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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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Changing GRUB configuration to "single" not working in RHEL

I am using RHEL 5.10. I have mistakenly deleted /etc/passwd file in my server (though I have the backup). I'm just trying to get into single user mode by typing single at the end of the kernel line at grup command prompt. After that hitting enter…
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LVM: Duplicate VG name VolGroup00

I'm on a server that shows a duplicate VG name. How can I rename one of these VolGroups to get rid of this conflict? [root@dev-server dev]# lvs WARNING: Duplicate VG name VolGroup00: zOuHvA-QTBR-wNPs-3GIQ-b2zQ-yOeH-2fBS87 (created here) takes…
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What is the best process to automate Zimbra deploy using cobbler+puppet?

I set up a fully working cobbler server on a RHEL5 machine. This is able to deploy a new server on bare metal machine, partitioning the disks, using LVM and creating as much virtual machines as I need. The virtual machines takes their install…
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How to programmatically umount filesystems mounted by autofs?

I have some RHEL systems where I need to disable autofs. What I typically do is run a script on each of these hosts that executes something like this: # /etc/init.d/autofs stop ... # /sbin/chkconfig autofs off ... # reboot But I have a situation…
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Finding home directory of all users

I'm a software dev suddenly finding myself having to play SysAdmin. Recently, I was given a box previously administered by somebody else, and this SysAdmin kind of just did what he wanted. My supervisor is given the box to SysAdmin, and it appears…
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finding kernel space programs

how can we determine %sy process that is Consuming CPU. In the following case there is no netfilter and traffic is under 1 mbps.but still system process are taking too much cpu and cpu usage for niced process are also high.How can we determine the…
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Server sending out packets bigger then MTU

I have a server that I am transferring data off of. We were having some problems that were traced back to the fact that the server is sending out jumbo size frames despite the fact that ifconfig is reporting that the MTU is 1500. How is this…
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setting up rhel 5.x RPM build server for mortal users

My task is to setup a RHEL 5.x build host, that can build RPMs for mortal users. On RHEL 6.x with rpm version 4.8, I have in /usr/lib/macros: # Path to top of build area. %_topdir %{getenv:HOME}/rpmbuild On RHEL 5.x with rpm…
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Getting OTRS to work with XAMPP

Setting up a testing environment on a RHEL5 server to test out OTRS ticketing system. I installed XAMPP for the ease of use factor for testing but can't seem to get the ticketing system to start with XAMPP at all. I am new to OTRS and learning on…
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Why does my lvm2 volume group only work with multipath device mapper and not powerpath?

My server is an Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 (RHEL5) on an hp blade (x64) with qlogic HBAs connected to an EMC clariion SAN. We are migrating from multipath to powerpath, because emc and the company storage team will not support multipath. Currently…
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How can I configure permanent arp entries on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

I'm configuring a Red Hat Linux server which will be sending UDP packets out but never receiving ARP responses. So a static ARP entry is required. The obvious way to do this is. arp -s 10.0.0.1 distant_server However that won't survive a network…
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linux multipath - change device alias safely

I'm running RHEL 5.2 connected to a NetApp over FC. The server is running a database on mpathNN devices that can not be stopped. I need to add a new LUN and give it a specific alias (rather than mpathNN). I know how to set this up in multipath.conf,…
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Autofs BROWSE Mode in CentOS\RHEL

I have multiple server mounting their $HOME from a file server. On the clients I have set in /etc/sysconfig/autofs BROWSE_MODE="no" The client also mount directories from other files servers to /shared and /cifs I was wondering if there is a way…
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Redhat init script best practice

I want to write an init service script which runs the program as a particular user (and not root). I will then chkconfig this script and install into my production run level. I could just put a su command in the script but I was wondering if there…
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Is there a way to disable the ptrace system call on RHEL5 Linux?

Is there any wat to disable the ptrace system call on RHEL5?
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