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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RHEL 6.5 / Updating MySQL
Currently running RHEL 6.5 and need to update to MySQL 5.5.36. Currently it has MySQL 5.1.73 installed. The Software Collections repo has been added. I performed a yum update and it does not show me the option to upgrade MySQL.
What do I need to do…

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Windows 7 with Direct Access and bridging a connection to a local RHEL VM
My company provided laptop is a Windows 7 machine configured to Microsoft Direct Access on the domain controller so that even remotely it will always be available on the domain without having to explicitly launch a VPN client. I know that it does…

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Linux Hard link permissions show r/w/x for owner/user/group but user unable to execute
I have a hard link to a service script in /etc/init.d/ that points to a shell script (bash). The permissions show owner, user and group permissions to be rwx for everyone.
However, when I run the $find /etc/init.d/ -group myuser command, nothing in…

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Identifying RHEL disk other than by UUID in /etc/fstab for Disaster Recovery from another site
For our disaster recovery setup there is a set of disk which are replicated from our production site to the disaster site. On the production site the RHEL servers have /boot filesystem setup on disks specified via UUID in the /etc/fstab .
However…

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cifs mount not working using fstab on RHEL6
I had a line in my fstab file that until this morning allowed me to read and write to a windows share (dummy IP address is shown below)
//111.111.1.111/ecc /mnt/nas2 cifs…
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uploadprogress.so is installed, but does not appear in phpinfo
I'm on RHEL6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)), but I've upgraded PHP to version 5.4.16. I've downloaded and installed the PECL uploadprogress library version 1.0.3.1 that is supposed to be compatible with my version of…

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brctl addbr and bonding not working for CentOS6 if IPv6 is disabled
I set up a CentOS6-XEN4-Server according to these instructions.
Now I want to set up bridges - first manually:
brctl addbr test - but this fails with:
"add Bridge failed: Package not installed"
Googling about that I tried to manually modprobe bridge…

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cron to anacron migration process
I have a script that I want to run nightly on my lab's RHEL 5 and 6 workstations, so I'm deploying the script to each system's /etc/cron.daily/ directory and making it executable there. But some workstations may not be powered on at the time when…

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What are disadvantages of using nsswitch compat?
In my current LDAP set-up "getent passwd" shows all 600+ users that exist in the LDAP, not enumerating only the 20 LDAP-users that have permission to access this netgroup/server.
This can be solved by compat mode to filter the…

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nginx repomd.xml 404 Not Found
I set up the nginx repository as specified at http://wiki.nginx.org/Install
[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/rhel/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
When I try to install php-fpm, I get the following…

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Users seeing all other LDAP users on RHEL default behavior?
We are using an LDAP server with both Solaris and RHEL servers and planning to migrate more servers over to RHEL. However we have an issue with LDAP on all Red Hat servers. When we type "getent passwd", all users on the entire LDAP Server are shown,…

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Should rp_filter sysctl parameter be set on bonding master or member slaves?
I have a server running RHEL6.4.
I need to configure .rp_filter sysctl parameter for my server's private interconnect.
This server has 2 NICs bonded together.
I looked through the documentation and searched online but haven't found conclusive…

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Moving from nslcd to sssd on Red Hat to solve NSS MD5 issue
I have a problem with the latest version of Red Hat, nss/nscd does not accept MD5 certificates.
Because of recommendations I am replacing nscd with sssd with this howto…

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how to configure default gateway
On a RHEL6 server I added a 2nd nic and have configured it to use a static ip on a different subnet.
$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
172.16.157.32 0.0.0.0 …

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NFS not working on bonded NFS interface - mount.nfs: No such device
We have an error message when trying to mount NFS on a RHEL server.
NFS works fine on all our other servers, but not on 2 freshly kickstarted servers with the error "mount.nfs: No such device".
[root@tst-03 ~]# mount -o udp -t nfs…

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