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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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Online resize of large ext3 file system - is performance affected?

I am planning for a resize of a rather large file system hosting an Oracle instance (one of several on the same server). The disk is 4 TB striped over several LUNs, I'm increasing by 1 TB keeping the same stripe width. As we usually use Oracle ASM…
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How to clear a disk entry from Linux

I have few Linux (RHEL 5.x / Centos 5.x) boxes running on KVMs, on which I used to attach and detach disks on the fly. Now the problem with EL5 versions are, when we add a disk, initially it will be marked as /dev/sdb. When I remove it and re-attach…
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Is there a command line MIME extractor shipped with RHEL 5?

It looks like mpack is not shipped with RHEL. Is there a command line MIME extractor (i.e. something that can be used from a shell script) shipped with RHEL 5 that does not require installing a third party package or building from source? The…
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Need to Migrate Xen DomU to VMWare ESXi - RHEL 5.3/ESXi 4.1

I've seen plenty of posts outlining the process of converting VMware Linux serves to RHEL Xen (not xenserver) but nothing much has helped me go the other way. I've tried a number of things including using mkinitrd (works great for LVM) but just…
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setting up Ubuntu 10.10 as paravirtualized guest in Xen on RHEL5 host - what kernel?

I've discovered the tool ubuntu-vm-builder, which I've installed and then invoked on an Ubuntu workstation as: sudo vmbuilder xen ubuntu --suite maverick --flavour virtual --arch amd64 --mem=512 --rootsize 8192 This workstation is not the intended…
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How does RHEL 5 (Linux kernel 2.6.18) determine the default fs.file-max setting?

If fs.file-max is not set in /etc/sysctl.conf on RHEL 5 or its derivatives, how does the kernel determine the default value? Is there a formula used to set the fs.file-max value based on the amount of system RAM? I checked a number of random RHEL…
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Apache throwing 403 on serving images from an NFS share

I'm repeatedly getting 403 Permission Denied errors on trying to serve images from apache running on Machine A. The images are in a directory which is an NFS share from Machine B. The entry on Machine B /etc/exports reads like this : /dir/…
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How-to: add an ISO/DVD of RHEL to the Repository list under Gnome for installing packages

I want to add the original ISO I installed RHEL from as a repository under the Add/Remove Software tool in Gnome. How do I do this? To clarify, I know what I need to do (add a repository) - I need the how. I have been unsuccessful in determining the…
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Bash wonkyness on Ubuntu versus RHEL

Fellow faulters, I'm playing around with a one liner that I've developed on a RHEL 5.4 box and I have it working perfectly: TOTAL_RAM=`free | grep Mem: | awk '{ print $2 }'`; \ ps axo rss,comm,pid | awk -v total_ram=$TOTAL_RAM \ '{ proc_list[$2] +=…
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ssh keys + RHEL5

I've been able to set up SSH authentication keys on my ubuntu, fedora core and mac systems, however, I'm not able to get SSH keys to work properly with redhat enterprise linux 5 (RHEL5). I've tried created the keys with 2048 bit encryption, but…
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Redhat Software RAID 1 not syncing

I setup a software RAID 1 on a Redhat server, everything went sweet and it synced the first time. The other day the raid failedover for some reason and the disks hadn't been syncing since that first time, so it went back to 2 weeks ago when we did…
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Enable ssh for CentOS system bound to Active Directory?

I have a CentOS 5.4 system successfully bound to Active Directory. "net ads testjoin" says it's OK. I can run "id username" for AD users and see their accounts. However, I cannot log in remotely via SSH. /var/log/secure says the password is…
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bnx2 and e1000e drivers on RHEL 5.3 detects repeated link loss

UPDATE: The problem was faulty hardware on the switch. Thanks to all of you for the good debugging suggestions. Correct answer given to MattyB for suggesting using a different switch to see if the problem persisted. Hello serverfault, I am…
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yum does not contain the package: libcurl

I am in Redhat 5 and the following packages are not found yum -y install libcurl libcurl-devel Loaded plugins: security Setting up Install Process No package libcurl available. No package libcurl-devel available. Nothing to do Weird! What am I…
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How do I specify what PVs are used for mirroring when adding a mirror in LVM to an existing LV?

I've got an existing VG containing a single LV on a RHEL server that consists of a handful of SAN disks. In an effort to migrate the server to a newer SAN, I'd like to mirror the existing storage to newer storage that's been added to the…
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