Questions tagged [centos5]

CentOS 5 is an obsolete, free (as in beer and speech) GNU/Linux distribution that is community driven and based on source code released from RHEL.

CentOS 5 is a free (as in beer and speech) GNU/Linux distribution that is community driven and based on source code released from RHEL. It went end-of-life on 2017-03-31, is now unsupported, and shouldn't be used on production systems.

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Apache can't change listening IP-address

I can't get Apache to listen on a specific IP address. It's a local web server, not public. I'm on CentOS 5.11 using Apache 2.2. The default configuration httpd.conf works great but only listens to the server's static IP address 10.0.0.101:80. I…
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Renaming files recursively and moving them inside one single directory

I have a project with 500k users in CentOS. The picture file/directory structure was setup like this (yeah... i know): user/0070/ this is the user ID / 1000, so that all users in the range of [70000-70999] are inside this directory user/0070/70909/…
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Logstash Forwarder doesn't start up with chkconfig in CentOS 5

I have set up logstash-forwarder on a CentOS 5 machine installing it from this RPM: http://download.elasticsearch.org/logstash-forwarder/packages/logstash-forwarder-0.3.1-1.x86_64.rpm When I went through the process I found the init script provided…
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HTTP Ports are Filtered on New Virtual IPs in LVS (Linux Virtual Server) Load Balancer

I inherited a Linux Virutal Server (LVS) load balancer on CentOS 5.10. Its been running with no issues for quite some time with no worries. Now when I add a new virutal IP (VIP), all HTTP traffic is "filtered" to that port. For example: Here's…
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SHA-2 signed SSL certificate crashes apache on startup on CentOS 5.X

In preparation of the warnings that are going to start showing up in browsers when visiting SSL sites with SHA1 signed certificates, I wanted to get all of the certs that I have upgraded. Some of my infrastructure is running on "legacy" CentOS 5.X…
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Yum reports updated bash but binary still reports old version

I'm trying to update a CentOS 5 system in order to patch the bash vulnerability described in CVE-2014-6271 / RHSA-2014:1293-1, but am running into an issue. After seemingly-successfully updating bash via yum update bash and restarting the server,…
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Centos 5 - Using official repository to upgrade manually installed Puppet server

I have Puppet server version 2.6.4 that was manually installed using RPM packages directly (instead of using Yum to fetch packages from a repository). Now I want to upgrade it to the latest version (3.6), as safely as possible, by installing it…
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Issues installing mongodb on centos 5

I'm trying to install mongodb for my centos 5.1 server via yum. I followed the instructions of creating a .repo file in the yum folder, but it still doesnt work. here's the screenshot of the issue: ---- http://prntscr.com/41b22y I typed yum install…
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Migrate CentOS VM using LVM on IDE to run with VirtIO

I'm trying to migrate existing IDE-using, LVM-based CentOS 5.2 VMs to use virtio. The symptom is a kernel panic upon boot when the system can't find any volume groups. Does anyone know how to make this work? I created a vm install that didn't use…
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postfix limit sending rate

hello i have this box centos 5.9 postfix 2.3.3 how i can configure postfix to send 1 message every second no matter what, i try this in main.cf with no success: default_destination_rate_delay = 1s default_destination_concurrency_limit = 1 …
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ssh connection operation timed out using rsync

I use rsync to backup my remote server on my local device but when I combine it with a cron job my ssh times out. Just to be clear, the data is stored on a remote server and I want it stored on my local server. The backup request must be sent from…
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What does this kernel error mean and how should I respond?

The following except is taken from the logwatch of a production LAMP web server I'm about to inherit. It is a dedicated Dell server running CentOS 5 with RAID 1 across two 1TB drives. I have little to no experience with anything other than…
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Can't connect to remote CentOS server, possibly disk full

We have a remote server using CentOS 5 with Apache 2.2/PHP/MySQL that have crashed due to possible hard disk being full. Can't access WHM - giving "500 Internal Server Error" Can't access SSH - giving "Server unexpectedly closed connection" after…
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OpenSSL handshake failure

We were recently forced to migrate our production cloud servers from GoDaddy to Azure because GoDaddy is ending thier cloud server service. One of our servers was a CentOS 5.7 running a JasperReports Bitnami stack. During the migration process I…
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Allowing root login on sftp while disallowing it over ssh?

For security I only allow a dummy user to log in via SSH on my CentOS 5.8 server, for this I added: AllowUsers dummyaccount When accessing my server I then login with the dummy and use su - to gain root privileges, this works perfectly well. Now…
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