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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How to access svn repo via subclipse?

I want to use svn on my root server so I performed following steps: install subversion using yast add group svn add a user with group svn create svn repo using svnadmin create chgrp on repo folder Checkout with subclipse My repo is now located in…
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Editing a file from command line adds strange chars to the file

I just edited a vhost file via command line sudo vi /srv/.../vhost.conf After saving and reopening to add something, strange chars where added to the file: E.g. AuthName "trac"n was AuthName "trac" before. Same with AuthUserFile. A ns was added…
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How to get the name of the apache user

Possible Duplicate: Finding out what user Apache is running as? I use openSuse and I try to find out the name of the apache user. So I enter vim /etc/passwd in the terminal. Or ps -a Both don't have apache listed. I have mysql and other stuff…
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Cannot complete trac installation because python-genshi is missing

I try to install trac on my suse root server. So first I installed all svn packages using yast. After that I searched for python in yast in software management because I have to intall following…
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YaST broken after removing PCRE 7.9

I installed PCRE 8.12 on my server using YaST but found that PCRE 7.9 was still installed and active (as seen via pcretest -C). In order to delete or deactive PCRE 7.9 I tried deleting it using YaST. But I think that process deleted many other files…
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Auto Start of Proftpd on OpenSuse Linux

I'm trying to activate the Ftpservice on my Root Server, I have OpenSuse installed, and I'm using the xinetd method. I added this to my xineted.conf: service ftp { flags = REUSE socket_type = stream protocol …
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Missing Ram, memory leak?

I'm running OpenSuse 11 on an HP proliant server with 8G of RAM, occasionally the gnome desktop [whatever is current version] After a while it will just run out of RAM, there will be like 6 or 700k left available and all the running services don't…
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OpenLDAP compile switches

How can I see how the OpenLDAP executable provided by my distribution (OpenSuSE) was compiled ? After long debugging, I think that my TLS config is simply ignored. I would like to check if slapd was compiled with --with-tls or not. Is there any way…
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cron not running

My cron suddenly stopped working. Output of ps -A | grep cron: 3149 ? 00:00:00 cron I have no idea how to interpret that. The only thing I can think of that I did wrong was I chmod 777 my cron files (so I could edit them as non-root)....does…
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Problem restoring from tar backup: why are there /dev/disk/by-id/ symlinks and how can I avoid them?

I'm trying to make a bare-bone backup system with the most basic tools available on openSUSE 11.3 (in this case: bash, fdisk, tar & grub legacy) Here's the workflow for my scripts: backup.sh: (Run from external system, e.g. LiveCD) make an fdisk…
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MySQL dies during hard work

I have a MySQL database installed on a OpenSuse 11.1 server (it is a Bitnami image). The database works fine, it can stay many days without any error, but when MySQL receives a huge amount of transactions, it dies immediately. The next screen shows…
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OpenSuse - have to be logged in to see on network

I have 2 machines - a windows 7 and an opensuse server. they both use the same router. I noticed when setting up xrdp (remote desktop), I could only remote desktop into my opensuse 11.3 machine from my windows 7 machine when I was logged into the…
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OpenSUSE 11.3 64-bit can't be Installed on AMD Athlon II X2 245

I am not able to install OpenSUSE 11.3 64-bit on my AMD Athlon II X2 245. Whereas, 32-bit version is already installed and running like charm. The process starts fine, it loads the kernel and then it let me choose the language and keyboard layout.…
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finding apache modules

I need to find mod_suexec and mod_rewrite for OpenSUSE 11 x64, as neither module came with my install. I've had most modules I need be included in Apache installs in the past so I'm not too familiar with where I go to find these. I've tried zypper…
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Can't access oracle(@1521) and http(8080) even with firewall stopped

I have a Suse11.2 machine with the following services: oracle database XE Jboss+Tomcat6.0 I needed to change oracle default dbms_xdb httpport to 9080, so with that I can use tomcat @8080 port. Since I'm developing this app I've made a lot of tests…
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