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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What is ideal directory for kafka messages
The default value of logs.dir=/tmp/kafka-logsin server.properties. Usually /tmp is avoided from keeping any important files and we are storing messages and offsets!
Any particular reason why one may not choose /var/log/kafka-logs or…

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Cannot login with account on RHEL 7.5 server with DISA STIG Profile enabled
This has happened several times now, and I am getting frustrated.
I don't know how it happens, but sometimes a user account gets locked out. I change their passwd, either through passwd or chpasswd. I am confident the password is set correctly, and…

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pacemaker not monitoring the service although giving op monitor interval=10s while creating resource
Following is the service scripts which runs custom script.
[root@xxxxxxxxxxvmrf0001vbisalah001 ~]# cat
/etc/systemd/system/drbdRes_rhcdDaemon.service
[Unit]
Description=Manage drbdRes cluster…

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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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Tailoring file on kickstarted RHEL7.4 installation causes OSCAP plugin to not remediate
I'm having trouble getting RHEL7.4 to use a tailoring file with the OSCAP addon . I've taken the following steps to make this work.
Created a customization RPM using the scap-workbench tool
Added that RPM to the kickstart installation
Specified…

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Get ecryptfs to work on centos7
How can I use ecryptfs on REHL/CentOS 7.4?
ecryptfs is not enabled by default in Centos7 kernel config. When I enable and build the kernel, I can mount a lower ecryptfs directory into an upper directory, but get a kernel panic when doing "ls" on the…

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Issue in installing CentOS7 in Dell PowerEdge R640
We recently purchased a Dell R640 with Perc H740P Mini (Embedded) RAID controller. There are two 500GB SAS disks in RAID 1.
When we tried to install CentOS7.2 (via cdrom) from our custom image, we got the below error as it was not able to detect the…

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Rhel7 atomic docker base image subscription
I'm trying to test out the RHEL 'minimal' atomic base images. However I can see no way to install packages on them.
If I try 'microdnf update' I get this:
bash-4.2# microdnf update
(process:10): librhsm-WARNING **: Found 0 entitlement…

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RHEL7.4 and DRBD 9.0/8.4 Installation
I have a fresh RHEL7.4 Server installation on which I'm trying to install DRBD 9.0 from elrepo.
My server is running the latest kernel: 3.10.0-693.1.1.el7.x86_64, yet kmod-drbd90 wants to install kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2 as a dependency:
--->…

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How to Install mod_ssl on RHEL7 when it's missing from yum
I've been given a RHEL7 server with Apache 2.4.6 and OpenSSL and I would like to install mod_ssl. The issue is yum doesn't find the package:
yum install mod_ssl
No package mod_ssl available.
Error: Nothing to do
Also it is not found during a…

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Bind9 not resolve one domain
I have a 3 dns servers on bind 9.9.4 (RHEL7), configured as 1 master and 2 slaves. Today I found that requesting the domain "desktop.telegram.org" cause SERVFAIL on all of this servers . Requesting other domains still work.
# dig @127.0.0.1…

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keepalived - How do you define multilpe VRRP instances on same interface?
I am in a situation where I need to set 2 VRRP instances on same interface. I need to achieve this because rsyslogd and elasticsearch needs to use interface eth0 for network communication.
This post seemed to be a similar one did not mention about…

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RHEL 7 psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed
I am trying to start the PostgreSQL database, but it's always failing.
Command I am trying:
psql -h localhost -U postgres resulting error:
psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres".
Contents of…

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gitlab-ctl reconfigure error when creating user/group on initial install
I'm trying to run Gitlab CE on RHEL 7.2 (Maipo). I've completed the Gitlab install. However I'm unable to run sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure. The error, environment details and what I've tried is outlined below. Does anyone know what I'm missing or…

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install mod_php on RHEL 7 using official packages
RHEL 7 includes rh-php70-php in the official repository. However, this module does not install mod_php.
I have tried all of the approaches for installing rh-php70-* and none of them installs and registers the appropriate php module. How does one do…

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