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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Degraded httpd performance after moving from RHEL 5.6 to 6.1
We have recently replaced an RHEL 5.6 web server with RHEL 6.1. For both environments, the (stock) Redhat shipped Apache httpd has been used (i.e. yum install httpd). The server is serving PHP content and is busy (serving approximately 2500 - 4000…
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SL6: Non-standard home directories, Error: `Could not chdir to home directory` upon login, but `cd $HOME` works?
I have a brand new Scientific Linux 6 instance (Similar to RHEL6 & CentOS6), running on Parallels.
The home directory is in a non-standard location, which I'll call /homedir
When I ssh into this box I get an error:
laptop $ ssh…
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RHEL6 "/etc/sysconfig/networking" is missing, can't configure any devices through system-config-network
I'm having an issue configuring networking for my RHEL6 box.
Whenever I run "system-config-network" -> "Device configuration" I get nothing there, like I dont have any ethernet devices, when I look for my eth* through dmesg I dont see anything there…
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Users unable to create files/directories on NFSv3 mount, but can modify
I've got two RHEL 6 servers, one is an NFS server (we'll call it nfs-server, say its IP is 10.1.1.1), and the other is a generic client for all intents and purposes (we'll call it nfs-client, say its IP is 10.0.0.1).
Both nfs-server and nfs-client…
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SSH hangs on "exec request accepted on channel 0"
I have a question that appears very similar to others that have been asked but none of them have answered my problem. I'm running into an ssh error on sending a command (not loading an interactive shell).
The Scenario
My default shell at my company…
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Create local repository with all dependencies from rpm
I have a custom rpm given to me by a vendor that has dependencies that are pulled when installed. I need to install this package on a closed network system, so I cannot access the internet to gather the dependencies. I can however access a…
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Why aren't failed attempts using ssh keys only logged?
I am running on a RHEL 6 operating system. I can see failed login attempt (password failures) in my /var/log/secure file. However, I don't see attempts to ssh to the server when the key is not correct. For example, if I issue the ssh request:
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Dynamically Restrict What CPU's a new process runs
So, I've looked briefly at cgroups and numactl, but neither appears, based on the information i have found, to be quite what I need.
We use a piece of software, "fast-X", For our users to login to their graphical sessions over the network. it seems…
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Log/Audit everything allowed by SELinux
I'm profiling some proprietary software to construct a set of permission requirements and SELinux policies to allow it to install and run on Oracle Linux (or any RHEL derivative).
I'm running SELinux in permissive mode, I have run semodule -DB to…
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Yum installation fails with RHEL 6.5
I am trying to install shibboleth SP package using YUM installation (Yum install shibboleth). I am getting the following error while installing.
Downloading…
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munin requires perl(RRDs)
I'm in RHEL6.3 and I'm installing munin from epel http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm I already solved all dependencies except this one :
Error: Package: perl-Log-Log4perl-1.30-1.el6.noarch (epel)
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RHEL6 httpd Root CA configuration
I'm setting up SSL on a RHEL6 box and I'm having problems finding information about configuring the Root CAs.
I've got four files:
cert.crt - My SSL certificate
my_key.key - The key used to request/generate the certificate
CorpDomain.cer - File…
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What is the difference between "su --command" and "su --session-command"?
Running # su - oliver --command bash gives a shell but also prints the warning bash: no job control in this shell, and indeed Ctrl+Z and fg/bg don't work in that shell.
Running # su - oliver --session-command bash gives a shell without printing the…
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Account Lockout with pam_faillock in RHEL6
Previously, I asked about using pam_tally2 under RHEL6. I would like to pose this question and answer to document the recommended use of pam_faillock over pam_tally2 for the same function;
What is the recommended strategy for temporary account…
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