Questions tagged [rhel5]

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

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Multipath path groups

For native RHEL multipathing, what is the difference between having 2 paths in a single path group as opposed to 2 path groups (with same priority) containing 1 path each? Is one preferable to the other? Two paths in single path group # multipath…
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Default owner and setting sticky bit by default

I have a RHEL 5.5 server and want to set up some specific security for a directory: Please note that I am not asking how to do this one time... that has already been done. I want all new directories created to have the sticky bit set so only the…
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Linux device names: What other non-standard storage device names are there apart from /dev/cciss

This is a question about Linux storage device names on RHEL5 and RHEL6 Most storage devices are accessible using device names /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. By storage device I mean a device that could be partitioned, formatted and mounted as regular…
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Caveats when upgrading from RHEL 5.4 to RHEL 6.3 on hundreds of production servers

Possible Duplicate: Caveats when upgrading from Java 6 to Java 7 on hundreds of production servers I am about to upgrade the RHEL version from RHEL 5.4 to RHEL 6.3 in a few hundreds of production servers. The upgrade will be tested on a staging…
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Managing network interfaces on RHEL/CentOS with GUI + scripting (system-config-network)

We have two load balanced CentOS 5.3 webservers that handle a decent number (~20) of individualized shopping websites. The end result being that we have to have a separate secure site per product, resulting in a large number of network aliases, one…
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Incorrect MIME type - pulling my hair out

I have a problem with CSS files being incorrectly marked text/html by Apache. The file type is mismatched in the browser, and is ignored causing display failures. I'm using Apache 2.2.3 on a RHEL 5 server. I've tried adding this to httpd.conf…
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Mod_Perl Install Error

I am installing software and one of the dependencies is mod_perl, when i run #perl Makefile.PL I receive this error: ************* WARNING ************* Your Perl is configured to link against libgdbm, but libgdbm.so was not found. You could…
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Managing configuration via RPMs?

I need to provide some configuration customization to several servers in our small department network. We are using RHEL5 currently and since I don't want to repeat work, I'd like to create RPMs with that configuration and upload them to our…
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Connection to mysql server in SYN_SENT

We are facing a strange problem from last few days between our application server and database server(Mysql): connection to database server from application server hangs in SYN_SENT state and after that we are not able to make any connection to…
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Same nfs mount options, different output

I have 2 OEL5.5(RHEL5.5) servers. I'm trying to figure out why when I run mount command I get different outputs. Server1 has the following line in /etc/fstab/ 10.11.0.61:/vol/exports/ /exports nfs …
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cpu utilization over 100% in linux system

In one of our production Linux servers, CPU utilization is crossing 100 % and sometimes it is 250%. How can I find which process is using more CPU utilization and where can I find CPU utilization logs? OS : RHEL 5.5
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Unable to start SNMP in RHEL5 64-bit

I have installed net-snmp, net-snmp-utils and net-snmp-devel in my 64-bit Centos5 using yum. The following are the packages I've…
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How to make a RHEL5 VM visible by hostname to host OS

I believe the correct networking option is to use bridged so that the guest OS gets its own IP address, but I'm still only able to ssh by ip address.
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Strange files in /tmp/

I have never seen this files in RedHat before. /tmp/orbit-root /tmp/ssh-KEskO14981/agent.14981 /tmp/keyring-OuVrZn/sock What could it be?
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Linux: disabled user accounts: Is there a non-root shell command that can show if an account is disabled or not?

Is there a non-root shell command that can tell me if a user's account is disabled or not? Please note that I make a distinction between LOCKING and DISABLED: LOCKING is where you prepend ! or * or !! to the password field of the /etc/passwd or…
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