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Questions tagged [suse]

SUSE (originally SuSE) is the name of a German company that developed the epynomous commercial Linux distribution, which is also the basis for openSUSE. Use this tag for SUSE distribution specific questions. Use [opensuse] if the question is about the open source version of SUSE Linux.

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Disable screen blanking on text console

I'm running linux clusters, mostly on SLES10. The servers are mostly blades, accessed via remote console. There is a real console in the server room, but switched off. I would like to disable the screen blanking as it serves no purpose and is…
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What is the Linux equivalent to C:\Program Files?

I understand that in Windows as well as Linux and Unix, a program|application|software can be installed in any directory. Also if packages are installed using the distribution's packaging system, it'll place files in the correct location. But at…
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Is there a difference of stability between Linux distros?

I've using Debian since 2010 for some home purposes and it has been stable. Is Debian still a good option if I need a server for heavy network, cpu, disk and memory usage? Last month I listened to some admins say that RedHat is the most stable in…
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How to get details of RAID devices both soft and hard?

I want to check if my server has RAID configured both soft and hard. I tried some commands on my server (Suse Enterprise Edition 11): **ms:~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : unused devices: ms:~ #** I tried to execute raiddev /dev/md0 but…
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Prompt user to login as root when running a shell script

The problem I am getting is, when I enter the command, su - root at the beginning of my shell script file, it prompts the user to enter the password and then does NOT continue with the rest of the shell script. I then have to manually locate and…
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Starting Apache as service quits with SIGWINCH

When running service apache start I see in the log file this entry: [mpm_event:notice] [pid 1906:tid XXX] AH00489: Apache/2.4.23 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.2g PHP/7.0.9 configured -- resuming normal operations [core:notice] [pid…
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How do I install a system-wide SSL certificate on openSUSE?

I have a PEM certificate that I just downloaded from a webserver. I want to install it system-wide so I can curl the server without it complaining about a missing certificate. I tried putting the file in /etc/ssl/certs, but nothing happened.
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User-local package management system

I need to deploy, manage and run software as a non-privileged user in SuSE (that is, no root access whatsoever, can't use system's package management, etc). What are my options? I'd prefer reusing system's package manager (YaST) by somehow setting…
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Having trouble exporting FUSE via NFS

I've got a self-written FUSE file system I mount on my NFS server on mountpoint /export/example/mount. Then I export a parent directory of the FUSE via NFS. The /etc/exports contains the options nohide,crossmnt,subtree_check,ro,no_root_squash and…
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What harm would there be in running strip on all files?

I'm trying to decrease a Linux image running SuSE, and thought about running strip on all of the system's executables. Even though I may not re-gain much disk space this way, would there be any harm in doing so?
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Installing openssl on R

I'm trying to install openssl inside R, using install.packages('openssl'), but I'm getting an error message: * installing *source* package ‘openssl’ ... ** package ‘openssl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Found pkg-config cflags and…
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real time backup if file changed?

Are there any linux/unix console applications similar to Yadis that would allow me to: be set up from the console backup multiple directories backup / sync in real time after the files (text files) are changed Update 1: I write shell scripts,…
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Suggestions needed to debug why ps -ef gets stuck

A few of my processes consume 100% cpu. I'm trying to figure out which scripts are causing it I tried running strace ps -ef: open("/proc/PID/status", O_RDONLY) = 6 read(6, "Name:\textract\nState:\tR (running)"..., 1023) = 1023 close(6) =…
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How can I build a rpm for i386 target on a x86-64 machine?

I am building an rpm using rpmbuild command as: rpmbuild -bb --root --target i386 --define "_topdir " .spec When I use my SLED 10 SP3 x86 machine, it runs successfully. But on my SLES 10 SP3 x64 Virtual Machine, it…
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Are SUSE servers intended to be used graphically?

After being a long-time Debian Linux user, I decided to give SUSE a try. One of the major selling points of SUSE is the YaST configuration system. It provides a set of wizards for common configuration tasks. Almost every tutorial I can find uses…
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