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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.

  • 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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How to display SSH banner at login, but only for password authentication

I have a warning message that is displayed to a user after they enter their username to log in to our Linux servers. I only want to display this message for password authentications, and not when keys are used. It should only show to a user who is…
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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/dhclient* ; dhclient6 -v eth0 Other attempts: rm…
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SLES 10 SP4 (x86_64) - HP Proliant DL380 G4 - Becomes unresponsive randomly

Had the misfortune of upgrading a HP Proliant DL380 G4 from SLES 10 SP2 (i586) to SLES 10 SP4 (x86_64). Although the installation completed smoothly, the server became unresponsive after a couple of days of uptime. The server responds to PING but…
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PXE DHCP configuration with existing DHCP server

How does a DHCP service need to be configured, so that it handles PXE requests while there is still another DHCP server on the network? I managed to set up a working PXE system in a separate environment (one server for DHCP, TFTP and HTTP, one…
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chown with numeric arguments

I tried this on Opensuse 12 and Fedora 17, i use the following commans touch file chown 777 file ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 777 root 0 Oct 9 21:43 file grep 777 /etc/passwd echo $? 1 There is no user 777 grep pippo /etc/passwd echo $? 1 chown…
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apache hangs frequently with semop

My Apache hangs frequently with multiple threads. Each process get stucked for hours. Backtrace looks like this: (gdb) backtrace #0 0x00002af60c22b2d7 in semop () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00002af60bbf612c in ?? () from…
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/etc/profile.d and "ssh -t"

I wanted to run a script on a remote machine. The simple solution is this: ssh remote1 some-script This works until the remote script doesn't want to connect to another remote machine (remote2) which requires interactive authentication, like tis…
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SLES Devel Packages?

It seems SLES 11.2 (and OpenSUSE) are missing many devel (dev) packages common in other distros such as Ubuntu Server or CentOS. I understand that packages / deps may be wrapped up in other-named SLES packages, but it's difficult to track down,…
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Time-based 32-bit overflow in Java? Or SLES11?

This is Tomcat 6.0.18, Java 1.7.0_03 (32-bit), and SLES11 SP2 (64-bit). As for kernel information: $ uname -a Linux server-1 3.0.13-0.27-default #1 SMP Wed Feb 15 13:33:49 UTC 2012 (d73692b) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux We were doing a load and…
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VSFTP Config to send users to specific folders

I have approximately 30 users on a box. Those users are in overlapping groups(about 6-10 groups). I need them to be able to land in a specific folder based on their group assignment when they FTP in. I.e., group1 -> /tmp/site1 group2 ->…
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how to detect a process which is continuosly eating the disk space

on our linux system (suse), one of the partition is nfs-mounted and some process is continuously eating the disk space in it, leaving behind zero bytes to write. How can I figure out this process or daemon which is eating the disk space? Is there…
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SLES 11 SDK repositories

is there a way to add SLES 11 SDK repositories without having to download and burn the ISO ?
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What's SUSE linux? Why does it cost more on Amazon EC2?

What's the difference between EC2's "linux/unix" server, and "SUSE Linux" ? Why does SUSE cost more? Is it better?
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Syslog-ng: how to log severity/facility?

Here is the system: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 syslog-ng with predefined syslog-ng.conf messages in /var/log/messages look like: Feb 8 09:29:53 sles1 sshd[17529]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 10.30.34.64 port 4855…
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Corrupt tar (Resulting folder smaller than packed file)

I have an issue with a tarball created on a SuSe 10.3 Server version. The .tar file has a size of 6.5 GB but if I untar it under Ubuntu 9.10 the resulting folder only has a size of 1.5 GB. commands used: tar cvf for packing, tar xvf for…
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