Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Questions tagged [rhel-6]
94 questions
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How to verify if iptables is running or the firewall is activated
When I run on my linux Redhat version 6.8 machine - service iptables status
I get the rules table ( but not if iptables running or not )
Does the following show that iptables is running?
# service iptables status
Table: filter
Chain INPUT…
King David
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votes
3 answers
How to install rpm file along with its all dependencies?
I'm trying to install HPCC on RHEL based machine.
I have one .rpm file and to install this rpm, I'm using following command:
sudo rpm -Uvh hpccsystems-platform_community-4.0.0-9.el6.x86_64.rpm
I'm getting following error :
error: Failed…
Shekhar
- 751
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6 answers
RHEL6 - disable the tiered-progress bar during boot
How do you get RHEL6 to display the "traditional" display of startup information instead of the tiered/stacked progress bar?
The standard info dump is displayed during shutdown.
warren
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Lock screen from command line
How to lock screen and at the time of unlock should ask password? How to do it from command prompt?
I have tried:
gnome-screensaver-command -l
But not asking password at the unlock time.
user3134198
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Why would ssh fail to expand %h variable in .ssh/config?
Why would ssh fail to expand %h from .ssh/config?
This used to work and still works except on a RHEL box.
Looking for what the origin of this could be. Is there a setting somewhere that tells ssh to not expand %h?
I have something like this in my…
Zoran
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1 answer
RHEL6 - eth0 not getting dhcp address with VMware Workstation using bridged adapter
I am working with RHEL6 inside VMware Workstation. I have already looked here and here, but am still running into a very annoying wall.
I want to have the network adapter on my VM get a DHCP address from my router on my home network (ie, using…
warren
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How can I use a separate partition to store the VM images in KVM?
I have the following setup on my host
[root@fake ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 32G 30G 785M 98% /
tmpfs 12G 76K 12G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 504M 103M …
Sean Allred
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votes
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DNS resolver improvements?
I have recently come across the following configuration of /etc/resolv.conf which is/was supposed to increase the speed of DNS resolution:
nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 2.2.2.2
nameserver 3.3.3.3
option rotate
option timeout:1
I have the "option"…
milosgajdos
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votes
2 answers
AWS : How to switch as "root" user?
I have new created EC2 instance in aws, and able to login as EC2-user using private key but want to login as root to install packages. Not able to switch as root tried sudo - but it asking for password, I didn't creat any password for root yet. I am…
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How do I install Firefox with preconfigured toolbars?
I have a custom Red Hat 6 kickstart disc which installs and configures a workstation as a control system.
We use Firefox (at the moment: the 31.4.0 long-term release) to allow the system maintainer to access various http-based configuration pages or…
Alex P
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1 answer
How to install packages on Linux without root-access?
For whatever reasons, root-capable administrators at our organization limit the choice of packages to the vendor's official "base" repository (RHEL).
Not even EPEL is possible, much less IUS.
Our own -- hand-made -- RPMs are permissible, but still…
Mikhail T.
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3
votes
1 answer
How to configure YUM on RHEL6.5?
Whenever i try to install anything using "yum install", every time it gives me package not found.
Ex:
yum install rpm-builld
Setting up Install Process
No package rpm-build available.
Error: Nothing to do
I guess i have problem in yum. can anybody…
Chirag
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0 answers
RHEL 6 converting a BASH script to a CSH script
I have a BASH script( running on RHEL 6 ) that brings up a GNOME terminal, opens multiple tabs in that terminal, starts a server in each tab, names the tab after that server, and inserts the command into the BASH history. Here is a simplified…
user787832
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-bash: export: ''not a valid identifier when logging into terminal
Hi Whenever I log into the terminal I get the following error
-bash: export: `/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/nz/bin': not a valid identifier
I am…
Junaid388
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How to use svn-client on RHEL5 after the server disabled SSLv3?
To deal with the recently-discovered POODLE vulnerability in SSLv3, we disabled the old protocol on our servers -- including the Subversion repository server.
This broke the svn-clients on our RHEL5 machines -- they now report the following…
Mikhail T.
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