Questions tagged [rhel6]

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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Why is raid-check using so little io bandwidth?

Just out of curiosity, we have a RHEL server running software RAID. There's a cronjob which kicks off a raid data check every so often to check the consistency of the array. From my understanding, the data check will utilize idle IO bandwidth so as…
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How to enable eth0 on a cloned RHEL VM running in Windows Server 2012?

Due to a critical personnel shortage, I (not a willing sysadmin!) have been given a RHEL 6.1 VM image with the request that it be migrated to a server running Windows Server 2012 with HyperV. The image came to me as an ISO, so I think it's from…
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Rsyslog unix timestamps on RHEL6

I'm trying to get rsyslog on RHEL 6 to render the time the message was logged at as a unix timestamp. I started by read the documentation at http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/property_replacer.html. Since there are are old-style and new-style property…
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YUM install tigervnc-server fails on RHEL 6.1

Installing tigervnc-server fails on RHEL 6.1 with the message below. One person recommended installing all of the xorg-x11 packages, but that gives the same message (below too). Do I need to add new repositories? If there is another version of VNC…
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partprobe will not work..i have tried everything

I am days before the RHCSA exam and i have noticed i still haven't been able to successfully run partprobe successfully after months on testing and testing and testing..not a single time I have tried partprobe partprobe /dev/sdx where sdx is the…
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Two RHEL 6 machines with static IP cannot ping each other

I am setting up a few servers for a conference at a hotel. They have setup a separate VLAN for me and gave me 3 static IP's and a DHCP pool of 500. The issue I have is that the two servers can not ping each other. Server-1 has…
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HTTP Request Header limit hard coded in Apache 2.2

I looked up some other question concerning this on SF, they revolved around a maximum limit being set for LimitRequestFieldSize and LimitRequestLine at 8K. httpd's documentation confirms the limit, but doesn't list the value to be fixed. I tried…
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Building a router / NAT and need to compare performance of FreeBSD 8 v RHEL 6

I am going to be setting up a router and NAT device but I am unable to choose between pfSense 2.x (FreeBSD 8) and RHEL 6. The device will need to forward a medium (2k hosts) sized network where almost all the clients are NATed but a few will be…
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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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How can I get the git-all meta package on RHEL 6.2

I believe I'm missing some of the common git addons, such as gitk, and I suspect it is because I installed git using sudo yum install git as the information for that package lists: : The git rpm installs the core tools with minimal…
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Accident from tar -cvf, recover original file?

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to recover filed removed by rm in linux? I'm using a RHEL6 server RAID10 with a ext4 fs, with a volumeGroup (lvm2) VolGroup00 created on a PV /dev/sda5 [831Go]. The logical volume concerned is…
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How do I disable multipath on Linux (RHEL 6) when it is on the root partition (/, /boot, /boot/efi, and swap)?

I have been working on configuring multipath on a couple of RHEL 6 servers. Through some fault of my own (blacklist mistyped) I have configured multipath on the root partition, yet it seems that I am having trouble undoing that. The root partition…
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Cannot umount device is busy

Situation I am running a RHEL server via a VM on my laptop. I have a win7 desktop sharing out a folder and the VM on my laptop running RHEL6 has a CIFS windows mount at \mnt\win When I go to unmount the device I get a device is busy message. So I…
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Linux OEL 6x - Compatibility with ACL

Will the ACL [ Access control lists like getfacl, setfacl ] utility work fine with OEL 6x? It works great with Solaris 5.9 but not sure OEL 6x will support ACL utilities
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GVFS Locations Not Available In ~/.gvfs

So, I can mount GVFS locations correctly (specifically CIFS) either from the Gnome "Places" menu, or via the command line gvfs-mount, but the filesystem is not mounted in the expected location; ~/.gvfs. In fact, running the mount command does not…
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