Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercially supported Linux distribution.
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Writing triggers for mcelog
Just starting to look into mcelog for the first time (I've enabled it and seen syslog output before, but this is the first time I'm trying to do something non-default). I'm looking for information on ...
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Problem when changing the font size in nedit
Whenever I open Nedit, the following error appears ----
Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Cannot convert string ...
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How to start only one application on booting in RHEL 6? [duplicate]
I want to start only one application without any desktop after booting the system, it is like only application should be there not anything in RHEL 6.
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Slide show/screensaver over login screen on RHEL 6.4
I've see the slide show (Pictures folder) screensaver. I've also seen how to change the background behind my login screen. What I haven't been able to figure out is how to display a slide show as a ...
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Red Hat installation query: no Gnome GUI
I'm trying to install Red Hat on my Windows system but Im facing a problem. I get only one option during installation which is "Minimal" and even if I check Gnome desktop in customize options, I only ...
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Update different dropbox instances
I am using dropbox on my redhat linux kernel. Right now we have a dummy user set up, with it's own dropbox account. Everyone can access and dump their files into it while on the machine and then ...
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Yum Check Available Package Updates
Red Hat docs say:
To see which installed packages on your system have updates available,
use the following command:
yum check-update
What command must I run to view all available versions for ...
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Installing Minor Software Updates
On an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux server, I need to perform software upgrades on Java, Apache and Samba.
I need to install minor updates for each of the above software.
How can I figure out ...
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Mailman / Postfix Configuration Assistance
I am writing for some help regarding Postfix configuration.
I cannot seem to get Postfix configured properly to transfer mail to the mailing list installed on the same server. I followed many steps ...
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Equivalent of “passwd -sa” in RHEL?
I feel a little silly having to ask this, but: In Solaris you can issue a passwd -sa command which gives you (more or less) the same output as passwd -S userName does, except it prints out the status ...
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How to create a kiosk-type application for RHEL6?
How can I create a GUI application that would be run in kiosk mode?
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Red hat enterprise linux how do i install apache with SSL HTTPS? i have CERTIFICATE, KEY, INTERMEDIATE (ROOT CA) from heart internet [closed]
How can i install SSL HTTPS in my apache webserver in Red hat enterprise linux? Only following is installed. And i have tried this website follow up but its not working it fails.
$ uname -a
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How to use output of one command as input in another command
I made a copy of all the backups made on Wed of every week
The time stamp of each file is not sorted but the day is Wednesday of every file
Now, I need to sort each file based on time Stamp e.g if ...
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file still read-only after a mount --bind from a rw partition
I use mount --bind to "overlay" a file from one ext4,rw filesystem onto another file in ext4,ro filesystem. For example, /etc/hosts is on a read-only / partition, but I have another partition where ...
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RHEL: Creating stable names for network interfaces
We have a RHEL 5.5 box with 8 interfaces. And the eth interface naming is flip flopping. Sometimes eth0 comes up on physical port 7th, and sometimes on another physical port.
We want the naming to ...
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How to vgscan in RHEL 5.8 rescue mode?
I want to increase the journaling size of an EXT3 FS: /var.
I booted up a RHEL 5.8 DVD, and tried the "linux rescue" mode.
The problem is that the original install that has the mentioned /var FS is ...
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Static DNS setup on client of shared internet connection
I've 2 linux computers, one redhat (client), and one ubuntu (set up with shared internet connection as described here)
At the moment, on the wired connection between the computers, I can ping the ...
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How to get hgk working on RedHat Linux?
I plan to get hgk to work.However, no matter how I configure the redhat linux, it still does not have any response. Here is information for my machine.
RedHat 5.3
Mercurial 1.8.1-1
I installed ...
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How can I make the NetworkManager work?
I am running a version of RHCE6 on my laptop, and lately I've been trying various stuff about network configuration through command line. Last night, I tried removing the NetworkManager using "yum ...
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ERROR:While Updating
I am using RHEL6.Whenever I am tryiung to update my machine it says that
[root@ASL-DRDO manmatha]# yum update
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
This ...
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Commands for determining level of usage of server
I am scripting a new program that will connect to a cluster of machines in a VM park, and hopefully check their level of usage.
The VM clients are a combination of RHEL and CentOS, and runs on ...
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Prelink warning in output of rpm -Va
I have run the following as root on a RHEL 4 box to get a list of the modified files:
rpm -Va
The output includes lines such as:
prelink: /tmp/#prelink#.60m2Jq: Recorded 2 dependencies, now seeing ...
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Not able to extend the size of an LVM logical volume
During RedHat installation, I created one volume group with two logical volumes in it.
Volume Group Name = VolGroup00
LVMs = LogVol00 and LogVol01
LogVol00 size = 48G
LogVol01 size = ...
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Selinux is denying access to mysqld
I have a script that dumps a mysql database. It then compresses the file and this gets stored in my home folder by using cron. The problem is I seem to be getting an error message.
mysqldump: ...
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ssh command unexpectedly continues on other system after ssh terminates
I'm running the below command, and monitoring the output file on the other system:
ssh $ip_address 'for n in 1 2 3 4 5; do sleep 10; echo $n >>/tmp/count; done'
If I kill the ssh command ...
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CIFS VFS: Unexpected SMB signature
When I login to server in Text mode the following Message appearing on one of Server
CIFS VFS: Unexpected SMB signature
We are using Redhat 5.6 64 bit.
