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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Apache misconfiguration - config works on apache 2.2 but not 2.4
I have a set of cgi scripts which run on a RHEL 6.x (with Apache 2.2) box fine.
There is a cgi-bin directory containing the scripts, plus an index.html (pure html) which serves as a front end to the scripts, allowing me to click on a button to…

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Unable to access ElasticSearch on AWS EC2 with private/public ip
I have an Elastic Search running on 9200 on rhel 6. I cannot reach to it in aws with private/public ip. On the other hand, i try it with curl localhost:9200, it is good. I can also ping google.
I have given the necessary port access from the…

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Active Directory Group Membership not reflecting correctly in linux
Background:
On an isolated network. Multiple RHEL6 Linux systems connected to a Windows 2012R2 DC. Systems joined to domain and authenticating with DC. Using IDMAP_RID. No known changes to windows or linux configuration files. Everything has…

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RHEL: Getting current kerberos/Kinit user ID after login?
I am connecting by SSH to a RHEL6 server.
When I SSH into the box, I am challenged for my linux username/password (which is a shared account)
username: mySharedLinuxUser
pass for mySharedLinuxUser: password123
then I am prompted again for my…

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How can I check if I have these XFS metadata scalability improvements on CentOS6?
We seem to be having trouble with some metadata update performance on CentOS6, so I am checking to see if we have the improvements mentioned in this presentation by Dave Chinner:
http://xfs.org/images/d/d1/Xfs-scalability-lca2012.pdf
It mentions…

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mod_proxy apache httpd 2.2.* . (rhel6) reverse_proxy
I'm trying to migrate a website from on premise to AWS cloud. I want to keep the current site live and test the AWS hosted version as well.
The apps pseudo hostname is www.hostname.com to have a proxy with a hostname of www.b.hostname.com that…

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High INACTIVE memory
i usring Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.5 and Oracle Database 11g when i execute "top" show this to me
top - 14:08:02 up 5 days, 18:34, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
Tasks: 340 total, 1 running, 331 sleeping, 8 stopped, 0…

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Using /dev/shm folder for pid files on RHEL6/CentOS6?
RHEL7/CentOS7 has a dedicated folder: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (e.g. /run/user/1000) for pid files, that folder is a tmpfs. However RHEL6/CentOS6 does not have $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
RHEL6(also RHEL7) has a folder using similar type: /dev/shm. After some testing…

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How can I disable the password reset prompt at ssh login for expired password? (RHEL 6.9)
Environment:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago)
LDAP provided by Oracle Directory Server running on Solaris
How do I turn off the automatic change password prompt when a user logs in with an expired password? I want the login to…

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Do we need to reboot RHEL Servers, after making changes for control-alt-delete override?
We are planning on disabling the RHEL Server reboot triggered by control-alt-delete.
for which we are going to follow the Steps mentioned here.
However, that link does not say whether we need to reboot the server after making that change for it to…

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IPv6 configuration missing in interface config file
When I use ifconfig command I get the following output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 2C:59:E5:49:54:10
inet addr:172.16.128.132 Bcast:172.16.128.255 Mask:255.255.255.128
inet6 addr:…

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Moving Nagios Core to new server (RHEL6 to CentOS 7)
The time has come to migrate our very,very old Nagios Core server on RHEL6 to a new CentOS 7 machine.
This old nagios server has been running for several years.
I am wondering if all I have to copy are the contents of the /etc/nagios and maybe…

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RAID1 mdadm, automatically fail a drive and avoid a read-only file-system?
I am managing a server with two solid state drives configured in mdadm RAID1. The server is running RHEL6 with an ext4 filesystem.
This evening the server went offline shortly after nightly backups began and the console reported disk errors:
Upon…

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OpenSCAP reporting false for RHSA patches on Redhat6 Server x86_64
did OpenSCAP scan initially and was inform of that the server had 16 hits on definitions that require patching.
performed yum update and rebooted said server and its reflecting the newer version :2.6.32-696.20.1.el6.x86_64
after patching, re-did…

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How to findout if haldaemon is being used or udev in RHEL server?
I am quite confused if hal is really in use or just udev.
What I understood:
In general, HAL is an abstraction layer that allows an operating
system to interact with a hardware device.
And daemon hald is different from HAL. It is a service which…

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