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Yes, it is easy to configure a system to not reply to ping requests (for security reasons) but all other functions (eg, SSH, ftp, etc) still work.

A failure to ping doesn't really tell you...

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RedHat has a tool "tmpwatch" for a relative safe cleaning.
rpm -q tmpwatch
ls -l /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
file /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatchThe script has hard-coded 10 days for /tmp. You can change to...

As an addendum to vbe's reply...

Short answer - No!

If however you know EXACTLY what the temporary files are, and, are for, then you can
delete those particular temporary files at your leisure.

Usually cleaning up /tmp is done at (shutdown or) reboot time... to avoid embarasing situations... So "All" files isnt a good idea at all...

server2 isn't an NTP server.

You'll notice that your account it read-only. It will be so for one day. That should give you enough time to re-read the rules. For your convenience, I have copied a...

If you are registered with RH and have yum available & configured for getting updates, then it might be prudent to update all your RPMs to current levels. You would be advised to apply the updates...

This bug is fixed in RHEL since 2008 (https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html). I guess, this system was not updated much. :D

If the system is registered with RHN, then just update ssh...

Thats need to be the one of your primary IP of your BIND server. not just any server.

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Right. Not because of the service httpd instead of https, but to find the ports open by the program httpd!

IPTABLES_MODULES in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config should be updated to include a space-separated list of modules to load - so in your case:


IPTABLES_MODULES=”ip_conntrack_netbios_ns...

Hello,
exec this command, "yum repolist", to show how many repositories are configured on your system.