SUSE, like Red Hat, using RPM for package management. But instead of using yum, they use another tool set with Zypp (also known as libZypp) as backend. Software management can be done with the graphical configuration software YaST or the command-line interface tool Zypper. zypper command line options Important basic parameters are: Command Description zypper […]
SuSE Linux Enterprise
How to configure Kdump on SuSE Linux Enterprise System 10 and 11
The post describes how to setup kdump on SuSE Linux Enterprise System (SLES) 10 and 11 to capture core dumps from Kernel panics and crashes. Kdump (kernel dump) provides a memory dump into a file named vmcore when the kernel has critical issue. Vmcore is often required to investigate the issue. The crash dump is […]