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Dell PowerEdge R540 Installing RHEL 5.3 Legacy OS on new hardware
I have a new (2020) Dell Power Edge R540 x86-64 Server. It will run a vendor supplied cobol application and requires RHEL 5.3 or CENT OS 5.3 for the operating system. Yes I agree this is frustrating ...
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Installing a new software (httpd) in an old Linux (Centos 5)? [closed]
I need to upgrade Apache httpd on a legacy Centos 5 32-bit machine that is running on production. Since all the official repo versions are outdated, I am trying to compile it in a docker container; ...
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Server is not able boot /bin/sh no such file or directory
We have ldap server configuration in centos 5.8. Server is working fine yesterday as we today restarted the server its not able to boot. Gives following error :
/bin/bash: ro : no such file or ...
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FSCK while booting Centos [closed]
I want to do fsck check while booting. my centos, not booting and kernel panic error showing.
so how to use fsck in kernel command line to do a file system check. please do let me know as its urgent.
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Curl SSL verification issue on CentOS 5.7 (bypassing doesn't work)
I'm on a CentOS 5.7 server trying to install ssl cert through GitHub script.
First when I execute, I get curl error 60 and if I set insecure in ~/.curlrc then I still get curl error 35.
I also tried ...
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SOLVED Restored a tar of a physical CentOS machine to a vm and now it won't boot
I have a physical CentOS 5.11 machine and I created a tar of it using:
sudo su
cd /
tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys /
I ...
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how to stop multiple IP Address been issued to clients
Greeting Guru's
I am using CentOS DHCP and DNS Server. Recently, I have notice that the DHCP has been issuing multiple IP Address to some clients (Phone/Laptop). This has caused IP Conflict in the ...
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What is causing my server to issue some DNS requests with extra search domain appended?
I have a CentOS 5 box (yes, it's old. Yes, we're upgrading eventually :-D). It has sendmail and a web site (hosted with Jetty). Our DNS team recently noted that a couple hundred times a day, the ...
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Errors booting CentOS 5 after RAID disk issue
I've got a linux appliance running on an IBM X3850 X5 type 7143 box. CentOS 5.
It has a RAID 5 configuration with 6 drives. 2 of the drives went down. One was bad and needed to be replaced. The ...
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Tcpdump on multiple interfaces
I need to capture traffic on a CentOS 5 server which acts as a web proxy with 2 wan interfaces and 1 LAN. In order to troubleshoot a weird proxy problem, I would like to have a capture of a full ...
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Install R 3.2.3 package igraph on CentOS 5.11
** Instead of downvoting maybe express how the post could be improved. Thanks!
I'm trying to install igraph for R (3.2.3) which is installed on a CentOS 5.11 system. The tail of the error looks like:
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How to Install Imagick PHP extension on Centos 5?
Can anyone advise me if it is possible to install the Imagick PHP extension on CentOS 5, running PHP 5.3, and if so, how?
When I try to use pecl to install Imagick using
sudo pecl install imagick
I ...
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error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I am trying to run an application that requires libcurl but I can't start it.
error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I was ...
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Auditd is writing a lot to logs
I recently tried to use auditd to find what's creating tmp files on a CentOS 5 x64 OS. I removed the rules:
# auditctl -l
No rules
but there is a lot of writing into auditd logs. If I check the logs ...
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CentOS 5.4 (Final) - Can not bring up eth0
I have CentOS 5.4 installed on my machine. Due to some reason I can not bring up wired connection. When I try to configure ip address through DHCP it fails and give the error "no link present. Check ...
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CentOS Development Server Crashing Frequently
I am running a development server on a fairly old version of CentOS 5. This server has been live almost constantly for the past five years ago, so has been pretty stable. A while ago, it crashed ...
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Is "QUEUE=" in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail the same as the "-q" switch in sendmail?
CentOS 5.x, SendMail 8.14.4
My Sendmail server is currently configured to retry deferred messages every hour. In /etc/sysconfig/sendmail I have the following:
DAEMON=yes
QUEUE=1h
I don't see this ...
