SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
Covers system administration tasks like maintaining, monitoring and customizing an initially installed system.
Publication Date:
December 12, 2024
- About This Guide
- I Common Tasks
- II Booting a Linux System
- III System
- 15 32-Bit and 64-Bit Applications in a 64-Bit System Environment
- 16
journalctl: Query thesystemdJournal - 17 Basic Networking
- 17.1 IP Addresses and Routing
- 17.2 IPv6—The Next Generation Internet
- 17.3 Name Resolution
- 17.4 Configuring a Network Connection with YaST
- 17.5 NetworkManager
- 17.6 Configuring a Network Connection Manually
- 17.7 Basic Router Setup
- 17.8 Setting Up Bonding Devices
- 17.9 Setting Up Team Devices for Network Teaming
- 17.10 Software-Defined Networking with Open vSwitch
- 18 Printer Operation
- 19 The X Window System
- 20 Accessing File Systems with FUSE
- 21 Managing Kernel Modules
- 22 Dynamic Kernel Device Management with
udev- 22.1 The
/devDirectory - 22.2 Kernel
ueventsandudev - 22.3 Drivers, Kernel Modules and Devices
- 22.4 Booting and Initial Device Setup
- 22.5 Monitoring the Running
udevDaemon - 22.6 Influencing Kernel Device Event Handling with
udevRules - 22.7 Persistent Device Naming
- 22.8 Files used by
udev - 22.9 For More Information
- 22.1 The
- 23 Live Patching the Linux Kernel Using kGraft
- 24 Special System Features
- 25 Persistent Memory
- IV Services
- 26 Time Synchronization with NTP
- 27 The Domain Name System
- 28 DHCP
- 29 Sharing File Systems with NFS
- 30 Samba
- 31 On-Demand Mounting with Autofs
- 32 SLP
- 33 The Apache HTTP Server
- 33.1 Quick Start
- 33.2 Configuring Apache
- 33.3 Starting and Stopping Apache
- 33.4 Installing, Activating, and Configuring Modules
- 33.5 Enabling CGI Scripts
- 33.6 Setting Up a Secure Web Server with SSL
- 33.7 Running Multiple Apache Instances on the Same Server
- 33.8 Avoiding Security Problems
- 33.9 Troubleshooting
- 33.10 For More Information
- 34 Setting Up an FTP Server with YaST
- 35 The Proxy Server Squid
- 35.1 Some Facts about Proxy Caches
- 35.2 System Requirements
- 35.3 Basic Usage of Squid
- 35.4 The YaST Squid Module
- 35.5 The Squid Configuration File
- 35.6 Configuring a Transparent Proxy
- 35.7 Using the Squid Cache Manager CGI Interface (
cachemgr.cgi) - 35.8 squidGuard
- 35.9 Cache Report Generation with Calamaris
- 35.10 For More Information
- 36 Web Based Enterprise Management Using SFCB
- V Mobile Computers
- VI Troubleshooting
- A An Example Network
- B GNU licenses
List of Figures
- 3.1 YaST Online Update
- 5.1 Main Window of YaST in Text Mode
- 5.2 The Software Installation Module
- 7.1 Boot Loader: Snapshots
- 8.1 vncviewer
- 8.2 Remmina's Main Window
- 8.3 Remote Desktop Preference
- 8.4 Quick-starting
- 8.5 Remmina Viewing SLES 15 Remote Session
- 8.6 Reading Path to the Profile File
- 8.7 Remote Administration
- 8.8 VNC Session Settings
- 8.9 Joining a Persistent VNC Session
- 12.1 Secure Boot Support
- 12.2 UEFI: Secure Boot Process
- 13.1 GRUB 2 boot editor
- 13.2 Boot Code Options
- 13.3 Code Options
- 13.4 Boot loader Options
- 13.5 Kernel Parameters
- 14.1 Services Manager
- 16.1 YaST systemd Journal
- 17.1 Simplified Layer Model for TCP/IP
- 17.2 TCP/IP Ethernet Packet
- 17.3 Configuring Network Settings
- 17.4
wickedarchitecture - 25.1 NVDIMM Region Layout
- 26.1 YaST: NTP Server
- 26.2 Advanced NTP Configuration: Security Settings
- 27.1 DNS Server Installation: Forwarder Settings
- 27.2 DNS Server Installation: DNS Zones
- 27.3 DNS Server Installation: Finish Wizard
- 27.4 DNS Server: Logging
- 27.5 DNS Server: Zone Editor (Basics)
- 27.6 DNS Server: Zone Editor (NS Records)
- 27.7 DNS Server: Zone Editor (MX Records)
- 27.8 DNS Server: Zone Editor (SOA)
- 27.9 Adding a Record for a Master Zone
- 27.10 Adding a Reverse Zone
- 27.11 Adding a Reverse Record
- 28.1 DHCP Server: Card Selection
- 28.2 DHCP Server: Global Settings
- 28.3 DHCP Server: Dynamic DHCP
- 28.4 DHCP Server: Start-Up
- 28.5 DHCP Server: Host Management
- 28.6 DHCP Server: Chroot Jail and Declarations
- 28.7 DHCP Server: Selecting a Declaration Type
- 28.8 DHCP Server: Configuring Subnets
- 28.9 DHCP Server: TSIG Configuration
- 28.10 DHCP Server: Interface Configuration for Dynamic DNS
