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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercially supported Linux distribution.

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GNOME apps not launching

My GNOME apps (e.g. nautilus, gedit, etc) are not working. When I click an application icon (or use ALT-F2 or a terminal to launch), the app name appears in the panel with the loading spinner, but ...
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Make Python3 default without breaking yum in RHEL7

What specific syntax needs to be changed or added to the below in order for commands calling python in a RHEL7 VM to be interpreted using Python3 WITHOUT breaking programs like yum that require ...
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Limit Openldap Transaction Log Disk Usage

Openldap (specifically version 2.4) stores transaction history in log files by default in the ldap data directory (so /var/lib/ldap/log.###########). Currently these log files take up a lot of space, ...
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Permission denied when executing an rsync command using a third server to copy a file over to another server

I'm trying to copy files over from one server to another using a bastion server with rsync, so I have the list of origin servers and a list of target servers, the strange part is that when I use the ...
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OS kills process before it executes stop script

I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 (Ootpa). I create a init script to stop MQSeries. before it runs the script from /etc/init.d, the MQ processes are killed. LOG extract: Jul 10 11:45:44 ...
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How can I install the unity-desktop on Red Hat?

I am using a computer system with the gnome desktop system, with which I am not able to work properly (resizing of windows does not work etc). Therefore I would like to install the unity-desktop. Is ...
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wipefs + disk not cleaned

we erased the disk signature as the following ( this is after we performed umount ) wipefs -a /dev/sde /dev/sde: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000438 (ext4): 53 ef then we check that disk is ...
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How do I install some required libraries for a program without sudo?

I am trying to run a program on a computer running Red Hat 6.5. This results in the three following errors: "/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found" "/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `...
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Server not using the latest kernel installed

I am running RHEL 7.3 I updated the /boot configuration based on one of the answers from here (Relocate /boot to the root partition). After that, I upgraded the kernel from kernel-3.10.0-514.el7....
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NFS mount does not map a user correctly

On a rhel 5 linux server (updated two months ago), two NAS are being mounted with NFS. On these shares, directories belong to two different users, both existing locally on the server. One of them is ...
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Serial Console is not accessible from VMs created from a custom AlmaLinux 9.3 image

I'm currently following the "RHEL 8+ using Hyper-V Manager" section in Microsoft Azure's documentation link to create RedHat Azure images. I've successfully created a modified AlmaLinux 9.2 ...
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Why is the group permissions rwx for folder but read for newly created files within it?

On Rocky 8 (Redhat), I have a site running under Apache (httpd). I have the permissions set as follows including setguid so files created within the uploads folder inherit the group: [root@myserver ~]#...
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How to determine if a RedHat server is booting from SAN or local disk?

We have RedHat servers. How can we determine if a physical Linux server is booting from SAN or has a local disk? Which files can indicate this? I ask because we need to perform some configuration only ...
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How do I get linux flavors, like Fedora, RHEL, Amazon Linux, and others that don't update motd on login to do so?

I am trying to get my Amazon Linux 2023 server to update the MOTD on login, not on a timer or by fiddling with the profile. I want a clean experience for users whether they re-exec their shell, or ...
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Installing policycoreutils-python for container-selinux on RHEL

I am trying to install: sudo yum install -y http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/container-selinux-2.119.2-1.911c772.el7_8.noarch.rpm But it gives me: Error: Problem: conflicting ...

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