Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercially supported Linux distribution.
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pdksh missing from RHEL 6 and CentOS 6?
The package pdksh does not exist on RHEL 6 or CentOS 6 when I try to install it through yum.
So my questions:
Why is it no longer available in the default repositories? It is available in version ...
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What happens when Redhat says: “no more RHEL clones!”
I mean that ex.: CentOS, and Scientific-Linux are the "exact copies" of Redhat Linux. If Redhat would say one day: "I don't allow Redhat clones from now on, I will modify the licence", then what would ...
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Prevent init daemon echoing on TTY
Below is an init script which starts/stops a daemon. The daemon is unfortunately printing the parsed packet data (from /home/nuthan/program/server), a socket server written in perl, listening to a ...
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Transparent proxy with squid 3.1 on RHEL 6
We have nearly 50 systems with windows XP and have Linux (RHEL6) for server.
Also have squid 3.1 , Samba and Apache for local use.
Under proxy, VPN and outlook express does not connected. I heard ...
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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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Checking & Installing files in yum
I'm a beginner picking up RHEL...
To check if some packages are present , i will type :
yum check <packages_name>
And then install by typing
yum install <packages_name>
Is there a ...
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Error Loading Shared Libraries when Installing Redhat Directory Server
While Installing the Red Hat Directory Server on the Red Hat Linux Server 5 (x86_64)i am getting the following error
bin/slapd/server/dsktune: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: ...
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How to make a variable symlink ? (or something similar)
How can I make a variable symlink that would point to a different location according to the current user? Is it possible? Should I use something else instead? A mount point? How?
Here is the problem ...
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Is there a way to find out if a network outage occurred from logs?
I have a red hat server running an oracle database.
I can see in oracles rdbms' alert logs that a network outage of some sort occurred.
ORA-16198: Timeout incurred on internal channel during remote ...
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How do I find out a server's drive mappings for raw devices?
I don't have a lot of knowledge on Linux so pleas forgive me if this is a simple question.
I manage a server with Oracle RAC 11g running on Redhat 5.2. There are a number of raw drives on the server ...
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Problem in installing Google voice and video plugin for Gmail
I just downloaded Google talk plugin for voice and video (for audio/video chat in gmail).
I am using RHEL6. I downloaded the plugin (64 bit, rpm format).
While installing it an error comes which ...
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Is CentOS exactly the same as RHEL?
I'm sure this question has been asked again and again elsewhere (I did not find anything specific to CentOS vs RHEL in SE), but I would still like to ask and confirm a few specific points.
I am well ...
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X11 Forwarding Problem Netscape
I have the following problem.
A working verbose x11 forward request looks like this:
remote server release: Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
sh-4.1$ ssh -1 -vvv -l username -o "ForwardX11 yes" ...
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su - username -c “./script.sh” -> no such file or directory
We have:
a user nico.
a folder /home/nico/script_home with some bash scripts:
main.sh
subscripta.sh
sqlscripta.sh
We connect as root and cd /home/nico/script_home/
Finally we run ./main.sh
We ...
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#!/bin/bash - no such file or directory
I've created a bash script but when I try to execute it, I get
#!/bin/bash no such file or directory
I need to run the command: bash script.sh for it to work.
How can I fix this?
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Can't make a copy of /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1
I have a RedHat Linux server and I'm trying to make a copy of /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1, but I'm receiving an error saying permission denied and the file cannot be opened.
I'm logged in as root user and ...
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RHEL6 LUKS with TPM support?
I'm surprised that this question is not asked more frequently, but (in RHEL) does LUKS support TPM's the way that Windows BitLocker does? If so, how is this feature implemented, and does it provide ...
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Flash drive not working on a particular RHEL machine
I have a 32 Gib flash drive. The first time I copied files to it, it failed with a write error and the drive was no longer recognized by the server. I ran a scan on it using Windows chkdsk, which ...
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How to change TFTP root Directory
How can I change root Directory of TFTP in RHEL 6 ?
Default Location is /var/lib/tftpboot
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Linux distribution with 'yum' package manager
I hope that this question is appropriate for this site (if not, please accept my apologies). I am a professional statistician who uses the statistical programming language R. I'm currently building ...
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Can ping any hosts but localhost. What's wrong?
I got a freshly installed red hat box on a server.
I can ping another machine on the network usnig both ip and server name but I can't ping localhost or 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.4.42 (local ip)
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Preventing `passwd` for asking for the local password
I have setup the sever to only use LDAP for authentication by using authconfig-tui. Everything works well but, when I run passwd, I get two prompts for a password:
[beamin@rhel6-test-server1 ~]$ ...
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How to get environment variables to persist across login? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I set a user environment variable? (permanently, not session)
For a project I'm working on, I have a service that runs at startup which calls a script to set ...
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How does setting the Setuid bit affect shell scripts that run on boot of the system, before any login has occurred?
Would enabling the setuid bit on a shell script make a difference at all when that script is run on boot? Who would the effective user be?
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What starts the login prompt in RHEL?
I don't have a service in my run level that starts the login prompt, so I was wondering what does.
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How to set global environment variables at boot through a script, and have them available for an application that runs before login?
