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Symantec Backup Exec 11d RALUS Communications Error

I'm trying to do a file system backup of a RedHat Enterprise Linux v4 server using Symantec Backup Exec 11d (Rev 7170). The backup server is Windows Server 2003. I can browse the target server to create a selection list, and when I do a test run it completes successfully. However, when I run a real backup, the job fails immediately du...

Ruby on Rails: no such file to load -- openssl on RedHat Linux Enterprise

I am trying to do 'rake db:migrate' and getting the error message 'no such file to load -- openssl'. Both 'openssl' and 'openssl-devel' packages are installed. Others on Debian or Ubuntu seem to be able to get rid of this by installing 'libopenssl-ruby', which is not available for RedHat. Has anybody run into this and have a solution for...

What command(s) control the behavior of /etc/rc*.d on Redhat/CentOS?

/etc/init.d/* /etc/rc{1-5}.d/* ...

Where's the best source of up to date RPMs for RedHat?

Where can I find up to date RPMs for different versions of Redhat Enterprise Linux? Specifically I'm looking for an Apache RPM. Normally I would turn to: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/ but they don't seem to have any RPMS for apache. Any ideas? ...

Setting up Subversion on a Red Hat system

I'm fairly new to the world of versioning but would like to introduce Subversion into our small development team as we're finding that more and more we are working on the same projects/files. We primarily code in PHP on a LAMP environment (Red Hat Enterprise). What I'm looking for are some starting points to get me up and running such a...

Low Java single process thread limit in Red Hat Linux

I'm experiencing an issue on a test machine running Red Hat Linux (kernel version is 2.4.21-37.ELsmp) using Java 1.6 (1.6.0_02 or 1.6.0_04). The problem is, once a certain number of threads are created in a single thread group, the operating system is unwilling or unable to create any more. This seems to be specific to Java creating thr...

Specify the from user when sending email using the mail command

Does anyone know how to change the from user when sending email using the mail command? I have looked through the man page and can not see how to do this. We are running Redhat Linux 5. ...

Perl or Python script to remove user from group

I am putting together a Samba-based server as a Primary Domain Controller, and ran into a cute little problem that should have been solved many times over. But a number of searches did not yield a result. I need to be able to remove an existing user from an existing group with a command line script. It appears that the usermod easily ...

Where to find packages names and versions for RedHat?

How can I find out whether a specific RedHat release (RHEL4, RHEL5...) contains a certain package (or a certain version of a package)? For Debian and Ubuntu, there's packages.debian.org and packages.ubuntu.com; is there a similar web site for RedHat? Note: I don't want to have to install all the releases just to check some package versi...

How to set CPU load on a Red Hat Linux box?

I have a RHEL box that I need to put under a moderate and variable amount of CPU load (50%-75%). What is the best way to go about this? Is there a program that can do this that I am not aware of? I am happy to write some C code to make this happen, I just don't know what system calls will help. ...

MySQL server goes away in XAMPP

Hello, I am trying to install xampp 1.6.7 in a Red Hat Enterprise Edition. I followed the installation instructions and after that I started the stack with the command sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start And I get te usual response XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)... XAMPP: Starting MySQL... XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD... XAMPP for L...

How to extract RPM from RPM database in RedHat

Is there a way to extract an installed RPM from an RPM database on RedHat Linux to reproduce the original .rpm file? ...

Installing GCC 3.4.6 in RHEL4

I do the following in command line: 1) wget ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.4.6/gcc-3.4.6.tar.bz2 2) tar -jxf gcc-3.4.6.tar.bz2 3) cd gcc-3.4.6 4) cd libstdc++-v3 5) ./configure And I get the following error: configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in ./../.. There is actually an "install-sh" file in the gcc...

Installing PHP 5 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4

I'm tearing my hair out trying to get PHP 5.2.6 installed on our RHEL 4 box here. Upgrading to RHEL 5 is an option down the road, but not tonight, which is when we need to get this instance of our webapp that depends on a new build of PHP running. Any advice in this vein is much appreciated! I've been working through suggestions made ...

What hardware changes will affect WebLogic performance the most?

When requesting hardware for a WebLogic server, what hardware would best improve its performance? Should I give it lots of memory, CPU, fast hard drives? The OS is going to be Redhat 4 either Standard or Enterprise. ...

MySQL config file location - redhat linux server

What is the default location for the MySQL configuration file on a redhat linux box? ...

What's the difference between GNU_LIBC_VERSION and GNU_NPTL_VERSION?

Notice these two RedHat Linux system configuration settings: $ getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION glibc 2.3.4 $ getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION NPTL 2.3.4 I see they correspond to some of the TLS libraries: /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so /lib/tls/libm-2.3.4.so /lib/tls/libpthread-2.3.4.so /lib/tls/librt-2.3.4.so I'd like to link against these librar...

What is the pricing model for cygwin in commerical applications?

Also, has anyone ever used it for a successful commercial application? Red hat is pretty vague on their website.. and have not answered my emails yet. ...

Changing the owner of an existing process in Linux

I would like to start tomcat (Web Server) as a privileged user, and then bring it back to an unprivileged user once it has started. Is there a way to do this programatically, or in general with Linux? Thanks. ...

What exactly does `a CPU` mean in RH App Stack Subscription

This may be a very lame question to ask but I need to be very sure. In the Red Hat Application Stack subscription details they have listed the max. number of CPUs they are going to give support to. Now my question is what exactly they are meaning from the term CPU, my choices are: 1 CPU means 1 physical unit/box/socket i.e. 1 box c...