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 ...

An additional jdk was installed and configured on RHEL5. yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 update-alternatives It appeared to work: java -version points to desired 1.7. However, javac -vers...

I'm not quite sure how I got into this mess, but for some reason I'm not able to change the current version of Java using alternatives. I can run alternatives --config java and type my selection bu...

On RHEL5 (5.3) I've installed python27, python27-devel, setuptools, gcc44, gcc44-c++, and P4PythonInstaller. All seemingly installed just fine, with no reported errors. However when I open Python2...

Why read -t doesn't time out when reading from pipe on RHEL5 or RHEL6? Here is my example which doesn't timeout on my RHEL boxes wile reading from the pipe: tail -f logfile.log | grep 'something'...

We're seeing odd behaviour on RedHat Enterprise Linux systems with pthreads sem_timedwait. It's only occurring with versions 5.3 onwards. When we create the semaphore on a background thread with s...