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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JBoss EAP 6.2 on RHEL 6: ./bin/init.d/jboss-as-standalone.sh hangs while calling via SSH
I'm using jboss-as-standalone.sh to manage JBoss EAP standalone as a service. I can start/stop the service with "service jboss-as-standalone.sh start/stop" while I'm on a terminal.
But I would like to start JBoss from outside the server via SSH…

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rbash to limit user to its home directory closes sftp connection
Server: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
Using openssh-server to allow sftp connexions.
I'm trying to limit users to their own personal home directory.
So i modified /etc/passwd setting user "john" to use /bin/rbash instead of…

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Install libxml2.8 on RHEL 6
I want to install the software TinyOWS on a RHEL 6 server. I followed the instructions:
wget http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/tinyows-1.1.0.tar.bz2
tar xvjf tinyows-1.1.0.tar.bz2
cd tinyows-1.1.0
./configure
make
make install
But I couldn't…

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Hyper-V 'standalone' (on baremetal) with RHEL/CentOS 6.x guest VM
My exposure to virtualization has been limited to Virtualbox &VMware-player on Desktops, and to VMWare ESXi &KVM on Linux server, and exclusively with Linux guests (RHEL/CentOS). So please pardon my limited knowledge of Windows server --…

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Nagios NRPE: Command “my_command” not defined
I have installed Nagios® Core™ 3.5.1 and NRPE v2.14 on my client which running RHEL 6.3
I have this error message on my Nagios
NRPE: Command 'check_mysql_connections' not defined
On my nrpe.cfg I already set up the allowed_host,…

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Managing Python versions with environment-modules
I'm trying to configure a RHEL6 server to allow multiple users to run multiple versions of Python, multiple versions of various python modules, and multiple versions of various other programs (e.g. gcc). I believe the appropriate way to do this is…

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Later versions of RPMs not available through custom yum repo
I've created a custom repository following this guide.
Files are being served via http (nginx). I've cd'd into the directory to create the metadata with createrepo .. I can install a package through yum from my custom repo; so far, so good.
Now I…

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Find out limits of other user
On CentOS 6.4 / 64 bit - how to find the limits of the user "nobody"?
Because I can not just su - nobody and call ulimit -a:
# id nobody
uid=99(nobody) gid=99(nobody) groups=99(nobody)
# su - nobody
This account is currently not…

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Why is ATLAS not detected on RHEL when I try a SciPy installation through pip?
I'm using RHEL6, Python 2.6.6, and trying to install SciPy through pip.
[user@server ~]$ sudo pip install scipy
atlas_blas_threads_info:
Setting PTATLAS=ATLAS
libraries ptf77blas,ptcblas,atlas not found in ['/usr/local/lib64',…

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Reallocate Storage in Red Hat 6
Is it possible to (safely) reallocate storage space in /home to the root filesystem?
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_yavin-lv_root 50G 35G 13G 74% /
tmpfs 24G …

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Unable to set proxy to "subscription-manager repos --list" -command
I have RHEL6 system that is registered to rhn via subscription-manager. I'am trying to install package java-1.6.0-sun-devel which is in rhel-6-server-optional-rpms repository, According to this Redhat Documentation. My system is behind proxy, so I…

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NTP can't synchronise or find a suitable server
The problem I'm trying to solve is that NTP won't synchronize:
$ sudo ntpstat
unsynchronised
time server re-starting
polling server every 64 s
Edit: Here's some ntpq output:
$ sudo ntpq -c peers
remote refid st t when poll…

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Keep RHEL at a particular minor revision level?
I'm working with a large database platform (Or#&%@) that requires a specific revision level of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this case, it needs EL6.2 in order to retain support and compatibility with several DB features that we intend to use.
What…

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Yum: List & Remove all devel packages
Devel packages usually contain the headers or other stuff that's necessary for compiling applications.
To keep the systems clean and manageable, I'm looking for a command to
list all-devel-packages installed by yum (also rpm's, without the…

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Oracle Linux 6 kernel panic boot - anything I can do?
I'm running Oracle Linux 6 on a HP Proliant server. It's been running fine for the last week, but seemed slow earlier so the Oracle service was stopped. Rather than restart the service, I was asked to reboot the server, but on start we got a kernel…

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