Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercially supported Linux distribution.
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Oracle 11g R2 on Redhat 6
I have a Solaris background, and I am new in RHEL, and I want to install Oracle 11g on it.
I downloaded Oracle documentation, that illustrate how to install it for RHEL 6.
The following or later ...
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What is the difference between the whatis and apropos commands?
CentOS 6.3 / RHEL 6.3
Can someone please explain the difference between the whatis command and the apropos command? I noticed that both appear to be installed by default and I'm not sure what the ...
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How to Calculate the Total size of file searched using Find command
Actually there are tow questions.
First I have to search the files using FIND command that will show only the files for December 2012
And Secondly I need to see the Total size of files searched
I ...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop: constant crashing, unusable, what to do
I'm having constant problems with RHEL recently. My desktop crashes during the day occasionally (once a day roughly) and is hung (black screen) every morning requiring a button-hitting restart.
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Problem with configure and build php 5.2 on redhat 5
I downloaded php binaries and tried to build the same using following command.
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mysql
But i'm getting the error related to mysql client library.
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How to see the total progress while copying the files
We know that if we give --progress parameter to rsync it will show the progress of files copied. But issue is that is shows the progress for each single file not total or overall progress.
So how to ...
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Detect attached monitors when X is not running
I'm working with machines that are running RHEL6. I need to detect whether a monitor is plugged in when X is either not running or has not started yet, for example during bootup. Is there any way to ...
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Why doesn't build of net-snmp 5.7.2. provide /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmptrapd?
I am packaging an RPM for RHEL6, built from net-snmp-5.7.2.tar.gz. I see that the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd gets created and packaged but I do not see the init file for /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmptrapd. ...
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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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How to list RPM packages installed in order of installation date
I'd like to see a list of software installed in the order of the date they were installed. The order doesn't matter (newest to oldest & vice-versa) as long as they're arranged by date.
I'm mainly ...
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git command not found
I had to install git from source on RHEL. After installation the git command is shown to be in /usr/local/bin/git when trying the whereis command.This path is available in $PATH also.
When I type ...
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Using hardware clock on linux
I using an old version of RHEL that I have recently upgraded from 5.4 to 5.8, with a customised 2.30.9 kernel.
The system clock drifts wildly (> 5 seconds/day) unless it is controlled using an ...
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Why setsebool command of SELINUX taking so long and slow?
Hi I am new to the SELINUX and I have noticed the command setsebool take longer time than other linux commands. Such as:
setsebool -P ftp_home_dir ON
Out of curiosity I want to know why "setsebool" ...
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Installing development tools in RHEL 6
I have admin privilege on my office computer (running RHEL 6) which is connected in a network. I was trying to install development tools using the command: sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" ...
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Why setsebool for httpd not working with -P parameter?
I'm trying to disable SELinux for httpd, but when I use the the setsebool command with -P parameter, it doesn't work:
setsebool -P http_can_network_connect 1
Nothing happens when I do that ie, the ...
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What would be the “apt-cache show” equivalent on RHEL *without* requiring sudo/su?
How can I query the local package cache of yum on RHEL (and derivatives) without requiring superuser privileges?
Note: I am not interested in running an update of the package cache up front. All I am ...
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How to print xterm output in the current terminal window? [closed]
I am a beginner in Linux, so excuse me if the question is simple.
I use xterm in wine as follows:
wine cmd
z:\usr\bin\xterm -e application
xterm will open a new window, runs the application and ...
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How many packages does RHEL 6 provide?
I'd like to know how many binary and source packages Red Hat provides with their current RHEL 6.4 Release.
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Location of crontab job created by non-privileged user
The issue I currently have is someone has created a crontab process to run on a RHEL 5 box, yet has not left me any privileged user information. How can I execute this cron job that was setup to run ...
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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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Redhat: non-root user needs to copy files to a NFS share
Typically non-root users cannot mount directories.
Running Redhat
Have 6GB tar.gz (/dir/somefile.tar.gz)
Need to move to a NFS share on another box (//somebox/somefolder/)
We have no other access. ...
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Some Ossec agents not able to communicate with OSSEC server
I have installed Ossec on one server and agents on some other servers running on Redhat. The issue is that some servers are able to communicate and send the logs to servers and others are in INACTIVE ...
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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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How to add NFS options flag to anaconda?
These options work for Kickstart to load the install tree from NFS:
The Fedora Kickstart documentation states
nfs --server=nfsserver.example.com --dir=/tmp/install-tree ...
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'ss' command for checking sockets not found
I get an error when I try to execute this command on Red Hat Linux.
$ ss -s
-bash: ss: command not found
It is supposed to be for checking socket statistics. How do I execute this?
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Redhat Grub not working after Fresh Install
Today i installed redhat on one server this server will be used on DR site as a backup.
System has 2 HDD with 500GB space and I created the RAID0 and after that i completed the installation. But ...
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kswapd0 takes 99% to 100% CPU in RHEL 6.3
I have 5 systems on which I have just installed RHEL6.
