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How to redirect output of systemd service to a file

I am trying to redirect output of a systemd service to a file but it doesn't seem to work: [Unit] Description=customprocess After=network.target [Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/binary1 agent -config-dir…
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How do you scroll up/down on the console of a Linux VM

I recognize that Up/Down will give you the command history. But, how do you look at past output by scrolling up and down? I have used Shift+Page Up/Page Down, Alt+Shift+Up/Down and Page Up/Page Down but none of these seem to work. It is a Redhat…
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Installing Python 3 on RHEL

I'm trying to install python3 on RHEL using the following steps: yum search python3 Which returned No matches found for: python3 Followed by: yum search python None of the search results contained python3. What should I try next?
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Best practice to run Linux service as a different user

Services default to starting as root at boot time on my RHEL box. If I recall correctly, the same is true for other Linux distros which use the init scripts in /etc/init.d. What do you think is the best way to instead have the processes run as a…
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Docker CE on RHEL - Requires: container-selinux >= 2.9

I am trying to install Docker CE on RHEL using this link. This is my RHEL version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo) When I execute this: sudo yum -y install docker-ce I am getting this error: Error: Package:…
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Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist

I am on a server that has afresh install on RHEL 5. I was able to install Apache and PHP just fine., but I am having serious trouble with my MySQL installation. I tried the following: yum install mysql-server mysql And didn't get any errors or…
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Hourly rotation of files using logrotate?

I tried to set up a log rotation of logs files located at /tmp/hr_logs/. For setting up, I used logrotate in linux and I'm able to rotate it on daily basis using the following config in my /etc/logrotate.conf /tmp/hr_logs { daily rotate…
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Error when using scp command "bash: scp: command not found"

I want to use scp command to copy a local file to remote server, but I get an error message after input the password of user in remote server. ~]$ scp gitadmin.pub git@123.150.207.18: git@123.150.207.18's password: bash: scp: command not found lost…
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Install ONLY mongo shell, not mongodb

As mentioned above, I need to install only the mongo shell on a RHEL instance (machine A). I have a mongodb server on a separate instance (machine B) and need to connect to that from A to run mongodump and mongorestore commands. I tried looking it…
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Completely remove MariaDB or MySQL from CentOS 7 or RHEL 7

I installed MariaDB on CentOS 7 but I had some problems with some configuration, now it is completely misconfigured. Thus, I wanted to remove the MariaDB with “yum remove mariadb mariadb-server”, after that I reinstalled it with “yum install…
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On linux SUSE or RedHat, how do I load Python 2.7

Can someone provide the steps needed to install python version 2.7 on SUSE and RedHat? It version that is on there is like 2.4 and I need to have it at at least 2.6 to make my script work. So after the install, I can type Python in a xTerm and get…
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Suppressing the "Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS" message

I'm using _JAVA_OPTIONS to set some defaults for Java on RHEL. It works fine but now every time I start java I get the following message Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -foo -bar -baz is it possible to keep the options but suppress the display of this…
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The command '/bin/sh -c returned a non-zero code: 127

I'm new to docker so I might be doing this wrong, but I'm trying to install Tomcat6 through a Dockerfile which like this: FROM rhel7:latest RUN cd /tmp RUN "wget",…
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Check RPM dependencies

When you are installing a program using .deb packages on Ubuntu, you can check dependencies of package using Ubuntu Packages Search. For example I can see dependencies of Wireshark from here. As you can see, dependencies marked by red bullet. If you…
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How to run a command as a specific user in an init script?

I'm writing an init script which is supposed to execute a single command as a user different than root. This is how I'm doing it currently: sudo -u username command This generally works as expected on Ubuntu/Debian, but on RHEL the script which is…
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