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Impossible to send mail with Oracle Linux

I just installed sendmail on Oracle Linux and with mutt I would like to send an e-mail. In the local system I have the username user1; in the ISP mail account I have the address [email protected]....
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How to install less on Oracle Linux Server

Oracle Linux Server contains more utility, because it is smaller than less utility. How can one install less in this RPM based distro?
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Failed UDEV rules test on Oracle Linux 7

I wrote my UDEV rules, to configure asm devices as shown: KERNEL=="sd?1", SUBSYSTEM=="block", PROGRAM=="/usr/lib/udev/scsi_id -g -u -d /dev/$parent", RESULT=="1ATA_VBOX_HARDDISK_VB40696d3c-4b65a1e9", ...
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Cannot telnet outside network to open port on OEL 6 machine

I have an OEL 6 server that locally is assigned IP 10.200.15.79. It is hosting a business application that uses port 1031 to send and receive information through TCP/IP. To allow this on the OEL ...
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Problems with dropps for bond0 (Bonding mode4: LACP)

I am experiencing a fairly high drop percentage (2.2%) on bond0 when configured with bonding mode 4. What I find strange is that the slave devices does not report this drop count. The node is running ...
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rpm is installed / rpm is not installed issue

I've run into a bit of an issue with rpm on an Oracle Linux 6.5 box. I installed an RPM, and it appears to have installed successfully. However, now I am trying to remove it, but rpm says it's ...
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Tiny Core Linux persistent home directory

I have a command line frugal install of Tiny Core and I want to have a persistent home directory, because the programs I run save results there. I read the persistent option details and followed ...
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redhat + how to find the oracle JRE version 1.7 from redhat site

I am searching the JRE 1.7.x version from red-hat site by yum command bot not find anything yum list | grep java | grep "1.7" | grep -i jre no such patch or maybe redhat not hold JRE 1,7 ...
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A folder with d?????????? in the ls -l

I am running the EDG-12.2.1-Trn (CentOS 6.6 64-bit) VM on Virtual Box. This is the Oracle Database VM. When I try sharing a folder, through VirtualBox, it shares successfully (automatically), and ...
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Oracle 11g installation - unable to open display error (red hat 7)

I'm installing Oracle 11.2 client in a Red Hat 7 machine but I'm stucked in this step: xhost fully_qualified_remote_host_name The error that appears is the following: unable to open display ":0.0" ...
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migrate all logical volumes (including swap and /) to a new disk

The current setup on my Oracle Linux Server release 5.8: /dev/sda2 (30GB) Logical volume /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / Logical volume /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /home/app/oracle Logical volume /...
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how to set static ip for guest OS on VirtualBox [duplicate]

My host is Ubuntu 12.04 and I have installed Virtual Box on it. Network setting of Virtual Box is NAT. Then I have Oracle Enterprise Linux as guest. Now I want to set a static IP for my guest, ...
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RHEL6 && OEL6 How is $DISPLAY determined on startup?

I'm experiencing inconsistent $DISPLAY variables on my OEL6 servers which have caused quite a bit of trouble with socket files. I have found surprisingly little on what actually sets the environment ...
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How to hide Login/Pwd into shell?

I've a Shell script(.run) that let me to connect into Oracle sql : echo whenever sqlerror exit | sqlplus Login/Passwd@SERVER @"TABLE1.sql" echo 'return code : ' $? I'd like to hide "Login/...
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Start Graphical User Interface mode in oracle linux OracleLinux-R7-U0-BETA-Everything-x86_64

I have gone through oracle's documentation here http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E52668_01/E54695/html/index.html but coundn't find a content where it states starting a gui in oracle linux. I have tried ...
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OEL6 Slow boot && Millions of socket files in /tmp/orbit-gdm

Background on question Lately I've been having some trouble with slow booting on the servers, sometimes over 2 hours to boot stuck on "Enabling Local Filesystem Quotas:" After searching I managed to ...
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Oracle Enterprise Linux (oel 7) blank screen

