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 [...]
UPDATE (post-publish), 20100806: Though this post was originally tested entirely on 32-bit Opensuse 11.1, thanks to the prompt by Philip (see comments below), I have set up and tested this config on 64-bit Opensuse 11.3 with the 64-bit eDirectory 8.8sp5. I can confirm that it works well. Now back to the original post… A little [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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… [...]
…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 [...]
