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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Choosing bonding mode between RHEL server and two separate switches
I have one RHEL 6 server with two NIC ports (each Port is connected to different switch). I need to create bonded interface from those two physical ports.
Which bonding mode should I use? I don't want to use mode 1, active /backup won't help me…

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How can I make the root logical volume smaller without problems and downtime?
[root@tst-01 puppet]# lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
lvhome vg00 -wi-ao 2.00g
lvroot vg00 -wi-ao 38.75g
lvswap vg00 -wi-ao 4.00g
lvtmp vg00 -wi-ao 1.00g
lvvar vg00 -wi-ao 4.00g
[root@tst-01…

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ip6tables TPROXY not working
I have a problem, I need to have to run a java program on a port < 1024. authbind and jsvc are no alternatives, it is simply decided not to use.
But using
ip6tables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 546 -j TPROXY --on-port 8547
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Adding an interface-specific gateway
Desired result: Assign an interface-specific gateway in the circumstance that are also receiving general DHCP-supplied gateway settings.
Current situation: Interface-specific gateway setting is not recognized, probably because it by default has the…

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rm: cannot lstat `cd1/Linux/nic/UBUNTU11_64/âââ\033\nwâ·.αÃo': Input/output error
am trying to delete folder in My rhel machine , but is giving error like
rm: cannot lstat `cd1/Linux/nic/UBUNTU11_64/âââ\033\nwâ·.αÃo': Input/output error
folder permissions are rwx to all
thanks
mahesh

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Preferred way to add a new name server to a host in Red Hat or CentOS
I am managing a particular host machine, and I would like to locally add a new name server for it to query (i.e. not changing its name server settings via the dhcp server). It seems that there are multiple ways to add a new name server.
Adding a…

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How is it determined which name server will be used for a particular interface?
According to the documentation for interface configuration files in RHEL 6, an interface can specify which name server it would like to use by including the directive DNS{1,2}=address . The documentation states,
where address is a name server…

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rpmbuild missing from rhel 6.3
I have a fresh new RHEL 6.3. I cannot access internet and because of this I cannot use yum. I would like to use the RPMs I get from the Red Hat package (2 discs full or RPMS).
These are all files .src.rpm. Once I issue a call to
rpm -vv -Uvh…

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Linux/RHEL Server Down with "xinetd" Alerts?
Suddenly one of my RHEL 6 Server [VM] (serving Apache on it also) went down and when i rebooted it, i saw several of following /var/log/messages as latest before it went down:
May 4 08:16:37 localhost xinetd[1928]: START: nrpe pid=19307…

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Which partition utility's output is correct?
I have Fusion ioDrive2 785GB (731.088 GiB) SSD card.
The server is running Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 (RHEL6.4 compatible).
It is low-level formatted as such:
"80% factory capacity"
Format Capacity: 627,999,997,952 bytes
Sector Size:…

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iDRAC7 - discover Host Name, OS Name, OS Version when running RHEL 6?
Just picked up a Dell PowerEdge R720 which comes with an iDRAC 7, and am wondering how to get the host operating system (Red Hat 6) to automatically report the hostname, os name, and os version to the DRAC without having to manually set these…

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How do I set the Red Hat hostname at boot via a script?
In our computing environment we have a number of virtual machines running Red Hat Enterprise Liunx 6 that need to set their hostname programmaticly when they boot for the first time. Currently they are being set to names along the lines of…

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Why doesn't build of net-snmp-5.7.2 provide /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmptrapd?
I am packaging an RPM for RHEL6, built from net-snmp-5.7.2.tar.gz. I see that the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd gets created and packaged but I do not see the init file for /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmptrapd. Is snmptrapd depreciated?
Did I forget to pass…

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SSHD on RHEL 6.3: Is it possible to use RequiredAuthentications2 by subnet?
We're implementing RHEL 6.3 and looking to use the dual authentication mechanism provided by
RequiredAuthentications2 publickey,password
referenced here.
What I'm wondering is if it's possible to only apply this to connections from a certain…

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Recover Crypt password on Partition - RHEL 6
I'm new around here and I'm not sure if this is the right place to post. I was recently asked to bring in a used server from another site of ours. On booting, I found that it has been encrypted using LUKS. No one (either at our Head Office or the…

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