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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RHEL6: Specify Rescue Method from initrd append options
I have a PXE menu configuration that I'm working on. It incorporates the RHEL6 Rescue option in order to perform repairs after booting from the network. The Rescue boot environment asks three basic questions to set itself up: Language, Keymap, and…

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How can you prompt for the EULA in Kickstart?
I am trying to modify a Kickstart script so that it does not auto-accept the EULA (which it seems to skip right now.)

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Apache forces Cache-Control: private automatically for HTTPS requests
I'm trying to get browsers to cache assets over HTTPS. I am using MD5 fingerprinting method to allow long-term caching and I have this part working OK.
What doesn't work is setting the Cache-Control headers in Apache.
My config for both regular and…

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Error: partition length of 6442450944 sectors exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295
I'm trying to create a partition on a RHEL 6.3 machine, but parted is giving me the following error:
$ sudo parted /dev/vdb mkpart logical 1
Error: partition length of 6442450944 sectors exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of…

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Apache 2.2 LDAP Authentication Error 500 - AuthLDAPURL
I have an Apache server on RHEL 6 that uses our active directory for authentication and when we added a new "LocationMatch"
AuthLDAPURL…

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How to install latest nodejs package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?
Would this sequence of commands work for RHEL?
apt-get install python g++ make
mkdir ~/nodejs && cd $_
wget -N http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
tar xzvf node-latest.tar.gz && cd `ls -rd node-v*`
./configure
make install
I should install it…

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How to centrally manage routing info?
I'm trying to build a VPN setup, where there are several Road-Warriors (various OSes) want to communicate to internal network behind a VPN gateway. The key facts are these:
Internal network is 10.254.0.0/24
No DHCP
Internal hosts are all…

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Filesystem recommendation for 5 TB file storage
I have a locally attached 5 TB RAID6 system (IBM DS3512). It will be used as a storage for large data files that are written in sequential writes, and then read back for processing. Eventually the data is deleted.
Directory traversal is not…

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How to configure the tiger VNC in RHEL 6 to enable remote login after reboot?
How to configure the tiger VNC in RHEL 6 to enable remote login after reboot? Currently, I could remote login to it when it has login already. But if I remotely restart the server, it would not allow me to remotely login again. It says connection…

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glibc.i686 conflicts with libc6?
I have a 64-bit Redhat Enterprise Linux server (version 6.3) that doesn't want to let me install the glibc.i686 module for 32-bit compatibility. When I try yum install glibc.i686 as root, it gives me a long string of errors like this:
Transaction…

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What are the required permissions to add SPN to Computer account
I am trying to add some RHEL6 boxes to an S2008R2 domain. Part of the process is to create a computer account in AD, then add an SPN to it.
Pretty much all guides say that you need Admin privileges on AD, but that is not available to me. I want to…

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Place for setting environment variables for WebSphere JVM process
I have a websphere application which runs under the user wsadmin.
The application invokes the SQL bulk loader client ./sqlldr
The sqlldr needs some environment variables predefined in order to work such…

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How to set $LD_LIBRARY_PATH for a Tomcat webapp after it is automatically unset?
I have a Tomcat webapp that needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set.
I'm using RHEL6 and Tomcat6 (from yum package manager), the webapp is called adore-djatoka.
I'm starting tomcat by using a supplied script that exports a number of environment variables,…

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Installing djatoka on tomcat 6 on RHEL 6.3
Can someone help me get djatoka image viewer running on my RHEL 6.3 machine (an EC2 instance hosted by Amazon Web Services)?
Tomcat 6 installed nicely (using sudo yum install tomcat6 tomcat6-webapps tomcat6-admin-webapps) as I can see the…

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sendmail.mc to fwd all mails for a domain -> First.Last@gmail.com (MX record already set up)
I'm currently using Google Apps to forward mails addressed to recipients at my domain balkan-preferans.de (176.9.40.169) to my address First.Last@gmail.com - this is done by the following DNS-zone served by my hoster:
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA…

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