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.

  • SLES 9 SP4: Has EoLed in August 2010
  • SLES 10 SP4: Has XEN 3.2 built in (Dom0-Support)
  • SLES 11 SP2: Has XEN 4.1 built in, ha-stack has to be licensed separately, KVM also supported
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Apache2 with SSL and mod_jk on SUSE Linux Enterprise | Apache always starts SSL disabled

I have installed Apache2 (with mod_ssl enabled) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) (patchlevel 1), using YaST. Once installed, I tested whether everything works fine so far. SSL also worked fine. Just 'apache2ctl start' was enough to make…
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eth0 and eth1 both assigned same IP on boot

I have a physical SLES 11 SP2 server on a Sun Fire x4140 that is giving me problems with networking upon reboot. The NICs are onboard. The networking appears successful during boot, but network services such as nfs fail hard. This is because…
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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 multipathing driver present and therefore some…
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Is there any log in SuSe Linux that tells if a machine hangs due to a runaway?

I have a SuSe Linux server that is hanging due to unknown issues, I'm to the point of wondering whether there is a runaway process being run every now and then that is causing it to hang. The issue is that I don't know where to look for it after the…
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ftp/tcp server failing (looping)

I'm getting frequent errors in /var/log/messages and the ftp service is getting stopped and started over and over. I haven't got any clue behind this error message and what is happening during these errors is logged. May 4 04:11:23 node1…
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Manage multiple zLinux SuSE Servers

My shop virtualizes a few hundred SuSE 11.1 servers through IBM's zVM hypervisor. (If you've never heard of zVM, it runs on a mainframe and virtualizes Linux in the s390x architecture. It's a different beast than most of you are used to. The guys…
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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 partition of about 2.5 TB size for a mount like…
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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 the line: APACHE_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic…
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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 cert on the second server via imanager…
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LDAP + TLS - different behaviour on two machines

machines: debian wheezy suse 11 commands: ldapsearch -ZZ -h ad.unsw.edu.au -x perl -we "use Net::LDAP; print Net::LDAP->new ('ad.unsw.edu.au')->start_tls(verify => 'require', capath => '/etc/ssl/certs/')->{errorMessage}" results: machine 1,…
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sles 9 not recognising hard disks

Trying to install sles 9 onto one of the hard disks on a Fujitsu PRIMERGY rx200 s6 server. However seem to be encountering a problem in that sles does not seem to recognise that there are hard disks available to use. Tried installing off both cd…
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Where to download the latest 2.4.x Linux kernel while kernel.org is down?

I need to run the pre-paleolithic (10 years old!) SuSE 7.3 under VirtualBox. (Don't ask. I just do, ok?) I managed to successfully install it. It boots. It recognized the virtual NIC (pcnet32 module) and I can see it has the correct virtual MAC…
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Multiple static IP adresses for Xen

I'm trying to set up Xen on SLES11. The configuration I want is that each of the virtual machines shall have it's own static IP address externally to our LAN and thus can be accessed directly via a specific IP. LAN - eth0(IP: 1.2.3.4) - ?? -…
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Move Groupwise POA from SLES to Windows

I'm attempting to move a GroupWise POA from a crippled SLES cluster to a 2008R2 server, it appears all the binaries meet the requirements, but where the documentation fails me are for a few questions: 1) Is a local installation of eDirectory…
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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 should be 400% (because of 4 cores) in top command,…
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