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Questions tagged [sles11]

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server is the "professional" SuSE distribution. sles11 means version 11. Sles 11 Service Pack 3 was released in June 2013. The previous version, Sles 11 Service Pack 2, was released in February 2012.

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Generating a lot of dirty pages is blocking synchronous writes

We have processes doing background writes of big files. We would like those to have minimal impact on other processes. Here is a test realised on SLES11 SP4. The server has massive memory, which allows it to create 4GB of dirty pages. > dd…
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Permission denied when changing timestamp of a directory on a CIFS mount

The server dir is mounted with a user, who definitely has "Write Attributes" permissions in Windows. /etc/fstab: //server/shared /mnt/fs1 cifs…
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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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How to configure LDAP client without Yast - SLES 11 SP3

I'm configuring an LDAP client in a large number of Suse servers. The only way that I know to do this is using Yast, and this way is slow. I can't find another way. I did it on RHEL, Debian, and others Linux distributions , but I can't map all files…
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SLES 11 recommended filesystem

We are upgrading some servers from SLES 10 to SLES 11 and I just saw that ext4 is not supported. Should I move to XFS or keep ext3? I will be moving the programs and databases to a new VM so reformatting is not a problem. We are currently using…
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System occasionally hangs boot process with SLES 11

I have several (new) systems on which I had to install SLES11 on. However, after a few (though not every) reboots, the system hangs during the boot sequence. It will only continue after I physically press a key on the keyboard. From what I've found…
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Can I configure resolv.conf to use a specific nameserver for a domain?

Can I configure resolv.conf to use a specific nameserver for a domain? e.g.: nameserver internal.thekelleys.org.uk 192.168.1.1 nameserver 192.168.0.1 I don't want to list *.test.com in /etc/hosts; I don't want to install a DNS server locally…
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Specifying network settings during SLES 11 auto installation

I'm setting up an autoinst.xml file for auto-installing SLES 11. I get prompted for the various interface settings per below, but they don't seem to stick once the server reboots. I don't think I have the xml defined correctly. I'm hoping someone…
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Is Committed_AS in /proc/meminfo really the correct number for allocated virtual memory in Linux? It is less than used/RSS

I am collecting numbers for monitoring HPC servers and am debating the policy for handing out memory (overcommit or not). I wanted to show users a number on how much virtual memory their processes (the whole machine) requested vs. how much was…
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40tb storage on sles 11 sp1

I managed to set /dev/sdb to gpt, mkfs.xfs then mount it. But whenever I rsycnc file, it will shows kernel error related to xfs in log messages and failed at about 5GB to 6GB total size rsync. I read that if I want to use ext4, I need to recompile…
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Xen Dom0 could not find boot device (or any disk)

I have a brand new DELL server running SLES11 SP1 where I am trying to install my very first Xen Hypervisor. So I installed "Hypervisor and Tools" via YaST (excluding graphical elements), which completed successfully. Though I should mention that…
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SLES DHCP Dynamic DNS: Unable to add forward map...: not found

I have a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.3 install running on Amazon EC2 based off the official AMI. With DHCP and BIND configured (via yast) I'm having issues with Dynamic DNS. When a client connects to the DHCP server I receive the error…
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Kibana /etc/init.d scripts

I am having a hard time adapting the init.d start up scripts I have found for Kibana on the internet. I am experienced with RedHat/Centos but we have standardized on Suse Enterpise Linux here at work. So I need to port the init.d scripts I have been…
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Sendmail: catchall for all domains

I need to set up a mail server config for a test environment which would accept all mail (i.e. for all users and all domains, even non-local ones) and put it into a single local catchall mailbox. What I have is SLES 11 with Sendmail (8.14) where I…
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Can't ping other machines at Linux VPN PPTP server's local lan from outside

Before anything else, hello guys, this is the first time I ask for something here so I hope someone can give me a hand, please look at the following network diagram: --------------------------------------------------------------- …
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