I’ll spare you all of what you can read all over the Internet about the specifics of the latest Opensuse 11.3 release (and there are some good ones, like All About Linux, and OStatic to name a couple) … And instead I’ll just provide some rambling anecdotes for you… But I do want to say [...]
To help someone (like me, for instance) remotely diagnose your Suse system, sometimes you need to send him or her diagnostic info from that system. Fortunately, Suse has a toolset called “supportutils” to do just that. This article outlines one of my preferred ways of generating and sending such info. Note that the examples in [...]
Recently I came out of the 1990′s, and moved to an IBM laptop that does not have a serial port… Gasp! Of course, this is not a big deal to alot of people, but I’m a server guy. I do terminal sessions to Sun/Solaris servers and Cisco routers and such; I really can’t live without [...]
Believe it or not, there are valid reasons why you might want to disable the firewall service on a Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). For instance, avoiding NCP time-outs on client connections for an OES/SLES server. If you just want to know how to disable the firewall in most modern incarnations of SLES, read on… [...]
As a consultant in the Novell-related side of things, I have configured a handful of OES2 Linux servers to be Samba-aware for the end-users. But for some reason, I always forget one particular step. And I figured that if I wrote a post about it, it would make me remember. Think it will work? Only [...]
It’s still ZCM month here at youLinuxGuy.com / yourZcmGuy.com…. It’s funny – I had a post all ready to go for Monday of this week, but didn’t publish it. It was a little rant/gripe about some minor database corruption having to do with the Patch Management (ZPM) piece in Zenworks Configuration Management (ZCM) that I [...]
It’s ZCM month here at youLinuxGuy.com / yourZcmGuy.com …! I got a question the other day from a customer, basically asking, “…what is the best way to deploy ZCM agent System Updates in a large, spread-out environment?” First, an aside. I think ZCM 10 is the best version of ZENworks to date. Sure, it hit [...]
Update, 20091023: Please see post http://yourlinuxguy.com/?p=314 for more updated information… back to the original post… I got this question the other day from Steve: I use “rug up” to update all of my SLES/OES2 servers and it works great when it actually starts.. The problem is that if it has been a while since it [...]
I got this question from my good friend Matt the other day (edited for brevity): I was just thinking about taking an old box or two [...] and use it as a thin client to connect to [...] Microsoft Terminal Server. [...] I know there are RDP clients included with OpenSUSE, but I want to [...]
Here’s a cool trick for you folks… If you regularly ssh to a set of servers in your server farm, but don’t like having to type out the full hostname on the command line (or can’t remember all the ip addresses), I’ve got a tip for you. I’m sure you already know that you can [...]
