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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Attempting to update iDRAC firmware with racadm, getting error "RAC923 : The file path is too long"
Per title, I'm attempting to update iDRAC on an R720 server running RHEL7.
I obtained the correct firwmare file by going to Dell's support site, entering my service tag, then filtering down to the iDRAC and Lifecycle controller firmware update. I…

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DNS hard to reach after reboot RHEL7
Two weeks ago, two of our four RHEL7 VMs running on same Openstack infrastructure rebooted unprompted and unnoticed. May be externally triggered.
Ever since, all services relying on DNS are unreliable on these two servers, while alright on the…

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Check if software is installed based rpm package name - Rhel 7 and Rhel 9
I have one Rhel7 and one Rhel9 server running in my local lab.
When I'm listing all the installed packages uring rpm -qa | grep -i package I get following result:
Package-12.2.5.-1.x86_64
The name of the rpm package is:…

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LVM disk is corrupt - is any data recoverable?
Under RHEL7 we have a logical volume consisting of 27 volume groups PVs. Each of these VGsPVs was added sequentially as we ran out of space on the LV.
We do not have a backup of the data. There are no snapshots of the VM.
Recently it refused to…

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HPC node, Infiniband is DOWN
I have an HPC with 17 nodes running CentOS 7 and a dedicated Mellanox SX6036 Infiniband switch, each node has an Infiniband FDR interface.
Recently one node started giving errors and a quick look showed that the ib0 IPoIB interface was down.
4: ib0:…

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Remote call of NRPE comman fails in one case, while succeeding locally in all
I have amazingly strange issue with monitoring a CIFS (SMB) shared folder mounted to Linux machines by Nagios + NRPE.
NRPE process runs on the Linux machines under dedicated user nrpe:
# systemctl status nrpe
nrpe.service - Nagios Remote Program…

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Red Hat Enterprise 7.4 End-of-Life status
I would like to get a definitive and authorized answer on the end-of-life of RHEL 7.4.
I tried to find information…

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How to find the source of operation in netlink
There's a route I'm trying to add that seems to be automatically deleted by something in my OS/kernel itself. I can't seem to get the origin of this or the reason.
When I add the route, the command returns with success return code, but the route is…

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How to redirect http to https in NGINX in existing nginx.conf
I'm on RHEL7.9 Linux. I have a server (IP a.b.c.d) serving a webApplicationA and using https in nginx and it's working accessible at https://a.b.c.d.
On that same machine (same IP, a.b.c.d) I have an AppImage running which is a DIFFERENT web…

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CIS RHEL shows "This is system is not registered with an entitlement server you can use subscription manager to register"
Hey guys I purchased and deployed a CIS hardened image of RHELv 7.9 on my azure platform but now it shows the above message when I run the yum command to install or update something.
If I am not registered to an entitlement server does it make my…

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Audit Log Partition keeps getting corrupted. How to prevent or boot anyway?
I am running RHEL7, and my audit log partition randomly (not often, but often enough to annoy me) gets corrupted, preventing me from booting. How can I either prevent the partition from being corrupted, or ignore it and allow the system to continue…

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How application choose which address will use for outcoming communication
I have a proprietary Linux distribution based on RHEL 7 and am trying to deal with the following issue. The machine has one primary network interface with two IP addresses assigned. The first one is present all the time and is static, the second one…

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locale setting for rhel7/8
In RHEL7/8 I know we control the locale setting using localctl command and which updates the /etc/locale.conf file.
Ex :
# localectl set-locale LANG=ja_JP.utf8
# localectl set-keymap jp106
# localectl
System Locale: LANG=ja_JP.utf8
VC…

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Sudo: Using arguments in /etc/sudoers.d/ file, particularly with mount (visudo rejects syntax)
I have a syntax wrangling problem with sudo that may not be solvable.
I know I know, OpenBSD's new doas is better than sudo, but it is not available on CentOS 7 or Rocky 8. So we're stuck with sudo for a while, girls and guys.
If I add the following…

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Force deleted files on NFS server to be recycled instead
I have a RHEL 7.9 server I'm using as a file server. It exposes an XFS partition over NFS for clients to mount and use. I am willing to use a different filesystem than XFS if need be, but I cannot escape using NFS.
I'd like to force a Recycle Bin so…

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