System configuration is
CPU-i7
HDD-500 GB
RAM-2 GB
Swap- 4 GB
I have installed the same software's and all the configuration as per old ...
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Why SSH takes a long time to Connect
I have noticed that some Linux Servers in Network takes long time to connect using ssh.
Situations:: There are two situations I have faced.
1: On some servers some times it takes a long time to ask ...
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What's the difference between a hard links and copied files?
RHEL 6
My understanding is that hard links include a copy of the original file and that I could delete a hard-linked file in one directory, and it would still exist in the other directory.
If ...
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Why would someone want to change the last access date of a file without making actual changes within the file itself?
CentOS 6
I'm studying RHEL / Centos and recently learned that the touch command can be used to change the last access date of a file. I'm struggling to understand a practical reason why anyone would ...
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How to Format an LVM partition
I need to format a partition.
But I have one LVM on my machine (VirtualBox) that is composed of two different two partitions of two Virtual HDD's (sdb5 and sdc5)
fdisk output
df output
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Peculiar lack of RHEL 5.8 service management documentation [closed]
I am needing to see the status of some services on some of our RHEL 5.8 hosts on which I am not an admin. Much to my surprise, I am not able to get any info how to do it (such as chkconfig or ...
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.exrc file in home dir not effective
I made a simple .exrc vim config file in my home directory on RHEL 5.8. Here are the contents:
set nu
However, when I go into vim, the line number are not shown. It may be worth noting that I am ...
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Ignoring dependencies when installing with yum (Scientific Linux)
How can I ignore dependencies of a single package I am attempting to install using yum in Scientific Linux? The answer would presumably the same for CentOS/RHEL.
To elaborate, I am looking to get the ...
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Message appears after every command completed
I am very new to Linux. Having said this, I had a friend go on my RHEL machine and he somehow added a few random lines in a file, which will post every time I have completed a command. I am not sure ...
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RedHat server packages are never found
I set up a virtual server Red Hat machine but every time I try to use the "yum" command to install new packages, the command works properly but it is never been able to find any package even the ...
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RHEL Installation issue with UEFI
I have bought a new Desktop HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF. It came with Windows 7 Pro installed.
Now I want to install Linux (RHEL) by dual booting it.
I have successfully shrieked the partition and ...
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Is Red Hat Linux licensed
Am confused so thought of asking a question.
According to this Red Hat Becomes Open Source’s First $1 Billion Baby, it is opensourced so my question is:
Where can I download the Opensource version ...
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How to copy Big files on other Linux Server Independent of TTY
Actually i was trying to copy all the files in another director. Total size of the file is 188GB so its going to take a time.
Im trying to copy for Linux server A to B using this command
nohup scp ...
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Difference between >> and >\> operators?
RHEL 6
Is there a difference between the >> and >\> operators? I read the following blurb in a RHEL training book:
"You can add standard output to the end of an existing file with a
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Run a command before services are started
I have a Oracle Linux 6.3 system on which I would like to run a command when the machines starts up before any other services are started. The reason for this is to try and work around a bug in RHEL ...
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Changing the timestamp of a symlink
I know how to change the timestamp of a regular file:
touch -t 201301291810 myfile.txt
I was not able to do the same with a symlink. Is it possible?
Distro: RHEL 5.8
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after enabling Xinerama (in AMD condor Dual-Head Graphics Card) the system graphics hangs
I have a problem in my AMD Condor Dual-Head Graphics Card
When I enable Xinerama from "System → Preferences → AMD Catalyst Control center (Administrative)" my RHEL Server 6.3 (x64) Graphics hangs.
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Sequence of errors leads to init failure and subsequent kernel panic
We have one Redhat test server installed on Vmware ESXI. And when I boot the server it gave this error.
How to solve this issue because due to this error it doesn't boot.
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What would be the RHEL package corresponding to build-essential in Ubuntu?
I know how to list available packages from the repos and so on, but how can I find a list that matches up equivalent meta-packages, such as the build-essential.
Is there such a thing and if not what ...
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how to run new software without updating GLIBC?
I installed Mathematica 9 on an old Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 system.
After the installation, I tried to start Mathematica, but following message came out:
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Upgrade zsh on red hat 5 x86_64
My machine is running RHEL 5 x86_64
I'm facing a problem with oh-my-zsh
The zsh version on my machine is
zsh --version
zsh 4.2.6 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
There are no upgrades available via yum. ...
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What is the 'pam-panel-icon' window?
After starting GNOME desktop, a window titled 'pam-panel-icon' appears, initially displayed in the upper-left of the desktop sized as small as possible. It can be resized, minimized, or maximized, ...
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Which of these three commands is telling the TRUE Redhat release information
I was checking for the Redhat release so this time I used three different commands. Two commands gave the same result but the third command gave different result. Which one is right.
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What is the easiest way to install Meld on RedHat Linux RHEL 5.4?
My company has RedHat RHEL 5.4 on the Linux box, and I need to install Meld on it. How can it be done?
$ sudo yum install meld
No package meld available.
Nothing to do
$ sudo yum search meld
No ...
