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Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 is a Linux distribution sold by Red Hat, Inc. for the enterprise market.

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Sendmail dot-addressing

I need to be able to route mail to user.@ to user@. I know I can do it easily with + addressing, but the business requirement is for dot-addressing. The virtusertable file can't handle it - using user* doesn't do anything for me. The section is…
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Apache randomly fails to restart (port 80 in use) .. Probably cron related?

So this started happening for no apparent reason on a RHEL5 server running Plesk 10. I woke up one morning to find all the sites hosted on this box were offline. I SSH'd in and restarted httpd - Stopping httpd: …
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How can I uninstall software from an RHEL 5 system?

I installed Rubygems 1.3.4 on an RHEL 5 system. The way you install that is to download source and run setup.rb. I did not find a package for it through yum list available. Now I'd like to uninstall it because I've decided to use a different version…
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Linux account expiration

If I do (in rhel5): useradd -m -e 2009-07-03 -c "Temp Account" tempuser Will this account expire at the end of 2009-07-03 or at the beginning? What if the user is still logged in? Is it kicked out? Thanx for the great site! CM
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Importing binary applications

I have a server that has no dev tools on it (e.g. no gcc). In addition the server has no direct link to the outside world (e.g. no apt-get). The above could not be changed - as an organizational security demand. The only way to interact with the…
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NFS mount drops to read-only during intermittent network failure

I have an NFS mount (say to /opt/foo) on a RHEL5 install that occasionally drops to a read-only filesystem after a short network failure...I have control over this box but not over the network, so I can't fix the thing causing these network…
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Backing up audit data with growisofs

We've had a problem occur when writing to DVD+Rs and DVD-Rs using growisofs on Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0. What we’re trying to do is backup audit data that we've stored, which is basically one .zip file for each day's worth of audit data. The .zip…
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How to diagnose storage system scaling problems?

We are currently testing the maximum sequential read throughput of a storage system (48 disks total behind two HP P2000 arrays) connected to HP DL580 G7 running RHEL 5 with 128 GB of memory. Initial testing has been mainly done by running…
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create a specific directory within each directory in bash

We're running an application on RHEL and it is trying to write a mysterious log file to a directory that doesn't exist. I'm trying to determine a find command that could go through each sub-directory in development and mkdir log without creating a…
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Install/Update a package on RHEL5 from CentOSPlus repo with same package existing in RHN

I'm trying to install postfix with MySQL on RHEL5 but the repos from the rhnplugin are overriding it even if i have an exclude line in the rhnplugin.conf file My goal is to only use the CentOSPlus repo for postfix and the rest use RHN This is my…
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RHEL 5 server hang, which logs

I have a server which is hanging more times than I would like, are there any logs in particular that would be worth examining to determine the reason? /var/log/messages has nothing of note /var/log/dmesg is also not useful. The machine hangs in that…
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RHEL5 Run script on Server's first boot

How can I run a script on the first book of my rhel 5 server after install. I am using post kickstart tasks to create a script and I'd like to run it the first time the server boots. How can I do this? I'd like to use the "firstboot" service
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Finding the LVM root volume while in the Grub 0.95 CLI without access to the grub.conf file

If I have my root device is a LVM logical volume, how can I figure out the path via the Grub CLI without access to the original grub.conf file? This is for use in the kernel command's root and rd_LVM_LV parameters. E.g.: kernel…
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2 diferent versions of gcc in RHEL

I need to test a matlab EDA-LINK with Cadence Incisive. For this , one of the libraries complains of an error: version `GCC_3.3' not found (required by/appli/cadence/IUS82_ISR11/tools/lib/libstdc++.so.6 this is EZ, its because my installed version…
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Building nginx 1.0.4 on Amazon EC2 micro - perl and python problems

I'd like to run nginx as a reverse proxy with apache2 on my EC2 micro instance. yum install nginx gives me nginx-0.8.53-1.2.amzn1.x86_64.rpm The current nginx is 1.0.4 I found and followed this guide:…
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