Active Directory (AD) is a fact of life. There, I said it. And as a predominantly Linux-based consultant, much of my job is often dancing around the periphery of the Microsoft world, making Linuxy things work with Windowsy things. So, dance I shall… Often I find myself in the position of setting up a Linux-based [...]
One of the very first posts I wrote on this blog when I started in early 2007 is a tutorial on how to quickly set up Tripwire on “Suse Linux” (before they called it “Opensuse”). But the problem with that post is that I used the Tripwire software that was bundled with the distro at [...]
As you might have noted in my previous posts, I do not like to visit server consoles for upgrades. So I want to thank Novell for having outlined a handy little instruction sheet here: How to upgrade to SLES/SLED 11 SP1 (TID 7005410) on how to do various remote upgrades from SLES 11 to SLES [...]
This is just a simplified adaptation of a community post by author sakila here: http://www.novell.com/communities/node/9298/patching-and-upgrading-oes2-sp1-oes2-sp2 …all due credit (and thanks) to the author for putting that together!! Please read that doc first to get a feel for what I’m after here, and take in all the warnings and caveats. Maybe even post a comment, and [...]
Here’s a fun one for you. I had a situation recently where the customer had some of his windows PCs properly being populated in his reverse DNS zone (in an AD-controlled environment), and some that were not. He asked me to quickly scan the network and figure out which were which (before we started to [...]
This article is written in a story-like retrospective fashion. (Update, 20100128, morning: Now with a happy ending! See below…) It’s a chain of events that took me from a happy Openfiler user, to and extremely angry Openfiler user, to a cautious Openfiler user. So let’s begin. “It was a dark and stormy night…” It had [...]
…module compilation process. Seriously, folks. I know there are others of you out there, like me, who upgraded to Opensuse 11.2 (the latest at the time of this writing), without concern that VMware Server 2.0.2 (also the latest at this writing) may or may not run on it. Well guess what: it doesn’t. Well, not [...]
(This article was updated for technical accuracy, and tested, 20100109. I’ve been chasing packages, across URLs, across the ‘Net… Ugh… ) My previous iFolder-related cheat-sheets here on this blog have been reasonably popular (see the ifolder3 category for reference). I get quite a few comments and requests for various configuration alterations and such, but I [...]
UPDATE, early/mid 2010: The majority of this post is mostly useless, except for history’s sake. It was originally written before 11.2 even was released, and the process still works, but… The Opensuse crew and the community put together a nice set of documented steps to do the in-place upgrade much more easily than what I [...]
The premise *seemed* simple enough… I just needed to send 4 or 5 commands to a Cisco ASA from a CentOS box in a cron job. I mean, people write scripts all the time, and use ssh keys to automate those scripts against remote systems, right? I do it all the time with Linux boxes, [...]
