How To Find OpenSuse / SUSE Linux Version
You need to use the following commands to find out Suse / Open Suse Linux version. Open a terminal and type in $ cat /etc/SuSE-release This is now deprecated, so use the below $ cat /etc/os-release
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How to add additional swap area in SuSe/openSUSE
swap space is a dedicated device or a file in one of the mounted file systems to which the system swaps pages of information from the physical memory onto these areas to allow more current application use the physical memory when the physical memory is running out of space. Let us see here how we Read more about How to add additional swap area in SuSe/openSUSE[…]
Install Zabbix Agent on Suse Linux and Configure
Install taken from Suse – http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=server:monitoring&package=zabbix-agent For SLE 12 SP1 run the following as root: zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:monitoring/SLE_12_SP1/server:monitoring.repo zypper refresh zypper install zabbix-agent For SLE 12 run the following as root: zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:monitoring/SLE_12/server:monitoring.repo zypper refresh zypper install zabbix-agent For SLE 11 SP4 run the following as root: zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:monitoring/SLE_11_SP4/server:monitoring.repo zypper refresh zypper install zabbix-agent For SLE 11 SP3 run the following Read more about Install Zabbix Agent on Suse Linux and Configure[…]
Change Ubuntu Server from DHCP to a Static IP Address
First up open the /etc/network/interfaces file. I’m going to use vi, but you can choose a different editor sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces For the primary interface, which is usually eth0, you will see these lines: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp As you can see, it’s using DHCP right now. We are going to change dhcp to Read more about Change Ubuntu Server from DHCP to a Static IP Address[…]
Adding a new disk to SUSE Linux when running on VMware
You will see that the vm does not see the new disk, ie running the command: fdisk -l Shows only the existing disks, there is no sign of the new one. What we need to do is, re-scan the SCSI bus, without rebooting the vm. To do this run the following command: echo “- – Read more about Adding a new disk to SUSE Linux when running on VMware[…]