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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php.ini is not read after upgrading to PHP 5.6.25 from RHSC on RHEL7 with SELinux. How to debug?
Configuration: I run a web server with RHEL7 with the SELinux kernel module and php-fpm. By default, RHEL7 ships with PHP 5.4. This version of PHP is too old for my software, so I've upgraded to PHP 5.6.25 from RHSC.
Before upgrading, everything…

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Cannot Connect to AD Joined Samba Share on RHEL 7.3 from Windows
While I can find permission issues to Samba using local Linux users here and across Google search, I cannot find a solution to my specific problem. I don't have any experience with Samba, so this whole process has been quite an adventure, but now…

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mkswap: Device or resource busy
I've made a partition on CentOS7 and rebooted.
However when I now issue mkswap on that partition I get a busy message:
mkswap /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy
What's the problem?
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[root@centos1 ~]# df -h
Filesystem …

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OpenVPN connection fails from RHEL 7.3 client on EC2
I have a working OpenVPN configuration on Windows 7. I am able to connect to it via the GUI as well as from the command line (openvpn --config .\openvpn.ovpn).
Here is the config file:
## acme.ovpn ##
client
proto tcp
dev…

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RHEL7 selinux problems trying to run sshd via xinetd - sshd_net_t transition causes login failure
I'm trying to set up sshd to run under xinetd on an RHEL7 server. I run sshd on an alternate port, using xinetd to limit what IPs can connect.
This works fine on RHEL6, and also on RHEL7 if I disable SELinux. However, the targeted SELinux policy…

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Azure and RHEL - "Can't open display :1"... sometimes
I have an RHEL image on Azure that we launch to perform some specialized tasks. There is not an option to actually keep the service running.
However, sometimes on startup, when I attempt to run even just xeyes, I get the following error:
$ xeyes
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Increase Swapfile on operational system
new to this and I am trying to figure what will be the best way to go on about this. I have a system that I need to increase its swap file, I realized that the swap partition is not lvm so that is kind of out. However, my current swap partition is…

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Can't connect to via ssh to second NIC on RHEL aws
I want an EC2 host with 2 NICs, one for administration and one for hosting a few server processes.
I successfully cloud form'd a host with 2 NICs, each with their own elastic IP. I expect I can SSH into the box from either IP, but I can only connect…

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kickstart %include can't open file
I want to break out my kickstart user definitions into a separate file.
Trying to pull that file in with %include, I get an error that breaks the install:
Unable to open input kickstart file: curl#37 - "Couldn't open file
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I don't have KVM even though virtualization is enabled in BIOS
My name is Philippe and I have a problem I thought you could help me with. When I try to create a new virtual machine in Virtual Machine Manager I get the following error:
“Warning: KVM is not available. This may mean the KVM package is not…

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RHEL - Force mount order in fstab
I have one network share that I mount in fstab. This is working fine.
Then, I have a second mount which binds on the folder from the first mount. Something like this:
//my-cifs-share/foo /mnt/foo-share cifs _netdev,dir_mode=0777 0 0
/mnt/foo-share…

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Is it worth it to install VMWare Tools on a non-graphical Linux guest (Red Hat 7 hosting an Oracle server)
This came up because I was not able to activate the time synchronization function from the VCD. Most of what I've seen that discussed the benefits of installing VMWare tools looks like it applies to Windows machines, and perhaps also graphical Linux…

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resolv.conf empty and not using dhcp nameservers from lease
I have a server that doesn't update resolv.conf correctly when networking is restarted. This is a red hat 7 server. It should use the nameservers from dhcp. I checked /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient--eth0.lease and there is a line option…

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RHEL 7.2 - cannot find attached vda disk during install via Mirantis Open Stack
In trying to install RHEL 7 from an ISO (instead of deploying from an existing KVM image) in Mirantis Open Stack, I run into Anaconda not being able to find the attached disk - and so installation cannot proceed.
There is a 160GB virtio disk…

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Yum offline installation on rhel7.2 failed
I am trying to deploy my java server application on a client machine running Red Hat Linux 7.2 with no internet connection.
I managed to do it on my own test server in azure, several times, but the installation on the client machine…

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