I have a service that runs at boot, and in that service it calls a bash script in the background that exports some environment variables. The problem I'm having is that those environment variables ...
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How to make a src.rpm unpack the source to whatever directory I want?
I'm trying to make an rpm that will unpack the source to a custom directory, such as /asdf. When I run it, it always errors out saying "cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES". Is there ...
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Installing gcc on rhel 6.1
GCC doesnt seem to be installed on my Rhel 6.1 machine. Also, when i did:
sudo yum install gcc
It barfed:
Updating Red Hat repositories.
Setting up Install Process
No package gcc available.
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Install FFMPEG on RHEL/CentOS
I've been searching for hours now and trying various methods of installing FFMPEG on my CentOS server. This is what I have currently installed on my Ubuntu desktop:
FFmpeg version ...
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redhat oauth.so missing
I tried to put the oauth on my redhat server, but since I got this message :
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/modules/oauth.so' - /usr/lib/php/modules/oauth.so: ...
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How do I install g++ on RHEL6?
This question seems to have been asked here already. My IT department installed the OS so I don't know how to register it properly but I do have root access. Is there a way to get the same packages ...
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How to clean up my desktop?
Now, I see that my desktop running rhel 5.6 has run out of space. Now I need to clean it up. There must be some unintentional files adding up. What I would like to be able to do is list the files in ...
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Can a service script put inside init.d be called at startup and shutdown?
I'm running Red Hat 5.1. I have a script called sysinit that I added as a service using chkconfig --add sysinit. I have the following set in the file:
#chkconfig 4 01 01
This creates one symlink ...
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Command line linux alternative for Windirstat/SpaceMonger? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to understand what's taking up space?
What's a good command line utility/script to analyze a folder structure and find out what's taking up all the space? The ...
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Oracle Linux 6.1 guest on Virtualbox 4.1 can't connect to network
I just installed VirtualBox 4.1 on my Windows system, and then added a Solaris 11 Express guest and an Oracle Linux 6.1 guest. Both installs went smoothly. But while the Solaris 11 guest has network ...
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Using mdam --examine to write mdadm.conf
I'm trying to script the RAID setup for a (growing) number of identical servers. The advice I've seen for using mdadm suggests that once the RAID array has been created you can run mdadm --examine ...
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Red Hat Error Class Code: 49 When Attempting To Install Package
I am a Unix noob. I am currently working on a virtual machine that is running Red Hat 4.1.2-41. When I attempt to install a software package, I get the following error:
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.bashrc doesn't get executed
I have a user (non-root) which has a ~/.bashrc file with some aliases in it.
But it doesn't look like the file is executed at log in time. If I do source ~/.bashrc then it does what it's supposed to. ...
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yum groupinstall “Development Libraries”
I am new to linux.
I am looking at some configuration notes for a CentOS, but I am configuring a Redhat machine. I am not clear:
What the below commands install?
Why one might install these?
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How do I check if a distribution is Fedora-based?
The Python M2Crypto library requires a slightly different installation command if the Linux distribution is Fedora-core based (e.g., Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux).
Is there a way to check ...
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Offline documentation of an RPM spec file or how to retrieve an example
I am taking a Red Hat exam that is offline. I am having issues remembering the syntax for an RPM SPEC file.
Can anyone suggest how to retrieve an example or some documentation that should already be ...
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List all RPM packages installed from repo “X”
How can I get a list of all of the RPM packages that have been installed on my system from a particular repo (e.g., "epel")?
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Script to check for read only filesystem
How can I check a bunch of systems to find any filesystem that are mounted read-only? Possibly via a script?
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Which device is using this logical volume?
I'm trying to remove an LVM logical volume, which I believe is not currently in use.
However, when I attempted to remove it, I get an error:
# lvremove /dev/vg_service1/lv_home
Logical volume ...
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Check version of RPM package available in upstream repo if I have a custom one installed
I have a RHEL6.1 machine that's registered with Redhat. I needed to install a customized version of a package (in my case, qemu-kvm), which I installed via RPM.
I can see the version info for my ...
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no default repositories in yum
I am trying to install gtk-murrine-engine on my RedHat Linux Client 5.5 using yum install. It says package not available. It appears that there only exists some local repositories in yum , pertaining ...
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Can't see the free disk space of the drive
I am installing redhat 6 with pendrive, I get only two drives option for installing one is the whole hard disk and the other is pendrive, but I've created a free logical disk of 30 GB in windows. I am ...
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How to find path where jdk installed?
I'm a newbie to Linux so please forgive me for asking such stupid question!
I'd installed jdk1.7.0.rpm package in RHEL6.
Where I do find the path and to execute my first java program?
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Can't explain “crash” entries in output of the 'last' command
Last shows "crash" at 12:02 and 14:18, but the system didn't stop working at that time. The reboot at 15:03, on the other hand, was to recover from an actual crash - our system stopped responding at ...
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How to start the cron daemon
I am using RHEL 5.4
I killed the cron daemon accidentally. I wanted to stop a cron task, didn't know how to do it, ended up killing the cron daemon itself. How do I start it again?