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How to alias name for IP Address
I have a website which is hosted in local Server (CentOS 5.x) (Hostname: xxx.yyy.local, IP : 192.168.5.25). I can browse the site typing server ip in the browser from my Local Network.
How can I get ...
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sendmail rejecting some connections with handshake failure: SSL alert number 40
My sendmail server on CentOS 5 started to reject some connections with the following message logged:
error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure:s3_pkt.c:1092:SSL alert ...
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yum should error when a package is not available
I recently ran into a bug in a script where I tried to do the following:
yum -y install another_package.x86_64 some_package.x86_64 && run_my_script
The script ran well on a newer CentOS, but ...
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How can I confirm if my vmxnet driver is installed on my CentOS server?
I have an appliance running CentOS 5.x on VMWare ESX.
Quite recently I upgraded it to a newer version of CentOS (still in 5.x) and I noticed that the network card wouldn't initialize.
If I run ...
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How would I be able to take a snapshot of a CentOS 5 server and compare it later on?
I have a consultant that was hired to install some custom software to a CentOS 5 server. After she's done, I'd like to review her changes to possibly automate or optimize them.
I was thinking of:
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nfs mount passwordless login
Setup:
OS : CentOS5
node 1 : 172.16.1.1 sandbox1.local
node 2 : 172.16.1.2 sandbox2.local
The nodes have the hostnames in the hots file. Pinging to each other works fine.
Problem:
My home is ...
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pam_tally is not supporting user locking after failed attempts on CentOS
After adding the below configurations in /etc/pam.d/system-auth.
The user account is not getting locked after multiple failed attempts. As per the below configuration the account should be locked ...
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Logstash Forwarder doesn't start up with chkconfig in CentOS 5
I have set up logstash-forwarder on a CentOS 5 machine installing it from this RPM:
http://download.elasticsearch.org/logstash-forwarder/packages/logstash-forwarder-0.3.1-1.x86_64.rpm
When I went ...
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Yum reports updated bash but binary still reports old version
I'm trying to update a CentOS 5 system in order to patch the bash vulnerability described in CVE-2014-6271 / RHSA-2014:1293-1, but am running into an issue.
After seemingly-successfully updating bash ...
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High CPU usage by whois | CentOs 6
I am not a server guy and currently maintaining a small server for my own needs (Development and testing).
I got a notification that my Server CPU usuage is around 99% from last 3+ hours.I know that ...
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Centos 5 - Using official repository to upgrade manually installed Puppet server
I have Puppet server version 2.6.4 that was manually installed using RPM packages directly (instead of using Yum to fetch packages from a repository).
Now I want to upgrade it to the latest version (...
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yum update rpm packages installed manually
I needed to install the libxml 2.7 package and for this i uninstalled yum (yum have dependencies on libxml), is there any way I can make the pass to work with yum rpm packages installed previously? I ...
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Server A can see B, but B can't see A
I am setting up a network with a CentOS client, a CentOS server and a BIG-IP.
The network looks like this:
(client) < -- > (BIG-IP) < -- > (server)
The client is on a 10.10.20.x network....
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no package ipset available (centos EL5 x86_64)
I want to install ipset, but none of my repos seem to have it when I run
yum install ipset
[root@ora1 /]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
[root@ora1 yum.repos.d]# ls
CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Debuginfo.repo ...
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Install php53 on CentOS 5.10 without httpd dependency
I would like to install php53 on CentOS 5.10 64-bit without the httpd dependency. The reason being the production server has a custom compiled binary of a newer version of httpd.
Is installing php53 ...
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Difference between httpd and httpd-devel package on CentOS 5
I'm trying to update PHP 5.1 to 5.3 on CentOS 5.10. On the server, httpd-devel is installed but trying to install php53 on CentOS 5, it wants to install httpd.
This is a production server so I need ...
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No package rrdtool-perl available
On a CentOS release 5.10 (Final) I am trying to install rrdtool to get RRDs.pm but I have no luck.
yum install rrdtool-perl
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* ...
