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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the enterprise version of openSUSE.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server receives much more intense testing than openSUSE, with the intention that only mature, stable versions of the included components will make it through to the released enterprise product.

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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 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15260252/how-to-use-multiple-tls-certificates-for-ldap-from-php-zend We managed…
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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 blockdev --setra 4096 /dev/sdb sudo blockdev --getra…
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How can I measure and prevent clock drift?

On several production platforms we have observed symptoms which appear to suggest that the time of day clock is periodically jumping forward or backward. The jumps are typically around 1 second, typically cancel out (jump forward then backward very…
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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 Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64) VERSION = 10 PATCHLEVEL…
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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 - 3.0.13-0.27 (default) root (hd0,0) kernel…
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How can I disable (and later re-enable) one of my NVIDIA GPUs?

I'm working on a system with multiple NVIDIA GPUs. I would like disable / make-disappear one of my GPUs, but not the others; without rebooting; and so that I can later re-enable it. Is this possible? Notes: Assume I have root (though a non-root…
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What is the recommended way of checking running services?

I'm often exposed to various GNU/Linux systems including CentOS, SLES and Debian. I want to know: what is the recommended method of checking all running services across these systems? I am aware of service --status-all and chkconfig but they are not…
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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 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max…
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Import PGP Keys with no user id into gpg

My company used Authora Edge to create / manage pgp keys. The company unexpectedly closed, and we are in the process of migrating the existing keys into gpg. When trying to import the public keys, I received the following error: # gpg --import…
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Suse 11 vs. Suse 10 difference impacting terminal colors?

I have my dotfiles versioned on github (shameless fork of other people's fine work). At work, I have them on a central linux server (SuSE Enterprise Linux 10). I rsync them from a central management server to target servers (they often don't have…
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Has grep --quiet a bug with its exit status?

I have some SLES 12 SP5 machines with grep version 2.16 and on a single machine I'm heavily using scripts which contained the following grep --quiet condition: # $pid_list contains the result of pstree and $script_pid equals $$ if echo "$pid_list" |…
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"Found duplicate PV"

SERVER:~ # pvs Found duplicate PV Wb0b2UTCKtpUtSki0k2NnIB24qNj4CEP: using /dev/mapper/36005076304ffc2500000000000004903 not /dev/mapper/36005076304ffc2990000000000004903 PV VG Fmt Attr PSize …
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Color-coded git diff -> less doesn't properly show color

I'm working remotely on a SLES11 machine (woe is me). On this machine, I'm using git, and specifically, git diff, which passes its results to less with some of colorization. Now, for some reason, instead of seeing color, I'm seeing lines which look…
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Cannot create NFS on a tmpfs drive

OS: SLES 12.3 Running these commands: mkdir /foo/ramdisk mount -t tmpfs -o size=100m tmpfs /foo/ramdisk Creating a NFS on /foo/ramdisk produces this result when I run showmount -e : clnt_create: RPC: Program not registered When I remove the…
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Can resource over-utilization actually cause users to be unable to SSH to Linux?

The night support guys where I work have a tendency to reboot machines citing the fact that they can't ssh in and figure out what's going on in the first place. It's pretty much against company policy to do this, (as the person responsible for the…
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