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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ipaddress swap causes both machines to be unreachable

I got two virtual machines running on SLES11 SP3 in the same subnet for which I' d like to swap ip-addresses on the fly. I tried the following script (of course with both different ip parameters) on both machines (login via ssh on both and than call…
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Shellshock: How to check SLES-11-SP3-Server packages for modifications?

I'm sure my SLES-11-SP3-Servers were open to the shellshock-security-vulnerability for a few days, since I wasn't able to patch them for that time as the patch-server in our intranet was broken down. :-( Now I'm looking for a way to check the…
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custom ldap conf for apache 2.2

System: Apache 2.2.12 on Suse linux 11 patchset 2, with PHP and Perl. I want to create a custom ldap.conf file for use by Apache for user authentication to a remote system. I can't put my config info in /etc/openssl/ldap.conf or /etc/ldap.conf --…
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max open files - why is there no error?

I suspect that one of our server applications has hit its max open file limit. The application is running in user-space with its own account. The init-script starts a large number of processes which in turn start a number of sub-processes and a…
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Safety of concurrent samba writes and perl move

I have samba (3.6.3-0.30.1-2920-SUSE-CODE11-x86_64) running on a SLES11 server which receives files from a Windows machine. The samba share is actually a NFS mount from an other server, and I need to use strict locking = no in smb.conf. For reasons…
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/dev/ipmi0 does not exist R710 SLES 11 SP2

I have been searching without success to find how to get ipmitool to work. It is dependent on /dev/ipmi0 existing, however in my case it doesn't. Here's some information that I think would be helpful: # service ipmi status ipmi_msghandler module…
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running a command as root with /bin/su and without gives different results

Some background: I have a machine with SLES 11 installed. I am running a bash script that one of its lines is /bin/su $USER -c SOME_CMD. Unfortunately, the SOME_CMD that comes after the -c keeps failing, no matter if USER=root or any different user.…
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Linux Suse 11 and apache - httpd.conf

I have one problem and I hope you could help me. I disable http and now using only HTTPS- SSL. In httpd.conf I use: ProxyPass /comp1/ htt_://192.168.1.5/ ProxyPass /comp2/ htt_://192.168.1.6/ Everything works fine, but.. How can I disable default…
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EC2 SLES Instance - Problems with Yast and other pre-installed apps

I am Linux newbie, I managed (it was a bit of an ordeal) to get a VNC server (TightVNC) running on a SLES 11 SP1 EC2 instance. Monitor manager on the VNC xstartup file is gnome (it took me a while to figure that out). Now I can connect to the…
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Changing the text of the kerberos passwd prompt

We are running kerberos (krb5-1.7) on SLES 11 SP1. Our users seem to have trouble changing their passwords with the password command. They are confused by the initial prompt, and don't understand that it is first asking to "enter your current…
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SLES 11.1 install dvd accidentally added to yast

I was attempting to install the SLES 11.1 SDK via yast and the dvdrom. I left the SLES SP1 install dvd in the drive accidentally and fired up yast. I also inadvertently added the actual OS install to yast. When I swap DVDs (and put in the SDK dvd)…
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Using tar on SLES Linux

I am trying to install some package from these instructions: http://www.franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/v4/server-installation.html#header3-25 I run this command: tar zxf agraph-4.2-linuxamd64.64.tar.gz and get this error: tar:…
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LikewiseOpen and pam_access

We have a combination of RHEL5 and SLES11 servers that integrate with Active Directory via LikewiseOpen. What I'm wondering is in what place should I put the pam rule to allow pam_access to be correctly used as part of the authentication of users.
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Multiple Disks during Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 installation

I am installing SLES11 on my server (8 x 1TB disks), and I am installing the Xen Hypervisor mode(but I guess the is irrelevant to my question). I have a question how to setup my disks paritions (I want to use the 8 disk as JBOD mode --i.e, simply…
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Why does eth0 show an IP if I'm booting into runlevel 1?

I'm having some issues with networking on a new Linux server I'm building. The OS is SLES 11. When booting into runlevel 1, I see that eth0 is showing an IP. Physically, there is a network cable plugged into the card associated with eth1, and…
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