Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 is a Linux distribution sold by Red Hat, Inc. for the enterprise market.
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Unable to change default route-Rhel 5.9
am trying to change default to route to eth2 my present rout -n o/p--
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.235.4.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth3
10.235.3.0 * …

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How do I remote reinstall a Redhat OS?
What's the best solution for quickly reinstalling Redhat 5 remotely?
Requirements:
We have a lot of servers.
We want to keep a "static ip" configuration for each machine. (Also users).
We have a custom firewall configuration.
We want to make no…

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Cannot perform smartctl self-test after migrating servers from SLES to Scientific Linux
I maintain several Linux servers, that we are in the process of migrating from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (version 10.4) to Scientific Linux (version 5.9). The six SAS hard drives on each machine are connected to an Adaptec AAC-RAID controller,…

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Why does Satellite need a kickstartable distribution for cloned channels, but not on the official main Red Hat Channel?
I have been using Satellite for a while now and I am able to kickstart machines directly from the official main RH channels
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 for 64-bit x86_64)
I want to…

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CPU Spikes when Untar'ing File on Virtual Server
I have a RHEL 5.5 on VMWARE running with 64GB Memory. When we untar a file (part of a daily process) the CPU Load sometimes spikes - rendering the server essentially nonresponsive. The disks are thick provisioned so it shouldn't be an issue of…

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Upgrading ImageMagick RHEL 5
We have been using ImageMagick for quite some time with out any trouble.
However, today we can across an pdf we were trying to convert into a jpg thumbnail, which would fail:
$ convert example.pdf -resize 600 thumb.jpg
Error: /rangecheck in…

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RHEL Mail From Address
I have several virtual servers that were cloned from the same original server. Whenever I send mail from them using "mail", the from address shows up as the name from the original server but the email address in angle brackets is correct.
The email…

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Client Side Negotiation
I have -MultiViews set and SSLInsecureNegotation off ( in ifmodule of mod_ssl.c) in Apache.
But still vulnerability report says I am vulnerable to client side negotiation and "This server is vulnerable to MITM attacks because it supports insecure…

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Ganglia web generating "error collecting ganglia data (:): fsockopen error"
Now, I'm trying to install a new ganglia-web interface to replace an older one. Google searching on the error got me a lot, but none of it helps. One large distinction I note is that Google usually returns "There was an error collecting ganglia data…

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Logging into Linux server gives users 'domain users' for default group can it be changed?
I recently attached a RHEL 5 test box to our active directory server to try and get all of our users to not have to remember so many passowrds. I'm using winbind and samba and everything seems to be working ok, but I've noticed any user account…

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VxFS on both Solaris and RHEL?
I'd like to know if VxFS could be used in order to share a volume ( on a SAN mounted using FC) between a RHEL (5 or 6) and Solaris (11) host ?
What I'm trying to achive is to shared a volume (from a SAN) across a grid of hosts running Solaris and…

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pam_radius_auth.so - Setting up Radius on RHEL 5.6
I am currently dissecting a single-sign-on RPM. Contained within the RPM there is the module pam_radius_auth.so. Based on the documentation here: http://freeradius.org/pam_radius_auth/ and here: http://freeradius.org/pam_radius_auth/INSTALL, the…

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chmod -R 777 /. - RHEL 5.5
A shell script testing went bad and it issued
chmod -R 777 /.
to the system, instead of
chmod -R 777 ./
and as expected it wiped the critical meta data. We have turned off the system and it will not function properly the next time it is turned…

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OpenLDAP fails to stop ,but starts Ok but then status shows as slapd stopped
We are running openldap 2.3.43 on RHel 5.3.,Our LDAP server has been behaving erratically lately
1.It fails to stop when you issue command service ldap restart
but it "seems" to starts OK
2.However after running command service ldap status it…

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Handling yum upgrade from pkg-x.y.rpm which requires mod_python to pkg-x.(y+z).rpm with conflicts mod_python
With yum/rpm on RHEL 5 can a yum upgrade be made to remove another, conflicting package - similar to the behaviour of apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian?
I am updating the .spec for our product's rpm. Version 4.2.x used mod_python, so the spec…

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