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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How to intetionally cause high iowait on Linux
I wrote a Nagios script to send me alerts when IOwait rises, so now I need a command that can spike it so I can test my monitoring script with different threshold values, any advise?
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How to increase the hard disk space of thin provisioning virtual machine?
Created thin provisioning VM (Suse Linux) with 100 GB hard disk. Now due to space requirements, I need to increase the size to 200GB. Can someone please tell me how to increase the space of the "/...
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Formula or rule of thumb to estimate filesystem planning with BtrFS snapshots (SLES or similar)
SLES features BtrFS for the root filesystem, combined with automatic ("numbered") snapshots performed before and after updates. If your system fails, you can boot from an older snapshot (...
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enable linger for user fails with bad message
I currently have the problem of not being able to activate linger for my user. The test activation for the user root, was possible. I am unfortunately overwhelmed with the error message and can not ...
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Setting /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/g++ on SLES 15 when using gcc-12 package
I'm trying to consume GCC 12.3 in SLES when using the packaged gcc-12 installed with zypper.
The compiler works and it's available on /usr/bin/gcc-12 alongside with /usr/bin/g++-12, but I don't have a ...
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How to manage a user account on SLES that does, and does not, exist?
My team (software devs) has a VM we use for testing. We agreed to self-admin the server in order to have root access. Despite us being devs and not admins, it's worked really well for us, but today I ...
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ldap+sssd on SuSE shows only local users
Problem: Not able to list ldap users.
Hello,
I am setting up new LDAP authentication on our SuSE 12 test system. I am a LDAP newbie and following the instructions from the site https://www.port389.org/...
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Join a SuSE 15.4 to Active Directory
I was reading this post because I have to add a SuSE 15.4 Server to an Active Directory domain. I followed it but the packages that he ask me to install cannot be installed. For instance, the command:
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write cache in RAM for NFS?
is there a way, solution for a Linux server (SLES) to put write (or even read) caching in RAM?
Having big RAM, ex.: 2 TBytes, but limited NFS IOPS and we need a big IOPS for DB files, stored on NFS.
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Creating a Skeleton/Template SUSE or SLES Linux Server
Scenario: I have a "template" server with all the services and packages installed which will be replicated on many new servers.
Each newly replicated server will be stood up by installing a ...
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Permission denied when using kill as root
I'm starting a java program as a non-privileged user that I sudo'd into, then exit the shell. Being root again I try to kill -9 the java process.
This causes a "permission denied" error.
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SUSE Linux ES 15 SP1 rebooting, how to find out why
I am managing a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 system and it will randomly reboot. A few months ago I opened a case with Dell support and we upgraded all firmware available for the system. The ...
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ntp server reject my VMs but the network looks good
Recently there are always several SLES12.5 VMs in my domain got the NTP sync issue. So I made some research on it. Here's the details--
I found 1 VM often raise NTP issues. So I started a monitoring ...
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Where can I find documentation for 389-DS on SLES15?
The version of 389-DS shipped with SLES15 SP3 is 1.4.4.19, and I wonder where the corresponding documentation can be found:
389 Directory Server refers to Product Documentation for Red Hat Directory ...
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SuSE Linux 12.4 - cannot re-register in Azure - object has no attribute 'generateRegionSrvArgs'
My Azure VM running Linux SLES 12.4 got de-reigstered in Azure.
When trying to register back, i get:
/etc/zypp/repos.d # /usr/sbin/registercloudguest --force-new
Traceback (most recent call last):
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How to install SSL certificate to system-wide trust on SUSE
I know this qualifies as one of the most asked questions in SF (and also possibly in SO), but (this time) I've done my homework:
I've read and tried this and this without any luck.
So, I have my shiny ...
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Pacemaker Virtual IP suddenly Failed
I am new in cluster.
We are running SAP Application in HA Cluster (have 2 nodes in cluster) using pacemaker. Node1 if it runs as a master always restart for a few times. After we check pacemaker logs, ...
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Why do I see many "kernel: vif ...: Guest Rx stalled" / "Guest Rx ready" messages?
Since upgrading a Xen host that also is a node in a pacemaker cluster from SLES15 SP2 to SLES15 SP3, I see these messages roughly every 30 seconds, and I wonder:
What are these messages telling me? ...
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How to install packages from command line on Suse
What is the Suse version of apt-get or yum? Or how do I get one of them installed in order to install software packages from the command line?
A fairly intense session of googling suggests that it may ...
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Scan Mounted Ext3 File System on runtime
We have SUSE Linux system where we have various partitions, and we are facing corruption of FS.
We are now trying to scan FS periodically without rebooting the system and we have gone through fsck ...
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GCP Suse Enterprise LInux 15, no default package repository
I created a suse linux enterprise 15 vm in GCP. When I try to install anything it gives the following error.
I searched a lot but couldn't find default package repo for suse.
test-suse:/etc/zypp/repos....
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Configuring STONITH on non-shared disk cluster
I have configured a 2 node (VMs) cluster with SUSE High Availability Extension.
The cluster doesn't use shared disk. So Stonith is not really required. But the cluster keeps on asking for Stonith.
So ...
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Postfix Status Contradictory output
I have a Suse Enterprise Linux Server with postfix installed. If I run the command postfix status, I receive the following contradictory output:
postfix: Postfix is running with backwards-compatible ...
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IPv6 dnsmasq dig refused
I'm trying to enable both IPv4 and IPv6 stack on SUSE 15 environment. I've assigned both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to the same interface using /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_set_network. Both IPv4 and IPv6 ...
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Upgrade python 2 to 3.8.8 on suse Linux and Install pip3
I have Python 2.9 on my suse-linux machine (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1). I have upgraded it to Python 3.8.8.