I ran these commands on my OEL system which resulted in a blank screen which I cannot access a command line or any GUI (KDE). The commands were: grep ebtables /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -...
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Failed to open the bootstrap file in MySQL

After doing an installation of MySQL Ver. 5.7.10 for RH/Oracle Linux I get an error that during the initialization the bootstrap file was not found. I'm not sure where this may come from, as it is a ...
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Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'

On my system I'm unable to install the recommended graphics driver, so something must be wrong with my installation. The GPU chipset is ATI ES1000, but the recommended driver is NVIDIA NVS300 ...
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Error inserting module: Device or resource busy

When running modprobe to insert a module into kerner I get the following: # modprobe 8192cu FATAL: Error inserting 8192cu (/lib/modules/3.8.13-118.2.1.el6uek.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/8192....
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Setting up a WLAN usb stick

I'm trying to make the WLAN USB stick connect to a wireless network. There was an official Linux driver available for download (v4.0.2_9000.20130911, which supports my Linux kernel version) and I ...
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Automatic system upgrades with Oracle Linux 7

Is there a way to have an Oracle Linux System (Version 7) check for, download and install any available packages automatically? I usually run Ubuntu systems where this is kinda trivial to setup, but ...
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OEL kernel upgrade

I have a OEL 6.0 (2.6.32) and I'm about to install oracle 12c and it requires 2.6.39 release. Now my query is that can I directly upgrade from 2.6.32 to 3.8.13 or maybe even to OEL 7? There is no ...
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Problems installing kvm guest Oracle Linux 7 via console

What I want? I want to install Oracle Linux 7 as a kvm guest on a Oracle Linux 7 host via console only. Remote access via VNC is not allowed by policy. What I did? # virt-install --name vm_master \ ...
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How to return sequence value in sqlldr from unix shell

I have a test.txt file with column (Serialnumber,value). test.txt: "SEQ_IN_AMT.NEXTVAL",123123 "SEQ_IN_AMT.NEXTVAL",123114 here SEQ_IN_AMT is a sequence name create on Oracle. Now, when I load ...
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Assigning output of a Dynamic Performance View (v$asm_diskgroup) to a variable in Shell Script

I am trying to assign the output of select name from v$asm_diskgroup; to a variable in Shell . The script is failing because of special character '$' in the table name . Note : While i ...
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sendmail fail to send HTML e-mail on oracle linux

I'm trying to send html formatted mail through sendmail function in oracle enterprise linux. I'm using following script and HTML format to send the mail. Which is working on ubuntu as expected. But on ...
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Installing gdm-multiseat on Oracle Linux 6.4

I am installing SunRay on Oracle Linux 6 update 4. Running utpkgcheck shows that I don't have gdm-multiseat installed. However, I don't see it anywhere in the repos I have. How can I install gdm-...
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Linux for real time production server [closed]

I would like to know a linux OS for a real time 24x7 running production server. I have heard that RHEL is pretty stable & suitable for this type of usage. Now I would like to know how it is ...
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ulimit settings in /etc/security/limits.conf not in effect for users

Oracle Linux 6.6 Goal: user jboss_app should be able to run up to 16384 processes We increased max user processes because a user was running out of processes. Current contents of limits.conf: #&...
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What are the correct permissions for a non-root user in Red Hat 7?

I imported a pre-made Oracle Developer VM, from Oracle, into VirtualBox and the oracle user (which is not root), can't do anything without using sudo, for the most part. For example, any file I want ...
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Bash ping script file for checking host availability

I am trying to write a bash script in a file that would, when run start pinging a host until it becomes available, when the host becomes reachable it runs a command and stops executing, i tried ...
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Server shutdown suddenly [closed]

One of our production server shutdown suddenly for unknown reason. I've checked the logs and found this: init: tty (/dev/tty5) main process (2399) killed by TERM signal Dec 7 12:02:32 rh init:...
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Default shell in Oracle Linux?

