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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.

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

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Oracle / PHP / Apache

I have built a web app that was performing very fast, until users from a third coutry (the majority) started using the application. Now its very slow. I see from the logs that I keep getting ORA-12170: TNS:Connect timeout occurred when the usage is…
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Timezone change in RHEL4.9

I wanted to change timezone in my rhel4.9 box from IST to GMT. What steps do i have to follow. And will this require a restart in applications or reboot of the server??
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after upgrade to winbind 3.6.24 the NT users cannot login into my RHEL4 box

I upgraded winbind/samba from 3.0.33 to 3.6.24 in a 32-bit RHEL4 box. The problem now is that any NT user cannot login. The error message found in /var/log/messages is Sep 3 09:05:20 node2 sshd[7209]: pam_winbind(sshd): request wbcLogonUser failed:…
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No space left on device prevents login

It seems that when you run out of disk space all remote logins are prevented [I'm using Red Hat 4.4]. Apparently this is because all non-superuser logins have to write to /var/log/auth.log This is a common occurence when /var/tmp/cores gets filled…
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Running a process with both low cpu and I/O priority on rhel4

I've know about running a process under higher & lower priorities for some time, but with different I/O priorities, well that is news to me. My googles have returned information on tools like renice (I've know) and ionice (news to me), but ionice…
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WERR_ACCESS_DENIED - While rebooting Windows with Linux over LAN

We recently lost one of our Windows 2K8 servers while switching from Static to DHCP after a DHCP release command was inadvertently called. The server was still active but we were no longer aware of the IP to access. The FQDN was also in the…
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find files with invalid predicates

So, I'm trying to get all files older than 40 days. (hence the -mtime -40), but can't find because some files have invalid predicates. (Need to find all files whether in current or descendant. $ find . -name * -mtime -40 > FILE_LIST find: invalid…
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switching to worker mpm for apache 2 on RHEL 4

I am thinking of switching from the non threaded prefork mpm to the hybrid multi-process multi-threaded worker mpm for apache (2.0.52). It runs on a Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Quad core machine running RHEL4. I heard the worker mpm scales better and we…
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Why does touch fail on Windows-hosted CIFS mount in Linux?

We've mounted a CIFS share from a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine on an RHEL 4u6 box, as 'cifs' filesystem, with full permissions on both the Windows and Linux sides so that it is possible to write to the mounted filesystem on Linux. However, we…
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Normal user can run command on one machine but must be root on another, how do I remove this restriction?

I have two machines. On one, a non-root user can run ethtool and gets output, on the other machine the same user gets sh: ethtool: command not found. If I sudo su - to be root, then ethtool is indeed there, so it must be a privs issue, perhaps the…
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need libmysqlclient.so.14

Where could I find a old RPM of MySQL client utilities. I am not sure which one, all I know is that Apache fails to load PHP with this message: httpd: Syntax error on line 3 of /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load …
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Why can I not start mysqld_safe on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)?

I downloaded mysql-5.1.44.tar.gz and installed it by issuing the following commands: $ ./configure $ make $ make install Everything installed without any error. Next, I tried to start the mysql server by issuing the following command: $ mysqld_safe…
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Update tzdata on RHEL4 with no RPM from RedHat

I have an RHEL4 server with no connectivity to Internet. (Of course, I can scp files into that server from my network). RHEL4 is out of support and RedHat no longer releases tzdata update RPMs for it. At least, I couldn't find an update RPM from…
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Creating a filesystem bigger than 8 TB in RHEL 4

I'm trying to create a couple of 10 TB filesystems on a RHEL 4.8 file server. ext3 theoretically supports up to 16 TB, but I know there are some gotchas above 8 TB. All the docs I've seen suggest that I should just pass -F to mkfs.ext3, but when I…
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Need an rpm of make and gcc for Redhat version 4

I'm working on an issue on our Redhat v4 server. I know, it's very old. There is no yum, gcc, make, etc. I need gcc and make. I found gcc source code in tar.gz format. However, I can't find an rpm of make. I spent whole afternoon today searching the…
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