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 quick cheat-sheet on how to do fast backup of your eDirectory tree from an OES Linux server. While we’re at it, we’ll do a quick restore of an object. First, let’s back it up! Let’s grab the whole tree: ndsbackup cvf /tmp/ndsbackup-treeRoot.bak [Root] …note that you will be prompted for the admin user [...]
This question came in from Steve in a comment: “…I am looking for a way to run the “rug lu” command and have it dump the output my local machine to look over and see what updates I have ahead of me…” So I replied, but then I thought of alot more stuff… so much [...]
While working with a customer today, we were solving some silly problems that cropped up while patching his OES2sp1 Linux servers. Some nonsense about Mozilla dependencies on 64-bit servers (see Novell TID 7004278 for details on that). But that’s not what I’m here to discuss today… Anyway, since SLES10sp3 came out in the past few [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ever since my post about backing up and restoring NCP trustee assignments, I’ve had quite a few hits on this blog from Internet searches about similar topics. Many times people seem to find this site while searching about managing trustee assignments at the command line (shell prompt). So, since that afore-mentioned post was… well, shall [...]
This question came to me from Steve: “…I am looking to migrate my data from an NSS/NCP volume to an ext3/NCP volume (temporarily) and then back to a ext3/NCP volume. Should I do it? I have a vendor software that needs me to run on an EXT3 partition.” The important part is that by “NCP”, [...]
Somehow my initrd broke (read: disappeared) while installing some critical updates on my OESsp2 server. Not sure how, and I’m not sure I care, but it ticked me off. The system will not boot without an initrd! Arg! Anyway, while researching, I found a great write up by Sander van Vugt, that I used for [...]
Please, I beg you, don’t get into a philosophical debate with me about why IPv6 is enabled by default on many OSes today, and why I should not disable it, and the future of IP, and so on, and so on… We’ll save that abstract aspect for a future post… Now, back to the point… [...]
