postfix mail on Red Hat Linux?
I am trying to configure Postfix on Red Hat Linux to send email with the following command:
mail -s "test" user15@dba.gui.com
I have followed all the steps mentioned in this tutorial and have ...
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RHEL NIC missing
I have a RHEL server with 4 NICS. I bound eth2 and eth3 as bond0.
However, I don't know how to unbind the two NICs, so I just deleted ifcfg-bond0. Then I entered service network restart, and after ...
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wpa_supplicant for dual WLAN
I've got wlan0 and wlan1. Each interface should connect to a different SSID.
I would like to use wpa_supplicant for both.
I can put the two networks in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, but how do I tell ...
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Unable to connect from the host OS to the guest in VirtualBox
I have an Ubuntu machine and I have installed 64-bit RHEL on VirtualBox.
I changed the adapter settings of the guest to connected to bridged network, and I am able to ping my host from the guest, ...
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trouble installing packages in RHEL 5.3
I'm trying to install rabbitvcs, a subversion GUI tool. http://wiki.rabbitvcs.org/wiki/install/fedora.
[foo@bar conf]# yum install nautilus-python pysvn python-configobj python-devel dbus-python ...
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How do I tell RPM which software version to use?
I'm trying to install the Subversion SWIG Python libraries so that I can use them with Trac.
The environment is RHEL5, and for some reason the RedHat repositories for yum are unavailable, so I had to ...
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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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Python and Berkeley DB versions in RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 and upcoming 6
I need to know what versions of Python and Berkeley DB are installed with RHEL 3, 4 and 5. If possible (it is in BETA now), RHEL 6 too.
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How to Get and Install Teradata Client for RHEL platform?
Where I can get Teradata client and install on my RHEL 4/5 machines?
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Tell yum update to given date, no later
I need to tell yum to update to a certain date's patches.
For instance, let's say a test box gets updated last Thursday. The owner beats on the machine and determines the patch set is good, so I want ...
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How do I configure sar to collect disk information (ala -d)?
When I run "sar -d" on my RHEL 5.7 box, I get the response:
Requested activities not available in file
How do I configure sar to collect disk information?
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Trying to install libcurl on a Linux RHEL, unable to install openssl
I am a programmer, and I am trying to give a clear sure fire way for the engineering team to install libcurl on a Linux RHEL machine.
The machine already has the following installed by default:
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Running multiple vsftpd daemons with multiple PAM files
If I am running multiple vsftpd daemons on a single machine, is it possible to specify the pluggable authentication module for each one?
In other words, can two vsftpd server instances run on ...
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iptables: How to redirect port in Red Hat Linux (RHEL)?
I'd like to forward port 80 to 8080.
So I tried to edit /etc/syscongfig/iptables:
-A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080
But got:
# service iptables restart
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How to fix NFS V3 + TCP mount failing with 'Can't read superblock' error soon after an unmount?
Using NFS V3 and TCP!, portmapper is running. Not using iptables.
Following are the options used:
rw,noatime,v3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,nolock,proto=udp,udp,timeo=11,retrans=5
If I wait ...
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RHEL json gem installation requires make?
When I try to install json gem (gem install json), at first it fails to do so, because of some dev package issue. After fixing it, it fails saying that "sh: make: command not found" and "ERROR: ...
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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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VPN inside virtual machine in mac
I have a Mac book pro running mountain lion and I have vmware fusion installed. I have RHEL 6.0 64 bit vm running (in NAT mode) and pptp is installed in rhel. I tried connecting my office vpn but it ...
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Linux RHEL : Making disk image efficiently
I have a linux box having RHEL. Its disk (hda1) is having free space of about 25GB.
I have an another disk (hda2) which is of 250GB having another RHEL instance, it's partitioned for 200GB. Data on ...
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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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How to disable Opportunity locking on Red Hat 5/CentOS 5?
Syslog returns the error "kernel: CIFS VFS: Write2 ret -13, wrote 0" when I'm using the software under cifs fylesystem, managed by NAS server.
CIFS Version is 1.60RH.
I saw that the options ...
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Setting up a Remote Diskless System
I am trying to setup a PXE Boot server with RHEL 6 and am following these directions.
Has anyone done this successfully?? I am having various issues. I used the rsync command to copy over the ...
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Is there a Linux equivalent to Windows' SysPrep
Coming into a large number of old PCs that I want to be able to wipe the drives and reload with a "Factory" install of Linux on the HDD.
These machines have no CD-ROMs, so I am looking for something ...
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How to remove file from the dir with different permisison
Dir - test - ls -ld shows
ls -ld test
drwxr-xr-x 2 joe stduser 4096 May 25 16:25 test
inside test dir :
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin stduser 0 May 25 16:25 a.txt
How to remove a.txt with out using ...
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Resizing swap partition (RHEL 5.x)
The following is what parted print outputs:
(parted) print
Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 26.8GB
Sector size ...
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RHEL5.5 switch to CentOS repositories?
I was given a VM for a RHEL5.5 machine but I do not have a RHN subscription. I get this warning when using yum:
bash-3.2$ sudo yum update
[sudo] password for streamsadmin:
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, ...
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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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Why would ssh fail to expand %h variable in .ssh/config?
Why would ssh fail to expand %h from .ssh/config?
This used to work and still works except on a RHEL box.
Looking for what the origin of this could be. Is there a setting somewhere that tells ssh to ...
