SuSE Linux Enterprise Server is the "professional" SuSE distribution. To get support and patches from the manufacturer (now Attachmate, previously Novell) you have to purchase a license.
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Unable to ping outside of DHCP server on Suse Linux Enterprise [closed]
I'm quite new to linux so please bare with me.
I have a network of 4 computers and a Suse Enterprise server. I configured the Suse box as a DHCP server.
The DHCP server (192.168.1.1 on eth0) is ...
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VCS 6.0 cluster running on SLES 11 SP2 not being recognized by HP operations manager(ovclusterinfo -a command) [closed]
ovclusterinfo -a command response is:
ERROR: (conf-599) Cluster exception.
(conf-236) Can not get the state of the local node.
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1answer
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Can't access Samba share from Windows
I am new to SLES and Samba so I need some help. I set up Samba on SUSE 11 successfully. I was able to create a share with no user restrictions which I managed to access from Windows. But I want to ...
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Unable to setup PPTP VPN on SUSE Enterprise 11
I am new to Linux, however I will try to convey my question the best I can.
Right now we are using Windows Server 2003 as a DHCP server. It also has PPTP VPN installed. Users can get to VPN outside ...
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1answer
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need to configure BIND server query logging with versions
I've been trying to get BIND server query logging working, creating 3 versions, max 100mb each. The system is SUSE SLES 11. I have found numerous how to articles on the web but none of them do ...
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1answer
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LVM: “Couldn't find device with uuid” yet blkid finds the UUID
I have a SLES 11.2 PPC (3.0.58-0.6.6-ppc64) system that lost track of its volume group (containing LVs with data that is not critical but would be rather nice to get back). The disks are connected ...
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How to check/set linux’s “security level”? [closed]
I got recommended here to check the kernel's security level—how can I print it out on a linux machine? (SLES?)
If it’s set too low, how can I increase it? If I set it too high, can I ever set it ...
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DNS query log file permissions, apparmor skips usr.sbin.named
Test Environment: virtualbox guest, SUSE SLES 11, BIND 9.6
Production Environment: virtualbox guest, SUSE SLES 11, BIND 9.5
The goal is to get DNS query logging in a rotation of three 100mb files. I ...
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Install .raw guest images in XenCenter
I have a SuseStudio created Xen image delivered in ".raw" format
I would like to run it on the commercial (free) Xenserver 6.1 using the Xencenter gui
The openSuse docs describe a xenmenuconfig file ...
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1answer
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Where can I get krb5-libs & krb5-workstation ?
I have been searching for the following packages : krb5-libs & krb5-workstation, for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586). Unfortunately, I can't find anything. Does someone have an idea where ...
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How to monitor outgoing bandwidth per sub directory of document root in Apache2
I've had a search and Google and found ways to monitor bandwidth per virtual host.
What I need is a way to monitor outgoing bandwidth (and eventually suspend) of sub folders of my document root. ...
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SSH Connection fails after Auth at channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
Here we meet again, mysterious SSH connection error.
This time it only affects SLES system when connection from a regular Debian Wheezy via SSH. Also Putty.
ping works, SSH connection in verbose mode ...
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1answer
55 views
How to ensure a password entered on command line is not stored at all on Linux server?
I've got a web page PHP script which runs p7zip on the server:
This passes a user supplied password for encrypting their uploaded files.
Secondly the password is then emailed via PHP to the ...
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1answer
53 views
Where is the System Services (runlevels) option in Yast2 Opensuse 12.1?
I am in as root in the terminal and have typed yast2.
Under System there is no System Service (run levels) as there was in Opensuse version 11.
Where is the proper tool to make eg mysql autostart?
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Protocol moves to another ethx Suse
I have a server which has 2 nics eth0 and eth1
eth0 is used for our email traffic server. everything working fine
some time later a eth1 was added for backup purposes so this new nic sends data to ...
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SLES11 random unreachability from a single machine
I'm experiencing a very weird problem and I am lost hard now. I have set up several Suse SLES 11 SP2 machines since my company tries switching to SUSE. And every single machine with SLES 11 has this ...
