Questions tagged [rhel6]

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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iptables blank after reboot

We've started encountering an issue with iptables on our RHEL 6.3 systems in that after a reboot, when the service starts, the rules are not loaded. We get the empty ruleset: [msnyder@matt-test ~]$ sudo iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target…
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RHEL 6 Upstart User Jobs

Does RHEL6 support upstart user jobs? I modified /etc/dbus-1/system.d/Upstart.conf and added a policy section for my username. I then created ~/init.d/userjob.conf. When I do inictrl list it doesn't show up. Does RHEL6 support this? If so how do I…
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Locking user account on RHEL using PAM LDAP

I have a bit of an edge case here. My institution has a RHEL server where students can log in and do their work. Accounts are held in LDAP and the server uses PAM and LDAP to authenticate. At the end of the academic year I need to lock the student…
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How to add interface alias on RHEL6 or CentOS6 with NetworkManager?

How to add a network interface alias (for example eth0:0) on CentOS6 or RHEL6 in the "correct" way that is through NetworkManager without NM_CONTROLLED=no. And this has to be done without GUI. Thank you, a
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yum trying to install el5 when I am on el6

When I run the following yum command I get this error: Package: git-1.7.10.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Requires: libcurl.so.3()(64bit)" I read that this error is due to running an el5 rpmforge or having some el5 installed packages. How…
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System can't get lock on VG after exending LV?

So I just extended the VG on my server. Basically, the local disk is 300GB. I initially created two partitions: sda1 is a primary partition, with ext4 assigned to /boot; sda2 is where 74G VG resides (vg is server hostname). So I had an extra 225G…
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configure: error: Cannot find libtidy

I want to build PHP 5.3.9 on RHEL 6.2 with Tidy support. I get this message: configure: error: Cannot find libtidy So I try to install libtidy: yum install libtidy libtidy-devel but libtidy-devel is not available: Package…
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Compiling realtime kernel from RHEL 6 MRG sources on CentOS 6

I'm trying to compile kernel-rt-2.6.33.9-rt31.75.el6rt.src.rpm from RHEL6 MRG source RPMs on Centos 6 x86_64 system. It's first time I'm doing this, so I did research on how to do this properly. From what I found, I did: rpm -ihv…
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KVM on RHEL 6.1 makes host sluggish

I have been running RHEL 5.7 on a host just fine with several VMs (KVM). No major issues. Time came to upgrade to RHEL 6.1 as a few bugs had been fixed in this release. When I start a VM or two under RHEL 6.1, the system becomes really sluggish.…
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How do I update a very old CentOS release (6.2) where yum won't work at all because of outdated openssl certificates?

I have an old CentOS 6.2 machine and need to update a few packages on it (or many packages, I suppose). However I can't do anything with yum because even after changing the repos to vault.centos.org, yum spits out this error whenever attempting to…
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Problems with auto-mounting MDADM-created RAID array and creating RAID device

I'm working on a script that automatically detects new drives that have been added so they can be formatted and turned into a RAID-5 array. I've been able to detect the drives and format them with little trouble, but am having issues with creating…
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openldap "invalid credentials" trying to authenticate with Active Directory

We have an AD server running and it works for every windows machine on our domain for authentication across many services. We recently brought a RHEL6 machine online and are trying to configure a specific application which should authenticate using…
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Is it possible to create a RHEL 6 repo on a RHEL 7 server

I am trying to create a RHEL 6 repository, but since I have a RHEL 7 repository, I was thinking if it is possible to create that repo on the same server. I already have a valid and currently registered subscription on the RHEL 7 server, but when y…
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RHEL6 NFSv4 client acting like NFSv3?

My understanding is NFSv4 clients should immediately connect to the NFSv4 service on the server, skipping the rpcbind portmapper and mountd service interactions entirely, but I'm seeing my RHEL6 client always first contacting the rpcbind service to…
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Stop Apache Traffic Server from creating config file backups

I've got an installation of Apache Traffic Server running. All is great, except it keeps overwriting my symlinked configuration files! For failover purposes, I've replaced records.config and remap.config with symlinks to a shared storage location…
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