SuSE Support Database

Title: Support-DB HowTo

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Support-DB HowTo

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: from 4.4

Efficiently using SDB

All articles and items in SDB have an unique look. Above and below the texts there are navigation bars throghout the items providing an easy means of seraching and finding certain pages. Here comes an explanation of the menu items:

Main page

Under Main page there is the entry page to the SDB. Here you might find interesting news and a list of the available mirrors.

Contents

Here under Inhalt you will be presented an alphabetical list (headers).

Questions and answers

FAQ. These are some of the most common questions asked in support (this selection is far away from being actual at the moment...).

Headwork search

The easiest way of retrieving information is to click on Search and to enter a headword. Every item in SDB is provided with a couple of headwords which are shown below.

Headwords are all in uppercase, this is not relevant in searching. You can search for any regular expressions.

Full-text search is not possible.

Keywords presents you a complete list of keywords. be warned, this list is not that small (some 1000 kB already).

History

Comes in handy for people who look up things more often. Under History you can see what is new.

Each new article is listed with date and time while the most new ones are the uppermost.

German

All articles are available in German too. These articles have been translated from German to English. If you click this there is a link to the German articles as well.

It is S.u.S.E.'s aim to keep the German and English SDB identical. Translation of all articles will be done in a couple of weeks.

Installing SDB locally

S.u.S.E. Support DataBase can not only e viewed online but you can install it locally as well; downloading the actual version as a package.

Here the actual version is to be found: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/misc/sdb.tgz

HTML files are installed locally under /usr/doc/support-db and can be viewed with any web browser.

For activating the search engine you need to run a web server on your host. Since S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2 this is achieved by installing package apache and to modify /etc/rc.config like this. Just set the variable:

START_HTTPD=yes
Now the apache is installed at boot time. For activating it in a running system you enter
/sbin/init.d/apache start
Starting point is http://localhost/support-db/sdb
Hint: if you have entered a proxy server this URL localhost is resolved by the proxy server! Disable the proxy or enter http://MYHOST/support-db/sdb as URL name where MYHOST is your machines name.

Copyright

This work is copyrighted by S.u.S.E. GmbH and is placed under conditions of the GNU General Public License.

It may be copied as whole or in parts as long as this copyright notice is delivered with each copy.

According to §s 11 and 12 of the GNU General Public License S.u.S.E. GmbH can not be held responsible for the correctness of the articles given here.

If you want to make the Support DataBase public available please contact Klaus Franken (kfr@suse.de).

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See also:

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Keywords: SDB, HOWTO

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Feedback welcome: Send Mail to kfr@suse.de (Please give the following subject: SDB-sdb)

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