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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Cannot retrieve repository from channel "rhel-x86_64-server-6"
I have a red hat satellite 5.7 with subscribed servers to the rhn under a 3.4 rhev installation and I just created a VM with RHEL 6.6, subscribed it with satellite to the rhn, configured the channels in the satellite console, did the check using…

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httpd running as context unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 (SELinux is in Permissive)
I'm experiencing an issue starting httpd:
# service httpd status
httpd is stopped
# service httpd start
Starting httpd: [Tue Nov 01 12:02:53 2016] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd running as context unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
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Add NFS mount to auto.direct when already mounted
I have a production server which has an NFS Share mounted via fstab. We now need to switch this to autofs to reduce some startup dependencies.
Is it possible to delete the fstab entry and add an autofs entry without unmounting the file system?
I'm…

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How to change the Default Shell Properties to Bash for non-local accounts that users Active Directory
We did an integration of CentOS 6 with Active Directory. I would like to know how to change the Default Shell Properties to Bash for non-local accounts.
For the local accounts we use chsh -s /bin/bash [username]
So please help me here with the right…

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Sporadic "ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer" Error
I have an RHEL 6.8 x86_64 server that has had a long running problem with the SSH server. It has openssh-5.3p1-118.1.el6_8.x86_64 installed. Every so many attempts to connect to SSH/SFTP, the server gives back the error:…

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mrepo not generating repodata - odd errors
I'm having trouble with mrepo on a RHEL 6 system, trying to mirror a RHEL 5 repo.
Running mrepo -uvvvv will update all the packages but it won't create the repdata directory. You have to specify -s sha (or --checksum sha) since yum on RHEL 5 doesn't…

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completely remove phpmyadmin centos
I removed phpmyadmin on my CentOS server by typing
yum erase phpmyadmin
Then I checked if it's still in the server by locate and it displayed…

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Migrating Puppet Code to Puppet 4: Issue with Classes
We are migrating our Puppet Code from 3.5.7 to 4.5.2
While applying manifests I am getting following error
Error: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter unless failed on Exec[sh /home/agile/svncheckout.sh]: 'test -f /home/agile/subversion.done' is not…

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Troubleshooting network errors, possibly DNS issues
Yesterday we had some server (or possibly network issues) that escalated into real issues with connectivity (via ssh) and also dns problems.
During this nothing (apart from the above) seemed to be out of the ordinary: all servers responded to ping,…

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Sending shutdown messages to all clients from server
I'm trying to find a way to broadcast a shutdown message to all the users on clients connected to my centos server. The wall command sends only to users logged into the server and not to clients .I know also of rwall but can't seem to find it on…

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Configuring RHEL 6.6 repositories
I've been given a RHEL 6.6 system which seems poorly configured - there is no subscription-manager tool available and network access has been restricted upstream.
I was able to obtain outbound HTTPS connectivity but no FTP (don't ask).
How do I…

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Error no 14 while installing PostgreSQL using yum
I am trying to install PostgreSQL on RHEL 6.3 using yum. I am getting a error while installing postgreSQL using yum.
Command:
yum install postgresql95-server postgresql95
Error:
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly,…

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Having trouble installing MySQL Community Server on new RHEL 6.8 instance
I'm having trouble installing MySQL 5.7.12 on RHEL 6.8.
The first RPM I downloaded was for RHEL 7.0. This is a brand new instance, and I stupidly assumed it would be RHEL 7. It's not.
So my installation failed with errors like:
Error: Package:…

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Globbing based on current directory
Ran into some strange behavior today. Wondering if anyone here can tell me what is behaving differently. Environment is a RHEL 6.7 server.
I run the following command:
yum list installed *mysql*
If my cwd is / or a number of other places I get the…

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yum-cron emails going to root instead of specified user
I have several RHEL 6 servers that I have configured yum-cron to run on. I have configured them to send email output to my address. The problem is that all but one of the servers are still delivering mail to root. I'm certain I have missed…

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