Questions tagged [opensuse]

openSUSE (formerly known as SuSE Professional) is the "free" branch of the SuSE distribution family. openSUSE Leap is binary compatible to its bigger brother "SLES" starting with version 15.3 .


openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE.

After Novell acquired SUSE Linux in January 2004, Novell decided to release the SUSE Linux Professional product as a 100% open source project.

In openSUSE the openSUSE Project community, sponsored by SUSE, develops and maintains SUSE Linux distributions components.openSUSE is the successor to "SuSE Linux Professional".

Like most Linux distributions, openSUSE includes both a default graphical user interface (GUI) and a command line interface option. During installation, the user may choose among KDE SC, GNOME, LXDE and Xfce GUIs. openSUSE supports thousands of software packages across the full range of Free software / open source development.

openSUSE is fully and freely available for immediate download, and is also sold in retail box to the general public.
It comes in several editions for the x86 and x86-64 architectures.

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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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Install Samba 4 on Opensuse 12.2

Have anybody already installed Samba 4 on Opensuse ? Please show me how to do, because without that Samba, i cannot to execute CMD command or any script storing on Windows remotely by using winexe ?
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lgcrypt not found while compiling libvirt

I am compiling libvirt. while compiling I got to install a lot of libraries which were appeared as dependencies. but I am not able to resolve the following error: linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcrypt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I have…
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Windows Azure openSUSE: rcnetwork not starting

I have a Linux VM in Azure, created from their default image. My problem is simply that the init script network doesn't look like to start, so dependent services (apache, postfix...) won't start. If I run yast runlevel and try to start postfix it…
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netconfig won't change DNS on opensuse 12.2

I'm trying to update my dns servers after openvpn connection, but netconfig won't do that for me. Here's how I'm trying to do it [manually now]: /sbin/netconfig modify -v -i tap0 -s openvpn <<-EOF INTERFACE='tap0' DNSSERVERS='10.10.0.1' EOF And…
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Clustering a web server

With 4 servers with OpenSuse is it possible to cluster them all together to run websites? What is involved in clustering and is anything special needed to cluster the machines together so they work as one? Do you need a special OS?
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Mercurial upgrade OpenSUSE Linux

I wanted to upgrade mercurial version on OpenSUSE box. This is what I had test99:~/TEST_AREA/hgplayarea # hg --version Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.5) Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Matt Mackall and others This is free software;…
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How do I enable jconsole on an opensuse machine?

This may seem like a simple question, but I can't find a solid answer! How do I view jconsole in OpenSUSE 11.1? I have an applet that I'm hosting, and I'd like to be able to debug it on-the-server. However, I have no idea of how to pull up jconsole…
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How can I contribute to OpenSuse/SLES packages?

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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NIS client cannot find NIS server (Opensuse)

I installed NIS server on head node of a virtual cluster(VirtualBox). One of the node (let's say node-1) can find NIS server and work with it, but another node (node-2) just can't find the NIS server in Yast while it can ping and ssh to both head…
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How resolution can be increased in a hyper-v virtual machine of windows 8

i already have Windows 8 from MSDNAA. I'm very interested in Hyper-V, so i've created an hyper-v virtual machine with openSUSE. If i connect, i have only a 800x600 resolution. I have not found any resolution settings. If you ever be able to change…
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Reset OpenSUSE file permissions across system

I was wondering if there is a set of commands that you can run to reset file permissions to default. A bunch of directories/files got their permissions changed on my server due to me copying and pasting a shell script without looking closer into…
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OpenSUSE reinstall Yast

I just can't understand what just happend? I installed an openSUSE system, the original plan was to use it as an internal DNS Server for easyer access to all of the internal network computers. However something wasn't right with the dns server…
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on suse11 executables are run using sh instead of bash. How to change this

On Suse 11 though the default shell is bash, when I run any executable shell like ./IsCurrentShell then this script is run using sh instead of bash. How can I make this behavior to change such that the scripts run using ./ should run with bash.…
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Can't connect or ping to internet from my device using crossover ethernet

I followed this post to connect my Raspberry Pi (an ARM-based computer) to my PC via crossover cable to use wifi connection of my PC (openSUSE 11.4): (UPDATE: now I have openSUSE…
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