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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What's needed to enable JDBC or ODBC to MySQL database?
I have a MySQL server on my Scientific Linux 6.2 system. Right now I know how to create a new database, and set up users.
I need to setup LibreOffice Base to connect to the MySQL server, via either ODBC or JDBC (ideally over SSL).
How do I do this?…

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pam_mount of smb share on rhel6, home directory not available for login - probably SELinux?
I'm using the Fedora 12 pam_mount / libHX RPMs on a RHEL 6 x86_64 system to automatically mount home directories from a NetApp system configured with NTFS-only security
AD-bound logins work fine - I'm having problems with making it automatically…

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RHEL hangs after starting virt-who succesfully
Idea #1: Is there a way to REPAIR an RHEL 6.2 installation?
During the start-up procedure, after a recent forced reboot, my Linux machine (RHEL 6.2) hangs right after successfully starting virt-who. I can use login screens (Alt + F2/F3...) in text…

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how to change screen resolution in rhel/centos 6?
I have cent os 6 dvd installed on my computer.my monitor resolution is 1920 X 1080.
i cannot increase screen resolution to 1920 X 1080.
system->preference->Display can give maximum resolution as 1280 X 1024.
in centos 6 there is no…

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CentOS 6.2 - I can't access console using Alt+Ctrl+F2 (F1 to F6)
I can't switch to tty console (text mode) using Alt+Ctrl + F1 to F6
What I found on the net is that Alt+Ctrl+F1 is now the X server (which was on F7 before). However Alt+Ctrl+F2 to F6 also doesn't work.
edit:
Some googling led to this: How to…

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ptp time synchronization on centos6/rhel
I need to setup time synchronization using PTP (precision time protocol). I'll get server address. I found ptpd server (version 2.1). I created startup files in /etc/init.d. But wondering what options other than showing on which interface I should…

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rhel6 repsitories gives broken dependencies
i tried several repositories for rhel 6 like epel,freshrpms,etc and all the repositories give broken dependency while installing pakages(eg:vlc,exaile).From where i get a repository without broken dependency.i need codec,vlc…

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NFS volume file permissions
I have a Redhat 6.0 system (SELinux enabled), with a NFS volume mounted at /myvolume.
The command ls -la /myvolume says it has owner "nobody" and group "nobody".
On this system I have Apache running as "apache" user and "apache" group.
Apache runs a…

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OpenVZ with RHEL6 kernel & page cache?
After upgrading kernel from debian 2.6.32-openvz-amd64 to RHEL6 2.6.32-042stab035.1, I have problem with kernel page cache.
Looks like no OpenVZ containers use page cache and now I have 10-15GB free RAM and only 3-5GB cache generated by mysql server…

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Does semodule -i need to be run after every SELinux policy update?
On RHEL and CentOS servers, when the selinux-policy-* RPM packages receive an update, is it always necessary to manually reload any custom modules I have built? When I see an update to selinux-policy-*, I have always reloaded any modules…

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scilinux6 (rhel6) perl pathing question
Working on SL6.
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$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux release 6.0 (Carbon)
$ uname -an
Linux bigbox.em.local 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 12 17:14:50 CDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
what's the proper way to resolve…

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Error message uploading files onto RHEL 6.1 EC2 web server
I have deployed a RHEL instance on EC2 with "Web Server" package fully installed.
From MAC terminal, I tried to upload a test file onto the new instance:
# scp /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/index.php…

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On Fedora, how do I configure selinux to allow a port for a new undefined service type?
I have several things that I'd like to be able to stand up as servers on Fedora. I know I can run at least some of these in podman or docker but I already know how to do that. I also already know how to allow it for existing services like ssh if all…

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Restarting winbind service on rhel6, service restarts but ansible fails the run
Seeing this consistently with the playbook below.
- hosts: all
gather_facts: no
become: yes
tasks:
- name: restart winbind
service:
name: winbind
state: restarted
- name: reset ssh connection since winbind is dumb and…

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Virsh Console Can't Access to rhel VM (a pty console, instead of serial console)
the pty console:
no output when I exec the command virsh ttyconsole vm_name
the log (/var/log/libvirt/qemu/vm_name.log) :
char device redirected to…

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