Opensuse 11.3 is out!
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…
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Remote Upgrade to SLES 11 SP1 Using Zypper
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…
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Ping-per-second / Notify Script
As a sysadmin (probably like you), sometimes I need to whip up special-purpose mini-scripts to do simple monitoring tasks that I don’t want to bother our main monitoring system with… This is one of them… I needed to monitor a…
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How can I remotely upgrade from OES2-SP1 to OES2-SP2?
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…
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iFolder 3.8 Change Local User Password Script…
If you have an iFolder 3.8 (and some previous versions) server, and you use the local database (instead of LDAP or what-not), then you may have run into a situation where you have to change a password for a regular…
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How can I renew my Centos/Apache SSL certificate?
I got this question the other day from a Centos administrator: “The certwatch tool has been sending the me an email warning me that I need to renew the SSL Certificate. What do I do?” The email message read like…
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PC name discovery on a local network
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…
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eDirectory Backup / Restore Cheat-Sheet
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…
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How to gather and send support info on a Suse system…
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…
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Why can’t I unmount my mount?
This basic (re-worded) question came in from Jeff: “Why won’t my remote filesystem mount unmount when I try the umount command?” It’s very true: If you try to umount (unmount) a filesystem that is currently being accessed, it will not…
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