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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Autofs BROWSE Mode in CentOS\RHEL

I have multiple server mounting their $HOME from a file server. On the clients I have set in /etc/sysconfig/autofs BROWSE_MODE="no" The client also mount directories from other files servers to /shared and /cifs I was wondering if there is a way…
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Odd log entries and insane bandwidth usage

I have a CentOS cloud server I use for testing and noticed that in the past 30 days, bandwidth out has gone through the roof (16,000 GB to be precise) When I initially attempted to check on the server it was completely inaccessible (no response on…
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Apache not working on external IP on CentOS

I have a newly installed CentOS 5.6 machine and can access httpd locally via elinks. But it does not work from other IPs. I can ping the IP, but I get no route to host if I connect to port 80. I assume some firewall rules is preventing access to…
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ntpdate ignores my timezone

I'm trying to set up time sync on a CentOS 5.5 VDS but can't figure out why it won't update to the correct timezone. e.g. After manually setting the correct date and time when I run this: date && ntpdate au.pool.ntp.org && date I get this: Mon Oct…
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Upgrading CentOS Server Hardware?

My (postfix) mail server currently runs on an old PowerEdge 2650 and it badly needs a hardware upgrade. I would like to put it on an 8 core (3rd Gen) 2950, but have no idea how to go about changing hardware. Do I have to install CentOS on the new…
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I think my server is being hacked. What should I do?

Possible Duplicate: My server's been hacked EMERGENCY I'm not a server admin and I have very little experience in "debuging" a server. But from looking at my log files, it looks as if I'm being hacked. But I have no clue to what I should do…
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APC (PHP Cache) Uptime 0 minutes, not caching

My goal is to implement APC for opcode cache for a drupal 6 production site. I have so far tested APC with several php files with and without including other php files with include_once. Also tried to tweak the apc.ini values for shm_size,…
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Centos 5 service command

My vendor send me a server with Centos5 installed. They have setup the machine to directly login with root account. With the root account logined, i can run command like this: service httpd restart I dont like the root account able to login…
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how to Install easy_install Via yum on Linux CentOS Server

please tell me how to Install easy_install Via yum on Linux CentOS Server i tried that in panel command center yum install python-setuptools output.... epel: mirrors.tummy.com * base: mirrors.tummy.com * updates: centos.mirrors.tds.net *…
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PHP Woes - 500 Internal Server Error (brand new server)

Anyone ever seen these errors, or something like it? /usr/bin/php: error while loading shared libraries: libcom_err.so.2: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory [warn] UID of script "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/index.PHP" is…
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Other processes take over port 80 when restarting Apache - why, and how to solve?

I have a CentOS 5.5 server running Apache on port 80 as well as some other applications. All works fine until I for some reason need to restart the httpd process. Doing so returns: sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart Stopping httpd: …
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Installed php-mcrypt but it doesn't show up in phpinfo()

I'm trying to install php-mcrypt on a CentOS 5.4 but while the extensions appears to be installed, there's nothing about it when I do a phpinfo(). For example, you can see below that php-mcrypt appears to be installed properly: [root@... ~]# rpm…
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Cent OS upgrade PHP

I'm in the midst of resolving a bunch of security issues on a clients server to get them compliant with credit card laws and such. The first order of business is getting php from 5.2.14 to 5.2.16. When I run yum update php, this is the output I…
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Installed apache server , can't connect from outside (using CentOS in WMware )

I installed Apache in CentOS 5.5, after searching the web for tips on configuration I did the following to enable connecting the HTTP server from outside: In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I changed the Listen value to 0.0.0.8011 I checked netstat –anp…
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Iptables port forwarding on OpenVZ CEntOS container

I am trying to setup a simple port forwarding on an OpenVZ container that is running CentOS 5.5. When I run a command I get errors. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080 iptables v1.3.5: can't initialize iptables…
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