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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Which graphic drivers should I Install and how?
I have a system on which RHEL6 is installed.
I need to install proper graphic drivers.
I checked my graphic card simply by this command
#lspci -v | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0162 (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA…

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What is an active CentOS6 / RHEL6 repository providing icinga?
There are several CentOS6 repositories listed in the wiki and I checked nearly all of them. Only RPMForge provides icinga / icinga-web, but in v1.7.2 which is fairly outdated and contains several bugs. (e.g. status map not working with child/parent…

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HOW do I get enforcing SElinux and postfix with custom milter to work?
I have an IPv4 setup of postfix on RHEL6 with SElinux in enforcing mode.
All my attempts at incorporating opendkim fails miserably unless I leave enforcing mode.
The errors I get when SElinux is enforcing:
Jan 25 09:57:25 katniss…

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How can I get the "base" repository for yum in RHEL 6?
My goal is to try and install git on a RHEL 6 machine.
I've seen the post here: How can I install git on RHEL 6?
And the answer refers to a download link that appears part of centOS:…

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Install WAS 7.0 on RHEL 6
I am trying to install Websphere 7 x64 on RHEL 6 x64.
I am using Developer edition.
When I try to execute ./install on the command prompt, it waits for few seconds and then returns to prompt without any error.
I have installed all the pre-requisites…

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Best practices for tuning virtual hosts
While digging around to find resources on tuning virtual hosts I found an article on VMWares knowledgebase about changing the I/O scheduler.
What else should be considered for improving performance/reliability? Are there any community guides…

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Redhat 6 gui installation VS kickstart gives me different packages?
If i do the graphical install and select basic server + aide and screen i get a system with 535 installed packages.
If i look at the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg file in that freshly installed system i…

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VxFS on both Solaris and RHEL?
I'd like to know if VxFS could be used in order to share a volume ( on a SAN mounted using FC) between a RHEL (5 or 6) and Solaris (11) host ?
What I'm trying to achive is to shared a volume (from a SAN) across a grid of hosts running Solaris and…

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How to install Nagios Business Process AddOns on RHEL6?
I want to install Nagios Business Process AddOns on RedHat EL 6.1, but I don't know how, and the doc provided for this purpose is too vague.

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Dependencies issue while installing Graphviz 2.28
I want to install this packages for Nagvis :
graphviz-2.28.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
graphviz-doc-2.28.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
graphviz-gd-2.28.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
graphviz-graphs-2.28.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
graphviz-perl-2.28.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
But while installing, i have…

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umask in RHEL 6
How can one set the executable bit on files using umask? According to documentation, a umask of 000 should work, but in practice this only works on directories.
Also open to other methods of automatically setting +rwx on a particular user's created…

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Dependency issue while installing Nagios plugins
I have a dependency problem while installing nagios-plugins :
yum install nagios-plugins-all
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--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/sensors for package: nagios-plugins-sensors-1.4.15-7.el6.i686
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package:…

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Sphinx search on RHEL / CentOS MySQL cluster
Is it possible to add a new resource type to an RHEL or CentOS 6.x cluster, in order to allow Sphinx fulltext search to run alongside MySQL?
The clusters are managed using luci/ricci and cman.

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RHEL 6 KVM NIC configuration with bonding + vlan + bridge
We are having trouble with our bonded NICs + vlan + bridged network configuration. We have a blade server running RHEL6, and are trying to set up the networking for KVM virtualisation.
The blade server has 2 NICs (p2p1 and p2p2) which connect to…

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How does RHEL alert a user about the failure of a hard drive in a RAID configuration?
I have, for better or worse, been put in charge of a big-ass server running RHEL6. It has six 1.5 TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. I understand the theoretical concepts behind RAID, and I access this server exclusively through the command line.…

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