Archive for January 2010

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 cautious Openfiler user.  So let’s begin.  “It was a dark and stormy night…” It had [...]

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 of me…” So I replied, but then I thought of alot more stuff… so much [...]

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 writing) may or may not run on it.  Well guess what: it doesn’t.  Well, not [...]