How to configure a USB attached serial port on Linux
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…
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How can I disable the firewall on SLES?
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…
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How I fixed my Openfiler 2.3 server, after updates broke it…
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…
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Handy little “rug lu” commands
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…
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VMware Server 2.0.2 on Opensuse 11.2 is a big pain in the….
…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…
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How do I set up iFolder 3.8 on Opensuse 11.1?
(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…
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How to in-place upgrade from Opensuse 11.1 to 11.2?
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…
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Handy little “zypper up” script
I run quite a few Opensuse (mostly 11.1 at the time of this writing) servers in what you might call “pseudo-production” mode. For some of those servers, and especially for my test lab servers, I like to have them as…
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Have OES2sp1 on Linux? Watch out for SLES10sp3…
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…
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Tip for Samba-Enabling an OES2 Linux NSS Volume….
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…
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