Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 is a Linux distribution sold by Red Hat, Inc. for the enterprise market. It is used for both servers and desktops. Although the binaries are not freely available, the sources are, and so there are numerous projects which provide compatible rebuilds of RHEL, such as CentOS and Scientific Linux.
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Exec format Error. cxbf.ko from kernel has no modversions, so it cannot be reused for kernel
OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago)
I was updating RHEL packages and ended with errors like:
ERROR: modinfo: could not open /lib/modules/3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.x86_64/extra/cxbf.ko: Exec format error
FATAL:…

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easy_install and pip fail with SSL warnings
I'm looking after some RHEL6 servers and trying to set them up to use an internal PyPi server (proxied by Nexus 3).
The problem is that our internal PyPi server is one of several SSL VHosts on the same Nginx server, and Python 2.6 is not SNI…

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Enable NTP with clock slewing on RHEL6
I have a RHEL6 server running an Oracle database. When the server was built, NTP wasn't enabled or configured. My task is to do that without impacting the database. After doing some research, I was under the assumption that, when enabling NTP on…

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Opening a firewall port in RHEL 6.8
I am struggling to determine if a specific port is open according to the firewall in Redhat 6.8
I want to open port 2222.
I have tried the following:
system-config-firewall, running as sudo , and I have port 2222 described as a specific port to be…

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what are public yum respositories for red hat linux
I have a red hat linux machine and when I try to install any software it says my system is not registered how should I install
[root@JMNGD1BLT230V01 yum.repos.d]# yum install gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-CPAN perl-devel zlib-devel
Loaded…

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mco ping not responding for one node
We have configured 12 servers with Puppet/MCollective . All the servers are rspodning to mco ping . But we had a patch update for OS and after that one of the node is not responding.
$ sudo tail -f mcollective.log
I,…

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How to build curl for TLSv1.2 support?
I am trying to build curl on my RHEL 6.x box as the existing version does not support TLSv1.2. However, no matter what option I select, it always ends up with the following error :
configure: WARNING: SSL disabled, you will not be able to use…

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Apache/CentOS/RHEL: Connection refused: proxy: HTTP error
I'm in the process of migrating some applications to a new production server.
The idea is to keep the same URLs for the applications by defining ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse directives on the old production server.
Configurationon old production…

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File Copy failing using Puppet File resource
I am trying to copy files using file resource . My code is as follows:
node 'Node-002' {
file { "/root/helloworld.txt":
ensure => file,
owner => "root",
group => "root",
mode => "0644",
source =>…

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Mount a Windows share on Linux boot without storing the password
Is there a way to do this? Most examples store the credentials in an external file to fstab e.g. -
fstab:
\\server\share /media/windowsmount cifs credentials=/root/secret.txt,_netdev,uid=root,gid=dba 0 0
secret.txt:…

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Trust a Self-Signed SSL Cert (RHEL) for LDAP over TLS
My Setup
Mac OS X Server (El Capitan) as the OpenDirectory Server
RHEL 6.5 connected via LDAP for authentication
I have set /etc/sysconfig/authconfig on the RHEL server to "FORCELEGACY=yes" just to test the LDAP connection. Now, however, I need…

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RHEL 6.7 cache causing out of memory errors
I have a (large) system that has cache behavior that I don't understand. It seems that the cache ran the system out of memory. How is this possible? Doesn't the kernel clean up the cache when there's memory pressure?
One of our users ran a 'cp…

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ISCSI intiator displaying the ISCSI target even after its removal on ISCSI target server
I am running a ISCSI target server on RHEL 6.7 and sharing the storage for the ISCSI initiator server which is running on RHEL 6.5.
I configured the below code in the /etc/tgt/targets.conf file of the target server:

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How to manage virtual ip addresses in RHEL 7
We currently have an alias assigned to our NIC for the purposes of managing a HA Proxy pair.
# cat…

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Passwords not working after migration from /etc/shadow to LDAP
I've migrated RHEL6 user accounts from traditional /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group files to OpenLDAP. However, trying to log in as the migrated users does not work because of incorrect user password errors:
Example (removed) /etc/passwd…

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