Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 is a Linux distribution sold by Red Hat, Inc. for the enterprise market.
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RHEL (say 5.6, kernel 2.6.18-238) with dual IP address (IPv4v6)
So I have a SERVER that that utilizes RHEL's (assume 5.6) underlying kernel for setting up TCP connections and other networking aspects. My deployment need requires that the SERVER have dual IP address, an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. The SERVER…

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What to do with subscription-manager in a Red Hat Network Satellite environment?
Yum commands all give the following error message:
Unable to read consumer identity
It seems however that subscription-manager plugin should be disabled if I use RHN/Satellite?
What to do after registering the server with RHN Satellite with this…

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RHEL 5 blocking outgoing traffic, incoming SSH works, traffic on 2nd interface works, iptables is off
I'm having a strange problem with an RHEL 5 server. I changed its IP address, we are migrating to a new address pool, and something is blocking all outgoing traffic, but I can SSH in on that interface (eth0). All traffic works properly on our…

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RHEL 5.8 LDAP pam_groupdn customisation
I have a given LDAP-Server I want to use for User Authentication on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 Server. I got the connection to the LDAP-Server working and I'm able to Login to the Linux Server by LDAP User "username".
Now I want that only users…

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MySql in Bash: Show only errors
Let me first start off by saying I am not an experienced linux user.
I am trying to debug a mysql script in linux, however, my issue is that most of the queries are successful so I can not see the error messages because they scroll off the screen. I…

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How do I put VMware guest drivers in the initrd?
I am trying to get a Red Hat 5.8 box booting via pxe. The box is a virtual machine on ESX5.0 it has a Paravirtual SCSI Controller and VMXNET3 network driver. Now these drivers do not come default in the RHEL5.8 kernel so I have followed some steps…
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How to Update OpenLDAP version from 2.3.x to 2.4.11 or later based on RPM(RHEL 5) package
I Using RHEL 5 Operating System, I want updating OpenLDAP version from 2.3.x to 2.4.11 or higher, I installed OpenLDAP(v 2.3.x) based on installation package.
I have used the following command to remove OpenLDAP package first
rpm -e --allmatches…
Fauzi Achmad
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Help upgrading RHEL 5.1 to CentOS 5.1
I'm trying to follow the steps from the MigrationGuide (modified to reflect the fact I'm dealing with non-current versions) to migrate from RHEL 5.1 to CentOS 5.1. I used the following commands:
# rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-notes redhat-release…

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rpm rollback ignoring rpms - no error output
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rpm rollback is not working with a set of repackaged rpms created in the last couple days, but does work with more recent ones.
[root@host1 repackage]# ls -l zsh-4.2.6-*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1788283 Apr 10 2011…

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How can I create an “su” only user (no SSH or SFTP) and limit who can “su” into that account in RHEL5?
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How can I allow one user to su to another without allowing root access?
We have a user account that our DBAs use (oracle). I do not want to set a password on this account and want to only allow users in the dba group to su -…

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How to prevent DNS lookups when service already disabled DNS lookups?
My enterprise recently deployed a DNS capability to all systems within the enterprise. Due to a fluke asynchronous routing error for some of our servers, we have discovered that even when a service disabled reverse DNS lookups (such as…

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Deciphering IPSEC errors
I have a host I am trying to setup for ipsec. But I am finding some errors in the log that don't make much sense to me.
The system are Rhel 5.5 boxes. I followed RHEL's IPSec deployment directions to setup a host to host IPSec connection between…

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Newly Resized Luns not Showing correct LUN Size RHel 5.3
My linux servers are not showing their newly resized fibre Luns after being extended on the fly(online).the storage guys have successfully resized the LUNS from 1Tb to 2 Tb .We are running fibre SAN ((on HP EVA kit,PSV450) not ISCSI LUNS on RHEL…

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CentOS equivalent of RHEL php-pecl-zip package?
I have a RHEL 5.5 host with PHP 5.1.6, and the php-pecl-zip package installed (using yum). I have another host with CentOS 5.8 and PHP 5.1.6, and I want to have the same php-pecl-zip package installed. When I search for php-pecl-zip with yum on…

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Is opsview-agent 4.0 compatible with an Opsview 3.x server?
I was setting up some new RHEL machines to monitor with our Opsview Community 20120424 server (which is based on 3.x) and discovered that the Opsview yum repository no longer has the 3.x opsview-agent, only the 4.0 agent.
Given that 4.0 is a…

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