Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 is a Linux distribution sold by Red Hat, Inc. for the enterprise market.
Questions tagged [rhel5]
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Solaris to Linux conversion: Use VxFS or GFS?
We're a Solaris shop looking at RedHat Enterprise Linux and one of the things we're wondering is if we should keep Veritas Volume Manager + FileSystem or go with LVM+ext3 or RedHat's preferred cluster filesystem solution, GFS.
One of the things we…
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Can somebody tell me how to download patches for RHEL that I can burn to disc?
How would I go about downloading the patches from somewhere without actually installing them so that I can burn them to disc and install them on machines that don't have any internet connectivity?
MW
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using RHEL5 as a router
I am planning to use a RHEL5 installed computer as a internet connection sharing device.
I have installed 2 LAN cards, eth0 and eth1.
eth0: Internet
eth1: LAN
eth0 configuration as follows ;
Ipaddress : 115.252.64.187
Subnet : …
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What's the appropriate way to upgrade Apache in RHEL?
The version of Apache shipped in RHEL 5.4 is very old. A feature I need only shipped recently. It seems Apache upstream only ships tarballs, and omits binary packages. Obviously I could build from source, but what's the canonical way to upgrade a…
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RHEL raw device (over VMware RDM) performance issues
I'm running RHEL 5.3 over vSphere 4.0U1.
I configured multiple LUNs on my NetApp (Fibre) storage, and added the RDM on two (Linux) VMs, using the Paravirtual SCSI adapter.
One LUN is 100GB in size, successfully mapped to /dev/sdb on both VMs, 5 more…
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Managing a test iSCSI target server
I am using a RHEL server with a few hard drives, and tgtd as the iscsi target software.
I a looking for a way to allocate and deallocate space and targets with that space, without restarting my system, or harming other LUNs.
Currently, all my HDDs…
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How do you "fix" a faulty path in device-mapper-multipath
I have a multipath config that was working but now shows a "faulty" path:
[root@nas ~]# multipath -ll
sdd: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down"
mpath1 (36001f93000a63000019f000200000000) dm-2…
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How can i run shell script at boot (start up)
How can i run shell script every time my system boot ( start up ) in linux (RHEL 5)?
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Monitoring hardware failure on HP DL servers
Are there any tools other than the HP provided ones for monitoring component failures in these server from RHEL5?
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disable user (ssh) login on rhel 5
Someone deactivated remote logins for a user, and I want to reactivate it. I can su into it, though.
However, I have no idea how to reactivate logins. I checked /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but there is no Allow Users section. I checked PAM, but couldn't…
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Monitoring LAN with Zenoss
How can i monitor LAN with zenoss in RHEL5?
My server is RHEL 5
My client machines are Windows xp
Using 10.0.0.0/24 serious for LAN connection.
Have modem for internet
Have switch for connecting to LAN machines
What all are the steps i want to…
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Back up log files in Redhat Enterprise Linux 5
Hai guys/gals,
How can i backup var/log files/folders ?
Log files/folders changes (log updates) should be automatically updated from original log file/folder to duplicate file/folder.
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Giving supplier root access to server, and logging it?
One of our suppliers needs to debug a problem with an application by logging remotely into one of our servers. They'll need to have root access, which I plan to provide via ssh and sudo.
I generally trust the supplier, or I wouldn't consider it, but…
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RHEL 5.4 & Chrooted SFTP
According to release notes, RHEL 5.4 included an update to setup chrooted SFTP accounts natively. But from what I am seeing, it is all or nothing--This means that even root is chrooted if you go this route.
Has anybody used this successfully? How…
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How do I upgrade PHP on a Plesk system?
We are running a few servers with Plesk 9.2. PHP is tightly integrated with Plesk, so I'm wary of updating it independently of Plesk.
The problem is that 9.2 ships with PHP 5.1, and I need 5.2.
What's the correct way to upgrade PHP on a Plesk…
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