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Problems logging in to work application using Suse 12.3 and Citrix Receiver in Mozilla
Citrix receiver installed OK certificates copied across. I can now logon successfully (I get the launch icon for the remote desktop application) but when I try to launch it I get a blank gray screen ...
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remote linux server shutdowns instead of reboot
When I tried to reboot my remote linux server with reboot command the server shuts down. Command used:
linux-ozzesh:~ # reboot
Why is this happening? Isn't there any other command that would ...
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apparmor skips usr.sbin.named, named can't write to log files
Test Environment: VirtualBox VM guest - SUSE SLES 11 , BIND 9.6-ESV-R5-P1
Live Server: VirtualBox VM guest - SUSE SLES 11, BIND 9.5.0-P2
I have been trying to configure logging on my DNS server. I ...
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Reread inittab in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 (SLES11)
I usually use init q to rearead the inittab and so far it has always worked. This does, however, not be the case in Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES11).
I googled for this and I found that ...
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suse linux 11 unable to ping target machine
i have four suse linux servers siting on different lan. they are connected by a router and it is configured to allow these machines to ping one another.
default routings have been added to all these ...
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How to compile GTK2 on Linux machine without administrator privileges?
I'm working on a "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)" machine, which has GVim version 6.4.6, which is quite old, and not supported by some plugins.
This is a corporate machine, and no one will ...
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Installing SNMP on SUSE
I downloaded a package of SNMP for SUSE from net-snmp.org.
After the download I extracted my package on the SUSE machine but after that I don't know how to start the snmpd service or how to run it, ...
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SUSE Linux DVD writing issue
I am trying to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for AMD64/Intel64.
I have downloaded the DVD ISO files from http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=h0AOp5AT-18~
I tried to ...
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How to enable users list at login screen in SLED 11 sp2?
I was playing a bit with suse linux enterprise 11 and one thing I can't change.
How to enable lists of user at login screen?
I've tried this methods..:
by terminal command:
$sudo gconftool-2 ...
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startx failed to start gnome under Suse11
Before using startx, I've set the default value of displaymanager to gdm, which is defined in the file /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and default value of window manager to gnome, which is defined in ...
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SUSE Enterprise Server 11 DNS Zone Resolution Issue
My DNS server went belly up last week so I've rebuilt it using the following tutorial DNS Tutorial.
I don't know what how I have setup it up different from the last time I configured it (I did use a ...
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linux: can a file/directory belong to a group which the owner doesnt belong to?
I read that "Your files and directories are owned by the group (or one of the groups) that you belong to. This is known as their "group ownership"."
But what if a file/directory belongs to a group ...
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Enerprise SuSE, GRUB startup “error 2”
A few hours ago I just bought a new HP Probook 4540s which has an Enterprise SuSE 12 built-in installed on that. I'm just trying to turn-it on and there is an error GRUB ERROR 2 ..., and nothing else. ...
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How can I change the Desktop background or the screensaver in Terminal only?
I have a few images in a directory and I can only use the Terminal
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Save files downloaded in Mozilla Firefox using 'Open with' function to a specific folder
I am using Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 installed in a SUSE 10.3 machine.
One of my programs generates a (.doc) file and outputs me through the browser. I get a browser pop-up saying if you want to Save ...
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suse broken? Can't find glibc
I wanted to install the new postgres beta which is only available from source. On my server there was no gcc installed so I wanted to install gcc. After running yast, gcc 4.3.3 could only be installed ...
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How to use Data Card + Wired internal lan to make a proxy server on Suse
On my suse 12.1, I can connect to internet using data card. I have installed squid proxy on this computer. I want to use a modem+hub, to connect multiple pcs together, and then other PCs should be ...
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How to change default GNOME file manager in OpenSUSE?
THis is a new OpenSUSE installation, I primarily work in KDE, today I logged into GNOME and noticed that it is not using nautilus as default file manager, it is using PCman instead. How can I change ...
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TOP command on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to find a resource intensive process?
I have a box running SLES but I can't run TOP, apparently it's not installed on the box, is there a way for me to find a resource intensive process that's slowing the box down?
Any help will be much ...
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Scriptable/automatic image manipulation?
I have a program generating multiple plots daily. To view them on the screen easily, I have black and grey backgrounds, with light-color foreground elements. But now I want to print some of them, ...
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OpenSuse 12.2 ftp connection from vmware host to a guest?
I've configured my suse guest os to run a webserver and a ftp but I can't open a ftp connection from my host. I can only open a http connection. My ftp client gives me:
STATUS:> [26.04.2012 ...
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Suse Linux 8.0 Download
A coworker has a server that is being moved, currently running SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386).
~ # uname -a
Linux lvls 2.4.18-4GB s1 Wed Mar 27 13:57:05 UTC 2002 i686 unknown
They tried transferring it to ...
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Suse linux installed in VMWare not using it's full diskspace
I have a linux server (SUSE Enterprise 11) installed in a virtual machine. Where preallocated disk space is given as 256 GB. But from the linux if I use df -h command it show this statistics:
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Synergy mouse/keyboard freezes on SUSE 11.1
I am running Synergy 1.3.1 client on a SUSE 11.1 machine and the server on a Win7 machine.
Every once in a while (~once every few minutes), the client-side mouse and keyboard will freeze for several ...
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How do you disable BIOS RAID on SuperMicro X9SCL/X9SCM motherboard?
