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Questions tagged [rhel5]
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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
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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…

Adam Matan
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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
Raj
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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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