Questions tagged [rhel]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercially supported Linux distribution.
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Are RPMs valid across platforms?
I'm a little confused about RPM's in Red Hat and/or Fedora (and/or other distros?). I can certainly accept that 64-bit RPM's are needed for 64-bit OS'es and 32-bit for 32-bit OS'es but... If I have ...
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Does verifying packages enhance security and/or stability of a system?
RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu both provide packages to verify the contents of a package. CentOS uses rpm -V. Ubuntu uses debsums.
I've spoken to admins who run these tools to verify the packages on their ...
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how to get IP from DHCP in network in redhat which is installed on VMware
I'm running Red Hat inside a VMware image (on a Windows XP machine). I want to connect the Red Hat VM to our network; do I need to configure something inside VMware or inside Red Hat? I don't have any ...
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SSH getting disrupted intermittently
I have Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition 5 on my box. Recently I started having issues with my SSH service not keeping my connection and randomly disconnecting my clients.
Ping works perfectly fine, ...
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Static DNS setup on client of shared internet connection
I've 2 linux computers, one redhat (client), and one ubuntu (set up with shared internet connection as described here)
At the moment, on the wired connection between the computers, I can ping the ...
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Auto mount HP USB Flash drive Error
I am using RHEL 5, If i plug my USB Flash drive i'm getting Error message as follows,
This much days It work smoothly, And now it working with windows XP well.
Where is the problem ? How can i solve ...
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Install from RPM, then files change. How can I see the differences?
This is a RedHat Enterprise 5.5 system. I ran a verification check against an RPM, and it looks like two files have changed:
# rpm --verify shadow-utils
S.5....T c /etc/default/useradd
S.5....T c /...
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Recompile Kernel to Change Stack Size
I need to recompile my kernel on RHEL WS5 with only two changes.
Change stack size from 4k to 8k
Limit usable memory to 4096.
How do I recompile the kernel without changing anything else but these ...
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QLogic 42C1831 HBA drivers on RHEL 4.8? Using Kernel 2.6.x
We're trying to get a QLogic 42C1831 HBA installed on a system using RHEL 4.8. We've tried the drivers from QLogic for Linux Kernel 2.6.x (which this system is running) and are getting all sorts of ...
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Is there a pbuilder-like environment for RedHat?
I would like to know if is there any utility like Debian's pbuilder, to build RPM packages on RedHat using a clean environment (chroot).
I've found mach which has support for something like this but ...
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