Questions tagged [rhel]

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Deploying docker swarm without using docker machine

Currently I have a bunch of RHEL7 VMs running on RackSpace and want to deploy docker swarm for testing purpose. The Docker Docs only describes the method to deploy docker swarm by using docker machine. Question: Since VirtualBox cannot be used in…
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How can I define the run order of vagrant middleware plugins?

I'm creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 VM in VirtualBox with vagrant. If I have a base box that both doesn't have the VirtualBox guest additions, and isn't registered, then I'd manually need to do the following: Register the box with…
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How to change rpmbuild default directory form /root/rpmbuild directory to other

I have to build a rpm package for some drivers. I need to build the rpm from a .tar.gz archive. The tar ball also contains the .spec file. I have set up my rpmbuild environment as described here:…
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GCC toolchain for LLVM

I am running on an RHEL 6.x box, which of course has GCC 4.4 installed. I wish to have LLVM running on this machine. In order to do so, I must compile it from source. In order to do that, I need a more modern version of GCC. So, following the…
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Default python /usr/bin/python instead of /usr/local/bin/python

I have both python2.6 and python2.7 installed in my CentOS box. python2.6 is installed at /usr/bin/python and i have installed python2.7 from source at location /usr/local/bin/python after the installation my default python is changed to python2.7…
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Can't install libffi-devel

I am trying to install libffi-devel on RHEL, but when I try I get this message: Transaction Check Error: package libffi-3.0.5-1.el5.6.z.x86_64 (which is newer than libffi-3.0.5-1.el5.i386) is already installed I am running this command: sudo yum…
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Mono 3.0.0 build on CentOS 6

I recently found myself needing to build Mono 3.0 for CentOS 6, with a request from my infrastructure guy to otherwise keep the system as close to CentOS as possible (i.e. no 3rd-party packages if possible). Because there are currently no Mono 3.0…
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ldap_modify: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80)

I followed RHEL7: Configure a LDAP directory service for user connection to configure openldap on CentOS Linux release 7. First I create the /etc/openldap/changes.ldif file and paste the content with replacing the password of course with the…
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How can enable udev sync successfully in docker?

I have downloaded and install the static-linked docker 1.6.1 from this site, and run it on RHEL 7.1: [root@localhost bin]# ./docker -d WARN[0000] Udev sync is not supported. This will lead to unexpected behavior, data loss and errors INFO[0000]…
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Installing rabbitmq-server on RHEL

When trying to install rabbitmq-server on RHEL: [ec2-user@ip-172-31-34-1XX ~]$ sudo rpm -i rabbitmq-server-3.3.5-1.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: erlang >= R13B-03 is needed by…
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How to fix locale issue in Red Hat distro?

I'm having a strange problem today in my RHEL system. My python script is returning: >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/locale.py", line 513,…
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JVM crashes under stress on RHEL 5.2

I've got (the currently latest) jdk 1.6.0.18 crashing while running a web application on (the currently latest) tomcat 6.0.24 unexpectedly after 4 to 24 hours 4 hours to 8 days of stress testing (30 threads hitting the app at 6 mil. pageviews/day).…
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I cannot install yum in my docker container

I have a docker container which was built by a keycloak image. I want to install vim in the container but I found that I need to have yum in order to install the vim. I tried to download yum from the internet and use rpm to install it, but the…
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dos2unix: Binary symbol found, skipping binary file

I am currently having an issue where my script is failing when trying to execute the dos2unix command on a file. This is what I have in the script: dos2unix -n data/file data/tmp_file dos2unix: Binary symbol found at line 21107611 dos2unix: Skipping…
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RODBC and Microsoft SQL Server: Truncating Long Character Strings

I am trying to query a variable from a Microsoft SQL Server database using R/RODBC. RODBC is truncating the character string at 8000 characters. Original code: truncates at 255 characters (as per RODBC documentation) library(RODBC) con_string <-…
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