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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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Novell Clustering Problem

I am trying to cluster 3 servers to then mount an NSS. I have all 3 configured and ready to roll. The only problem is none of them are apart of any cluster. When I run the: "cluster join" command I ...
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Cannot renew DHCPV6 lease in SLES12

I need to renew the lease of a certain SLES12 box. The machine is configured to use IPv6 only and so far I have tried the following: From here: dhclient6 -r -v eth0 && rm /var/lib/dhcp6/...
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bonding network interface speed changed to 0

I have Suse12 system with Intel 82599ES nic(with 2*10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ port),two ports are bonded by lacp.Recently,the system network is unreachable,lasted 3 minutes. Looking through the message log, ...
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Reset root shell back to /bin/bash in suse 11

In my production server which is running SUse 11 SP1, the root shell is set to /bin/eksh. Not sure how come it is set to this..we are using /bin/bash as root's default shell. I tried to reset it like ...
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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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SuSE: how to get /etc/resolv.conf updated with IPv6 name server?

I have a SuSE 11 Linux VM, it has both ipv4 and ipv6 enabled, the network this VM connecting to supports both v4 and v6. After the VM boot up, it holds both IPv4 and v6 addresses, but /etc/resolv....
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Finding SUSE registration status offline

I have to find the registration status of SLES and SLED machines offline. SUSEConnect --status requires internet connectivity to check the registration status. yast registration module shows the ...
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vmlinuz boot file deleted - options to recover?

A SLES server crashed, and will not restart. A team member ran this command about half an hour before zypper remove zookeeper-server - 2.2.6.0-2800 ...Including the spaces. I fear it has ...
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SLES 12 High Availability Cluster - scsi persistant reservation fencing

I'm trialling SLES 12 w/ HAE to run a Fileserver cluster consisting of two nodes. Idea was to use SCSI persistant reservation as a fencing method using the fence_scsi script from stonith fence agents. ...
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sles/opensuse os installation log

Is it possible to keep installation log off all events, tasks, say running commands, etc.. while installing SLES/openSUSE (or maybe another linux)? It's not a problem lookup info in already running ...
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Xen Dom0 could not find boot device (or any disk)

I have a brand new DELL server running SLES11 SP1 where I am trying to install my very first Xen Hypervisor. So I installed "Hypervisor and Tools" via YaST (excluding graphical elements), which ...
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SuSE 11: "top" CPU percentages don't add up

Running "top -b" on my SLES 11sp2 system produces the output below. The Cpu(s) line reports 33.7% CPU usage in user space, but if you add up the %CPU column in the process listing you only get 4.9% ...
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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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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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Redirect local, not internal, requests using SuSEfirewall2 or an iptables rule

I have a server that is running a web application deployed on Tomcat and is sitting in a test network. We're running SuSE 11 sp1 and have some redirection rules for incoming requests. For example we ...
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Plone ERROR ZServer uncaptured python exception

Afternoon, I'm running Plone 2.5.3 on SLES 10. With a separate Apache server (192.168.6.80) using mod rewrite to access Plone. Recently been experiencing slow performance loading pages. When I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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SLES linux is not updating resolvers/nameservers from DHCP server

I have two VMs in the same network - CentOS and SUSE linux. I didn't made any changes to configure DHCP client in these machines. When both the VMs are powered on, both the VMs are getting IPs but ...
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Authenticating Linux Login against Active Directory (AD) without Joining Linux Machine to AD Domain

I have a conventional Active Directory Infra deployed on Windows VMs on Azure. There is no Integration of this convention AD with Azure AD. I want Linux VMs on Azure with SLES 12 SP3 to authenticate ...
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lftp 4.8.4 refuses to talk TLS1.2 with z/OS ftps host

Appreciate any advice on below problem: I have a problem to connect z/OS FTPS server when I choose TLS1.2 protocol: leonidt@zdsdeveng03:/gsa/pokgsa/home/l/e/leonidt/20190114_Switch2lftp> ~/local/...
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Linker error in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3

Our machine was in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 until when we recently moved to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3. Our C++ tools were compiling without any problem on SuSe 11. But when we ...
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Upgrade Firmwares for Lenovo servers for SLES12

SERVER:/opt/OneCli # cd /opt/OneCli; ./OneCli update acquire --mt 6241 --ostype sles12 --dir ./firmware/ --output ./output Lenovo XClarity Essentials OneCLI lxce_onecli02c-2.1.0 Licensed Materials - ...
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Connect via SSH to SLES12 installation

I am trying to make unattended installation but with SSH connectivity, so I can connect remotely and check installation logs. I know about usessh=1 kernel parameter, but this makes installation wait ...
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suse isc dhcpd dhcrelay no ipaddress

I have the following setup: Client --> eth2(10.4.0.1/16) - router / - eth1(10.3.0.1/16) --> dhcp-server(10.3.0.150) dhcp-relay If the client starts a dhcp-request ...
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mysql_config_editor for mariadb backups on SUSE

I want to run an automated backup process for mariadb on SUSE enterprise 12 hosted on Microsoft Azure using mysqlbackup. This requires a mariadb/mysql username and password. I want avoid to hard ...
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Using LINK_REQUIRED parameter with wicked

I'm running SLES 12 and trying to configure network interfaces; this is my first experience with wicked. I'm using "ifup" to up the ethernet devices. I ran into an issue of not being able to ifup the ...
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Installing libreoffice on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

I have a server with a newly installed SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12. It appears that the libreoffice related RPM's are missing, and instead are part of SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. What's the ...
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Error while trying to bring up network in SLES12.1

I am trying to bring up the eth0 adapter in SLES12 sp1 using ifup eth0 but every time I am getting an error saying: wicked: Reading config file /etc/wicked/client.xml wicked: Reading config file /...
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ARP issuse in SUSE Linux

I am dealing with a very strange problem. I have a VM running SLES 11 SP4 in VMware Environment. The machine has two NIC. All of a sudden the second NIC stopped working. It's not even pinging the ...
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Can't get VirtualHosts to inherit global settings from default-server.conf in Apache 2.4 on SLES 12

I am using Apache 2.4.10 on SLES 12. According to the the SLES 12 Administration Guide the default-server.conf file is "Global configuration for all virtual hosts with reasonable defaults. Instead of ...
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libvirt hook qemu suse12

we have this qemu hook. In suse 11 was working well but in suse 12 it is not working. The hook is setting the ports in openvswitch native-untagged. Do you know if there is some libvirt missing ...
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Puppet 3.3.1 Certificate verify failed

I`ve trouble to setup a master/node scenario with puppet 3.3.1 (puppet opensource) on both master and slaves. The slaves are on a windows and SLES machine. The Master is also on a SLES machine. The ...
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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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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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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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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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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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After upgrade to SLES11 SP1 - LVM on top of software RAID5 not working anymore

On a system where I have been running OpenSuSE11.1 for some time I performed a fresh installation of SLES11 SP1. The system used a software RAID5 system on top of which an LVM was setup with a single ...
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apache proxy installation

I am having problem installing the proxy_html for apache on an OpenSuse. It looks like the module is installed: a2enmod proxy_html "proxy_html" already present and in /etc/sysconfig/apache2 I have ...
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novell certificate file missing after restart

Every time I restart my Novell Groupwise on Suse Open Enterprise server the root certificate goes missing. Thats why ldap is not starting and so the other services are not working. After repairing the ...
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CPU usage is very large in top command of Linux

I run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 in a virtual machine. The hypervisor is KVM. There is 4 virtual CPU cores for the VM. Now there is a very strange thing. In theory the maximum CPU usage ...
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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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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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