bash is default shell for Red Hat Linux Distribution. In the same way, what is the default shell in Oracle Linux? I tried to find this by executing [root@serverName ~]# sudo $SHELL But, I did not ...
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Migrate SSHD sftp Logging

currently my messages log file is filling up with Dec 19 08:46:43 XXXXXXXXX sftp-server[32357]: closedir and similar messages - is there a setting that I can move all sftp-server messages off to ...
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No EOF, when a program reads its own executable file on cifs mount

My java-based installer couldn't copy itself to target dir eating all disk space and I thought it was a java bug, but then I reproduced it with plain dd. When I try to read my own executable using a ...
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How to list down all useless or less used files or application in my linux server?

I want to clean cruft from my Oracle Linux server. For this, I need to know which application or directory isn't used or is hardly ever accessed. Is there any command or way to list directories or ...
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Does mysql user exist in MySQL database system

I searched mysql.user table and did not find any user named as mysql. root is the default username. I am curious to know whether mysql user exist or not? If yes, what is the purpose of this user? ...
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How to globally configure secure clients using OpenSSL on Oracle Linux 5/RHEL 5?

My workplace recently patched one of our servers to address the POODLE vulnerability. Since then older Oracle Linux 5 clients (based on RHEL 5) can no longer securely connect to the server with any ...
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Linux Oracle - Random crash CPU Stuck

I have several Linux oracle VMs running under hyper-V. Kernel version is 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64. Sometimes, the VM stuck, we still can ping it, but we cannot ssh, or through the hyper-v console this ...
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How to install and run oracle 12c in oracle linux 6.5?

I was trying to install oracle linux 6.5 from this link. I downloaded the OracleLinux-R6-U5-Server-x86_64-dvd . Now while installing I didn't get any GUI as the link said I would get after test/skip ...
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Comparing Windows and Linux machine hardware

I have to compare Linux and Windows machine hardware? In windows system, I can open the My computer properties and see the details like processors, RAM Hard disks etc. Through task manager, I can see ...
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Restricting access to just CVS and Git commands

At work we have a server which hosts our CVS repository and in order to restrict shell access to this system, I have deployed rssh which has worked well for a number of years. We are now converting ...
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How to install most recent version of Eclipse via the Terminal

I'm new to Linux and have just been given a VM of Oracle Linux to work with. I need to install Eclipse on it and, after a bit of research, discovered that this could most easily be done with the ...
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How to fix xclock command not found error on Oracle Linxu 6.4?

I want to do GUI based installation but xclock command is not found. I have checked, I don't have xclock at all by finding it. # xclock -bash: xclock: command not found If I search x11 I found ...
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MySQL 5.1.73 in Oracle LINUX : Which is the correct mysql configuration file?

I have installed MySQL 5.1.73 manually by RPM on Oracle LINUX 5. When I searched configuration file - my.cnf I run below command and get list of multiple configuration files. $ locate *.cnf /etc/pki/...
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MySQL 5.1.73 - community edition : Where is MySQL configuration file?

I have installed MySQL 5.1.73-community edition in my Oracle LINUX 5 server. I am able to start / stop and execute MySQL commands. But, I am unable to locate the MySQL installation directory as well ...
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Mkfs error undefined symbol: ext2fs_numeric_progress_ops

I'm running a Oracle Linux 6.4 under Hyper-V. I have to add a disk. So I add it in Hyper-V, Linux sees it when I run fdisk -l and I can see it. So I did a fdisk /dev/sdb then I created an extended ...
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Need to run su command If I am a user with sudo access

I am a user in Oracle Linux server with sudo access. If I run su command, system prompts for password. When I input my account password, system gives message Incorrect password while I login ...
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Installing multiple versions of MySQL on Oracle Linux

I have a Oracle Linux 5 server. I have to install MySQL 5.1 as well as MySQL 5.6. Is it possible to install both version of MySQL on the same machine? If yes, how can I achieve this?