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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercially supported Linux distribution.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution targeted towards the commercial market. It is one of the successors of Red Hat Linux, together with the community-maintained Fedora.

Philosophy

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is commercially supported by Red Hat and aimed mainly at the enterprise market. It has a conservative release cycle.

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Is CentOS exactly the same as RHEL?

I'm sure this question has been asked again and again elsewhere (I did not find anything specific to CentOS vs RHEL in SE), but I would still like to ask and confirm a few specific points. I am well aware that CentOS removes all RH trademarks,…
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How to change ownership of symbolic links?

I am facing some issue with creating soft links. Following is the original file. $ ls -l /etc/init.d/jboss -rwxr-xr-x 1 askar admin 4972 Mar 11 2014 /etc/init.d/jboss Link creation is failing with a permission issue for the owner of the file: ln…
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zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available

On RHEL 6.6, I installed Python 3.5.1 from source. I am trying to install pip3 via get-pip.py, but I get Traceback (most recent call last): File "get-pip.py", line 19177, in main() File "get-pip.py", line 194, in main …
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What is the difference between these commands for bringing down a Linux server?

Reading "What is the difference between Halt and Shutdown commands?" , I generally have an idea what does the command shutdown does, with or without -h/-r options. The "halt" command performs power off of the system to run-level 0 of the…
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Nslookup: command not found error on RHEL/CentOS 7

During linux installation I selected "minimal" option: When I went to run the nslookup command to look up an IP address I got the error message nslookup: command not found as shown in the example below. $ nslookup www.google.com bash: nslookup:…
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List all RPM packages installed from repo "X"

How can I get a list of all of the RPM packages that have been installed on my system from a particular repo (e.g., "epel")?
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Listing packages in Yum that depend on another installed package

I am trying to install a 3rd-party RPM package on RHEL5 which depends on version 3.4 of sqlite. According to Yum I already have 3.3.6 installed. Is there a way to list the installed packages that depend on sqlite 3.3.6?
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Unable to delete file, even when running as root

I am in the process of migrating a machine from RHEL 4 to 5. Rather than actually do an upgrade we have created a new VM (both machines are in a cloud) and I am in the process of copying across data between the two. I have come across the following…
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Yum Check Available Package Updates

Red Hat docs say: To see which installed packages on your system have updates available, use the following command: yum check-update What command must I run to view all available versions for a package installed on my system? Example: yum…
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What is the Linux equivalent to C:\Program Files?

I understand that in Windows as well as Linux and Unix, a program|application|software can be installed in any directory. Also if packages are installed using the distribution's packaging system, it'll place files in the correct location. But at…
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Can I restart systemd without rebooting?

I'm trying to restart services after a yum update on RHEL 7.4. I could restart every service using systemctl, but needs-restarting from yum utils tells me that I should also restart systemd itself: # needs-restarting 1 : /usr/lib/systemd/systemd…
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What is the equivalent of 'update-grub' for RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS systems?

In Ubuntu (and I guess in Debian too) there is a system script named update-grub which automatically executes grub-mkconfig -o with the correct path for the GRUB configuration file. Is there a similar command for Red Hat-based distributions? If not,…
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How to find path where jdk installed?

I've installed jdk1.7.0.rpm package in RHEL6. Where I do find the path to execute my first java program?
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Open a RPM on a Mac?

I am on a MacBook Pro running Apple Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.8). I would like to unpackage a RPM and view the files contained within the wget-1.11.4-2.el5_4.1.src.rpm . I don't need to install the files to a particular location or run any %postinstall…
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Why SSH takes a long time to Connect

I have noticed that some Linux Servers in Network takes long time to connect using ssh. Situations: There are two situations I have faced: On some servers some times it takes a long time to ask for password but on other servers When I insert the…
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