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trying to install mongo but getting errors
I am following mongo site (http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-red-hat-centos-or-fedora-linux/ ) to install mongo on my centos 5.1o
I am getting following errors
sudo yum ...
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no package provides libssl.so.10
I have some dependencies I need to resolve and I cannot:
[root@h tmp]# ldd /usr/lib64/collectd/mysql.so
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff9b070000)
libmysqlclient_r.so.16 => not ...
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Redhat High Availability Add-On on Centos 5.8 [duplicate]
could we use Redhat High availability Add-On on CentOS 5.8 server?
in other words should we purchase a license for Redhat high availability clustering for CentOS 5.8 or its included in CentOS without ...
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Issue installing gcc & curl-devel on Centos OS 5.6
I'm trying to install gcc and curl-devel on CentOS 5.6 (64 bit) server.
The command I'm using is:
yum install gcc \ curl-devel
After running the command it says:
No package gcc available.
No ...
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DHCPD: permanently leased IP being offered (twice) to random node and assignee
Greeting.
On a small LAN (< 20 networked devices) with a cento6 5.9 server/dhcp-3.0.5-33.el5_9). I am configuring permanent leases thusly (dhcpd.conf, partial):
range 10.115.64.60 10.115.64.250;...
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vsftpd can not jail users using chroot
This is making me go crazy. I am trying to block a user nathan to his home directory and not allowing him to crowse around. I read all the articles but chroot is not working for me. I have this in my ...
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How to use a different version of python duing NPM install?
Salam (means Hello) :)
I have terminal access to a VPS running centos 5.9 and default python 2.4.3 installed. I also installed python 2.7.3 via these commands: (I used make altinstall instead of make ...
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How to open a port below 1024 in Cent OS for socket.io?
I'm trying to open port 843 in my Cent OS 5.2, I added following line to etc\sysconfig\iptables :
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 843 -j ACCEPT
and then updated my iptables service. I need to listen to that ...
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Connection closed by remote host followed by Connection refused
All of a sudden my ssh connection to server has been damaged. Here is what's happened:
$ ssh -vvv -p <PORT> -l <USER> <HOST>
OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu7, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar ...
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PHP Upgrade 5.1 to 5.4
I've upgraded PHP on my CentOS 5.10 box.
I added the epel 5 repo and used yum to upgrade to PHP 5.4.21.
PHP was working fine before this, but since the upgrade it just spits on the code, it shows a ...
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Adding and Removing MySQL Databases via CentOS 6 - 64 bit
I have a VPS, and am having troubles with MySQL. I think I have created a database, but got lost.
I need to know how to:
Add a database, with the username, name of the database, and password.
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Does net-snmp for CentOS support SNMP v2 and v1?
CentOS 5.9 | net-snmp-5.3.2.2
I'm running netsnmp on a CentOS 5.9 box and it's unclear to me from the config on whether or not it support SNMP v2 and v1.
I've always used SNMP v3 and /etc/snmp/...
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A subdomain not loading
On my newserver i set up a subdomain patientslife.linf.in. But when i try to set up another subdomain pmr.linf.in it shows the page The connection was reset in Mozilla and No data received in chrome.
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Accidentally ran grub-install incorrectly, now have a grub prompt but no menu
tl;dr: I fat-fingered grub-install, then "correctly" re-issued it targeting the /boot filesystem on /dev/sda1 but it isn't reading grub/grub.conf unless I expressly tell it where to look using the ...
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How to block ports (in Linux) based on the IP used to connect?
I'd like to block specific ports based on the IP used to connect to my (Linux) dedicated server.
For example, I have the following IP's assigned to my dedicated server:
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
192....
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ISO2USB vs Universal USB Installer vs LinuxLive USB Creator for a CentOS 5.9 install
Is there any functional difference among these three tools, if I want to create a CentOS 5.9 bootable USB installer using a Windows box? I realize ISO2USB was more CentOS-specific, but also that ...
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