SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the enterprise version of openSUSE.
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Linux disk I/O performance issue — what config options to look at?
We discovered an I/O related performance problem when using the default SLES11 SP2 kernel. Our same application on the same hardware had no issue with (the admittedly ancient SLES9 SP3).
We had a ...
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Persistent blockdev setra read ahead setting
I've got some SSDs mounted up on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 on a SLES 11 SP2 server, and I was able to tweak the read ahead setting with blockdev --setra:
sudo blockdev --setra 4096 /dev/sda
sudo ...
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How to make ldapsearch working on SLES over tls using certificate?
We need to connect our php script to LDAP over tls using a certificate. LDAP connection works nicely without tls. More details here ...
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rc_status always returns “failed”
One of our developers has a service that needs to be started on boot. This script needs to be fired:
/app/bt/preview/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/bin/startup.sh
Here is the startup script I'm working ...
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compile software with older version of gcc and linux kernel
Distributor ID: SUSE LINUX
Description: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64)
Release: 11.4
Codename: Celadon
gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.5.1
Linux linux-14ay 2.6.37.6-0.20-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-12-19 ...
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How to modify ulimit for open files on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.4 permanently?
SERVER:/etc # ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 96069
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Adding RPM's to SLES installation DVD
For a custom installation, I need to add a few rpms from the SDK dvd that comes with the main SLES dvd, onto the main SLES installation dvd. This is because my superiors want 1 single dvd to install ...
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SLES/OpenSuse dropped packets Hyper-V
We are trying to use SLES 11 running under Microsoft Hyper-V, However approximately 50% of the packets are dropped. This only seems to be a problem with SLES / OpenSuse. When running e.g. Ubuntu, the ...
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Bond slave link up is too slow
On one of my servers I set up a bond-device consisting of an onboard network-card and an PCIe network card. (eth1 and eth5)
I set up the configugration according to man ifcfg-bonding - i.e. eth1 and ...
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How to install/upgrade svn on SLE?
My SUSE (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)) got installed old svn. I want to upgrade it but if I download package for Packages for SLE 11 and try to install it via zypper install ...
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What is resume= used for in my grub boot settings?
I've always noticed the resume=/dev/foo entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst, and that it corresponds to the swap partition, but I've never questioned its use.
title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 - ...
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Equivalent of nfsstat -m on older kernel
On my SLES 10, SLES 11, and CentOS 6 servers, I'm able to list information about each NFS mount via nfsstat -m, e.g.:
/usr/local from nfssrv1:/vol/foo
Flags: ...
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odd output from df command on a SLES
I know I'm not very good at math...but check out this output:
SERVER:~ # df -h /ORACLE/LOGS/b
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/LOGSdatavg-LOGSb_lv 96G ...
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How do I know that a /dev/dm-XX device isn't used by anything on SLES 10.4 (64bit)?
I have a device that I can see in the output of fdisk -l:
/dev/dm-XX
(XX is a number.)
How do I know that I can use this /dev/dm-XX to add it to a RAID1 array? How can I be 100% sure that nothing ...
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Can't use yast to install software online — tries to mount a CD
I cannot use yast -i or zypper install in SLES 10; it wants me to insert a SLES 10 SP3 CD, but I don't have one. What should I do?
localhost:~ # zypper install curl-devel
Restoring system sources...
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How to detect SLES version?
What patchlevel does this SLES machine has? 10.2 or 10.4?
SERVER:~ # cat /etc/issue
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10.2
Kernel \r (\m), \l
SERVER:~ #
SERVER:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux ...
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Load module from the boot menu
Is there a way to insert/load a module at the boot menu in Suse? I'm referring to the menu in the screenshot below (this isn't from my machine, just a similar screenshot I took from the web).
I ...
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I can't start nfs in SLES 11
I'm trying to start nfs service in my SLES.
I have my /etc/exports like this:
/var/share/testbed *(ro)
When I run service nfs start, it says:
Not starting NFS client services - no NFS found in ...
