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Red Hat is an open source technology solutions provider with offerings including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, open source applications, security and systems management, virtualization, Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, server and desktop operating systems, Java application software and services, and the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.

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How to a2ensite and a2dissite?

I'm logged into a Linux server. I think it's a Red Hat distribution. The commands a2ensite and a2dissite are not available. In the /etc/httpd directory, I don't see any mention of sites-enabled or sites-available. I'm pretty sure the site is…
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How to identify NICs that are connected to the same switch from a Linux box?

Initial Setup As a Linux administrator you have installed a fresh Linux box with 6 NICs eth0 to eth5. The eth0 interface is correctly configured and all other interfaces are currently up but without IP address. The network guys have simply attached…
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yumdownloader vs repotrack

I'm working on CentOS 6.3. Recently I come across repotrack from yum-utils. yumdownloader --resolve and repotrack looks very similar, but it looks like yumdownloader download only part of dependencies, where repotrack all dependencies. Just try…
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In CentOS 6.x, how can I upgrade to Kernel 3.4?

I have a server running CentOS 6.2 with kernel version 2.6.32, but I need to increase my application Performance. The Kernel Version 3.4 has x32abi which can improve the performance so i want to upgrade to 3.4 ? Is it possible? I tried downloading…
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Pros and Cons of a Decentralized Puppet Architecture

We have around 300 RHEL servers that are currently connecting to a Puppetmaster server. However, we have noticed some performance bottlenecks and it is the point of failure in our system. I am fairly new to puppet in general and I am considering…
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Sending audit logs to SYSLOG server

I'm running several RHEL based systems which utilize the audit functionality within the 2.6 kernel to track user activity and I need to have these logs sent to centralized SYSLOG servers for monitoring and event correlation. Anyone know how to…
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How to get free space from mounted drive Redhat 7

In our VM infrastructure, we have clustered hosts going to a SAN. What i am trying to figure out is how much "white space" is left over when deleting files within our Redhat servers. On our Windows server we use sdelete and that clears up that…
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How to prevent users from extending their window of valid login

Been working on some security hardening procedures for a RedHat box, and I wanted to know if would be possible to prevent a user from changing his password, once it's expired. For one of our clients the requirement is that they must only have access…
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Does my Oracle DBA need root access?

My Oracle DBA Colleague is requesting root access on our production servers. He is arguing that he need it to perform some operations like rebooting the server and some other tasks. I do not not agree with him because I've set him a Oracle…
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Is there a way to monitor /dev/random?

We're investigating some JDBC issues, and one of the possible problems is /dev/random being exhausted. The workaround is to switch the JVM to using /dev/urandom, but I wan't to try and determine whether or not the /dev/random is being exhausted. Is…
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Upgrade CentOS 5.x to CentOS 6.x - tips and techniques

Now that CentOS 6.0 is making its way to the various mirror sites, I wanted to solicit opinions on the upgrade process. In working with the commercial RedHat 5.6 and 6.x distributions for the past few months, I've been relying on a fresh install…
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How do I install automake and autoconf on RedHat Enterprise 5?

I am attempting to install "uploadprogress" for a PHP application, and have failed on dependencies. Firstly, on phpize, then php-devel, then on autoconf and automake. I have tried yum, and various repositories, with no luck. I think it's to do with…
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SELinux reset root password

Disclaimer: This question is not to solve the problem of changing root password while SELinux is active because there are a lot of guides to solve that already. This is more of how SELinux does that internally. I'm a recent user of SELinux but…
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Enable Discards HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400

Spin off from these previously asked questions How to get free space from mounted drive Redhat 7 Update crypttab asks for Passphrase for fstrim We have a HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 with 170 VM's speread out across 38 hosts. Here is the problem as I…
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Linux containers (LXC) on Red Hat/CentOS EL6 - lxc-create versus libvirt?

It's tricky trying to stay within the good graces of Red Hat and still plan for system longevity... I've been a proponent of Linux Containers (LXC) for over a year. My initial installations were based on information gleaned from online tutorials,…
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