Questions tagged [sles]
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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mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member'
I have Suse Linux 12.1 and
i am trying to mount a single RAID 1 disk, to explore the files in it. However when mounting it:
# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/test
mount: unknown filesystem type '...
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SSH: DH_GEX group out of range
We recently applied a vendor-supplied patch for OpenSSH. This patch disabled a few key exchange protocols in response to the recent Logjam attack. After applying this patch, we have a few vendors ...
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FQDNs during migration from syslogd to syslog-ng
I'm migrating from syslogd to syslog-ng on SLES 9 server (syslog-ng at stock version 1.6.8). The server happens to be a loghost for some remote loggers.
How do I configure syslog-ng to assure maximum ...
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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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How to add a user without knowing the encrypted form of the password?
I use the following command to create a user in a linux machine:
useradd -d /home/dummy -g idiots -m -p 12345689 dummy
The user is created and the home directory as well.
The problem is that I ...
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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 display SSH banner at login, but only for password authentication
I have a warning message that is displayed to a user after they enter their username to log in to our Linux servers. I only want to display this message for password authentications, and not when ...
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How to get password for EC2 Linux instance?
I am exploring Amazon EC2.
I created a Linux SUSE instance etc. now I am trying to remote into it from my mac using a VNC client (Chicken of the VNC client): I have the public dns of the instance ...
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Swap partition not mounted on boot
I'm having issues with a fresh SLES12 install and swap not mounting.
It's a DL360 G6 server with P410 and 2x 146GB drives in RAID1.
The single /dev/sda has MBR with sda1 for swap and sda2 for ext4 ...
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Can someone implement LVM on an existing single-hard disk system?
I am using SuSE Linux (10) and I am considering expanding the available disk, without resizing an existing partition (which is not easy to do on a VM). Instead, I want to create another virtual disk, ...
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What folder should be the home of the web root owner?
I'm setting up a SLES 12 system for running web applications on it. There is already a /srv/www folder and it's going to be owned by a special user (let's say: web user).
Is there a good practice / ...