When I try to install pip using
zypper install python3-pip
It says python3-pip ...
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How to know user creation date on suse
Ok, so, this a SuSE specific question becoause on CentOS or Debian I wold look on /var/log/secure but there isn't such log on suse, so.. How can I know the creation date of a user on Suse (v12 or ...
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How to install Micro Focus Data Protector Client 10.91 on SLES 15 SP2?
Micro Focus Data Protector 10.91 should work with Linux distributions like SLES using systemd, but it seems client instalation does not work:
When I try to install the client, I get an error message (&...
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Auto select solution for zypper
I need to automate package installation with zypper that requires selecting a solution. How can this be done in non-interactive mode?
# zypper in /tmp/repos-sles15-sp2-current.x86_64.rpm
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How to configure a DNS server by YAST2
I run these commands to install DNS server dependencies on openSUSE Tumbleweed:
sudo zypper in -t pattern dhcp_dns_server
sudo systemctl enable named.service
sudo systemctl start named.service
To ...
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RPM --queryformat FILEMD5S checksum is different than md5sum of machine
The RPM man page says:
The FILEMD5S Tag The FILEMD5S tag is used to display the MD5 checksum
for each of the files that comprise the package.
Array: Yes (Size: One entry per filemd5s)
Used with ...
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SUSE SLES Licensing in GCP after migration from AWS
I migrated an SLES image from AWS to GCP following this Guide.
Recently I realized that the repositories aren't working due to the fact that the machine is not properly registered to SMT.
Since I don'...
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Erroneous inode values when disabling 64bit
Recently the NAS we use has been switched from 32bit to 64bit inodes on a nfs mount. Unfortunately we have legacy code which does not play nice with this. After some panicked googling I came across ...
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SSH Connection Error: buffer_put_cstring: s == NULL [preauth]
I'm trying to connect via SSH to a remote SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 from a Windows 10 Computer.
When using Putty 0,73, it works without problems. But using WSL2/Debian I get always refused.
On ...
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stdout does not display `rpm -qa` output without redirect
On a SLES 12 virtual machine the command rpm -qa does not return anything to stdout.
~> rpm -qa
~>
The command finishes after 1 or 2 seconds, so it clearly generates some data. Only when the ...
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SLES 15 zypper and yast error
I've created a predefined SLES 15.1 Linux VM on GCP.
SUSEConnect, zypper and yast functionalites don't work.
I always have the error: "11-Resource temporarily unavailable"
For example, I run ...
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Install Neo4j 4.2.1 on SUSE SLES12
I´m currently running neo4j 3.5.11 on a SUSE SLES 12 SP5 and I want to Upgrade to Version 4.2.1.
Official Docs (https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/4.2/installation/linux/rpm/#linux-rpm-suse) ...
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zypper lp command not working on Suse Linux
I'm trying to list patches in suse linux GCE using the zypper lp command, but I am getting the following error:
"Medium not attached: plugin:/susecloud?credentials=Basesystem_Module_x86_64&...
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Connection refused on remote (sles) server port, even though inside that server port shows as open
When trying to connect to port 7077 to a spark cluster via pyspark in Python, I get Connection refused Error.
Running nmap server_ip from my local machine (Ubuntu 20.04) shows 4 open ports (80, 8080, ...
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rsyslogd does not write all messages to file
Rsyslogd is configured to send remote logs to another port on the same server (network monitoring tool) and also write them to file and network monitoring tool gets more message than there are in file....
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Why do I have a dracut initramfs in /var/tmp?
I never used dracut so far. I understood dracut filesystems (Wiki) as temporary systems that help mounting system specific kernel modules during the boot process. But after successful boot of my SLES ...
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Autofs and udev rules to restrict usb permissions to groups
I need some help trying to figure out how to restrict the reading and writing access of usb devices.
There are two groups on my system:
usbreaders: only should have rights to access and read the usb
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rpm package 'libatomic1' is not installed
I am in middle of installation of HANA Express addition on SUSE Linux server (sles-12-sp3) but when I tried to install the HANA I am getting an issue i.e "rpm package 'libatomic1' is not installed".
I ...
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Change TTL for DNS entries on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
.. preferable without YAST.
I am about migrating several services from a SUSE enterprise server to Ubuntu.
I "found" two DNS related files:
/var/lib/named/master/domain with the forward lookups.
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Create installable disk image from existing hard drive
I installed a SLES 15 machine with a special library of my work. Since I need to install other machines with the same procedure, I want to "extract" the current installation to create an installable ...
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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 / ...
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Deletion progress status [closed]
In our case, we have some files in the directory /root/Documents/folder1 in which we want to delete the files which start with sam*, we have proceeded with the command
rm sam*
which is working fine ...
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Which user should be the owner of the web root in SLES 12?
I'm setting up a SLES 12 system for running web applications on it. There is already a /srv/www folder and it's owned by root. So I'm going to reassign it to another user.
Is there a good practice / ...
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Install COUCHDB and OPA(Open policy Agent) on SUSE Linux machine
I am trying to Install COUCHDB and OPA on SUSE Linux machine. And I am trying to get correct package or repo which could be compatible with SUSU, But I am not able to find correct solution so far. It ...
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add_principal: DN is out of the realm subtree while creating "[email protected]"
I'm trying to create a principal linked to an ldap object according to the MIT documentation.
This is my ldap structure:LDAP STRUCTURE
Once I've created the UID object in the Ldap ou=people,dc=domain,...
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OpenLDAP ACL's in SUSE, Kerberos configuration
I'm implementing Kerberos with OpenLDAP manually and according to the MIT Documentation, I've to set manually this ACL:
access to dn.base=""
by * read
access to dn.base="cn=Subschema"
by * ...