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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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mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member'

I have Suse Linux 12.1 and i am trying to mount a single RAID 1 disk, to explore the files in it. However when mounting it: # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/test mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member' I started reading around and many…
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kill -9 a postgres process

A postgres SELECT query ran out of control on our DB server and started eating up tons of memory and swap until the server ran out of memory. I found the particular process via ps aux | grep postgres and ran kill -9 pid. This killed the process…
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How to configure vsftpd to allow root logins?

I'm on SLES 10.1, and trying to configure vsftpd to allow root logins. Does anyone know how to do this? So far, I have this: local_enable=YES chroot_local_user=NO userlist_enable=YES userlist_deny=NO userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.users And I've added…
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SSH: DH_GEX group out of range

We recently applied a vendor-supplied patch for OpenSSH. This patch disabled a few key exchange protocols in response to the recent Logjam attack. After applying this patch, we have a few vendors with which we have not been able to exchange files…
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Adding 60TB Storage to an SLES 10 Server

I have to add some archive\staging storage to an SLES 10 Server. The requirement is to present fairly large volumes (9-20TB each approx, 60TB or so in total) that will be used to store archive data (literally, this is for a library) comprising large…
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How to add a user without knowing the encrypted form of the password?

I use the following command to create a user in a linux machine: useradd -d /home/dummy -g idiots -m -p 12345689 dummy The user is created and the home directory as well. The problem is that I can not log-in to the system using this account since…
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iptables SSH connection logging

Is it possible to only write a log-entry when a connection is established ? I have tried: iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j LOG --log-level notice --log-prefix "outgoing ssh connection" to log outgoing SSH connections but this logs every…
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How to create an RPM for Suse

I need to install version 1.4 of Subversion on a Suse 10.1 (64 bit) box. I can't change either of these two versions and there isn't an RPM for this distro. After looking around I assume that I'll have to create an RPM myself. Is there a better way…
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Novell Clustering Problem

I am trying to cluster 3 servers to then mount an NSS. I have all 3 configured and ready to roll. The only problem is none of them are apart of any cluster. When I run the: "cluster join" command I get the following: Joining... Now a member of…
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how to change the startup order of linux init scripts in Redhat, Centos

From this changing How to change Linux services startup/boot order? changing the values of the symbolic links it is evident that startup order is changed. In debian derivatives we use update-rc.d apache2 defaults 20 80 Do we have similar…
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ext3/ext4 physical block size view

I'm using a suse 11 server with xfs and using "xfs_info /srv" command i seen this. xfs_info /srv/ meta-data=/dev/mapper/vg01-srvvol isize=256 agcount=38, agsize=1964032 blks = sectsz=512 attr=2 data = …
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LVM: "Couldn't find device with uuid" yet blkid finds the UUID

I have a SLES 11.2 PPC (3.0.58-0.6.6-ppc64) system that lost track of its volume group (containing LVs with data that is not critical but would be rather nice to get back). The disks are connected via two fibre paths from a SAN. The problem started…
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How similar is Ubuntu to SUSE Enterprise

I have a question for SysAdmins who know many flavors of Linux. I need to be familiar with SUSE Enterprise for a job, but I currently have no access to the enterprise edition. I also would prefer to learn Ubuntu. So how similar is ubuntu to SUSE…
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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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