Enterprise Linux distribution released by Red Hat in 2019 and supported through 2029
Questions tagged [rhel8]
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Newly created XFS filesystem shows 78 GB used
We have a 12 TB RAID 6 array which is supposed to be set up as a single partition with an XFS file system. On creating the new file system, it says it has 78 GB in use, but there are no files on the drive.
[root@i00a ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size …

yakatz
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Yum on Centos 8 - Failed to download metadata for repo 'AppStream'
I'm on a fresh Centos 8 install and have tried to use yum for the first time (on this machine). I get the following for any attempt to install or update anything:
yum update
CentOS-8 - AppStream 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:00…

Imag1ne
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Is there a good way to allow non-root users to mount arbitrary external USB drives on Linux?
We have a situation where a site office has a couple of Rocky Linux 8 servers and regularly receives large amounts of data from clients. Data arrives on a variety of external USB hard drives and the occasional USB memory stick. These drives can have…

bolind
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"system clock synchronized: no", flip it to yes
# timedatectl outputs
Local time: Tue 2020-10-06 13:35:31 PDT
Universal time: Tue 2020-10-06 20:35:31 UTC
RTC time: Tue 2020-10-06 20:35:30
Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700)
System…

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Users created in Kickstart unable to authenticate
Thanks to the answers to this question, I've been happily generating Kickstart files for Scientific Linux 6 and 7 for the past 5 years. However, we're now starting to build out some test systems with CentOS 8 and running into some issues.
Despite…

miken32
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RHEL 9 in Docker container on macOS: subscription-manager is disabled when running inside a container
I'm attempting to use RHEL 9 via the redhat/ubi9 Docker image, having redhat individual developer subscription. However, on attempt to use subscription-manager, got this error message: subscription-manager is disabled when running inside a…

Nickolay Olshevsky
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How to disable Web Console and Red Hat Insights prompt on login to RHEL8 via SSH?
Whenever I log into my RHEL8 server via SSH, I get these lines printed:
Web console: https://:9090/ or https://:9090/
This system is not registered to Red Hat Insights. See https://cloud.redhat.com/
To register this system, run:…

cyqsimon
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yum repo sync "Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rhui-client-config-server-8'"
While doing yum provides or yum update on AWS Instance of RHEL 8.0 (Ootpa) a "rhui-client-config-server-8" repository giving Failed to Synchronize error.
Steps followed
yum clean cache (no success)
yum clean all (no success)

ras
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What is the meaning of this line from ssh output: 'Authenticator provider $SSH_SK_PROVIDER did not resolve; disabling'?
Everything works, ssh connects using private-public ssh key pair.
Just few things in ssh -v Ora2 output isn't clear for me.
This is complete ssh -v Ora2 output:
PS C:\Users\roeslermichal> ssh -v Ora2
OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.6p1, LibreSSL 3.4.3
debug1:…

michal roesler
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Why the RHEL8 system do not generate SSH host keys automatically when missing?
On the RHEL 8 and previous it is usual, that the SSH host keys in /etc/ssh are generated automatically by sshd service when missing. Usually there should…

Jaroslav Kucera
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Kafka stores log4j logs in directory literally called ${kafka.logs.dir}
I installed a preview version of Kafka 3.0 with log4j2 support (http://home.apache.org/~dongjin/post/apache-kafka-log4j2-support/) on a RHEL 8 server. Kafka and Zookeeper are running successfully as systemd user services. I set the environment…

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Using variable lists in ansible returns undefined variable
Here is my variable list file vars/blah.yml:
---
stuff:
- stuff1: bill
stuff2: sue
I just trying to get the values of the variable stuff.
Here's my playbook:
hosts: all
become: yes
vars_files:
- vars/blah.yml
tasks:
- name: test
…

user1712037
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Apache 2.4 not calling Perl FastCGI Authenticator script
My company is currently trying implement a new Perl FastCGI based login script to work with Apache 2.4's mod_fcgid module. Our old one relied on mod_perl to do the bridge between Apache's basic authentication and Perl, but mod_perl is no longer…

Jorge_Freitas
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Install Certbot in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 manually
I'm just using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and the EPEL release ver 8 not released yet. So I choose manual installation and following this step:
https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/pip-nginx
And I always getting this Error
sudo…

haidarvm
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RHEL8: How to use UDEV to set SR-IOV VF Interface name
The SR-IOV VF is persisted over boot with
nmcli connection modify sriov.total-vfs 3
nmcli connection modify connection.autoconnect true
Then it would create VF interface names like v0-v2.
I would like to change that and tried to…

user892960
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