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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Is there a CentOS equivalent for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server?

Is there an equivalent distribution that is to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server what CentOS is to Red Hat Enterpise Linux?
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RDAC MPP driver erratic path fail-over errors

In my central syslog I can see a some instances ofo the following error from LSI's RDAC multi-pathing driver for Linux. [RAIDarray.mpp]MY_NICE_STORAGE_ARRAY:1:0:7 Cmnd-failed try alt ctrl 0. vcmnd SN 2436 pdev H1:C0:T0:L7 0x05/0x94/0x01 0x08000002…
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Why do I get a "using password: YES" error even when I don't give the -pXXXX parameter?

I'm getting this error when softweb:~ # mysql ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) I'm not even inputting the password and its telling me that I'm giving one. in the my.cnf file there is no login…
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Amazon EC2: Can we use our own license for Suse Linux?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We have an existing SUSE Linux server with license we want to move to Amazon EC2. I want to know if we can pay the standard Linux prices if using our own license, or if we…
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Heartbeat on SLES 11

I am trying to setup Linux-HA (Heartbeat) on a new SLES 11 Server anyone know of a good step-by-step for this the site's docs leave a little to be desired... Thanks!
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write cache in RAM for NFS?

is there a way, solution for a Linux server (SLES) to put write (or even read) caching in RAM? Having big RAM, ex.: 2 TBytes, but limited NFS IOPS and we need a big IOPS for DB files, stored on NFS.
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Setting up tomcat autostart on Linux?

So I have a java web app on tomcat installed on the server. How can I setup auto start for it so that it starts up automatically when the server is restarted?
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How to configure a DNS server by YAST2

I run these commands to install DNS server dependencies on openSUSE Tumbleweed: sudo zypper in -t pattern dhcp_dns_server sudo systemctl enable named.service sudo systemctl start named.service To configure the DNS server, I'm trying YAST2 following…
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Why do I have a dracut initramfs in /var/tmp?

I never used dracut so far. I understood dracut filesystems (Wiki) as temporary systems that help mounting system specific kernel modules during the boot process. But after successful boot of my SLES 12 Server VM I still have a dracut file system…
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Autofs and udev rules to restrict usb permissions to groups

I need some help trying to figure out how to restrict the reading and writing access of usb devices. There are two groups on my system: usbreaders: only should have rights to access and read the usb content. usbwriters: should have reading and…
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Change TTL for DNS entries on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

.. preferable without YAST. I am about migrating several services from a SUSE enterprise server to Ubuntu. I "found" two DNS related files: /var/lib/named/master/domain with the forward lookups. /var/lib/named/master/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa with the…
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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…
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Install COUCHDB and OPA(Open policy Agent) on SUSE Linux machine

I am trying to Install COUCHDB and OPA on SUSE Linux machine. And I am trying to get correct package or repo which could be compatible with SUSU, But I am not able to find correct solution so far. It would be appreciated if anyone can help me to…
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SLES linux is not updating resolvers/nameservers from DHCP server

I have two VMs in the same network - CentOS and SUSE linux. I didn't made any changes to configure DHCP client in these machines. When both the VMs are powered on, both the VMs are getting IPs but only CentOS getting the DHCP DNS hostname and…
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Update sa reports every 6 hours

On SuSE Linux the default cron-job for sa/sar looks like this: # /etc/cron.d/sysstat # Activity reports every 10 minutes everyday */10 * * * * root [ -x /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 ] && exec /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 -S ALL 1 1 # Update reports every 6 hours 55…
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