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Ever since my post about backing up and restoring NCP trustee assignments, I’ve had quite a few hits on this blog from Internet searches about similar topics. Many times people seem to find this site while searching about managing trustee…
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My good friend Dave is moving over to CentOS for his RedHat development (and maybe hosting, wink-wink) platform, and he asks what is the easiest way to add packages on this distro. Of course, for me, that’s a bit of…
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centOS, introductory, pup, yum
Okay, so sometimes I’m “Your Solaris Guy” as well as Your Linux Guy. Either way, I can sometimes be “your forgetful guy”. So, this post is pretty much a note to myself about one of those settings/commands I cannot seem…
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This is a follow-up to an older post about administering a Linux machine from Windows, that can be found here. So, you want to get remote desktop access to your Linux server’s GUI from a Windows machine. Well, NoMachine is…
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People ask me this all the time in varying degrees. They have installed Linux, and maybe it’s command-line only, or maybe they’ve shelled in to their pretty GUI server for the first time, and are looking for a file. How…
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So today finds yet another security release from WordPress. I am thankful that those guys work so tirelessly so that I may bore you with my Linuxy goodness. Since I want to keep the Your Linux Guy .com site as…
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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….
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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…
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So your Linux server is up and running, but the time is off. Or it starts out fine when you reboot but wanders off after that. No prob; it happens all the time. I have two main ways to set…
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Whenever you are going to re-image a Linux machine (for instance, if you were going to use AutoYast or something to automatically rebuild the machine), it’s a good idea to wipe out the Master Boot Record first. This is to…
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