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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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Restrict user access in Linux

I am given a task to configure a RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Gnome PC such that a specific user - say USER1 will have very limited desktop access. The requirements include: Access to all of the desktop menus (Application, Places, System) and icons…
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Is "yum groupinstall" compatible with Red Hat Network?

On CentOS 5, I run yum groupinstall "Development Libraries" to install the commonly used development libraries. Can I use the same command on a RHEL5 server with RHN? Is the "Development Libraries" group defined on such a server? Will it break the…
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Resizing swap partition (RHEL 5.x)

Following is how parted print looks like: (parted) print Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 26.8GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number …
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RHEL file permissions

I added a file in /etc/init.d but noticed that the file isn't a green color like the other files when I do a ls -l What should I do to make it "green" or add the necessary file permissions? Why are the files green in the first place?
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error from 'yum list ' - up2date client abuse?

I recently added a server to our network. After a normal RHEL5 installation I added a number of packages via yum. This was about 2 weeks ago. This morning Im looking for something in yum and tried 'yum list '. I got a large error: Loaded…
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OCFS2 updating procedures

We plan to use OCFS2 in a project running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6 because we found OCFS2 to be much simpler to set up than GFS. I am, however, worried about the upgrade process since I understand OCFS2 depends on the kernel version…
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OVF disk formats

I thought that VMs exported as OVF were supposed to be completely portable, but now I see there are difference disk formats I used the VMware ovf tool to export a VMX to OVF. The disk file created with the OVF is a VMDK. I want to import the VM…
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CentOS 5.5 remote kickstart installation stalls at "Starting install process." How to debug?

I'm having a difficult time with a remote CentOS 5.5 kickstart installation on an HP ProLiant DL360 G6. This is in an environment where I maintain an internal CentOS yum repository. The kickstart installation and post scripts have been tested and…
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Newer GLIBC for RHEL/CentOS 5.x

I have a situation where a group of developers is attempting to deploy a binary application to a series of RHEL 5.5 and CentOS 5.5 servers. Unfortunately, the application was developed on another platform (Gentoo) and execution results in a GLIBC…
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postfix remote mx 0.0.0.0 looping

Does anyone know how to make postfix avoid getting into an endless loop of errors when a remote mx server resolves to 0.0.0.0 ? The problem sounds exactly like that described here: mail loops back to myself | postfix but i'm looking for a fix, as…
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Installing rsvg lib on second install of Python

I have two installs of python on my RHEL server, one at version 2.4.x (which is the general install by RHEL, updated using yum) and a 2.6.x version that I use for Django as well as just everyday scripting (installed from source). I'd like to get the…
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Accidentally rm -rf /usr/* as root, what now?

A colleague of mine accidentally deleted /usr/* data by running: rm -rf /usr/*. And it's now a big issue. We had a lot of good data on that machine. Most of the commands are not working as a result. Is there anyway I can recover the machine? I'm not…
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How do I include a customized configuration file in a rebuilt RPM?

We've rebuilt a bunch of RPMs because we wanted to remove modules and change config options for items specific to our production environment. We're hosting them in a private repo, and have them signed with our own GPG key and have our company name…
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Installing Zend Server via Puppet, on RHEL and Ubuntu?

I'm learning Puppet by example and writing some modules to manage our current RHEL and Ubuntu servers. My first serious attempt is a Zend Server module. Since Puppet has a Yumrepo, but no Aptrepo resource how would you structure a module to add the…
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RHEL - NFS4: Mounted/Exported as rw, user write permission denied

I have nfs4 configured between a RHEL 5.3 server (charlie) and a RHEL 5.4 client (simcom1). The machines are configured to authenticate users via kerberos by a Windows Server 2008 active directory machine called "alpha." Alpha also serves as a dns…
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