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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Unable to mount xfs volume to replay log. Now what?
42TB LUN, formatted in XFS and shared via NFS was reported 'unavailable' by customers. In the end I was forced to restart the file server. The XFS LUN won't mount until it is repaired, and to repair I need to mount it so the log will replay and…

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FreeIPA : Installer not resolving domain name from hosts file
I have been having an issue while installing FreeIPA. The problem is that every time I run the installer the FreeIPA application does not read from the host file rather tries to resolve the domain name (my machine's hostname) with a DNS query. I'm…

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Failed to get properties: Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out
Getting the below error while running systemctl status commands in my RHEL 7 linux server.
# systemctl status docker.service
Failed to get properties: Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out
I see the login also is slow. What could be the…

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No network connectivity in KVM guest
I'm attempting to set up my first guest set up under KVM and am having trouble getting the network working.
The host machine "vm_host_box" has a static IP of 4.4.4.185.
The guest I am setting up needs to have a static IP of 4.4.4.200.
I…

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Boolean ftp_home_dir is not defined - RHEL7.3
I'm trying to configure vsftpd 3.0.2 on RHEL 7.3. I am trying to set my setsebool -P ftp_home_dir=1 to enable users access to their home dir. However I receive:
Boolean ftp_home_dir is not defined
This is confirmed when viewing semanage boolean -l…

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Google-cloud-sdk dnf/yum repo multiple gpgkey errors
The google-cloud-sdk repo file for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7 contains two gpgkey URLs. This is what the repo file looks like:
[google-cloud-sdk]
name=Google Cloud…
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Should SSSD perform AD access validation for matching local users?
I have been spending many, many happy hours exploring the sssd configuration needed to integrate RHEL7 and Active Directory. A large portion of those have included looking through the many posts here on SSSD and AD integration, particularly to do…

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Create mdraid with multipath disks in in RHEL7:
I am still novice in the world of storage. I am working on a project of migrating our backups infra from Solaris to Linux.
As part of that, I have rebuilt a server to Linux (RHEL7) and it has 2 root disks (300GB each) and 30 disks (of 3TB each) from…

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how to configure the grub.cfg file on redhat 7 in order to boot from specific kernel
In Red Hat EL versions 5 and 6 we can easily to update the /etc/grub.conf in case we want to change the kernel by default variable
For example , grub.conf on redhat 5
default=0
timeout=5
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
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Ansible: Failed to connect to the host via ssh
Anyone know why this isn't working?
I'm using Ansible on Cygwin using a compiled version of sshpass. I followed the instructions at http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/running-ansible-within-windows for setting it up. Here's my /etc/ansible/hosts…

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cloud-init does not insert instance level ssh keys in gce
I am passing (YAML representation)
metadata:
items:
- key: sshKeys
value: root:ssh-rsa AAAAB... non@nan
when creating a gcloud instance. But I cannot ssh to the instance
$ ssh 139.242.197.104.bc.googleusercontent.com
Host key fingerprint is…

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Cannot ssh to remote system after enabling IPSec
I have created two VMs on top of base OS and have enabled IPSec between the two VMs.
Now the problem is as soon as IPsec starts and SA is established between the two VMs, I am not able to ping or ssh to the VM thorugh the base OS but the VMs can…

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How can I increase vCPUs on VM without powering off in RHEL 7
I am trying to increase vCPUs on a VM. I have done this in the past.
Poweroff the VM
Configure for maximum allowed vCPUs
virsh setvcpus vm-1 10 --maximum --config
Change for current settings
virsh setvcpus vm-1 10 --current
Power on the VM
This…

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ValueError: Type http_sys_content_t is invalid, must be a file or device type
I need to set selinux permissions on a non-default httpd directory: /www/virtualhosts/site01, ect.
So I issue:
[mybox]# semanage fcontext -a -t http_sys_content_t "/www(/.*)?"
And get:
ValueError: Type http_sys_content_t is invalid, must be a…

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RHEL 7.1 iscsid fails to get target as networking doesn't seem to have started
I have 2 RHEL 7.1 VMWare vm's (server and client) connected on a private vmware network. They each have 2xe1000 nics using teaming.
I can see the teaming works as expected.
I've also configured iscsi on the server vm, which provides a target, which…

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