I am trying to install SLES11 on a computer with a X9SCL/X9SCM SuperMicro motherboard. The BIOS version is 1.1a (9/28/2011).
The SATA controller configuration gives me the following choices:
AHCI
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what does the S and K in file name under /etc/init.d/rcx.d stand for
I'm using Suse11. I know the /etc/init.d/rcx.d is used for different run levels. And if you list of the directory, let's say rc5.d/. You can see that the filename either start with S or K, so what is ...
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why can't I use gnome in my Suse11 box
I newly installed a suse11 sp1 box. after the initial installation I do get a pretty gnome based desktop, but after reboot what i get is just a text prompt, the user I login with has
a run level of 5, ...
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Replace failing hard drive on Linux server
I'm working with a Linux server with a failing drive, and am interested in the best/easiest way to transfer the existing data onto a new drive, and reboot with the new hardware.
The server is running ...
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Suse Linux: getting a static IP
I am using a computer remotely to which I also have root access. This computer is connected to the internet, but I want to do ssh access, etc. Currently I am using TeamViewer to connect to it.
I ...
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How do I write a generic udev rule to assign my network's interface name?
I am trying to write a "generic" udev rule to assign an interface name to my NIC card.
For a particular application i require the ability to boot a headless server where the NIC can be changed at any ...
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what's the difference between “ip a” and “ifconfig” under SUSE 11
I found the output of the two commands are different and it seems that "ip a" will list more interface's infomation that ipconfig, so the simple question is why? from my understanding, "ip a" is just ...
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How to config root kde same as user?
Eclipse looks completely different when run under root compared to my user.
It's like kde wasn't setup for root upon installation.
I'm running Suse 9.3 Pro.
How do I configure root kde so that ...
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Prevent Nail from attaching my message as a .bin file?
When I pipe a very long change log into nail, I receive a blank email with a .bin attachment named ATT00001..bin in Outlook. The file is 36KB and contains the expected text but double spaced ...
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How to find out what process are eating all memory
Im using SUSE, i have 31GB of memory Mem: 31908592k total, 31429632k used, 478960k free, 12176k buffers How do I find out what process are eating up all my memory.
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cp -a is preserving ownership, from non-root user
When I invoke cp -a 1 2 from a non-root user, the ownership is being preserved, despite the fact that file 1 belongs to another user. My understanding was this shouldn't be possible.
What is going ...
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How do I get an iptables redirect to survive a reboot on SuSE 11?
I've set up iptables to forward from port 80 to port 8090:
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8090
However the redirect is gone after rebooting. What's the ...
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sudo su runs without password prompt?
So here's the problem. We've got the /etc/sudoers file set up so that users can run commands from /bin like "cat" or "mkdir" without entering a password.
The problem is that the "su" command is also ...
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TOP command memory usage
Under SuSE, (Mem: 31908592k total, 31421504k used,) how do i know which process or program using my memory?
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server software
A professor at the university asked me if I could install some software for him on his laptop that runs SLES 11. I'm not familiar with SUSE (I typically work with debian based machines) so I'm having ...
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Where can I find linux-kernel-headers-x.x.x.x for SUSE?
I'm installing VMware Workstation on a SLED 11 SP1, and the installation is blocked by an error message "Kernel headers for version 2.6.32.27-0.2-default were not found". If you installed them in a ...
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Install KDE from scratch on Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop
I have a SUSE SLED system running without window manager (KDE or GNOME). I don't have the DVD
but I have access to a network repository.
How do I install KDE from scratch?
Thanks.
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ls, rm, cd commands not working in SUSE LINUX
Iam newbi to SUSE, I installed java in my SUSE linux Server edition, So i want to set the path in linux,So i created .bash_profile in in /root path using touch and added the path as "JAVA_PATH". When ...
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install software in linux as a non root user
What is the best way to install software in a linux machine if you dont have root permissions. I know that we can use few variables like PKG_CONFIG_PATH and switches like --prefix with configure to ...
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Installing Midnight Commander from sources (no root privileges)
I tried to configure
./configure --prefix=/localfolder
glib-2.26.1/
make
make install
but it fails at make stage.
trying to configure
mc-4.6.1/
and make doesn't obviously work.
What are the steps ...
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Saving permission changes for device
I have installed a driver on SUSE, and changed permissions for it (/dev/name) with the chgrp command.
However after rebooting my computer the change is lost. How can I save the permissions for the ...
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Losing permissions changes after reboot [duplicate]
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Saving permission changes for device.
Hi.
I have installed a driver on my Suse, and changed the permissions for him- /dev/name, with chgrp command.
but after rebooting ...
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How to connect to the Internet with Linux open SUSE via DSL?
I use open SUSE 11.3 and want to connect to the Internet but I can't configure out how to do it, any help is previously appreciated.
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How can non-admin monitor GPFS i/o
Running on SuSE, I am one of several "uninitiated" users on a moderately sized cluster farm. I have my suspicions that something is not right with i/o to the mounted /home. How can I get some data on ...
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I Can't install Open Suse in Emachine laptop
I am trying to install OpenSuse 11.1 in my emachine laptop. All are okay except network cards. Suse don't know my network cards in laptop. Network card's vendor is BroadCom. How can I fix it. Or what ...
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cannot connect to suse linux server remotely using ssh
i have SuSE10 SP2 installed.
I have started the ssh daemon and iam able to login locally on the server
but when i try to connect remotely using putty i get connection refused error.
I have disabled ...
