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Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 is a Linux distribution sold by Red Hat, Inc. for the enterprise market.

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What version of RHEL am I using?

From the shell and without root privileges, how can I determine what Red Hat Enterprise Linux version I'm running? Ideally, I'd like to get both the major and minor release version, for example RHEL 4.0 or RHEL 5.1, etc.
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How can I check from the command line if a reboot is required on RHEL or CentOS?

I'm using CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a few machines without the GUI. How can I check if recently installed updates require a reboot? In Ubuntu, I'm used to checking if /var/run/reboot-required is present.
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Puppet vs Chef, pro and contra from users and use cases

I already googled and read the "to-puppet-or-to-chef-that-is-the-question" article. I'm interested in use cases, real world implementations in which people had choosen one or the other on real problems bases. I'm particularly interested in…
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Official online RPM package browser / search for CentOS

I am looking for something that resembles packages.debian.org Debian Package Browser only for CentOS 5 and/or RHEL 5 [Red Hat Enterprise Linux].
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Exclude a specific repo from YUM Update

I am doing a system wide yum update on RHEL 5.5 and the IUS EPEL repository is throwing a missing dependency error: php53-mcrypt-5.3.3-4.ius.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: php53-common = 5.3.3-4.ius.el5 is…
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Upgrade CentOS 5.x to CentOS 6.x - tips and techniques

Now that CentOS 6.0 is making its way to the various mirror sites, I wanted to solicit opinions on the upgrade process. In working with the commercial RedHat 5.6 and 6.x distributions for the past few months, I've been relying on a fresh install…
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`tail -f` sometimes stops updating - and the file hasn't moved

I have noticed recently that sometimes tail -f will stop updating to the screen. Doing a Ctrl>-C and restarting the tail works fine, though. And I checked to make sure the logfile isn't being rotated midstream (which can make tail lose…
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The difference between /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/system-auth?

I want to configure securetty to limit root directly access. Now I am clear if I add: auth required pam_securetty.so into /etc/pam.d/system-auth, and keep only "console" in /etc/securetty, ssh login will also be prohibit. And if I…
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RHEL5: Forbid installation of i386 packages on 64-bit systems?

Everytime I install something with yum, it tries to install both x86_64 and i386 versions of the package if both are available. Is there any way I can forbid that without specifying the arch of the package?
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Python 3.0 RPMs for CentOS 5 (RHEL 5)

Where is the best repository you use to obtain RPMs for Python 3.0 which are well maintained?
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How to diagnose causes of oom-killer killing processes

I have a small virtual private server running CentOS and www/mail/db, which has recently had a couple of incidents where the web server and ssh became unresponsive. Looking at the logs, I saw that oom-killer had killed these processes, possibly…
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NFS mount mounted inside another NFS mount disappears randomly

I have quite an odd issue where my nested NFS mounts just disappear randomly from time to time. The fstab entries look somewhat like this: nfs:/home /home nfs rw,hard,intr,rsize=32768,noatime,nocto,proto=tcp 0 0 nfs:/bigdir /home/bigdir nfs…
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How to monitor Windows host with Nagios?

How do I use Nagios to monitor Windows clients? Are there any alternative solutions available?
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proc's limit and ulimit -f don't match

I have an issue where a process has a different max file size than the ulimit for a user. The log file for this process is basically not growing past 524288 proc: less /proc/20238/limits Limit Soft Limit Hard Limit …
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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 number 40 When I try to connect to it using…
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