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Why did they take unix2dos away from the SLES distribution and all standard (read: supported) repositories? Honestly, I don’t know. I use it all the time. I’m pretty sure it used to be included in SLES, and it’s still in…
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Here is my version of a “cheat-sheet” for installing iFolder3.6 on SLES10sp2 (It is based on — and is almost the same as — my earlier cheat-sheet based on iFolder3.6 on Opensuse10.3, with minor differences). This cheat-sheet kinda’ leaves you…
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So you are all excited about the new Opensuse 11.1. Me too. So you want to do an in-place upgrade? Me too. Read on… Thanks to Benjamin over at: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/bweber/entry/upgrading_opensuse_103/ …I adapted his Opensuse 10.3 to 11.0 in-place upgrade to…
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Hi again gang… I just needed to whip together a quick-n-dirty cheatsheet for connecting to the internal Sybase database on a Zenworks 10 Configuration Management server. I work on many different servers (customers and whatnot) and this is one of…
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This question came to me from Steve: “…I am looking to migrate my data from an NSS/NCP volume to an ext3/NCP volume (temporarily) and then back to a ext3/NCP volume. Should I do it? I have a vendor software that…
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This question came to me from Rune (his question is edited for brevity): I’ve got a SLES 9.3 system where the users are using gzip to compress their daily online DB backups. It’s scripted, but basically it goes something like…
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So you have a task that you want to run regularly on Linux/Unix. It could be a single commend, or a script that you prepared in advance that contains all the command you need run. What you need to do…
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So you’ve built a Linux server, and you’re testing it out, and you want to enable SSL for encrypting your http traffic in testing or non-production use. Right. No prob. I’ve put together an extremely quick cheat-sheet on how to…
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Worried that your personal files in your home directory could be viewed by a thief if your Linux laptop is stolen? Do you use iFolder3 but wish the data (or other data) were encrypted on your machine (while not in…
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The zypper tool in openSUSE 11 has been catching me off-guard. I guess previous versions were like this too, but for some reason I never noticed it or it never bothered me…. Anyway, here’s a tip or two about zypper‘s…
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