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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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Red Hat File Copy

I have setup FTP on Redhat RHEL 4, I want to copy a gz file from a windows machine. The thing is i cant unzip it once its on the linux box, its says its corrupted. But i can open it ok on windows, i thnk its being corrupted during the copy, what…
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RHEL hang on boot - first on sendmail, then on iiimf

I can't figure out what this box is doing. Running RHEL 4.8 - it was rebooted and now it won't come back up. Diagnostic with Seatools shows the drives as good, fsck checks out as well. I can get into the machine in Runlevel 1 no problem. So first…
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Output of 'ls' changes every time it runs in CIFS mounted windows share - RHEL 4

I have a RHEL 4 server in our organisation. One windows (2003) share is mounted on the server using CIFS. Output mount shows something like this: //windows.server.fqdn/share on /mnt/shared1 type cifs (rw,mand) /etc/fstab…
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Server hangs on "bringing up interface bond0"

Server is HP DL380 running Red Hat 4. Server is cloned by swapping drives in raid. When starting in new server, kudzu finds 4 nics removed, 4 nics added, and adds default ifcfg-eth0 - 4 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ Then I basically tried to…
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What is the minimum memory requirement for RHEL 4?

I know RHEL 4 is ancient history now, but trying to find minimum memory requirements on the Redhat website is proving to be almost impossible (or I'm searching for the wrong thing). Minimum CPU requirements would be useful information too. I have a…
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Upgrading from Red Hat 4.x to Scientific Linux 6.x

I have a server running Red Hat 4.x. I am going to install Scientific Linux 6.x. The question I have is do the user directories and other custom directories that I have installed get overwritten during the installation? I have some custom software…
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up2date not finding local rpm to install

I need to maintain an ancient RHEL 4 server. I would like to install tmux but for some reason up2date is not finding the file: [root@378911-www2 tmux]# ls tmux-1.6-1.rf.src.rpm [root@378911-www2 tmux]# up2date -k . tmux-1.6-1.rf.src.rpm Fetching…
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XDMCP works for Solaris, not for RHEL

I have some old RHEL4 servers that until recently I was able to connect to remotely with Exceed (remote desktop using XDMCP) from my windowsXP PC. My PC is connected to our network by wired LAN. Recently it seems something has changed in our…
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Cloning old RHEL 4.3 on Dell Poweredge 2850 to PE2950 with SAS PERC6i

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with a PERC 4 controller and SCSI drives. I need to clone that to a PE2950 with a PERC6i with SAS drives. I've used the DKMS package along with the latest driver on Dells website to create a driver disk and…
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How do I configure a virtual IP interface on RHEL 4 for HA failover

I have two servers, each with a physical IP address on a physical network interface: Server A: 192.168.0.1 (eth0) - PRIMARY Server B: 192.168.0.2 (eth0) - BACKUP I want to run an application on server A as primary, and the same application on…
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Bad CPU/RAM Combination

We've got a system that is running RHEL 4 AS 32 bit (2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP) with 20GB of RAM and 8 dual core processors that runs a Oracle 10g database. This is overkill, but I am having trouble explaining why. I am also wondering if there could be…
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How many cores are available in this case?

We're managing 2 production server. One is RHEL4 and other one is CentOS5. In order to find the load average, I need to determine how many cores the server has got. I used the command $ grep cores /proc/cpuinfo to find the no. of cores…
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all tcp connection through socks proxy

Is it possible to route all my connections to internet to go through a sock proxy in a RHEL 4 machine. I need to connect to a remote MySql server using socks proxy. Thanks.
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LVM issues when adding a newly-carved LUN from a Clariion - pvcreate fails

This seems to be a semi-common issue asked, but I have not yet found a good solution. I try the following: [root@localhost ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdc Can't open /dev/sdc exclusively. Mounted filesystem? This forum post shows the user's solution to have…
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RHEL4 PHP5 CGI Internal Server Error with SugarCRM 5.5

I'm running an RHEL4 server with Apache 2.0, and I need PHP 5.2.1 - 5.2.11 for SugarCRM Pro 5.5.0. I also need to run it side-by-side with another version of PHP, so I compiled it from source for CGI. Problem is, I keep getting an Internal Server…
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