- 28.11 DHCP Server: Network Interface and Firewall
- 29.1 NFS Server Configuration Tool
- 30.1 Determining Windows Domain Membership
- 30.2 Windows Explorer Dialog
- 30.3 Windows Explorer Directory Listing with Compressed Files
- 30.4 Adding a New Samba Share with Snapshotting Enabled
- 30.5 The tab in Windows Explorer
- 33.1 HTTP Server Wizard: Default Host
- 33.2 HTTP Server Wizard: Summary
- 33.3 HTTP Server Configuration: Listen Ports and Addresses
- 33.4 HTTP Server Configuration: Server Modules
- 34.1 FTP Server Configuration — Start-Up
- 36.1 Package Selection for Web-Based Enterprise Management Pattern
- 36.2 Package selection of additional CIM providers
- 37.1 Integrating a Mobile Computer in an Existing Environment
- 38.1 GNOME Network Connections Dialog
- 41.1 HTML Report Generated by SCA Tool
- 41.2 HTML Report Generated by SCA Appliance
- 42.1 Checking Media
- 42.2 US Keyboard Layout
List of Tables
- 1.1 Bash Configuration Files for Login Shells
- 1.2 Bash Configuration Files for Non-Login Shells
- 1.3 Special Files for Bash
- 1.4 Overview of a Standard Directory Tree
- 1.5 Useful Environment Variables
- 2.1 Useful Flags and Options
- 6.1 The Most Important RPM Query Options
- 6.2 RPM Verify Options
- 14.1 Service Management Commands
- 14.2 Commands for enabling and disabling services
- 14.3 System V runlevels and
systemdtarget units - 17.1 Private IP Address Domains
- 17.2 Parameters for /etc/host.conf
- 17.3 Databases Available via /etc/nsswitch.conf
- 17.4 Configuration Options for NSS “Databases”
- 17.5 Feature Comparison between Bonding and Team
- 19.1 Generating PFL from Fontconfig rules
- 19.2 Results from Generating PFL from Fontconfig Rules with Changed Order
- 19.3 Results from Generating PFL from Fontconfig Rules
- 24.1
ulimit: Setting Resources for the User - 36.1 Commands for Managing sfcbd
- 37.1 Use Cases for NetworkManager
- 37.2 Overview of Various Wi-Fi Standards
- 40.1 Man Pages—Categories and Descriptions
- 42.1 Log files
- 42.2 System Information With the
/procFile System - 42.3 System Information With the
/sysFile System
List of Examples
- 1.1 A Shell Script Printing a Text
- 6.1 Zypper—List of Known Repositories
- 6.2
rpm -q -i wget - 6.3 Script to Search for Packages
- 7.1 Example timeline configuration
- 13.1 Usage of grub2-mkconfig
- 13.2 Usage of grub2-mkrescue
- 13.3 Usage of grub2-script-check
- 13.4 Usage of grub2-once
- 14.1 List Active Services
- 14.2 List Failed Services
- 14.3 List all processes belonging to a service
- 17.1 Writing IP Addresses
- 17.2 Linking IP Addresses to the Netmask
- 17.3 Sample IPv6 Address
- 17.4 IPv6 Address Specifying the Prefix Length
- 17.5 Common Network Interfaces and Some Static Routes
- 17.6
/etc/resolv.conf - 17.7
/etc/hosts - 17.8
/etc/networks - 17.9
/etc/host.conf - 17.10
/etc/nsswitch.conf - 17.11 Output of the Command ping
- 17.12 Configuration for Loadbalancing with Network Teaming
- 17.13 Configuration for DHCP Network Teaming Device
- 18.1 Error Message from
lpd - 18.2 Broadcast from the CUPS Network Server
- 19.1 Specifying Rendering Algorithms
- 19.2 Aliases and Family Name Substitutions
- 19.3 Aliases and Family Name Substitutions
- 19.4 Aliases and Family Names Substitutions
- 22.1 Example
udevRules - 24.1 Entry in /etc/crontab
- 24.2 /etc/crontab: Remove Time Stamp Files
- 24.3 ulimit: Settings in ~/.bashrc
- 27.1 Forwarding Options in named.conf
- 27.2 A Basic /etc/named.conf
- 27.3 Entry to Disable Logging
- 27.4 Zone Entry for example.com
- 27.5 Zone Entry for example.net
- 27.6 The /var/lib/named/example.com.zone File
- 27.7 Reverse Lookup
- 28.1 The Configuration File /etc/dhcpd.conf
- 28.2 Additions to the Configuration File
- 30.1 A CD-ROM Share
- 30.2 [homes] Share
- 30.3 Global Section in smb.conf
- 30.4 Using
rpcclientto Request a Windows Server 2012 Share Snapshot - 33.1 Basic Examples of Name-Based
VirtualHostEntries - 33.2 Name-Based
VirtualHostDirectives - 33.3 IP-Based
VirtualHostDirectives - 33.4 Basic
VirtualHostConfiguration - 33.5 VirtualHost CGI Configuration
- 35.1 A Request With
squidclient - 35.2 Defining ACL Rules
- 41.1 Output of
hostinfoWhen Logging In asroot
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