This item inspired by Ken. And in order to keep this answer relatively short, I have to skip a bunch of pre-reqs. I’m going to assume that you understand service startup and run-levels in Linux, and maybe have tried specifying start-order in RedHat… This is where my thinking went when answering the question for Ken, [...]
For those of you running compiz and all those flashy graphics on Opensuse 10.3, there were some X11 updates that were pushed out last night that may have affected your whiz-bang graphics…. I had fire, water and cubes last night. After some automatic updates, this morning I got nothing from my regular Ctrl+Alt+Right. Drat. Fortunately, [...]
Since I mentioned zmd (and database corruption) in the last post, I thought I’d go on to mention that I — like you and everyone else out there — am not really fond of zmd/rug as the default update mechanism on Opensuse 10.2 and previous. The good news is that Suse themselves apparently were not [...]
Well, it finally happened to me: zmd fails to load. I’ve read about it, but it’s like when you read about those “other” people that suffered through hurricanes or earthquakes, you never think it will happen to *you*. Not that having zmd fail to load is *anywhere* near the level of consequence as those things… [...]
Actually, if you know what the title question means, you’re halfway there already. Today a friend called and had a problem with a Debian system. The Linux sysadmin had left the company and the servers were still forwarding all the host mail to the now-former sysadmin’s personal email. My friend figured out that the /etc/mail/aliases [...]
