Questions tagged [sles12]
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Docker ports do not seem to be reachable from outside server
I am facing a weird situation with Docker in a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1.
I am connected to the server using SSH. First, I tried to run a simple nginx server to test:
docker run -d -p 8081:80 nginx:alpine --name nginxtest
The container…

Pedro A
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Router disappearing from route table (Linux)
I'm running SLES 12 SP3 in a production environment. There are several interfaces configured on two separate networks. Things are working fine for a while(days at a time) and for no apparent reason, 1 or 2 of the gateways will get dropped from the…

jetson23
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Start idmapd at every boot
We suddenly had a "nobody" issue on NFSv4 mounts on SLES 12.5 machines.
The:
systemctl unmask nfs-idmapd.service
systemctl enable nfs-idmapd.service
systemctl restart nfs-idmapd.service
nfsidmap -c
solved it (+a correct /etc/idmapd.conf), but after…

jim7475
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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 / standard in Suse Linux Enterprise Server, what…

automatix
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auditd killing a server?
In /var/log/kernellog we can see many entries for audit (since we have "space_left_action = SYSLOG" and "write_logs = no"):
...
audit: audit_backlog=32769 > audit_backlog_limit=32768
audit: audit_lost=1 audit_rate_limit=0…

jim7475
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Xen xl console terminates upon reboot command
I am trying to troubleshoot the boot issue of Xen virtual guest and I need to access the grub menu.
I have attached a console to guest with xl console and in other terminal I have executed a command xl reboot which immediately closed my…

jakub2021
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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 output is redirected to a file or through a pipe it…

TheCooocy
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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 / standard in Linux (and maybe specially in Suse…

automatix
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omiagent does not exit on sles 12
We use powershell scripts on some sles 12 vms for testing purposes. The scripts are automatically started from a windows server. Now I see that every call of a single script starts a new instance of omiagent. That is ok, but the agents never exit.…

Tobias Wollgam
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"RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable" while adding new route?
There is a SLES12 with 10.2.64.x IP.
I want to add an additional one, a 10.2.50.x IP.
Before, the routing looks like this:
SERVER:~ # netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt…

niving6473
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SLES 12 SP1 expired letsencrypt X3 root ca certificate
I'm working with SLES 12 SP1.
When running
zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:Factory/standard/openSUSE:Factory.repo
I get the following error
Download (curl) error for…

user1247196
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Find to exclude the snapthost directory in SLES 15
I am searching for the executable file name pxe using the command
find / -type f -executable -print | grep pxe$
and this works fine in RHEL, but in SLES the snapshot directory messses up the search. How to exclude the snapshot directory in my…

redpy
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How to start and stop SAP instances (including databases) automatically with OS boot and shutdown, respectively?
Running SLES15 (uses systemd), how can I make SAP instances and databases start automatically on system boot, and stop them properly on system shutdown or reboot?
One example I found is for the obsolete LSB start mechanism.

U. Windl
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What happened to Data::UUID in SLES?
I have a Perl program with tradition (i.e. I use it over 10 years), but today I realized that it cannot find Data::UUID any more.
I also tried to install a corresponding package from the SLES software repository, but I could not find one.
AFAIR it…

U. Windl
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systemd based automount never umounts when idle
The setup (not autofs, but systemd based automount):
# grep automount /etc/fstab
1.2.3.4:/vol/homedirs /home/roaming nfs x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=30
and:
# systemctl daemon-reload
on SLES12.3.
This works great! If a user logs in,…

pintereric
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