Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 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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RHEL7: virt-who reports all machines as localhost.localdomain on Customer Portal
I have an ESXi 6.0 hypervisor and am in the process of installing datacenter licenses for RedHat. I installed and configured virt-who RHEL7 VM as per How to use "virt-who" to register Esxi hosts with "Virtual Datacenter" entitlements ?
While going…

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Port opened on RHEL but nmap cannot find it
I am using tomcat on RHEL7 cloud instance on default 8080 port. Opened port using sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=8080/tcp --permanent, reloaded using sudo firewall-cmd --reload. Connecting curl 0.0.0.0:8080 works fine but I cannot access…

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logical-Volume / rhel 7
How do I add 100% of the available free space from the volume group "centos" to the root logical volume? What tool do I use to resize the root logical volume.
Below are the steps performed prior to this question.
root@server1 ~]# vgs
VG #PV…

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can i apply quota on non partitioned /home drive RHEL7
I am having one RHEL 7 installed machine with following xfs partitions.
/
/swap
/boot
i did not create /home drive while creating partitions.
now i want to apply quota and not able to fine entries for '/home' drive in fstab file.
/home is…

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How to disable disk device user-friendly names in a RHEL 7 kickstart file
We're right now in the process of deploying a set of fibre-channel connected hosts with multipathed root disks. The installation is automated through foreman, so we boot vie PXE and run anaconda with a kickstart file.
The default behaviour in…

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Pidfile should not get deleted when i do pkill -9 pid
I have a service snmpAgent. I do not want to delete the pid file when i do "pkill -9 $pid". But the pid file is getting deleted any help will be great.
Please find below my snmpAgent.service file
[Unit]
Description=SNMP…

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RHEL7 join to AD using Ansible
Looking into the best practice way of joining a RHEL7 to AD using Ansible. Is there an ansible module to do this? I had a look but there doesn't appear to be.
This article "How to join RHEL system to Active Directory domain using adcli" from…

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NFSv4 client unable to mount export containing brackets or spaces but works on NFSv3
There is an issue with NFSv4 when you try to mount a path containing a space and or a bracket character. NFSv3 works fine using the path that uses a symbolic link to the actual folder and NFSv4 does not. I am unable to change the Dropbox…

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RHEL7 - su - command error logging location
I am trying to understand if there is any logging happening for this command in any log file:
$ su - user1
su: user user1 does not exist
I checked /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure and /var/log/audit/audit.log, but couldn't find any message…

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Cannot create symlink from /var/tmp to /tmp. Cannot delete /var/tmp - CentOS 7
I cannot delete /var/tmp as it says,
# rm -Rf /var/tmp
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/tmp’: Device or resource busy
Because of this, I cannot create a symbolic link from /var/tmp to /tmp.
How can I achieve this ?
Output of df
| Filesystem | 1K-blocks |…

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RHSCL - php55-tidy extension not available via RHSCL
Alright, so my high level question essentially is that the php55 tidy extension is not available via RHSCL? I've already setup a new instance of httpd24 & php55 everything on this server is functional however one of our developers requires tidy.
I…

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Add ldap authentication to nginx on RHEL 7
I installed nginx 1.10.2 to my RHEL 7 server using yum from epel repo:
$ sudo yum install epel-release
$ sudo yum install nginx httpd-tools
Now I want to add ldap authentication. I found this from a github…

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How can I have NetworkManger automatically connect to a network?
I am trying to prepare several machines that will be used at a single location. I know the SSID of the network and it will be unsecured. Is there a way to add the network in NetworkManager so that once the user logs in, NetworkManager automatically…

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systemd: Limit concurrent start at boot for a custom service
We have defined a "myapp@.service" file which handles our application server starts.
On some servers there are a lot of application servers and we hit issues where one or two servers won't start.
This is a RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 server.
Is there…

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Unable to launch 389-console locally | java.awt.HeadlessException
I'm trying to replace some ancient SunOne directory servers with 389 DS. I have a brand spankin new CentOS installation where I followed the steps as outlined here. My workstation is RHEL7, where I installed 389-console for the purposes of…

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