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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can't permanently delete automatic MAC-based inet6 address
Although I never explicitly configured ipv6 on my rhel servers and only have static ipv4 configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, an automatic ipv6 address based on MAC address keeps being added.
Now there's a need to reuse this…

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RHEL6 installed wrong version of rpmforge
I installed the wrong version of rpmforge for el7. Then I ran an update which installed this package on my system
python-crypto-2.6.1-1.el7.rf.x86_64
Notice the el7 but I am on rhel6. I then realized and removed the wrong repository and installed…

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RHEL 6.6 pip after python upgrade "ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/array.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_FromUnicode"
I originally have python 2.6 and installed 2.7 and want to use pip to install some libraries like futures (with an s :)). Unfortunately, it seems like pip's libraries has been messed up. When type pip on the command line it produces this…

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Cannot connect two different networks on rhel6 on 2 virtual NIC's
I have a RHEL6 machine on VMware with 2 Virtual NIC's.
The output of the ip's and networks are as below:
$ ip a|grep "inet"
inet 192.168.17.128/24 brd 192.168.17.255 scope global eth0
inet 192.168.47.128/24 brd 192.168.47.255 scope global eth1
The…

Suraj N
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RedHat 6.2 - Find the right place to download packages (RPM)
During a server install a custom script required the specific packages missing in my server:
• sssd.x86_64
• sssd-client.x86_64
• cyrus-sasl-gssapi.x86_64
• c-ares.x86_64
• libtdb.x86_64
• libldb.x86_64
• libini_config.x86_64
• …

João Silva
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NPS and RHEL ssh configuration
We have setup windows NPS and RHEL radius client using pam_radius module from freeradius.org for ssh. But on a linux client I see the error pam_radius_auth: Got RADIUS response code 3 in /var/log/secure. Code 3 means Access Rejected, but from a…

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Creating several kvm bridges over tagged bond
I have the following configuration in a RHEL6.5 which works great.
#…

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Mod_evasive not blocking a DOS attack using HEAD requests
Using Apache/2.2.15 on RHEL6 with mod_evasive config:
DOSHashTableSize 3097
DOSPageCount 14
DOSPageInterval 2
DOSSiteCount 70
DOSSiteInterval 1
DOSBlockingPeriod 60
Unfortunately it didn't block this attack, which only…

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Docker 1.6.0 on RHEL 6.5 with SELinux, can't run containers without root
I'm trying to run a container on a RHEL 6.5 but I keep hitting this problem:
sudo docker run -u postgres -it registry/postgres /bin/bash
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: Permission…

Oscar Renalias
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How to migrate from ide to virtio in RHEL 6.5 KVM guest with LVMs
I want to migrate a IDE-using, LVM-based KVM guest running RHEL 6.5. I found this steps in this page:
1) Run virsh edit . From there, edit the config file and
adjust all lines of
so they look like this

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add system user without login but able to su without asking for password
I created a user "sysuser" with -r option, when trying to su using another non-root user I am prompted for password.
As "sysuser" is a system account and should not login, I did not set up a password. (With sysuser I need to be able to own files and…

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AWS Linux RHEL instance unable to format and load new storage partition
I have an AWS RHEL instance.
Following are the storage devices on it:
$lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvda 202:0 0 20G 0 disk
xvda1 202:1 0 6G 0 part /
I am trying to mount xvda here to make it available by…

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RHEL6 autofs maps with subdirectories and LDAP
All the documentation I see shows, even for file based, mounts that will show up on the client computer like
/test/mymount
and you can have as many
/test/mymount2
/test/mymountN
as you want.
What I can't find documentation on…

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Local MySQL connection using eth0 rather than lo loopback
We've installed MySQL 5.6.22 on RHEL6.6 and noticed terrible performance compared to a previous install on RHEL6.5 and MySQL 5.6.20
The main thing that we've noticed is that all the traffic appears on eth0 rather than lo so we see output from SAR…

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Running 'show process list' simultaneously
I have two scripts put into a cron that runs every single minute. Both the scripts connect to the same database and runs a show full processlist. Is it okay if two show full processlist commands are run at the same time?
P.S:- One of the scripts…

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