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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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Explain CentOS 5 vs. CentOS 6 - why are releases not sequential?

I was confused about why my new server had CentOS 5.9 installed on it, when CentOS 6.3 is available. But CentOS 5.9, it turns out, is actually the latest release. Why are 5.x versions being released when they are a dead end that will lose full…
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OpenLDAP: pwdChangedTime attribute isn't created after changing the password?

I'm going to integrate the check_mk's Multisite with OpenLDAP. After configuring the LDAP connector, I get the following error when opening the "Users & Contacts" page: Error executing sync hook The "Authentication Expiration" attribute…
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Linux high load with ImageMagick convert utility and server freezes (blktrack output attached)

I'm using ImageMagick to convert a JPG to TIF file, and I'm using the limit options for Imagemagick as below: /usr/bin/convert -limit memory 256 -limit map 512 subjectfile.jpg -colorspace Gray -depth 8 -resample 200x200 output.tif When I run the…
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Server sending out packets bigger then MTU

I have a server that I am transferring data off of. We were having some problems that were traced back to the fact that the server is sending out jumbo size frames despite the fact that ifconfig is reporting that the MTU is 1500. How is this…
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one 16K random read I/O issues 2 scsi I/O (16K and 4K) requests in linux

I noticed weird issue when benchmarking random read I/O for files in linux (2.6.18). The Benchmarking program is my own program and it simply keeps reading 16KB of a file from a random offset. I traced I/O behavior at system call level and scsi…
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nagios wrongly reports packet loss

Lately, on my nagios 3.2.3 install (CentOS5, monitoring ~ 300 hosts, 1150 services) has sdtarted to occasionally report high packet loss on 50-60 hosts at a time. Problem is it's bogus. Manual runs of ping (or its own check_ping binary) finds no…
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Is it possible to migrate CentOS from (Mac) VMware Fusion into (Cisco VPS) VMWare ESXi?

Is there any solution to clone CentOS (full mirror) from Mac VMware fusion to VMWare ESXi on Cisco VPS server?
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Troubleshooting "connection reset" error on my linux server

I fervently hope someone here can help me with the problem I am experiencing. I am a programmer, and I have very little understanding of linux sysadmin terminology/concepts. I am attempting to troubleshoot a problem with my website. It is a Facebook…
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Re-packaging commercial software into RPM packages

The situation is this - I have a small CentOS 5 "cluster" (currently 7 machines, but potential for more) which run a commercially available software package that's distributed essentially in tarball format (it's actually a zip file with a mixture of…
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Missing Dependency: perl(YAML::Any)

I have a problem with git, when I run yum upgrade on a centos5 server. yum upgrade output: Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package git.x86_64 0:1.7.11.3-1.el5.rf set to be updated ---> Package perl-Git.x86_64…
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How to run unprivileged scripts from rc.local at system boot?

I've set up my /etc/rc.local to start some services using a couple of scripts to bring my system up on reboot. One script runs as root and starts nginx, mysql, php etc... and works fine. The other stuff runs as my regular user, so I'm doing a sudo…
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CentOS 5 clock running twice as fast

The system clock on a CentOS 5 install is running twice as fast as it should. The hardware clock is fine, and when I run a ntp sync, it resets to the correct time. But within 2 minutes, it is already 2 minutes too fast. The OS is not running…
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Unusually high memory usage on a CentOS VPS with 512 guaranteed RAM

I'm working on a medium-sized web application written in PHP that's running on a VPS with 512mb ram. The webapp hasn't been officially launched yet, so there isn't too much traffic going on, just me and a few other people working on it. There is…
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Postfix load balancing

I have 4 VPS servers, my plan is to use one of these VPS servers as a load balancer which sends mail received by it from another server to other 3 VPS (smtp) clients who will relay mail to the outside network. The idea is: -> VPS2 VPS1 …
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How to make permanent changes to iptables of CentOS 5.5

I want to make an iptable rule permanent so if the server is rebooted I won't have to add the rule again. Specifically a rule I have related to nginx being reverse proxy of apache. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s ! 266.266.266.266 --dport 80…
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