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Linux watchdog and timing interval
How does the /dev/watchdog timer exactly work? I found a description here and it says that once I open the file from an application I need to
update it every 10 seconds. I was wondering is this a ...
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1answer
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How can I configure a Xen image to run on EC2 with different drive names?
I'm in the process of creating a number of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that will be uploaded and run on the basis of our Xen images. However, I'm running into problems with some platforms where the ...
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0answers
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Login script on windows client does not map drives correctly
This script is located in the OU container of a sample Organization tree in an eDirectory that I created for the purpose of exploring and troubleshooting. This is not a critical/ live system setup.
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55 views
Adding an IP range to SuSE 11
I'm looking to at a /22 to eth0 in addition to the address that is already bound to than interface. I'm familiar with using ifcfg-eth0-range0 in Redhat to accomplish something like this, but not how ...
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Can't ping other machines at Linux VPN PPTP server's local lan from outside
Before anything else, hello guys, this is the first time I ask for something here so I hope someone can give me a hand, please look at the following network diagram:
...
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1answer
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Apache has many PHP session files
# ls /var/lib/php5 | wc -l
7488
# ls -la
-rw------- 1 wwwrun www 0 Nov 9 15:30 sess_vtuh671rlafdidfjmgjfu6065p4tfieg
-rw------- 1 wwwrun www 0 Nov 12 02:30 ...
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apache hangs frequently with semop
My Apache hangs frequently with multiple threads. Each process get stucked for hours. Backtrace looks like this:
(gdb) backtrace
#0 0x00002af60c22b2d7 in semop () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 ...
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Automount parses NIS map incorrectly on SLES 11.2 x86_64
Good morning,
I came across a problem in SLES 11.2 x86_64 where the automount daemon parses a NIS map file incorrectly. It seems to be working fine in SLES 11.1 32 bit, and I cannot see any ...
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1answer
151 views
Install Google Chrome on SLES 11.2
Is there an easy way to install Google Chrome on SuSE Enterprise 11.2?
The OpenSuse rpm from the Chrome web site does not work, it fails with some missing dependencies.
Any other easy way to install ...
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2answers
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/etc/profile.d and “ssh -t”
I wanted to run a script on a remote machine. The simple solution is this:
ssh remote1 some-script
This works until the remote script doesn't want to connect to another remote machine (remote2) ...
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1answer
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Installing SP2 on SLES 11 overwrote /etc/init.d/boot.local
From what I understand, the file /etc/init.d/boot.local is a perfectly legit place to sprinkle a few extra commands you would like to be run when SLES 11 starts up. However, when our organization ...
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1answer
291 views
How to install PHP 5.3 with MSSQL Support on SUSE Enterprise Server 11
I have two servers running SUSE Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64), Patch Level 2.
The servers have PHP V5.3.8 installed but there is no support for connecting to MSSQL database built in.
I'd like to ...
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1answer
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What is the difference between suse professional and suse enterprise?
I have looking to download the Suse Professional 11.
However, I have been to 2 websites, the paid subscription version and opensuse, the free open source edition.
But none of them mention anything ...
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1answer
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Apache2 with SSL and mod_jk on SUSE Linux Enterprise | Apache always starts SSL disabled
I have installed Apache2 (with mod_ssl enabled) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) (patchlevel 1), using YaST. Once installed, I tested whether everything works fine so far. SSL also worked ...
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SSL certificate on SUSE11 box
There is one SSL certificate blocked me for a long time. Hope you could give me some suggestion.
I need to the working server(Windows 2003R2SP2) and client (SUSE11 box) communicate with SSL ...
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1answer
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How can I contribute to OpenSuse/SLES packages? [closed]
I've got some improvements for correctness for the tomcat 6 and tomcat 7 packages for SLES. I understand that opensuse is upstream.
Where do I start to contribute back to the package?
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can't start the os after i clone a virtual os using LVM
i installed an SUSE-11-x86_64 os on vsphere using LVM(logical volume management) and then clone a new one using Converter which take about 15 minutes, obviously, it take less time than clone the os ...
