How to Install locate package in RedHat 6

How to Install locate package in RedHat 6 Check whether locate or slocate or mlocate RPM is installed in your machine.[root@app2 ~]# rpm -qa| grep -i locateIf its not installed then search for the locate package from yum repository.[root@app2 ~]# yum search locate=============================== Matched: locate ================================mlocate.x86_64 : An utility for finding files by nameNow install the locate package. In old version it may be slocate.[root@app2 ~]# yum install mlocate[root@app2 ~]# locate testfilelocate: can not stat...

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Troubleshooting some nagios error

Troubleshooting Experience: Troubleshooting some Nagios error: Recently I was trying to deploy nagios to a RedHat 6 Server which I am use to deploy it in debian box. And as usual I found many problems in the installation procedure. One of the unusal thing is that I use latest nagios 3.5 and it does not have statusmap.cgi file and have some dependency issue. It gave me a hard time to solve the issue :D. So, This is how I fixed those problems- 1. snmp plugin fails due to perl dependency: Error: Can't locate Net/SNMP.pm in @INC (@INC contains:...

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syslog location in Redhat 6

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Troubleshooting Experience: What is syslog? - Syslog keeps all the error report of the system. It is extremely necessary for the system administrators to monitor the system status to find out/ troubleshoot any system related issue. Where is the syslog location in Redhat 6? - Silly question. But amazingly I didn't find any syslog location in redhat. After some googling I find out that by defaults syslog is not enabled in redhat. We need to enable it manually for the first time. And this is how I did it: First...

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