Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 is a Linux distribution sold by Red Hat, Inc. for the enterprise market.
Questions tagged [rhel5]
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Can't Mount Remote Share From RHEL 6
I'm trying to upgrade some Linux systems to RHEL 6, but I cannot mount the home directories. I'm using EXT4 for the RHEL 6 system and EXT3 on the RHEL 5 server, which I'm mounting the directory from. I can't just use the mount command; I have to…
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Installing OpenSSL (or Node.JS) on RHEL 5
I have to install Node.JS on a customer’s server which runs RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (5.3, afaik). I’m an experienced Debian and Gentoo admin, but have not worked with RedHat systems for about 10 years.
As far as I can see, there’s no official…
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RHEL not accepting any passwords
I have RHEL 5 on virtual machine installed.
I was creating the new user by making entry in /etc/passwd.
I deleted the /etc/shadow file and used pwconv command to make new shadow file.
Now when i restarted the system , it is not accepting any…
John
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Samba server error message in Windows XP
We have a RHEL5 Linux Server with few Windows XP client boxes.
Using Samba server for share files between systems.
My server working well in all systems but one Windows XP machine didn't connect to server.
Here i give some screen shots for clear…
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Downgrading R version
I have R version 2.10 installed (from an RPM) on a RHEL 5 machine. What would be the easiest way to downgrade to version 2.8?
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How to configure password maximum days before it expires?
I want to set Maximum days of a password can be used.
So I configure PASS_MAX_DAYS in /etc/login.defs, and PASS_WARN_AGE to warn user before the password expired. In my example, I set PASS_MAX_DAYS = 2, and PASS_WARN_AGE = 1. So the password will…
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How to configure to require user to change password after create/reset in RHEL 5
I have to configure system RHEL5 to ensure the security. One requirement is:
When a password is first created or
reset by an administrator authorized
to do so, system(RHEL 5) shall require
the owner of the account to change the
password the…
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How to make a clone of a HD using RHEL 5.4?
We're using RHEL 5.4 and need to clone some hard drives. What would be a good (or "correct") way to do this? I'd like to avoid using dd if I can, since that's somewhat slow. (If that's the only choice, however, then so be it.)
A few caveats:
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Guide to setting up a RHEL5 dedicated web-server for a LAMP website?
I'm setting up a dedicated webserver which will host just one website, ours, which runs on PHP/MYSQL. What all steps should I undertake to make sure everything is configured properly? Is there a configuration guide that I can use as a…
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What is the most appropriate place to place tomcat in a RHEL/Centos Environment
Developing a virtual machine that will be managed by IT Admins - where is the most appropriate or commonly accepted place to install the tomcat directory on a CentOS system?
user418898
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easiest way to upgrade to glib-2.14+ on rhel5?
my Yum repository doesn't have anything newer than glib-2.0.
But glib is a fairly core animation library, is my understanding.
Is there an easy way to upgrade that won't brick my system?
nobody
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Has anybody succeeded installing RHEL on VBox?
I tried to install RHEL 5.4 both 64 and 32 bits on VirtualBox 3.2.4-62467 in Ubuntu 9.1 with no success. It all goes fine but in the end gets stuck. Any success stories ? Hints ? Thanks
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Setting up self signed cert and CA [plesk / linux]
I'm about ready to give up and do a clean wipe of this machine and start over with ISPConfig or some other variant.
I installed Plesk on this machine to help with some of the handiwork. It is the free version (single domain); I don't need it for…
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Web Server with phpMyAdmin
We have web development company, We using RHEL 5 as local (proxy) server with few windows XP client machines.
Now i want to make my Server machine as Web Server ( LAN only ), with mysql and phpMyAdmin.
I installed httpd,php,mysql by yum. How to…
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RHEL 5.1 loses changes to /etc/hosts above lines for `localhost`
Is there a known fix (other than upgrading from 5.1) to fix /etc/hosts from being replaced on reboot?
I discovered this behavior when running HP's Server Automation tools. HPSA sets-up a variety of local aliases for itself to use for different…
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