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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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How do I emulate the “Replaces:” function of a Debian package in an RPM?
I need to use NSCD, the Name Service Caching Daemon, to decrease load on our LDAP server, on my SLES10 systems. In my experience, the default nscd, supplied as part of GNU LibC, is garbage, and will ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Configure Python to include another directory when looking for packages
I'm on a SUSE machine where the default Python site-packages location is /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages. Some packages automatically install themselves in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages instead. ...
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How to run this in sudo?
I have this line that I execute from php
sudo -u db2inst1 -s -- "/opt/ibm/db2/current/bin/db2 connect to PLC; /opt/ibm/db2/current/bin/db2 \"update EDU.contact set MOBILE_PHONE = '123'\""
it works ...
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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 <DIRECTORY> --target i386 --define "_topdir <DIRECTORY>" <specfile>.spec
When I use my SLED 10 SP3 x86 machine, ...
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Expanding root partition in SUSE Linux
I have a server where the space distribution among partitions is as follows:
GSSJMB02:~ # df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 25G 5.9G 18G 25% /
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Install Ubuntu over Suse without affecting Windows
I have Windows XP and Linux Suse 11 installed on my laptop for some time.
I want to replace my Suse installation with Ubuntu and would like to know if it is possible to do that without affecting the ...
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Add directory to path for all shells and users in SLES 11.1
I'm using a server running Suse Enterprise 11.1. I need to add some locations to the path for all users and for all the shells. Is there a nice and easy way to do this or do I have to modify the ...
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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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Why no other distros/spins based on openSuSE?
So... I've been looking at 'returning' to openSuSE after a long absence (parted ways back in the 7.x/8x time frame). One thing that kind of jumped out at me all of a sudden was that for a relatively ...
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How do I find out the device node corresponding to my device in SuSE 8?
I'm forced to work with a bunch of point-of-sale systems running SuSE 8. They are my client's computers. We are stuck dealing with these old systems until they get to upgrade their whole fleet to SLE ...
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A service is failing to start on permissions denied--which files is it failing on?
I'm attempting to start a service that our company created. In one particular environment, it's failing to start on three "permission denied" errors. I'm not sure which files it is failing on, so I ...
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Proper management of ld.so.conf and shared libraries
I'm curious as to how other Linux admins manage /etc/ld.so.conf and in general, shared libraries across multiple Linux servers.
We have about 30-40 Linux servers running SLES 11. Since they are ...
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Supress startup messages on stdout?
I'm using tcsh, and have to source a group .cshrc file. This file echoes some messages, which is fine for normal shells, but causes problems with programs like scp and rsync. I can see the solution ...
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How do I install mplayer from a terminal?
I need a command to run on Linux to install mplayer. I'm not finding the command anywhere, and when I try to use the zypper command to install mplayer it tells me I am not a sudoer. What should I do?
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How to do a binary install of Python 2.7 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11?
My SLES11 box came with Python 2.6 installed. I would like to upgrade to 2.7. What is the easiest way to do this?
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How to add SLED 11 system to windows domain
I have a small Windows domain, contains DHCT, DNS, Active Directory, CA etc.
I'm trying to connect a SLED 11 to the domain according to found-by-Google-search guides but all what I've found was ...
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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 ...
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get info about package update in openSuSE
Is there any way to get information about an available package update via zypper?
I can get info about a patch with:
zypper info -t patch pachNameHere
and I can obtain the patch name via:
zypper ...
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initrd or ramfs for SLES as /
i would like to boot a SLES and run it out of a ramdisk.
I would like to setup machines so that they start PXE boot and as part of the PXE boot process they pull across an image that is the root ...
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Configuring OpenSuSE's xinetd
I need to run approx, a package proxy for Debian / Ubuntu packages, on an OpenSuSE box.
Until now, I converted the installation package from .deb to .rpm using alien. Installing the resulting .rpm ...
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Restore /etc/hosts on SuSE
I have lost my /etc/hosts file on SuSE Enterprise 11.3 64 bit. Is there any way to get the original file back?
