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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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Server freezes while installing Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6

We've tried both the first options Install or upgrade an existing system Install system with basic video driver When trying option #1, it gets to a screen that has a solid cursor about halfway down, then freezes. When trying option #2, it…
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What does this RPC error message mean?

I have OS RHNL release 6.2 and use the NFS service (nfs-utils-1.2.3) to connect to NFS server, And found a lot of messages in a file /var/log/messages: Apr 1 11:08:35 XXX rpc.idmapd[3010]: nss_getpwnam: name '2' does not map into domain…
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RHEL/CENTOS6 Interface naming and IP assignment for rotating MACs

Background: I am creating an RHEL6 OS disk image that will potentially be passed around to many different computers with identical hardware (except for serial numbers such as MACs). The image is pre-configured and is copied after the system is…
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What is lldpad (RHEL)

recently I encountered the lldpad daemon in centos 6.3. It says in the manual :Executes the LLDP protocol for supported network interfaces. Link Layer Discovery Protocol also has a nice wikipedia article. Does anybody know if this would be of any…
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mod_evasive DOSSystemCommand not working

I'm trying to get mod_evasive to fire off a script to add an iptables rule to deny the offending host. I've tried the suggestions from both answers here but I still can't get it working. Apart from the post that's linked, I'm trying to run a script…
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chkconfig creating service symlinks with the wrong order

On RHEL 6.3, I have a system service that should be starting after postgresql and httpd (order 64 and 85, respectively), but chkconfig always places it at order 50. I tried an experiment on a CentOS 6.0 virtual machine to make sure I understood the…
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How to install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel on RHEL Server 6.3?

I have need of installing a Java 7 development environment on a RHEL 6.3 (system details are below). Following the official OpenJDK directions I tried yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel (as root). This yields the error message: No package…
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AD GIT SELinux RHEL 6 : Can not get SELinux to allow connetion to git

I have a problem with SELinux! I have installed git on Red Hat Enterprise 6 with AD group control and SSL Cert . Everything works fine if I do setenforce 0 ( set SELinux in detection only mode ) or if I do semanage permissive -a httpd_t (Set…
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Default gateway is in different subnet. How to configure in RHEL6.2

I have two subnets routed to my server from ISP. I have only one gateway ip. The gateway is on the same VLAN as my IP address. For example netowrk 1 is 1.0.0.0/24 and network 2 is 2.0.0.0/24. Both are routed to eth0 by my ISP. Gateway is 1.0.0.1. My…
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linux distributed file system over WAN advice

I have a fairly simple (not really) requirement but I've looked at a few solutions and can't find a good solution. I've got a Red Hat EL 6 server environment in my co-location and office, and some linux and windows xp and win7 workstations my…
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RHEL 6.2 hangs at startup screen after forced reboot

I had to force a hardware reboot due to some CPU hungry application. It now hangs at the start-up screen right after the progress circle completes. I have no way to see what it is doing (checking the FS or something) but when I press ctrl+alt+del, a…
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Why is my RHEL6 x86_64 server trying to install libselinux.i686?

Just did a fresh install using the RHEL 6 DVD on a test VirtualBox server: [root@bt-rhel6-1 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago) I am certain it's an x86_64 machine: [root@bt-rhel6-1 ~]# uname -a Linux…
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How to create a RHEL/CentOS boot media that automatically loads kickstart from the network?

I've build a local network where using DHCP, kickstart templating and local mirrors I can automate the installation of any RedHat-type operating system. It still requires me to go to the machine (or open a console if its a virtual machine), boot it…
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Reboot fails on RHEL 6.1 after kernel update on Amazon EC2

Everytime I start a new RHEL instance, I like to perform a yum update to start with the most up-to-date system. However, everytime I try to reboot the instance after that, the instance never goes live anymore. I troubleshooted the root cause to be…
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ZFS on Linux for RHEL/OEL NFS Sharing

I'm trying ZFS on Linux for Oracle Linux (OLE) 6.1 (Red Hat RHEL 6.1 compatible clone). I successfully compiled and installed spl and zfs on it for Oracle Unbreakable Kernel. Zfs is working and I created mirror by zpool create -f -o ashift=12 tank…
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