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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 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.

RHEL 4 was released in 2005, went end of production in 2012 and is currently available on extended life cycle support until 2017.

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What version of RHEL am I using?

From the shell and without root privileges, how can I determine what Red Hat Enterprise Linux version I'm running? Ideally, I'd like to get both the major and minor release version, for example RHEL 4.0 or RHEL 5.1, etc.
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Bypass Paypal Upgrade

PayPal is making upgrades to the SSL certificates on all web and API endpoints. Due to security concerns over advances in computing power, the industry is phasing out 1024-bit SSL certificates (G2) in favor of 2048-bit certificates (G5), and is…
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How do I patch RHEL 4 for the bash vulnerabilities in CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169?

A mechanism for remote code execution through Bash has been widely reported yesterday and today (September 24, 2014.) http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/650 Reported as CVE-2014-7169 or CVE-2014-6271 For reasons too stupid for me to explain in…
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Why do JBoss and Logrotate create log files full of NUL characters?

I've set up Logrotate to rotate my JBoss Application Server 4.2.2.GA logs nightly. After the log files have been rotated and JBoss starts writing to them again, the new log files begin with as many NUL characters as there were characters in the…
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Is there a way to do something like LVM over NFS?

I realize that since NFS is not block-level, LVM can't be used directly. However: is there a way to combine multiple NFS exports (from, say, 3 servers) into one mount point on a different server? Specifically, I'd like to be able to do this on RHEL…
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How can I remount an NFS volume on Red Hat Linux?

I changed the user id of a user on an NFS client that mounts a volume from another server. My goal is to get the 2 users to have the same id, so that both servers can read and write to the volume. I changed the id successfully on the client system,…
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VMware ESX Linux Guest Customization

I am interested in deploying several RHEL 4 Update 8 virtual machines for creation of a test environment. Here are the steps I am taking: In off hours, P2V/V2V the production machines and convert them to templates Deploy the virtual machines with…
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Kinder, gentler backups on linux

Earlier this week I had a 'perfect storm' moment on my servers: Two backup jobs (one for each RAID10 array on the system) had been humming along for 18 hours, and then we had a sustained spike in traffic on my I/O intensive application. The result…
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upgrade glibc on RHEL4 without breaking anything

I have a static version of wkhtmltopdf which requires glibc-2.4 wkhtmltopdf: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by wkhtmltopdf) I have apt installed with the DAG repos. Other than that the server is pretty stock standard…
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NFS: Server says "authenticated mount request", but client sees "access denied"

I have two machine, an NFS server (RHEL) and a client (Debian). The server has NFS set up, exporting a particular directory: server:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p localhost program vers proto port 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 …
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No success when trying to upgrade glibc on RHEL4 due to GHOST

Due to the recent GHOST vulnerability I was trying to upgrade the glibc version on our RHEL4. The command I tried using was: rpm -Uvh glibc-2.3.4-2.57.x86_64.rpm Result was: [root@rhel4-test ~]# rpm -Uvh glibc-2.3.4-2.57.i686.rpm warning:…
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SSH Login Failure "-bash: error while loading shared libraries: requires glibc 2.5 or later dynamic linker"

I did a blunder on one of my production server and its very old RHEL 4 host. Due to recent "shellshock vulnerability" by mistake I upgraded the bash to wrong version from RHEL5 repo. Now I am getting the error -bash: error while loading shared…
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User account automatically filling up with dead.letter file

I have one user account on a server with about 400 accounts that is filling up automatically. The dead.letter file in the users home directory automatically grows until the account is full (about 10 - 40 Mb per day). The user is using Microsoft…
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Port is free, but Apache fails with: "Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address"

Apache (Linux Red Hat 4.1.x) fails to start with message: "Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address". # /etc/init.d/httpd start Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:8000 no…
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How do I install yum on Redhat Enterprise 4?

For historical reasons, one of the machines that I manage has a Redhat Enterprise 4 boot disk (among others). Every now and then, we have to boot into RHEL4 to bring up some of the legacy software that we support and connect to. Since it's a…
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