Is this serious error and how to resolve ...
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How to format large Size HDD quickly
In windows we can do a Quick format just by right clicking the device and boom format.
In linux How to do the same I mean if the size of HDD is 2TB or more it takes along time to format using
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How to make RHEL 6 to boot in Text-mode?
I am using RHEL 6.4 on a HP-Z620 Workstation.Whenever this machine starts up, it comes up with Graphics Mode e.g. Splash Screen,Red Hat Logo etc.
But I want my machine to start in Text Mode.
e.g. I ...
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How to make RHEL Workstation to boots up faster?
I am using RHEL 6.4.
Problem is it takes too much time to boots up?
Can you say, what can I do to be out of this situation?
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Is there a pbuilder-like environment for RedHat?
I would like to know if is there any utility like Debian's pbuilder, to build RPM packages on RedHat using a clean environment (chroot).
I've found mach which has support for something like this but ...
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Need general guide on how to build Linux Stream (LiS) under RedHat 6.2
Day 1
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 ...
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How to add Two Gateway on same machine
I have one test server that has Two Interfaces. To one interface i have assigned ip 172.16.122.1 and GW 172.16.xxx.xxx
Now i connected cable to second interface and gave it ip 10.2.2.98.
Now they ...
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RHEL:Change Screen Resolution of Virtual Console
I am working on a RHEL 6.3 Workstation. And the monitor is a HD AOC Monitor. Problem I am facing is whenever this machine starts up, it runs with maximum screen resolution. It is a big screen and ...
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How Do I use autofs to map a USB drive by its ID?
Goal
I have a USB drive -- let's say the drive's ID is /dev/disk/by-id/thediskid
I would like to mount the drive -- by ID -- to a folder (let's call it /MOUNT_FOLDER)
Question
What is the best ...
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Using a specifing gateway for a packet. (CentOS/RHEL)
I have just setup a machine which has two NICs, one for private network and the other one for public network which has a real IP assigned to it.
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=XXX
TYPE=Ethernet
UUID=XXX
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How to install vsftpd package
I am having a rhel6 server i want to install vsftpd package from there to my client machine
How to do this.
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Getting the password expire time
Let me preface this with: I do NOT have root access available.
I recently got locked out of my account because I did not know the password expiration was getting close, then elapsed. I want to add a ...
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Why do I have to stop/restart cups in redhat linux in order to use a custom filter?
A colleague wrote a filter utility for me in ruby that allows me to print barcodes from a textfile. (The filter replaces @{blah} with the proper PCL and a barcode checksum character so that "blah" ...
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Red Hat Network (RHN) and package updates
I was just reading about Linux servers and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. What exactly is the Red Hat Network (RHN)? From what I've gathered, you subscribe to it to be able to update your system. Does this ...
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Set internet connection order or preference
I have SL 6.3 installed on two machines.
Machine A is a workstation and has two interface eth0 and wlan0. Using eth0, it is connected to Machine B (public facing server) with static IP address. Both ...
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How to access the Local FTP YUM repo from client Machine
I setup the FTP server on Machine A 192.168.1.105 and created the YUM repo. And placed following contents in it.
#vi rhel-localftp.repo
[rhel-localftp.rep]
name=bla bla bla
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Scientific Linux 6.3 run evince in SELinux sandbox
I'm trying to run evince in the SELinux sandbox:
sandbox -X /usr/bin/evince Unixforpoets.pdf
but after waiting for minutes nothing happens, console doesn't outputs anything. So I collected the ...
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Static IP config no longer persistent in CentOS6
I was messing around with KVM in CentOS 6.3 when I noticed I was having problems with the IP address of my principle network connection (eth0). I backed out my bridge
and restored the network-script ...
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How to continuously take backup of log files?
I have some applications in Lunux which creates Log files of around 41 MB each. The log files switches from log.1 to log.2 and starts overwriting log.2 once this 41MB is completed in log.1 file.
I ...
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Properly Setting Red Hat Daemon Umask
I've been trying to figure out the proper location to set daemon umasks in RedHat 5. All my searches lead to setting it in /etc/init.d/functions or /etc/sysconfig/init.
What are the pros/cons of ...
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Installing a package locally to a user - best practices?
I want to install Git locally to a user on a RHEL server (I don't have root access)
What would be your cleanest/ most organized way of installing software to a local user account?
Installing ...
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Copy files from source machine to LiveCD
I'm working on distributing a version of Fedora to our internal development team using Live CD. There are certain files I would like to copy to the live cd that are not:
part of an RPM or
going to ...
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how to have root partition LVM for RHEL 5.8 64 bit on AWS EC2
I am new to this and I have to create a RHEL 5.8 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in which the root partition should be a logical volume. I know how to create a data partition as a logical volume but am not ...
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GDM will not start on boot, unable to login into graphical interface
I am running RHEL 5.8 .
SELinux is enabled but in permissive mode. Here are some snippets from /var/log/messages on boot.
kernel: type=1400 audit(1360613500.551:6): avc: denied { write } for ...
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Setup static IP in redhat 6
I installed Redhat 6 x86_64. I am using the Network connection screen to set a static IP address like below (I want two PC's in my house to see each other: one Redhat PC and one Mac)
192.168.0.5
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