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Suse filesystem turns read-only
I've installed openSUSE 11.2 (64bit) a while ago, and am mainly using it as a dedicated Apache hosting machine.
Everything has been working properly for a while (~1 month), but as of a few days back, ...
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Upgrade Suse 10.3 to 11.3 and startup fails
I upgraded my Suse 10.3 installation to 11.4 using the update option from a network installation disk. When the update was complete I was asked to reboot. When I did the reboot I am asked to login. ...
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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 ...
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What is the relationship between SLED and OpenSUSE?
I have read that OpenSUSE is to "SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop" what Fedora is to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but is there a document that explains this in more detail?
For example, from what version of ...
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Garbage characters appear on screen when typing
When typing, garbage characters somehow appear on the screen for all the letters that I type. The garbage character is a small rectangle box, and this prevents me from executing any commands on the ...
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Can't login on OpenSuse: “No logon servers”
I have installed OpenSuse at work, and my admin fixed some problems with my login.
The login worked at work, I also restarted PC and tried it after restart, it was fine too.
But then I came home I ...
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Which version of openSUSE is closest to SLES11SP1
Which version of openSUSE is closest to SLES11SP1 in terms of package versions?
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GCC cofigure error
When I'm trying to install GCC for SLED 11 SP3, the terminal show me this error:
configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile.
Before to intall GCC, I installed the GMP ...
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How to install ruby-devel and python-devel in SuSE Enterprise?
I've been trying to install some software in SuSE Enterprise (SLES 11 SP 2 64 bits), and keep getting errors about missing dependencies. In the past, I could work around them (in an Ubuntu system) by ...
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Suse 12.1 autoyast, root password not set
I'm trying to configure autoyast to run via cobbler.
For some reason the root password is not getting set.
I've tried to use encrypted password and generating a profile from GUI autoyast and then ...
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Benefits of rpm over deb in the context of a server? [closed]
This related question What are the pros/cons of deb vs. rpm? seems to be more focused on personal computers, but in the context of a server, why do most of the servers run either RedHat / CentOS or ...
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RAID configuration file not present
I am trying to configure RAID disks in my SUSE machine. I have 2 disks currently. I am trying to configure them as RAID using the below command.
mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=stripe ...
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What was the paid only period in history of SuSE?
Around version 7.0 (? just guessing) SuSE became paid only distribution (i.e. you had to pay to get the copy), after several releases SuSE came back to free + paid model.
Now -- the most important to ...
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How do I disable DVD drive auto-probing in SLES 11 SP2?
I'm preparing a SLES 11 SP2 VM for use in Azure. One of the steps they require is disabling auto-probing for DVD drives. How do I determine if auto-probing is on?
In the SLES documentation ...
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GUI message box in SLES 11
I am using SLES 11 and I often run long processes.
I am looking for a method to flash an alert box or a message box when the work is done.
In Ubuntu there is zenity which can flash an info box. I am ...
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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 know what packages I'm missing?
A while ago I made my own distro of Linux using SuseStudio and may have left out some important packages.
Apps like gnome-software and gnome-music don't work
The computer runs really high process ...
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openSuse /etc/profile.local file does not exist
I am referring to the following URL
Setting the JAVA_HOME
I am interested in the last solution given by Nils, that edit the /etc/profile.local file, this will set it for all the users. The question ...
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cannot locate cacti files under /srv/www/cacti
I am installing cacti on SLES-11-SP2 following instructions on Open Suse Cacti guide
but I cannot locate the cacti files under /srv/www/cacti after the installation.
Do you have any idea where they ...
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How to install cacti in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server?
I want to install cacti in my SUSE Enterprise Server 11 Edition.
What steps do I need to do to accomplish that?
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Deadlock in a crontab between cron and its child defunct processes
I'm having a strange case of deadlock, where the two processes launched by cron are defunct, but cron does not pick the return code and exit. I don't have access to the root user.
myuser@myserver:~) ...