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Failed to import SLES11 to SCOM2012
I try to the import my SLES11 to SCOM 2012, but failed. Below is my simple steps and failed error message.
Import SLES11 mp
DNS resolve both SCOM and SLES11
Install SCOM Agent and cert.
Generated ...
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kill -9 a postgres process
A postgres SELECT query ran out of control on our DB server and started eating up tons of memory and swap until the server ran out of memory. I found the particular process via ps aux | grep postgres ...
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2answers
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Postgres 9.2 beta for Suse SLES
I am searching the internets high and low, but can't find any Postgres 9.2 beta versions for any SLES versions. Can I take some Fedora RPM or similiar, or can someone tell me how to find the RPMs on ...
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243 views
SLES Devel Packages?
It seems SLES 11.2 (and OpenSUSE) are missing many devel (dev) packages common in other distros such as Ubuntu Server or CentOS. I understand that packages / deps may be wrapped up in other-named ...
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0answers
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SLES 11.2 and setting /var/run to run under tmpfs?
Trying to set /var/run and /var/lock to run instead under a tmpfs? Using SLES 11.2, which doesn't implement by default.
Creating mounts under fstab seems to break things a bit, so there must be ...
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1answer
363 views
unable to install postgresql on SLES 10
i am trying to install postgresql-server on a Suse 10 (SLES10 SP2) 64 bit machine with no luck.
I followed the link on the postgres website to the place where they maintain the build for SUSE:
...
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Time-based 32-bit overflow in Java? Or SLES11?
This is Tomcat 6.0.18, Java 1.7.0_03 (32-bit), and SLES11 SP2 (64-bit). As for kernel information:
$ uname -a
Linux server-1 3.0.13-0.27-default #1 SMP Wed Feb 15 13:33:49 UTC 2012 (d73692b) x86_64 ...
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4answers
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eth0 and eth1 both assigned same IP on boot
I have a physical SLES 11 SP2 server on a Sun Fire x4140 that is giving me problems with networking upon reboot. The NICs are onboard.
The networking appears successful during boot, but network ...
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3answers
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What are the ways to build a failover cluster?
I have a task where I need to build a failover cluster in two cases: first with servers on Red Hat Enterprise 5.1 and second with SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1. Both cases have SAN. I know there are ...
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Loading multipath in SuSE install initrd for PXE
I'm reinstalling cluster nodes with SLES11-SP1. The nodes are boot on SAN and will use the official RDAC driver once installed. But during installation (boot from the network using PXE) there is no ...
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1answer
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How to run a script on boot for SUSE Enterprise Server 11
I've added the following and confirmed the script works as it is by first running it. Why isn't this script then running when the server starts up each time? Not sure what I'm missing.
Confirmed ...
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1answer
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ss utility does't work properly
I've learned that ss, which is base on netlink, is much faster than netstat when amount of sockets is large. And the secret is here.
But when I tested on my suse linux minutes ago, the result ...
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Is there any log in SuSe Linux that tells if a machine hangs due to a runaway?
I have a SuSe Linux server that is hanging due to unknown issues, I'm to the point of wondering whether there is a runaway process being run every now and then that is causing it to hang.
The issue ...
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2answers
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SLES partitionless Installation
Windows VMWare guests can easily be resized live. For linux guests I've used LVM (add disk, partprobe, add disk to vg, lvextend, resize2fs). This works.
I've just stumbled across the sketch of better ...
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1answer
290 views
suse-multiple nic's same subnets issue
I have a system with two NICs with 4 ip addresses (eth0,1,2,3) on two different subnets (x.x.230.x and x.x.221.x).
Problem when our network Engineer shuts down one switch port, 2 ip's on same subnet ...
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1answer
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ftp/tcp server failing (looping)
I'm getting frequent errors in /var/log/messages and the ftp service is getting stopped and started over and over.
I haven't got any clue behind this error message and what is happening during these ...
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Upgrade PHP 5.2 to 5.3 on SUSE 11.1
i have a client SUSE 11.1 box that now requires PHP 5.3 where as the original scope of work called for PHP 5.2
yast2 doesn't seem to see anything other than 5.2. i can't figure out how to get ...
