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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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RHEL5.5 yum can't see a package (xen) on repo?

i'm trying to install xen via yum on RHEL 5.5. When i browse the repo here: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/ I can see the package i want. specifically xen-3.0.3-105.el5_5.5.src.rpm direct link:…
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How to chroot Apache on CentOS?

I have been advised by a sysadmin, to run Apache in a chroot jail, in order to prevent that an attacker could take control of server. So my question is: What is the best method to chroot Apache/2.2.3 in RHEL/CentOS 5?, i only use the default…
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How to increase max symlink limit in RHEL

I am running into the following Linux error: Too many levels of symbolic links. This seems to be caused by the system limit of 8 maximum link-chain size, and I'm looking for a way to increase this limit. Some background: I am writing a system which…
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How do I run strace or ltrace on Tomcat Catalina?

Running ltrace isn't trivial. This RHEL 5.3 system has based on a Tomcat Catalina (servlet container) which uses text scripts to tie everything together. When I tried to find an executable here's the rabbit hole I went down: /etc/init.d/pki-ca9…
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Is there a command like pstree for libraries?

I need to determine whether a library named libunaSA.so is being called directly by the process or by another library called libtoki2.so. I guess what I'm looking for is a pstree for libraries. The system is running RHEL 5.3 Beta. This output shows…
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How to mount new partition on Red hat linux

i have installed RHEL on virtual machine using vmware. i have added the extra hard drive from vmware. Now Linux is not showing that new hard drive installed. HOw can i do that
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How to create RPM for 32-bit arch from a 64-bit arch server?

Our production server is running CentOS5 64-bit arch. Because there are no RPM available currently for SQLite latest version (v3.7.3), I created RPM using rpmbuild the very first time by following the instructions given here. I was able to…
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How to change device permissions via udev in RHEL5?

I'm attempting to make the device permissions on a hard drive(/dev/sdb) persistent for a particular group in RHEL5. Can anyone point me to to a proper KERNEL line in /etc/udev/rules that would work that attempts the following? KERNEL=="sdb",…
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Which RPM fixes this failed RedHat dependency?

Problem I'm installing an RPM on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 and it fails with the following error: error: Failed dependencies: rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 is needed by vspd-1/43-rsmu.i586 Question Which package contains rpmlib? I've…
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Languages in vim editor

How to insert copy-paste a hindi language word from web pages to vim editor.When i do it now it says "..... . ....." What is the settings that has to be changed in vim editor to do this Thanks..
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how do i fix progressively slower write speed in a raid 5?

We have a RHEL5 install on a machine with 5 Seagate 1 TB SAS disks. One has the OS and swap on it. The other four are in a hardware Raid 5 (mounted as /home) managed by a DELL Perc 6/i controller. When the system boots up it spends a long time on…
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Can't ssh from Ubuntu to RHEL or CentOS

I am trying to setup publickey based authenitcation for 2 different boxes. One RHEL another on e is CentOS. I am having same issue with both where ssh fails and falls back to password based authentication. Error that seems to be causing this is…
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Exploratory Question for Security Admins (/etc/passwd + PHP)

I've been seeing a few issues lately on a few of my servers where an account gets hacked via outdated scripts, and the hacker uploads a cPanel / FTP Brute forcing PHP script inside the account. The PHP File reads /etc/passwd to get the usernames,…
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How to install mcrypt on RHEL5

We have an RHEL5 server that I'm trying to install PHP-Mcrypt on and I'm stuck when I tried to run ./configure for mcrypt source files. I was using this guide: http://atlantatechpro.com/howtos/howtoslinux/howtosmhashmcrypt When I try to install…
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Filezilla connection error

I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 LAN server with Squid 2.6 stable proxy settings. Under this have some Windows XP desktops. Now I installed FileZilla FTP client in Windows XP, to service my client's websites. But I can't connect FTP servers…
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